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The Van Buren press., 1903-04-18
LABOR FUEL COMPANY PLAN.
Stock of This Unique Venture Selling
Well-WiIl Open Offices In
Jefferson Building.
From the Fort Smith Times.

From the Fort Smith Times
The front rooms in the second story
of the Jefferson building have been
rented by the Labor Fuel company and
will be used as the general offices of the
company which, if the plans of the pro-
motors do not go astray, will develop
into gigantic concern. The company
is organized under the United States
laws. and has conformed to the laws of
this state regarding foreign corpora
tons. The capital stock is fixed at SIS, =
600, 900 and of that amount about Sl5,
900 has been paid for stock which is
selling rapidly and which is to be dis
posed of among the labor organizations
on the installment plan. W. j. NAL
lette, the local representative Of the
American Federation of Labor, is the
president; A, L. Ratteree, chairman of
the railway men S legislative board of
Van Buren,, is the vice-president; A.
Hafey, a Frisco conductor, and Tom
w. Neal are members of the directory.
There are other prominent men con-
nected with the enterprise whose names
are not made public for prudential
reasons. President Mallette in talking
about the movement this morning said
that the company had already secured
! Is, 720 acres of coal land along the Choc-
taw road and was after coal land in this
county, 1t was the purpose to purchase
all the coal lands to be segregated in
the Indian territory, He did not be-
| lieve that there would be more than
500 900 acres Of such land, but it made
no difference how much or how little
there was, the company would either
purchase it or make other parties pay
more than it is worth for possession.
The stock is to be sold among members
Of labor organizations only and the COM
pany expects to have no difficulty in
disposing Of it. Mr.. Mallette this
morning mailed $50 certificates of stock
to purchasers who had paid for it in
full. The rooms which have been Sc
cured in the Jefferson building will be
Immediately furnished and work sink
ing shafts along the Choctaw road com.
menced Immediately, so that the com
pany will be in the market in time for
the fall trade.
The Van Buren press., 1903-04-18

SPEAKING Of what u newspaper does
Cor community United states Sem
alor David Davis, Of Illinois, once made
an address that remains very green In
the memories OF newspaper men, He
md Every year every local paper
gives from 900 TO 5000 free lines for the
benefit Of the community IN which II IA
located No other agency can or will
do this, The editor IN proportion to
his means does more for his town than
any other man, and IN all fairness, man
with man, he ought TO be supported not
BECAUSE YOU happen 20 like him or ad.
miro BIS writing bot because local
paper Ia the beat Investment n oommun.
ny can make IL may not he crowded
with great thought, but financially " II
~ more benefit than both preacher and
Teacher Today editors do more for
ass pay than any men on earth Pat.
roniSe your home paper, not Us n char.
ily, but ae mn investment, --Marebgo
ia, Democrat,
The Van Buren press., 1903-04-18
Guardians Sale.

NOTICE Is hereby given that, under and by
~ virtue OF an order Of sale made by the
Probate Court Of Crawford county, Arkansas at
Its February, 1903 term, will Ms guardian for
offer for sale and sell to the highest and best
bidder on o credit Of three months, nj the front
door Of the Crawford County Court House In the
city OF Van Buren,, on
SATURDAY, APRIL 25th, 1908,
between the hours Of II o'clock A. m and 2
o'clock p, m, all Of the undivided twothirds re-
mainder interest Of said minors In aud 10 lots
2 4 & block %, IN the city Of Van Buren,, Craw.
ford county Arkansas
The purchaser will be required 10 give note
for purchase money with approved security
bearing Interest at the rate OF ten per cent per
annum
CHAs, W, FOSTER,
Guardian for While May and Jessie Lee Foster.
Van Buren,, ARK,
n April . 1903.
The Van Buren press., 1903-04-18

For the time Of year 1t has been re.
cold this week On several
mornings boar frost could be seen and
the thermometer has lowered about the
400 mark nearly every morning before
sunrise, Strawberries have been great.
ly retarded by the cold m well ~ the
dry weather which prevails,
The Van Buren press., 1903-04-18
An Aggrayating Cough Cured.

