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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-09-27
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itching, Scaly and Crusted
With Loss Of Halr
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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-09-27
A DIRECT LINE

TO Chicago and all points east; Louis
Vile. Memphis. New Orleans. and all
points south.
The only direct route to the st.
Louis worlds fair and the East is
via the o. r. q N. and Union Pacific.
The following rates apply from A..
toria:
To st. Louis and return. .ss7.5O
To Chicago ana return ........ 72.5O
To Chicago. returning from ST.
Louis or vice versa ,......... 7GOo
To Chicago. returning via st.
Louis or vice versa .......... 73.50
Returning via California. $3.50 ad-
ditional.
For further particulars, can on or
address @. w. ROBERTS,
Agent o. r. a N. Co. Astoria.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-09-27
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
First National Bank

OF Astoria. at Astoria, In the state OF
oregon, at the close OF business, Sep
tember 9th. 1904.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-12-10
BATTLEsHIP NAME.
Wreck Sold for $4,000 for Exhibi-
tiOn Purposes.

The battleship Maine, which was
blown up in Havana harbor just before
the Spanish American war, is to bs
raised and placed on exhibition by an
amusement company. The Washing.
ton correspondent for the New York
Herald, speaking of the project, says:
For $4,000 the United States Battle
Ship Maine Salvage Company. Of this
city, has bought from the Cuban Gov.
ernment the wreck of the Maine in
Havana harbor. A cofferdam will be
built around the hulk, which will be
raised. If any of the "a bodies of the
American sailors which were not re-
covered after the battleship was de-
stroyed on February 10, 1898, are dis.
covered, they will be removed and
buried with due honors in the United
States. if the Navy Department. desires
to take charge of them, or in Havana,
if the Washington Government makes
no provision. The salvage company
will make arrangements for the sale Of
the machinery and armor of the ship.
The people of Havana will be allowed
to visit the hulk upon payment of o
small fee. 1t is planned, after Cuban
curiosity is satisfied, to put q new
bottom on the ship and tow it to Coney
Island. There it will be exhibited as
curiosity to all who are willing to pay
25 cents admission. or whatever fee the
managers may stipulate."
The wrecked battleship has been q
serious impediment to navigation in
the harbor. and this writer adds: 1.-THE
Cuban Government asked the United
States if it still maintained any claim
upon the wreck of the Maine. Through
the State Department the American
Government replied that whatever in.
terest the United States had held in
the wreck of the Maine had lapsed.
Acting upon this acknowledgment the
Cuban Government on June last con.
oluded contract with Mr.. WycoR.
He was authorized to utilize in his
wrecking operations space of 100 feet
around the wreck. 1t was stipulated
that he should begin operations within
months after the signature Of the con-
tract. There ia also an idsa that Il
Cuba could get $4,000 for the hulk that
the United States might have done ~
well or better. The steel machinery
and armor is worth far more than that
even st the bottom Of Havana harbor.
The machinery cost $685. 900. The
battleship when commissioned cost
more than $500 .000."
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-12-10
FRUIT RAISING IN NEVADA.
Nearly Every Kind of Fruit Can Be
Grown Here.

1t may be imagined by many people
outside of Nevada that fruit growing In
the "Sagebrush State" is practically
impossible, says writer in the Elko
Free Press. And indeed if the tourist
judges entirely by the outlook from the
car window, we can hardly blame him
for his mistaken idea. The railroad
passes through stretches of alkali and
sagebrush which certainly give no hint
of orchards in the valley beyond.
However, nearly every kind of fruit
can be grown in our State. The more
common varieties, such as apples,
peaches, pears, plums, berries, melons
and cherries are grown with COM
parative ease in all parts of Nevada.
1t may be said that the fruit crop this
year has been particularly good, the
farmers in many of our valleys being
unable to dispose of all the fruit they
raise.
In the mere northern counties. and in
the Carson Valley, late frosts make
the crops of the more delicate fruits un-
certain. Still in the western part of
the State and in Humboldt County,
nectarines, ounces and apricots are
raised successfully. Humboldt County
is considered, perhaps, the best fruit
growing section, generally speaking.
Lincoln County specializes in the pro-
duction of grapes. In the southern
part of the State, along the Colorado
river, the climate is warm, and oranges.
lemons, and other semi-tropical fruits
are produced in abundance.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-12-10
DISTRIBUTION OF SEEDS.
12,500 Packages Allotted to Each
Senator and Representative.

