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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-16
HAS A RAT" KITTEN
UNUSUAL MEMBER OF WATCH.
MAN CASSELLS' CAT FAMILY.

Mr.. Dave Cassell, night watchmar
at the local l. G. railroad freight
house, at Sixth and Campbell streets
has watch dog and pet Cat to stay
with him through his night watche.
and several days ago the cat gave
birth to several kittens.
The kittens thrived and grew and
nothing peculiar was noticed about
them until several nights ago when
Mr.. Cassell noticed a very peculiarly
shaped kitten, he supposed it to be,
but close examination proved 1t TO
be young rat which had been nurs-
ing the cat. The rat would not leave
and the mother cat did not seem to
offer any serious objection to her ex-
traordinary charge, and so Mr..
Csssell let the rat remain with the
litter of kittens. How the rodent got
with the kittens is a mystery that re-
mains unexplained.
This is probably the first time any
such peculiar circumstances have been
noticed, and Mr. Cassell takes great
pride in showing his kittens and the
mother cats adopted child to friends.
The rat is as tame as the kittens and
when nursing is as tenacious as the
kittens. Mr.. Cassell's dog, 81. c." is
one of the best known in town among
the railroad boys and is a Scotch ter
rier.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-16
COFFIN WAS READY
To Receive the Remains of This
Murray Woman.
Boards We're From Trees Planted By
The Deceased Years Ago.

Mrs. J. II. Sale who died Tuesda,
in, Murray was buried In O walnu
coffin made from & tree the deoease,
planted herself many years ago, ant
the board which covered the gray,
were made from a cedar tree she
planted many years ago at the foot Of
her mothers grave.
Mrs. Dale came from Logan county
and was a oonsumptive. She realized
her condition and for many years had
. metallic coffin stored in the under
takers shop in Murray, but lately de-
cided she would be buried in walnut
coffin made from . tree she had plant
cd in early youth. The coffin was
made and stood ready for many months
before she finally passed away.
The cedar boards which covered the
grave were hewn from a tree she
planted at the foot of her mothers
grave after che had driven from Logan
county to Galloway. She used cedar
twig to flick the flies of her horse
while making the trip, and on arriv-
ing at her mothers grave, planted the
twig at the foot of the mound. 1t
grew and in after years became one of
the largest and prettiest cedars in the
surrounding country.
Mrs. Sale was the wife of a well
known physician, and was beloved
by all who knew her. Her peculiar
ity was not especially noticed in
Murray.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-16

cannot then do il IL he has as many
as two blocks incomplete without
special permission from the board.
The action will govern the remainder
of Mr.. Tsrrells contract, and will
prevent his tearing up South Fifth
street until he has finished South
Third, and will prevent il then unless
all the brick. sand and gravel are ON
the ground ready for use. 1t is stated
that the board is tired Of the loose
methods heretofore pursued in making
public improvements in Paduoah ana
is going to reyolutionize them.
About 200 notices were sent out to
property owners in front of whose
property the psvements and curbing
need immediate repairs. They must
comply with the order at once, or be
subject to tine.
1t was decided TO recommend that
the city at once proceed to lay the
storm water sewerage on Broadway
between Fifth and Sixth, which the
city intends to pave as soon as possi-
BILE. On the streets being paved by
Contractor Terrell at present. no
storm water sewerage has been plsced
in, ard cannot be because the huge
piles Of bricks left there are where ex.
csvations have to be made. The brick
will have to be laid or moved before
the storm water sewerage is put in.
and il is likely to ruin the brick
street when the ground begins TO
settle. This lack Of foresight is eyi.
dent to the board of public works,
and City Engineer Washington will
draft and present to the boards next
week the necessary resolution for put-
ting in the surface sewerage now so
the street will be settled when the
paving begins.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-16

FINDS BAD WIRING
In MANY HOUSES
Inspector Rose Says This is
Principal Objection.
He Perceives that Citizens are Show
ing Much More Civic Pride
Than Heretofore.
INSPECTION NEARLY OVER

