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Newport weekly independent., 1904-04-15
GOOD FARMING.I

Few people realize the amany hings expressed by the phrase, g0bN farming. v
 Gooo farming does notS Smean lust JUS teAding your crops} well.
 wMAe of course your croH must
 Ds osss spssfectly tended, youA must - osa @sow how to selec4 good oroTS x to properly sal ke the l ttis th;s a M 1t is made. or is
 class cl,,s mSssssmerof the t@ notch . nlants heSnow what Flnd of he bss'l lmuss'nds require ae food; Ss.sl;
 A' low what kind f land
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completed.

completed.
 J. c. Moore of Memphis was here Wednesday dn his way home at Sulpher Rock. Our city is still on the improv- ing list.
 We'll, we will ring off, and come back again soon.
 RATTLE Box.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-04-15
TOWNSHIP OFFICERS.

Guy Smith and Forrest Dillard have been nominated for justices of the peace in Union township and w. H. Carouthers defeated R. M. Laird as constable. Fol lowing is the vote by wards:
Newport weekly independent., 1904-04-15
TOWNSHIP NOMINEES:
WINNERS IN GLASS.

WINNERS IN GLASS.
 SWifton there were four idates in the field for justice
 os two to be elected.
 e11S 'o.s follows: Driver T ers, TlSonne 66, Coffin 24. :tt1e I River Davis, 4Sl4s!.'l victory 'och, Byrne and Moore al.
 county. Davis majority bchita Davis carries county
 all majority. Moore, Byrne' n Ind Moose carry Ouachlta. AshAy-Total vote for goverr or, wood 829, Davis 734. Bunns Moose, Byrne, and Eoff secure county delegation. Lee Wood defeated Davis II Lee 5 td 1. Byrne, McCullocn and Robertson carry the county Hempstead County goes 1oi Wood by small majority als0 l0' Hill, Moose and Byrne. tNewtoia Full vote not repol' ~d but Dl lis seems t9 have cal Y ad Hill MooBe, Eo1 Praila allcial vote, Day ,536, Wood 4o7. Moore, Bou land, Carmichael and McCullof dxin.
 Garland Davis majority Il sAess than 1 1,5oo. 7c ] Boone Wood 8o5, Davis ft flovd defeated Dinsmore ! z Notes in this county. ;, \ Poinsett Davis majority ? aarrish carries county.
 hsoke Davis defeats We
 -. Official vote, Da
 Ss4. Bourland, Moe
 AMcCulloch ca
Newport weekly independent., 1904-04-15
FURTHER VICTIMS
 IN RACE WAR.
Negro Riot at St. Charles Has Been Quelled Eleven
 Killed In All.

Witt, March 27. Two more
 been put to death
 Bill Berryart of this coun- street Wednesn s'H 1s that disfgured, has the result of 'ySe -ua qlem last Mon- oegy0 asSsS'
 '.,, Fd ssslpgshe last of the
 ss, Ieeas that caused the
 Naa to death Satur- eer SNe c,ss cas northeastern in K bther negro, ss i've ass. ssods' near sea Ne ay light 5vss by ! crond werd ass slzens. ''0"0 \ ! OlssfR. IS 1t llnberljp h | Blask HSRshk |! kt t,%sss! ' The riA i'd t n honss nei ot tboasa,s thes' The ts.{ e = lands Isl ewe4at ted vith '. are unt nor |zr- % side of . t,,fe o lose pres
 to ten fe
 10. residem T. Box, B. E
 abanS 5 S9yest, Fletchs nd have been Ray, Mrs. ba vis been many rd and Mrs. J re. At Willickerman. rrv driven theill leave in a |
 village. irkana, where s un- operator,and will reside ld's "Wats
 iS saa Sili bssssigan 9f lsa&RRapDsl s&agp
 ngsl> { wac
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Following he vote of some
 of the preci s: Searcy, Davis |91, Wood SlS Higginson, Davis A, Wood l6 Rrner, Davis 53, Wood 7; Glaiz township, Davis g, Wood B; ] sonia, Davis 70, Wood9O; Rus1 Davis 27, Wood
 29; Mount Eah, Davis 105,
 Wood g; GrA Ehville, Davis GA,
 Wood 15; Del Arc, Davis 104,
 Wood Il.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-04-15