The annual distribution Of seed by
the Agriculture Department has begun,
and will continue until each of the
Senator'S and Representatives has re-
ceived his quota of $4,000 packages OF
vegetable and 500 packages of flower
seeds.
This seems like gigantic undertak.
ing and, to some extent, it is, and the
aggregate cost to the Government will
foot up s2500O0. The experts have
been busy since August collecting the
best varieties of all staple vegetables,
ranging from watermelons, musk
melons, cucumbers and the like, to the
finest kinds of peas and corn, and the
flower seeds.
This year the department has added a
number of new varieties to the usual
list aud has also sent out several new
kinds of fruits and vegetables never be-
fore grown in the United States. These
have been brought from all quarters OF
the globe, among them being date seed
that have been transported across the
desert of Sahara and mangoes from
India.
The department has divided the
United States into six sections and into
these will be sent only such seeds as
are peculiarly suited to each.
Hereafter Representatives and Sena.
tors will be given such seeds as the ex-
perts think will produce the best re-
suits in their sections.
There will be one exception to this
rule, however, in favor of Senators and
Representatives from the big cities.
For these the experts of the department
have prepared special set of packages
containing the seeds of flowers that will
bloom well in back yards, alleys and in
the window boxes of tenements and
schools. The first seeds are being sent
to the Gulf States, as the farmers and
planters there begin to put in their
crops in February. The States on the
Canadian border are the last served.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-12-10
Girls Guido Male HaZers.

As the result of an initiation of q
dozen young women into the Phil
Kappa Theta Society, q High School
secret body in Lafayette, Iud., one of
the girls is at the point of death and
four others are in state OF nervous
prostration. One by one the candidates
were led into q room, where the first
thing caught sight of was red hot
branding iron held by girl wearing a
heavy black mask. The victim was
held and ice was rubbed up
and down her spine, while her
head was wrapped in black cloth
To create the delusion that the victim S
flesh really was being scared, the hot
iron was held to a beefsteak and the
fumes were permitted to reach the
victims nostrils. The victims were
deceived completely and many of them
tainted. When they were revived
they were put through a second terrible
ordeal. Each candidate was shown a
plate filed with squirming angle worms
aud told she would have to eat them.
Then the girl was blindfo.ded and
while members of the order screamed
with delight she was fed hot macaroni.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-12-10
ON TRAIL OF SAFE THIEVES.
Checks Stolen from TuscarOra Saloon
Showing Up.

Free Press, Dec. 3: E. Todd's saloon
at Tuscarora, Elko County, was entered
on the night of Oct. 9. and the combins-
ton safe was relieved of about $500 in
cash and $3.50 in checks. The person
who took the money evidently knew
the combination, and as no such person
was known, and no other clue was had,
the affair was enveloped in mystery,
but it was kept quiet in order to give
the authorities every chance to learn
the identity of the robbers The
patient waiting of Mr.. Todd has
been rewarded, and foundation for
the officers to work on has been estab-
lished
Last Thursday a check was returned
from the Hiberinan Bank which had
been cashed for Weinstock, Lubin g.
Co., which had been sent the latter
firm for an order of dry goods. An
other check was cashed at the Eureka
County Bank.
Certain parties are now suspicioned
and the case will be pushed by the Of
ficers. When the parties who had the
checks cashed tell how they came into
their possession it will be easy to run
down the thieves. In the meantime
some sensational arrests are expected.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-12-10
JOY over First Baby in Camp.

