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The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-09-23
Marriage Of Well Kuown People.

Fred Fontaine. q we'll known young
attorney Of this city and Miss Nellie
Donahue. of Cotterell. near Portland
were married last Wednesday at high
noon at the home Of the brides par
ents. in the presence of few friends
and immediate relatives. The newly
married couple received many hand
some and valuable presents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Fontsine visited the carnival at
Portland. and the state fair at
Salem. where Mr.. Fontaine formerly
resided. returning to Sumpter, Mon
day. They will 60 to housekeeping at
once, occupying the MoCammon resi-
dnce.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-09-23
SMELTER SOLD.
Everett Plant and Mines 70
into Trust.

A New York dispatch to the
Spokesman Review, says: Charles
Sweeney has sold for the Federal
Mining & Smelling company the
Everett Smelter, with over 5000, 900
worth of Of ore on hand. and the
Monte Cristo mines to the American
Smelling Il Refining company at a
price exceeding million dollars.
This Is more than the Federal COM
pany paid for these properties, and
adds this much money to the funds
in the treasury of the Federal
company.
The Sampling works have been
bought by the Federal company from
the American Smelling l. Refining
company. which bought them a
year ago from the Occur 'Alene
Mine Owners association. The price
paid, 100000, was less than the
real value. They cost s25. 900.
The Everett Smelter was owned by
the Puget Sound Reduction company,
whose stockholders were identical
with those of the Monte Cristo
mines, all New York men. The
smelter and the mines together were
profitable, although the mines by
themselves we're not.
MIR. Sweeney, who ia at the Waldorf,
where he will remain until at some
time In October. said:
"The sale Of the Everett properties
has been completed. The organiza.
tion Of the Federal and this last deal
will have no effect on the other
mines In the Occur d'Alenes. None
Of the stockholders In the American
Smelling l. Refining company Is
interested In the Federal company,
but we have entirely satisfactory
arrangements for the handling Of our
ore. There will always be q demand
for all Of the Occur d'Alne ore,
as the consumption of lead In the
United States Is greater than the
production. The request from the
smelling company a year ago that we
curtail our outut was due to the
fact that the smelling company had
arranged to supply the manufacturers
with lead at q fixed price for year,
and this destroyed the necessity for
the msnufactur carrying a
stock. While the manufacturers
were consuming their old stock the
smelling company found its supply
of lead on hand running up to
between &c, 900, 900 and $1,000, 900.
This was burdensome. Hence we
we're asked to restrict our output
until the manufacturers again began
taking their normal amounts. This
they are now doing, and the United
States Is importing lead"
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1903-09-23
REPORT OF THE CONDITION

OF The First National Bank Of Sumptes, At
Sumpter. 10 the State Of Oregon, at the
Close oi Business, Sept. 9, 1908.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10

President Roosevelt is now engaged
in trying to settle an ugly patronage
fight in Nebraska. Senator Willard
wants United States District Attor-
ney Sumner reappointed and Edward
ROsewater is opposing the senator
with characteristic vigor, charging
that Sumner is unfit to hold the office
because of his political associations.
Mr.. Rosewater has a candidate in
Harry Lindsay, of Omaha, but Mr..
Lindsay's chances have been greatly
minimized by the opposition of Sena-
tor Dietrich. Representative Mercer
has offered the president a possible
solution of the problem by formally
presenting w. f. Gurley, an attorney
of Omaha, who is not identified with
any of the warning factions. Mr.. Cur
ley may be selected as compromise
candidate
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10

On the occasion of sad anniversar-
les. there is an inspiration that comes
from the thoughts of dear ones gone.
1t is the appreciation of worth and
virtue that keeps the memory of the
departed fresh and fragrant, and it
is from memory so precious that
are gathered the best and most last
ing lessons of life. To realize that
one may so pass his allotment of time
here. even though it be short, that he
may leave the imperishable legacy Of
a good name. is one of the most con-
soling things that guide the traveller
through his vale of tears. Sorrow is
assuagerl in the food OF time. but
that which correct living builds upon
the rock cannot be washed AWAY.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10
Substitutes forCoaI.

