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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-05-01
In. Chicago With Cattle.
IL. d. Baird.)

My first trip to Chicago was so ripe
in information to me that I give 1T
as my experience in marketing fat
cattle! l made that trip with thirty
two head, of native cattle, picked up
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07
The suicide of George Crossman, Of

The suicide of George Crossman, OF
London, led to the discovery that be
had killed one wife and packed her in
cement, and that he had at least seven
other wives, although he was only 80
years old.
A Russian officer was sentenced to
penal servitude 25 years for selling
military secrets to Japan.
The mikados land forces defeated
the Cossacks in an engagement be-
tween Anju and Chong-Ju, after losing
so killed. Russian soldiers at New
Chwang hauled down American and
British flags and nullified all treaty
rights.
The French chamber of deputies
passed the governments bill suppress
ing all forms of religious teaching.
Admiral Togo MADE an official re-
port of the attempt to bottle up Port
Arthur harbor, in which he stated
that his fleet was uninjured and that
the merchant vessels blew themselves
up instead of being sunk by Russian
shells. Japanese cavalry and Cos
sacks met in a fierce land engagement
near Chong-Ju, Korea, and the latter
were repulsed.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07
All the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News Of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
CONGRESS AT WORK.
Daily Proceedings of the Senate and
House Briefly Told.

In the senate on the 25th a resolution
was adopted to consider whether an
amendment to the rules concerning i'm
parchment is desirable. In the house
the post office appropriation bill was
further considered.
In the senate on the 26th Senator
Foraker gave notice that services in
memory of the late Senator Hanna
would be held April instead Of March
81. A number Of pension bills were
passed. In the house consideration OF
the sundry civil appropriation bill was
begun.
The senate on the 2Sth discussed the
recent order Of the pension bureau
making old age an evidence Of disabil-
ity, and then passed the District of
Columbia appropriation bill. In the
house the sundry civil bill was dis
cussed.
The bill authorizing the erection of
an additional executive department
building in Washington was again the
subject Of spirited debate in the SEN
ate on the 29th. The post Office appro-
priation bill was reported. In the
house general debate on the sundry
civil appropriation bill occupied the
time
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07
LATER.

The senate while considering the post
office appropriation bill on the 30th in
dulged in a. discussion over alleged
frauds and the demand for an investi-
cation of the department. In the house
substantial progress was made in the
consideration of the sundry civil bill,
81 pages being disposed of, leaving only
21 to be read. The negro question was
debated.
F. A. Heinze, Montana copper mag
nate, was fined $4,000 in the federal
court at Butte for contempt.
The breaking of a levee near West
port, III, flooded houses to the second
story and the town was abandoned
Two-thirds of Lawrence county was un-
der water, in many places 20 feet deep.
Five lives have been lost and upwards
of IS 900 900 worth of damage to property
has been done by the flood which has de-
yastated many parts of Michigan during
the past five days.
Iowa members Of the United Mine
Workers, $4,000 strong, refused to accept
the new wage scale and voted to strike.
Frank B. Wright, formerly cashier OF
the First national bank Of Dundee, ILL.,,
was sentenced to five years imprlson-
ment for embezzling 4,2OO.
The democrats of the Seventh Mis-
souri, district have renominated c. w.
Hamlin for congress.
The village of Mill Spring, Mo-, was
flooded. Many of the Inhabitants were
living on their housetops and others
succeeded in escaping to the hills.
Indiana democrats will hold their
state convention at indianapolis July
20 to select delegates to st. Louis.
w. T. Scott (colored) has announced
at East St. Louis, ILL.,, that "the national
civil liberty party" will hold conven-
tion at St. Louis July to nominate a
negro as presidential candidate.
Frank A. Cady, prominent attorney
at Marshfield, Wis. jumped from hotel
window at Hot Springs, Ark. while de-
Iirious and was killed.
d. Harry Hammer. aged 62, well known
in Chicago legal circles died as the result
of an apopleptic stroke.
The japanese were said to have de-
cided that the bottling up of Port Arthur
was absolutely essential, and had 26
ships ready to be sent. six at time, un-
til accomplished. The Russians re-
stored United States flags to building oc-
cupied by Americans in New-Chwang
and disavowed any intention to show
disrespect. The Russian commander is
sued a warming that all ships not dis
playing signals in the war zone would
be sunk
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

