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The Colfax chronicle., 1904-06-11
A SINGULAR.
TRESpASSER.
BY LEVI T. YERRISH

THE Snohomish region was a very
wild tract of country ten years ago,
where bears were numerous, as well as
wolves and wildcats. The sewellel-a
burrowing rodent about the size of a
muskrat-made havoc with our first
crops, and eagles often carried off our
lambs.
My brother, Hudson Gerrish, had emf
grated to Washington, then territory,
in the latter part of the year 1879. In the
spring Of 1881 he wrote home to me in
New Jersey, asking me to join him in
clearing up farm.
/ was only 16 then, not very strong
boy, and the journey alone by way of
the Union Pacific railway to San Fran
cisco and thence by steamer to Portland,
Ore, was a great undertaking. But
reached Portland without accident, and
there my brother met me. We made the
trip northward into the Snohomish
country with horse.
Hudson was confident that his farm
would be the site of thriving town at
no distant day. He had already made a
clearing of five or six acres, and built a
log house. AS the spring advanced we
set at work to clear more land and plant
potatoes.
But had been engaged in this new,
rough work for only a week when /
slipped, feH between two logs, and broke
my right leg little above the knee. To
procure q doctor who could set the
broken bone proved difficult matter.
Nearly three days passed before one
could be induced to come to me from
Centeryille.
After much suffering on my part, the
disabled limb was extended in kind of
trough, excavated from small pine log,
and so placed that was compelled to lie
fat on my back upon our one hard little
bunk on the floor in a corner of the log
house. In that unrelieved position !
passed nearly five weeks.
was quite helpless, and had to accept
such care as Hudson could give me at in
tervals of his work out-of-doors. There
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is little need to say that the time dragged
heavily for me. All, how longed to sit
up, To turn over, or in some way change
that uncomfortable position! But the
doctor had strictly enjoined that must
not move my leg-unless wished to be
a cripple for life.
During the second week of my en-
forced Imprisonment Hudson was
obliged to leave me one entire day and
night, while he went to Port Madison for
load of seed-potatoes. For almost sc
hours | was alone in the little dark log
house. My brother made the door fast
on leaving, and set a bumper of water
where / could reach it. The water and
some dry biscuits were all had in the
way of provisions. Several times during
the night heard the cries of panthers.
Besides the potatoes, Hudson brought
home pig, a sheep and basket con-
tanning three barn fowls. He brought
them into the house, one after another,
for me to see. and my interest in them
rose to very hopeful height. 1t
seemed a great hardship to me that |
could not assist him to make the little
shed or pen in which they were to be
kept near the house.
On the following day an Indian hunt
er shot an elk in the woods near our
clearing. and gave Hudson both fore
quarters of the meat We had some of it
fried Tor our supper that night 1t
seemed to me that ! had never tasted
anything one-half so good in my life l
suppose that l must have been badly
starved
Hudson hung the two quarters up in
doors on high pegs, to save them from
the panthers; and it was great satis-
faction as lay in the bunk to look at
them in the freight of evening. and
think that in the morning should have
more OF the meat
From lying in bed so much did not
sleep at night as soundly as my brother.
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No Melody in japan.

Protagonists and antagonists Of
what is miscalled Japanese" music
assert that it out-Wagners Wagner in
descriptiveness-that there is no such
thing as music" in Japan. The Jap
anese themselves say with the utmost
complacency that they have possessed
since the eighth century (when to
Corean melody" was added the CHI
nese scale and notation) ''the perfect
music" There is no such thing ia
japan as melody for itself-as we
know it In the west-and that is what
an occidental thinks of when he spssks
Of mUSic
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Interesting War Routes.

World Work prints striking map
showing the extent of the Russian do
minions and routes in the war area. The
following interesting table of distances
shows, among other things. how far Rus
sia must transport supplies:
St. Petersburg to Vladivostok, $500
miles.
st. Petersburg to Port Arthur, 5000
miles.
vladivostok or Port Arthur to Harbin,
200 miles.
New York TO Yokohama via the new
Panama canal, 10,091 miles.
New York to Yokohama via the Suez
canal, 1891 miles.
Odessa to Vladivostok, .S23 miles
Manila to Yokohama, 2,S4S miles.
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Unaccountable.