Necessity is the surest promoter of
invention. The recent coal strike
causing the prices to advance to al
most beyond rRach has resulted in the
granting of over 1000 patents on ma
chimes to burn either oil or gas The
necessity for a family medicine that
could be relied on absolutely in cases
of stomach. liver and kidney ailments
led to the Introduction of Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters so years ago. Today
it is world famed as cure for loss of
appetite, insomnia, nervousness, fiat
ulency, indigestion, dyspepsia, consti-
patton and biliousness. Try bottle
and be convinced of its value. 1t con-
tains nothing that will injure the
most delicate system, and is therefore
specially adapted for restoring
strength to those who have become
weak from long sickness or those in
need of a tonic. Don't accept a sub
stitute.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10

No tariff on anything manufac-
tured by trusts is to be the political
war cry i'm New England henceforth,
according To Josiah Quincy. former
mayor of Boston. Said Mr.. Quincy in
Chicago interview: New England
is getting sentimental and the war
cry there will be No tariff on any
thing manufactured by trusts when
il comes to elect a new president and
congress. Tariff off of beef and coal
* the cry now. 1t will spread. and
even if the people should learn that
the articles which they produce are
not sold higher than they should be
The people are aroused and are
against. the trusts on general princi-
piles" Mr.. Quincy is in touch with the
sentiment that is developing, not only
in New England but throughout the
country. as TO be the best means of
coping with trust evils.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10

should be denied. If the soft coal
wage scale is raised, the high price
may be expected to be permanent.
Other kinds of fuel will be affected in
the same way in lesser degree.
In this way the final cost of the
anthracite strike, to be paid by the
people, will be many millions of dol
lars a year for an indefinite time.
Just now the general public is more
concerned in getting coal TO burn
than i'm the price it pays for it. The
increase will bear very severely on
the poor in great cities already near
10 the starvation line. Charity is
helping these through the winter:
though charity is a bitter source of
means of living.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10
The DingIey Tariff and Prosperit,

The New York World presents "A
singularly conclusive argument on
certain leading points in the great
tariff controversy, while many volum-
nous speeches have failed to make
the matter equally clear Says the
World:
Quoting the Worlds figures show
| ing the great increase in freight traf-
fic within eight years past, the Troy
Press remarks:
The World, for the sake of conSis-
tency. should do one thing or the 9th
er-stup printing such solid and stu
pendous proofs of unprecedented
prosperity under protection. or else
drop its embarrassing editorials in
to the waste-basket.
Our contemporary. for the sake of
intelligent discussion. should make a
little effort at self-education. and
learn a few hard facts like these:
Il. Railroad traffic's greatest in
crease was under much lower tar
iff-from 1878 TO 1890. During that
time it doubled. Under the DingIey
tariff it has not approached that rate
of increase.
80. The bulk of the increased
freight traffic of the past five years is
due to the greatly augmented exports
of grain. provisions. cotton and other
unprotected products of the farm.
80. Exports of protected pro-
-manufactures-ha not in
creased as fast under the higher Ding
ley as they We're doing under the low
Ell Wilson tariff. and their contribu-
ton to the increased freight traffic
has been relatively less.
Our Troy contemporary should
study Thomas B. Reeds last article
on the tariff question in the North
American Review. In it he admits
that the advantage given to $4,000
beet-sugar growers is the only clear
and conspicuous case of benefit to
the farmers by the Dingley tariff. Yet
farming supports Il clear majority of
the American people. How, then, can
it be true that all the prosperity in
the land is due to the Dingley tar
iff?"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10
BUG the Publfc MUST Paw.

The public, which pays the cost of
all industrial disturbances in the end,
is just beginning to realize the bill it
is going to have to pay for the anthra-
cite coal strike. The event started
an endless chain of causes, which pro-
misses to bring about the final effect of
permanently increased price of all
kinds of fuel. One event impinges on
another and that knocks down
third brick of causation. Winter scar
city of anthracite puts up the price in
spite of all efforts to keep it down.
But this increase of price will be a
new argument for increase of wages
before the commission. Should that
decide for the miners, the increase
would certainly be permanent, as it
may be in any event.
Meanwhile the scarcity of anthra-
cite increases the demand for soft
coal. and dealers take advantage of
this to put up the price. The soft
coal miners make this an argument
for demanding increased wages, and
are threatening to strike if they
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10
warning, warning.

