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The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1904-10-27

at that time, and for the first time
in about IS years. Now the fac, is
that on the very day, May, !, 1904,
when this statement was made
showing $a4,sSs IS balance in the
treasury there was rot to exceed
$ra, ooo.o in the treasury. How
do knowl Because on that very
day the Clerk made the following
report TO the Court:
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1904-10-27
WORTH ATTENTION.
Bates County Finances.
A Forty-Three Thousand Dollar
Surplus Reduced In five
Years to Nothing

We print below a detailed state
ment showing the status of Bates
county finances on the Ist day of
May, 1899, and each year thereafter
to the Ist day OF May, 1904. The
figures are as follows. and are sub
mitted for the inspection Of all those
interested.
Amount IN treasury a. the beeinning
Of the year which ended May Isl,
iss9 .---- ..-----.- --..--..--..-a.-.- Sts,7S1 90
AnOuns collected during the yesr.. 4o.ilI ~
Totai- - FSgos 50
Less amount paid on, during the year 4s,iOI 70
Balance May !, 1900 .sot 20
Colsdei during the ysat~ ss.766 oS
Total. S7t.s7o e
tsss amount paid ou,during The Year-..~. CAV 81
BaI IN Treasury May 1, O1.as,ISs 81
Collected during yI,stS IS
1Otal.~--. .----..-. Ss2,33i ts
Les amount paid 90, during ear-sss96 %
Bal In Treasury May 1. 'OssS.S5t &C
Colseto5 during %
ofAl-.-.--.-...a--- .---..-..-. SeLoSs ~
Les amt paid ous dsripg $500 IS
bal In Treasury May L. 'O3 .-aT,ss1 %
Colee'ed during ysar-.....-. ....--..-.... ssyto So
oai-----.---------.- .--.-.--to7sy7b %
Less amt. paid out during ysaf----t1,7si q
Bal In Treasury May 1, 20 a4 SIS 90
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1904-10-27
County Ticket.

For Representative,
GEORGE CHURCH.
For Treasurer.
]. II. DOUGLAS.
For Sheriff,
Y b. N
For Prosecuting Attorney,
GEORGE
For Coroner,
c. b. COLSON.
For Judge North District,
GEORGE b
For Judge South District,
JOHN
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1904-10-27
State Ilcket.

For Governor.
CYRUS P. WALBRIDGE.
For Lieut.. Governor,
Ohm c. MCKINLEY.
For Secretary Of State,
JOHN E.
For State Auditor,
HENRY wEILDER.
For State Treasurer,
JACOB GMELICH.
For Attorney General,
HERBERT S. HADLEY.
For Railroad and Warehouse
Commissioner,
A WIGHTMAN.
Electors at Large,
NJ. JONES,
D. NJ. HOUSER.
For Congress,
]. FRED RHODES.
For Circuit Judge,
CHAS. A. DENTON.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-12-08

Beautiful line Of pillow tops at Miss
Williams.
Roderick has plenty of celery, lettuce
and spinach.
Ordway has a 81 tenement to rent on
Spring street.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-12-08

Isabella $40 90 HOO 1880 l5
hat Muhs and Fox 81
zoo o. 500
each
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1904

Is only about two weeks away, and it IS "high tir
lat we were collecting our Christmas GIFTS
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-12-08

oarne Christmas Hndhehs this and the best stock
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-12-08
TRADE LOCALS.

Inquire of Il. D. Patterson for small
ent, over Depot store.
Hogs head cheese at A. X. Jewett's.
Girls gold watch given free at W. +.
Robbins store.
Saws filed right. Years of experience.
E. F. Russell, Russell street.
Jewett & Pennell sell twenty pounds
of good corned beef for one dollar.
Geo. E. Morrill, is sole agent for Mar
shalrs Saratoga chips. Stock fresh
every week. (3w)
Sea Weed Pickles, sometimes known
as "poor mans Olives are sold at Rod
eriek's market.
No kind of cooking too plain and none
too fancy for clown Talk" fiour; for
sale by Steward Bros.
Weymouth reports good horse blank
ct trade. His stock is complete and prices
right; it will pay you to call and look
over his stock. (2w)
A desirable seven room house with
stable and large garden situated on Tur-
ner Ave. for rent; house In thorough re-
pair and heated by hot water. Only a
permanent tenant need apply. c.
Griffin.
II you want a fine job of painting or
vanishing on your carriage or sleigh
that will stay on, it is we'll known what
+. P. Moore can do and you take no
chances if you employ him either In
work or price Take your work in early
and avoid having it done in a hurry as
hurried work implies imperfect work.
n. B. All kinds of repairing attended
TO. If
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-12-08
aEw ADVERTISEMENTS.

