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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-05
FEW FACTS FOR FARMERS.
Sheep and Hens and Wool and Eggs
and Their Relation to Tariff
Legislation.

The insignificance of our sheep and
wool industry is seen wien compared
with GU poultry and egg industry.
While the total value of u wool prod
uct last year was only $5S, us 1913, that
of our egg product was Sac, 900, 900 in
1899 and probably 5000, 000, 900 last year.
The value of the 81, O0O, 900 dozens of
eggs laid in Ohio in 1899 was over $10,-
100000, while the value of the IL, 1920, 900
pounds OF wool produced there was only
$3,l34,208, and yet Ohio is by far the
largest wool-growing state east of the
Rocky mountains. If Ohio sheep could
be made to produce as much value as
do Ohio hens the protectionists there,
from GroSvenor down, might be excused
Tor doing more cackling than do all the
hens in that state.
Even the value of poultry killed for
food is $780, 900 900 a year, or 21s times
the value of u wool products.
In view of these facts, why is there so
much fuss and feathers about protection
to our sheep and wool industry and so
"a" oDoul Xix IuuuSIIlOu6 uGu
and her valuable egg product, OH the
part OF our tariff worshipers? Could not
our farmers be made. to believe that
their far more valuable egg and poultry
industry is entirely dependent upon the
duties upon the eggs and chickens?
Is it not certain that this industry
would be ruined and that our domestic
mems would Immediately retire from
business If the tariff duties were taken
OF n the pauper hens of Europe and
their cheap-labor products were put on
the free list? Are not our protection
ISL friends overlooking a good thing
when they neglect to fill the Congress
slonal Record with speeches and statis-
Tics showing the great benefit of pro-
lection to this great and growing indus
try? Would it not, in fact, be better for
their cause if they would lose the de-
Ginning sheep and wool industry and let
II go to the dogs, where it appears to be
going in spite of extremely high duties?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-05
SENATOR sMooT is SAFE.
Republicans Will Stand by Mormon
Church Until After the Fau
Election.

A seemingly we'll informed corre-
spondent at Salt Lake City is authorl-
" for the statement that if Senator
Smoot should be unseated Utah will
give her electoral vote to the demo-
cratic candidate for president, and will
send two democrats to the United
States senate.
No one who is familiar with the af-
fairs of church and state in Utah, says
the Chicago Chronicle, will question
the power of the church to make the
correspondents prediction a reality,
but there is little, if any, prospect that
the senator will be disturbed, at least
before the national election.
While there is abundant evidence
that Utah mormons who lived in po-
lygamy previous to the enactment of
a state law forbidding it continue to
sustain polygamous relations, there
has been no evidence that Senator
Smoot has more than one wife, or that
he has ever advocated polygamy since
the enactment of state legislation
against it.
For the existing polygamous prac-
tees in Utah the political party to
which a majority of the investigating
committee belong is largely, if not
wholly, responsible. Had Utah been
compelled to remain a territory federal
legislation faithfully enforced could
aave eradicated this evil, but, to gain a
party advantage by increasing republi-
can representation in congress, it was
admitted as a state, and thus the con-
troll of polygamy was given into the
hands Of the polygamists of the NOR
mon church, who controls the politics
of the state.
1t is a late day now to shirk respon-
sibility for the folly of making Utah a
state and to indulge in the practice of
manufacturing party sentiment by per-
scouting a homogeneous mormon.
The Smoot investigation, which is
not an investigation of Smoot, may
drag along several weary months, but
there will be no Smoot verdict to in
cite vengeance in Utah until the cleo
toral vote of the polygamous state has
been again recorded for the presiden-
til nominee of the party in power.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-05
RECENT NEW TIMBER TESTS
Government Agents Endeavoring to
Ascertain Best Material for
Various Purposes.

