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The Van Buren press., 1903-10-24
Ihirh Minirr Cnn,Icish.

Evansville, Ind, Oct 2l,--Thc Jury
IN tho case ot LeyI Meyer, n negro,
charged with taking part In the rio, OF
july last, returned verdict OF guilty.
The punishment Ia from two to ten
years This is tho third conviction OF
Ihn rInInra
The Van Buren press., 1903-10-24
Express Company Employees Strike.

Citizens residing along railroad lines
in this state over which the Pacific
Express Company operate have been
greatly nconyenicnccd on account Of
the strike Of employees Of the said
company which went into effect on the
18th The strike affected the states
OF Missouri, KanGas, Louisiana and
Texas, besides Arkansas, and fully 30
per cent Of employees in the above ter
flIory obcyed the order to stop work,
eavng only the local agents and
route agents to handle the business
until green men can be broken In, The
tOporlntcndent for Arkansas, when APP
plsed Of the strike, gave orders to
agents not to accept any porlshaDlo
ITelght until the new men become IA
mlIlar with affairs The strikers de-
mand an Increase in wages Of 10 per
cent and the recognition OF their
union The officials offered to grant
uo Increase but positively refused to
recognize the union,
The Van Buren press., 1903-10-24

TWO companies of the Twenty
.o,ond infantry for several months
s,a,loned n, Fort Logan n, Roots
lcft on the goth mat Tor 'h' r"'''p'
pines
The Van Buren press., 1903-10-24
lIltlo Girl Injured.

N'a SQuircs aged . years, was
p,ooably fatally injured IN u runaway
". Wv Little Rock, Alta and another
,u "','o girl were left In n wagon by a
,e,ua'l'o, who stood alongside, giving
",u'rS to n merchant for some goods
%ueh The team took fright ut blcy
, "' ana ran away, The children
"ro "'ro thrown from the wagon and AltH
shoulder
,uuurlhg Il thunder storm the baptist
,TGW'h ut llogon was struck by light
"'0S Ond badly DAMAGED,
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-02-03
Decline Of Imperial PRESTIGE.

In an article in the Monthly Review
on Canada and Imperial Ignorance"
Mr.. w. Beach Thomas lays stress on
the Americanization of the country:
american ideas, If not America,
are taking the country captive. The
Americans have no insidious inten-
tions, no arrierc pensee-an American
seldom has. He is generally candid,
II not honest, to a degree. He goes
where he goes to make money, and
makes no pretense of Interior objects;
he neither Stimulates nor dissimulates.
But power goes with the making Of
money as an inseparable accident;
and the American is apt to win other
prizes than millions. 1t Is no small
achievement that the press is COM
pletely captured. 1t has been done
merely in the way of business; but so
effectively that in the last ten years
English magazines have been practi-
cally banished. Private people and
the clubs still take in this or that
weekly paper, but it may be said that
there is practically no public sale at
all; no agents who take English
papers, no public which demands
them. Some of the shells may be seen,
but an inspection of the contents
reveals the American edition, In
which articles especially designed to
suit American tastes have been sub
stituted in New York for the more
typical English material"
Mr.. Thomas argues that the British
are losing their hold on Canada owing
to the ignorance which leads some
Englishmen to address their letters,
"Ottawa, Canada, the United States"
He thinks that it would be more
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-02-03

President ingalls, of the Big Four
road writes an execrable hand and q
farmer living near Springfield, Ohio,
Is glad Of 1t. One day Mr.. Ingalls, was
riding over division of the road and
came within smelling distance of a
particularly emphatic hog pen owned
by the farmer. Next day he wrote an
autograph letter to the agriculturist,
complaining of the hog pen. The
farmer could not read a word of 1t
and showed the missive to Big Four
agent. The latter could not make any
thing out Of 1t. either, but said 1t look
ed like the passes sometimes issued
by President ingalls,. This was a
suggestion to the farmer, who de-
clares that he made several trips on
the road, using tho illegible scrawl
as a pass before the conductors dis
covered that it was protest instead.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-02-03
ireland and the kinQ.