The annual opening of the Yosemite
park to visitors will take place April I.
Gov. Warfield, of Maryland, has
signed the bill appropriating $250,0OO
for relief of Baltimore fire sufferers.
Esther Allen, who died recently at
Quincy, Mass, made the first fancy
valentine in the United States.
Miss Anna Cousins has broken the
record by riding to the top of Mount
a pony.
Plans are being perfected for the
great automobile hill-climbing contest
this summer up Mount Washington in
the White mountains.
The worlds cotton crop for 1902-03
is estimated by the department of agri-
culture at 17,179,765 bales, valued at
$3.50, ,OS2,451
D. E. Thompson, many times a mil
lionaire and United States minister to
Brazil, was once a brakeman on the
Burlington road.
An avalanche in the Cascade noun
tains in the recent storm opened one
VI Tie ISSSI SSluS VI wal
ever found in Washington.
President Truesdale, of the Lack
awanna railroad, says great combina-
tions of labor and capital are socialis-
tic. and tend to destroy American in
dividuality.
George Eastman has given $4,000 to
the University of Rochester, N. Y, for
the erection of science building for
biological and physical laboratories.
He lives in Rochester.
Because his canary bird flew away,
Arthur Mellon. the 12-year-old son of
wealthy parents in Abbeyville, Ca.
shot himself dead in the presence of
his mother.
Forty-four prisoners in Korea were
put to death in three nights by the
sword or moose, and the powers may
interfere in the wholesale slaughter
which the government has adopted to
clear it's prisons.
Jacob Rauers, for So years German
consul for Georgia, has resigned be-
cause of i'll health. His commission
was signed by the present kaiser's
grandfather.
A cool head and prompt action on
the part of Capt. Bradford, of the
battleship Illinois, saved his ship from
being sunk, with great loss of life, in
the recent collision with the battleship
Missouri.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07
News Notes.

The settlement in Minnesota this
year will be heavy.
Safes and bank vaults may be man
ufactured in Minneapolis The fac
tory will be the only one west of Gin
cinnati.
E. D. Williams, Little Falls, was
found guilty of forgery in the second
degree He passed the troublesome
checks last May. Under the name OF
F. Henry He has served several terms
in the Nebraska penitentiary.
The prohibitionists of the Eighth
legislative district held their conven-
at Owatonna. They will seek to go on
the primary ballot by petition.
Following the lead of the st. Paul
grocers, the Minneapolis grocerymen
have decided to do all in their power &c
abolish the trading stamp evil
Capt Davenport of the board of gov
ernment engineers has been establish
ing lines for the work of the new sue
ton dredge for Strengthening the river
near Warroad and deepening the chan
mel over the bar at Sandy island.
There are twenty-five counties IN the
state that have not reported their
March tax collections to the auditor, in
accordance with a law requiring the
reports to be submitted not later than
March 90
CORPORAL E. D. Caruthers at Fort
Smelling drank wood alcohol by mis-
take and was buried at the post Gem.
etery,
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07

UQlCeO STATES ccudtOI OooofA ~
Burton, of Kansas, was convicted IN
the United States court at st. Louis
of accepting ccmpen 1ation for protect
ine the interests OF the Railto Grain
company before the post office depart
ment. 3s
Nearly 11,COO immigrants landed at
Ellis Island, N Y, in two days.
A tornado swept the country near
Charlottesville, Mo-, causing the loss
of six lives and destroying much prop
erty.
The investigation of the protests
against Senator Reed Smoot will be
resumed in Washington April II.
At Grand Rapids, Mich, $4,000 peo-
pie were in distress because OF floods,
and at Saginaw large portion OF the
business section of the city was under
water. At Lansing, Battle Creek,
Flint. Kalamazoo and other towns the
situation was improving.
Half the asparagus crop Of Callfor-
MIA was destroyed by the recent noods
in the Sacramento valley.
The fifth death in nine weeks IN the
DAILY family of actors occurred IN Bos-
ton.
Four men were drowned in Lake Calu-
met, near Chicago, while hunting
ducks.
Five lives lost and property damage or
nearly $5,OOOOO0 is the record OF the
floods in Michigan. The waters were
subsiding.
All rivers tributary to the Wabash and
Ohio were overflowing and great dam
age was being done to farms and build
ings throughout southern Indiana.
Judge Kavanagh restrained seven
unions from interfering with the Dusl-
ness of 10 Chicago concerns.
H. c. Jepson, hermit was found
dead in the woods near Escanaba, Mich,
with record of his illness to the day OF
his death clutched in his hands.
New York agents declare advance
bookings for transatlantic travel lighter
than for several years.
Nine leaders of the International
Teamsters' union have been indicted
by St. Louis grand jury for violence
attendant upon a strike in that city.
Chicago merchants succeeded in
DlOCkluS d pldl 1OI IcLlo'lIS lAS AA
dian warehouse to ST. Louis.
Capt. Cowles, the presidents broth
er-in-law, was held responsible for the
collision between the battleships Illi-
nois and Missouri by the court OF
inquiry.
The senate committee restored to
the post office appropriation bill the
clause allowing rural mail carriers to
engage in private business on their
routes.
The secretary of the interior has in
formed congress that the new pension
order will result in increasing expendl-
lures $5,4OO,OO0 each year.
DR.. Maragliano, Italy's most famous
physician, informed a Philadelphia
doctors convention that he had discov-
cred vaccination cures consumption. e.
Wilkie L. Edwards was arrested at
Colorado Springs, Col, for attempting
to murder his bride of two months,
who is heiress to $20,0O0,000.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07
MINNESOTA NEWS.
No Place for the Flag.

