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The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-07

The little mining town of Frank,
in Southwestern Alberta, British
Columbia. was the victim of n
terrible disaster on the Doth ult.
The whole northern face of Turtle
mountain slipped from place, and
countless tons of rock fell upon
the unhappy town, killing nearly
one hundred people and burying
almost the whole town. The cart b
is said to have opened for three
quarters of mile and many feet
wide. Old Mans River, which
flows through the center of the
town, is damned up with the
fallen rock to the height of nearly
a hundred feet, and the entire
valley above the town is flooded
II the dam breaks tho town will
be swept away.
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-07
.Sunsbine Society.

only few announcements this
week:
Boys Brigade drill, Tuesday aud
Fridays at $50 p. M, at Mrs Huff $.
rho Brigade are to enter y compct-
tive drill for prize soon, and need
the constant attendance of every mem
ber
The Juniors will hold their regular
meeting next Saturday ut > O'Clock at
Mrs Huff S. Now faces are always
welcome and the old members are al
ways missed when absent Our last
meeting WAS our best. Let our May
work excel our past.
I t I
We received An appreciativc letter
from tho Hospital where the flowers
went, and wish we might send more.
If some one going up would offer to
take box to Union Station, so we
could notify tho matron of the Hos
pital before hand, we might add many
sweet blossoms to those already sent;
but express charges arc too heavy to be
met by our funds very often.
I I I
Don't forget, VIC want more reading
matter, especially for bows and uirls.
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-07
The Right Position.

From the New Madrid Mlssournn
The Scruton resolution in the
meeting OF the Democratic Press
Association provided that if well
known boOdler he nominated for
Office by the Democrats, the fact
that Democratic editor did not
support him would not affect the
standing of the editor in the asso-
ciation. The resolution was re-
ferrcd to committee who will re.
port sometime next year when the
Doodle scandal will be quieted
down and the resolutions forgot.
ten.
If the suppression of the resolu.
ton offered by &. II. Scruton is
taken to mean that the association
will attempt to muzzle the country
press, then we hereby tender our
resignation to said association.
We believe that every man who
has taint of corruption about
him should be exposed, and if
found guilty after an impartial
trial, should be relegated to the
ranks of the plebeians, There are
many connected with the recent
boodling in the Legislature who
will never be convicted, but the
taint Of suspicion will forever lurk
in their tracks, and the finger of
public scorn will forever be pointed
at them. The crowd is known
and they are marked.
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-07

The hotel porters of Poplar Bluff
must cease their vociferous antics
around the train platforms. A
man may now visit there without
fear of being torn to pieces at the
depot.
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-07

The annual meeting OF tho Missouri
Press association viii BE- held ut The
Hotel Victory. Put INLAY O., July -,
% and -. The fur,nouns win hr d..
voted to the transaction of business
and the afternoon to pleasure, such
as boat excursions, fishing aud hunt
ing.
one of the odd laws passed by the
lcgis.ntur at it, recent session
makes il inisdcmceuor for man
tu wear the rmhlcm rt a secret order
TO winch hc does not belong. II
atliXcs fur the olIcusc uuNjmmn
punishment Of finn of S25 mui %
duys' imprisonment in the co"uty
JUL
John Robertson. cuudrmu"d to
han" for the murder of George Com
klr at Brushcur has made hia sec
ond attempt at suicld" in the kirk@.
vile Jail. With u piece of steel oh
tanned fruia q truss which hc wore
he almost severed an artery in his
left wrist, After Robinson became
unconscious from the loss uf blood
a Clot formed nnd stopped the Anw.
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The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-07

A constable at Poplar Bluff hhs
skipped out leaving a deficit of
$ll7. The bondsmen will now
produce.
DeSoto is one hundred years old,
the first house having been built
in 1903. A big celebration will
probably he held July 4th.
Harrison Moore, the bigamist
of Butler county, is back to the
penitentiary again. He had just
been out few weeks and married
again.
A well near Puxico has one re.
markable popularity. Air flows
out of it with n constant ronr,
issuing from n point about twenty
five feet below the surface. The
roaring is much louder shortly be-
fore a rain The well was not dug
in rock. The roaring has been
constant since the well was dug
several years ago. Bloomfield
Vindcator.
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-07

II you want to buy or sell real
estate, don't forget to call on Oscar
L. Halle & Co. They will always
save YOU money Office in Davis
building,
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-07

The Piedmont Banner recently
eulogizcd Circuit Attorney Folk
aud then wound up by doubling
that he could be elected to any
State Office by any political party.
That's it The doubters would be
the very ones who would uncon.
sciously bring about his defeat
Get the press in line and any man
can he elected to anything.
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-07