Mr.. NJ. Med. Bodkin contributes a
paper entitled "Why Ireland is Dis
loyal" from which we quote only one
passage:
The King is personally popular in
Ireland; far more popular than was
ever Queen Victoria, whose GOODNESS
and neglect to the last year of her
reign awakened bitter and natural
resentment. The Queen made no
secret Of her hostility to the great
Home Rule statesman Mr.. Gladstone.
The King, as Prince of Wales, dis
played his friendliness and admiration
never more openly than when Mr..
Gladstone was engaged in the strug-
gle for Home Rule. The story goes
that His Majesty, when he last visited
Ireland, was sorely troubled to find
that here alone within the vast Cir
cult Of the Empire, was there active
disaffection and disloyalty, and, it is
believed, that he was sympathetic
and statesmanlike enough to seek the
remedy in justice and Cancellation.
Rightly or wrongly, the belief Is gen.
eral among Irish Nationalist that
His Majesty personally favors the
great Cancellation scheme of Mr..
Gladstone for the reconciliation of the
two nations"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-02-03
Their Thirteenth Quarrel.

They had been married three months
and were having their thirteenth quar-
rel--an unlucky number, by the way.
you only married me for my
money" he said, with exceeding Ut
terness.
81 didn't do anything Of the ki.ld,"
she retorted.
well, you didn't marry me because
you loved me-"
II know l didn't"
''In heavens name, what did you
marry me for, them" he cried In de,
spair, for he had not expected this.
Just to make that hateful Kate
Scott you were engaged to cry her
eyes out because she lad to give you
up and see me get you"
He fell down on the white bear rug
at her feet and rolled over on 1t un.
til he looked like an animated snow.
ball.
Great Caesar. woman!- he shrek.
ed, what have you done? Why, !
married you just because she threw
me over"
And by the time dinner was ready
their sweet young hearts were once
more SO full of sunshine that avn.
ings were absolutely necessary.--Stray
Stories.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-02-03
SOUTH GROWINGRI
WONDERFUL PROGRESS MADE IN
RECENT YEARS.
Population and Value Of Products
Show Enormous oalns--Manufac.
turing Industries Being Established
In all Parts Of the country-the
Figures.

The progress Of the south during
recent years is one Of the wonders Of
the age. Between 1880 and 1900 the
population of the south increased
from 16,369.960 to 23,54S, 404 or "A per
cent, but In the same period southern
agricultural, manufactured and min.
eral products increased in value from
H,134,5S6,229 to $2,S44, ,440, or 157
per cent. Farm values grew from
$4,000. 364.321 to s3,951 ,631 ,632. Farm.
ing Is improving, as Is shown by the
fact that, while the acreage in wheat
increased in the two decades but ~
per cent, the crop increased SO per
cent The average per acre is nearly
two bushels higher than the average
for the whole country. The corn. hay
and oat crops about doubled, and
the cotton output increased over 80
per cent. The value of the crop of
cotton In 1900. seed included, was
$3.50 900, 900. The rice and sugar crops
much more than doubled, and the
product of southern tobacco is 20 per
cent Of that of the entire Union. The
rural population is accordingly fairly
prosperous. and its gain in numbers
between 1890 and 1900 was much
larger than that Of all the rest of the
United States.
1880 there were 161 cotton factor.
les; in 1900 there were 400. Between
1890 and 1900 the south gained 2,747,.
S39 cotton spindles, against gain of
but 2.172,410 in the north. In the
same period the capital in cotton
manufacturing increased from $751;.
100000 to $124,OOO, 900. But oil mills,
furnaces, rolling mills, furniture aud
other woodworking mills have also
sprung up as If by magic. An epitome
OF the manufactures of the south
shows 1882 manufacturing estab-
lishments in 1900, with a capital of
Sill, 6ss,S52 against 43,725 establish.
ments in 1880, with a capital of
1881 ,692.03S. The value of product
has grown from $445,572,461 to ST..
419,001,873. The mining output in
1900 was $115 1862, 763 against $17,s07,.
646 In 1882. The lumber industry has
also increased phenomenally.
This industrial progress has re.
suited largely from the expansion OF
the railway systems and the improve.
ment OF harbor facilities. Southern
ports have increased their exports
since 1880 by 99.5 per cent, this being
a sequel Of the inc .ase of southern
railway mileage from 21,612 miles to
52,694 miles, a growth Of 143 per cent,
against the growth Of but 90 per cen,
In the rest of the Union.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-02-03
The Sugar Trust.

