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Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-16
silver MARKET IMPROVES
is NOW AT HIGHEST POINT IN
YEARS.
Purchases of Bullion for Demands In
Philippines and India Accounts for
the Raise In Prce-Uncle Sam Has
Nearly Enough for Present Needs
Mexican Dollars Leave Philippines.

New York, Oct 15.-Commercial
bar silver has now touched the highest
point established in years, Esd per
ounce in London and 60 IL and ~ o-Sc
here. The advance abroad is equal
to 3-Sd. The treasury department has
purchased 100000 ounces of silver
bullion for delivery at San Francisco
for the Philippines coinage at COLES
cents per ounce, the highest price that
has yet been paid. The New York
market for silver reflects the price es.
tablished in London, where the market
has been strong for several months,
the advance being attributed in great
measure to the demand from India
and to purchases by the United States
for Philippine account.
Treasury to Cease Purchasing.
Washington, Oct. 15.-Col. Edwards,
chief of the bureau OF insular affairs,
who has been managing in this coun-
try the finances of the Philippines and
carrying out the act of the last con-
gress for supplying the Philippines
with currency, recently cabled the
Philippine commission that there
should now be in the islands 15,900,S50
pesos and that the amount yet to be
coined and shipped amounted to one
million more, the amount being at the
mints or contracted for.
A reply has been received from the
commission stating that the amount of
coin now in the Philippines, together
with some five millions pesos in paper
money, soon to be increased to 7,000,-
900, to which should be added from
eight to nine million pesos in Spanish
coin would be sufficient and advising
against the purchase of any more bull
lion for the purpose of coming pesos.
This action has been taken by the in
sular bureau and no more silver will
be purchased further than what is
necessary to fulfill the existing stipu-
lations with mints.
1t is probable that the Philippine
commission will demonetize Mexican
dollars on January /, 1904, but at the
rate Mexican dollars are now leaving
the islands, it appears that such &C.
ton will have very little effect. For
the first nine days of October, $4,000
Mexican dollars have been exported
from the islands and none has been
imported.
The Philippine commission will take
steps to get in the Philippine treasury
by July l, all the Spanish coins in cir.
culation, the intention being to issue
the new Philippine pesos in theil
stead.
| The purchases for the further coin
age of Philippine pesos will be about
four or five hundred thousand ounces
1t is intended to coin the Spanish coins
when accumulated in the island treas
ury to Philippine pesos. 1t is sale
that the amount of new currency il
the islands, together with the Spanish
coins and the United States currency
is sufficient for the business of thu
Philippines.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-16

Cincinnati.-A judgment for $4,000,
600 against L. Harper, former pres,
dent of the Security National bank
was rendered by default by Judge A
G. Thompson The suit is 16 years
old and is revived by George c. Ran
kin, receiver for the purpose Of Sc
curing something for creditors.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-16

San Francisco, Oct. 15.-James H
Darling, Joseph White, Cornelius
Stokes and John L. Moore, military
prisoners at Alcatraz, have been re-
leased by the authorities on pardons
which, it is now discovered, were
forged.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-16
Washinaton Rural Routes.

Washington, D. c., Oct. 14.-These
rural routes will be established in
Washington November 16: Farming
ton, Whitman county, with one car
rier; Mondovi, Lincoln county. with
one carrier; Saint John, Whitman
county, with one carrier; Spangle,
Spokane county, with one carrier.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-16

Lisbon, Oct. 13.-The Azores ISL
ands have been visited by cyclone
'ch did great damage on the island
of Fayal. Several small crafts sank
at their mornings.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-16

The ministry is the only one of the
overcrowded.
The average depth Of the ocean is
about two miles.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-16


The receipts of gold at the United
States assay office in Helena during
September were $275,655.
Mulvahill & Ely, lesses of the DAILY
properties at Wicks, 20 miles from
Helena, recently shut down the mines,
as ore was accommodating faster than
their concentrator would handle it.
The Liverpool, nine miles from
Helena. near Clancy, has been max
ing remarkable showings lately.
In production of Montana gold Fer
gus county leads. The product from
that county is almost free or cyanide
gold.
President ]. j. Hill and Senator
Paris Gibson have group of 26 iron
claims near Wicks which they have
been developing with a large force of
men during the summer. A splendid
strike of manganese has been made,
the vein being over 90 feet wide and
showing on all the claims is good.
Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-16

Miss Elderly came from a very
old family. didn't she?"
"Oh! yes.''
well. she looks it."-Town Topics
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-03-05
John Sheeran Found Dead.