I'm afraid" said the female Gus
toner, that the milk you serve contains
water"
Impossible, madam" replied the
milkman. Why, every time it rains |
cover my cows with rubber blankets.
Chicago Daily News.
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The Book Output.

A Brussels expert, M. Paul Otlet, est.-
mates that from the invention of print
ing, in the middle of the fifteenth CEN
tury, to January, 1900, II. 1853 600 differ
ent books have been issued. He also es-
Inmates that about 200 900 books are now
annually issued.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-06-11
Field for Telephones.

In the United States there are up
ward of 20.0O0.OOO families and at least
10000 places of business, making a
total Of 25,000,000 opportunities to
place telephones. OF these about one
eighth are now equipped.
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That's When.

when does man stop getting
wages, and begin getting salary"
"At just about the time his wife be-
gins to figure in the society column. -
Houston Post.
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Twins in No Danger.

AS regards the possible partition oi
SIAN by the powers, ii is consoling to re-
member. says the Chicago Tribune, that
the Siamese twins are beyond the reach
of any danger.
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Western Justice.

"When are you going to try that horse
thief?" asked the stranger in the west.
"Just as soon as we've hung him, was
the reply.-Chicago Post.
The Colfax chronicle., 1904-06-11
Church Travels Far.

A Methodist church out in Kansas was
moved distance of AZ miles to new
location. The moving required eight
days, and not window was broken.
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old in China.

For 300 years the Chinese have made
waterproof paper.
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The letters of Miss Merkley, whose pic-v
ture is printed above, and Miss Claussen,
prove beyond question that thousands of
cases Of inflammation of the ovaries and
womb are annually cured by the use of
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.

Mrs loss of strength and force
told something radically with had shooting
pains thught the pelvic cramps and extreme irritation COM
trouble and uceaion and advised operation
Vegetable Compound
my Judgment and that all the good
things this medicine and by day felt less
The liberation healed and the other
complications disappeared weeks strong
and vigorous and perfectly we'll
My heaest thanks sent to for the great good have
Sincerely MISS MARGARET MERKK 276 Third st,
Milwaukee, Wis.
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& Bad tempers have destroyed AZ
many homes ss drink
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the doctors help hem will try Lydia Pnkhams Vege
table Compound they will not be disappointed with the
NJ. CLAUssEN Penn ST. Kansas City, Mo.
ecannotfo
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niss claussen Saved from Surgical Operation.

aDEAR Mrs PrNKHAM:-It It seems to me that
all the endorsements that have read of the value
of Lydia E. Pinkham's Compound do not express
one-half of the virtue the great medicine really
possesses. know that it saved my life and l
want to give the credit where it belongs sur
fered with ovarian trouble for five years. had three
operations and spent hundreds of dollars on doc
tors and medicines but this did not cure me
after all
However, what doctors and medicines failed
to do, Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound did. Twenty bottles restored me to per-
feet health and feel sure that had known of it5
value before, and let the doctors alone, would
hava hoen sr,arnd All the main and expense that
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-11-23
STANDARD AS TARGET
OF PRESIDENTS FIRE.
Said That Bureau of Corporations Es-
poets to Convict the Oil Com
panyS of Violation of the Anti
Trust Law.

NEW YORK, Nov. 23.-Word has
reached here through special dis
patches from Washington that the
Standard Oil Company will be put on
the defensive from the beginning of
the inquiry which President Roose-
welt has ordered the Bureau Of Cor
porations of the Department of Com
merce and Labor to make. The Pres
ident expects the Investigation will
extend over six N months and possibly
year. but he is hopeful that by that
time the special agents for the de-
partment will have secured evidence
upon which a conviction of violation.
of the antitrust law can be secured.
The bureau of corporations will use
exactly the same methods in making
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-11-23
TRYING TO
GETIN INTO WASHINGTON.
slAie.VEY orIe FInaneier Said to Be Max
ing saS Deal For Traction Fran
et1ise vxhicf5NVould Allow His
S5 s3 Lines In the City.

