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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-12-21
j. S. Riste's Death.

J. s. Rjste of Cheney died yester-
day from stroke of paralysis. MIR,
Riste was in his straightforward year
and had had three previous strokes
and his death was not wholly uncx-
pected. He leaves a wife and a large
family, one OF whom Is his son f. G.
Riste of this city. MIR Riste moved
60 Cheney from Nebraska three or
four years ago ana was very highly
respected by all who knew him.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-12-21
ROOdIePS Arc
In the Tolls

GRAND DAPIDS, Dec. 2l.--All res
pondents in the water scandal cases,
including Reporter Thompson, wao
confessed to receiving $500 bribe, ap-
peared in court this morning and plead
ed not guilty. The cases are set for
January 4.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-12-21

Cleveland, o.-Apparently in a fit
of dependency over his losses in pool
rooms. Roscow w. Duby. a machinist,
last night shot and killed his wife
and three children and then, lying
down beside the wife, put a revolver
own brain.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-12-21
A(1O(1.

LONDON, Dec. 2l.--Diplomatic cir
cles are agog over the news showing
that a secret offensive and defensive al
lance between Germany, Russia and
Japan h gaining foothold in the Asian
mainland.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-12-21
A Sunday Breakfast.

+ Harry II. Schwartz on his return
for Christmas vacation from INNS
Military academy AT Portland ore.
entertained a small party Of his
friends at venlsuu breakfast ON
SUNDAY II his home on Knox avenue.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-12-21
Big PUGS
WILL SWING

NEW YORK, Dec. 2l.-Munroe and
Sharkey signed this afternoon to fight
before March before the club making
the best offer, San Francisco barred,
as Sharkey refuses to fight there.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-12-21
Message for You?

Undclivered messages at the Wcsterr
Union December u; Billy Arley. 4
c. Davenport, Mary Evans. :. J
Freedman, Il. H. Grandy. Mary Hazm
Geo. Sutton, Chas. L. Tunberg, A, Il
am
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-12-21
JACK

NEW YORK, Dec. 2l.-Emil Tot
terman, alias Carl Nelson, aged IS
was arrested this afternoon. He is
charged with being Jack, The Ripper
murdered who Saturday night killed
and mutilated woman named Martin
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-12-21

Leavenworth, Wash.--A gang of 25
Italian railroad laborers penned their
foreman, Nj. Florence. in the depot
here and II was necessary to call on
the sheriff for protection.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-12-21
WAS CRAZED
BY GRIEF

BERLIN, Dec. 2l.-The "Anzeger"
today announced that the czarina of
Russia recently gave birth to dead
son. The car and czarina are in des-
pondency. The czarina's grief is said
to be uncomfortable.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-12-21
THE AMUR
NEARLY LOST

SEATTLE, Wash, Deg. 2l,--The
steamer Amur ran on Harbor reef at
Port Simpson, in a fog December 10.
She stove in her false bottom and threw
70 passengers into q panic, The ves-
sci was hoated at high tide and broke
her tailshaft going off. Farallon and
Tees rescued the passengers and
brought them to Seattle.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-12-21

Colfax, wash.-A row of hvs small
wooden houses were burned here last
airht causing loss of $4,000 on the
.n,l1inos
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-12-21
Plays for Delay.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2l.--The govern
or granted Attorney Ziegler another
week in which to file his brief on re-
quest Of Missouri's attorney general,
Grove, who is i'll.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-12-21

st. Petersburg.-William j. Bryan
dined with Ambassador Mccormick
Hasa Aght Last Friday Mr.. Bryan
------p - N..--- ---iAA tNata.ai
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-12-21

There has been no leap year
/ since 1890. A child born on
February 2s, 1896, will be 8
years cid on February 2s, 1904,
hit has never had q birthday.
The Press offers prize for
pasture Of the prettiest 3-year-
old leap year girl born Febru-
AIRY 2e, 1886, in Spokane, or ad-
jacent territory.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-12-21

&. Racine of White Horse. ALASKA.
is rpw in the city ANA will remain
several days.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-12-21
Weather Forecast.