Mr.. O. o. Rose, insurance com
missioner, has completed his semi
annual inspection OF mercantile
houses except on jefferson street, aud
will next week 60 over this street and
complete his work.
~ find" he stated TO a reporter
this morning. THAT the merchants
are attending to the matter of keeping
their buildings and yards In good
shape better than during the past
few years. Things looked cleaner
about the premises aud the houses are
in much better shape. There was less
debris and garbage stored about and /
am gratifed that they have taken
such an interest in this matter and are
looking out for possible fires and TAX
ing every means possible to prevent
them.
"The only defect l could find to
complain Of any and the only really
serious one was in the electric wir.
ing. The wires In many houses were
left dangling about gas jets and
thrown carelessly over nails. In some
places they were connected with me-
taiic conductors, rendering it very
dangerous. Wherever l found such
things / notified the people to have
them remedied, and will follow my
inspection up with another in few
weeks to see if my orders have been
properly carried out"
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-16
NEW BOARD FOR
INFRINGEMENT
Board of Public Works to Save
the City Fifty Per Cent.
Orders Contractor to Tear Up No
More Streets Until Material
is There
LAST NIGHTS
MEETING IMPORTANT

The board of public works held Al
important meeting last night at the
city hall, the third session this week
The members are working hard to gel
things in good shape and il is under
stood that they went over the street
pay rolls, and have formulated plar
by which the city will be saved so Del
cent OF tho present cost Of street work,
either by reducing the amount paid
out, or in getting more work and ma
terial for the amount spent. The
board has already stopped the pur.
chase Of gravel, so called, and is hav.
ing the street roller used in rolling
the streets after they have been hsr.
rowed, leveled, and wet down, thus
accomplishing more good without
speDd ding cent for gravel than when
new gravel was bought and dumped
on the streets without ever being
rolled.
The board ordered Contractor E. C.
Terrell to proceed with the work on
South Third street, which he had al
ready done, however. The sense of
the board seems to be that il has con.
troll of such public improvements, no
matter what Contractor Terrell and
his attorneys may think OF il. A city
official said today that the contractor
and his attorneys were not running
the city's end of the business and no
matter what they commended. the city
would hereafter pursue the course it
chooses without asking the contractor
and his attorneys anything about it
and that the board of public works
has charge of all public improveme nts,
now, no matter who may have let the
contract.
The board last night made another
important order. which is that Con.
tractor Terrell cannot tear up any
more streets uuless he has all the
necessary material for doing the work
on the ground. This material will
include not only the brick, but the
sand and gravel as we'll IL is claimed
that on account Of the expense of
keeping many teams here, and of lay
ing of diggers and having to get new
ones after the work is resumed, the
contractor may tear up the street to
keep his men busy without regard
to the Inconvenience to the public.
Under this order he cannot here
after tear up any more streets except
when he has the material there, and
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-16
DEFEND FILTRATION
ARGUMENT MADE FOR TIE
wILEs OF CoQUETRFY.

Chicago, April 16.-The scientific
status of flirtstion was discussed by
Dean James II. Tufts OF the Univer.
sity Of Chicago for the benefit OF the
seniors in that institute. His'genersl
topic was play"
PLAY is an important factor in
gaining control Of our faculties, A" said
the dean. "Coquetry, like other
forms of play is training Of the abil
titles which one needs in serious lie.
1t is not merely an oatlet for the dis
sipation of surplus energies as it has
been considered, but it is instructive
and tends to the development Of the
higher and intellectual faculties.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-16
EDITOR ASSAULTED
FORMER METROPOLIS MAN
HURT BY RIVAL NEWS
PAPER MEN.

r. B. Thompson, formerly of Me
tropolis. ILL.,, but now editor of the
La Sale. Ill.,, Chronicle, was as
saulted by John Al. Nicholson, Of
the La Sale Register, with knucks
and painfully hurt. IL is said the
fight resulted from . newspaper con.
troversy in which Nicholson's father,
who is candidate for police msgis.
trate, came in for . roast in Editor
Thompson's paper.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-16
GOVERNMENT MAN
Inspector Here From Inter
State Commerce Commission
He Found the Laws All Compiled
With By Local Railroads.

Inspector Starboard, of the Inter
state commerce commission, is in the
city making an inspection of the iii
nois Central and N. o. and St. L.
roads. He arrived in the city yester,
day and will finish his work today OF
Monday.
The government law which compels
railroads to have every convenience
on cars and engines for the employees
to hold to in making couplings. board.
ing cars and engines, etc., is complied
with, but inspectors are necessary.
Mr.. Starboard 10 one Of these in
spectors, and his duty is to make a
circuit of all roads in his territory
and report any failure on the part OF
the railroads to properly comply with
the requirements OF the law.
He found nothing here contrary to
the law and was pleased with the
amount and quality of the work turned
out here.
Mr.. Stsrboard has Just completed
an inspection of the L. and N. road
and also the Southern. He is work.
ing south and will go to Fulton from
here. This is the first inspection by
an interstate commerce inspector, in
over year, inspections being made nc
oftener than annually.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-16
BOARD TOOK FINAL ACTION.