There is a well-informed article in
the series on "The Great Business
Combinations Of Today,"-Mr. Frank
lin Gl9ykin's description of "The So
caleb Sugar Trust" He shows how
this industry of refining sugar is iden-
titled with single family, the Have
meyers. The present head of the
family, Mr.. II. o. Havemeyer, is in
supreme control of an industry which,
under his administration, has increas-
ed the annual output from a single
plant of the trust, the or iginal Have
meyer refinery in Brooklyn, from $780,
900 barrels per year to 5000, 900
nearly a third of all produced from
cane in America. The pride Of the
Sugar Trust and its head is that the
margin of profit between the raw
sugar and the refined has been reduc-
ed, and the official tables of prices do
show that the average margin is lower
than before the trust, and even lower
than the average of the four years In
the course of which retineries were
going into bankruptcy. "a slightly
lessened margin is its footprint. While
advancing and depressing the price to
the consumer as it saw fit and paying
dividends on increasing capitalization,
it was not, in the long run, enjoying
the difference between what was paid
for raw and what was charged for re-
fined. Fear of competition, actual
confha to overcome those who were
striving after the same gain, may
have been the impelling se,-prob-
ably it was; yet the result was what
it is, and iught to bear little on the
trust problem In general"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-02-03
FATAL SLIPS.

The Grand Trunk telegraph oper-
ator's fatal oversight that snuffcd
out the lives Of thirty persons was the
absorbing topic Of conversation among
Chicago telegraphers yesterday. There
are few knights of the key who cannot
each in his own career recall slips
thatoply favoring fortune saved
from dseloping into tragedy. In a
Chicago raRyad Office last night dis
patchers and operators were recalling
instances when they had been near to
disaster. Said one gray haired vet
eran:
81 have no word of condemnation
for the boy up on the Grand Trunk.
He made his mistake and NUT suffer,
how much no one can tell. And it
won't be because Of the law. To
his dying day he will hear the shrieks
of the women and children he sent
to doom. What is the Punishment of
of law compared with that?
ellis mistake 1 duplicated twenty
years ago, but 1 was saved by the
fraction of a minute from being q
murderer. 1t was on a road that now
is a big link in one Of the greatest
systems in America. No. 3, the
west-bound express, was delayed two
hours at my station because of a hot
box. This necessitated right-of-way
orders for all the freight trains, and be-
fore they were given the dispatcher
sent me orders for the express allow
ing inferior trains certain time to
make the three long sidings between
my station and the division terminus.
SIN those days it was not necessary
to get the conductors signature to
the order before completion. We
would o. X. them and the conductor
would sign them when ready to leave.
l repeated it back to the dispatcher,
signing the name of the conductor,
and then the freights were given their
time limited. l should have landed
the conductor at once, but l reasoned
that he would come in for orders be-
fore leaving. Having the right Of
way, he did not, and 1 forgot the
orders lying on my desk. What hap
pened is best told in the indignant
protest of Jerry Carter, engeneer Of
the first freight that encountered No.
3. A hour or so after the express
left he pulled his train in on the sid
ing and stalked into the telegraph
office.
Say kid he began Il want you to
send message to the trainmaster
about Bill Milford ON No. 3. He's
too reckless. We weren't in the
switch two minutes just now before
he came by there, going fifty miles an
hour. It's all right to make up time,
but that's taking too much chance.
Make it strong and sign my name to
it,
Il did not send that message, and,
strange to say, heard nothing more
from the affair. Luckily No. was
delayed ten or fifteen minutes longer
than was expected and all the freight
ers with time rights were safe on
their sidings when Milford scooted
by. The closest call was Jerry Car
ter's. That's one reason l don't
criticise the chapI up on the Grand
Trunk. Chicago Chronicle.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-02-03
Not lnvincibIe.

Three Irishmen were discussing the
merits of the various fighters in a city
saloon, and in conclusion one said
yes, gintlemen, the Irish are the
greatest fighters in the world" After
they left the place little German,
who was contentedly slipping his beer
and smoking his pipe, listening to
what the lrishmen had to say, re-
marked to the bartender that he did
not think the Irish were such great
fighters. The bartender said they
proved themselves fine fighting men.
well, l dond think they vas any
goot es fighters" the GermaI stub
bornly ccntended. IVY only last week
me and my brudder Gus, and anudder
fellow whipped one Of dem"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-02-03
ESTRAY NOTICE.
County OF Cache. ss.