Drew, Lafayette. Crawford, Pu- laski, Jefferson, Sebastian, Wood ruff, Craighead, St. Francis, Full bon, Lee, Phillips, Cross, Faulk-
 er. Miller, Independence.
Newport weekly independent., 1904-04-15
OFFICIAL COUNT MAY BE NECESSARY.
Mine Counties In Which Vote Or Governors Race Is In Doubt Final Count May Be A Required to De-
 termine.

yth Wood and Davis claim election. There are nine lies, in which the vote is so close, that the official vote x be necessary to determine sult.
 sides continue confident Eielding in their claims on rnor's race. There are nties, at least, in which so close that the offici- be necessary in order he the result.
 )emocraticl state con- Which meets in Hot second Tuesday Twill be 442 dele ill be required to his time it ap-
 returns that
 convention,
 delegates.
 Wood men
 Randolph,
 which will oln, Madi- eWton and ''Y,s, the list of ss1|so ! rom. Gov.
 Y < 's Calhoun, sacn having 'he ng- on the reports t llley
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into MIS- claims OF
wealth and social standing, until Mr..
Goelet heard of the imposition and be-
gan chasing up the bogus Robert.
Mr.. Goelet is a law student, and a
great swell. He is a brother of the duch-
ess Of Roxburghe; grandson of the R.
T. Wilson's; nephew of Lady Herbert,
widow Of the late British ambassador; of
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, and of Orme
Wilson. BY marriage he is related to
Mrs. Astor. Miss Whelen is a sister of
Mrs. Craig Biddle, the daughter of a
Philadelphia banker. So there you are.
Like most recent bridegrooms of the
very rich set, Mr.. Goelet is "o'er young
to marry yet," but that doesn't matter
when there is money. He is an enthusi-
astic automobilist, and has his record,
having run down a poor fellow who got
in his way while sprinting from Newport
to Cam bridge to see football game. The
victim did not die, and his injured feel
ings were of course assauged by a
check.
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lOT d y d u w O. y.
Broadway was to him country road on
which disagreeable men drove fast
horses out to low roadhouses, where
they drank so much whisky that they
drove back with difficulty. Mr.. Goelet
could see them from the famous old
"Goelet farm" Disseminated with his
street, he bought land on the East and
West sides, now respectfully occupied
by humble tenements and by factories,
and worth about One-tenth as much as
the Broadway properties he scorned.
Still, the Gcelets own a considerable
strip Of land in the ''fat part" of Fifth
avenue; theaters, hotels and shops pay
them tribute, and their land is nearly
all held on leasehold, so that, if it brings
in but small percentage upon it's value,
it is little trouble; and when the leases
all in, the family fortunes will be much
augmented.
The Astor land operations began
later than the Goelets', and are of diff
ferent nature. The Astors not only own
land, but the buildings. They are the
greatest hotel owners in the world.
They have half dozen theaters. They
are always ready to build a new hotel
or theater for any enterprising man who
bids fair to make success as lessor.
They are now building the great St. Reg
is apartment house on Fifth avenue,
where you can pay $4,000 year rental
for rooms if you like, and new big ho-
tel on Longacre square, which is to be
the Astor house uptown. And, of course,
they own the Waldorf-Astoria. More
over, they own so many houses that they
don't insure them. 1t is cheaper to let
'em burn when they feel like it, and re-
build out of the earnings.
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MINNESOTA NEWS
COLONEL G. J. MoNroRr.


Colonel G. J. Monfort, who had beer
lowering between life and death for
ten days died April at the Windsor
hotel, st. Paul For many years he
had operated the hotel, and he was
widely known through the northwest,
both politically and socially.
Col. Charles J. Monfort has been one
OF the best known men in St. Paul. for
more than forty years. He assumed
charge of the Windsor hotel twenty
four years ago and since that time his
acquaintance widened throughout the
state and the Northwest.
Col. Monfort was born in Colches.
ter, Delaware county, n. Y, March 10,
1S41. He moved to st. Paul when a
young man and was connected with
the Peoples bank, Of which his broth
er, D. A. Montfort, was cashier. Dur
ing the war he was in the Office OF
Maj. Phinney, paymaster for the de-
partment of Dakota. He assisted in
preparing Fort Ripley for defense
against an attack from Hole-in-the-
Day during the Sioux outbreak in
1862.
After the war he was associated
with his brother in the grocery bust
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erage 16 Per cent. year upon their
capital. Ofthese earnings big sums have
been laid aside for deDreciation and OIL h.

