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Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-01-21

Hicks-"I suppose you heard that our
house was robbedw Wicks-"Yes. l un:
derstand the way the thieves ransacked
the place simply beggared description
Hicks-"Not only that, but it very nearly
beggared me."-Philadelpbia Ledger.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-01-21
ANNA RBROW

Mrs. ]. NJ. Brown, Dun
negan Springs, NO..
writes:
my little daughter
three years old was trou-
bled with q very bad
cough which remained
after an attack Of ca
tarrhal fever. She has
taken one bottle CT Peru
ma through which she
has obtained a complete
cure. She is now as we'll
and happy as a little girl
can be. When ourfriends
say how we'll she looks l
tell them Peruna did it. "
In a later letter she
says: "Our little daugh-
ter continues to have
good health"
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-01-21

A man who cannot mind his own bust
aess is not to be trusted with the king s.
eaVille.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-01-21

"iodide of Potassium" 'How long was
ne sick !"-Cornell Widow.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-01-21

Silk. and satlns put out the kitchen fire
Poor Richard
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-01-21

The downward road is not 20 downy.-
Chicago Tribune.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-01-21

All creameries use butter color. Why
not do as they do-use June Tint Butter
1,olor
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-01-21
WEIGHT OF THE BRAIN.
Cerebral DEVELOPMENT Unerrinrlv
aad Distinctly Follows Differ
ing Lines ct work.

N. Mathlega, an anthropologist of
Prague, has just made some interesting
experiments with regard to the weight
of brain in different branches of the
community. Having first ascertaiued
that the male brain weighs on an aver
age 1,4O0 grammes, and the female brain
1000 grammes between the ages of 20
and 60, he has gathered the following
statistics, based on the study of the
brains of 235 persons, differing widely
in their occupation and intellectual cul-
ture:
Grammes
Workmen and unskiled laborers ,433
Porters guardians and " atchers. ...... i, 436
Mechanics ....................... !, 4oU
BUSINESS IHeH. 200
Physicians and profess rs...............1.5OC
The manufacturing or sale Of alcohol
ic drinks is not favorable to cerebral
development, Judging by the light weight
of the brains of brewers, saloonkeepers
and walters in cafes. The average
weight among this class is only 1,419
grammes, whereas it rises to l ,442 among
cabinetmakers, 1,446 among shoemak-
ers, and 1,447 among blacksmiths, lock-
smiths and other workers in iron and
steel.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-01-21

Capitalization has proved to be some
what unsatisfactory substitute for capital.
Puck
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-01-21

TT HE five room residence here illus
trated and described will cost
$1,000.
The size Of the rooms are:
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-01-21

To Cure q Cold in One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-01-21
Pe.ru.na Protects the Entire
Household Against Catarrhal
Diseases.

AS soon as the value Of Peruna
is fully appreciated by every
household, both as a preventive
and cure of catarrhal affections,
tens of thousands Of lives will be
saved, and hundreds Of thousands
of chronic, lingering cases Of dis
ease prevented. Peruna IL q
household safeguard.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-01-21
|PE=RU=NA PROTECTS THE LITTLE ONES
AGAINST Winter Catarrh In Its Many
Phases
Neglected Colds in Children
Often Bring Disastrous
Results,

Peruna should be kept in tho
house all the time.
Peruna should be kept in every
house where there are children.
Don't wait until the child Is
sick then send to a drug store.
Have Peruna on hand-accept no
substitute.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-15
WATSON AND r1BBLEs BUTTONS

The Independent has made arrange
ments to get some Watson and Tibbles
buttons, the button carrying photo
graph of both candidates, which it will
furnish to its readers at the following
rates:
l DuLtOn ~ CcntS
buttons 20 cents
70 buttons .................. Sl-VU
100 or more, each .....~....... 3 cents
The Independent advises parties or
dering these buttons to send along 81,
So, IS or $40 each for campaign ex-
penses if they want the work OF the
party to go on. The national commit
tee has received requests for nearly a
million copies of Watson's Cooper
Union speech, and hasn't money enough
to pay postage on a thousand, even II
it had the speeches already printed. II
you really believe in popullsm, put up
your money to back your words. The
most of the little money that has been
sent in. has come from the very poor.
Shame on you rich farmers and bust
ness men. Are you among those who
want the poor to bear all the burdens
while you bear none?
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-15

