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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-18

The river continues to fall at the
Dam, a stage of 2. 7 feet being re-
ported there this morning.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-18

Now Is the proper time to ex.
tend the wharf at the foot of Charles
street. The river Is getting low
and the work should be started at
once.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-18

August Is getting down to busi-
ness.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-18

Later.
Judge Willis has sentencnd Capt
Pine to serve two years In the pen
itentiary at Morndsville.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ARMIES ON THE FRONTIER EN-
GAGE IN WAR.
Both Sides Sustain Heavy Losses-
Excitement Is Intense at Sofia
24,0oo Recruits Called Three
Months Before Usual 1ime-Cavalry
Sent to the Front.

Sofia, Oct. 6.-Serious news has been
received here from the frontier of fight
ing between Turkish and Bulgarian
troops at Demir-kapia, both sides sus-
tanning losses.
In official circles all knowledge Of
the affair is denied, but the circum-
stantial details given seem to Indicate
that there is some foundation for the
accounts of the conflict
According to one report, the Turks
attacked the Bulgarian frontier posts.
Another version says the Turks pur-
sued number of refugees across the
frontier.
1t is asserted that the Turks have
frequently attempted to provoke hos
tilities, firing into Bulgarian territory
and crossing the frontier to steal
horses and sheep.
The war office here is working at
high pressure and $4,000 recruits will
be called three months before the
usual time. Prince Ferdinand has
sanctioned numerous other measures
of warlike nature. All the cavalry,
with the exception of single regi-
ment, which is stationed at Sofia, has
been sent into the frontier districts,
where are strong forces Of artillery.
Vigorous efforts are being made to pre-
vent bands from crossing into Turkish
territory. Two bands which were sent
back have reached Sofia since yester-
day.
Dispatches from the frontier re-
ceived at the revolutionary headquar-
tiers report that the refugees in the
mountains are in terrible condition
through their pursuit by the Turks and
cold and hunger Many are dying.
Salonica, Oct. 6-1he Bulgarian
notables here went to the government
palace and informed the authorities
hat series of fresh .outrages in
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09

The supervision Of every store should
extend to the books.
The simplest is always the best
method of expression. Why use pen,
penholder, ink and erasers, when a
pencil with a rubber on the end will
supply all demands better, cheaper and
with less labor.
Is there any good reason why re-
tail merchant should not keep his
books in lead pencil? One of Chicago's
largest wholesale houses does.
If pencil is used, then the books used
can be of cheaper paper and CORE
spondngly less expensive. Therefore,
l think a retail MERCHANT books should
be kept with hard lead or indellible
pencil.
1t is easier, cleaner, takes less time,
and makes the correction of errors
quicker and easier. Ink is no safe
guard against errors or dishonesty. \
man can falsify and steal as easily
through ink as through pencil.
bookkeeping is only memorandum
work, anyhow. Make it as simple and
easy as possible. Don't waste profit
in ink. 1t is the little leaks that eat
up the profits, Unnecessary labor is a
leak. Expensive paper in books is
wasteful. l believe in cheap paper
and pencils, bright boys or girls who
can add and subtract. and good com
mon sense business judgment to tell
them how to put the figures down SO
they will add up, something to show
the movement of the business.--Nictor
Robertson in Credit Mems Bulletin.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09
viii Call an Extra Session.

A good deal Of pressure has been
brought to bear on the president to in
duce him not to call congress into ex.
ira session in November, but to all
callers who have spoken to him in
that vein he has said that this govern
ment is committed to the proposition
that the Cuban reciprocity treaty be
made effective at the earliest date,
and he regards it as matter of good
faith that this country should keep its
word. He has declined, therefore, to
consider any proposition looking to the
abandonment of the idea Of an extra
ordinary session.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09
The Bio Gun Jared a Few.

