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The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20
State Board of Trade to Meetin Nor
folk.

Charles W. Priddy, president Of the Yir-
ginia State Board OF Trade, announces
that the postponed meeting Of the State
Board will be held in Norfolk, at the
rooms Of the Chamber of Commerce, on
the 25th and Goth of August 1t had
been intended to hold the meeting at
Virginia Beach. but President Priddy
concluded that it will be better to hold
the meeting in the city and let the dele.
gates take side trips to the surrounding
resorts.
Mr.. PFiddy is expecting good results
from the coming meeting, as several mat
tsrs OF great Importance to Virginia will
be acted upon
The Board will take steps to call a
mass meeting OF all shippers OF the State
in order 60 enlist their cooperation in
questions that may arise affecting their
interests.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20
WHEAT ADVANCING.
Price of Flour Goes Up.

Owing to the recent strength OF wheat,
the price OF -four advanced about 80
cents q barrel This advance follows
an advance Of % cents a barrel made
the latter part OF last week, aud an ad-
vance OF 10 cents ban .el in Western
flour, which took pie e on Wednesday.
The price Of wheat has advanced about
7 cents bushel within week. South
ern wheat show no change in price
Thursday in Baltimore, No IT selling
at 1O3I rsnt9 a bushel. w stern wheat
dec"1ci seven cents bushel.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20
STUNG BY "JlM-cRoW" LAW,
Pennsylvania Negroes Grow Riotous
at Winchester.

Four hundred negro excursionists from
Harrisburg, Pa, arrived Mt Winchester
on TWO days trip and scores OF them
became so threatening in their attitude
toward the whites on the streets that
Mayor Grachen issued proclamation
warning them that any lawless act
would be severely dealt with
The negroes, stung by the humiliation
of the Jim Crow" law, TO which they
were compelled to submit on entering the
state, psraded the streets, insulting
ladies and defying the whites and threat
ening them in every way. The police
force was increased to four times its
regular strength at night Mayor
Graichen issued a strict order TO all ga
Ioonkeepers not to sell liquor to any ne
gro. A number of negroes have been ar
rested and others etcaped, alter being
fired az by the police.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20

Mayor Harrison, OF Chicago,
thought he had a plan for settling
the great strike, and met the repre-
sentatives Of the different parties,
but his plans failed and the strike is
as far from settlement as ever. IL
would have been ten strike for the
Mayor il he had succeeded.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20
Ice Cream Poisoned rs.

At New Prospect Baptist church, Am
herst county, twenty-five persons who
were attending the Piedmont Baptist
Association, it is said, were poisoned by
eating ice cream which had been frozen
over after standing In q freezer for "a
hours, Those eating cream became ILL.,
many were almost unconscious. They
were found lying along the road near the
church and were carried back. Four doe
tors worked for hours TO counterfeit the
effects Of the poisoned cream, They oil
recovered.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20
VIRGINIA NEWS.

A marriage license was issued in Balti
more Wednesday to Joseph H. Tomlin.
son and Ida Fryer, both of WRlkertOn,
King and Queen county.
Mr.. Harry NJ Haynie and Miss Lula
E. Sebra, both Of Northum berland coun-
ty, were married in the Methodist Prot
estant parsonage at Lillian Wednesday,
by Rev. j. f. Wooden.
Rev. j. w. Byland. who has been pas
tor of his present charge in Middlesex
county for thirty.fye years, is at Viz
GINA Hospital, Richmond, for treatment.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20

1t is said that pauperism is or the
increase in England, there being in
the city OF London more than n
hundred thousand. Experts are in
yestigating the question in order to
suggest "a remedy for this increase.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20
POLITICAL.

Ex-Governor Jackson, who WE nomi.
nat ID for Congress by the Democratic
convention of the First Mary land die
trict, has declined the nomination.
In his speech in New York accepting
the Populist nomination for President,
Thomas E. Watson made severe a =
tack upon the Democratic party.
Senator II. G. Davis, in letter to !. v.
johnson, Roanoke, says he hes never
been hostile to the laboring man.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20

Carnegie, Pa, has been much ex-
cited over mad dogs, The other day
the constable thought he would thin
them OUT, and it is reported that in
about seven minutes time he killed
seven mad dogs with seven shots.
and it was not very good day for
mad dogs either.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20

It is said the cabinet officers will
10 their share Of campaigning, while
those employed in their several de-
partments will do their share in coD-
tributing to the campaign fund, and
speak word privately, aud so civil
service moves on.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20

Capt. John S. Wise was in Rich
mond the other day, and let out the
"true inwardness" OF his Virginia
suffrage case. He said the negroes
wanted lawyer and he wanted a
fee. and so he was in the case.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20
onie on independent Ticket.