A half holiday was announced at ali
the mines at Dillon, Wyoming, on Dec
/, and all the town celebrated on ac.
count of the birth to Mr.. and Mrs
Stanley Calkins Of the first babe ever
born in that camp. Dillon is about ten
years old, but is high on the crest of the
mountains, and very few wives follow
their husbands there. The Calkins re-
eeived many presents for their daughter
Miners who could find no suitable pres
ents at the general store, dumped mug.
gets into the dishpan and told the pa.
rents "to buy the first thing the kid asks
for when she gets big enough to talk. >
1t is estimated the presents have an in
trins;c value of over $1,000.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-12-10
HOi FOR THE WEST.

Tell your friends that the colonist
rates are going into effect March 1st,
1905. to expire May 10Th. 1905. The
rate from Chicago H., will be $S3 /;
Peoria, Ill.,. $31 st. Louis, Mo-, New
Orleans. La, $50; Council Bluffs, Ia,
Sioux City, Ia, Omaha, Neb., Kansas
City, Mo-. Mineola, Tex, and Houston.
Tex, $25. Rates apply to main line
points in Nevada and California. For
further information apply to Southern
Pacific Company Agents, or to
JOHN M. FULTON,
District Freight & Passenger Agent,
Southern Pacific Co., Reno, New,
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-12-10
Can't Get Teams at Phoebe.

The Pioche-Nevada Consolidated
Company is ready to begin hauling ore
from its mines at Phoebe, Lincoln
County, to the railroad. but the super
intendent informs Manager B. NJ
Cornish that he is unable to get teams
to do the work right now. There ID
such demand for horses and wheeled
vehicles of all descriptions by men
bound for the different camps on pros
pecting pilgrimages that the owners
are not willing to haul ore.-Salt Lake
Herald.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-12-10
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

Louis Estevez, Vice President of
Cuba. has resigned ON account of i'll.
health.
The steel bridge across Snake River
connecting Idaho and Oregon, was COM
pleted last week.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt
at West Point, Neb.. ON Dec. /. No
damage was done.
Andrew Carnegie has decided to give
$4,000 for the establishment Of two
branch libraries in Omaha, Neb.
The decrease from last year in the
attendance at Harvard College is 205.
The authorities attribute the decrease
to some extent to the increasing rivalry
of Western colleges.
San Francisco had string of sharp
earthquakes on Dec. 1. The first was
at o. m. and within i've minutes there
were three more distinct shakes, bui
none a. severe a. the first. No damage
| was done.
Former Congressman James r.
Young Of Philadelphia has been sp.
pointed Superintendent OF the Dead
Letter Office, to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of D. P. Leibhart las,
September.
The inauguration Of General Porfirio
Diaz as President of the Republic of
Mexico for the seventh time, and of
Senor Don Ramon Corral as First Vice
President. took place on Dec. in the
City of Mexico.
A project for applying the American
homestead system of free land for set
tiers in Siberia in order to attract colo
nization from the congested districts of
European Russia is under consideration
at st. Petersburg
Many railroads are planning to use
electric instead of steam power for their
light suburban trains, but the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific want to
substitute electric motors for their
heaviest freight engines.
Among the strange commodities
which the pygmies that came to the
St. Louis World s Fair are taking back
with them is 200 pounds of salt, an
article very difficult to obtain in Africa.
1t is used much in trading, and has a
high commercial value, five pounds of
salt purchasing a wife.
Two laborers. digging in ditch near
Skofde, Southern Sweden, last week
unearthed gold chains weighing 16
pounds and dating from 500 A. d. The
metal value of the find is S4S60. The
Government has offered the finders
$500 as it wants to include the chains
in the Government Museum.
Charles Hendricks, lion tanner. who
was badly lacerated by huge lion dur
ing an exhibition in San Francisco on
Nov 25, is dead. The accident
happened during dangerous trick. in
which the lion was made to jump
through paper hoop. The trainer
slipped and was attacked by the huge
beast.
The Oneida Community Company of
Oneida, N. Y, presented the pygmies
from Africa to the World Fair with 81
steel traps for catching wild animals in
their African homes. Heretofore the
only method of trapping has been the
primitive one, by stretching ropes of
fiber from tree to tree and waiting for
the animals to become entangled in their
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-12-10
Shipment of Quicksilver.

