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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-12-22

Tho open fireplace Is getting In Its
work all right this season.
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The advocates Of woman $ rights and
female suffrage are greatly encouraged
~ a late decision Of the v ermont Supreme
Court that a female murderer has as
much right to DO hung as a man. 3.
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BY all means let Us have q safe and
sane Christmas, q
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soon as she pays off all OF. her outstanding
paper Some forty or fiftyyears ago old old
folks used to please the lid I$3lby telling
them how many pretty ittloSbirds they
would catch when the sky should fall. II
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The Presidents Visit.

President Roosevelt promises to visit
Richmond. When he comes he will see
an attractive city and he will BIO politely
received by our people. 5f 81 f..s. N
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All the signs point to a real old-f 'as Z
Toned Virginia. Christmas, and So {! clst US US
hope it WILDE all over the State. from from
where the, everlasting sea waves beat their
continuous refrain upon the white g,
shores Of. Accomac. westward to where ere
the Alpine peaks OF the grand old !; All lie
ghanies look down into the chambers Of
the setting. sun, or:words to that effect
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-03-17
FAVOR DIFFERENT BILLS.

House and Senate Committees Wide
Apart on Washington Division.
Washington, March l5-The Foster
Cushman bill to divide the state of
Washington into two federal judicial
districts by boundary line running
east and west between Seattle and Ia
coma has been favorably reported by
subcommittee of the senate commit
tee on judiciary, to whom the measure
was recently referred. The house ju-
dietary committee had already favor
ably reported the Jones bill, which
provides for an eastern and western
division, although it appeared at one
time that the Humphrey plan of di-
vision would be favored.
The theory has been advanced with
some show of plausibility that if the
senate passes the Foster. Cushman bill
and the house passes the radically diff
erent Jones measure, the conference
may decide in favor of the Humphrey
bill as compromise.
Neither the house committee nor the
senate committee is pleased with the
squabble in the Washington delega-
ton over the method of division, for
they know that the advocates of the
different measures are thinking more
about the appointment of new judge
than they are about an equitable divi-
sion of the district
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-03-17
SEATTLE MARKET REPORT.
Purchasing Prices.

The following prices are being offer.
ed to the producer by the local dealers
for delivery in round lots on the dock
or In the car at Seattle:
Grain-Oats, $25 per ton; barley, 1923
per ton; wheat, chicken feed. $26 per
ton; bran, SIS per ton; shorts, $40 per
ton.
Hay-Eastern Washington, new, $21
per ton; Puget sound. $13@15 per ton;
alfalfa, $3.50 per ton.
Eggs-Strictly fresh ranch, 17@18c.
POultry-Live hens, 14hc per Id; old
BOOSTERS, &c per lb; ducks, 14M 16c
per Id; geese, lie per lb; turkeys,
$4,000 per ID.
Live Stock-Choice beef cattle,
cows. 3@3kc per Id; steers, 4@4hc
per lb; sheep, 5% @4c per Id; hogs,
6@6hc per lh; calves. 5@7c rer Id;
lambs, $2@2.50 per head.
Hides, Pelts and Wool-HeavJ and
sailed steers, over 60 lbs, TIC per Id;
medium, sound. &c per Il; light. sound.
under 60 lbs. &c per Id: cows, sound,
all weights. &C per ib; stays. bulls and
oxen, 41.c per lb. Eastern Washing
ton wool. 7@9c per lb: Western Wash
ington wool 12@14c per lib; dirty or
timber stained. 10@11 per Id; tallow.
4Q5c per Id; grease, 1kQ2c per ID.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-03-17
SETTLERS RETAIN LAND.
Northern Pacific Will Not Disturb
Holders in Overlap District.