The fact that Strawberries are
very iudigestible anyway is a con.
ISOLATION just now.
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-07

st. Louis endeavored to get back
in one week the entire expenses of
the Fair Kansas City papers say
they succeeded,
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-07

The merry month OF June will
be great relief to the frosty
month of May
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-07

The Brooklyn Eagle says that
Grover Cleveland is the logical
Democratic candidate for President.
He may be the logical candidate,
but what we want Is the hard com.
mon sense candidate. BY gym
nastic logical deductions we can
prove almost anybody to be the
logical candidate.
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-07

The conditions in the Philip.
pines are of such quiet nature
that several more regiments of
soldiers are III transports In
transports OF JOY No, no, in
transports to the Philippines
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-07

The Iowa Idea" for tariff re-
vision bids fair to cause great
big schism in Republican ranks.
Ideas TINT are ideas usually do
cause something
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-07

The Wise Men of the East didn't
see any painted savages on the
streets of san Louis, and the wilds
of lll.lnol were not what they
thought they were. The Fair
dedication was disillusi0ncr.
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-07
GINGER JAR.

1t begins to look as though the
coal trust had perpetual lease on
the weather.
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-07

DeSoto has new drink labeled
Push - II rivals the far, famed
Billy Lee Ilighhall' in effective.
ness. A running mate called
Pull would become popular with
Job seekers
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-07

Grover Cleveland, eX sheriff of
Erie county, \ Y, and most dis,
tinguished private citizen in the
world, was the focus point of al
eyes Mt the Worlds Fair dedica.
ton, and rivaIled the Monitor
Arkansas in attracting Il crowd
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-14
ELUcIDATED BY MR.-RAER.
Makes a Statement for the Benefit of
Mayor Low.

Mayor Low.
NEW YORK, Jan. 13-Mayor Low
and representatives of the coal-carry-
rying roads held q conference today to
discuss the coal situation in. the five
boroughs of Greater New York. The
railroad presidents present were Geo.
F. Baer, of the Reading, F. D. Under
wood, of the Erie, Fowler, of the On
tario. & Western, and Thomas, of the
Lehigh Valley. John B. MarkIe repre-
scented the independent operators.
President Baer. read a statement de-
scribing the position Of the coal roads.
He maintained the roads were. doing
all possible to relieve the situation. The
situation was full Of difficulties and the
failure of miners to work during the
holidays had reduced the output and
the price had been unduly advanced by
the smaller companies: and individual
operators. He added #
"TThe difficulty IN keeping down the
price of anthracite coal is that the
coal Of many of the operators is sold
at the highest price that @can be OBJ
tanned in the market. In athe present
time of scarcity they have. sold their
coal at prices from So ltof IS per ton
higher than that at which the Phila-
delphia & Reading Coal and Iron COM
pany and the Lehigh 81 AVilkesbarre
Coal company sell their c1al.
1.-THE price at which Eeoa9 is sold by
the operators to the largeEs companies
Is based on the f. o. B.EJf11arket price,
New York harbor. Some of the opera
tors who have made these contracts
have complained that they did not get
as high prices for thEfr coal as the
operators who have ne contracts and
who sell their coal themselves. They
pointed to the fact thatsmany Of the
operators have sold their coal at IS
or SO per ton, whereas the circular
price of the larger companies f. o. b.
New York is only SIS per ton. Litigation
was threatened The coal companies
having these contracts were compelled
to face this contingency. q Should the
which we sold the coal purchased frona
the individual operators, was not the
market price but that the market price
was the highest price at which coal
wGs; sold in New Z ork, then, there was
a possibility Of our having4to pay from
So to 81 per ton more for this coal than
we received. &
''In justice to our stoekhnIders we
could not assume any sue hsrisik. and no
We made the best comp oflise we
could, which was pFa6 tteallY a sus-
pension until April list Of these con-
tracts. The effect has been, IN the
case of the Philadelphia & Reading
Coal & Iron company, to release about
100000 tons per month and a like
quantity in the case of the Lehigh &
Wilkesbarre Coal company"
Mr.. Baer said his companies would
continue to sell at SIS ton.
Mayor Low sent out letter to about
100 retail coal dealers asking them to
cooperate with the committee of ope-
rators.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-14
MAY BE SETTLED SOON.
Developments Point to Conclusion Of
TraInmen's NEGOTIATIONS.