S1o60 10 VeI cent. 4 year upon LQeH
capital. Ofthese earnings big sums have
been laid aside for depreciation and 9TH
er sums for insurance. The deprecia-
ton money is left at interest or in
vested in new steamships. The insur-
ance fund must be invested as sinking
fund. Only one-quarter of the Cunard
earnings for a long term of years has
been paid out in dividends. In 1900,
that year of great earnings which de-
celved Mr.. Morgan into forming his
shipping trust, the Cunarders earned
about $2,750,000 net and paid only $780,
o0o In dividends Almost as great a sum
was reserved for insurance, more than
Twice as great for depreciation. The in
surance fund is now very nearly two mil
non dollars. When the Oregon was
wrecked on Long Island shore, the fund
was all drawn out to replace her.
There are plenty of premises that can
get no insurance at ALL The old Acad-
envy OF Music in Brooklyn was an in
stance. 1t was splendid great public
hall In its day. The finest grand opera
had been rendered there. George Will
liam Curtis, Parke Goodwin, ]. S. T. Stran-
ahan and other old-timers had applaud
ed from its ample stalls the great ar
lists OF two generations. But it was out
of-date and a fire-trap. The morning
after it burned, uninsured, the stock OF
the owning company sold up" The
f1re had done the owners a service by
dlsposing of much debris upon their
valuable land. Now a million dollars Is
to be put into modern building.
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e for the vast terri
tory lying east of
the Rocky Mountains, and ranging
practically from the plains of Montana
to those of Texas. For many years the
passed through Chicago in it's quest
for market. For the past ten years
the tunnels in the river have been
levying tribute on this grain, and it
is now seeking other shipping points
South Chicago, Milwaukee and Duluth
are rapidly forging ahead as grain ship
ping ports, to the detriment of Chica-
go. A reason for this may be found in
the fact that while grain could be
shipped last November from either
South Chicago or Milwaukee to Buffalo
for IL cents a bushel the rate from
elevators on the south branch of the
Chicago river was 21a cents bushel
The reason for this was because the
modern steel vessels cannot navigate
the south branch of the river on &C
count of the existence of the tunnels
Unless the tunnels are removed the
difference in freight rates will be great
er each succeeding year as the number
of small vessels. drawing 16 feet of
water or less, decreases. The boats
that can carry only 100000 bushels of
grain, or less, are rapidly decreasing,
and it is estimated that in another five
years not five per cent. Of the lake
vessels will be able to navigate the
Chicago river.
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WOO VuCu CuCuIu"
bered by a building just good enough to
delay improvement.
That fire was wonderful spectacle,
whose like could have been seen no.
where else in the world-not even in
Chicago, because that once fire-swept
city now affords no such dangerous
group of rookeries in the heart of it's
business section to menace it. The loss
on the old building and it's contents was
not great; but at the height of the ex-
element the great two mines" alarm
was sent out. That meant that Chief
Croker wasn't taking any chances.
From high window watched the pro-
cession of fre-fighting apparatus go
dashing down Broadway. In the first
five minutes more men and horses and
machines than the entire equipment of
Baltimore or of Boston or of Chicago be-
fore the great fire in each of these cities
had gone dashing down the street. In
the end 80 engines, many of them pow
erful affairs, heavier and stronger than
most cities use, were pumping upon a
mere blaze of perhaps 100000 proper
tons. There were ten trucks There
were two great water towers not needed
at all in six-story buildings, but which
might have been needed. 1t was a spec
tacle.
Hugh Bonner, the retired chief of the
biggest fire department in the world,
still expects to see some day sad scene.
In the heart of the East side slums,
where still large number Of old wooden
or wood-lined houses. stand, with rear
tenements and all the disgraces of by
gone day, he looks to see a great fire
break out under favoring circumstances
of deep snow in the streets, high wind
to fan the flames and possibly some de-
lay, when an appalling loss of life may
result. Any second alarm south of
Grand street and east of Broadway al
ways set Hugh Bonner to fairly drown
ing out even comparatively insignif1-
cant blaze with engines.
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time to eat and sleep. Between the DOW
ers, there is always howl about graft"
and plenty of occasion for the howl. but
a comparatively small amount of crooked
legislation actually gets past the gov
ernor and the courts. Time was when a
legislator would make sc, 900 or SIS, 900
per session. Those days have gone.
There are a few small "stakes'' posi-
BILE now, but the fees are apt to be con-
tingent upon bills success; and that is
discourag1ng: The power of the party
boss on either side is more apt to be ex-
erted to whip members into line against
any particularly bad bill which has an
gered the public.
The "Black Horse troop" is nothing
like the public danger it was Is years
ago. But it is aggravatine to decent
citizen to have measure known to be
a clean steal pass the lower house with
q whoop and a vote Of about three to
one.
III OWEN LANGDoN.
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At Chingford, in Essex, an estate is
held by a very curious condition.
Whenever it passes into new hands
the owner, with his wife, man servant
and maid servant, comes on horseback
to the parsonage and pays his homage
by blowing three blasts upon a horn.
His servant has greyhound in a slip,
both for the use of the rector for that
day. He receives q chicken for the
hawk, a peck OF oats for his horse and
a loaf of bread for his greyhound.
After dinner the owner blows three
more blasts and then, with his party,
With draws.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-04-22