Northern Pacific Will Not Disturb
Holders i'm Overlap District.
St. Paul, March 14-President How
ard Elliott, Of the Northern Pacific,
has decided that settlers who have ia
ken up land in the tract involved in
litigation, known as the Overlap"
land case, which was recently decided
by the United States supreme court in
favor of the company, shall be allowed
to retain their holdings. 1t has been
announced that the company desires
to take up with the settlers the ques-
ton of the sale of the lands occupied,
and that commission will be appoint
ed to appraise the land. 1t is stated
that no advantage will be taken by the
company of 1.-THE settlers, and that in
fixing the price of the land no consid-
Grafton shall be taken of the increased
value resulting from the improvements
and cultivation of the settlers
The land affected 10y the decision
consists of tract about forty miles
square, lying on the east side of the
Northern Pacific's track between Ia
coma and Portland, and on the north
bank of the Columbia river, including
all of Clark county and portions of
Skamania, Cowlitz and Klickitat coun-
ties.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-03-17
FOUND PITCH BLENDE.
Rare Substance Found in Quantity
in British COIu mDia

Rare Substance Found in Quantity
in British Columbia.
New Westminster, B. G., March IA .
DR.. Charles Howardson is making
experiments with the substance sup
posed to be pitch blende in little
camp at the base of the mountain at
Harrison lake, but SO far so little of
the mineral can be found Oh account
of the snow that very little has been
done in the way of experimenting
About half ton of pitchy black
substance has been taken from the
crevices at the base of the mountain
From this substance the scientist has
secured enough barium to supply the
whole province with sulphate for white
paint. There has also been extracted
from this substance compound protox-
ide of iron, which is more soluble than
the substance containing the oxygen.
Other extracts have been made-car-
nolite, from which weak form of ra-
dunn barium carbonite is sub-extract-
ed; potassium uranium sulphate, strong
enough to print photographs through
certain thickness of paper, and pot.
assium sulphide, strong enuogh to
print photographs through metal.
The scientist considers the mountain
from which he got his sample stock to
be rich with the mineral, as it is of
volcanic formation.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-03-17
"WHAT WE ADVOCATE"
Circular Giving j. j. Hills Ideas OH
Land Law Reform.

Land Law Reform.
Seattle, March IA circular has
been issued by the Great Northern
Railway Company entitled "What We
Advocate" embodying the plans of J.
j. Hill for the colonization of public
lands by settlers. Several innovations
are suggested and irrigation of arid
lands by the government is strongly
urged. The following are some of the
changes suggested:
That settlers be required to build a
home and live on the land for five
years before receiving a grant. That
irrigation works be built by the gov
eminent, to be paid for by settlers in
annual installments without INTEREST,".
That the timber and stone act, the des.
ert land act and the communication
clause of the homestead ACT be repealed
and all public timber lands be includ-
ed in permanent forest reserves, the
title of land to be retained by the gov
eminent, stumpage of matured timber
only to be sold, and young timber to
be cared for, THAT the forests may be
perpetuated. That irrigation works
be carried on by the government as rap
idly as the reclaimed lands shall be
divided into small farms and home
steads
1t is also recommt nded that children
be taught farming in the public schools
as is now being done in France and
Denmark, and that training schools be
established by municipal, county and
state authorities, where every man or
boy out of work can learn to till the
soil and get living.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-03-17
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

Walla Walla has new Metropolitan
fire engine.
The wheat outlook in Eastern Wash
ingtOn is said to be very good.
Frank Sayres, day turnkey at the
state penitentiary, has been mysteri'
ously missing for over week.
The grand council of the Royal Ar
canum for the state of Washington is
holding it's third annual session at Sc
attic this week
Granite. marble and other stone
quarries in the state of Washington
show increasing output and are attract
ing wider attention, according to a
federal report.
More than one hundred persons took
passage at Seattle Monday on the
steamship Cottage City for Southeast
ern Alaska. The majority of the pas
sengers are bound for Dawson and the
Alsek country.
The government snagboat Skagit is
now Just below Lynden engaged in
clearing the river of distractions.
When this work is completed the river
will again be in condition for naviga-
ton between that town and the bay.
The dry kilns belonging to Burke q
McLain, shingle manufacturers, locat-
ed at Anacortes, have been destroyed
by fire. The loss amounted to $780,
900, 900 shingles, Of which about 45
per cent was covered by insurance.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-03-17
NEWS OF THE DAY
ITEMS FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE WORLD
Outside the State of Washington.
Resume of the Less Important,
but Not Less Interesting, Hap
peningc of the Past Week in a
Condensed Form.