Frankfort, KY, April i6--The
state board of equalization has taken
final action as to the asses 'ment made
in the counties of Ballard, Carlisle,
Crittenden and Christian. The raises
made in these counties were Ballard,
10 per cent on farm lands and per
cent on town lots; Carlisle, nothing
Crittenden. 10 per cent on farm lands
and per cent on town lots; Chris
tian, nothing.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-16
A SISTER CONFESSED.

Louisville. KY, April 16-w. T.
Cundiff. for the murder Of his uncle
Tom Bishop, was acquitted by jury
His sister, Laura Cundiff. who de
clared on the witness stand that sh,
fred the fatal shot cannot be prose
outed for the crime as the common
wealth's witnesses all testified she
was not in the house at the time OF
the tragedy. The case is an unusual
one.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-16

-sPEGHETTA AND KORTorEL
SALAT FOR LUNCH AT THE
MECCA TONIGHT.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-16

LAX-FOS i fSs ' asd k s'o%sc::.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-16
Misunderstood.

First Spectator (who has been slep-
ing)-How long has DR.. Holler been
preaching?
Second Spectator-About fifteen
years.
First Speotator-Gee whiz Ididn't
think I'd been asleep that long.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-16
KENTUoKIAN IS HoNoRED.

Danville, KY, April l6-A tele-
gram received by his father in this
CITY, announced the election of Henry
B. Yeager to the Office Of mayor Of
Pike City, Ark. Mr.. Yeager is for
mer Danville boy, and left here about
eight years ago.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-16
DOCTORS MEETING
HERE NEXT MONTH
A Pleasant Session is Promised
Association.
Program for the Regular Convention
Has Been Com
pleted.
GOOD PAPERS IN PROSPECT

The annual meeting of the South.
west Kentucky Medical association to
be held in Paducah May 10 and II
promises to be one of the most enjoy
able in the associations history. The
program has just been completed by
DR.. H. T. Rivers, of Paducah and DR..
Van Stilley, of Benton.
The sessions will be held in the city
hall, and the first day it is expected to
give the visitors an excursion on the
Ohio river.
The following is the program:
MORNING, FIRST DAY.
Call to order by President Rivers.
Invocation, by Rev. G. W. Perry
man.
Address Of welcome.
Report of committees.
Regular order of business.
PAPFRS.
Hodgkins Disease, by DR.. E. b.
Shelton Of Blandville.
Shortness Of Cord, as Cause of
Dystocis, by Ut. Reddick.
Continued Fevers, by N. L. Rogers,
of wicklide.
AFTERNOON, FIRST DAY.
Bronchial Pneumonia in Infancy
and Childhood by r. L. Ringo, of
Columbus.
Pneumonia, by E. A. Stevens of
Msytield.
Pneumonia and Treatment by r. O.
Gore of Lone Oak.
Quinine by e. B. Curd of New
Providence.
Pernicious Malarial Fever by G.. II.
Oovingtou, of wadesboro.
Abortion as Seen and Treated in
the Country. by E. G. Thomas of Har.
vey.
Puerpual Eclamsia, by w. 8. Stone
of Benton.
Puerpual Sepsis, bv W. J. Bass OF
city.
The Doctor as q Charitable Man, by
B.. T. Hale of Benton.
EVENING OF FIRST DAY.
Organization, by W. W. Richmond,
of Clinton.
Historical Sketch of the Society,
by J. r. Coleman.
That night the president addresses
and election of officers take place.
MoRNING OF SECOND DAY.
Installation of officers.
Syphilis by Charles Lightfoot Of
city.
Therapeutic Value fof the Fensen
Light. by II. p. Sights.
Stsrcoremia, by B. B. Griffith.
Sarcoma, of the Choroid by W. W.
Rozzell OF Mayfield.
Acute Purulent Conjunctivities by
L. d. Sanders of city.
Acute Otitis Media by DR.. II. NJ.
Jhildress of city.
The officers of the organization now
ire: DIR. Horace Rivers of Paducah,
PRESIDENT; DR.. E. b. Shelton, vice
DR., @. N. Crawford, second
rice president; DR.. Van stilley, secre-
airy and DR.. @. H. Brothers, treas
irer.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-25
LONDON EXPECTS ROOSEVELT
TO PROCEED REGARDLESS OF
RUSSIA'S RELUCTANCE.
lief That Japan Will Be Sue
cessfuI in End.