WASHINGTON D.. c., Nov. 2s.-
george .. Gould IS said to be trying
10 buy control Of the Capital Trac-
Sdpn$and the Washington Railway and
Electric Companies to get an,.entrance
Into vashington for the Wabash rail
road That capitalists interested in
the Old Dominion and Great Falls
company and those having vital
8 1nteTest in bringing the Wabash into
skVashington by the Old Dominion
iclSs have been buying large blocks
8SSKsashin gton Railway and Electric
sSstoclss was ascertained today Bitter
ton. is said, would follow
an ttempt by the Old Dominion to
soIstaf e. from Congress a charter for a
h ssEossto@ line. but control of the
washington Traction Company prob
ably would W let in the Old Dominion
4 ind the Wabash roads by removing
oppos itlon to their cross
rllo AZ
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-11-23

ARkER$FlE IND
oRKs HOME y -
Takes Fort he Winter Choice Suite
;s3s lnsthe Hotel Meth eriand Over
5$55 looking Central = Park. Il

8 new YORK, NOV. %. Former 70
Judge Alton B. Parker, late Demo
cratic candidate for the Presidency,
viii become a resident of New York
City next Monday, making his home
at the Hotel Netherland. He has
taken suite OF rooms on the thiro
floor parlor. bedroom and bath-and and
win live there until summer when he
win return to his farm at Esopus-
The suite, while not the most e>-
pensive IN the house, is considered.
one Of the most desirable and looks.
out upon Fifth avenue and the Park
He will not be accompanied by any
member OF his family during the win
ter and viii move. no furniture from
his farm, except q few books.
Mr.. Parker has opened. law office
in Nassau street, and his removal emo 10
New York is to enable him to devote
his entire time for the next six months
to the establishment of a practice He
has already received appointment CT,
several commissions.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-11-23
SAYS ROLES ARE REVERSED.
Novoe Vremya Argues Germany Is
For Peace and America For
Armaments-

ST. PETERSBURG. Nov. 23-The
Novoe vremya, discussing the recent
speeches of President Roosevelt, MI
Morton, Secretary of the Navy, ard
the German Imperial Chancellor,
Count Won Buelow, argues that the
United States and Germany are re.
versing their roles, the former now
being in favor of increasing arma-
ments and the latter being ambitious
to take part in the peaceful councils.
of Nations.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-11-23
e OHIO RAILROADS
Cheap Excursions TO the ST. Louis
Worlds Fair Every w onesday3
In August, September and scc-S
tober-OnIy $500 Round ssSs
Trip From Fairnont.

Tickets will be good going irlg
coaches only on specified trains. ssSss
Returning, tickets will be good IN
coaches only on all regular NJ trainss
leaving st. Louis not later than ten
days, Including date OF sale. l 3Sss
Call on ticket agent for time Or
train and full inform alton.
Paint pride Is ours IN ustIdab1eS
measure, becausesswe carry Heath
Millegan's best prepared II pain,
satisfaction Is guaranteed by Its use.
y. Hall rs ardware Store.
S Some person will get the gbrassSbed.#
Coal City House DIMINISHING. Com
Some person get the ilton Tug.
Coal city House ETnrni shine Gomp
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-11-23
raONepNaAH DIVISION.

No. 5.-Arrives at F'airmont 5:35 P, NJ
No. 1.-Arrives at F'airmont l2:lOP. NJ
No. 3.-Arrives at F airmont 7:45 A. NJ
No. 2.-Leaves Fairnont. =. 7:lC A. NJ
No. 6.-Leaves Fairmont--. 1:53 ?. NJ.
No. 4.-Leaves Fairmont-. 1855 P. M.
All trains are daily except Nos. 3
and on the F., M. and p. branch,
which are daily except Sunday.
For sleeping car reservations and
information Concerning tickets and
rates, consult
T. B. HENDERSON,
Ticket Agent.
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Price cut half in two on ladies'
coats and jackets, at J. S. Pople's.
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=. 81. AND z. REeAWCH.