John Sheeran, aged about q years.
son of John Sheeran, farmer on Brig
ham Hill In Essex about six miles
from the junction, was found dead in
the barn on the Henry Bixby farm,
carried on by James Romprey, at an
early hour Friday morning. Feb. 81
1t appears that Sheeran, in the com
pany of William Packard and Aleck
Council, neighbors, went to Winooski
Thursday morning on a horse trade.
They took dinner with a relative of
one of the men and spent the after
noon about the town.
About 4 o'clock they thought they
had better have something to drink
and 1t is claimed Sheeran purchased
one and one-half pints of alcohol and
one pint OF whiskey and the party
drank IL all. Sheeran was made help
lessly drunk. On the way home their
team broke down when near Fort
Ethan Allen. They were overtaken
by James Romprey, who took Sheeran
into his sleigh.
When they reached Sheeran's home
the men talked the matter over and
thought they better not leave him
there as his mother would make such
fuss, so Mr.. Romprey took him to
his place, distance of about a mile.
Upon reaching there he got out of the
sleigh and stumbled and fell upon the
barn floor This was at about s o'clock
in the evening.
Romprey did his chores and when
ne had finished asked the BOY il he was
going home, and states that he replied,
Soon" He lett him and went to the
house and TO bed. When he went TO
the barn at about o'clock Friday
morning, Sheeran was dead, living
right where he had left him. The
body was still warm and when the
selectmen and the health officer reach
ed there at about II o'clock in the fore
noon there was still warmth under the
arms. This would indicate that he
could not have been dead long. There
were no marks of foul play. There
We're slight bruises on his face, one ON
his forehead over the lett eye and one
on the right side of the nose. There
was no money found on his person.
lie spent the night on the barn floor
without any covering over him and the
aff0rding very little protec-
ton, being full of holes, botn floor and
sides.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-03-05

The Bennington Banner and Re-
former contributes an interesting
chapter bearing on the subject of cap
ital punishment, it being a review Of
the noted Boornes case. which so
deeply stirred this state-and. in fact,
the entire nearly a century
ago. Stephen and Jesse Boornes
quarreled with their brother-in-law,
Russell Colvin, and one of the broth
ers felled him with club. Colvin
disappeared. 1t was supposed he had
been murdered, and, years afterward.
some of his personal effects and num-
Der of bones were found near the scene
of the quarrel. The brothers were
arrested and confessed that they had
killed Colvin and secreted his body.
Both we're convicted ana sentenced TO
death. The legislature of 1919 com
muted the sentence OF one, but the
other was to be hanged The latter
then withdrew his confession and
maintained his innocence, but no at
tention was paid to it. The day of
execution had almost arrived and the
gallows had even been raised when, to
the surprise of all, Colvin reappeared,
alive and well. He had recovered
from the blow and fled in fear OF his
life, but was seen in New Jersey and
induced to return in time to save the
neck of his assailant. The bones
found were those of some animal. The
case rested on circumstantial evidence
and on the confessions of the supposed |
murderers, which were perhaps natu-
raj, under the peculiar conditions. |
The case shows how faulty is human
and how serious a matter
it is for the state to infict the death 4
penalty. 1t necessarily raises the
question, is il not better to err in the
direction of leniency than to run the
risk Of making a hideous mistake ?
Other instances are on record where
men have gone to the scat
'old. What wonder that men fight
Shy OF service on juries and, when
sitting as members of the legislature,
show an almost unaccountable weak
ness in passing men TO the gallows.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-03-05
why KIDNEY.VORTl
Because 1T Cures as no oa
Known Remedy Cant
Beware on Your Life Of Am Ain.
hOIlc Preparation,