A customer Of ours who had been suf-
fering from severe cough for six
months, bought two bottles Of Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy from us and
WAS entirely cured by one and half
bottles Of it, 1t gives perfect satisfac-
ton with our trade, HAYNES PARKER
&c Co., Lineville, Ala, For sale by
John O Kane.
The Van Buren press., 1903-04-18
The Race Question.

FROM tho tommonef
Whether or not the president thought
he was doing the ColOred race n favor
when he invited Booker r. Washington
10 the White house, IL ~ quite evident
that he succeeded in doing tho colored
man great deal Of harm No public
man could ju8tify himself in raising the
question Of social equality unless lac
intended TO follow It up by efforts to
secure that equality, The president
unnecessarily injected the question into
our political life, aud then left the col
ored man TO boar It alone, except inso.
far as he has actually embarrassed him
by his efforts TO put him into prominent
positions In the south against the pro-
tests Of the white people 1t seems,
however, that Ia the ease Of Mr. Wick
Of North Carolina the door Of hope
was not important when It intefIpred
with the political plans Of the presi.
dent = supporters In that state.
II the president really believes social
equality between the white and tho
black man desirable thing, he ought
TO ~ farther than he has II no does not
believe II, he ought not to have gone No
far, II be ia actualed byu depirc TO
help the negro by appointing him to
position he misht show 1t lirst by max,
ing tho appointments where the race
question Ia not acute and, second when
he does make an appointment In tho
south he ought to make Il for the helm
Of the negro appointed, and not Tor the
help ot apy republican candidate who
may seek Delegates FROM The south
The Van Buren press., 1903-04-18
Another Jolt for jeff.

The bill for the new state capital was
Thursday passed over Gov, Davis yo.
toe, The vote in the senate stood q
for and s against In the house the
vote stood II for and 10 against, Sure.
ly the Legislature has little respect for
jeff Davis yetoes
The Van Buren press., 1903-04-18
Hoods JdrsapdriUa
and Pills

Remove it, give new life, new cour-
age, strength and animation.
They cleanse the blood and clear the
complexion.
Accept no substitute.
~ felt tired all the time and could not
sleep. After taking Hoods Ssrsaparills
a while / could sleep well and the tired
feeling had gone. This great medicine has
also cured me OF scroiula." MRS. c. NJ.
RooT, Gilead, Conn.
Hoods SarsaparIlla promises to
cure and keeps the promise.
The Van Buren press., 1903-04-18
Via Choctaw Railway

Attond the National Assembly CumecrSs
prrsby terlan Church, Nashville, Tenn, NY 4
10 10Th one faro plus o. for lho founl 'hF
thc Ch0clHw, Oklahoma & Gull H. H. -
Write Geo, II Lee Little Rock, Afh, .uoa,l
formation concerning The low rate TO saN tm
Ga, Via the Ch0ctnw, Oklahoma uull "',lsl
on account Of tho southern baptist Con'e''
which meets May IN, as
Low rates by the Choctnw Oklsholns "A
H. H. ROck Inland system for the NauYgEs,tl
sombly Of the Cumberland pfrHhyWfan W gl
Full Information from Geo H. Lee, u
Little Rock, ARK a
one fare plus o. for the round trip ovvn.,,,
Choctaw Route Rock Island SYSTEM 70
nah. "a Tor The southern Baptist toh''''
May IN To lith inclusive
The Van Buren press., 1903-04-18
Bottom Land Coal Vein.

