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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-18


this appointment he had been Home
Secretary of Great Britain.
Lord George Francis Hamilton has
lkfgured prominently in British public
life since 1874, when Disraeli nominated
him parliamentary under secretary for
India. For many years he was asso-
ciated with Indian affairs, and it has
been claimed that he has shown ex-
traordinary ability in the mana cement
of the office he has resigned. He is
the third son of the Duke of Abercorn,
and his wife is the daughter of the
Earl of Harewood.
CHAMBERLAIN'S POLICY.
The policy that has brought about
Chamberlain resignation is set forth
in the following article, from the New
York Evening Post, published prior to
the sensational debate which opened
in Parliament about two months ago.
The article is as follows:
Mr.. Chamberlain, after years of de-
batting and consideration has definitely
adopted imperial protection as his
platform for the next general election.
Other men-Tories, Unionists, Liberal
1mperialists and Radicals may do
what they please. this is the man
date he intends to seek from the cleo
torate. Shorn of all political rhetoric,
this is the substance Of Mr.. Chamber
lains Birmingham recent declaration,
and as I write all men discuss the
issue with an interest second only to
that aroused by the great Home Rule
split in the Gladstone party two dec
AIDES back. For good or for evil,
this new departure is a momentous
event in British politics. Six years or
81 ago. when Mr.. Chamberlain first
embarked on the imperial path, he
made the colonial acceptance of free
trade within the empire an essential
preliminary to British duties against
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President At Antietam.

the Anetam memorial yesterday He will Bay this
morning.
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Jews and Gentiles Fight.

COMELA Russia, Sept 18Fghting has occurred here be-
tween Jews and Christians. Six fatalities.
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Distributing Responsibility.

TEIIERAN, Sept 18-Five ministers have been appointed to
conduct the business of the Vizier
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Upton Better.

CHICAGO, Sept 1sSir Thomas Lpton who has been sick
from appendicitis, is improving.
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Salisbury's Large Estate.

LONDON, Sept 1SLod sasbury's will apprae ST.
100000.
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The Hon. c. T. Ritchie was appointed
of the Exchequer less than
q year ago. Prior to the time of
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-02-20
Mr. r. Stark representing the Me-

Mr.. E. Stark, representing the Me-
nomonee Falls Beet Sugar factory, is
canvassing among the farmers in this
section to place contracts for growing
beets the coming season. The Reporter
published list of farmers two weeks
ago with whom he had closed contracts
covering more than 1000 acres, and he
desires to increase the amount and dis
tribute the acreage as far as possible ex-
pecting that beet growing will prove
satisfactory and profitable industry so
that eventually factory will be located
somewhere in this county.
Justice and Mrs. G. V. Bardeen are
entertaining ex-Gov. and Mrs. Alva
Adams of Colorado who came for few
days visit with their old friends. The
gentlemen were chums in college days
at Albion Academy, one living at Edger-
ton, the other at Black Earth, and have
been intimates since. Mr.. Adams went
to Colorado after graduating and for
year or two Mr.. Bardeen was in his en-
ploy, returning later to study law, at
tain distinction at the bar and finally the
high honor of seat on the supreme
bench, his friend in the meantime hav-
ing acquired wealth and capped his
fame in the executive chair of his adopt
ed state Madison Democrat.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-02-20
MORE RURAL ROUTES
Rock County viii Soon Have Forty-Seven
County Routes.

Mr.. J. P. Walker, Of Indianapolis,
special agent of the postoffice depart
ment in the rural district routes, was in
the city Friday and in the morning held
meeting with many of The postmasters
OF this section for the purpose of arrang-
ing matters and considering the routes
which he had planned in the past. few
days while he has been in the city. Mr.
Walker has mapped out all the ne.os-
sary routes for this county, and called
the postmasters together to receive from
them any suggestions that might be
made looking to the betterment of his
plan. Under the new system to be put
into operation the number of rural
routes in this county will be more than
doubled, they being increased from
twenty to forty-seven different routes,
the starting points being from the vari-
Gus postoffices in the county, they being
as follows:
GAINESVILLE 10, Avalon l, Clinton 4,
Hanover 2, Beloit 9, Footville l, Oxford
:, Brodhead 3, Evansville 6, Edgerton 2,
Milton 2, Milton Junction 2 and Lima 2.
This means an increase in the number
of routes from the different points as
follows: GAINESVILLE 6, Avalon l, Clinton
3, Beloit 4, Hanover g. Footville l, Or
fordville 3, Evansville 3, Lima Center 3,
and Brodbead l.
The minimum distance of the different
routes will be % miles and the maxi
mum distance will be 25 miles, and in
the forty routes that are planned
for this county there will be but few
homes that will not have daily delivery
of mail.
Mr.. Walker will submit his map and
plans of the routes in this county to the
postoffice department, and on their ap
prevail there will be examinations held to
fill the places newly created. By the
plans of Mr. Walker, Rock county will
be the second in Wisconsin to be pro-
vided with complete rural delivery
acknowledgements.
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Obituary.
MRS NJ. III. SOvERHILL.

