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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18
that congress will enact promptly the
necessary legislation.

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Payments Arranged.
Secretary Shaw returned from New
York, where he held conferences at the
sub-treasury with bankers who are to
participate in the Panama canal pay
ment. Secretary Shaw said that there
would be no disturbance of the money
market on account of the financing OF
the canal payment No call will be
made on the banks until the treaty is
ratified, and this is expected within
few days.
After the conference with Secretary
Shaw the banks sent $l2,000,000 in
bonds to the sub-treasury, which will
be pledged temporarily to secure de-
posits made with them of government
funds by out-of-town banks. These
funds will be held only a few days. but
the additional deposits of collateral
have to be made in accordance with
the law.
One Point Made Clear.
The secretary made clear the point
that the banks would not be compelled
to lose the use Of the money through
the transfer to the subtreasury. He
said that warrants for the payments
would be drawn on the subtreasury in
New York, and that the demand for
the Withdrawals from the banks would
lie made simultaneously with the pres
entatioQ of the warrants for payment.
matters in Good shape.
Minister Buchanan had long talk
with Secretary Hay respecting condi-
tons on the isthmus He reported that
matters were in very good shape when
he left, and that excellent progress was,
making in framing the constitution.
The department admits that, Mr.. Blu
chanan will not return to Panama.
Personnel OF Commission. -
The president is considering very
carefully the composition of the canal
commission. It is thought certain that
Rear Admiral Walker, president of the
present commission; Isham Randolph,
the engineer Of the Chicago drainage
canal, and George w. Davis, U. s. A.,
retired, have been decided upon as
members Of the commission.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18
Tragedy in Oregon.

Portland, Ore, Feb. 13.-Edmund d.
Tobin, a mining man from Baker City,
Ore. Friday shot and severely wounds
ed his divorced wife and then commit
ted suicide by firing bullet through his
brain. Before ending his life, Tobin
lighted the fuse attached to d ten-pound
box of dynamite and placed it on the
floor. Attracted by the shooting an oc-
cupant Of neighboring office rushed to
the scene, and, noticing the blazing box.
stamped out the flames.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18

A Jamaica woman who was travel.
Ing out West some time ago heard
complaints about the swarms of ants
which infested every house and got
into all the food. There is a very
simple remedy she told her western
friends. Rub chalk on the legs of the
cupboard. The ants can not crawl up
over the chalk"
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18
In Remembrance Of Lincoln

-. IN HemembFdnce OF lincoln.
Chicago, Feb. 13.-Dispatches tell of
a very general observance of Lincoln's
birthday on Friday. Among the most
notable were those held in this city, New.
York, indianapolis, Grand Rapids.
Mich; Lincoln. Neb.; Minneapolis,
MIMI, and at Lincoln's tomb, Spring
field. III. Eulogistic addresses on the,
life, character and services Of thexmar-
tyred president were delivered.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18
Baltimore Asks
4 NQ ] !! !. j.
State and City officials Will Try to
Meet the Emergency with
Home Resources. 1854
Vaults Of Financial Concerns Found
ia Re tJnhurt-LOss by the FireYIs
Now Estimated at $121, DOC, 900
The Cabinet Denies u Request f0r
Presence Of Federal Troops.

Baltimore, Md, Feb. 1O.-Amid ruins
still hot and smoking, Baltimore has be-
gun its resurrection. Yesterday was
day of conferences. The governor, the
mayor, and municipal officials met and
thrashed out the problems that are
theirs by virtue of public office. From
this conference came a decision that Bal
timore for the present needs no outside
help, but will endeavor with her own re-
sources and those of the state to meet
the emergency.
Vaults Undamaged.
"A great cloud was lifted yesterday
afternoon when it was discovered that
practically all Of the vaults and strong
rooms ard safes of the financial con-
Germs whose buildings were destroyed
are unhurt A tremendous loss in Sc
curities had been anticipated here, and
when vault after vault yielded up its
treasures unframed the Joy of the guard
ians was boundless.
Loss About 9125,OOO,OOO.
As yet no figures on loss and insurance
that can be regarded as official are OBJ
tainable. A careful canvas of insurance
experts, builders, and business men,
placed the loss in round figures at $685.
600, 900 and the insurance at from $780,
600, 900 to $9O,OOO,O00. 1t is probable
that these estimates will stand with
slight change when the final figures are
written. W.
Federal Troops Denied.
Washington, Feb. 13.-At the cabinet
meeting, after long consideration Of
the resolution adopted by the Mary
land legislature, calling for troops for
duty in Baltimore, it was decided not
to comply at this time with the re-
quest. Prior to the cabinet meeting
Brig Gen. Riggs as special messen-
ger from Gov. Warield, formally pre-
ssnted to the president the resolution
adopted by the legislature. He con-
veyed at the same time Gov. Warfield's
personal statement that the troops
were not needed. This presented an
anomalous situation, and the cabinet
determined not to send troops at this
time. gi. ,.f.-.4 1.R fsf4 s@F
The statement. of Gov. Warfield was
regarded as making it quite certain
that the executive authorities of the
city of Baltimore and state of Mary
land were amply able to cope with any
situation likely to arise, and the presi-
dent and his cabinet felt, therefore,
that they could not respond favorably,
to the request Of the legislature. e = -
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18
Centenarian Dead.