III you are threatened with ipa.u.
or disease of the kidneys, beware :, . ,'1''oa
in any form 4'0Ona
Nothing 50 surely aggrayates. n,,,,
Is more dangerous; nothing lead
eyitably to the fatal disease ths, ~ a.
more people annually in this eouDtrv -. 1'i'
any other save consumption
For what are ine-tenths of All A..
plleants for life insurance thrown any any +, ap-
For the easily discovered SWINE
diseases OF kidney and urinarv o.... u
Ask any insurance man. Ask a5v ,, sa1s'
clan. Ask any members Of Won, 80 s''
who ever applied for life insurance ,A.lif
" hat the most searching inquiry 80 SSliy
He had to wait for the test-t1ba ~.
his urine ! That told the whole s -. q
whether he was a good risk; wbstbs.
was expected to live q
OF all the applicants for places q, 4.
army only a small proportion are nsss.s sls
Uncle Sam doesn't want his men dvins 4
the service from kidney disease a.
every enlisted man must pass the test ny ~.
test. Alcohol excites unsound 49,
like poison, and urinary diseases ar ~ "
readily discovered after debauch '"
As far as kidney diseases 20 medicine /.
an exact science.
The medical world has found A positiv.
specific for the cure OF these diseases ~.
many years futile attempts have 49,
made with liquid connections, an coptsj,
ing alcohol. The scientific method 90
day discards them as worse than psfle..
II takes up, after most searching exrs,
ments and trials, DIR. Pettingills iapo-.
Kidney Wort, puts il into tablet fo,v,
and proves 1t 10 be a specific.
The tablets have successfully stood IA.
most severe test-tube and microseori.
trials that the laboratories know. uifs
results never before obtained in the birs-
~ Of medicine kidney-Wort not ori,
contains no alcohol, but also no miner
ingredients. II is purely vegetable 4
acts promptly and directly on the vhol
excretory system. lt radically cures ever
form OF kidney disease.
As the kidneys are not themselves seps.
tive, they first tell Of overwork and IN.
tress By backache-k kidney ache. This 4
or followed By other gmt-
toms, the more common Of which are fhss.
matism, burning urine, neuralgia ION.
hago, smoky eolored urine, dropsial
swellings, sediment in urine, irregular
heart action and general urinary derangs.
ment. Brights Disease, an actual co..
sumption OF the kidneys, is the Logical sut
certain result OF neglected kidney iroubla.
Kidney Wort Tablets have already eufsd
hundreds OF obstinate cases.
Why should any sufferer neglect 10 iGss
advantage OF this marvellous euniH
power7
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-03-05
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The Readsboro Chair Manufacturing
company has purchased the entire in
terest of the Wilmington Grain anC
Lumber company, consisting OF thei
/ factory in Wilmington and some 5000
acres Of land. The factory will be re
paired and machinery put in, and il
the near future il is more than prob
able that large number of men will
be employed.
the entire force of 80 employees oil
the Whiting brush fibre factory at Bur.
lington went out on strike Feb. %
They want 25 per cent increase OF
wages. All are union men and their
act is sanctioned by the central union.
A. c. Whiting claims the firm has
paid an average weekly wage of over
81, many of the employees being boys.
He intended TO raise wages soon, but
he refused TO be dictated TO. The mill
has been closed for an indefinite Pc
riod. The union claims the average
wage is near sc. This is the busy
season. The firm has just completed Il
new factory.
A deal has been completed by Frank
Babcock OF Glens Falls, N. Y, who
represents a mum Der OF capitalists of
that place, with local parties, for the
purchase OF tract OF twenty acres of
land in South Wallingford, heretofore
used as a pasture by Mrs. John Al
drlch, Tor the purpose OF mining graph
lite. AT first the graphite will be sold
to firms in various parts of the country
which are engaged in the manufacture
OF lead pencils, but later it is probable
that pencils will be manufactured
there. The mine will be opened at
once and it Is probable that a force of
ten or fifteen hands will be employed
at the outset.
Owing to the discharge OF four
teamsters employed by The Newton
& Thompson Manufacturing company
OF Forestdale about 100 OF their hands
went out on a strike Saturday alter
noon. The concern is a wood work.
ing plant and the strikers are practi-
cally all the hands employed by the
company. The facts in the case
appear to be as follows: II has been
the custom OF the firm to employ the
teamsters in odd jobs about the factory
Mneh Inc weather is such as to pre-
vent their doing usual work. Satur-
DAY the rain kept the teamsters in and
Louis Bump, younger member Of
the firm, ordered the four men TO clean
out an alleyway in the basement
ms alleyway contains a number of
swiftly moving belts and the team
sters considered the work of cleaning
up about them OF too dangerous n
character for them to safely under |
take. They told Mr.. Bump that they 4
would rather lose their time than do /
the work but Mr.. Bump replied that
they could do as he ordered or 90 /
home. This the men took to be \ |
virtual discharge and went 10 the
oihce and drew their paw. When the
Test OF the employees learned of this
hey held consultation it the noon
lour and decided that if the team
tiers were not taken back thew
Would all leave their work. They so in
ormed Mr.. Bump and, gaining no
satisfaction from their interview with
lin, they al struck.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-03-05
Good for Children.