Capt. John N. Opie, OF Stanton, an
nounces that he will run as an indepen'
dent candidate for Congress. Capt, Opie
thinks that he was not treated right by
the Tenth district Democratic commit
tee. HesAys he did not have a fair chance
to enter the primary, as 1t was bis inten'
ton to do.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20

Mississippi has postoftice named
Ted. Alabama, Kentucky, Louisi-
ana, North Carolina, Tennessee, Tex
as and West Virginia have a Teddy.
Alabama and Tennessee have Theo.
Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Ken
tucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North
Carolina. Texas and West Virginia
have O Roosevelt. But Mississippi
can't have q Yardaman.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20

We are told that the people OF this
country purchase 10000 ounces of
cocaine annually, and very little OF
the purchase is used legitimately.
Some States have laws fOrbidding its
promiscuous sale, but it is claimed
that the laws have not been enforced
Cocaine is powerful drug and those
who know tell us it robs Its victim Of
his mental faculties and destroys his
moral responsibility in a briefer time
and in a greater degree than any
other drug. And yet we are told
that its use or abuse is a growing
evil with thousands In this country.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20

The Inter-State Tobacco Growers
Association has just closed a session
in Danville. This organization is
composed mostly Of tobacco raisers,
and they are working in the interest
OF those who till the soil. Ii will ar
range a scale OF prices at which the
product will be sold and hold that
which does not command that price.
The association is also considering
the propriety Of selling direct from
the barns and doing away with the
warehouses and the expense attend.
Ing them, which would be agreat say
ing to the farmers.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20
Farm for Sale.

1919 acres on RappahannOek river,
six miles below Port Royal. Good
buildings on same. Will be sold very
cheap For full particulars apply to
C.. /. Mothershead, Return, Va.
Mi l3In
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20
August ., 1904.

In the Circuit Court Of Spotsy J.
vania county Minor and ais, plain
tits. against TURNKEY, sheriff, admin
istrator. and others. defendants. /,
II. Il. Harris, clerk OF said court. GER
tify that the bond required of the
special commissioners by the decree
in said cause of 22nd day of July,
1904, has been duly gwen by +. w.
Coleman aud A. Il, Embrey, special
commissioners. Given under my
hand this 2nd day Of August, 1904.
Il A. Harris, Clerk
au06- W4W
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20

Pair of good mules, one Geiser
thresher, one Mccormick binder, and
other farming machinery, all in good
condition, and will be cold at a bar
gain. Terms liberal. Apply To Allen
Smith. Dogue. Va j9tf
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20
ADMINISTRATORS Woman Asks

"have you floor paint that will last
two weeks?" Yes we have Dey0e's; it
has q beautiful gloss and will wear two
years II properly applied. j. Willard
Adams.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20
Local Markets

uIorrected by Simon Hirsh & Bro.)
Wheat, S5 TO 90; corn, new, 63 to
Sc, meal, 81 40to 81 40 per 100 pounds
eats, DO to 45; fowls Qive), 8 to .;
chickens, live, II to 12h; ducks, live,S to
Q; turkeys, 10 TO II; lard. IL to IL;
Spring chickens, IL to 12h per pound
eggs, 16 to ICY; butter, 10 to 20 ;
hams, ID to II Irish potatoes, 40
to soc; beef to 3h; pork, 9 to Z; veal,
AZ 10 8; lambs $3.50 TO $3.50; hides,
igreen) 8 to 6; hides dry 8 to 10: salted
hides, z to 8; baled hay, flb to $lo per
ton.
Leaf sumac-55 to 60 per 100.
Wool-Unwashed, % TO %; washed,
20 to 26.
Baltimore-Whoat firmer:. spot con,
tract, S1016I01A: spot NO. red
western. $1,000 1.03h; steamer No; z
red. 9SRc.; southern, by sample $50
CSC: do. on grade, S5c.q$l; Corn
dull: spot, 56lac; steamer mixed, 53 Hc.;
southern white and yellow corn. sQ9
66c. Oats firm; new NO. 2 white, 81 q
S7lbc-: new mixed, 3511Q36c. rye
Arm uptown. No. western, 764f7c
HaY firm; NO. timothy, $16i No. L
clover mixed, $t3,50G14. Butter firm;
fancy imitation, 17QlSc.; do. creamery,
19c.; do. ladle, 14Ql5c.; store packed,
11912c. Eggs steady; 170lSc. doz.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20

