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The Washington times., 1904-12-20
Meets Mr.. Doyle.
His First Experience

Have you ever looked for any other
Black ATrows2" he was asked.
mo: but was one Of those who re-
fused to buy good oliver dollars for a
quarter when they were offered for sale
at that price by The Times on Penn
Sylvania Avenue some time ago.
Mr. Dempsey said the money was par
ticuiarly welcome at this time of the
Year He intends using It for Christmas
gifts.
The 500 Black Arrow was the last of
the series of Sift-hearins shafts that
have brought happiness to a number of
winners and fun to countless searchers
whose. quests were otherwise unproduc-
tive.
The Washington times., 1904-12-20

previous 10 witness marriage, who lives
in the same Town
@ How large town is it,
a Wei. it Is not as large as Wash
ingtan tLaEghter.1
TIE two wives live one block apart.
Witness was married in st George. in
the temple. in 1884 She IS quite sure
her husband has not taken third wife,
subpoenaed by the deputy marshal
9u Mere ans, eseFe you not2
a Yes, 1 was angered. bat good
nat8redly.
q. You said YOU would rather go TO
Jail, didn't you2
would like to step on the person who
was responsible for il.
No cross-ex3 ina tier WAS desired by
the counsel for Mr.. Smoot.
Chairman Burrows inquired where
witness husband was. She said he had
gone 10 Rlnt for work and she thought
he had headed for the gold fields in
Nevada. but had net heard from him
since. Witness thought the youngest of
the seven children by husbands legal
Wl1e was now six years old.
Investigator Owen Heard.
Charles NJ Owen. The anti-Mormon in
yestigator. who prepared the ease
against the Mormon Church and SEN
ator SHoot, was next called.
witness Owen said his home EaS in
Salt Lake City, where he has lived sew
enteen years, and has had a Familiarity
with conditions there relative to the
practlce or Dolygamy- He said:
In January. 1899, / received an offer
from New York newspaper to act as
It's correspondent in the effort to IInse;.f
Elder Brigham II. Roberts elected 10
the House of Representatives I ac-
cepted on condition that il should not
interfere witt my engineering work
Shortly afterward I gave up the latter
work to give my whole time TO the
ltl-poiyganay fight / remained with
the newspaper until the next year
organization to continue nv injuries:
returned after that TO engineering. and
in January, 1903. took up Mormon in
vestlgations again, IN which ] am still
engaged.
The Washington times., 1904-12-20

Boys Navy Blue and Oxford
Frleze OvercoatS Or Refers. or
Black or Fancy Cheviot Belted
OvercoatS; all wool and fast color;
faced bottoms; velvet collar; of ex-
treme length, and cut full in broad
shoulder effects Sizes ] az R0
TO 10 years. Special al. pO.VV
The Washington times., 1904-12-20

in which there is not an .apostase.' or
a Mormon III good standing who objects
to something that tho church does. from
whom ! have gotten my information
under pledge 81 secrecy and protection
BGt never have L made any assertion
uEti! after 1 have checked and checked,
ard gotten MY information corroborated
he repste about apostle john w
Icyiar Is that he mas taken two wives
IN the past few years-trTo sisters He
IS one OF the apostles referred 10 in
President Smiths letter as refusing 10
coTae he:e- Apostle Cowley is the other
and he is reputed as having taken
another wife IN the past three years.
He certainly has three wives and pos
sibly four Taylor has FIVE wives. Both
these men are apostles
The last ssw answers we're given IN
answer to queries by Chairman Bur
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-08-18
Minister Made Tracks.

Colonel Joe Meeks was one of the
pioneer settlers of Oregon says a rep
resentative from that far away state.
"A travelling preacher tackled the
colonel once, and opened up by asking
him if tracts had been literally dis
tributed through the section in which
he lived. The colonel played green,
and replied that there could be found a
fair sprinkling of tracts throughout the
entire territory, for Oregon was Their a
territory.
"Have you yourself a good supply?'
asked the preacher as he began to
tumble around in his saddlebags, which
were thrown across the rear Of his
saddle.
Lord, yes answered the colonel.
There's bar tracks, deer tracks, panth-
er tracks, Q tracks, and every other
kind of varmint, and the boys are now
hunting for the tracks Of a ~plnted-nose
preacher, who disappeared the other
day with a horse which didn't legally
belong to him. If they catch him, there
will be a tight rope performance in
this neighborhood.'
The preacher concluded that he had
a hard customer, and did not waste
time trying to convince him Of the evil
of his WaV."
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-08-18
Voice from Arkansas.