Another of the pioneer residents of the
town of Fulton answered the final sum
mons in the passing away of Mrs. Myron
Eel. Soverhill at her home in GAINESVILLE,
Saturday eyenin G at nine o'clock. Al
though advanced IN years, Mrs. Soverhill
had enjoyed the best of health until a
year ago last November, when she was
Frustrated by the shock of the sudden
passing away of her brother, the late
William Sanford, who dropped dead
while playing Home Sweet Home" on
the violin at the close of Mr.. and Mrs.
Soverhills golden wedding celebration
Since that time Mrs Soverhill had been
subject to sinking spells and for the past
three weeks she had been confined to
her bed.
Deceased was seventy three years of
in Newark, Wayne county, n Y, Feb.
20, 1880. While she was quite young
her family removed TO Palmyra in the
same county and later to Hopewell, On
tario county. When she was about six
teen years of age the family returned to
Newark where she completed her educa-
ton in the female seminary of that viii
lage. After her graduation she was en-
SdSCo III lCdOuluS ioi JIG year dbu oh
the 10th of November, 1851. she was
united in marriage to M. H. Soverhill
Mr.. and Mrs. Soverhil have been resi-
dents of Rock county for forty seven
years. They came to the town of Full
ton, this county, in January, 1856, settl-
ing on the farm which is still owned by
them and on which they remained until
the fall of 1882 They then removed to
GAINESVILLE which has been their home
ever since and where on November Is,
1901, surrounded by their children and
their grand children, they celebrated the
fiftieth anniversary Of their marriage.
There are left to mourn her loss, a
husband, one son, Sanford Soverhill, of
GAINESVILLE, and four daughters, Mrs. T.
B. Earle of Edgerton, Mrs. Frank J.
Mouat of the town of Harmony, and Mrs.
E. G.. Tracy and Mrs. Beaumont De For
est Of GAINESVILLE.
Funeral services were held from the
home on Tuesday morning at ten o'clock
and the burial took place at the family
burial place in the Fulton cemetery
where the eldest and youngest children
of the family are inferred.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-02-20

On motion the council adjourned.
HENRY JOHNSON, City Clerk.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-02-20
Wisconsin Picnic in California

A copy of The Los Angeles (Cal.) Times
under date of Feb. Ii reaches us con
tanning the following notice of picnic
of the Wisconsin Society at Long Beach:
"The picnic of the Wisconsin Society
of Southern California at Long Beach
was we'll attended. The visitors were
cordially welcomed by the local commit
tee and were decorated with badges sig
nifying that they were Badgers In
the afternoon there were formal exer-
cises at the Pavilion, which was prettily
decorated for the occasion, with callas
and other adornments more suggestive
of Wisconsin weather at this time OF
year. r. D. Kanouse. the Prohibition
orator of Glendale, presided and happily
introduced the speakers Among those
who spoke were Gen. Amasa Cobb. for
mer Lieutenant Governor John Z. Kean,
Bartlett Trip of South Dakota, former
Minister to Austria, and also Chairman
of the Samoan Commission, Judge Mills
of Colorado, F. NJ. Porter OF Los Angeles
and Pliny Norcross of GAINESVILLE, Wis.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-02-20
EDGERTON, WIS, Feb. 10, 1908

The annual meeting of the trustees
was held at the office of Wilson Bros. at
7 o'clock. Present.: G. 0. Shannon, Robt
Attlesey, J. Dave, Fl. Ebbott, j. Ma
Whitney, d. Wilson and w. T. Pom
eroy; E. G. Hopkins came in after the
voting for officers.
The following officers were then duly
elected: G. O. Shannon, president; w. L.
Pomeroy, Secy.; Robt. Attlesey, Treas.
1t was moved that the executive COM
mittee make report to special meet
ing of trustees, to be held on May 18th.
at 7 p. M, at Wilson Bros office, re-
garding the sidewalk and building a
vault. Meeting then adjourned.
w. r. PoMEROY, Secy.
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Discriminatory Contest.