Free-W. f. Robbins.
Useful-W. Il. Wildes.
Caution-J. II. Murray.
500 Farms-S Il. swain.
Fur Coats-I. A, Norton.
Young Memo. Ward,
For Sale-W. b. Whittier.
Reduction-L. NJ. Withee.
Practically. B. Steward.
Christmas-D. F. Judkins.
For Ssle-W H. lockwood.
Trimmed Hats-Miss Lord,
Settle ment-W. b. Whittier
Attractive-F. W. Bucknam.
Bargains-J. N. q |. j. Smith.
Handke rchiefs-W. P. Ordway.
Annual Meeting-Geo. n. Page.
Annual Meeting-James Fellows.
Announcement-F.W w. Bucknam.
Talking Machine. ID Symons.
Steers Wanted-F. T Palmer Co.
Large Assortment-M. B. Il selton,
Clearance Sale-Bridgham q Seekins.
Notice of First Meeting-Daniel Lewis.
Daily and Weekly-Argus Publishing 90.
Unclaimed Deposits-Skowhegsn Savings
3Rnk.
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Christmas Ribbons at Miss Williams.
Boys gold watch given free at Rob-
bins iewelry store.
Try Swans Down chips of halbut at
A. r. Jewett's market.
W. II. Wides will open his stock Of
Christ mas goods, next week.
The Blunt Hardware Co. are Offering
exceptional values In pocket knives, ra-
zors, safety razors and shears.
Let US frame your picture. We take
out all of the wrinkles and use a new
kind of backing that will not stain the
picture aud ask you no more.
BRAGG q VARNEY.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-12-08

A clothing store was burned in Rum
ford Falls, Saturday, causing a loss of
$4,000. The store and contents were
well insured
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-12-08
Handkerchiefs for the Ladies'
and Children.


black Scarfs at 81 co.
Scarfs $780, $50
Sable and Isabella Scar $3.50 100 $50 co.
co. HOO sable Isabella Wolf Soarf at
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-12-08
Chase's Carriage Repair Shop.

All kinds of Carr age repairing done at
very short notice. Prices and work
guar nteed to be satisfactory.
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Toe each, fer 25c.
One lot 9ne all linen, grass bleached, hemsthched
Hdkfs,, l0c 3 for 25o
One large lot of the best fancy Hdkfs YOU ever
at the price, all styles and kinds, for 25c
One large. well assorted lot of embroidered and
lace trimmed Hdkfs., handsome enough To please
any one, 25c each.
A choice assortment of fine embroidered and lace
edge Hdkfs, at Soc 75c, 81 o0, 80 and 81 IS each.
Plain all linen, hemstitched Hdkfs at l2fc, l5c,
25c and 35c each
Ladies' all linen, hemstitched initial Hdkfs 25c
each.
MuffIeTs.
Dark Plaid Cashmere Mufflers, 25c each.
Dark Silk and Wool Plaid Mn tflers, soc each.
Handsome white and black Brocade silk Muifiers
at soc, 75c, 81 co. %, so and 81, 90 each
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-16
CALIFORNIA; TRADE OUTLOOK
By Arthur r. Briggs MANAGER Board OF Trade

0HE Importance of looking well
after the trade of San Francisco
with the Orient is emphasized by
Il a consideration of the conditions
in the State. California is pro-
ducer and large one and must Of
necessity look to foreign markets for
tho distribution of many of her prod
ucts. A few years ago this matter was
not as important as now, because a
great portion of the export trade from
here was made up OF wheat which
went to the English markets. Under
the decline in wheat growing and the
larger production of flour than In for
mer years, new markets must be Sc
cured. Under the stimulus of necessity
for manufactures, manufactured prod
ucts have become more general in this
State and these must find markets out
side of our own State. Notwithstanding
the fact that we are already producers
to a very considerable extent in excess
of local demand, the effort is continu-
ally put forth ON all hands to increase
the population of the State from the
class that become producers. 1t tAere-
fore must be clear to any one who con-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-16