however, keep down expenditures to
any great degree, and the republicans
inherited legacy of overlaps that they
have been making up every since"
The. truth is. as every man knows
who has any knowledge at all about
the subject, that the populists instead
Of increasing the state debt by over
laps or in other way, reduced it in
your years $677. 093.10. Eli Perkins
could not beat, if he should try for
years, the News, and Eli was famous
in his day as the biggest liar on the
American continent.
But the News need not feel proud
over this feat and claim that 1t is the
champion liar of Nebraska, for there
are score Of other republican editors
who have been telling the same lie in
almost the same words. and having
been the first in the field, the News
can only claim the second place.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-15
TRUSTS "IRRKvoCABLy-
KsTABLIsHRD

kAll that Is necessary 10 "irrevocably"
establish the trust system according To
n recent dispatch. Is TO get II In such
powerful control OF things that IL Ii Is
interfered with or prosecuted In the
courts. financial panic will result
That In the position taken by Roosc-
welt rs detailed In special dispatch
In the Pioneer-Press. II appears that
~. II. Rogers racently visited the pres
ident. What occurred Is described as
follows:
'Ths president told the financler
that the administration had no lnten-
tion III running annex OF all the COM
hInatione that had been formed In re-
cent years. II was realized. he said.
that II suits were to be Immediately In
ftituted against all the corporations
whose legality under The latest decision
was open Co doubt. that financial
panic might ensmn."
The Morgan interview was widely
Published Ia the eastern press. but thla
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-15

Rogers interview was suppressed.
Shortly after these two interviews, the
Sun and Harpers Weekly Topped over
to Roosevelt, and Wall street quit
booming Parker.
&$&S>$&
There is on exhibition at the Worlds
fair at st. Louis telegraph mechan-
ism that sends 1000 words minute
over wires a thousand miles long. Yet
under the special privileges granted to
private telegraph companies in the
United States, the people are charged
Is cents for sending ten words ten
miles. The Independent has often
called attention to the fact that the
great telegraph companies refuse to
utilize any of the improvements in
telegraphy, for fear that public opinion
would force reduction in rates.. There
is no way of escaping the extortions
practiced by the corporations aside
from the populist way, namely, public
ownership.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-15
THE NEW YORK CANDIDATES

The populist state ticket in New
York has been made up with good
Judgment and great discrimination.
The candidate for governor is Alfred
J. Boulton of Brooklyn. Mr.. Boulton
is chairman of the Central Federation
Labor union, known as prominent
union labor man and has been in at
tendance at labor union conventions as
a delegate or officer for many years. He
was candidate on the fusion ticket in
1903 for county clerk of Kings county.
Other candidates, were chosen with
equal wisdom.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-15
S9.25 St Louis And Return 9.25

Via the Missouri Pacific. the worlds
fair route. on each Tuesday and Thurs
day In August and September
The Worlds Fair Special leaves
daily ut 4:3O p. m. Thee Is plenty
of room as II starts from Lincoln.
II has electric lighted coaches with
electric fans. and you can choose
from three fast trains from 81. Louis
10 return. All trains run via Kansas
City. Maps OF the fair. folders, etc.
at city once. cor. 18th and q atfeetA.
II. ID. CORNELL. Il. q n. A.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-15
POPULIsM A SUCCESS

Where ever populism has been tried,
either in this country or in other lands.
ii, has always proved great blessing
to the people Chicago's experience
with municipal electric lighting for
public purposes will be hard nut for
corporation statisticians to crack.
According to the report of the city
authorities the total cost of the aver
age number of arc lights in 1904
827-was $262,8S Under the system
of renting from private corporations
these lights would have cost $685.
1856. The saving, therefore, was $297,-
04S. Yet the city paid in wages from
Is to SO per cent more than the private
corporations. To have rented these
lights for the sixteen years of munich
pal ownership and operation would
have cost $3,S95,812, and the city
would now have nothing to show for
1t all except package of vouchers
and a memory of street lights that had
glimmered in the past. But under mu-
nicipal ownership and operation, liz
spite of high wages and Incidental
grating, the city has spent only So
720,099 ($175.713 less than the rentals
would have aggregated), and has tc
show for it besides memory OF
lighted streets lighting plant of its
own which has increased from a sys-
tenn of los lamps in 1887 to one of 1892
In 1909.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-15
SAME OLD KIND