On Sunday Fort Smith Times
man had conversation with the only
man who ever prospected for coal in the
Arkansas river bottom just across from
Denning, He declares that the Denning
vein runs under the river, and under
the large bottom between the river and
Paris, Logan county. The vein is about
1870 feet deep and is not connected with
the vein now being worked at Paris.
Options have been taken on all OF this
land, The gentleman said there was n
movement on foot 10 connect Denning
with Altus, Coal Hill, and, possibly
Ozark, by electric cars, and that Il was
not Improbable that MI the coal fields
would be thus connected In the near
future.
The Van Buren press., 1903-04-18
TO hDVnRSISE THE
GREAT SOUTHWEST.

Farmers farmers wyos and daugnw
school teachers doctors clorgymon moronM
IN the smaller towns, any cltl2cn who has ~.
ming to shy, are invited 10 write lolWn *
longer articles about the locality IN when
live IN the southwest
The territory includes Arkansas, Arizona
dian Territory, Louisiana, southern Ml''o'
Now Mexico oklahoma nnd TcNnH I'D
Premiums that make II on object are ollcU'
Htel for each state and list OF NE ptlt"
awards VIII be sent upon Application, 70
j. W SlEELE, COMMISSIONING ,,a
GuIuNWAnuN AdtNrN SOUTHWESTERN NV
Columbia Theatre Bldg H. Louis MO
The Van Buren press., 1903-04-18
Mo. Pacific Excursions.

Washington, Il. g., s>SB New York. \. Y,
ee,,2,, Round trip tickets via savannah and
steamship, On sale every DAY,
W liyNrs,
Iron Mountain 4 ana 4. Agent
The Van Buren press., 1903-04-18

q sediment OF SET
tlingindicatesan
unhealthy con-
dition of the kid
neys; if it stains
your linen it is
evidence of kid
ney trouble; too
frequent desire
to pass it or pain
in the back is
The Van Buren press., 1903-04-18
TIRED AND
WORN OUT.

n constant supply Of blood. making ma.
terlal or their systoms will break down
The complicated female organism IL
40 dollcately adjusted NJ TO be easily
thrown out Of balance. As n result,
health and strength are affected by
divers diseases. Motherhood, family,
society all levy such drains upon her
strength that most women break under
the nervous tension. The demands
upon her nervous strength are much
greater than similar demands Of the
opposite sex. Hence she must be sup.
piled In greater measure with the clc.
ment-r0n--thNt gives strength, The
reason women feel tired and worn out
and suffer from headache, pains IN the
back and limbs, etc, IL because they
have used up their supply Of iron,
MenstruatIon trouble Is largely caused
by lack Of iron.
The Van Buren press., 1903-04-18
Thousands Have Kidney
Trouble and Never Suspect It.
How To Find Out.

Fill bottle or common glass with your
water and let it stand twenty-four hours
The Van Buren press., 1903-04-18
JOB PRINTING of S5soI - c,s

ed at The pREss OFFICE, neatly h,SSWg
aud Al living rates, once upstairs III Wv y"
Block .aNu 700 Main street
The Van Buren press., 1903-04-18

writing mention this paper and don't
make any mistake, but remember the
name, DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and
the address, Binghamton, N. Y.
The Van Buren press., 1903-04-18
That
Tired Feeling

Is O Common Spring TFoubIe.
It's a sign that the blood is deficient
in vitality, just as pimples and other
eruptions are signs that the blood
is impure.
It's warning, too, which only the
hazardous fail TO heed.
The Van Buren press., 1903-04-18

also convincing proof that the kidneys
and bladder are out of order.
What To Do.
There is comfort in the knowledge 50
often expressed, that DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy
fulflls every wish in curing rheumatism,
pain in the back, kidneys, liver, bladder
and every part of the urinary passage
1t corrects inability to hold water
and scalding pain in passing it, or bad
effects following use OF liquor, WINE OF
beer, and overcomes that unpleasant ne
cessity of being compelled to go often
during the day, and to get up many
times during the night. The mild and
the extraordinary effect of Swamp.Root
is soon realized. 1t stands the highest
for its wonderful cures of the most dis
tressing cases. If you need medicine
you should have the best. Sold by drug
gists in ffty-cent and one-dollar sizes:
W., ,,,o,, H., fOrola bottle and a
The Van Buren press., 1903-04-18