Local Forecast for Spokane
and vicinity-Tonig cloudy
and threatening, probably cool
err; Tuesday fair.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-12-21

An ex-member of the church.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1903-12-21

ETY. in Just seven wordss "xhat govszzms.S = -
which governs least"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-17
STATE GRANGE.

Rutland, Dec. 10.--At the afternoon
sessions the Master, @. J. Bell of
Walden, especially called attention to
the Importance of urging upon the
State Legislature the necessity of ap-
propriate legislation in matters per-
tanning to the farmer and rural dis
tricts. On the matter of taxation he
said: "If law could be enacted by
our next Legislature whereby all
property, whether real estate or per-
sonal, in the woods or in the city,
within doors or out in the sunlight,
private property or corporate, could
be assessed and no exemptions what.
ever, the burden of taxation would be
more justly distributed.
Gov. j. G. Mccullough made a short
address in the evening, Superintendent
Ranger spoke of the necessity of keep
ing the country schools up to a high
standard as preventive of abandoned
farms. Mason s. Stone gave talk
on the Philippines followed by other
huhlCEbOb.
Rutland, Dec. 10 AT the annual
meeting of the State Grange 1876 of the
ITO Oranges in the State were repre-
sented r, II. Holmes of Shoreham
was elected chaplain of the State or
ganization and ID. H. Morse of Ran
dolph and l.. M. Crogin of Springfield
members OF the executive committee.
The sixth degree was conferred on
class of 1873 candidates, the largest
number that ever took the de-
gree at any one time in the State.
The evening session on Thursday
was devoted to the exemplifiction
of third and fourth degrees by team
OF thirty members of Protection
Grange of Brattleboro
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-17
THE APPLE BUSINESS.

The apple crop of the United States
has become an important one. Not
many years ago in all but few Sec
tions of the country apples were con-
sidered merely an incidental crop on
the farm, which If all went we'll might
add somewhat to the general income
but which was not regarded of suffi
cient Importance to warrant the ex-
penditure of much labor. Now in
many large sections the apple crop is
of primal Importance and as great
care is taken in the cultivation and
care of the trees and harvesting of
the fruit as of any product of the
farm. The reason for this change is
found largely in the utilization
artificial cold storage for the preserva-
ton ana marketing of the fruit, which
has greatly enhanced the value of the
crop. AS result the production has
been greatly increased, the export of
apples has become quite factor in
the question, and the income of the
farmer has been materially increased.
The remarkable extension of the use
of cold storage is shown by the fol-
lowing statistics: In 1898 there we're
800, 600 barrels of apples thus held on
December Il in 1899, 1878, 100; in
1900, 1926, 900; in 1901, l,77l, 200;
in 1902, 2,97S, $50. La 1902 there were
1885, $50 barrels in common storage,
considerably less than half as many as
in cold storage. 1t is to be noted that
in that year Vermont had $4,000 bar
rels in common storage, ranking fifth
among all the States, but had COM
paratively few in cold storage Yer
mont farmers should take the lesson
to heart and put themselves in a con-
dition to compete with the farmers Of
other States by means of cold storage
plants, cooperative or otherwise, for
the keeping of the apples in room of
an unvarying and moderately cool
temperature will greatly aid them in
marketing their fruit. Vermont is
admirably suited TO the raising of ap-
pies and her farmers, if they. will give
the same attention to the apple crop
that they do to other crops, can easily
add greatly to their income and to
the resources of the State The apple
is increasing in popularity throughout
the United States and in Europe and
has a great future No fruit can COM
pare with it for lasting favor. A
person never gets too many good
apples.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-17
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT.

The newspapers are astonished at
the speeches made at public enter
tai lmeDt by New York schoolmen,
where several teachers, among them
DR.. Schultze, DR.. Scudder and DIR.
Lang, expressed the hope that Ameri-
can teachers would soon be permitted
to return to corporal punishment.
German editors, hearing so much of
the success of the American school sys-
TEN. are, surprised to hear American
schoolmen advocate the antediluvian
German system, which places the child
almost under absolute control of the
teacher, with such results as recently
seen in the Koch Diepold case. Die
pold tortured the little son of Koch,
director of the German bank, to death,
his parents having permitted him full
The case, which shocked all Europe,
brought about a change of sentiment
with regard to corporal punishment in
the schools, and German papers can
not understand why American teach.
ers should advocate return of old
time brutality. They are almost
ashamed to notice that some of the
schoolmen advocating corporal punish
ment bear German names.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-17
GRANITE STATE MIDDLE.