That Carter Harrison's city council
in Chicago is the same sort OF thing
as the republican city councils all over
the United States that have been
stealing the streets and giving them
to private parties. In fact it is a lit
tie worse than the republican brand
for it has direct orders from the peo-
pie what to do and is proceeding to do
exactly what the people forbid 1t do
ing. A vote was taken in Chicago on
the following propositions with the re-
suit given:
shall the city council upon the
adoption of the Mueller law proceed
without delay to acquire ownership OF
the street railways under the powers
conferred by the Mueller law? The
vote: for. 121, 1857; against, 50,S07.
"Shall the city council instead of
granting any franchises proceed at
once under the city's police powers
and other existing laws to license the
street railway companies until NUM-
cjpal ownership can be secured and
compel them to give satisfactory serv-
ieeo. The vote: for, 120, 1863; against,
4S,oOO.'
With the above staring them in the
face the Chicago city council is en-
gagged in passing city ordinance that
would give the traction company rights
and privileges and earning powers
never dreamed of in traction legisla-
fion in Chicago before 1t would take
away by contract the general powers
OF the city to regulate street cars. 1t
would entrench the traction companies
In the streets for all time and sound
the deathknell of municipal ownership.
That is what the Carter Harrison
democracy is doing for Chicago. 1t Is
same old thing and always will be.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-15

to be looked upon before. Now the
empress goes through the streets in
chair and even bows to acquaintance.
She gives tea parties to the ladies OF
the foreign legations two or three times
week. 1t is said that the empress has
chosen Mrs. Conger, wife of the Amer
lean ambassador, as her special adviser
and that Mrs. Conger has been given
free entrance to- the palace at all hours
day or night. Mrs. Conger is an en-
thusiastic Christian Scientist.
& &$&$$$&
The republicans made desperate Ell
forts in Vermont to increase their
vote and it all resulted in failure.
They sent the speaker of the house,
representatives, senator's and other
spellbinders by the score into the state
and during the last week held over 2Oo
meetings and did not poll as many
votes as they did in 1896 by 5,20b,
nor as many as they did IN 1900. The
Icause of the increase in their majority
was that the democrats. disguised With
Parker, did not go to the polls. The
lesson taught by the vote in Vermont
| is that the people there are disguised
with both old parties, for with all the
strenuous efforts put forth, even some
of the republicans would not vote. II
there had been a peoples party ticket
in the field the figures would look very
| different.
S>.>s>>S>&
The Lincoln Star quotes prominent
democrat as saying "As 1t Is, Wat
son will be the cause OF the defeat OF
the democratic ticket and In my opin-
lion the democratic state committee
doesn't care" Well. we are inclined
TO think that that is about the way II
| is.
$>&>$>&S
Tom Watson Is spending hundreds
Of dollars that come out 81 his own
pocket. and the other candidate ON the
\ national ticket what little he can rake
together. without hope Of reward or
prospect OF Office. aud there are thou
sanda OF other popullsls, rich In this
worlds goods. who have so far not con-
lrlhuted a cent toward paysng tho cx-
pensna az the campaign. II IL enough
10 make preacher swear whenever
one thinks Of Il.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-15
A HOST OF TRAITORs

The strike in the packing houses at
Chicago and elsewhere, where ever
the meat trust controls. has been q
failure The strike was humanitar-
ian move on the part of the union to
get living wages for the common Ia
borers, who on account of being en-
ployed irregularly were only able to.
get about a dollar a day. The unions
have a very serious future awaiting,
them. There is well planned cam
paign inaugurated against them by the
rich which has I'M view the destruction
of unionism in the United States. The
rich have in their favor the govern
ment, the courts and the army and the
wage earners have only their bare
hands The contest is very unequal.
There is only one weapon in the hands
of the working people that is at all
effective and so far they have refused
to use it. If the trusts and corpora
tions had any fear that they would use
Lit, they would never have organized for
the destruction of the unions. That
weapon is the ballot. The labor unions,
like the peoples party, have been full
of traitors for the last few years. Most
Of the men that both of them have
raised to leadership and high office
have betrayed and deserted them as
soon as they thought that there was
profit in so doing. The populists, by
great sacrifice aud cost. elected sem
ator after senator and they all, with
the exception OF Senator Allen, de-
serted and went over 10 the democrats
or republicans. Two of these senators
are today working In the republican
ranks and the rest OF them are with
the democrats. Labor and popullsm
have had n host of traitors.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-09-15

The reports that have reached the
United States. some coming Via Russia.
and some from Engllah aud American
residents I'M China, concerning the
wonderful change In the character OF
the cmprosa Of China are all the time
being corroboratcd. The empress has
allowed her portrait 10 be painted sew.
eral timea and OF late has been pho
tographed. -his Is la direct contra
dlctIon 10 all cuatoms ~ China run
ming back Tor s.O00 years. No empress
or emperor Of China was ever allowed
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-08-13
Ancient sky.craper..