Beware of substitutes offered by
INSCRIPTIONS dealers in place of Fo-
ley's Honey and Tar, Foley's Kidney
Cure and Banner Salve. Dishonest
dealers for little extra profit will
try to palm off worthless prepare
lions in place of these valuable medi-
cines that have stood the test of
years, and thus jeopardize the lives
of their victims. For sale by all
druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10

Annie Gould Castellane is receiving
"a large number of welcome home"
letters. with coupon requests for con-
tributions attached. The writer's
should remember that she has her
Boni to keep up.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10
And Now We Have the other FriIIs

Having abandoned the blue. settled
the shade of our army uniforms TO
conform more closely to that of the
British imperial legion, we have at
last secured an army staff. For the
benefit of those who don't know what
an army staff is. il is perhaps well to
explain that it is Il company of presi-
Dental favorites. who. seated. at Il
mahogany table. decide how a battle
several thousand miles off shall be
fought by man who is on the scene
and who. it should be assumed. would
know more about how the fighting
should be done than all the peg ar
fists in christendom.
During the Spanish-American war
we had Il sort of army staff. They
were seated in Washington and cabled
bothersome stuff TO Dewey. The lat
ter cut the cable so that they would
have the opportunity to play domi-
noes. and then, acting on his own
judgment. went in and wiped the
Spanish fleet out of existence.
The bill creating an army staff en-
powers the president TO commission
anyone in the army brigadier and the
staff may select a brigadier for com
mander of the army. The staff hav-
ing been appointed by the president.
whoever he shall desire for chief of
staff will be selected.
The commander-in-chief is done
away with. Our wars will be fought
by tigurehead commander who must
act ON the directions of the staff. seat
ed away from the din of battle. and
enjoying the luxury fat salaries af-
ford
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10

The failure of the Australian wheat
crop will serve to increase our for
eign sales as the consequence will be
a heavy importation of food stuffs by
the various colonies, an estimate in a
recent consular report fixing the
amount which Australia must import
at 100000 tons.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10

II is given out that Secretary Cham
berlain has established a benevolent
dictatorship in South Africa. In the
matter of doing good Great Britain
is pOaching on our thunder preserves.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10

TERMS-Daily. 10 cents per week. weekly
LOO per year in aG vance.
Allcommunications of political or argumen
tative character, political or religious, must
have real name attached for publication Nc
such articles will be printed over fictitious
signatures.
Correspondence solicited from every town.
ship in Rock Island county.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10
Saturday, January 10.

II is claimed that there will be no
organized opposition to Hopkins for
senator. Mr.. Lorimer has again dem
onstratcd that he is an all-sufficient
general.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10

CCu OF
Frederick c. Skinner Harold A. Jt nsen-
Afi5svit OF non-residEnce OF the fenc INT,
Frederick Skinner. implicated with the
above defendant, Harold A. Jensen having
been fled in the clerks once OF the cir
cult court of the said county, notice Is
therefore hereby given to the SAID nom
resident defendant that the complainant
died its bill of complaint in said court on
the chancery side thereof, on the 9th
day of January, 1908, and that thereupon
q summons issued out of said court wherein
said suit is now pending, returnab on the
lrSt Monday in the month Of May next, as
Is by law required Now, unless you, the
said nonresident defendant above named,
Frederick G. Skinner, shall personally be and
appear before the said circuit court, on the
tirst day of the next term thereof to be FOL
den at sock Isl md. In and for the said county
on the first Monday in Nav next, aoo plead,
answer or demur TO the said complairantS
bilt Of complaint the same and the matters
q ad things therein charR ed and stated will be
taken as confessed and = decree entered
against you according to the prayer of said
bill.
GEORGE ". GAMBLE, Clerk.
Ro-k Hand. Illinois, January 9Th. 1913
WILLJAAa Is RISE, ComplainanIs' Solicitors.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1924 Second
Avenue. Rock Island, Ill. ENTERED at the
Postof1ce as Second-class matter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10
Fabrication Notice-Ohanoery.