STATE Of UTAH, 60
County of Cache. S''
In the Logan Precict OF said County.
have In my possession the following de-
scribed estray animals which. II not claimed
and taken away will be sold at public auction
to the highest cash bidder at my corral In
Logan precinct on Saturday the l4th day of
February. 1903 at the hour OF II a. m.
One white and red steer about years old
white face, crop and under bit Of each ear nc
brands visible. Also one red and white cow
or roam In the white. about 12 or 10 years old.
bit In left ear. no brands visible. dehorned.
Said estrays were taken up by me In said
precinct on the 10Th day Of January, 1903.
j. G. JOHNSON,
Pound Keeper for Logan Precinct
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-02-03
missionary Appointments for iIyum Satke
Fen A

''''""dry appointments Tor Hyrum Satke
Feb 8.
David Murray and G. c. Bindrup, Jr
MT. STERLING.
James Unsworth and Andrew A.
Allen.
wELLsvILLE.
Ola Olson and Moroni Jessup.
MENDoN.
l.. Z. Christensen and II. NJ. Mcbride.
COLLEGE.
j. II. Vaughan and William P.
Walters.
MILLvILLE.
L. 0. Hanson and Gideon Olsen.
HYRUM 1sT WARD.
Andrew Sorenson and George b.
Hughes.
HYRUM SECOND WARD.
Joseph Howell and G. n. Vaughan.
HYRUM THIRD WARD.
Michael Johnson and Alma Hansen.
PARADISE.
George II. Bradshaw and Robert J.
Kerr.
The following special meetings will
be held in each ward Immediately
after the afternoon meetings:
Acting and Ordained Teachers:
January II, February s, March 8,
April II.
Elders meetings: Dec. IS, Jan. 25,
Feb. %, March 80, April 26.
Ward conferences will be held in
the Hyrum Stake of Zion as follows:
Paradise-January "a and %.
Millville-February I and s.
Hyrum End Ward-February IA and
Is.
C0llege-Feb. Il and %.
Hyrum 3rd Ward-March land 8.
Avon and Mr.. Sterling-March IA
and Is.
Mendon-April IL and II.
Wellsville-April IS and 10.
Note-Sunday school at College
Ward begins at 1880 a. m. Meetings
at l p. m. In all other wards 10 a. m.
and 2 p. m. respectively.
Respectfully,
w. G. PARKINSON,
GEO. o. PITKIN,
I.C. THoREsEN,
49,.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-02-03
$500 Reward.

A reward Of $500 will be given to any
party for evidence leading to the conviction Of
any party guilty Of defacng Public or Private
property or riding or driving on any side walk
in Logan City limits.
&-s BY order Of the City Council
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-02-03

OF the six continents South Amer.
lea is now the least known, although
100 years ago it was better explored
than any continent save ESrope.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-02-03

profitable to expend the $50, 200, 900
year now spent in Great Britain on
maintaining paupers in making
immigration easy.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-02-03
THE STREETS OF JAPAN.
System Of Numbering Houses Must
Be Somewhat CONFUSING,

SJokSUU VI N0WO0TtUH VOuU0O mU0y
Be Somewhat Confusing.
In Japan houses are not numbered
according to their sequence, but &C
cording to the order of their erection.
That is to say that No. 72 may adjoin
No. 1, with No. 102 on the opposite
side. No. Q is probably mile down
the street. The city Of Toxic is made
up of 1880 streets. in which are S1S,.
800 houses. These houses are divided
into fifteen wards. II street passes
through more than one ward the
houses are numbered according to the
wards In which they are; that Is, q
street passing through six wards will
possess six number ones. It would be
like hunting for a needle in a hay
stack for a stranger to try to find
number in Toxic. but jinriksha
driver knows the position and num-
Der of the houses In Toxic. He ia able
TO do this by having made his business
the one study of his life.
laconlc.
Hermann Pickle was kept In" after
school hours for his want of proficien-
cy In mental arithmetic A note to
that effect was given him to take
home and hing back the next morn.
ing with his fathers signature. Tho
father is an 'onest tin plate worker, a
citizen Of Pittsburg, and strict dis
ciplinarian. Hermann returned the
note to his teacher with downcast
eyes. 1t was signed as follows:
Read and walloped. c. PIEFKE"
Commercial Value of Almonds.
At Tunis the average commercial
value of green almonds in good sized
lots is 15 francs (S2.90) per 100 xii.
ograms (220.46 pounds); the value of
dry almonds is about four times as
great, and the decorticated fruit brings
205 francs t$39.50O per 100 Kilograms.
The stock on hand from the preceding
harvest is ins!gnificant-approximate
ly 1000 Kilograms (4,4O9.2 pounds).
Use for National Guardsmen.
Salem, N. j., was recently rid Of a
caterpillar plague by National Guards
men, The concussion of their rifles
when discharged caused the caterpil.
lars to loose their Lold on the trees.
Then they were swept up.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-12-19
RESOLUTION NO. IA.