From late developments it appears that
the negotiations between the committees
and the railroad companies will come to
conclusion shortly. and it is tntimated
Shat the result will be very favorable to
the men.
Chairman Burnham, Of the Omaha COM
hittee of conductors, yesterday received
r Geographic communication from E. E.
Clark. chief of the Order of Railway Con-
ductors. stating that there was a strong
probability that a 20 per cent increase
would be granted and that there was
prospect that the negotiations would be
brought to a termination within forty
eight hours.
There were no developments yesterday
among the committees in st. Paul, except
that the Omaha committees met Supt.
Trenholm. Beyond discussion Of the sit
uation no results were arrived at except
that they mutually agreed to abide by the
conclusion reached in the negotiations be-
tween the grand officers and the railroads
having headquarters at ST Louis. The
trunk lines having headquarters at Chi
cago have, it is understood, signified their
intention to do the same
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-14
Trust Those Who Have Tried.

] suffered from catarrh of the worst
kind and never hoped for cure, but
Ely's Cream Balm seems to do even
that-Oscar Ostrom. As Warren Ave.
Chicago, III.
| tried Ely's Cream Balm and to all
appearances am cured Of catarrh. The
terrible headaches from which 1 long
suffered are gone-W. ]. Hitchcock.
Iate Major Y. s. Vol. and A. A. Gen.,
Buffalo, N. Y.
My son was afflicted with catarrh
He used Ely's Cream Balm and the
disagreeable catarrh all left him.
{. Olmstead, Arcola, Ill.
The Balm does not irritate or cause
sneezlng. Sold by druggists at so cts.
or mailed by Ely Brothers, Sc Warren
St, New York.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-14
CLASH ON SOUTHWEST RATES.
Western Passenger Association Falls t
Reach Agreements.


Reach Agreements.
The landseekers' rates that came up for
discussion yesterday afternoon at the
meeting of the passenger agents of the
ST Paul Chicago lines. held at the Nicollet
mouse, in Minneapolis are very likely to
cause considerable trouble before they can
be agreed upon. There was no decision
arrived at yesterday, and it is barely pos
slble that no decision whatever will be
reached at this time regarding the best
manner in which to handle these rates.
These landseekers' rates, when they
were first promulgated by the various
lines, We're for the purpose Of inducing
people to take advantage Of them with a
view Of settling up certain tracts of va
cant lands with bona fide settlers on the
various railroads. 1t was not long be-
fore most Of the railroads began using
these rates for scalping purposes and most
anybody who wished a landseeker's ticket
could be accommodated. The practice has
become so common, and the violations of
the intent and purpose Of the rate so fla
grant that some of the lines decided if
possible to call a halt.
Some Of the lines operating out of ST
Paul into Southwestern territory were
privileged to use the landseeker's rate into
thls territory, but instead of using the
rate rate, INTO Southwestern territory, they
Ao11uS6th0TS LlCk6CS TO chi
cago locally, which was clearly In viola
ton OF the spirit Of the agreement. This
not only was done from ST. Paul. but Du-
luth was in on the deal, as the lines OBJ
Grating between here and Duluth have
arrangements with all Chicago lines and
IL is understood that landseekers' tickets
nave been sold between the Zenith City
Il - understood that a proposition was
mace by some of the representatives yes
terday to limit the sale of these excur-
sion tickets to one agent and a party of
three, but a number Of the representatives
present could not see any remedy in this
manner OF trying to curtail the business.
as most anybody could represent himself
as as an agent, and there would be no re-
heI IN trying to fix it UP in this manner
, II no agreement can be reached whereby
the offending lines can be brought into
check, 1t is barely possible that those lines
that ask certain practices be stopped, will
take the initiative and install certain rates
TO chicago and other points where cuts
are being made, that may force the lines
that are holding out into certain agree
ment regulating the sale Of tickets to
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-14
GREAT COMBINATION
BELIEVED TO BE
IN EFFECT
Passing OF Erie Into Joint
Control Of Northern Secur-
tiles Company and Rock
Island Made Possible by
Giving the Pennsylvania a
Branch Line.
Special to The Globe.

Special to The Globe.
NEW YORK, Jan. 13.-The combi-
nation of the Rock Island with the
Northern Securities company to di-
vide control of the Erie is now probably
assured. ]. Pierpont Morgan and James
J. Hill, who are the largest holders of
Erie, have removed the biggest obsta-
Gle in the way of agreeing to let the
Pennsylvania Railroad company take
over the New York, SuSquehanna &
Western, subsidiary line of the Erie.
The Pennsylvania has been after this
line for a long time. It's acquisition
now gives it a direct line from Man
haitian to the anthracite fields and
saves it over one hundred miles of
trackage between it's hard coal fields
and its New York market.
Opposition Removed.
With the Pennsylvania appeased the
Morgan-Hill combination is free to
complete its deal with the Rock Island
whereby the latter may use the Erie as
Its seaboard connection without inser-
fering with the Northern Securities
pact.
j. P. Morgan & Co., VINO have recent
ly become financial agents Cor the st.
hOu4S q san IduC4SCOs Cs-AAy that there
is any pending deal whereby the latter
may get the Erie to checkmate the
Eastern plans of both the Rock Island
group and the Goulds.
With the Erie in possession of the
Rock Island and Northern Securities
there might be a community Of inter-
est on a gigantic scale, including Penn
sylvania, Baltimore & Ohio, Reading,
the Vanderbilt roads, the Northern Sc
curities roads, Erie, Rock Island and
Atchison. 1t would look like the mill
lennium of railroading if the question
of maintenance of rates is considered.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-14
TEST OF THE COURTS.
Where Washinaton's Governor Would
Take the Case