1t was announced a few months ago
mat the bureau of forestry, in Wash
lngton, intends to resume a series Of
tests OF the strength of various kinds
OF timber which it began several years
ago. Information OF that character
IS, OF course, Of great practical impor-
lance both to lumbermen and to build
ers. Some question has been raised,
however, concerning the quality of the
work already done. The Engineering
Record, for instance, feels that the
tests previously made do not possess
the value they should. The proposed
resumption of the Investigations was
talked over at a meeting of the Amer
lean Society of Civil Engineers last
summer, and the impression there pre-
vailed that no special change in the
character of the work was necessary.
The periodical just referred to thinks
that that view is a mistaken one. It
believes that the limited selection of
specimens for testing (on account of
inadequate appropriations was I'M
~ SUES vi " say.
What is needed is not such a mar
row selection of sticks of timber for
testing as to make it practically GER
tain that their quality will be mate
rally different from and better than
that OF ~merchantable timber which the
engineer or architect must use in his
work. II there is one class of epgi-
neering material in which the full size
pieces are more imperative for testing
than in any other, timber is that class.
whether beams or columns are the
subject of investigation, not only full
size sticks should be used, but they
should be secured from dealers pre-
clsely as the owner of a building or a
contractor must purchase them. 1t is
well enough, indeed advisable. that
sticks seasoned by various methods
and to various degrees should be test
ed, but, above all, the green and i'm
perfectly seasoned conditions of actual
use should not be avoided. Further
more, such dimensions of full size
members should be employed as will
develop the various phenomena of re-
sistance and failure as they are found
in the actual use of timber in struc-
lures. This observation applies to such
features as the failure of relatively
short beams by longitudinal shearing.
the independence of the ultimate re-
sistance of comparatively short col
umns of their lengths, and other sim.
liar phenomena developed by testins
to failure"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-05
Doctors Disagreeing.

The 1904 address of the Protective
Tariff league declares as follows:
THAT reciprocity in competitive products
is unsound in principle, pernicious in prac-
tice and condemned by experience. II is
contrary alike to the national policy of pro-
lection, TO the fair treatment of domestic
producers and to friendly relations wifi
foreign countries" ~
The last republican national plat
form said that reciprocity and protec-
ton are twin measurers of republican
policy and go hand-in-hand," There
seems to be a misunderstanding here
a case OF doctors disagreeing. The
adoption of a democratic policy will
make such things impossible.-In-
dianapolis Sentinel.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-05
Repuhlicans' False Promises.

1t is announced that there is little hope
for the statehood bill to pass congress.
Indeed, there has never been any hope
at all for it in our judgment. Several OBJ
stacles have been placed in the way of
it. The fact that the republican party
in it's national platform in 1900 declared
that 1--WE favor home rule for and the
early admission to statehood of the ter
ritories of New Mexico, Arizona and
Oklahoma" vas virtually conclusive
evidence that it favored nothing of the
kind. Senator Quay has been trying for
two years to get the republican party to
keep its pledges, but it has been to no pur-
pose. Nothing else really was to have
been expected. The republican party
never had any idea of keeping its prom
lse with regard to statehood, and that
plank in its platform was placed there
purely for MISUNDERSTANDING Com
mercial-Apepal. n..
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-05
Practical Arithmetic.

A teacher in an uptown school re-
,eived the following from a complain
ing parent a few days ago:
Sir: Will you please for the future
give my boy sum eesier somes to do at
nights. This is what he brought home
to or three mites ago. If fore gallins of
bere will fill thirty-to pint bottles, how
many pint and half bottles will nine gal
Inns fill? Well, we tried, and could make
nothing of it at all; and my boy cried
and sed he wouldn't go back without
doing it. So l had to go an buy a nine
gallin key of bere, which I could i'll af-
ford to do, and then we went and Dor
rowed a lot Of wine and brandy bottles,
besides a few we had by us. Well, we
emptied the key into the bottles, and
there were 10 and my boy put that down
for and answer
II don't know whether it is rite or not
as we split some in doing it.
Up. S.-Please let the next one be In
water. as am not able to buy any more
ere."-Topeka Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-05
: Genteel EMPLOYMENT.