The price of steel bars has been
raised 81 all around.
Chicago has had 565 inches of
snow this winter, breaking all records
Hearst has captured the Rhode Isl.
and delegation to the Democratic ma.
tiOnal convention.
The annual report of the Hamburg
American Steamship Company shows
a net profit of 81, OOO, 900 for the year.
A new railway line to the Yukon
is mapped out by the charter sought
from the British Columbia parliament
for the Kamloops & Cariboo Central
company.
The East Asiatic steamship Manchu-
ria has been condemned by the naval
prize court at Sassebo, Japan, includ-
ing her general cargo, which is par
TALLY neutral property.
The Japanese legation at Washing
ton has received dispatch from the
government at Tokyo saying that the
total subscriptions for the treasury
loan of 100, 100000 yen aggregated
425. 575' ,775 yen.
Charles S. Fee, general passenger
agent of the Northern Pacific, will be-
come passenger traffic manager of the
Southern Pacific, in succession to E..
G. Mccormick, promoted to be assist
ant traffic director of the Hartman
lines.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-03-17
CZAR SHOWED UNDER,

Kept Deep in Detail to Avoid Con.
sideratiOn of Larger Questions.
Paris, March 14-Onef who knows
the czar says:
1.-The light in his majesty's writing
room may be seen far into the night as
he labors with the mountains of papers
that are dispatched to him by cunning
ministers who are resolved to surround
the young man with a parapet of de-
tail in order to prevent his mastery of
larger questions affecting the Russian
policy.
"The car is a kindly, saddened,
overwOrked and unhappy man. His
desire to do his duty cOmpels him to
engage in an unceasing struggle with
"details which are never overtaken.
In this struggle he is helped by one of
the best and noblest of women, whose
virtues are derived, through her moth
er, from Queen Victoria. In charac-
ter the car is more like his GRANDPA.
ther than his father, but notwithstand.
ing his undoubted abilities and fin.
disposition, he is too completely in the
hands of his ministers and of his
mother to exercise serious control over
the Russian policy.
Gear Nicholas ii is amiable where
iron handedness is essential. He is
dependent where strong individuality
is required. He is constantly in sub
lection first to one influence and then
to another He is more than usually
amenable to womens control, and. the
fair sex has on more than one occasion
exercised powerful if not calamitous
influence upon his life
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-03-17
LAW MUST GOVERN.
Secretary CortclyOu Tells of Aims of
His Department.

His Department..
Chicago, March l4.-"Law is to
dominate in every case where labor
and capital bring their troubles before
the new department of commerce and
Dor"
Ringing cheers greeted this state
ment when it was made by Secretary
Cortelyou of the new cabinet depart
ment. He was speaking before the
Merchants club, the foreign consuls
and Gen. Fred D. Grant and his staff.
"In this department the law shall
be the basis of action in every case, y
he repeated. Gas soon as information
of labor troubles is received this con-
sultation with the law will be made.
1t is paramount that all should obey
the law. The work of the department
may be summed up in these words:
Good business, good wages and good
feeling. Every effort will be made to
make capital and labor obey the stat
utes. This is the spirit and method of
the work.
II concur in the idea expressed in a
report IA short time ago that the immi-
grant should be taken care of as soon
as he arrives in this country. As soon
as he arrives here machinery should
be set to work to see that he is provid-
ed for and enable him to earn his way
in strange land where different meth
DDS prevail.
''The immigrants should be distrib-
uted throughout the country Some
should be sent to the farms. Other
workers would be better adapted to
work on the railroads, while others
could be sent to places where their
trades and ability are suited to them.
Here is where the machinery should
operate
'"The spirit and method of the de-
partment shall be the study of COM
merce for the prevention of waste, the
promotion of honesty, furnishing the
violations of law by either capital or
labor and advance the interests of the
people most closely allied with these
two forces
Another feature of great value will
be the department of statistics, where
a report will be made of every bust
ness in the United States. This de-
partment as a whole shall be conduct
ed on nOn-partisan and business-like
methods, looking to the interests of
that part of the population that has to
do with capital and it's interests and
labor and its interests.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-03-17
TO AVOID COLLISIONS.
Vancouver Man Invents Apparatus
to Lessen Accidents.