CONSERVATION reigns among the civil
war.veterans who were in attendance
at the annual state encampment in
Minneapolis. During the last session
of the convention, the fact was brought
before the body, that no room had
been provided ut the new capitol for
the old war flags, the relies, dear to
the hearts of veterans in the state,
which now repose in glass case in the
rotunda of the old capitol building.
A petition was presented to Gov. Van
SAINT, signed by many of the most
prominent veterans in the state, ask
ing that when the flags were removed
to the new building, it might be with
all possible pomp and ceremony.
1t was decided to make direct ap-
peal to the state capitol commission for
space for the flags in the new building.
The council of administration of the
state department of the Grand Army
was instructed to take up the matter
with the commission at once.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07

Should suffer in the face OF evidence
like this:
Mrs. Almira A. jackson, of East Front
St., Traverse City, Mich, says: " For
twenty years never knew what it was
to have good health. Every physician
consulted said had liver trouble but
their medicines did me no good. just
before I began using Doans Kidney
Pills was almost paralyzed. could
hardly stand on my feet because OF the
numbness and lack of circul alton. Had
a knife been thrust into my kidneys the
pain could not have been more intense.
NV sleep was disturbed by visions of
distorted figures. The kidney secre-
tions were annoyingly irregular and
was tortured with thirst and always
bloated. used seven boxes of Doan's
Kidney Pills. The bloating subsided
until I weighed one hundred pounds
less, could sleep like a child and was
relieved of the pain and the irregulari'
ty of the kidney action. Ny circal alton
is good and feel better in every way"
A FREE TRIAL of this great Kidney
medicine which cured Mrs. JaclSsorwi1
be mailed on application to any part
of the United States. Address Foster
Mil burn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale
by all druggists, price so ce1ts per box.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07
Had a Fat Purse.

Ivan Vukerlic is an Austrian who, in
role of begger, claims to have Grip
pied hand. He acquired the bad habit
of entering peoples homes without the
formality of knocking or ringing the
bell, and they had him arrested. When
arranged he pleaded guilty, and was
fined $50 by Judge Gearheart at Du'
luth. The prisoner produced a large
roll of bills and paid the fine with as
little concern as if if he were buying a
postage stamp. He has been instruct
ed to move on.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07
Farmers Elevators.

Fully one hundred farmers elevators
will be built in Minnesota within the
the next year, making total of 240 in
the state, according to the statements
of C. E. Jackson of Buck man, president
of the Minnesota Farmers exchange.
The latter organization is new one,
and has already sold 100000 of the
$500, 900 stock issue. It is the inten-
tion to build elevators and terminals
and begin. in short time, to handle
grain and produce.
Elevators will be built in parts of
the state not now supplied. The small
receiving elevators will cooperate with
the terminal elevators, and in this way
the farmers will act in way as their
own commission agents.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07
DOMESTIC.