cident; or on the position that she
would gain as the chief commercial ma
ton of the world. Evidently not. or
she would be over there. in a flash
prying about and making it her chief
business in life to investigate the pos
sibilities and to negotiate right then
and there to supply a certain amount
of goods-and goods, by the way, that
she never even so much as dreamed
were used in that part of the globe.
The rivalry between foreign and home
manufacturers has always been of the
l1eenest, but in this particular case. one
is lying low and making hay while the
sun shines, while the other is steadily
increasing business at home and push
ing vigorously ahead on the European
continent.
Cosmopolitan San Francisco's water
front is being enlarged and strength
ened every day and the trade that
comes to her Pc is immense and val
liable, but it is not what one might
easily think 1t. Every Oriental vessel
that docks carries a human cargo Of
foreigners all clamoring and eager to
be landed on American soil and to take
up their residence in this city. or Little
China, as ii has been dubbed by amazed
visitors.
That the Fasteners are willing and
ready to do business with us has been
recently demonstrated in very
forcible and convincing manner.
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siders matters at all in a thoughtful
way that 1t stands the merchants OF
San Francisco as we'll as the pro-
ducers to use every possible effort
to encourage and foster and en-
large the trade with foreign countries.
What California can produce few even
of those who have made the most care
full study of 1t have any conception
1t is not alone the agricultural and
horticultural products that we need
but 1t is the growth of manufactures
of various kinds, and who knows what
these may develop? With the climatic
conditions, with cheap fuel and with
abundant labor and with every con-
dition favorable to manufacturing, why
should not this State become a large
producer of the goods which Eastern
countries demand?
One of the advantages that the great
expositions of the world develop Is
trade competition with different parts
of the world. Through the exposition
which is now in progress in st. Louis.
California is being brought TO the at
tention of various countries, and In
whatever we excel, whether IL be In
raw products or manufactured goods.
other countries will endeavor to COM
pete with us. 1t therefore stands Cali
fornia In hand to do everything that
can be done not only to maintain it's
present commercial position. but to
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-16
OPENING to the SOUTH
By E. HI. Comey

ulated by the accessibility afforded to
visit the different places. No obstacle,
however, is so great as that which
has to be overcome by high passenger
rates. With moderate transportation
rates, the immense mineral resources
o: the States OF Sonora and Sinaloa
would call for capital and mining ma
chinery to be furnished by California.
The agricultural resources of the
States of Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan,
Guerrero, Oaxaca and Chiapas would
furnish the markets of San Francisco
with tropical fruits, dyes, gums, hard
woods, coffee, cocoa, vanilla, ETC.,
which are indigenous to the soil, but
are uncultivated, as cultivation never
is undertaken unless there be some
prospect of economical transportation.
Business has increased between
Mexico and the United States ia per
cent in ten years. but the exports be-
tween San Francisco and the west
coast OF the southern coast have re-
manned at standstill during the same
period.
Mexico exports 100000 pounds of
coffee to the States. OF this amount
81. 800 pounds come to San Fran
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-10-16