Vancouver Man Invents Apparatus
to Lessen Accidents.
Vancouver, G. c., March 14.-JO-
seph Martin has patented a device by
which he believes collisions may be
avoided. The idea is to have set of
four wheels arranged on cables or
wires, placed like pulleys and extend
ing for two miles, which will be called
a section of the plan, with these two
mile sections extending over the whole
line. These wheels are to act as an
alarm system to the engineersl. Two
of the four wheels are always in the
way of a pinion and arm beside and
below the engine, and two of them are
always out of the way of that pin,
and the two that are in or out are in
or out at opposite ends of the two mile
system, at the same time. If the
wheel is in the way of the pin the pin
strikes it and rings a bell in the en-
CINE, and this the alarm to the engi-
neer that there is danger ahead.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-03-17
Russia Will Not Exhibit.

St. Petersburg, March 14.-Finance
Minister Kokovzoff has announced
that the response to his efforts to get
intending. exhibitors to reconsider
their decision not to particiate in the
st. Louis exposition has been INSULT
cient to warrant the government to
reconsider its decision, and conse-
quently that Russia will not partici-
pate in the exhibition.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-03-17
Tacoma Quotations.

Wheat--Bluestem, SEE; club, Tic.
Cattle-Steers, 4@4hc per cwt.;
cows, S@3Ac.
Sheep-5@5Hc.
HOgs-5@5Rc.
Poultry-Turkeys, dressed, 20@21c;
chickens, dressed, spring, 17kc;
ducks, dressed, Ice; geese, dressed,
lie. Live-Chickens, 13c; ducks, lie;
geese, lie; turkeys, 1Sc.
Butter-Washington creamery, use;
ranch, 14@1Sc; Eastern tub, 22@24c.
Eggs-Fresh ranch, 19c.
Oats-$26@27; rolled oats, $27@2S.
Hays, Alfalfa. etc.-Wheat hay,
$16.5O@17.5O; timothy, $21@22; blue
grass, SIG; clover. $16.50@17.50; al
falfa. $13@14.
Feed-Cora. $26; wheat. $27@2S;
barley. whole grain, $20.50; rolled.
$22.50: brain, $40; shorts. t21.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-03-17
Votes for City WaterWOrks.

Port Townsend, March 14.-The city
of Port Townsend has voted almost
unanimously in favor of the construc-
ton Of municipal water system
The vote cast was light owing to a
downpour of rain. Four hundred and
forty-five votes were cast, of which
but two were in the negative. Bonds
in the sum of $3.50, 900 were voted at
the same time, this being the maxi
mum amount which the city authori.
ties expect to expend in the undertak-
ing.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-03-17
To Plant Black Bass.

Washington, March 14.-The United
States fish commission has promised
Representative Cushman to plant large
number of black bass in American and
Gravelly lakes near Tacoma early in
the coming season. Because of the
adverse recommendation of State Fish
Commissioner Kershaw, the United
States commission will not furnish a
ssupdly of young bass for Steilacoom
lake
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-03-17

Will Install Typesetting Machines.
Washington, March l4.-Public
Printer Palmer has indicated to the
house committee on appropriations
that this year he will begin the equip
ment of the government printing Office
with typesetting machines, despite the
opposition of the Typographical union.
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1904-06-24
MOUSE MUDDLED WITH WINE
Small Creature Got Hilarious, But
Mistress Pussy Ended
His Fun.