The w. A. Nelden Drug Company of
Salt Lake shipped car of quicksilver,
worth $1,000 to New York on Dec. /.
In the consignment were over $50 TASKS
of the metal, all but 64 TASKS of which
came from the Sacramento mine at
Mercur, Utah, where three retorts are
now running on the mercurial ores of
that property.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-12-10
STATE NEWS.

George, the 6-year-old son of George
B. Foust, died in Reno on Dec. of ap-
pendicitis.
The old Arlington House, at one time
the leading resort of the Comstock, is
to be removed to Goldfeld.
After lying idle for many months the
Duplex Company of Searchlight, Lin
coin County, has again resumed oper-
ations.;
Clint Eason's 3-year-old daughter
died at Edgemont, Elko County. of
diphtheria last week. Other cases
IF diptheria are said to exist there.
Percy Arnott, ayoung metallurgist of
Western Nevada, left Reno last Satur.
day for South Africa to accept position
with one Of the mining companies of
the Boer Republic.
Twenty.four cottages are being
erected at Caliente. Lincoln County.
by the railroad employees. In q short
time the now depot. round house and
ioe plant will be under way.
BY the first of the year the stamp
mills of this district. four in number,
sixty stamps in all, will be turning ont
a quarter of q million dollars month.
Lincoln County Searchlight.
A. w. dollhouse and Nora N. Ver-
plank and @. 8. Bailey and Victoria e.
Lofthouse, all Of Fallon, Churchill
Coonty. were the contracting parties at
o double wedding at Reno ON Dec. 1.
A total Of 822 carloads of cattle and
l09 carloads Of sheep was received at
Lovslock. during the month Of Novem.
bar. The stock win be fed In Hum.
boldt County for the California market.
-Lovslock Argus.
Frank Dorman died at Lovelock on
Dec. from injuries sustained by his
horse falling on him. He was a native
of Ireland, age II years. He was con.
spicuous on the Comstock in early days.
aud at one time was wealthy.
An Ogden employment agency sent a
number of men ''to work building a
tunnel" near Winnemucca last week,
and when the men got to that town
they found they had been buncoed out
of an Office fee and their railroad fare
The Panaca mine, located eight miles
north of Caliente, Lincoln County, is to
be equipped with a fifty reduction
works and cyanide plant in the very
near future. They are also going to
put on hoisting plant.-Salt Lake
| Herald.
Governor Sparks is arranging for
another shipment of thoroughbred
Herefords to the Sandwich Islands.
Contrary to expectations. cattle do well
in the warm section and particularly
the breed the Governor has made a
speciality of.
H. P. Thrall, superintendent in the
Railway Mail Service in the Nevada
division, has resigned to accept
charge of the mail service ON the Harri-
man railroads. Assistant Superinten-
dent A. H. Stevens has been promoted
to the vacancy.
George Maute, son of State Printer
Maute. was the original discoverer of
Masonic Mountain, near Bodie, Cal.
The boom there has bursted 1t seems
the ledge was nothing more than large
bowlder that gave high assays and the
prospectors went through it.-Virginia
Chronicle.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-12-10
SIX NEW NAIL CLERKS.
Department Increases Force Be-
tween Ogden and Reno.

Six additional mail clerks have been
added to the force on the Ogden. Reno
run.
This increase is the result of . protest
that was made several weeks ago by
the old employees who claimed that the
amount of mail handled between Ogden
and Reno has become so heavy that
they were overtaxed in handling it.
The matter was taken up by the
Postoffice Department officials for the
Coast and after an investigation it was
decided to increase the number of
clerks and improve the service.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-12-10
Bowel Complaint in Children.

During the summer months children are
subject to disorders Of the bowels which
should receive careful attention ~ soon -
the first unnatural looseness of the bowels
appears. The best medicine in use for
bowel complaint il Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as it
promptly controls any unnatural looseness
of the bowels, whether it be in child or an
adult. Sold By Mms a N. Schneideu Il Co.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-12-10
Death of J, L. Woods.