Flirting is the spice oiliie.- Exchange.
That may be true, but 1t is not
Rllspice.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20

The Free Lance is prepared to do all
kinds of job printing in firHtrlass style
at moderate prioos.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20
Public Sale Of Small
Country Place.

Pursuant to decree of the Circuit
Court of Spotsylvania county, Vir.
GINA, entered in vacation on July -,
1901, i'm the chancery cause OF Minor
and Others vs.. TURNKEY, administra-
tor. and others, the undersigned
special commissioners will offer for
sale to the highest bidder, before
Sp0tsylyania c. H., on
Monday, the 5th day Of Sep
q TENDER. 1904,
at - o'clock NJ, that desirable little
farm of 10 acres, more or less, of which
Charles Minor died seized and pos
sessed, situated in Spotsylyahia cOun-
ty. Virginia, adjoining the Dannehl
farm, about four miles southwest
from fredericksburg, Virginia, and
is the same land conveyed unto Chas
Minor by Lucy Temple by deed OF
date September eth, 1892 and duly
recorded. There is a small house and
outbuiIdings and some fruit trees Oh
the place.
Terms OF Sale-One-ha cash, bal
aLce in u months time, the deferred
payment TO bear interest from date
OF sale and be secured by deed OF
trust or title reserved until all the
purchase money shall have been paid.
+. w. COLEMAN,
ALVIN L. EMBREY.
Special Commissioners.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20
Conversions OF Masonic Temple
Laid.

The Grand Lodge Of Mssone Of Virginia
Wednesday, at Portsmouth, laid the
corner. stone of the Masonic Temple, to
be erected on the site of the ancient home
Of Freemasonry, The orator was Judge
r. T. W. Duke, OF Charlottesville. His
address was an eloquent one. The
Grand Lodge met before thecOrner-stone
was laid and was called to order by
Grand Master Davis, Of Lynehburg.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20
WHITNER & SACRBY.

No. 719 Main St., Freder.
icksburg, Va Phone SO.
Across from Exchange Hotel
and next to Western Union
office. Telegraph and telephone
orders receive prompt atten-
ton. Open day and night
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-08-20

Remember our maiorder department with its
corps of experienced buyers is always ready to serve
Won Purchases OF 800 or more are sent Transports
ton charges prepaid to residents of Maryland fr-
ginia and West Virginia.
Douglas Island news., 1904-11-23

Two hydraulic plants arrived at Ram part by way of the lower river a short time ago for the Rampant camp. One plant, the largest and finest ever taken into the camp, weighs TO tons, and will be used on Minook. The other is for the Goldbug Hydraulic Mining Com pany, and will be used in working claims Nos. l, ?, 3, and above dis covery on Rhode Island creek. The material for the two plants will be freighted to the creeks as soon as the snow is deep enough to afford easy hauling.
 Reindeer must possess some of the characteristics of Texas cayuse; Capt. D. II. Jarvis, in one of his reports, says that "all hands must be ready at the same time when starting deer train, for iust as soon as the animals see the head team start they are all off with jump. and for a short time keep up a very high rate of speed If one is not quick in jumping and holding on to his sled he is very likely to lose his team CT be dragged along through the snow. They soon come down to a moderate gait, however, and finally drop into walk when tired"
 J.W. Williams, president of the Daw- sou Electric Light and Power Company has completed plans for one of the largest enterprises ever promulgated for the Dawson water front. As soon as the Yukonis closed for tho winter he will begin construction of coal bunkers at the foot of Albert street. The enterprise will be completed this winter, and will entail the outlay of between s12OOO and 813,000. The bunkers will be two stories high, and will hold several thousand tons of coal. The coal to be handled will be that from the Coal creek coal mines, below Forty Mile.
 We felt so darned mean over the election returns that we were going to work hard all day Thursday, Nov. 24th, and curse every man that came in the office, just because Teddy Roosevelt had requested us to lay aside the busi- ness cares of life and join with our fellow man in returning thanks for favors received. But not now. We wish to announce now that the Tran script office will be closed on Thanks giving Day and, although we have never attempted to pray since we left our mothers knee, and have voted the democratic ticket for 20 years, we are going to ask the good Lord to bless Teddy Roosevelt.-Alaska Transcript,
 With the opening of the new Tanana camp the question of better mail facili- ties for the North becomes more press ing. and Uncle Sam finds urgent de- mand from his several thousand ener- getic citizens who have braved the rigors of the arctic to develop the most northerly American possessions. Fair banks has 5,00O people this winter. The town has sprung up like mushroom, almost the entire population of the place and the surrounding country having been gathered there within the last six months. A postoffice, with money order department attached, has been opened in Fairbanks, but the great need is more expeditions delivery ,f mail to the new metropolis.
Douglas Island news., 1904-11-23