book that tells all
about it, bothsentfree
by mail. Address DR..
Kilmer & Co., Bing-
hainton, n. Y. When
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these work at their own homes. The
manufacturer furnishes the material, and
the workmen take 1t home and make the
different parts of a gun. One man may be
employed. upon locks, another on barrels,
getting from to 3 cents for his work on
each gun. It is only recently that much
machinery has been introduced. and this is
used onl.- with the cheaper kinds Of are
arms
Parts of guns are also made for export
We get many of our steel gun barrels from
Liege, and also the Damask gun barrels,
which are made nowhere else in the world.
The secret of making the Damask barrels
is carefully guarded, being handed down
from father to son. Only the most skilled of
the workmen can make these barrels The
ordinary rough-bored barrels are turned
out in great quantities; they cost from 60
to 20 cents apiece when ready for export
American Coal for Belgium.
When the United States has finally settled
its mining troubles our exporters can study
the Belgian market with profit. This coun-
try imports something like 100000 tons
of coal a year. the most of it coming from
France, Germany and England, and ne
charges There are six lines of steamers
sailing between Antwerp and the United
States, and American coal should be landed
there at low rates The freight rates of
the present are based upon the grain rates,
and are consequently high.
Some of the Belgium mines have
given out. and, as the coal area is limited.
the country will eventually have to import
more than it does now. Not only here but
in all parts of Europe there should be a
market for American coal, and II carefully
nursed business can be built up which will
materially increase the balance Of trade,
which is already in our favor.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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Typhoid and Oysters.

From the Philadelphia Press.
That the oyster can carry the germ Of
typhoid fever is fact recognized by bac-
teriologsts. 1t is not so popularity conced-
ed, however. Polluted water has come to
be known as a source Of the disease, and
the fact is SO generally recognized that
many are able to guard against 1t. But
thousands of the more Intelligent people
continue to eat the oyster raw, either from
ignorance or heedessness. An illustration
was given Of the danger Of eating the oy-
ster raw a few years ago in Connecticut.
A short time after banquet Of Wesleyan
University students, where plentiful sup
ply Of oysters was consumed, a number Of
typhoid fever cases developed among those
present. An investigation followed and 1t
was found that the oysters had been taken
from q bed into which a stream Of water
emptied which ran through neighborhood
where typhoid had for some time been
prevalent. 1t was shown also that some OF
the eXcreta Of the typhoid patients had
been washed into this stream and undoubt-
eddy conveyed to the bed where the oysters
were bred. 1t was not Of course proved
that the typhoid germs had got into the
very oysters these students ate, but as ty-
phoid excreta was known to have been
washed into the stream which ran into the
oyster bed and typhoid followed the eat
ing Of the oysters the latter event was
naturally looked upon as sequel Of the
former event.
The conclusion Is that too much care
cannot be taken in choosing and preparing
food for the table. Householders cannot
trace the source and surroundings Of every
article Of food they consume. Nearly
everything they eat must be taken on
trust. But where any doubt exists It Is al
ways advisable to subject food to a thor
ough cooking. This Is q ready and safe
course and as applicable to other articles
as to oysters.
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY,
Schedule effective November 80, 1902:


Trains leave from Pennsylvania Station.
| $40 am. Daily. Local for Harrisonburg, War;
| renton. Charlotte and way stations.
1851 Am Am Daily Washington and Florida Ling
to Jacksonville Fla. Dining service.
lib am. Daily. United States Fast Maih
Flrst-class coaches and drawing-room sleeper to-
New orleans Dining car service.
4O1 pm. Week Days. Local for HarrisonburSj
and way stations Manassas branch. ~
80 pm. Daily. Local for Warrenton and ChatSi
S:45 pm. Daily. New York and Atlanta Express,
EIrst-class coach and sleeper to Atlanta; Mondays
sleeper Washington to San Francisco. Pullman
$50 pm Daily. New York and Florida E1presss
vile. Charleston, Savannah Jacksonville and PotC
Iampa; sleeper to Augusta and connection fQfl
Aiken: Dining car service.
tied (via Lynchburg). First-cass coach and sleepe
Ing car to Roanoke, Knoxville, Chattanooga a1dy
Memphis; sleeper % New Orleans. Dining caS
1915 pm. Daily. Washington and Southwesterp
Limited. All Pullman train, club and observatioA
ears T to Atlanta and Macon; seepers TO Nashv!le
wednesday and Friday, through sleeper to Pinaf
,o,.o TRANS Tsal on BLUEMoNT BRANCH.
week days, Loo Pm, ABS pm. and 65 pms
Latter to Leesburg only.
Through trains from the South arrive Washington,
pm, 9:15 and $3.50 pm. daily. Local traing,
from Harrsonburg, II IS am. week days and 9;p6.
pm daily; From Charlottesville. s:2s am. ahal
Tickets. sleeping reservations and detaile6,
| alton can be had at ticket offices, 705 15tA
residences
Phone 1910. P. R.: R. Cab Service. ~
@. 81. ACKERT, General Manager :,
s. Fl. HARDWICK, General Pass'r Agent.
L. s. BROWN. General Agent.
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Baltimore and Ohio r. R

Leave Washington. New Jersey Ave. and st.
CHICAGO AND NORTHWEST. 'lO:oo a.m.s
V CINCINNATI giS&N;AT ST. LogIs and LOUISVILLE
'i Pi%rs s mi HN6 GLEvH.AND. .Ioso an.
sS:45 D. m. and 1900 night.
COLUMBUS AND WHEELING, $50 pm.
I WINCHESTER, 1855 an. f4:lS and ts:ao p.ms
1SSSSA APo fa:so $3.50. tII:so an. t4:se.
'FREPERIcK. 1885, $500. tio:so an. n:is.
HSGERsT6WN. 10000 am. and fsseo pm.
BOYD and way points, 1875, $500 An. S1:16s
tl;3O, rs 80, s10:16. f11:3 pm.
GAITHERSBURG and way points. ISIS. 300
am. ti2:5o. si:i5, 1880. f4:3o. 800. fs:So.
wa WasafNGfoN JUNCTION and way points.
1875, 50 100 a .m., 91:15. f4:30. 1880 p m.
BALTIMORE. week days. 1890. 500 ESQ.,
x7:05, 730 xs:3o, s35, 1880, x1o:00. IL so am.
zig 20 II s5, 1900, n4;0o. 1880 435, xo:05.
Sundays, 1900, x7:o5. 1880. 1880: 1900 ans
xI220 I:l5, 1900 1880, x5:05. 5:25. G:3o. $500.
''0'00 ROYAL BLUE LINE
All trains illuminated with Plntsch light.
BALTIMORE. PHILADELPHIA. NEW YORK,
iBuffet) 5000 DINER. t1O:00 Oinerl m. 't2:20
Diner). 1900 t..Reyal Limited" Diner. f4:00
(Phia only), sos (Dner). $500 and Ill: 80 pm.
iSleeping Car open at 10 90 o'cock)
ATLANTIC CITY. f7:05. fl0:oo an. 'l2:2o.
sDaiiy. Except Sunday. ssunday only.
xExpress trains
Baggage called for and checked from hotels and
residences by Union Transfer Go. on orders left AZ
ticket Offices. 6l9 Pennsylvania avenue northwest,
New Yor. avenue and Fifteenth street. and at stas
tion. ao24-5o
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mouth OF the opening stand half dozen
OF these Belgian girls, their heads done
up in blue and white handkerchief turbans,
their sleeves rolled up high above the elbows
and their shapely ankles plainly showing
between the ends of their skirts and their
white wooden clogs. See them grasp that
car as the engine stops and shove it over
the rails to where it Is to be dumped for
the sorters. AS they do so another gang of
girls takes their places to handle the next
car and others shoot the empties back to
the other side of the shaft. There is no
fooling about this. The women work like
pees, and with the strength of horses. They
do more than the men, and they are, am
told, more conscientious in their work.
Leave the shaft and come with me to the
sorters. The coal rolls down a chute into
the cars. Women stand at the side of the
chute and help it onward with hoes. Girls
Of fourteen to twenty sit further down pick
ing the refuse and slate out of the coal with
their hands. Still further on there are more
turbaned, bare-armed maidens, sooty and
dirty working away as fast as their fingers
can move, and in the railroad car itself,
into which the coal drops, there are other
women hoeing the coal this way and that,
sorting the waste. All the work is done by
the piece, and the girls are paid in proper
ton to the amount they perform. I asked
as to the wages, and was told that the rate
is cents basket, and that the best work
ers can pick about basket and half
every hour, thus earning as much as ~
cents in their day of twelve hours.
Among the Women Miners.
And still the women miners of Belgium
are far better off today than they have
ever been in the past. Their condition has
been notcriously bad. For long time little
children were employed in the mines. They
were harneSSed to carts and coal cars with
straps and chains SO that they craWled
along on their hands and knees dragging
the coal to the mouth Of the shaft. Now
women under twenty-one are prohibited by
those whom you see on the surface are
young girls. They could get better wages
down below, and many Of them will leave
the surface work and go into the mines as
soon as they are old enough.
AS result, the surface girls are not bent
and broken. and those I saw were we'll
developed physically as the prize golf girls
toiling like so many horses, pushing the
cars this way and that. Some were lifting
great Jumps of coal weighing from fifteen to
twenty pounds each, and others were doing
all sorts of work which in America would
be done by men.
In one place a ditch was being dug and
lined with brick and cement. A girl Of fif-
teen was mixing the mortar with hoe, and
a little further on at a brick pile three
sturdy girls were loading bricks upon a
wheebarrow which fourth girl pushed
upon the car when it was full They were
working hard, and the perspiration stood
out in white beads upon their dusty faces
l took photograph of them, and my heart
came into my throat as they smiled.
Wages in Belgium.
I have said that the women who sort the
coal earn about 80 cents day. Some get
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JAMES W. RADCLIFFE, AUCTIONEER
Trustees Sale of Brick
House No. 1861 O
Street Northwest.