Where Washington's Governor Would
Take the Case.
OLYMPIA, Wash, Jan. 13.-In his mes
sage to the legislature today Gov. Nc
Bride said:
Prior to the formation of the North
ern Securities company, the Northern Pa
chic Railway company and the Great
Northern Railway company, both operat-
ing IN this state, were competing lines
Since that time competition between them
has practically ceased Believing that the
formation of the Northern Securities COM
pany and the taking over by it Of the
stock of the Northern Pacific and Great
Northern was in violation Of our conSti-
tuition, nothing was left to be done, as
viewed by the attorney general Of the
state and myself, but to bring suit to test
the law. Accordingly suit was brought in
the name of the state OF Washington
against the Northern Securities company
and the Great Northern and Northern
Pacific, and the action is now pending
before the supreme court OF the United
States. An appropriation to defray the
expense of this action is necessary and
recommend $4,000 for that purpose"
The governor recommends the passage
of a stringent law prohibiting the giving
to or receiving by public officials Of free
passes on railways or other transporta-
ton companies.
The governor says:
The most important matter to come
before you at this session is the question
Of establishing a railway commission
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-14
reat rum; and the humorIst knew when

great run; and the humorist knew when
to stop. He gave up hunor, we believe
and lived prosperous gentleman and
newspaper proprietor. The Detroit Free
Press man and the other writer's men
toned by our correspondent had their day
and vogue. Mr.Peck even developed suf-
fic1ent hunor to become governor of Wis
cOnSin. Where do you find anything like
the humor of these men nowadays, asks
our correspondent. Well, this Is largely
a matter of Individual taste, just as it
would be for us to say that Artemus
Ward was worth the whole pack of hui
morists mentioned The rewards Of the
successful humorist of today are great.
Newspapers, publishers, theatrical man
ayers bid for him. AS for the meritsof
the present humorists, 1t seems to us that
a single one of them, Mr.. Dooley, formerly
Of Chicago, has, at his best, more orig
tnality, Quaintness and distinction than all
the men celebrated by Mr.. Creighton.
There are plenty Of others, known and
unknown; and we have no doubt that the
quality of their work is at least equal to
that Of their predecessors. We all get
little bilious and hard to please as we
grow old. 1t becomes harder to play upon
our risibles, and we are sure that there is
less cause to laugh because we are slower
to laugh. But, depend upon 1t, newspa-
pers, comic papers, magazines and books
are full Of stuff which tickles millions of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-14
COUNTY OFFICIALS LEcTuRED.
Breezy Report From the Grand Jury al
Crookston.


Special to The Globe
CROOKSTON, Mimi, Jan. 13.-There is
great deal of excitement in this city
as result of the report of the grand
jury, which has just been made public
The county officials, particularly the
treasurer, the auditor and the commits
s1oners, are severely criticised for their
methods of doing the countys business,
which is declared to be very loose. The
report asserts that the county has been
defrauded of large sums of money be-
cause Of these careless methods The re-
port recommends increases of salary for
the county attorney and the sheriff Ac-
cording to the special law for Polk coun-
ty the latter official now receives IS per
cent Of the fees allowed under the gen
eral laws. The jury returned twenty-five
indictments. most of them for minor Of
lenses.
The indictments against County Super
visor Ralph, three in number, will be
called in court on Saturday. Mr.. Ralph's
friends are so confident of a favorable
outcome that they predict the cases will
never go to the jury.
Several days this week will be con-
sumed by the district court in the trial
Of Mrs. Emma Fairbanks, an Indian
woman accused of the murder Of her
husband at Lengthy, in the eastern part
of this county, last August. Fairbanks
was stabbed to death in a drunken row
in which large number of Indians were
engaged. The trial began Monday and
the woman Is defended by Congressman
elect STEVENSON.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-14

Jan. q. ensuing, at II a. m. All dele
gates sent with credentials by gov
ernors of states, mayors of cities or
commercial bodies throughout the
united States are, invited to attend as
members of the conference and to lend
the wisdom of their counsel in this
great emergency. To be an accredited
member Of this convention does not
depend upon former credentials, but
every man bearing credentials from
the persons or bodies above mentioned
is eligible to membership"