To accommodate passenger travel between Seattle and Valdez, the Alaska Pacific Navigation Go. will construct a magnificent steamship to cost in the neighborhood of a225, ,00O It is expect ed to have the new vessel ready to go into commission by Sept. l, 1905.
 Officials of the Northwestern 5. 5. Co. announce that the Nome steamers Tacoma, Olympia and Victoria will be operated on the Seattle-Valdez route commencing next February, The com pany also gives out the statement that two new vessels will either be con structed or purchased for that run by June l, when the Nome boats will enter the Boring sea traffic.
 It is evident there will. be a lively movement over the trail between Daw- son and Fairbanks all the coming win ter. Already preparations are being made by Dawsonites to travel the long trail with horses and dogs, and some men will walk all the way to the new camp, perhaps, and draw sleds with ropes around their own necks. But the wise always take dogteams or horses.
 An effort is being made by owners of Alaskan tin mines to have Seattle capi- talists take some step towards putting in smelters in this city to handle the tinthat comes down from the north. During the coming year there will be large quantity of the metal shipped from Alaska, and unless smelters are put in here to handle the product, the tin will have to be shipped elswhere, presumably to San Francisco, says the P.L.
 William Sloan, liberal, has been re- turned to parliament by the ComoE- Atlin district by exclamation. When the time came to file the official nom- nations, William Manson, the couserv- ative nominee, withdrew and refused to permit his name to go on the ballot. This left Mir. Sloan the only man before the people and the returning officer called off the election and returned the liberal nominee as chosen by acclama- tion.
 A Friend of ours up from Juneau ayers that he heard a temperance" orator remark at meeting, q missed many of the old faces l used to shake hands with" He must be the first cousin to the man who, every time he opened his mouth, put his foot in it," or he may be one and the same with him who waxed eloquent over the "virgin forest wherein the hand of man had never before set foot" and raptur- ously declared that "the foot that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world."-Ex.
 Some of the careful traders and deal CTS in the Dawson-Tanana business predict that people who are lying in wait to gather big revenues from the Tananaites when food became scarce in Fairbanks will be disappointed. The prediction is based on previous eXper- fence in Dawson and also in the Tanana to the effect that people will not pay more than certain price for goods. Rather than go above a certain mark they will confne themselves to a dead straight symposium of beans, rice dried fruit and perhaps few other
Douglas Island news., 1904-11-23
I he NOrthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condensed. Information for Everybody,