q Dayton. o.. Feb. 10.-Philip Keifer, q
wealthy retired manufacturer. who eel
ebrated the one hundred and second an
adversary of his birth a few months ago.
died early Tuesday morning at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. w. r. Callahan.
He came to Dayton from Maryland in
1882.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18

The Chinese empress dowager is
said to be greatly enjoying her auto.
mobile, though she has to keep within
the grounds of the summer palace be.
cause of the impracticability of the
Picking streets.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18

In South Africa business was good
at the beginning Of 1903, but suddenly
became quiet. which is not attributed
TO the increased tariff, but to the great
crisis now taking place there. BUSH
ness is not as good there now as it
was before the war. In India and
China business was bad, but in Japan
conditions were better.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18
Died ut His Desk.

Evansville, Ind, Feb. 11.-Charles +.
Gould. editor Of the Evening Bulletin,
fell dead while sitting at his desk yes
terday. Death was due to strangula-
ton by bronchial tumor. He was IS
years Of age.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18
Carries supplies for japan.

San Francisco, Feb. 1.-THE steam
ship Gaelic sailed Wednesday for the
orient with LOO tons Of -four for Japan,
1890 bales of cotton, 400 tons Of lead
and five tons of shoe nails for use in the
manufacture of footwear for the Jap
anese army.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18
A Valuable Shipment.

Ogdensburg, N. Y, Feb. IA spe-
cial train Of Is cars carrying 1000 tons
Of China silk valued at $4,000, 900, one
Of the largest single shipments on
record, arrived here Wednesday from
Vancouver en- route to New York.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18

Two hundred and fifty cases Of small,
orange trees Of a special kind have
arrived at Naples from California for
the purpose of experimental culture
under the auspices of the Italian gov.
eminent y - s:s4 ,s7t
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18
AasLxned,

Evansville, Ind, Feb. 13.-The Evans
vile Contract company on Friday fled
q deed of assignment, with liabilities
amounting to 100000
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18
Mrs. Loren. Not GUILTY.

Washington, Feb. 13.-In the postal
trial Friday, after all the evidence had
been submitted, Justice Pritchard di-
rected the jury to find verdict of not
guilty in the case Of Mrs. Lorenz, saying
there was not sumcient evidence to hold
hef.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18

There has been an extraordinarily
large demand for sailed behring's dur.
ing the past year, which is to be ut
tributed to the depressed condition of
labor and the steadily rising prices Of
meat
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18
PAY FOR CANAL
Is ALL arranged
Secretary Shaw confers with Bank
ers Regarding Payment ef Mil :
,lions to Panama Company.
The Money Market Will Not BE Dis
turbed-No Gail to he Made U.til
Treaty IL Ratihed-Minfster Bu-
chanan Reports Matters I'm. Good
Shape. Z

Washington, Feb. 12.-President
Roosevelt. and Secretary of the Treas
ury Shaw have taken up the ques-
ton of arranging for the payment Of
the $4O,000,0OO for the property of the
Panama Canal company and the $10;-
600, 600 to the republic of Panama when
the treaty is ratified. The president is
also considering the personnel of the
commission which will have charge Of
the construction OF the great water
Way. &SS5ss 80
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18
I.suance 81 Bonds.