]. Lafayette Woods, died at the home
Of his parents in Glover Valley. Lincoln
County. on Nov. 2s of pneumonia, aged
"a years. He was the youngest child of
Bishop Lyman l.. Woods of Glover VAL
ley, and was a native of Lincoln
County. At the late election he was
the candidate for District Attorney on
the Republican ticket in that county.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-12-10
Largest Air Compressor on the Goa,

Largest Air Compressor on the Coast
The largest air compressor on the
Pacific Coast is to be installed at the
@. & O. In conjunction with the great
work Of unwatering the lower levels Of
the Comstock. The new machine win
be OF 300 horsepower, asd win b
driven by an electric motor OF the same
power.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-12-10
Chickens Die From Ptomaine.

Miss Bertha Drinkwater. living 80
miles from Weaverville. CAL, last week
opened jar containing corn which
had been prepared for the Winter. The
corn had the appearance of being
spoiled, and she threw the contents of
the jar ont to the chickens. In the
morning 40 of the barnyard fowls were
lying dead near the corn.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-12-10
To Exclude Chinese in Africa.

Although South Africa has plenty Of
native negro laborers the Chinese are
pouring in in such great numbers that
the people are becoming alarmed and
contemplate taking steps to exclude
them. They work so cheaply that they
are crowding the natives out of the dia-
mond fields and other places Of labor :.
1t is said the Chinese coolies are more
easily managed than the negroes.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-12-10

The scorching automobiles was
about to run over a group of Salvation
Army people who were holding q
meeting at street corner.
"What would be the use ?" he mutt
tered. "These people are prepared for
DEATH"
Whereupon he slowed up and passed
around dthem.-Chicago News.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-12-10
Beaifc LOiqe No. 7, <. Of P,

Meets every Tuesday evening at its Castle
Hall In the Smith 4 Rickard Building at 2
O'Clock, from October / to March 81. and as
7:So o'clock from April l to September 30
All Brother Knights In good standing are
Iraternally Invited to attend.
WILLIAM LAIRD. q. G.
Attest: 8. REYNOLDS X. Of r. rs.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-12-10
Z. c. c. Win tmore, egert.
LODGE DIRECTORY.
St. Johns Chapier No. 5.

The stated Convocations Of st. Johns
Chapter, No. 5, r. A. H., will be held at
Masonic Hall ON the Saturday next succeeding
this pale of the moon in each month.
II. c. McTERSEY, Ii. p.
J. ii. JURY, Secretary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08
WHITMAN KILLED,
Major of goth Kansas Lost Life
in Wreck.
Was on the Inflated Missouri
Pacific Flyer.

Major w. H. Whitman, who is men
toned in the dispatches as one of the
victims of the D. & r. G. wreck is I'M
doubtedly Captain F. H. Whitman of
the Second infantry U. S. A, who is
stationed at FIT. Logan, Col, and who
was formerly major in the Twentieth
Kansas in command of the Second bat
TALON being commissioned by Governor
Leedy on the 10th of May, 1898, and
mustered in the same date.
Captain Whitman started east sooner
than duties in connection with the east
ern army maneuvers would have war
ranted but the serious illness of his
father who is not expected to live
doubtless hurried his preparations, his
presence at his fathers bedside being
expected. ae> s.--.
AT the time Whitman received his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-08
oUAKER REFIECTToNs.

[From the Philadelphia Record.I
An uppercut-Having the hair trimmed.
Even the slowest horse may go fast
asleep.
The bow-Iegged man is apt to follow
his natural bent.
Some fellows have to get tight before
they will loosen up.
Some people deserve a lot of credit. and
others demand cash.
The lazier a fellow is the harder he tries
to work other people.
Somehow or other a bad temper never
wears out with constant use.
It's just as well to put off altogether
some of the things we might do today.
A dollar always looks bigger when you
pay it back than when you borrow it,
There is no reason why straitened cir
cumstances should make a man crooked.