A new cause for anxiety for those
who are easily terrified by the thought
Of coming in contact with dangerous
bacteria has been found in such ink
as is used in schools. Prof. Mark
mann, of Leipsic, has recently exam
ined 67 kinds of such ink, and has ar
rived at the result that under circum-
stances it may be dangerous to wound
ones self with an inky pen. Most of
the inks he examined contained a large
quantity Of micrococci bacteria and
fungi.
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crease of COM
modities it has enabled him to still
keep within reach of the necessities
and some of the Injuries of life.
Unions representing several lines
are demanding an increased wage scale
for the next year, and because of the
present condition of business the nrob-
abilities are the demands will be grant
ed. In some lines of manufacture in
creased wages have forced the price of
products to so high point that the
Chicago manufacturers are being
forced out of the market by competi-
ton from other cities, and men are be-
ing discharged in considerable num-
bers.
The unorganized clerks in the Offices
OF the manufacturing concerns. the
railroads, the banks, insurance COM
ranies and other places, are finding
the raise in rents hard to meet, They
have no organized effort to force their
salaries up, and, as rule, have had to
continue at the old wages in face of the
steady advance in prices. There are
any number of trades in which the
average wages will not fall short of
500 to $125 monthly, while it Is the
exceptional clerical man of the purely
clerk type who gets over $50. and the
very nature of his occupation leads him
10 greater expenditure than that In
dulged in by the tradesman.
-, WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
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Among the exhibits at the st. Louis
exposition soon to open there is con-
templated one illustrating domestic
life in the Philippines, which from the
space and prominent location set apart
for it promises to be an attractive
feature. Many native workmen are on
the ground, and houses are being
erected of waited bamboo, without the
use Of nail, showing much ingenuity,
and structures that are we'll adapted
for a tropical country. The work is
being done by natives.
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Philadelphia.
This Mr.. Goelet
was annoyed dur
ing the winter by
the antics of a
era k who as
sumed his name to
court a beautiful
young girl of hum
bic birth and for
tune. The sham
"Goelet" was some
years older than
the real article, but
the trusting girl
& n d her father
II e err took the
trouble to look
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to and was built BY the Traction com
pany under an ordinance granted BY
the city council before the river had
been turned over to the United States
government as navigable waterway.
Upon the three tunnels 60 per cent. of
the cfty's population must depend for
at least good part of their transpor-
tation facilities to and from the central
business district. The city has neither
the money, nor ways of securing it, to
lower them, and until the car COM
panies' lease on them expires it is
claimed they cannot be forced to do
so. To abrogate the lease and knock
the tops off the tunnels would greatly
inconvenience all that part of the pub
lie which must utilize them in getting
to or from the business district. and
which, in round numbers, amounts to
lOO,0OO,000 persons annually.
The present depth of water over the
tunnels ranges from 16 to II feet,
while the depth of the south branch of
the river, aside from the tunnels. is 26
feet. The size Of lake vessels must be
gagged by the water on the St. Clair
flats, which is % feet, and to accom-
modate the larger vessels the water in
the river need not befdeeper than this,
but to get this depth means an expen-
diture of sum estimated at $4,000. 900
at least. The city wants to solve the
problem along with its other street car
problems, and asks that the present
leases be permitted to expire before
the general government compel them
to take action looking to the abroga-
ton Of the nuisance To this the ship
ping interests do not consent.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-04-22