New Hampshire has again furn-
ished "A political sensation. This
time it came in the form OF quo war
ranto proceedings brought against
Governor Nahum j. Bstchelder, to de-
termine by what right the Governor
holds the Office of secretary of the
State board of agriculture at the same
time that he is chief executive of the
State aud the appointing power. The
petition was brought in the name of
M. Meehan, editor Of the People and
Patriot, but it is understood there are
other men backing him. At the time
Governor Batchelder was elected, he
held several State offices with more
or less in the way of emoluments at
tached to them. 1t was expected that
when he assumed the duties of Gov
ernor he would resign the other Off
ces, but he has not and much unfavor
able comment has been made, with
the climax coming in this petition.
1t is claimed that, besides being Gov
ernor, lie is secretary of the board Of
agriculture, with salary of 81, 500 per
year besides clerk hire and expenses,
State cattle commissioner. with COM
pensation fixed by Governor and coun-
Gil, the whole expense of the board of
two not to exceed $4,000 year, and
commissioner OF immigration with an
allowance not to exceed 50, 200 an
Dually, as audited and allowed by the
Governors council.
Ii reports can be believed, Cover
nor Batchelder has put himself in q
rather anomalous position. BY fai 1.
ing to give out those three offices to
his followers he has caused enmity
against himself in his own party,
while he has given his enemies @
chance to attack him 1t certain
ly was not graceful action to try
to keep his hands on the governorshiI
and three offices filled by appointment
of the Governor.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-17
BOOKS AND PERIODICALS.

Paul Otlet, secretary of the Brus-
sells International Bibloigrs phique In
stitute has RECENTLY published an ar
ticle in which he gives statistics re-
garding the yearly output of books
and periodicals, and the total since the
invention of the printing press. He
estimates that in ali there have been
IL, 1853, 600 different books published
and fully 10, 600, 600 periodicals, while
200, coo books are put out yearly now
In the production of books and PAM
phlets which are included in the stats.
tics, Germany leads with Japan. Rus
STA, France, Italy, and the United
States following in the order named
But while this country takes only
sixth place in the publication of books
she is far in the lead of the other
countries in the number of newspapers
and periodicals printed, having to her
credit 81, 900 out of total in the
world of So 1874 The editor of the
Publishers Weekly in commenting
upOu tIlOsc anu UUIl6r sUaulsUlCS r6n1hTKS
that, Germany is the land of think
ers the United States is the land of
readers " He goes on to explain: "The
vast distances of our country and the
constant travel that has built up the
far reaching interests of our commerce
have led to the American habit of
newspaper and magazine reading
Every body reads every minute, and
everybody reads his own paper that
embodies his special views of politics
or religion, or deals with the subject
from which he procures his means of
support. Everything is wanted as soon
as it is known, and the most valuable
contributions to knowledge on all sub
jects generally appear first in the peri
odical literature, that has been con-
coded by many publishers to be far
more profitable than books
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-17

There are great many hungry hearted
women who would attend a baby sale If
babies were ever offered for sale, because
there are a great many wives who love
children and have been told by physi-
clans that they can never hope to nurse
a child of their own.
Some of these women who have used
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for the
cure of womanly ills have been made
happy mothers as result of the cure of
womanly disease and the building UP of
the general health
Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription
makes weak women strong and sick
women well. 1t establishes regularity,
dries weakening drains, heals inhamma-
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III wrote to you some time ago to get informa-
ton about my case" says Mrs. Mary Lee Elan
airy, of Drydel, Va oI was troubled with
female weakness and pains. Received answer
from you, advising me to take Doctor Pierce's
Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Dis
coverv.' I took two bottles of Favorite Pre-
scription and found it did me good l had
been married four years and had no children /;
now can say that our house is blessed with
little baby boy, born July 10th, by the help Of
God and your medicine. praise your medicine
highly.
oYou can publish this letter if you wish"
FREE. DIR. Pierce's Common Sense
Medical Adviser is sent free on receipt
of stamps to pay expense of mailing 0niv.
Send 81 one-cent stamps for the book in
paper covers, or 81 stamps for the cloth
bound volume. Address DR.. r. " Pierce,
Buffalo. n. V.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-17
MRS. ROGERS TRIAL.