Generally when a mouse or a rat
sees it's mortal enemy, the cat, it is
filled with an almost paralyzing ter
ror," observed the man who lives in
the suburbs, according to the New
York Times, "but the other day my
family witnessed curious case in
which wee mouse seemed to welcome
the cat in spirit of comradeship. Per
hapS the cat found it's natural instincts
too strong; perhaps it was a temper
ance cat. shocked at the disgraceful
condition of the mouse. At any rate,
pussy refused to reciprocate the friend
ly feeling shown by the mouse-and
gobbled it down. That the mouse was
unable to recognize its natural foe was
because the mouse was intoxicated
with wine-strange as that may seem.
eve had been bothered recently by
mice in our cellar. Our cat, with the
proper spirit toward mice, had spent
lot of time trying to catch one, but
it was so easy for a little mouse TO
scamper where cat could not follow
that puss didn't meet with any sue
cess. On the evening of my story we
heard a crash, as of broken glass, in
the cellar
"'There goes one of my bottles or
wine 1 said to my wife.
"A few minutes later we heard
series of squeaks from the cellar. AT
first we didn't pay much attention TO
them, but when they continued the
curiosity of the family, and especially
of the cat, was stirred. So the cat AMI
I entered the cellar There, on the
floor, was the fallen bottle, smashed to
fragments. Beside it, perched on his
hind legs, a mouse was uttering JOY
full squeaks and occasionally dipping
his head to take a drink out of
puddle of wine on the floor.
''Mr Mouse had drunk SO much that
he was friendly with all the world.
Instead of running away he just gave
a couple of joyous little mouse yelps
when he saw me and the cat. It
seemed to be sort of welcome. But
Mistress Pussy didn't take it kindly.
No inebriated mouse was to be al
lowed to wave his paws at her, a re-
spectacle cat, and invite her to take q
drink. She made just one spring and
in a moment it was all over"
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1904-06-24
HIPPOPOTAMUS HUNTING.
Big Game Bagged by African Hunters
Is in Great Demand as
Butchers Meat.

A hunter of big game in Africa
writes: "Hippopotamus hunting, as a
rule, is not exciting, except from a
canoe or boat, where the animal has a
chance of turning the tables. Ii a
clean shot is made he sinks like q
stone and beyond few bubbles on the
surface nothing more is seen till ne
rises to the surface, belly up, in from
one to four hours. One can generally
tell by the thud of the bullet if the shot
has told 1t is mostly snap-shooting
as they blow and novice or excitaole
person will often waste lot of am
munition banging away at every nose
he sees bobbing up, irrespective OF dis
tance or position. The vulnerable spot
is the brain, and it is advisable to wait
for side shot, when bullet in the
neighborhood of the ear will surely
find it"
This hunter, says the Chicago Daily
News, writes further: when we
camped on the Kafue schools OF from
ten to thirty hippopotami were foun't
together, but after being disturbed sew
eral times they shifted to a huge
swamp to the north, where the only
way to get at them was by polling
canoes through about mile of reeds
and narrow channels to the lake
like patches of open water whittier
they had retired. The only canoes we
could get were dugouts, capable OF car
rying not more than three men, very
narrow, mostly rotten and patched
with Jumps of moist clay to stop leak
age. If capsized they sunk like stones.
So, as the place was full of crocodiles,
we had always a spare canoe at hand.
We hunted them successfully several
times in their swamps."
Being useful as butchers meat, the
big river horses were hunted systemat-
ically. The hunter, Mr.. Wright, says:
"All the fat which we used for cooking
was procured from hippo. We had to
feed from 40 to so natives living on the
station during the rains, when grain
and native foods were difficult to get,
so that hippo, even if he weighed
three tons, soon disappeared into
biltong. Hippo make splendid tracks
across country between bends of the
river and the natives dig round, deep
pits on these and cover them with
branches and earth; the hippo, travel
ing along at night, drop head first into
them"
The Starkville news. (Starkville, Miss.) 1902-1960, 1904-06-24
DON'T WORRY.
Magazine.

There are times when the clouds roll thick
and fast
And the sky is black with distress;
But worry DER trouble that's present or
past
Never made the trouble the less.
There are times when everything's looking
blue,
And everything's all in a furry,
And nothing was ever made brighter for
When you punished yourself by worry.
Well assume that the outlook's ripe with
despair,
And there's never a cheerful ray
OF light to dispel the clouds everywhere,
That deepen the somber way;
But. assuming all this, there's naught to
gain
BY useless weeping and wailing;
You'll bring neither sunshine nor cooling
rain
By storming. fretting and railing.
There's a better way when your trials roll
thick
When the world seems full Of trouble
Than letting the dart cut into the quick
And making your trouble double;
For trouble despises a smiling face
And feeds on furry and scurry-
Just bury your griefs for little space
And look straight ahead-don't worry.
Henry Edward Warner, in Denver Times.