The City Council of the City of Pull
man, Washington, resolves as follows:
THAT the City of Pullman intends
to construct a sidewalk as follows: Com
mencing at the intersection of Paradise
and Alder Streets, Lot L, Block 10, run
ming thence South along Lots l, 2, 3 and
1, Block 10, on the West side of Alder
Street to the intersection of Alder and
Mckenzie Streets, as graded.
2.-That the cost of said sidewalk will
be apportioned against the property a
butting on said walk between the points
aforementioned, and said cost be assessed
against said property.
3.-That the walk 50 constructed shall
be five feet four inches in width; of plank
one and one-fourth inches thick, with
proper stringers 2x6 inches in dimen-
sion.
4.-That any objections to the con-
struction of this walk shall be filed with
the City Clerk on or before December
18th, 1908, and be presented to the City
Council at the regular meeting to be held
on December 18th, 1908
d. F. STALEY, Mayor
Attest: j. s. CLARK, City Clerk.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-12-19
Students are Iokers.

The college chapel was trans
formed into museum and menag-
erie sometime Tuesday night, for
Wednesday morning it presented
the result of the pent up energy of
fun-loving students.
The decorations on the stage were
composed of lumber wagon, two
stuffed black bears, two stuffed
fawns, a cows skeleton, hogs
skeleton and the skeleton Of some
i'll fated human.
The wagon was placed In the
middle of the platform while the
bony frame of some COW, which had
submitted itself to the care of the
veterinary department some six
months ago, was hitched to the
wagon tongue as though destined
to haul the load. The load con-
sisted of the skeleton of one hog,
which at some past date was also
intrusted to the medical care of the
students of the veterinary depart
ment, and two large black bears
which were standing upright. The
two fawns brought up the rear.
This ridiculous scene was made
more laughable by the presence
of the human bones. The skel-
eton was standing just in front of
the large wagon and behind the
chapel desk. The long finger bones
were pointing to the chapel Bible,
which was open to the thirty eighth
Psalm, which reads: 'There is no
soundness in my flesh because of
thine anger; neither is there any
rest in my bones because of my
SIM" etc. A lighted candle was
placed beside the Bible.
The chapel was visited all morn.
ing by students and members of
the faculty. Several solemn pro-
fessors' who had never smiled be-
fore, except at their own jokes,
burst in laughter as they gazed up
on the scene and read the thirty
eighth Psalm.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-12-19

Twigs, II per cent, and all other
varieties, III per cent.
Had the remaining forty.four
members of the association report
ed. it is said, the total number of
acres and trees would have been
increased by half the present fig
ures, but, it is also said, the SUI
premacy of the Ben Davis would
not have been affected a whit, but,
on the contrary, might have been
boosted to SO per cent of the total
production of the country.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-12-19
Ben Davis Apple Leads.

Statistics gathered by Secretary
T. G. Wilson, of the American APP
pie Growers Association, which
has closed its second annual con-
vention at st. Louis, show that
western apple growers lead all cul-
tivators in the production of this
luscious fruit, and their princi pal
product, the Ben Davis, constitutes
almost half of the reported crop of
the United States.
The membership of the American
Apple Growers Association up to
the end of last year was 1862. One
hundred and fourteen of these re-
sponded to the secretary's call for
the number Of acres under cultiva
ton and the number of fruit bear
ing trees.
The call elected the information
that 1910 acres were under cult
walton, upon which stood 1924, 104
trees. This brought the average
number of trees to each owner up
to 6,707. OF this total number of
trees, according TO the figures sub.
mitted by the producers, the Ben
Davis apple headed all sthers. It's
percentage of all trees reported be-
ing 45 per cent.
The Jonathan followed with a
percentage of 10; Gano, 8 per cent;
Grimes Golden, . per cent. Wine
saps, 3 per cent; Missouri Pippin,
4 per cent; Ingram, 3 per cent; Ro-
man beauty, per cent; York I'M
perial, ! per cent; Willow Twigs,
II lner cent; Mammoth Black
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-12-19

For plain sewing call on Mrs. Ida
Morgan, Military hill, Pullman.