J
Contest will be held in Royal Hall, Tues
day evening, March Sd. The two receiv-
ing the highest rank in this contest will
represent the Edgerton High School in
the League Contest to be held at Milton,
March 10th.
The contestants are Lewise Pomeroy,
Hazel Touton, Penn Brown, Jr., Roy
Farman, Elmer Hahn Rollin Marsden,
George Scharfenberg, and Percy Silver
wood. Of these, but one has ever taken
part in contest of this kind before, but
they are working hard and improving
rapidly and it is to BE- hoped that their
endeavors in this work may be encour-
aged by the appearance of large audi
ence at the contest.
The judges will, if possible, be secured
from out of town so that there may be
no suspicion of unfairness in the decis-
ion. The program and announcement
of the judges will appear in the next
issue Of this paper. A nomioal admis-
sion fee will be charged to cover the nee
essary expenses. Any surplus will be
devoted to the school library as has been
the custom in the past. General admis-
sion, 15c: reserved seats, 25c.
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Unclaimed Lettars

Letters remaining uncalled for in the
P. 0. at Edgerton. for the week ending
Feb. 20, 1908:
Mrs. Mary Hortan Mrs P. Heggestad
Mrs. Marion Ubinger Mr. James Dove
Mr. Oscar S. TubbS Mr.. Alvia McVay
Mr.. Robert Nay Mr.. Chris. Dalliger ?
Persons calling for any of the above
named letters please say advertised"
T.. G. WHITTET p. M.
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FASSETT CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
Report of the Past Years Transac lions.

Report OF the Past Years transactions.
The annual meeting of Fassett Gene
terry Assn. convened at the office Of Will
son Bros. at o'clock p. m.
Meeting called to order by the chair
man G. 0. Shannon in the chair. Mem
bers present: c. O. Shannon, Robt. At
tlesey, Ell. Ebbott, D. [. Wilson, j. Ma
Whitney and w. T. Pomeroy.
Minutes of last annual meeting read
and approved, also report of trustees.
The report of the secretary was read
showing the total number of interments
from Feb. s, 1902, to Feb 8, 1903, as 40,
viz. City of Edgerton Is, Fulton 8, Por-
ter 5, GAINESVILLE 4, Albion 1, Milwaukee
l, Milton junction 1, Columbus l, Otta-
wa, Kansas, l, Elmira, N. Y, l. Ages
less than one year, r; to 10, 2; 10 to 20,
1; 20 to 80. /; 80 to 40, 4; 40 to so, Z; 80
to 60, 4 so to 10, 6; 10 to 50, 8.
The financial statement was as follows:
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$685. 60

The executive committee was instruct
ed to superintend grading sidewalk. 1t
was moved and seconded that the execu-
tive committee build vault not to cost
over $500 The meeting proceeded to
the election of three trustees for three
years with the following result: D. I.
Wilson, J. Mawhinney and J. Dave.
w, r. POMEROY, Secy.
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Tobacco Notes

Geo. w. Spitzner OF New York has
been visitor in this market portion of
the week.
Harry Putnam received several large
crops at this station Monday for ship
ment to Sun Prairie.
'Asleson & Void, town of Dunkirk to-
bacco growers, delivered their IL acre
crop to Eisenlohr Friday that weighed
in 1908 pounds, bringing the snug sum
in cash of S143655.
The American Cigar Co. is now operat-
ing with full force in this market and
are packing more tobacco each week
than any other branch in the state
better than 100 cases each day. Their
payroll for warehouse labor last week
exceeded $4,000.
On Wednesday of last week j. NJ
Straus and Andrew Jerdee delivered
their 1O-acre crop of tobacco to the
American Cigar Co in this village. The
crop averaged 2251 pounds to the acre
and Melted the total sum of S1553.0O
Mr.. Strauss has one Of the best tobacco
fields in Dane county. = Sun Prairie
Countryman.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-02-20
COMMON COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
Edgerton, Wis, Feb. II, 1903