Numerous conflicting estimates have
been made of the height of the tower
of Babel, but one fact never has been
denied. and that is that it was sky
scra;,er. St. Jerome, in his commen-
tary on Isaiah, says that the tower
was already 1000 PAGES high when God
cam" down to stop the work. A pace
is as'nat s1s feet; therefore 1000 PAGES
mus be 10000 feet; consequently Ba-
bel was 90 times as high as the Pyra-
mid (which are only about 500 feet).
Fat er Calmet says the tower was ST.
600 ct high, and that the languages
wer. confounded because the archi-
tecis were confounded. as they did
not i;now. how to bring the building
to a head. Moreover, it is understood
that the Chinese language of to-day
was originally the same language as
the high German.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-08-13
dERBINE.

Renders the bile more fluid and thus
helps the blood to flow; ita ffords prompt
relief from billousness, indigestion. sick
and nervous headaches, and the over in
diligence in food and drink. Herbine
acts quickly, dose after meals will bring
the patient into a good condition after
few days.
G. L. Caldwell, Agt. NJ. K. and T. R.
R., Checotah, Ind. Ter, writes April IS,
1908: "I was sick with enlargement of
the liver and spleen. The doctors did
me no good and I had given up all hope
of being cured, when my druggist advis-
ed me to use Herbine. It has made
me sound and we'll" soc. Sold by Gra-
ham & Wortham.
For Sale Cheap.
Two pianos, in perfect tune and good
condition, at,
Blackledge's.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-08-13
AN HONEST PORTER.
ae Helped himself to a Tip OF Ten
Dollars for Being Accommoda-
ting and Honest.

IL -
"The tip-exacting Pullman car por.
ters are the recipients of good
many knocks from press and public.
but they are not the worst IN the
world remarked a commercial trav-
elur ito a Washington Star man.
'hey may have pretty fierce way
q cTlhng for tips, but when it comes
TO the matter OF honesty know one
of them that's there with the goods,
as the saying goes. ,.
Il left San Francisco, or, rather,
Oakland, on the Santa Fe line for
Chicago at o'clock ia the evening
couple of weeks ago last Sunday
Theugang; that / met in Frisco had
been rather too enthusiastic in giy-
ing me, a good time of it out there
on the day of my departure, SO that
when I woke up on the train along
toward Z O'Clock the next morning
the sleeper bunk felt pretty warm
and my coppers a whole lot warmer.
The nearest, in fact, the first stoE
at which would have a chance toEf1
those hot coppers out was MoiaYe.
and SO I hustled into my clothes to
be ready to hop off the train dufing
the. stop at Mojave for one of those
katzenjammer al1eviators.
81 asked-the Pullman conductor
how long the train would stop at
Mojave, and he replied that. the stop
would last ten minutes. I raced into
the station cafe when the train
pulled into Mojave, and Instructed
the man in charge of the bar to rig
me up one of those long. long damp
things Hewent at the Job in ipret-
ty scientific manner, and the piece of
wet work that he set before me was
rare thing to find right alongside
of the California desert. It was such
a fine and effective creation, in fact,
that, I asked him to frame up an
other one, and I got away with this
with equal joy. Then 1eisurely
strelled to the door to take look
at my train-and saw the end of, it
curling away in the ,rarefed distance
on its way toward. the land of the
rising sun 1t had pulled out witiio
notifying me. l. hustled into, the
ticket office to ask the man in the
window when I'd be able to corral
another eastbound train, and he said
that it 'ud be along at 8 o'clock the
next morning-the mate to the train
that had departed without me; there
was only one of the overland ex-
presses per diem-. So there I saw my
self stuck in Mo1ave, Cal, the most
miserable little sand dune on the
globe, for full twenty-four hours.
"Buti that wasn't the worst of it.
I had left my Gladstone bag wide
open on my bunk, with my wearing
apparel thrown around the section
every which way, and in. the bag I
had placed. on the night before, 5000
in gold, coin. the stuff being top
heavy to carry around in my pockets
with any comfort.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-08-13
Citation.