Two years ago II. ]. Rosen-
crantz and J. ]. Keegan, per-
haps better known as The Irishman
and the Jew" sailed away to capture
the East all hands down. They figured
10 do it principally by means of ready
Irish wit, shrewd Jewish calculation
and jolly American companionship-a
combination difficult to beat. 1T is
true there were eight trunks packed
snugly with samples in the hold of the
ship, but there was precious little
money TO Jingle in their pockets, and
samples are not filling when the
stomach is empty and crying Justify
for satisfaction.
Honolulu was their first victim, and
so we'll did they convince the mer-
chants that they wanted precisely
what those sample trunks contained
that a week saw them bag and bag
gage on their way to China with a
contented smile and a cheerful click
of silver and gold. For nine months
they wrestled with the willy Chinese
as the advance agents of civilization
and prosperity. and then came home
to open up larger deals with mer-
chants, so that they would be enabled
to supply the trade with anything
from an elephants nursing bottle to
a dozen locomotives for the Trans
Siberian Railway.
Round the United States they went.
trying to persuade the conservative
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1t is better in the long run TO take time
and learn the language, for then there
is good faith on both sides and the sale
is virtually made.
my list Of dos and 'don'ts' IS very
small, but If the business men would
give up some Of their long, tiresome
conferences and pay attention to them
they would have all the business they
could handle. They are just this:
Il. Don't send out catalogues print
ed in English. The customer can't
read them and nobody else will take
the trouble to.
"2. Don't send letters to Consuis.
More than half Of them don't under
stand the knack of getting trade and
they are too busy to take time to an
sWer letters and petitions.
49, Don't trust to an interpreter.
Try yourself. for you can sell almost
anything with samples and personal
solicitations.
"a. Don't fill orders at all unless you
can do 1t properly.
80. Don't pack goods in anything but
tin-lined boxes. Remember the ship
ment may be damaged in transit and
that you will be held responsible.
"6. Do make up your mind to give
people exactly what they want"
That the field for trade is immense
cannot very we'll be denied. for a
country that contains more than one
half the people of the earth naturally
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customer is pleased and sends in large
orders, but somehow or other he is
10th to depart from his own methods
of shipping and packing, and so loses
trade that would in all probability
amount to hundreds of thousands Of
dollars to him.
The Germans and the English do
not consider any order too much trou-
BILE. They are in business to sell, and if
a customer wants an order shipped in
boxes that entails a few cents more
expense they charge 1t up to profit and
loss and trust to luck to get a bigger
order next time. And, rest assured,
they get it, for when a firm orders a
thing and Is willing to pay good
price for it 1t intends having it, and if
1T cannot get it one place it will go
elsewhere.
why Americans imagine they can
send out twenty-SeVen-inch goods
when thirty-siX has been explicitly Or
dered is beyond me, yet they do it right
along and expect to build up a trade
in that way. That material Is not only
useless to the consignee. but 1t makes
him very skeptical as to American bust
ness ability and honesty
1.-The few firms that have sent men
to the Orient have made a mistake in
trusting to the honesty of the inter-
prefer The only way to do business
with any foreigner is to do it direct.
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cisco; but to connoisseurs the Colima
end Uruapan coffees are unrivaled.
Honduras and Costa Rica are able to
support line of weekly steamers
from New Orleans by shipping
bananas, which we are enabled to buy
on the streets for 20 cents dozen after
paying a five days water freight and
transcontinental railroad freight.
The same fruit could be shipped from
San Bias and Manzanillo were there
steamer line that would carry them.
Moses Taylor of New York made his
huge capital out of the forests of Vera
Cruz and Tabasco, while those on the
Pacific coast are barely touched. 1t
will be stated that there are not
enough bananas under cultivation on
the Pacific coast for expectation. 1t
is quite true, but it is also true that
the Guinea" banana, so highly es-
teemed for its flavor and shipping
qualities, does grow on this coast; but
who will invest in plantations without
calculating first the possibility of
transportation facilities?
With the completion of the Manzan-
lilo and Guadalajara road, which now
lacks but a few miles; with the har-
Dor improvements and wharfage facil-
tiles now about completed at Manzan-
lilo, San Francisco will be in direct
communication with the State of ia
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lisco. of one million inhabitants, whose
wants are at present supplied by Chi
cago and New York.
Providing that the merchants of Sar
Francisco are willing TO furnish such
goods as the market demands, and not
insist upon the natives adopting their
own tastes and will follow instructions
as to packing, and send down, not the
loud-mouthed story telling, free and
easy drummer, but a sober, broad
minded man, accurate but unassertive,
very large increase of San Francis
cos export business may soon be ex-
pected.
An important fact to be remarked is
this: In all shipments to the south 1t
will be seen that the amounts to Cen
trail American ports are much larger
than those that are consigned to Mex
leo. This is explained by the fact that