F.. 70 4 q % r. BEE IN OH
ARRIVES.
No. 5o.-Pitts burg Account 100 p Nj.
No. 4.-Pittsb burg Accom'n 1855 p NJ
DEPARTS.
No. -Pittsburg Accom'n 1850 A. NJ
No. 51.-CpnnellsvilleA c'm 2:10 p NJ
No. 60 leaves daily for Morgantown
at 9:O5 P. M. No. So arrives from Nor
gantown at 6:55 A. NJ. daily except Sun
day; at 500 a. NJ. Sunday onlv:
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-11-23

visitour department OF granite, tin.
galvanized, aluminium and queensware
and kitchen utensils on second floor
in Jacobs-Hutchinson block, and you
Will find these lines complete and
prices low. J. L. Halls Hardware
Store. Z
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We carry all sizes OF sewer pipe
from to "a inches. Prompt delivery.
Call us on either phone J. L. Hall
Hardware Store.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-11-23

We want to feed Marion county
with Marion -four Help it along. x
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-11-23

the Investigation it has done in the
beef trust.
The President knows he VIII have
a much harder fight than the one
against the Northern Securities Com
pany, and for this reason has started
the invest igation before entering
upon his second term. Commission,
or CART cid, the head OF the bureau OF
corporations, is ambitious to do some
thing that will show the worth of his
ONCE and is willing personally to di-
rect the campaign against the Stan
dard-
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-11-23

ASK your grocer for Marion -four X
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-11-23

You cant afford to miss Hairs flow
er show Tuesday and Wednesday, OF
this week. K
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Quick collections, prompt settle
Reconsideration Claim Agency.
Magnolia -four for pastry purposes X
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! O ! N | Q I 'll!,.!..

NsSssyis5AlAUlskss
letters 10 Tvienty eadlns5
aoeraes susa sting Meeting
Discuss Situation.
saINGTo q. NOV. a., -.
n, an has begun his act
regaining control
Dem cratic organ1zation- Ar-5
letters to approximately
leading Democrats have re-
gone from Lincoln. In
{ letters ryan suggested the
sabIi of8f an earl meeting for
conn sI and changefof views on the
itl1at ion. Fe stated thatSno
Is mind, but ask
Il acorresp Tents to recommend
eetings chat would be con-
t1e roster OF ME-. Bryan's twenty
Democrats is8 not fully known.
IA are good reasons for believing
Indge Parker was not included.
were several other prominent
ork Demo era Is who figured as
kersss chief supporters in the re-
isastrous campaign Represen-
etati Hearst now said to be groom
gain for tn e 5 nonlinat ton for
& sTesId lent 90s,s has been written
letters was to a Demo
nat onaI equation who was
ashington al few days ago. This
really has some authority
peaks8in behalf of his; party8re-S
1lraging The project for
q asserted his belief that
Democratic policies for the
fmez would show better
Sgisestg to do. IN his
quest Of organization.
ether Bryan has addressed.
outhern leaders is not
here ne is known to be.
res rous Of winning over again
1andard and his leadership the
ates rh q two ted for Parker
can 3 ell lie doubt that a few:
south bern M en- have been invited to
"A m: It is probable that
OH decline his invitation:
some localities is not@impossi-
nat the 1lebraskan would receive.
nco1Irage Kentucky had
flowing and some
eIit IN public life who are
Bryan's creed. Very
ADJ some one in kentucky has
bfdde len. The same is true of
IL disloyal Bryan
said to haEesturned the State
Roosevelt; in West Virginia,
snnesseeS and South Carolina.
nee the election, probably in an
spstion%o Of such an effort from
there hay been political ut
4 he South Of significance.
Tore Ihanaone nf1uential7 newspaper
section has warned against
turn ssthe party to radicalisn-
vent some have threat.
ssned perInane emil ~ themselves
Republfc lean party.
declaration for the.
erpnn1e Ell ownership of railroads
discredited him with many South
'exass IN conversation at Park
short while Before the cleo
said that declaration alone would
ssnoaghz to preyent5t the South from
forces again visit the Ne
s}ss1S SKA n
say Democrats are also
res tInid about their political al
iance# of he future because the re-
cent election has shown them that
South err States are on the
Of sfgeing oxer=to-the Republican
Bryan himself. Southern
ss eplocrats say, can make no valid
d cad ership simply because
IiId Sc Parker had gone down inglo-
EionsI gsss ii lost his own State OF
SshEask I'd four years ago In the
ate campaign he was again seeking
.ersS through the election of a Leg
stature that would send him to the
ssE5s JnIteds States Senate The people OF
Nebraska expressed disapprova OF
his ambition in that direction
GouLD&Is TRYING TO
GETINTo WASHINGTON
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Why not let the Marion Claim
Agency collect that claim for you? 4
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-11-23