- A revenue officer says in the Lon
don Standard: English spirit, by it.
self, is every week being made up and
sent out as Irish and Scotch whisky.
It is simply; reduced, colored and bot
tied and labeled Scotch or 'Irish,' &C.
cording to the needs of the customer.
And all this takes place in the bonded
warehouses of the country, with the
full cognizance and consent of our ex-
rise and custom officers, who are actu-
ally cautioned not to interfere"
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ment of $40 feet 4
beam of Sc feet and a depth of 80
feet. Such boat could not navigate
the Chicago river even when empty.
= Fourteen years ago there was not 4
single vessel on the lakes with car
rying capacity of over 1000 tons. Il
1903 there were 1859 steamers with d
gross tonnage of over 1850 tons, and
16 of these had a gross tonnage Of
5000 tons each. Not one of these 1863
steamers can navigate the Chicago
river, and not one of them can
engage in the grain carrying trade
from Chicago under present cond:-
tons.
Even the larger of the boats that
carry grain from the south branch of
the river cannot carry full cargoes
and some one must pay for what they
cannot take out over the tunnels.
Boats capable of carrying from 100 900
to 10000 bushels must leave port with
but about 10000 bushels. When there
is good demand for vessels the shipper,
must pay for this loss in cargo by paw
ing freight on the total tonnage ca
pac1ty of the vessel; when the supply
Of boats exceeds the demand the vessel
owner is the loser temporarily, but it
is safe to say that the farmer who
raises the grain pays the bill in the
end, and for this reason he becomes
vitality interested in the Chicago river
tunnels, and in the proposed national
legislation for lowering them so as to
permit of a greater depth of water for
the passage of boats.
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All the cars of Russia have been
crowned in the famous Kremlin in
Moscow, and in the treasury there are
the thrones of all the emperors of tho
past, as we'll as the historic jewels and
the choicest plate now owned by the
Russian crown. There are $500, OO0,-
600 worth of gold and silver and pre-
cious stones in that treasury and there
are basins of gold there as big as a
baby's bath-tub, and two card tables
Of solid silver
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-04-22

WIFI Tue demand.
Some notable changes in social con-
ditlons may be noted in the study of
prospective renters at any real estate
office these days. It is no longer the
mechanical tradesman who is seeking
the cheapest accommodations One
renting agent said to me a few days
ago that he had that day rented IS flats
ranging in price from $50 TO $45 mp1hth-
~, and that II cut of the 10 Were
rented to men engaged in the meh, ami
cal trades. This man represents prop
erty In the Hyde Park district, suppos-
eddy one of the blue stocking sections
OF the city.
At the same time he said to me that
he was finding far more difficulty in
renewing leases at the advanced rate
among the clerical classes than he was
with the skilled labor classes Thai
the Office and bank clerk, the men oc-
cupying semi-responsible clerical posi-
tons, were moving out of the neigh
borhood in their effort to find homes
within their reach, and their places
were being filled by ironworkers, car
penters, painters, engravers, printers,
and the mechanical tadesmen in gen.
eral. He said also that he had found
the latter class better paying tenants
from the standpoint of promptness
than he had the clerks.
Five years ago the landlord looked
askance at the carpenter or other
tradesman, and caught eagerly at tha
bank clerk as tenant,
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The Dominion of Canada is about
$500 miles from east to west and 1,4OO
miles from north to south. Labrador
is under the jurisdiction of Newfound-
land, which colony is not in the Cana
dian confederation. The length Of the
frontier line separating Canada from
the United States is 5000 geograpa-
ical miles, 1,400 miles being a water
line OF rivers, lakes and seas and 1000
miles a land boundary.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-04-22

The New York Sun predicts that in
20 or rs years from now Nebraska,
Kansas and Missouri will be numbered
among the great timber-producing
states of the country. The broad
prairies Of these states which had
been trodden bare by the wild buffalo,
are now being planted with trees, the
number of trees set out within the last
three years having been larger than in
the once great lumber supplying states
Of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan.
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Holland is not among the countries
that have signed the Berne literary
convention. The only way to secure a
foreigners rights would be to enter
into relations with a Dutch firm pre-
pared to publish in Holland and reg
lister in accordance with law. If it
concerns translation, such a pub
Usher is in a position to register it at
the Society of Booksellers and Pub
fishers. The fees are about three
forms ($120).