State of Illinois, tss
Rock Island County.
In the Circuit Court May term, 1903.
Cou of Honor,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10

Educate Your Bowels with Cascaress.
Voc. IL aGsaAC Q. faii, druggists refund mouey.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-10

''Now. if should give you Il nickel
what would you do with it?''
well, lady. l might found Il public
liabray-an' den ag'in l mightn't.''-
Chicago American.
Morris tribune., 1903-05-30

A Sweet Breath

Is never failing sign of healthy
stomach. When the breath is bad
the stomach is out of order. There
is no remedy in the world equal TO
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for curing
indigestion, dyspepsia and all
stomach disorders. Mrs. Mary S..
Crick, Of White Plains, KY, writes:
"I have beena dyspeptic for years
tried all kinds of remedies but con-
tinued to grow worse. By the use of
Kodol ] began to improve at once,
and after taking a few bottles am
fully restored in weight, health and
strength and can eat whatever like.
Kodol digests what you eat and
makes the stomach sweet. j. r
Kruger.
Morris tribune., 1903-05-30

aftefward he met aud married Tilli'
Sims. The cou ples moved to Grace
Vile in the spring Of 1897, remaining
until August. Fiseher's hobby wa'
religion. He endeavored to get hl'
| wife to leave here with him to enteI
the work of the Salvationists. She
would not listen to him. He re-
peat div told the writer he intended
to return to religious work at the
| first opportunity. He did not get
along we'll with bis wife while here,
and sud denly disappeared.
In 1898 he married Kate Baker in
New York. For year and half he
conducted barber shop at Parnassas,
Penn. He told his wife he was a
crock, but not bigamist, but she
said she loved him. One child-a
boy-was born to them. He de-
serted her without warning, leaving
her all his belon gings.
Drifting west again he met Clara
Sendelbach, a girl % year old, at
Milwaukee. This was the wife he
XII led couple of weeks ago. They
we're married Nov. 10, 1900, clipping
to Chicago. The couple went to
Texas and then to California. Fisch-
er preached, worked at barbering and
was factor in politics in Los Angeles,
where he was known as the "Beau
Brummel of the Local Democracy"
He was swell dresser, attended all
the receptions, stealing all the jewel
ry he could lay his hands1on. No
one suspected him, however. He
was finally driven by remorse to tell
his life story to his wife, and asked
her to take several hundred dollars
and go away and live, while he gave
himself up to the police and serve
whatever term he might be sentenced
to. His wife would not hear to it,
and bought bottle of poison with
which to kill herself as soon as
Fischer went to Jail. Fischer said he
did everything to make her leave him
except strike her.
Noticing sly on his wife's eye
Fischer offered to cure it. Saturating
2 handkerchief With chloroform he
Morris tribune., 1903-05-30
A Farmer cured of Rheumatism.


"a man living on farm near here
came in short time ago completely
doubled up with rheumatism. I
handed him bottle of Chamberlin's
Pain Balm and told him to use it
freely and if not satisfied after using
it he need not pay cent for it, says
G. r. Rayder, of Pattens Mills, N. Y.
"A few days later he walked iGto the
store as straight as string and
handed me dollar saying, give me
another bottle OF, Chamberlin's Pain
Balm. l want it IN the house all the
time for it cured me-" For sale by
j. r. Kruger.
Morris tribune., 1903-05-30
Thro' Picturesque Wisconsin.

BY daylight is memorable and
delightful trip when made on the
Famous Badger State Express, the
popular day train between St. Paul,
Minneapolis and Chicago, via the
North Western Line. A luxurious
Observation Parlor Cafe Car is a.
tached to the rear of this train, af-
fording exceptional q opportunities for
viewing the beautiful scenery. Hot
meals are also served at any time alta
la carte-pay only for what you
order.
Morris tribune., 1903-05-30
Due Notice is Served.