The council met in regular session and
the meeting was called to order by May
or Doty All members were present ex-
cept Aids Mcintosh and McDonough.
Minutes of last meeting were read and
approved.
The following bills approved by the
Finance committee, were, on motion of
Aid. Dallman, allowed, all aldermen vot-
ing aye:
Jas Reynolds, clearing snow from eros
sings. ...........-........-.-. w
ChaS. Taylor clearing Snow. | 30
Frank Horton clearing snow with team 80
O. Stricken so
o. BredeSen : %
On motion the council adjourned.
HENRY JOHNSON, City Clerk.
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RAILWAY TYNE CARDS.
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE, & ST. PAUL.
gr ,ius Iaova Ed0erton Station as Follows

III inns Leave Edgerton StatIon as FOLLOWS
GOING EAST.
No. 4, daily except Monday. - :25 a. m
NO do daily ............ 80. 6:58 a. m
No az, daily except Sunday. .... 800 a. m
No 3 daily except Sunday. -. $1,000 1874 a. m
No. As, daily except Sunday. .......... 4:2O p. M
No. A, Sunday only. 4:55 p m
No. o. Freight, daily eX. Sunday =. II 30 a. m
No. e. Freight, Sunday only :. 49, $3.50 a. N
No 1866, Freight except Sunday. 9:39 y. m
GOING WEST.
No. l. Daily Sunday excepted ...... Q :39 p. m.
No. -. Daily. .............. -. 1925 p. N.
No. 81, daily except Sunday ......... 7:17 p. N.
No. ;, Daily except Sunday .... $780, 2:l2 D. m.
No. 81, daily except Sunday $500. II :05 q m.
No. III, Sunday only ........ 1910 q m.
No. 81, Freight except Sunday ....... $3.50 p. m.
Nos. and through trains for all points west
~ Mississippi river.
j. A. HENDERSON Ticket Agent.
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appearance, sometimes rising number Of Awards and then following a period of explosions being reduced again. From the time of it's measurement in March. the losses exceeded the gains, until it finally disappeared within the cone which had been formed about it. This cone seems to be made up of lava and ejecta which have been forced up from the vents, and of massts which have been shattered from the obelisk.
 The peculiar phenomena of the obe- fish have awakened great interest. How such a huge monument, taller than the Eiffel tower, could be formed on the top of a violently active volcano IS prolem that is notb easy to solu- tlon- As far SIS we can ascertain, only one plausible theory has been advanced, and that does not seem very credible; namely, that the needle was formed of molten lava during some previous peri cd of activity, that this lava solidifed and formed plug which closed one of
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STILL STRANGE

Truth continues to be as strange as
 fiction, and the adventure of a German orgar1ist in St. Petersburg is an illus
 tration of that truth. On arriving in
 St. Petersburg the German visitor pur- chased a cap. On arriving home in the evening he was greatly surprised to find in the pockets of his overcoat two purses, one of them containing $50. He marveled greatly at his mysterious luck and sallied out again next day. When he came home again he found in his pockets several more purses, and began to feel alarmed. When on the third day he came home with another wind- fall in his pockets he became frighten- ed. Accordingly he sought out the chief of police and told him all the facts. The astute official examined him closely and particularly the cap. He sent the German with a policeman to the matters shop. The shopkeeper ex- plained that the cap was of an excep- tional kind. Some time ago a man had called on him and given him a large piece of English cloth, out of which he
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was to make fifteen caps of exact sini- larity. The natter found that he had a piece of the cloth left over, and of this
 he made an extra cap-the one sold to the German. The chief of police ar ranged for detective to accompany the German on his next days sight seeing, and then the mystery Of the magic cap was fully cleared up. The detective saw various men lounge fur lively up to the German and transfer something from their hands to his poell- cts. On each occasion the man thus discovered was arrestedy and in the course of two or three days the police made prisoners of about dozen men. They turned out to be gang of pick pockets, and all wore a cap of the same pattern as that purchased by the Ger
 man. Their plan was to pass on their plunder to confederate, for whom the German had been mistaken.
 Thus was an honest German calned and yindicated and some Russian crir1- inals caught and put in the way of pun ishment. It is good story.
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THE MONT PEI FEE oBELTSK.