San Francisco.-The conclusion
caused by the discharge of the Pinch
gun on Angel island, which was fired
recently by the artillerymen in prac-
tice, shattered windows in Sausalito,
shook houses, knocked down plaster
and caused much excitement among
the people. The Preside also was well
shaken. The boom of the heavy gun
made the general hospital feel unsafe
for a few minutes, so violently was it
rocked by the shooting. All the off
GERS dwellings were also shaken,
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09

Salonica is being planned. All the
guards consequently have been
doubled. 1t is reported that 20 Turk.
ish villages in the Razlog district have
been burned. The large village Of
Bonisko is said to have been destroyed
and its 1000 Turkish inhabitants killed,
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09
COLORADO'S PAUL REVERE.

Louis L. Loeb. the young cowboy
whose daring ride on his broncho
Baby, in the face of a stormburst,
saved the lives of between 700 and
800 persons camping in Ute Falls Can
yon, has been to see President Roose-
welt in the hope that the Chief Execu-
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09

tive will secure for him a position in
the secret service. Loeb received a
kick at the base of the spine at the
conclusion of his heroic performance,
from the hoof of his horse, that has
left his right side paralyzed, but he is
as much at home in the saddle as he
was before he became second Paul
Revere
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09
want your mOuStache or beard
la beautiful brown or rich black2 Use
}bUCKINGHAM'S OYE|
2YrrY ers os DRuossrs ORR p HALLa CO: NASHUA: n:
Bad Foreigner Deported.

Under the new Interpretation of the
immigration law by Secretary Cortel.
you, Washiro Hattori, just discharged
after serving three months in the coun-
ty pail at San Francisco for attempt
ing to brise an officer of the United
States, will be deported on october
23, on the ground that he has hagn
public charge. This is the first case
at this port under the new rule.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09
A w GLEASON

In the United States the distance
of the average railway journey is 20
miles, in England it is scarcely 10
miles, while in German it is Is miles,
in France Il miles and in Russia 65
miles.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09

During last year electrical railway
companies ran their cars II times the
distance from the earth to the sun,
killed 1918 persons and injured 47,i29.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09

Write Allen 8. olmsted, lie Roy, N. Y, for a
free sam pie of Allen Is Foot Ease. 1t cures
sweating. hot swollen. aching feet. 1t makes
new or tight shoes easy. certain cure for
corns, ingrowing nails and bunions. Alldrug-
gsts sell II. &c. Don't accept any substitute.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09
$50 & g SHOES ssIs
lou can save from So to SIS yearly Nv
wearing W. L. Douglas $3.50 or So sios:

They equal those
that have been cost
ing you from $4.0O
to $500. The i'm
mense sale of w. l..
Douglas shoes proves
their superiority over
all other makes.
Sold by retail shoe
dealers everywhere.
Look for name and
price on bottom.
That Douglas uses Cor.
Ona Colt proves there ~
value In Douglas shoes,
Corona IN the highest
grade Pat.Leather made,
Fast Color EDeiets used.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09

The man in the moon was full. This
is my last quarter" he said "but
feel like 30 cents. "-Philadelphia Bull
letin,
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09

She-Do you notice the soft, warm
He-No-er-I was thinking of the
cold hard dollars they cost me.-Chi-
cago News.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09

whats this?" screamed the tank
drama actor "My pay is 81 short"
Eight baths at so cents" blandly
replied the manager. "Six nights and
two matinees. Newark News.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09

cITo Permanently Cured. No fits or nervousness
lilo after first days use of DR. Kline's Great Nerve
Restorer Send for Free Sc trial bottle and treatise
DR.. Il. II. klus, Ltd, 93l Arch st.. Philadelphia, Pa
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09

81 see that PLAINS, who was your
architect, is building house for him
self now"
rs he?" exclaimed the victim. "I'll
bet he'll cheat Observation-Disclosures
Press.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09

State of Ohio. City of Toledo. Lucas Coun'
ty, SIS.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is
the senior partner Of the firm Of F. ]. Cheney
& Co.. doing business in the City of Toledo.
County and State aforesaid and that said firm
will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case of Catarrh
that can not be cured by the use of HALLS
CATARRH CURE. ,,
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day of December, A. D
1886.
A. w. GLEASON,
(Seal) Notary Public.
nails Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Send for testimonials, free.
r. ]. CHENEY G. CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 7sc.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09

Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's
Soothing Syrup the best remedy to use
for their children during teething period.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09

The German state gives to one uni
versity more than the British govern
ment allows to all the universities and
university colleges in England, Ireland
and Scotland together.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09

People are so contrary in accepting
advice, that hereafter We intend to
tell mourning friends to look on the
dark side.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09

For forty years Piso's Cure for Con.
sumption has cured coughs and colds. At
druggists. Price % cents.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09

not only builds up weak constitutions,
but searches out and destroys germs
and poisons of every description and
cleanses the system OF all Impurities,
thus laying the alton for a
healthy, steady increase in weight
and future good health.
Food may be bountiful and the
appetite good, but still the system
weakens and we remain poor in flesh
unless what we eat is properly digcsted
and turned into rich, pure blood.
S. S. S. re-inforces the Stomach and
aids the digestion and assimilation of
food, and there is rapid up-building
Of health and strength. S. S. S. acts
promptly and benefcially upon the ner
it up, and relieves the strain by prodr
can find no tonic so invigorating as S.
of roots and herbs its use is attended
find that it braces them up, improve,
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09

o ~ CUT Edge Line cannot Dc equaiea a, anv Mn
Shoes by mall, 20 cents extra, Illu.trr.,s ~
Catalos free. W. l.. DOUGLAS, Brociton, ssr
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09

The airship inventor seems to be
overconfldent.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09

rome interesting to others.
Beating the printer down to a price
which insures the cheapest Job he can
turn out is one sure way Of defeating
the ends of advertising. The saving
Of $40 on piece of printing often costs
the advertiser hundreds of dollars
through the consequent loss of Its eff
fectiveness, but usually paltry spar
row In the hands Of such an advertiser
is priced more highly than a carload
of turkeys which might be had by re-
leasing the small blrd.-Jed Scarboro.
All who have made conspicuous sue
cess in the business world know the
value of advertising. They have
learned that II man has anything ia
sell and wants to sell 1t he had better
tell people about it, or else he stands
a poor chance of parting with his
goods to the best advantage. Hap
hazard advertising will, Of course, moi
pay. The advertisement must be
looked after, kept up to date, and tel
just what you want to tell. Adver
Using to pay must be judicious. The
successful business man who wants
to develop his business and lift 1t from
the ruts advertises; not simply because
he may have money to pay for the
luxury" but because he must spend
money for the necessity, If he would
make satisfactory progress.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09

becoming too to properly nous the body and it must be purified
ordinary tonic build feeble for unless the poscns
and germs that lurking the blood destroyed they will further
the blood
will be found purifying and properties combined
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09

The trouble is your hair
does not have life enough.
Act promptly. Save your
hair. Feed it with Ayers
Hair Vigor. If the gray
hairs are beginning to
show, Ayers Hair Vigor
will restore color every
time. sl.oo a bottle. All druggists.
If your druggist cannot supply Won
send us one dollar and we will express
you a bottle. lie sure and give the nams
Of your nearest express office. Address
j. q. AVER CO., Lowell, Massl
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09
No Hair?

"My hair was falling out verv
fast and l was greatly alarmed. !
then tried Ayers Hair Vigor and
my hair stopped falling at once. -
Mrs. G. A. McVay, Alexandria. O
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09
WONDERFUL GAIN IN WEIGHT.