LONDON, Nov. 25.-It is not be-
lieved here that President Roosevelt
will permit his project for a peace
congress at The Hague to be postponed
indefinitely by the reluctance of Rus
STA to participate until the war with
Japan is ended. The feeling is that ac-
ton at Washington, in full knowledge
of the appreciation Of London and Par
is, will push the matter forward, large
ly because American craftsmanship is
convinced that the. chief direct benefit
from the congress will be an internal
tional moral pressure upon Russia.
AS secondary advantage, it is
pointed out that in the remote con-
tingency of ultimate Russian success
the naval powers of the west would
desire to be in a position to restrain
the victor from eXactions calculated to
disturb political affairs in the far east.
The latter suggestion is now dismissed
oS NIS1OildIy ny bTllOnS, VINO recall
Kuropatkin's threat about debating
peace at Toxic.
In British financial circles no doubt
is entertained of the final triumph of
the Japanese, and the eagerness of the
city to take up England's allotment
of the second Japanese loan shows how
firm is the confidence of Lombard
street in the resources of the island
kingdom. Already the economic conse-
quences of Japan's winning are dis
cussed. Attention is called to the fact
that among the most important will be
the opening up of China with a haste
probably never before witnessed in any
country. In this era of concessions of
every sort, all commercial countries
will profit, and China will be in a 20
sition to do trade with the United
States, England and Japan, of which
these powers scarcely have dreamed.
Such considerations are back Of the
prompitude with which Japan's bond
ed offerings are snapped up here and
in New York.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-25
Money Well Inve,t.a

Thirteen Of December, 1901, for,..
honest laboring men and wor.'
Eureka, CAL, organized the Cal,,a'a
Cooperative Medical companx ~. a
talized at $1,0OO,OOO, fifty tbou .a'''
shares at $40 each; all are equal. wy
hold but one share. Purposes q, ~
company: To maintain Offices y.
pitfalls and sanitariums, employ wy
sicians to treat, cure and keen ~,
members and little ones well; To W.
tain laboratories, stores and deno,.
manufacture, advertise and sell NV
cine. Dividends have averaged .S
50 month from sales of "Oil of Ed.
and Sweet Spirits of Eden" ipe,n.s
sive cures for rheumatism, kia,.S
stomach and nervous troubles; sod -
best druggists; the company has ~
nearly 1000 members; shares have =,
vanced to $35 and will rise again soo,
On payment Of one dollar down a.,
one dollar for "a consecutive week, o.
company will issue one paid-up aha
Inclose full name, nationality, bi,t,
place, age, height, with price OF sh.,.
to DR.. J. L. kELLETT. Pres. and o.,
Mgr, 457 9th ST.. Oakland. Cal.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-25
CORN is KING IN IOWA STATE.
Sage Says That the Crop Is Worth
$120,00o.0O0

WEBSTER CITY, Iowa, Nov. 25.-
Iowa's corn crop is worth s12O. OOO. 900.
Ihls is the estimate of Director John
X. Sage of the weather and crop SER
vice, who believes that the 5000. 600
acres of corn land in Iowa will yield
3OO,OOO,0O0 bushels. Forty cents a
bushel is the moderate price which Mf.
Sage says the corn is reasonably GER
tain to bring.
Exaggerated reports of the corn
crop prospects are being circulated
SAID Mr.. Sage, Just as exaggerated
reports of suspected shortcomings in
the crop have been circulaed from time
TO time in the growing period. The
tendency to exaggerate is universal.
Farmers exaggerate; newspapers ex-
aggerate; grain men exaggerate, and
crop reporters exaggerate. One of our
men reported to. me that conditions
were very disappointing. He was wor
rled. The crop was falling away below
MS expectations What were YOU
counting on?' 1 asked him.
Thought we'd get seventy-five
bushels to the acre." he said.
Aren't you getting it,"
No; don't think I'll get more than
sixty-five.'
Then l told him." continued Direc-
tor Sage, that he was getting exactly
twice the average corn yield in Iowa
for the past fifteen years."
He had figured that his field would
prlng down the average. In to the
satisfying point it has been kent at
for fifteen years.
The heaviest yield of corn in Iowa
thls year will be in Pottawattamie
county, as it has been for many wears
They raise as much corn in Pottawat.
TAME as they do in some good corn
states. A normal crop there is about
100000 bushels.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-25
rich and the poor. for the great and