Due Notice is hereb y served on the
public generally that Dewitt
Witch Hazel Salve is the only salve
on the market that is made from the
pure, unadulterated witch hazsl.
DeWitt's Witch Hazel Save has
cured thousands of cases of piles that
would not yield to any other treat
ment, and this fact has brought out
many worthless counterfeits. Those
persons who get the genuine DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve are never disap-
pointed, because itcures. j r..
Kruger.
Morris tribune., 1903-05-30

| applied it to the woman's nostrils
In few minutes she was dead
Laying the body on the floor Fischer
poured gasolene over it and sc! it or
fire. When the blazing body was
found Fischer was out in the yard
screaming for help. He was in a
hospital two days afterward. When
arrested and placed in the Riverside
jail he confessed to the wife of the
sheriff when size appealed to his
| religious side. Three days later he
plead guilty, and refused six chances
at the hands of the court to change
his death sentence pronounced with
out 30 much as twltching muscle OF
his face or permitting an eyelash to
culver.
Speaking of the horrible dead
Fischer said: "While was chloro-
forming her the thought came to me:
She Is a good Christian, and now is
as good time for her to die as any;
if she kills herself she will go to ell
and so will for sending her there.
The person who is responsible for
another's going to hell is himself
lost; for whether he could be forgiven
or not, he never has the desire to and
nobody can be saved without the
desire am not afraid to die en-
July IL, for [ know | will be for
given and | will meet my wife
beyond. / was not afraid when those
mobs wanted 10 lynch me, but for
the innocent people who are always
hurt in riots"
During his stay here Fischer was
considered freak. He was good
workman, but unsteady. He did not
drink or use tobacco, was liberal with
his money aud we'll liked. He was
an entertaining taiker, but when
religion was touched upon would
grow seious. To the writer he has
often told at length many of the
Incidents related in his confession to
;he prison officials of California. To
he Graceville people who have often
wondered what became Of the
barber the above story will
% awful news indeed. -Graceville
Enterprise.
Morris tribune., 1903-05-30
FRED FISCHER.
AFOrmer GraceviIIe Barber to Hang
for rlurder.


for rIurder.
Six years ago today Frederick G
Fischer was i'll the employ of Mike
Conoboy in Graceville as barber
With his wife he lived in the lower
part O. the house now occupied by
Patrick johnson on Third street.
Today Fischer is in San Quinto
prison, California, under the sentence
of death Tor chloroforming, choking
and burning to death his wife, Clara
Fisher, at Riverside-a crime he
claims was necessary to save her
soul. The date Of his execution is
set for July Il next
To the Californians he is a sort of
a religious criminal, psychological
puzzle who can no more refrain from
falling on lis knees to worship than
he can keep from stealing.
To the newspapers Fisher has
given the story of his life-and it is
a remarkable one. He says he began
stealing when mere boy, t,king the
thefts home to his mother, who never
corrected him. Before he was 20 he
served term in Sing Sing for high
way robbery. He claims to have
been one of the most accomplished
thieves in New York city, and was
known to the police as Dandy Dick.
After being released from Sing Sing
he drifted to Chicago, and was sent
10 joliet for robbling the wife of
Judge Gray, the man who sentenced
bhe anarchists. After his re. ease
from Joliet in 1896 he drifted into
Minnesota, robbing harves' hands.
With other ex-convicts he planned to
rob a bank and hardware store in |
Moorhead. The gang pl, nned to
send Fischer to the Salvation Army
barracks to raise a disturbance to |
draw as many of the police there as
possible. While waiting to start the
row he became converted and i'm.
mediately frustrated the plans Of his
He then went to work
on farm near Moorhead. Shortly
Morris tribune., 1903-05-30

Kathryn Flynn left Friday night
for her home in Morris.
Wise Farmer-"say, John there's
quite an improvement in Donnelly
lately
John-"W here?"
Wise Farmer why there's lots
of hitching posts on main street now"
Quite boom for our city park,
isn't it?
Will Hartung will attend the street
fair and carnival in Minneapolis next
week,