Representatives of 200 educational
institutions of the middle states met in
Chicago and recommended drastic rules
to purify intercollegiate athletics.
Jimmy Britt was awarded decfs-
ion over Young Corbett" in their San
Francisco fight after they had battled
full 20 rounds. Britt rallied in the last
three rounds and won out.
Wind and floods in the middle west
caused property loss of $3,000,0O0 and
five lives were lost.
Fire Saturday destroyed the great
car barn of the Cincinnati Traction
company, at Walnut Hills, o., causing
loss of 500, 900, insured. Over 80 cars
standing in the barn were destroyed.
In a fire which destroyed the annex
of the Newcomb hotel, Quincy. ILL.,,
Sunday morning, Rose ODonnell, of
Chicago, and Nettie Bronski, house
maids, were killed. The former was
suffocated in her room and the latter
died after leaping from a third-story
window.
A movement is on foot to settle 100
Armenian families in the Panhandle OF
Texas and in New Mexico.
Fire in New York destroyed the
Adams Express and adjoining build
ings, causing a total loss of $25O,OO0.
Thomas Baldorf, a farmer near
Wooster, O., his wife and son, were
drowned while attempting to ford
swollen stream.
The withdrawal of $19,O00000 from
western banks to pay for the Panama
canal has imposed considerable loss OF
interest upon those institutions.
In Chicago Judge Kersten overruled
the appeal of the car barn bandits. Mel
dermier Van Dine and Marx, for
ecutfon for April %.
Two more negroes have been killed
by whites in Arkansas. making 13 put to
death by mobs within week.
Six persons are dead as the result OF
cyclone near Caruthersville, Mo.
The flood situation at Indianapolis is
so serious that the authorities called out
the militia. Conditions along the Wa
bash and White rivers are the worst in
years. Victims of the deluge through
out Michigan and Indiana are suffering
many hardships, and conditions are
grave.
Four men were killed by an explo
sion of dynamite near Brownsville, Pa.
James Lemlee and his wife were
burned to death in their home at Mont
rose, Ia. They were both 70 years old.
Twelve lives have been lost by floods
in Indiana and the total property loss
in the state has been estimated at
from sS.oOO,o00 to $1O,OOO,O00.
Ten lives were lost in the recent
storm in northwestern Arkansas.
Timothy Sullivan, a mill worker at
McKeesport, Pa, aged 20 years, shot
and killed Cecilia Farrell, aged q, be-
cause she refused to marry him, and
then killed himself.
Charles G. White, clerk in the
white house at Washington, killed his
wife and himself at Kensington, Md.
In New York George F. Slosson
broke the worlds billiard record at 1S-
inch balk line, two shots, with run
of 2e1.
Burdened by debt after losing for
tune, JOIN. B. Altman and his wife
committed suicide by asphyXiation at
ST. Louis.
Four more negroes have been put to
death near Dewitt, Ark, making 13
negroes who have been killed as the
result of a weeks rioting.
Warren B. Wilson, a Chicago law
yer, acting in his owl behalf, has
brought suit in the Washington courts
% prevent payment being made for
The Panama canal, alleging that il
.sonld be unconstitutional
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07
Dropped Dead.

Herbert Wink, a 9-year-old boy who
resided with his parents at 1901 Fifth
street north, Minneapolis, dropped
dead while playing in the yard with
some of his young friends.
Herbert had just recovered from
severe attack of typhoid pneumonia
and the coroner, while not holding ar
autopsy, believes that the boy died OF
a heart affection caused by his recent
illness
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07
No More Free Lunch.

Every saloonkeeper in Minneapolis
was notified by the police officers to
give no more free lunches, which are
now under the ban of the city ordi-
nances. A delegation from the Retail
Liquor Dealers association waited up
on Police Supt. Conroy and told him
that the ordinence would meet with no
opposition. One dealer says that he
pays Sis 900 per year for free lunches
and is not sorry to do away with them.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07

Up Against It.-"Russia will fight til
the skies fall!' "Oh, well, good many O.
the '-skies,' and also the --viches' ane
the t-skofs,' have already fallen. -
Puck.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07

Ethel-"Mamma, what is the societ!
struggled" Mamma Getting Clothes
daughter; getting the clothes. s.-Philadel
phia Inquirer.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07
Wilfully Misunderstood.

Miss Butte-He said he knew I'D take
o lovely picture.
Miss Chellus-Of course. All you have
to do is to pick out something nice to
snap and hold the camera steady.-Phila-
delphia Ledger.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07
HAPPY WOMEN.

Wouldn't An.y
wO m a n % g
happy,
After years OF
backache suffer
ing,
Days of mis-
cry, nights OF
unrest,
The dist re s 8
of urinary trou"
bles,
She finds re-
lief and cure =?
NOreaSOnWhy
anv reader
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07

I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption
saved my life three years ago.-Mrs. Thos
Robbins, Norwich, n. Y. Feb. II. 1900.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07
Rural Routes.