This advertisement was unblushing-
ly inserted in a London newspaper a
few weeks ago: A lady moving in
good society is required at once to wear
and to make fashionable very beautiful,
dainty articles of iewelry; liberal re-
muneration. Strict secrecy" Often a
delicate suggestion will be made at
fashionable shops that in return for
a tactful recommendation the firm
would be only too delighted to supply
dresses, hats OF shoes, as the case
may be, gratis, even paying a COM
mission upon new orders obtained. The
system of female %touting is done in
London to an almost incredible ex-
tent, women acting as secret agents
for wine merchants, soap manufac-
turers, and even as touts for money
lenders.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-05
A SENSIBLE LABOR PLANK.
pennsylvania Democrats Give Utter
ance to Sentiments That Are
Wise and Patriotic.

Among the many admirable blanks
IN h platform of the PENNSYLVANIA
democrats there is none that appeals
strongly to conservatism and a
sense of justice than the one defining
the party's attitude on labor unions.
which follows:
Labor union organized for the better.
ment of the condition of wage earners. act
ing within the limits of law and not snl-
VersiVe of public order or individual rights
are not only lawful but commendable. and
should be met, recognized and dealt vii.
accordingly.
lhls accords not only with the ira
ditional friendliness of the democratic
party toWard ~aen who iabor-for the
strength of the .'arty has ever been
ana must be among Ihasa engaged in
honest toil-but it expresses the senti-
ment which should prevail among all
classes of people in dealing with the
so-called labor problem. 1t recognizes
the right of workingmen to organize as
an inalienable individual right. and
one which they should be ENCOURAGED
to exercise for the betterment of their
condition. That right is Endorsed both
in its legal and mora aspects. Tha
only demand it makes tpon working
men is that the right shall be exercised
within the limits of the law, the main
tenance of public order and equal con.
sideration for the individual rights of
others.
The Pennsylvania declaration, saws
the New York Post, deals with the la
Dor question frankly, honestly and in
diligently, and without demagogy. 1t
could not have contained less and it
would have been a waste of words to
have said more. 1t should be incor-
pOrated In the 81. Louis nlatfnrnn
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-05
Vaccination in Ancient Times.

A writer in the Madras Mail cites the
following passage from IN ancient Hin
do book, the 'Sactaya G%rantham,"
showing that Jenner was anticipated by
many centuries: Take the fluid of the
peck on the udder of a cow or on the
arm between the shoulder and elbow of
a human subject on the point of a Ian
Get and lance with it the arm between
the shoulder and the elbow until the
blood appears; then, mixing the fluid
with the blood, the fever of the smallpox
will be produced"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-05
Not What She Expected.

An English lord was recently dining
with a family in New York. The hos
tess little girl sat opposite the lord
and stared solemnly.
"Are you an English lord, really and
truly, sir?" she said at last.
Eyes," he answered laughing, real
ly and truly"
II never saw an English lord be.
FORE" she said. give always wanted
to-"
And now you're satisfied, aren't
your" said the young man, gaily.
NO, I'm not satisfied" responded
the little girl. I'm disappointed."-
Children's Visitor.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-05
Looking for a Cinch.

Tommy-Are you and sister Ethel
goin' to get married?
Mr.Stedily-Why, e-r, what put such
a question in your head, Tommy?
Tommy-Oh, nuthin'; only Billy Da-
ly wanted to bet me a nickel against a
cent that the match'd never come off,
and I'd like a little inside information.
.-pucl
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-05
PLAY with Huge Tons.

Some of the tops with which the
Chinese amuse themselves are as large
as barrels. 1t takes three men to spin
one, and it emits a sound that can be
heard several hundred yards away.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-05
Before and After.