Attorney General Knox has under
consideration the Spooner act of the
last congress, with a view to determin-
ing whether it affords the president
ample authority to provide for the
issuance of bonds to raise the money
Immediately needed and to appoint the
commission. If it should be decided
that the Spooner act does not confer
that authority, no doubt is expressed
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-09
Value of Advertisinx

John c. turing Of F. H. Leggett & Co, of New York, in an address to a York last week said: ~
 An organization of 100 New York business men, whose aim would be In
 Gsresul ,bs manner if of adTsrtiSe tS New world, and who would not be out each with an axe of his own to grind. would be of incalculable benefit to this city"
 It has been generally. supposed. says The Manufacturers Record, of Balti- more. that all the world is largely en- gagged in advertising the city of New York. and the suggestion that New by an organization to advertise its att fractions Is well worth considering by that small class of small people who are laboring under the impression that the South and Southern towns and Southern business interests do not need advertising.
 If the city of New York--the coming metropolis of the world, as it is today ing. how Infinitely more does every large city and town in the South and every business interest in the South need unceasing advertising?
 If all the business interests of the South should become broad, liberal ad- vertisers in the local papers. as we'll as in outside papers, if every State and freely to make known to the world it's attractions and it's advantages. there would come from such work a quicker general prosperity than the South can in any other way possibly secure.
 The one great thing which nine- tenths of the people interested in the development of the South, from the railroads to the merchant and the man ufacturer and the town and the city, do not at all understand is the value of advertising, .-t
 They are willing sometimes to spend few dollars, possibly a hundred or two. and imagine that that ought to bring them the worlds attention, and bring them results for which Canada and the West have spent and are spending not simply hundreds nor thousands. but. in the aggregate. mill lions.
 The South needs to learn the value of advertising probably more than any other one thing.
 It needs to learn the value of its To- cal papers and of the most liberal sup port to its local papers, and after that the value of broadly advertising to reach the people outside of the South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-09
Mlssouri's Hull Run.

Kansas City Journal.
 The forty-third anniversary of the funniste battle of the Civil War was celebrated at Clarks Grove, near Athens, August 5, 1904. It has humor- ously been called "Missouri's Bull Run" The account of this battle, as given by H. F.. Robinson, shows that sometimes war is not as glorious as 1t is generally reputed to be. On the rebel" side Dr. T. J. Norris, a prominent physi- elan of Macon, was with Colonel Mar tin Greene's army of 1900 enthusiastic Confederates. Colonel David Moore commanded few companies of federal guardsmen, and was stationed at Athens. awaiting the enemy.
 Our men got off their horses and tied them to trees and fence posts" said Dr. Norris. in describing the en- counter They were armed with shot shoot, possibly, from seventy-five to 150' yards. Then we had two cannon-a six and a nine-pounder. The federals lined up in the form of an L. Our cannon were unlimoered and the gun ners went to work. To me 1t looked homicidal to point those grim monsters at human beings. Remember, none of us knew any more of war than we had read in books The cannoneers ap- piled their matches. I shuddered and tions followed, and-the balls lit in Iowa. They graeiously travelled about 200 feet over the enemy, who jeered us.
 For two hours the battle ragged on Hanks and center. The word came to us that the Des Moines River was almost choked with the eorpses of the Federals. It was stated that the river was becoming a rich carmine hue We 0heered and started forward. Then the Confederate made a disagfeeable discovery-the enemy's muskets would shoot over twice as far as our hunting guns. We might just as we'll have been shooting into the air for all the good we were doins. Of course, the thing to have done upon learning of the superior range of their guns was to charge 'em; there were enough of us to have gathered in the wholo crowd brass buttons and all. But it seemed not a man among us felt that he had lost any Federalse that day, Their guns could outshoot ours, and it was an easy as adding two and two to figure out that they must necessarily be able
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-09
WHICH SHALL TT Rrs

Referring to a remark made by The Talequah q. T.) Advocate that either civilization or extermination must be the ultimate fate of the Indians, The Fort Gaines Recorder says:
 The Advocate forecasts what must be the inevitable result. The Indian as savage cannot much longer exist. The finger of destiny points to the izens of the United States or must cease to exist. Already a great ad- vance Is noticeable in some of the tribes, especially the Cherokees. Not bloods of this tribe are fast taking on the manners and habits of the whites Intelligent, educated and re- fined men and women are common in limited extent in some of the other tribes. They are becoming good and useful citizens and by their teachings and examples are doing a wonderful schools and colleges. not only in Indian Territory itself, but in other sections, where they are being taught the use- full arts and sciences, and fitting them selves to be good and useful members of society. It is the only course re- maining to them. Those who persist in their savage ways and refuse to adopt the ways of civilization may as well make minds 10 eXtlnC- tion, for that is the alternative. Edu- cation, amalgamation and good citi- zenship, or savagery and annihilation are the two results that are bound to come. Happy are those who see and choose the better way.
 Whatever mere sentimentalists may say or think this seems to be a correct prediction. We sometimes wonder
 4. l. SLoA no ,nnrx, oR 1h~ T-at.
 fail or refuse to see what Is inevita- ble. They are in many respects a stub born race, with centuries of heredity behind them, and, we must say, with other centuries of wrongs received and endured at the hands of the white man. whether those wrongs were the result of ignorance, cupidity or malice, or whatever may have been the cause, the fact remains that the Indians have not always received either humanity or justice from the whites, From an Indians standpoint these wrongs look can have any conception of. because a white man cannot view the situation with an Indians eyes. As the latter sees it the acts of the dominant race have been cruelty wrong, and these real or supposed wrongs have been treasured tip in the storehouses of memory ana brooded over till they can see nothing good in the pale-face or his government. and can conceive Of no reason why they should submit to his rule. It can hardly be consid-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-09
WEDEEsDAY, NOVEMBER ., 1904.
HE SPOKE TRUTH.