 Mont Pelee stands unique in the his- tory of volcanoes, says the Ccientific American, in more than one particular. A little over & year ago, scientists who were studying this volcano discovered a peculiar toothlike formation growing out of the old crater Owing to the quantity Of vapor and smoke which covered the mountain, this formation was not observed until it had grown to 0 height of two hundred and ninety five feet above the rim of the crater The formation could not be mistaken for cone, such as it commonly formed in craters by the heaping tip Of matter elected from the volcano, since the sides were quite smooth and approyi- rfately vertical. It had rather the ap- pearance of solid shaft of stone, and was hence called the 'obelisk of Pele." From the time it was first discovered it steadily increased in height, and when measured in the latter part of March, 1903, it was estimated to be 5,14S feet above the level of the sea, or 1,109 feet above Morne LAcroix, but this did not mark the maximum height, because a period of heavy volcanic explosions had reduced it somewhat and caused it's form to undergo many changes. Thus, during the spring and last summer, it constantly altered in. height and general
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RDYaL.

cotton may not be the king if o,o. "as' put 1t is stiil royal. Since the price ot cotton began to rise five years ayo
 the gain to the southern cotton erowars
 has been $sooOOO,oOO more than was realized in the preceding five years
 lhese stnpendous figures, says tho manufacturers Record, indicate some-
 'hihg Of what the higher price of cotto, means to the welfare of tbe entira south' The value of the cotton crop or lsoS-oS, including seed, was s5s5, ,OOo Ooo
 Ihe value of the present crop, including seed, may be safely estimated at ss9s oVV'VVo; but added to the very great in- crease in the value of the South,s cot- ton crop is the fact that it raised nroh- aoiy the largest corn crop which it ever produced, the value of which is mapv millions greater than the corn cron of last year The ssoo,0oo, ,oOo received bv the south for it's cotton during the last live years in excess of what 1t received during the preceding five years is near ly twice as much as the entire capital invested In ell the cotton mills of the United States fin 1900; it is more than the present market value of the entire property of the United States Steel cor. poration, more than the market value of the Standard oil company, and more than the entire capital of all the na- tional banks of the United States.
 But the cotton-boll weevil, the deteri- oration of cotton seed and the impover- ishment of cotton lands are menaces to coming cotton crops.
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the passages of the crater, and that now it has been worked loose and forced up by the recent renewed activ- ity. The obelisk does have the appear
 ance of having been forced up in a sol-
 10 piece like stopper in the bottle, and held by friction against the sides of the opening. The northeast side of the ob- eish is very smooth, almost polished in appearance. Its true color, however, is reddish brown, partly covered with Wmtlsh incrustatfon. On the southwest siae fresh surfaces are constantly ap- bearing, owing to the explosions, which cause portions to continually fall of. Ihls side has gray or reddish-gray appearance. It is impossible at the present time to state just exactly what the nature of the needle is, though in all probability it is largely pumiceous, which is judged from the fact that masses break off from it so easily, and also because of the aboudance of pu- mice found in the vicinity of the Riviere Blanche.
 These particulars have been abstract ed from an elaborate discussion of the phenomean of Martinique by E. o. Ho- Vey. MT. Hovey was twice sent to the scene Of the volcanic eruptions for pl,r- poses of study-once by the American Museum of Natural History, and once Dy the National Geographic society.
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4 0IVIL SERVICE CLAIM.

In the report of the Council of the Ma tional Civil Service Reform League this statement is made. aproDos of the frauds in the Postofice department: "No one of the thirteen public ser- wants indicted for alleged crimes re- vealed by the Investigation originally entered the service through competi- tive examination. In every instance their selection in tho first place was due, as far as can be ascertained, to partisan or personal considerations" This fact the Council of the National Civil Ser vice Reform League regards as most striking and significant, and as justify ing the conclusion that ''erdinarily man who enters the service as the result of a competitive examination honestly conducted in accordance with the civil service rules is man of higher moral standards than man appointed to of flee because he has placed politician under obligations to him."
 Perhaps so, but such concentrations are dangerous. + civil service man should turn out wrong there would have to be some lively explaining.