Friend-Why do you call your work
a trade instead of an art?
Artist-Oh. | did call it an art before
l began to make a living at it.-Illus-
trated Bits.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-05

According to German statistics there
are 35,9O0, 900 cows in the nine lead
ing European countries. The annual
butter production is 1,475,000 tons.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-05
Tunnels Made by Ants.

Certain species of South American
ants will sometimes construct a tunnel
three miles in length.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-05
First Born Children

A scientist has discovered that three
ffths OF all men Of distinction are
rrst-born children.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-05
In an hour they were all compare
lively calm.

In an hour they were all compare
lively calm.
The detective, who had been up
stairs, reported Mr.. Atwood sleeping
like a tired child. A heap of manu-
script lay upon his table with the word
"Finis" written on the bottom of the
last page.
BY this time the family doctor, who
had been called by telephone, arrived.
LET him Sleep" said the doctor
when he had heard the story and
looked the patient over.
Just as he was about to leave the
room the doctor noticed the stack OF
manuscript, turned it over and read the
title of the tale that Atwood had been
living for a fortnight-"The Ghost of a
Miser."-N. Y. Sun.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-05

cook, would have killed him with deli
cacies if he had eaten all she sent up.
Touhey, the gardener, was grieved be-
cause of Atwood's illness, but glad of
the opportunity to drive the kodakers
away.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-05

mp ~ ollu ldAllCu liz ldCG.
please, sur" said Mary, would
you be so kind as to see me to the e a
of the house?"
Eyes, yes, Mary" said Deering,
you'll be all right now"
AS they passed around to the west
side Of the house Mary kept glancing
back toward the big birch from whose
dark shadows she could have sworn
she had seen a ghost appear.
They set a watch in Mrs. behring's
room, which overlooked the grounds
to the south and the river to the west,
but the apparition failed to appear.
They watched again on the following
night. Midnight, and nothing came.
Just as they were breaking up the
watch Aunt Phoebe, who had been
sitting by a west window, called ex-
citedly.
Look! Look!"
One OF the young men sprang to
the window. He could see nothing.
but Aunt Phoebe declared that she had
seen the white thing leap into the
shadow just beyond the tulip tree.
The whole household was by this
time becoming SO demoralized by the
constant dread of some dire calamity
that Mrs. Deering determined to take
Atwood into her confidence.
The author laughed at first, but see
ing how his aunt was distressed he
promised to make the ghosts ac-
q~uaintance at the earliest possible
moment. That night he Joined the
watchers, but The ghost refused to
walk. Another night was equally dis
appointing.
On the following night Mrs. Deer
ing saw 1t and told Atwood SO.
! have a plan," said the author.
Douglas Island news., 1904-10-05

ceived for similar products by any other farmers in the United States. In the absence of protective tariff that market would be lost in great part to the farmers of Washington.
 The platinum expert, Howard Dubois of Philadelphia, has been spending this summer in different parts of British Columbia, trying to discover localities where platinum can be found in Quan- titles to work it on commercial scale. He has prospected or otherwise ex- amined all likely places in the United States, but failed to find any place there where it could be handled with profit. Platinum is found only in placer localities, with black sand, and it is thought there is not placer mine in Caribou but is losing more or less platinum because the miners are not sufficiently interested to make the nec- essary alterations in their sluice boxes to save it. The demand for platinum is far greater than the supply. It is principally used in manufacture of electric lamps and dental supplies and runs in value from S13 to S2O an ounce, according to degrees of fineness. It's source is supposed to be serpentine rock.
Douglas Island news., 1904-10-05
ALASKA PAYS THE FREIGHT.