BY virtue Of deed Of trust duly recorded in
Lber No. 22S6. folio 46S ct seq, Of the land
records for the District of Columbia. and at the
request of the party secured thereby, the under.
signed trustees will offer for sale BY public auc.
ton. In front Of the premises, on MONDAY, THE
FIFTH pay "A; OF, OF JANuARY. A.. d. 1903. AT
Ing described real estate, situate in the city Of
Washington, District Of Columbia, to wit: The
west four az inches 'front.' by the full depth of lot
ten 1o). and the east six and one half (6) inches
'front.' by the full depth thereof Of lot thirteen Q3
and all Of lots eleven I'D and twelve 90, in
John B. Turton, executor and others subdivision
Of square numbered one hundred and seventy nine
QI9l, as said subdivision is recorded in the office
Of the surveyor u. the District of Columbia in
book W. F.. page 103. together with all the I'm
pro, ements, rights, etc.
Terms One-third cash. the balance in one and
two years, with interest from the day Of sale at
per cent per annum. secured by deed of trust
on the property sold. all cash. at the option Of
the purchaser. deposit Of $500 required upon
complied with In fifteen days from the day Of
sale the trustees reserve the right to resell the
property at the risk and cost Of the defaulting
purchaser. after FIVE days advertisement of such
resale In some newspaper published in Washing
ton, D. @. All conveyancing, stamps etc., at cost
OF the purchaser.
SAMUEL CROSS
FREDERICK w. PRATT.
de24-d&ds Trustees