There are eight hundred rural mail
delivery routes in operation throughout
Minnesota at present which is exactly
two hundred more than there were a
year ago. All the payments to the car
riers are made from the St. Paul post
office, and the monthly payroll now
amounts to more than $40, 900, as COM
pared with $50, 900 March, 1903.
The average length of route is
twenty-five miles, and multiply that
figure by eight hundred routes now in
operation, the distance covered by the
rural carriers in this state approx.
mates 10000 miles each day.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07

Every men on earth has either rheuma
tism, catarrh or some other hobby.-Chlca
60 Daily News.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07

Blobbs-"He's pretty rich, isn't he!'
Slobbs-"Yes, indeed. Why. he has none;
enough to make fool of himself without
exciting any comment. t.'-Philadelphia Rec
ord
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07
Sugar Beets.

Prospects are good for an leased
acreage of sugar beets in Minnesota
this year. The Minnesota Sugar COM
pany is just winding up the business of
1904, and those interested declare
the year successful one. In 1908 the
company contracted with 500 farmers
for 8, 700 of acres. On account of the
excessive rainfall and floods the acre
age was reduced to less than 5000
acres. The total yield amounted to
81, 600 tons, from which the sugar
company produced, in 1O5 working
days, 100000 pounds of granulated
sugar.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07

To Cure a Cold in One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
drugpists refund money if it fails It O cure CSC
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07

A kind no is often more agreeable than
4 rough yes.-Bengel.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07
The Oat Wonder.

The Editor must tell it's readers Of this
marvel. 1t originated with the largest
farm seed growers in the world, the John
A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. It
has stiff straw, stands up like stone wal,
is white heavy, and has long ears filled
to the tip with fat, plump kernels. 1t is a
great stooler, 80 stocks from one kernel.
IF YOU WILL SEND THIS NOTICE AND
10c IN STAMPS
to above address, you will get a sample of
this Oat Wonder, which yielded in 1908,
in 40 States from 250 to 80 bu. per acre,
together with other farm seed samples and
their big catalog. X. L.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Engineer Edward French and Brake
man Frank E. Young, of Jackson, were
scalded to death in freight wreck
near Niles. Mich.
Gen. Reyes, the Colombian diplomat.
that he is for peace on the isthmus,
and may accept presidency to further
amicable relations there and aid in
furthering the Panama canal.
The house committee on judiciary,
in recommending the impeachment OF
Judge Charles Swayne. charged him
with being harsh. tyrannical, oppres-
sive and unjust in his decisions. and
hints at corruption.
Brevet Maj Gen. Thomas o. Osborne,
of Chicago, for many years United
States minister to the Argentine repub-
lie. died in Washington d. c., of ap-
opleXy.
Berea college, of Kentucky. is bring
ing suit to test the constitutionallty or
the recent legislation by that state.
prohibiting coeducation of the races.
Gen. w. II. Payne, who was COM
mander of the famous confederate
Black HORSE CdNdlly az tho IA Se D'-~
tie of Bull Run died in Washington,
aged 73 years.
John Brink, SO years old. the first
white man to see Lake Geneva. Wis, and
who gave it it's name, died at Crystal
Lake. Wis.
New York state democratic primaries
assure Judge Parker control of the state
convention and presentation at st. Louis
as choice for president.
Burton N. Harrison private secretary
to President Jefferson Davis. of the
southern confederacy, died in Washing
ton, aged 65 years.
The Tomahawk., 1904-04-07
HER AGE WAS HER SECRET.
And She Knew How to Balk the
Efforts of the Inquisitive
u to Learn It.

Trust a woman to foil woman said
the receiving teller of an uptown bank
much patronized by women who draw their
own checks, relates the New York Times.
"Ore morning when l was trying to get
rid of long line of them there came
along woman who wanted to open an
account | knew her by reputation as an
actress at one time popular in New ORR,
but who of late years had been leading
a more or less retired life. could see that
most of the other women recognized her,
too.
"'Your age, please:' [ inquired.
"'Is that necessary?' she asked, some
what sharply.
"It is
"She hestated a moment and glanced
down that line. Every woman was rub
bering' to catch her reply, but, taking a
silver pencil case from her wrist bag, she
asked me for piece of paper. Having
written her age upon it, She gave me the
slip, saying,
"'Hand that back to me, please, when
you have made the necessary entry
Il did so and she walked down the line
of women with smile Of disdain that it
was worth days work to see. All of the
others looked foolish.
The strange part of it is that she
should have been SO reticent. She is -
years younger than thought she was"