Go TO J.. s. Pople's for ladies
coats and jackets, t.way down.
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J.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-10-07
during the year 1923 more than 10 per

during the year 1908 more than 10 per
cent. greater than during the year 1896
1897. Moreover. it is Il notorious TACT
that these averages do not begin to rep
resent the increase in the earnings of
railway employees during the summer of
1908. when the rate Of pay of certain
classes was raised from 10 to Is per cent.
In that year, TOO. there We're 227.91a
more persons employed in the six classes
named than in 1891. and according to the
interstate Commerce Commission they
We're receiving the increased daily aver
age pay where they received nothing in
the year last named.
Finally. returns gathere.! from the an
nua! reports for the year ending June
Both. 1904, of eight representative rail
ways in different parts Of the country,
having a total mileage of 1851 miles,
indicate that the compensation Of their.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-10-07
Why Justice Has Not Been Done
Beforc.

The West has been for years insist.
ing that some legislation should be in
augurated by Congress looking to the re
clamation of the arid public lands owned
by the government and constituting III
some States % per cent of the area. One
reason this agitation has progressed slow
~ has been thai the portion of the coun-
try most interested in the question is
scantily settled and has not the in1u-
ence in national councils which numbers
give.
Another reason was that it was diff
cult for those living in humid States to
form any proper conception of the irri-
CATION question, and the Senators and
Representatives from States having no
direct interest in the question have been
slow to acquire the information neces-
sary to bring them To Il full realization
of its Importance. 1t is not specially
strange that so many American citizens
should be unfamiliar with this subject.
1t is one that does not present itself in
Il practical way in the portion of our
country which contains nine-tenths of
our entire population. While the arid
region is of vast extent. it is but thinly
settled. 1t is estimated that under the
National Irrigation Act the West will
be capable of sustaining SO,OO0,0OO peo-
nle
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-10-07
k Admission.

Judge Parker's letter Of acceptance
stands pat-on Republican achievements.
but coyly admits that its writer would
be a safer man at the National throttle
than President Roosevelt so long as il,
Republican senate sits on the safety
valve. If the protective tariff is rob
berry he is wiling to turn sneak thief;
II we burglarized Panama he is willing
to keep the stolen goods; il order No. IS
lets down the bars for a pension scandal
he will revoke the order, but let the
bars remain down just the same. 1t is
a very pretty confession that the Repub-
Leans have administered the government
so wisely, diligently and effectively that
they deserve a vacation, While he tries
his prentice hand ut running it without
reversing Il single lever.
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RESOLUTIONS by business Men.

AT the ninth annual convention of the
National Association Of Agricultural I'm
plement and Vehicle Manufacturers held
at Minneapolis Oct. IL 70 II. 1902. the
committee OH resolutions reported as fol
lows:
Resolved. That we congratulate the coun-
try on the passage Of the National lrrlsa-
ton Act and express our profound nppre-
citation OF the aid and cooperation of Pres
ldent Roosevelt, aud all friends OF that
measure in the Senate and House Of Rep.
resentatives. in securing the passage Of that
act. We believe this action by Congress
marked the conception Of one of the great
eminent. and that it inaugurates a new era
in the progress of this nation and the de-
velopment of its Internal trade and com,
merce and the enlargement Of the home
market for all our manufactures; that the
irrigable arid lands, which are estimated
to comprise an area OF over 100, OOO. 900
acres. can and should be reclaimed just as
rapidly as settlers will take them and re.
pay the cost to the government of irrica.
ton works built for their reclamation.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-10-07
wora. of Cheer for Democ-,

1t has been given out to the forlorn
and dropping Democracy that Willie
Hearst is loosening up, that he has
been induced to put in a few thousands
to open headquarters for the National
Democratic Clubs. The hungry know
We'll that this means that Hearst aspires
to be a candidate again. but they are not
Worrying about 1908 now.
-Four years ago Hearst was presi-
dent and footer of bills for the National
Democratic Clubs. The members mot.
if memory serves Alright. at indianapolis.
expecting to greet their president. But
he sent one of his hired men to receive
the greetings of his admirers. This
dampened the ardor of the crowd. de-
spite the fact that their fare back home
was paid. The November election set
tied the whole concern, but it seems that
the n. d. G. is TO be resurrected. what
little there is left of it's ashes.