all the shipments to and from Central
America are by way of the sea, where
as Mexico sends eighty times more by
land than by water.
If Germany can afford to send cotton
prints, hardware, musical Instruments
and SO forth. around by way of the
Horn, over $4,000 miles to the Pacific
ports of Mexico, will it not benefit her
t. use the Panama canal to the detri-
ment of this State, and will she not
avail herself of the opportunity, which
is so freely offered to her by prohi-
bitlVe freight and passenger rates?
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TT is just about time that America
was sitting up and taking notice.
Ordinarily no one could accuse her
of being far behind the times. but
when it comes TO trading with the
Orient, she makes her bow. takes a
back seat and permits even the baby
nations of the world TO take the enor-
NOUS trade which by right should be
hers.
II seems strange when one stops 10
think OF il that the United States fig
ures so insignihcantly in this particular
line Of business. Every year of the
world the Orient buys produce that
amounts 10 fully $4,000. 600. 900. but by
FAR the greatest portion of this sum
goes TO England. Germany and France
In fact, anywhere but where il should
80 and the fault lies entirely With the
American manufacturer and his agents.
Instead Of waking UP and Investigating
the cause of lack of commerce. he calm
ly and serenely goes on his way SELL
ing 10 other markets whose entire trade
would not be a patching to that of ia
pan. China, India and Siam once il
was opened up and got into first
class running order.
Perhaps America does not realize
what q monopoly OF Eastern commerce
would mean. Evidently she has not
figured on the millions of dollars that
would pass from the Orient TO the Oc-
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compete with the worlds products in
whatever market they are consumed.
1t must be clear 60 all thinking persons
that articles of merit, whatever they
may be, can be placed in almost any
market, and even though the people
to which her products are offered at
first use them in moderate quantities.
once the merit and prices are established
those markets will continue TO grow
and are likely to develop into large pro-
portions.
San Francisco Is to-day the recog-
nized metropolis OF the Pacific Coast,
but any lack OF energy. enterprise or
determination on the part OF the mer-
chants OF this city will be taken ad-
vantage Of by other cities on the coast.
and once this business is established
IN these other competing cities, San
Francisco will find IL difficult to ac-
quire 1t. The principal towns at the
north and south OF us are constantly
putting forward efforts for the extern
sion of trade. and there is no reason
TO think that any indifference or lack
or energy on our part will not be taken
advantage of by them. IL must there
fore be apparent to all that the ques-
ton OF how best 10 enlarge the for
eign trade from this port and to main
tain that which we now have Is one
which should be constantly kept IN
mind.
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Eastern manufacturers that all China
needed was development and that
any one who would devote a little
time to the interests of this new buyer
could build up a colossal trade in little
or no time. They knew of what they
were speaking, for they had been over
the ground carefully and systemat-
ically.
Some firms more venturesome than
the rest went back to first principles
nothing ventured, nothing gained
and sent out samples of everything
they carried in stock. But on the
other hand, some were afraid of the
proposition, and were satisfied to
dillydally in safer, tried-out fields.
That failed to ruff1e the calm Of the
advance agents, and when they sailed
again they carried with them sixty
odd trunks, and had others meet them
in China, SO that by the time they
were -eady to invade India they car
ried one hundred and four pieces of
luggage and never failed to create the
impression that they were anything
short Of a travelling circus.
Business" said RosencrantZ, us
just what one is a mind to make it.
It's easy to sell and it's easy to buy,
but one must conform with the rules
of that country. For instance, the
Chinese are queer about their ship
ments. They want everything packed
in tWoS-two watches, two umbrellas,
two chairs-and unless they come that
way they are not pleased, and some
times refuse to receive the goods. In
Singapore and about that district they
want goods in pairs-say, two, four. six
or ten. Now it really ought not to
make any difference to the man who
supplies these materials, so long as his
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nHE present outlook for encourag-
ing trade and business relations
with Mexico. Central and South
u American trade offers a perspec-
tive that IL has never enjoyed before.
To illustrate what amount Of bust
ness is done on the west coast from the
pert Of San Francisco, let us take a
few figures, say from ten years back.
In 1894 there was sent out by water to
different parts Of the world, merchan-
disc 10 the value of $26. $4,000. OF this
amount s.. $40, 200, or, say, Is per cent.
was distributed along the coast OF Mex
Eco and Central America. At that time
the Hamburg line Of steamers was but
at the beginning Of its operations.
hence with the exception of the one
steamer belonging TO the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company, the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company carried the whole
freight
The fare from San Francisco is
about 3 cents a mile Ga trifie oyer) 10
Psnama-thst is TO say, approximately
3lo5. From San Francisco to New
York. by way Of Panama, the fare is
sl2e' SIS more for 1900 miles addi-
tional
Commercial developments are slim