March IS the month Of colds, Group,
whooping- cough, and not unfrequentiy
pneumonia. Children, and young people
too, get wet feet or are out in a wet storm.
and before they know it have a bal cold.
which Il hot broken up viii lead TO serious
results.
Downs Elixir given at once aud treat
ment followed up as per directions given
IN circulars around each bottle. will
speedily break up the cold and avert an
danger Mrs. Ell. Derby, Piercefs Bridge,
y. IL, writes: Il have given Downs
Elixir 10 my children when they have had
colds, and like it very much.m Downs
Elixir Is sold BY all dealers in medicines.
Henry, Johnson q Lord, Props, Bur
hngton, W.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-03-05
THE RACE PROBLEM.

The two really serious questions of
the present are the labor and race
problems. OF these, the former may
be trusted to work itself out. The lat
ter is not only threateningly serious,
but promises no solution that we dare
contemplate. In spite OF hope once
entertained that ii would settle itself,
the race problem now thrusts its ugly
head in our very faces and grows more
portentous every day. OF late, especial
ly, the country has seen so many mani
festations OF the unfortunate, the de-
plorable, condition that exists that
widespread attention has been rivetted
toward it and, from the president
down, our people are gravely consider
ing what can be done.
the South is the center of Etrouble.
naturally, inasmuch as there the negro
and white races are nearly equal in
numbers and are throwR together in
everyday lie. A fierce, almost de-
moniac, spirit of hatred and malevo-
lence toward the blacks has taken pos
session of the white people of the
South. 1t has rapidly intensified of
late. The whole purpose seems to be
to place the negro so PROSTATE on the
earth that he shall not dare to raise his
head in the presence of the superior
race. The least suspicion that color
ed man or woman istrying to rise in
the social scale is sufficient to bring
down upon him the malediction OF the
united whites, who speedily proceed to
throw him down to the low level that
has been deereed for him.
Practically all political rights have
been taken from the negro in the
South, and the fifteenth amendment
to the federal constitution is nullified.
Not satisfied with this, prescription of
the most bitter kind has been directed
against the negro who should essay to
hold public Office or accept even
humble employment in the govern
ment service.
President Roosevelt is execrated in
the South because he invited that
grand and great mulGtto, Booker L.
Washington, to dine with him because
he has bad negroes as guests at public |
receptions in the White House because
he refused to accept the resignation OF
a colored postmistress in Mississippi
who had been terrorized into rendering 1
It; because he has made several ap-
p Jintments OF negroes as federal OIL 1
GERS; and because, above all, he has
boldly promulgated that doctrine, so 4
hated in the South, that merit, and not
the color of mans skin, should de-
termine his standing. Indeed, it is
true that the presidents ut
terances. more than his actions, have
earned the displeasure of the South.
Other presidents, including Cleveland.
Democrat, have had negroes at the
White House and all have made more
negro appointments than Roosevelt
But Roosevelt has answered his critics
IN way that has accentuated the diff
iculty, and has sternly rebuked them
IN the broad lines of conviction itself.
Now the Southern white, almost
without exception, no more believes
hat the negro should be treated as an
quail than the most noisome thing
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-03-05