That was significant remark made by an educated Japanese to an Amer. lean. ''As long as we were only great artists You called us barbarians.'' he said. .but now that we have shown how we can kill you call us civilized men" It is not altogether creditable that this is true. Japan has produced really great writers. artists, philoso- phers and scholars, but the outside world knew little of them. and made little attempt to know more.
 Lately 1t has been different, and 1t is different because. as this man said, the world has found out that they know how to kill. Their wonderful skill. inventiveness and adaptabiiity in all the arts of war have brought them into view in a way that Is truly re- markabIe, and all civilized people are telling what a wonderful people the Japanese are. They might have gone on cultivating the arts of peace, ex- ceiling in the sciences and advancing in all the humane arts and still have remained comparatively unknown. When they developed killing propen- sities and capabilities almost unheard of they came into prominence at a bound. Mars remains ahead of all the other heather deities, even among Christian people.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-09

to lick us. Every blessed confed. turned himself into lightning calcu- lator to work out this result, and then make break for his horse. Did run, too7 You bet didi It seems had a fine reason for 1t then. In spite of the Des Mofnes River being damned by dead bluecoets, we felt certain there were enough left to reach us with those terrible long range muskets. the fugitiyes tried to unhitch their horses. But few waited to untie them. Some slashed the brides with knives; others tried to jerk them loose by main of their masters and Jumped ffantical- lily around. Many broke loose and rushed wildly across the field adding to the uproar. Some of the excited without taking time to get their horses. The cannon--those terrible engines de- signed to terrify the enemy--were dragged off the field and hidden among some hazel brush.
 aThe rout didn't stop until the sol diers got back to their homes In Ma rion. Lewis, Shelby. Scotland. Knox and Schuyler Counties. You never saw men so homssick in all your life. Dur ing all this confusion and panic there was no attempt by the enemy to pur- sue. While Colonel Moore's soldiers could outshot us, they couldn't outruin us--not that day. After the excite- ment had worn off bit and the boys had rested up they met and 'reorganiz- ed. Every man said that he wasn't scared up there at Athens--he just wanted to get away They laughed over their singular display of panic, but were grimly determined 1t should never occur again. Those men who ran the hardest developed into the fin- est soldiers you ever saw. They join-, ed the regular Confederate army and many of them atoned with their life blood for their excitement at Athens. Inconsequental as the battle was, yet 1t save them in after years the equi- boise of veterans, and taught them to stand and be shot at without finch ing'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-09
The Scene Painter.
November Scribner's.

November Scr1Dner s.
 The last quarter of the nineteenth century has witnessed such a diffu- sion of artistic taste and the love of luxury as has never been known be- fore In the history of civilization; and nowhere has the change been more thorough and more obvious than on the stage. The scene painter of old, who was a touch above the sign painter, has developed into an artist who takes himself quite seriously and who deserves to be so taken The scenic aspect of the drama, which Aristotle reckoned the least impor- tant. and which Shakespeare, Moliere and their followers largely ignored has became a factor of prime impor- tance. But what of the passion with which the elder playwright illumina- ted his three boards? Most of all what of the resulting play3.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-09

The Birmingham Ledger thinks there is little hope of a decent Re- publican party in Alabama because, ,as it argues. enough Democrats will not go over to 1t to make it respectable. either in numbers or character" That is not exactly fair argument. There are thousands of Republicans in Ala barna who are honest in their Repub- licanism. They always vote with their party in national elections but will not affiliate in home matters with the sort of party that controls Repub- ncan politics in this State. With A party which would be something bet ter. and higher than a pie-hunting ag- gregation of negro sympathizers there would be real decent Republican party in Alabama without depending on accessions from Democrats. wheth. CT that time will ever come is another and different matter.