rich and the poor, for the great and
the small"
The third quotation is from the adj
dress delivered at Jamestown, N. D.,
April Z. 1908.
"All that we have been trying to do,
with certain fair amount of success,
through legislation and through adj
ministration, has been to do square
and equal justice between man and
man; to try to give every man a fair
chance. if he deserves it, be he rich or
poor, and to try to see that he does not
wrong his fellow. After all, that is
about what must be the essence of
legislation if it is to be really good
legislation. It is meant to
do square justice to each man, big or
little, and to insure, as far as by legis-
lation we can insure. that he will do
fair justice in return"
The philosophy underlying these
quotations is to guide the Roosevelt
administration to it's close, and there
isn't anything in it which the Ameri-
can people cannot cordially indorse
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-25
Mrs. Maybrick Denies STAGE Plans.

NEW YORK, Nov. 25.-"I wish to
make emphatic contradiction" said
Mrs. Florence Elizabeth Maybrick to-
day, of any and all reports that 1
intend to make a public appearance,
either on the stage or the letters plat
form. In no instance has there been
the slightest ground for such a report
l am now busy writing my expert
ences while in an English prison. I do
not know yet what my plans shall be
when l complete my present task, but
1 certainly shall not consider any Of
fer to appear on the stage or lecture
platform"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-25
HE WEBS FIVE CHILD WIVES.
Law Interfere, Else No One Knows
How Ear He Minhf Law.

e'SS W. OHS Knows
How Far He Might Have Gone.
CIRCLEVILLE. O., Nov. 25-Four
hours after going to trial here TODAY.
Rev. William T. Nickerson. a Raptist
preacher of Columbus, was convicted
by jury of bigamy.
Rev. Mr.. Nickerson has a mania for
child wives and he had succeeded in
accommodating four more than the law
allows. Almost every time he moved.
that is, assumed a pastoral charge in
some other state, he took unto himself
another wife. Five times he was mar
RED with great eclat. Five congre-
cations saw him take the VOWS. and
incidentally were afforded an oppor-
tunlty of becoming acquainted with
their new minister, but the last one.
the quietest of all, proved his undoine
Rev. Mr.. Nickerson started in the
marrying game in Ellington, Ga. in
1883, where he took his first charge
There he married Hattie Bennefeld.
Ia years old. A year later he was as
signed to a church in Marshalleown.
Iowa, where he married Lena Gilmore.
barely 14-years old.
From there he went to Minonk Til
where he made a 13-year-old ANY
Benson his bride land shortly after re-
moved to lebanon, Tenn. where he
wooed, won and welded Alice Horna,1v
age H.
About a year ago he left Tennessee
and came to Cincinnati. After a few
weeks he went to Circleville, where he
married 15-year-old Myrtle thinner
man, after courtship Of barely three
weeks.
Nickerson refused a LAWYER and
pleaded his own case.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-25

TO CURE A COLD in ONE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. E. W. Groves sigma
ture is on each box. Csc.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-25
WORKOUT Women
Who Feel Tired and Fail to Get Re-
freshed by Sleep, Are on the Verge
of a Serious Train of Diseases.

At first there will be a great Ian
guor, especially in the morning, faint
ness, dizziness, weakness or sinking
at the pit of the stomach; the appe-
tite will be variable, digestion impair
ed; palpitation of the heart, shortness
of breath, cold hands and feet, head
ache, paleness, dark circles under the
eyes, and a dragging pain across the
hips and loins. The blood becomes
thin and watery, and the nerves lack
ing in strength, the complexion SAL
low, the cheeks sunken, the bust fiat
tened and reduced, the memory poor,
the mind weakened, the disposition
irritable and nervous, the least noise
often producing complete nervous
prostration. By feeding the blood and
nerves with DR.. Chase's Blood and
Nerve Food, the weak parts are made
strong, the weight increased, the
sunken cheeks and flattened bust fill
out and become firm and plump; the
enriched blood makes the complexion
clear, the lips red, the eyes bright,
and gives new life, strength and ami
nation to the system. Price so cents.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-25

For sale by L L. Tallman.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-25
a We'll Known Gentleman Speaks Of
"Trib" as q Cure.

Spokane, Wash, May 2, 1904.
'TRIB" has done Just what Won said
1t would for me and l am we'll pleased
my general health is better and /
have no desire for liquor or tobacco.
1t has been about one year since /
took TRIB." You may use my name
at any time you like, and say to those
that know me know That 1 would not
say received cure with 'TRIB"
unless it was true.
Yours truly,
JOHN G.. PINNEY.
For sale by L L. Tallman.