| that craWlS. IL maltefs not ~"
capable he may be, "all cooAs look
alike to him. In fact, such is the
prejudice that the more promising
the negro is the more he invites the
jealousy and hostility of the white
man of the South, who loses no oppor-
tunity to humble him. The idea prev
ails that if the negro is coddled and
lifted up and encouraged to be some
body there is grave danger that the
whole black race will assert its
equality with the understanding
that is contemplated with horror.
One Southerner expressed the pre-
valent sentiment when be said that
for every niger postmaster appointed
it would be necessary to kill a hundred
niggers to teach the race their proper
station. Hatred of the blacks is the
real cause OF all the hideoas, fiendish
punishments inflicted by mobs that
we read about, often visited for triv-
ial offences. The Southern white
has no quarrel with the negro when
he keeps his proper place" but &C
cording to the view of the Southern
white this proper place" is right
under the feet OF the white man and
must be assumed willingly and with
out protest, or there is trouble.
The negro is at fault. 1t is the
outcropping OF his simple, childlike
nature to respond TO attention. He
seizes every opportunity to rise from
his lowly station and to take the
place that he is convinced is his by
natural right. beside the white man.
The average negro is vain and self
and with any chance airs
his Importance in way that is sim
ply uncomfortable to the white man
who has been reared to treat him as
IN inferior.
English blood, especially, asserts
is supremacy over all other races and |
will brook no challenge. This is
ust as true in the North as in the
south. Our prejudice against the
negro is not so Unborn and deep-seated
Is is the case with our brethren of
he South, but we should claim no
special virtue on that account. We
you'd not brook negro domination
II even negro equality were we in the
south, and il the blacks were as
and as offensive here as
hey are there we should have our
'wn serious troubles with them. We
would not associate with them socially,
n seek to raise them to our level, or
ejolce when they secured public
,ffice.
All the fine-spun theories run up
gainst this blunt fact the white race
ever has regarded another as its
quail, never wants to and never will.
low are you going to settle a prob
en- wherein theory and fact meet
ach other in head-On collision
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-03-05

Gen. "Baldy" Smith, a native Yer
monter and a Union commander of no
mean merit, has joined his comrades
over yonder. His services for the
cause We're varied and valuable,
though they afterward became the sub
ject Of heated controversy. Badly"
was popular with the Vermont troops.
and many veteran whose own feet
are lettering with age and weakness
will feel his eve moisten when he
reads of the death Of the old favorite
leader.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-03-05

The average pay Of male teachers in
the public schools Of Vermont is s87. so
per month and OF female teachers
s27.l6 per month, OF an average for
both Of about a dollar a day. This up
sets the popular theory that the teacher
Is rapidly acquiring all the wealth of
the state. A business concern that
didn't pay its employees a higher wage
scale than this would soon be con-
ironted by walking delegate Of the
labor union with forcible request for
a good, big raise or the alternative Of
a strike. When It is considered that
the average teachers wage is lifted
materially By the really decent salaries
that some receive, It viii be seen what
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-03-05

There are ass so-called trusts in
this country, with total capitaliza-
ton OF over eight billion dollars. The
national debt used to be the acme of
financial contemplation, but it is a
mere bagatelle compared to these ire
mendous figures. These trusts mean
a mortgage of one hundred dollars on
every man, woman and child in the
Union. It's no wonder that legislation
is seeking TO keep these monsters
within proper bounds
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-03-05

The harvest OF death in the ranks OF
the Union veterans is shown by the
lessened numbers of the G. A. r. year
by year. The loss in the Vermont
department last year was 23l It's
the way Of the world, but it's melan-
choly way.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-03-05

The prediction for March is that it
win be a dry month. The agencies
have gone out of business, and it will
take at least thirty days to get the
licensed places to running.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-03-05
EDITORIAL NOTES.

"Le roi est mort; yive lie roi.n
Prohibition is dead; long live local
option-if it deserves to. But who,
one short year since, would have
thought it
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-03-05

Here is what Judge Pierce of the
Massachusetts superior court has to
say Of spoilers
1T is not true that there is no diff
ference between the detective and the
'spotter' who seeks to have crime COM
mitted In order that conviction may
he obtained. Every instinct of de
eency IN any man protests against the
last. | need say no more about il,
except to say in this case YOU have the
testimony Of such man. What he
says may be true. He is man who is
hired to get evidence and get it as he
c M be Is paid TO get man into a
criminal situation