The following excerpt from an editor ial in the Seattle P. . l., was not written for Alaskans to read, yet it contains some things of interest, and sounds queer when you listen at the small end of the horn:
 During the year ending with June 30 last there was shipped to Alaska, al most entirely from the port of Puget Sound, farm products alone to the val ue of S2, 2,192, ,98S, and every article on the list is under a protective tariff, which the Democrats in Congress have vainly tried to have stricken off. We shipped breadstuffs alone to the value of S395, ,733.Had that market been elim- mated does anyone suppose that the millers of this state would have paid more for wheat than the exporters could afford to pay? We shipped live stock to the value of S19O9OO, and meat and dairy products to the value of S1, 1G5, 721. Of this latter vast sum S270, 1S7 was for butter alone. The hay which was shipped to Alaska was val ued at S12O,0S4. Farming, like every other industrial pursuit in British Col umbia, is carried on there with cheap Asiatic labor, principally Chinese. British Columbia and Canada generally are as we'll situated to supply the Alas ka markets as is Washington. The ports of British Columbia are nearer to Alaska and there is enough farming country adjacent to the line ofthe Can adian Pacific railroad to supply mar ket infinitely greater than this. The one advantage, and the only one which the Washington farmer has in the Al. aska market, is that he is protected under the present law from the Can adian competition which he would otherwise have
 Eliminate the Alaska market and the local production would be greater than the local consumption, and in the ab- sence of a market elsewhere prices would tumble rapidly to the point reached in farming communities fur sher east. If compelled to compete with Canadians in the Alaska markets, prices for all our farm stuffs would have to drop to the level or the market would be lost entirely.
 A considerable share of the prosperity of the farmers of the state of Washing ton is based upon the monopoly of the Alaska market, which consumes up- wards of S2,OOO,OOO annually of their products, at prices higher than is re-
Douglas Island news., 1904-10-05
THE GREAT TENAkEE SULPHUR SPRINGS
BETTER KNOWN AS THE Famous HOOnah Hot Springs.

A II anlyses has been made of the Springs FAand it is proven beyond q doubt that springs west of the Mississippi river. The water contains maSnesia, iron, sulphur and many other curative properties. Tenakee has postoffice, and general store compet- ing with any general merchandise store in Alaska.
 First-cIass Restaurant has lately been es- tablished, fish and game Seryed-both kept for guests-ppices moderate. Hunting un- excelled, bear and deer are plenty, grouse, pheasant, geese and ducks in season, climate mildest in Alaska, scenery grand, wide beach and no surf. Rooms, cottages and cabins for rent-eyerything furnished except bedding. Take steamer Georgia leaving Juneau every six days. For further particulars write
 ED. SNYDER, TENAKEE, ALASKA.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-10-20

corporation duly organized under the laws Of
the State OF w oming and doing business un-
der the laws of the State of Nevada, whose
principal place of business is Cheyenne, Wyo-
ming. by Its agent and attorney In fact II. l..
Siegel OF Aurum, White Pine County, Nevada,
has made application for a United States pat
ent for the Black Eagle lode mining claim, sit
uate in the Silver Canyon Mining District,
White Pine County, Nevada, consisting of
1885 8 linear feet of the lode and surface ground
600 feet wide, being mineral survey No. 2i3g,
and described in the field notes and plat of the
official survey on file in this office with mag
netic variation at II deg 20 min east as follows
to-wit;
Commencing at post No /, a corner of the
deg 81 min W 509.4 feet distant. thence run.
ming from said corner No. GO deg So min w
600 feet TO corner No. >, then .e N % deg .06
min W 1850 feet to corner No. 3, thence n 63
deg 30 min 600 feet to corner No. 4, thence s
30 deg .O6 min 1885, feet to corner No. /, be-
ing the place of beginning
Said claim being located in unsurveyed sec
tions "a and 8, townships % and 81 north,
range 90 east, Mount Diablo Base and Merid-
acres
Said Black Eagle lode location mining claim
being OF record in the Office of the County Re-
corder at Ely, White Pine County, Nevada, in
Book "a, page 5o2 Mining Records
There are no near known locations shown
upon the Official survey hereof
direct that this notice be published in the
Pine, State of Nevada, for the period of nine
consecutive weeks
Oh. GALLUP,
Register.
q. W. Parks, Attorney for Applicant.
First publication dated Oct. IL, 1904.