In the County, Court of the State OF Oregon.
For the County of Benton.
In the Matter of the Estate'e1
VIM. F. Byer, deceased.
To W. F. Dyer and Rilla A., Abrams, heirs
and deviseesof VIM F. Byer, deceased. =.
Greeting: In the name Of the STATE CT Ore
required to appear i'll the County court os the
State of Oregon for the County OF BehIon, at The
Court Room thereof as Corvalits, Oregon, on
Saturday. the 10Th uay Of Sepiemb=r, 1904, at IL
o'clock in the forenoon OF that day, then and
there to show cause. if, any you have, whYan
order of sale should not be made as prayed for
in the petition of W. N. Afford, administrator
of said estate of VIM. f. .Byer, deceased, of the
following described real property towit: Lots
number Z, s, and 8 in block. numbered in
Hausman's Addition to the City of North
Brownsville, Linn Comfy, oregon; Lot NUM-
bered Sin block numbered 10 in Riverside adj
dltion. to Albina, now within the City Of Port
land, Mutnemah County. Oregon: And Lotnum
bered %, in block numbered 5, ip Hyde Park,
Washington County, Oregon, ~
And you are further notified that this citation
is served upon yon and each of you. by pub.
licatton thereof in the Corvallis Times news,
paper for iour weeks. under an order made by
esHon. Virgil E. Waters, judge OF said Court,
bearing date July 30th 1904. - -
Witness: = The HomtVirgil E. sWatters. Judge
of the County Court Of the State of Oregon. for
the County of Benton, with the Seal Of said
Coust affi xed this 30th day of July, 1901. --sa
:''' VICTOR P. MOSES,
ByJ,F. Irwin, Deputy. !, :, =
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-08-13
e. E, WHITE.
REAL ! ESTATE Co:
Are you looking, for a Home
Or a good Investment?

If so wetake pleasure in showing you
over the country and are confident we
can give you the right price ON somes
thing will suit you. ~.
We have tracts from S to, I5oo acres.
We have Fruit lands, Hop lands, Farm
lands, Poultry ranches, Stock ranches
and Timber lands Ranging in price
from 81 to Sf25 per acre all owing to 1oI
cation and Improvements. ::
We also have nice list of city proper
ty.' Lots from $75 TO $500 each. Resi-
dences from $3.50 to $1,000 each according
to location and improvements we also
have some good business locations. .
Offices first door south Of reading room.
White & Stone, Corvallis Or.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-08-13
Bellfountain Notes.

Bellfountain Notes.
Bsrn to Mr.. and Mrs. w. A.
Pool, SOD.
The little daughter of Henry
Lamb has been quite sick, but ia
improving.
Quite number from this yicini-
ty expect to pick hops this year as
the price promises to be good.
From three acres of fall wheat
threshed for S. A. Tharp, he receiv-
ed 1O6 bushels.
Henry French, of Corvallis, is
canvassing this part of Benton, to
|see what be can gather for the ex.
position at Lewis and Clark Fair.
Harold Waggoner, of Eugene, is
spending a few weeks with his aunt
Mrs. Hall.
A drove of goats passed through
this place this week, enroute to Al.
sea.
Last winter seems to have served
as lesson to ranchers by the way
they are rustling for straw. Some
can hardly wait until the grain is
threshed before commencing to
haul
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-08-13
E. r. Bryson,.
:
.Attor7aey-At -ZaW.
Reduced Round Trip Rates Ae-
count Worlds Fair.

First class tickets on sale June
16, II, 1S, July 1. 2, 8. August
s, 3, 10, Sept 5. 6. Z, Oct. 5, 4, 5,
Corvallis to St. Louis and return,
good go 0'days with stop over priv
ileges at rates ranging from $67 80
to $3.50 according to route chos-
en-. Passengers will have privilege
of starting on any date which will
enable to reach destination within
ten days from the sale date. In
quire at Agent Southern Pacific
Co.
The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-08-13

By J. Z. Irwin, Deputy.
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