Hay is quoted in the Dawson market today at 585 a ton.
 Active development work is going forward on the Julia groupof claims in Yankee Basin.
 The Alaska Club, of Seattle, has en- dorsed w. T. Perkins for governor of Alaska to succeed Brady.
 Fifty tons of hay raised on Magic May creek, tributary of the Stewart river. has been frozen in there and can not be brought down by steamer this season.
 The Al-Ki on her last trip up unload cd the machinery for ten-stamp mill at Eagle River for the Eagle River Min ing Co. The machinery was from the Risdon iron Works, San Francisco, Cal.
 On November Ist, Capt. Carl Gam borg-Andreson, Commanding U. s. marine barracks at Sitka, was married to Miss Constance Janette StowelI a daughter of MT. and Mrs. Geo. Stowell, ofSitha.
 Shortage of wood has seriously inter- fered with the operation of the steam CTS on the lower Yukon. The supply is so short that it has put owners of the independent steamers to a great added expense of time and money.
 The Seattle Daily Times says that the addition of the Jefferson to the fleet of vessels running to s. D. Alaska is evidence that in very few years new boats will replace those now en- gagged in the Northern traffic.
 The Acting Governors Thanksgiving proclamation nearly swamped the Sit ka Alaskan job office. Perhaps it was because the employees of that estab' Iishment were not accustomed to the printing of such intelligable matter.
 Perhaps twenty hydraulic plants are at work in the Klondike today, but they are nothing compared to the num- Der that would be put in operation with a big system of government control of water supply or other gigantic supply.
 The peace and quiet of the town of Fairbanks was all broken up on the evening of the Sth inst, by Miss Anna Schmidt, who did nothing more terrible than to shoot hole in the head o1 Max Lohde, the gentleman who did hel the honor to share her cabin. One of the biggest mining enterprises ever undertaken in Alaska or the Yu kon~basin has been inaugurated in the famous old Forty-Mile country or Chicken creek. Six miles of the stream and it's principal tributaries have beer grouped for the purpose of being work ed by hydraulic. It is estimated thai it will require half million dollars capital to swing the proposition.
Douglas Island news., 1904-11-23

Bob Henderson, discoverer of the KIondike, and assistant mining inspect or. returned from trip up the McMil- Ian river, one of the largest forks of the Pelly, says a Dawson dispatch. Henderson went up the Pelly with Judge Dugas and a party of hunters. Henderson did some prospecting while up the river, and reports that he fonnd number of indications of gold in the country. He says he may make another trip there this winter. "While up che Pelly," says Henderson, "we were caught for time above two jams office. The jams were near the junction of the McMillan with the main stream. After a time the ice broke, and we were able to get down. After Judge Dugas and the others came down the river 1 re- mained behind alone for time and made the run of several hundred miles down with canoe with no one ac- companying me. 1 shot fine moose, and brought him home for the use of my family"
Douglas Island news., 1904-11-23

E.J. White, of the Whitehorse Star tells the following: At the church social Thursday night the Stroller overheard gentleman finding fault with his lady partner for the manner in which she was playing the game of crokinole. Her reply was: "I am do- ing my best, and that is all anyone can do." The lady's reply recalled to the Stroller's recollection the headboard which marked a grave number of years ago in a cemetery on a barren hillside at Deadwood, in the Black Hills region of South Dakota. The story is told, not because it contains word not recherche in John Wesleyan circles, but it illustrates how people, in attempting to be sublime can be IT. diculous, and how refining influences pervert what would be otherwise intel ligent perceptions. A Deadwood gam bier had died and, in the absence of minister, his friends and associates did everything to make the funeral an i'm posing one. All the games were cover ed up and the body was carried into the big gam bling room. As no one in the crowd could remember any quota tions of Scripture or even hymn, one dealer recited "Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard," another, the man who ran the crap game, recited "Lochinvar," while third, who had not forgotten McGuffy's eclectic fifth reader, in tragic tones delivered the "Parting of Marmion and Douglas" The ceremony at the gambling house being ended, crowd of sober-faced men followed the remains to their last home on the bleak hillside. A smooth board was taken along to place at the head of the grave, but when the time for planting it came, someone suggest ed that there be some appropriate in- scription on it. The suggestion was voiced by every man present and the honor of preparing something brief but impressive was left to the oldest gambler in the crowd,a second Mormon Joe. The old man realized the respon- sibility devolving upon him, but he was not one to shirk it. Taking carpen- ter's pencil he laboriously inscribed on the headboard the following; Robert Riley, aged A. He done his damdest, angels could do no more.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-05-27

PHILADELPHIA, "a. May 27:--
Before thousands Of enthusiastic
the flower of the eastern
college athletes met on Franklin Field
this afternoon at the opening Of the
annual track and field championships
Of the Intercollegiate Association Of
Amateur Athletes Of America. The
failure OF the University Of Michigan
to enter a team as expected left the
west practically unrepresented. But
there was scarcely college or univer.
sity OF any standing in the east that
was not represented among the hun
dreds Of young athletes who thronged
the field
That records VIII be smashed during
the two days Of the meet Is generally
conceded, as remarkable performan
ces have been recorded Of late In ev
cry part Of the college sphere. Arthur
Duffey, the Georgetown flyer. vii
compete. in the short dash agains
Schick of Harvard. Torrey of Yale