Bennington, Dec. II The story Of
Levi Perham, a youth of 10, charged
with being implicated in the murder
of Marcus M Rogers, was told in
county court yesterday. The witness,
called by the State in the trial of
Mrs. Mary H, Rogers, charged with
the murder OF her husband. related
with apparent indifference the tale of
his unrequited love for Mrs. Rogers
and how he aided the woman to MUIR
der her husband to the end that with
the $500 insurance obtained on his life
she might furnish home for the man
she loved.
According TO Perham's story the
husband was lured, late at night, to a
river bank, where he was to meet his
wife from whom he had become es.
tranged, fer the purpose of reconclla-
ton. The pretended Cancellation was
affected and then in burst of we'll
feigned and playful affection, the
woman proposed that they do tricks
her. The husband, happy in the
friendly relations re-establshed,
joined in the sport with enthusiasm.
After little, Mrs. Rogers wanted to
see how strong her husband was. She
bound his aims, but he easily released
himself. Again she bound him but
he again loosed his cords. Mrs. Rog-
ers suggested that Perham try his
hand and he bound Rogers Again
Rogers indicated his strength by
breaking loose, Then Perham bound
him again and this time securely.
From her pocket Mrs. Rogers quickly
drew handkerchief, and bottle of
chloroform. Saturating the hsndker-
chief, she placed it over her hus-
bands face and in three minutes lie
was dead
Perham testified that Mrs. Rogers
picked up her husbands hat, which
had fallen on the ground and pinned
a note on it which she said would
make people think he had committed
suicide. On the paper she had writ
ten am going to drown my self
and nobody else is to blame for my
DEATH" and signed her husbands
name. Perham then threw the body
into the river and hand in hand the
two returned to their home
Bennington, Dec. II "A jury was
impanelled yesterday in the case OF
Mrs. Mary Rogers charged with the
murder of her husband, Marcus Rog-
ers, in August 1902 Fifty-eight
jurors and talesmen in all were sum.
moned. The morning witnesses gave
testimony principally TO the finding Of
the body of Rogers and how the search
came to be started.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-17

1909, or according to his estimate.
about $4,000 cubic feet per month
when operations are under way, he
can see no physical impossibility in
filling the contract within the time
specified, if capital and enterprise are
rightly employed. Referring to the
Ellis sheds at Mortified where the
stone is to be cut, Captain Harding
expresses the belief that with the new
shed proposed, there will be no diff.
Guilty on that score.
The report speaks of the kindness
shown at Montpelier and Barre and
describes the excursion to the
quarries. 1t describes briefly the light
and dark quarries on Milestone Hill and
says the light granite occurs in
sheets and the dark in large irregular
masses but with we'll defined planes
of cleavage, and the size of monoliths
any of these uuarries can supply is
limited only to the possibilities of
transportation. The quarries are
Wlbu
and the facilities for getting out and
transporting stone are excellent The
stone is perfect in uniformity and
quality, and the supply is practically
inexhaustible. In addition to the
Milestone Hill quarries large deposit
of granite exists in a hill about two
miles east of Barre. Stone from this
hill was used in the construction of
the Capitol at Montpelier sixty years
ago. This stone has been quarried on a
small scale from time to time and
during the past year has been consid-
erably developed by the Barre White
Granite Co The stone from this
quarry is lighter in color than any
other Barre granite and is excellent
material for building purposes. 1t
is, however, considerably darker than
the Bethel granite. The granite comes
in sheet formation, is easily quarried
ana the supply is practically without
limit His impression of all the Barre
quarries was distinctly favorable and
when the conditions do not de-
mand a white stone, the granite is
in every respect excellent for building
purposes
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-17
DROPPED DEAD.