Huntsville, Ala, Jan. 10, 1908.
Some years ago my general health
gave way; my nervous system Wa
shattered, and I could got nothingeo
DO mo any good till I began to use
s. s. 8. I commenced to improve ~
once. My appetite became splendio
aud from les pounds I increased 70
1870. I became we'll again by taking
s. 8. s. and would take no amount iof
tho good it did me. My health y
now perfect, and believe II every
body would talso a bottle OF 8. >. .
occasionally, they would enjoy M'o
as I am doing. W. L. WIN5ToNs
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-09
UAIgzJE yg
ON
zASIlM H5 {i[z

When a mans advertising shows
that he Is thoroughly interested in his
business. his business is sure to be-
rome interesting to others.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-10-01

one tenth of the county. If our state hor-
ticultural commissioner is SO anxious to
have the bunglesome and impracticable hor-
ticultural law carried out, let him see to it
that this l<ink is Strengthened out.
The Iowa -Republicanof Marshall
town, Iowa, says in a recent editorial that
the Iowa State Fair is essentially an affair
of Des Moines and Polk county, in which
Des Moines is situated. 1t opposes the ap-
preparation of $4,000 to $4,000 annually
for an institution whose benefits go almost
entirely to one county. This strikes vital
point What are fairs and expositions in the
main but institutions to boom some locality?
Portland will be benefited by the Lewis and
Clarke Exposition, but how much will
Washington be benefited? Are we as
state ready to boom Portland by appropriate
ing 100000? Hardly. I am sorry to say
that Our State Fair is no exception to the
general rule mentioned above. The state as
whole is not interested and does not at
tend. This is not the fault of the manage
ment of the fair. The commissioners do all
they can to interest the whole state. The
success is meager. At the same time the
State Fair is being held local fairs are being
held in many parts of the state. This ought
not to be. What is the remedy? I don't
know, and I don't believe any one else
knows.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-10-01
Strawberry Culture After Fruiting.

The most successful strawberry growers
plow tip their fields as soon as the berries
are all gathered and SOW them in cowpeas,
thus putting the land in perfect filth to reset
strawberries the following fall, winter or
spring, as may be most convenient But
the vast majority of growers gather two and
sometimes three crops of berries from the
same field.
How to do this successfully is the object
of this article. Bar off with turning pillow
the strawberry rows, leaving unplowed
strip about foot wide containing the
plants. On this strip chop out the plants,
leaving them about eighteen inches apart.
Always leave young Zone year old) plants
instead of old ones when possible. In this
chopping out also kill all weeds and grass.
week or ten days later SOW cottonseed
meal at the rate of 800 to 1000 pounds an
acre in the furrow left on each side of the
row. Then split out the midd1es throwing
the earth closely around the plants, but not
on them, or they will be smothered
Wherever practicable, though with a
large acreage it is not usually practicable,
it pays to burn off the field or bed before
barring off, To do this, how the foliage
of the plants as closely as possible Then
loosen up the straw used as mulch and on
dry, breezy day set fire to the field along
the border to windward. IF there is a fair
quantity of foliage or mulch the field will
burn quickly over, leaving the soil as clean
as floor. Weeds, seed and any insect pest
that NAV chance to be present will meet
their Judgment day, and to a novice the
strawberry plants will seem to have done
So too But seeming will be all
In week. or earlier, if it rains. in the fire
blackened, Sahara-like field a magic trans
formation will take place Every straw
berry plant will have put forth leaves of the
most vivid and beautiful growth The rows
can then be barred off, chopped out, fer
tilted and treated Just as above directed.
Subsequent cultivation should be the
same as for young felds-shallow blowing
Z
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-10-01
horticultural Notes
By F. Walden

planting apple trees in solid blocks. Some
growers maintain that if planted in that
way they do as we'll as they do when mixed.
The advantage claimed in mixing varieties
is based on the supposition that they will
fertilize better by cross pollination. Some
growers assert that there is nothing in this
mixing of sorts. They cite instances where
orchards have borne we'll when planted in
solid blocks of as much as ten acres. No
doubt such cases occur but 1t by no
means proves what is claimed for it. To
properly understand this matter few facts
must be kept in mind. No apple trees in
this country are absolutely sterile. All that
can rightfully be claimed is that the bloom
of some trees is more fertile than that of
some other trees. Some bloom is deficient
in pollen. Some on the other hand seems
not to be- The Ben Davis is one of the var
ieties that is abundant in pollen. The
Spitzenberg is one that is deficient in this
most essential element. These two vari-
cites may be taken as typical varieties. Now
it is by no means certain to which OF these
two classes a great many varieties belong.
There are more than one thousand varie
ties of apples that are offered for sale by the
various nurseries of the country. BY the
time that these would all be tested as to
their fertility or deficiency in pollen many
more varieties would be introduced What
is best to do in view of these facts? The
only sensible answer to this question must
be not to take any chances but mix your
varieties and be sure of cross pollination.
No possible harm can come of this mixing.
The only objection is that it is inconvenient
to mix varieties in the orchard This OBJ
lection is not we'll taken. Some kind of
mixing might cause some trouble but there
&c IF hat
objection
The way I plant my trees is to set two
rows of one kind and then two rows of an
other. Planted in this way there is no in
convenience in picking. The way we pick
Our apples is to take two rows at time
any how. The pickers on two rows set their
filled boxes toward the middle The sorters
come along and set these boxes on tables
and sort them into two or more sizes. The
culls are thrown into separate boxes and are
never hauled to the packing house. The
sorted apples are hauled to the packing
house and are ready for the packers. If they
are not packed then they are stored by put
ting the different sizes to themselves. They
are never mixed again after once being
sorted. When apples are stored the culls
should never be stored with the good apples.
| have done that but have learned by ex-
perience that it is losing business. One
wormy or partly rotted apple will spoil
number more before spring.
While this matter of cross pollination is
under consideration it NAV be we'll to call
attention to the fact that the Department of
Agriculture has had this matter under con-
sideraton for number of years and has
published some valuable SUGGESTIONS that
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-10-01

d
congressman from your district and he will
most cheerfully Crank" you copy free of
all cost.
The Year Book for 1902 is out and have
been reading it with much interest. There
is very valuable article on top working
an apple orchard 1t has some valuable sug-
gestions. There is no commercial orchard
list but will find that he may have some un-
desirable varieties of the apple. Then what?
Don't go to work and dig up these trees
that are we'll rooted Top work them. In
three years you can have these top worked
trees bearing quite considerable crops and
they will grow better from year to year.
While writing these notes a letter came
from my old friend, Prof c. NJ Higgins of
Portland, Oregon. Part of his letter will be
of interest to The Ranch readers and is
given as follows: 81 have Just returned
from Boise for school work and find de-
lightful interest in your notes in The
Ranch. | shall soon plant 90 acres more to
apple trees and bought before leaving Boise
my trees or most of them Jonathan, Rome
Beauty and Newtown pippin. Forty acres
will be Jonathon and ten each of the other
varieties. was much gratifed to find these
think it advisable to plant winesaps among
them for the purpose of po11ination? I sold
my Jonathans too cheap ST 80 f. o. b., the
firm receiving and paying for them at Boise.
Prof. Higgins as stated in former issues
of this paper, is a practical fruit grower,
having forty acres of bearing orchard near
Boise, Idaho. The judgment of such men
is valuable. The question is often asked
will it pay to grow apples in the warm val
leys of the Pacific Northwest? A man who
has tried it on forty acre orchard and then
proposes to plant sixty acres more gives a
decided answer to that question.
By the daily papers I see that A. Won
Holderbeke state horticultural commission
er. is about to remove Orlando Beck, the
county frui inspector of Yakima county.
I know nothing about this trouble except
what is in the papers, and such reports are
often very incorrect. 1t is alleged in these
reports that Mr. Beck has allowed some
fruit to be sent from North Yakima that
is infected with San Jose scale and codling
moth Mirabile dctu If the county fruit
Inspector is required to inspect every pack
age of fruit sent from Yakima county, then
he will have to spread himself. For if it is
his duty to inspect the fruit sent from North
Yakima it is equally his duty to inspect
the fruit sent from other parts of the county.
Now Yakima county is about $50 miles
long and fruit is grown from Kennewick to
the head waters of the Wenas, distance
of more than 100 miles. Think Of the genial
Bob" spreading himself out SO as to be at
dozen or more points so far apart on the
same day.