T. G. Whitehill, man of seventy
years, dropped dead on the street in
Barre on Saturday. Martin Sargent,
his stepson, was shoveilng the snow
from the roof of the piazza of their
home on Maple avenue and Mr.. White
hill was standing on the street below.
He shouted to his son on the roof that
he did not feel very we'll and before
the son had time to come down he
dropped dead. He WAS afflicted with
heart trouble.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-17
SHOT IN THE EYE.

Thomas Lawless of North Montpelier
received severe injury to one eye on
Friday, by being shot by an air gun.
He was standing on Main street in
Barre on the opposite side of the street
to tue Bolster block when he felt
shot hit him in the leg. He turned
around to investigate the source from
which the bullet came and and as he
was turning shot struck him over
the eye, inflicting severe wound.
1t is thought the bullet came from a
window in the second floor of the Bel
ster block. The police are investigat-
ing the case.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-17

dents need "A lot of watching and cod
ding 1t goes on to tell how vari-
Gus Senators have been sent out to
keep up the Roosevelt boom while
the Hanna boom, which is hard dying,
requires watching. 1t continues: For
our own part, we believe that the
Presidents popularity is in reasonable
good fettle All the more pity, then,
that it displays so many neurasthenic
symptoms It is possible, they say,
o test the knee jerk of neurotic pa
tient so often and with such terrify-
ing results that nervous symptoms are
created by suggestion. If the Roose-
welt boom should ever go stale, we
feel that the fault would be largely
that of the eminent doctors in the
case. F." The Post may I've right in be-
lieving that there is a possibility of
OVERRIDING the "coddling" process, but
with Roosevelt it will make very
little difference whether his boom is
overdone or UNDERGONE for he is too
closely bound to the hearts of the
common people to be passed by for
any candidate who is now known Of.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-17

ations would be taken The former
lined and carpeted with furs and an
earthen floor, the latter baronal hall
or stately castle.
The Cherokee council is now in SEES
sion, but it is shorn OF power and can
effect but little. The season of Indian
Raities is now on and stomp dances.
festivals and so forth are in full
swing. In my next l may try my
hand at describing Stomp Dance.
Il, l..
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-17

A bill has been introduced into Con-
gress to henceforth exclude Japanese
from this country as the Cinnamon
have been excluded in recent years.
1t is likely that the bill will die quick
ly when the Congressman get at it for
the Japanese are a very different grade
of people than the Chinese and it
would be very likely to cause serious
complications if they should be ex-
cluded.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-17
Ignorance Is the Mother of
Mistakes.

plumbers and bungles-the most ex-
pensive thing IN this foolish world.
There are millions OF poor persons
who might have been rich but for
their plumbers, and hundreds in their
graves who might have been alive
had they used DR.. David Kennedy's
new medicine, Calcura Solvent,
when they were first taken sick.
Write to the Cal-cura Company, Ron.
dout, N. Y, for book and free sam.
pie bottle.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-17
WorrI, Care Grief,

overwork of mind or body, exposure,
loss of sleep too much food, too little
food, the wrong food, or any of fifty
causes may provoke an attack of rheu.
matism, kidney trouble or govt. On
first signs use Dr. David Kennedy's
new medicine, Cal.cura Solvent, and
write to the Gal, cura Company, Ron
dout. N Y, for booklet, and free
sample bottle.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-17
CLUBBING LIST.

The following offers are for the
benefit only of subscribers to the
Waterman (weekly) or the Journal
daily who pay all arrearages and
a years subscription in advance. One
or more of the publications may be
ordered, but the money for each, at
the club rate, must invariably accom-
pany the order, with all arrears Of
any due on either paper and full
year in advance. To the "Club Rate'
add 81 90 for the Waterman, or SO. 90
for the Journal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.

By William Walter Husband. Bethel
Granite for the Union Railway Sta.
ton. Influence of the Award on
Vermont Quarry Interests. Captain
Harding's Report on the Barre Quar-
ries
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-12-17

The vacant Craftsmanship of the
Republican State committee is a post
of too much Importance to be bestowed
off hand amid the hustle and pressure
of the next State convention The
party might we'll be thinking over
the list of eligibles in the meanwhile
and prepare itself to make wise
choice. st. Adams Messenger.