cleveland, Ark, Aug. 15.-(SpecialD
Nearly every newspaper tells of some
"onderfu cure of some form of Kid
ney Disease by the Great American
hemedy, Dodd's Kidney Pills, and this
part of Arkansas is not without its
snare of evidence that no ease is too
ueeply rooted for Dodd's Kidney Pills
to cure.
Mr.. A. z. Garlic, well known and
mighty respected here, tells of his cure
AFTER nearly a quarter of a century's
suffering. Mr.. Garlic says:
Il want to let the public know what
l think of Dodd's Kidney Pills. | think
they are the best remedy for sick kid
DeyS ever made.
L had Kidney Trouble for % years
and V found anything that did me
SO much good as Dodd's Kidney Pills. l
recommend them to all sufferers
There is no uncertain sound about
MI. Carlile's statement. He knows that
Dodd's Kidney Pills rescued him from
a life of suffering and he wants the
public to know it. Dodd's Kidney
Phis cure all Kidney ills from Back
ache to Bright'S Disease.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-08-18

els of spring wheat off 49,, 1884 acres. nm
average of 1904 bushels per acre; of
44o,662 acres Of oats there were grown
II, li9,i0o bushels, an average of 32.17
bushels per acre; 69,667 acres produced
l't4l,2Oo bushels of barley, 24.65 to the
acre, and 32,341 acres produced 292, S533
bushels of faxseed, SOB to the acre. As
put $50 ,434 acres, or a little better than
one per cent OF the entire wheat growing
area OF the territories. was under crop,
a llttle hguring shows 10 per cent Of the
entire country under wheat will raise the
Zoo,ooU that Great Britain annually
requires from outside countries. 1t is a
Ialfly safe statement to make that in 70
or 10 years the Canadian prairies will be
supplying the entire demands of the
mother country.
In this part of the country wheat is
King. and here it is raised in the greatest
possible perfection by a combination of
soli ana climate in its favor. and the ten
dehcy has been to neglect the more labor
lous branches of ~husbandry for which the
country is equally we'll adapted.
Free Homestead Lands.
There is yet a large quantity of gov
eminent land for demonstrating in this
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-08-18
NTH the Gin'rais.

Lippincott's Magazine: The late General
John B. Gordon and Governor Oandler
Of Georgia were together in a hotel in
Atlanta recently, when Governor Gambler
asked the general If he had ever known a
witty darky. Eyes" said the general,
lone. When General Robert e. Lee was
fighting Grant in the last days an old
darby besieged headquarters with re-
quests to see the gin'ral.' He was turned
away a dozen times. But one day he sue
ceeded in reaching the guard Immediately
in front of General Lees tent, and al
most got into the tent itself before he
was stopped. The alteration which fol-
lowered was overheard by General Lee,
who called out, Let that man come int
Then into the tent came the fellow, a raw
boned, shambling, gray headed, gnarled
old darby, who scraped the ground with
his foot and kept turning his hat around
nervously in his hand.
"'Well, where do you belong?' demand
ed General Lee.
81 b'longs to y'r company, gin'ral.' re-
turned the darby.
".No, you don't declared the general.
sharply. Everybody in my company has
beer shot. How is 1t that you haven't
been?'
THE darby scratched his head Then
from his twisted mouth came a confden-
ttal whisper: Well, yo' see, gin'ral, it's
this away. 1 Amt been shot Gaze when
dey's a fight goin' on I always stays with
the gin'rals.'"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-08-18
An American Teaching the Gar,

Worlds Work: An American is teach
Ing the car how to develop the resources
of Siberia. John Rosene has obtained min
Ing CONCESSIONS in Siberia capitalized at
5000, geo. Three years ago he was engaged
In d small way in the Pacific coast trade,
When a man takes $50 into Siberia and
comes back after three months work
with $1,000 You get interested,' he says.
This experience of a Nome gold miner
aroused him TO Asiatic possibilities.
lie learned that concession for mining
In Siberia. financed by Russian and Eng
lish capital, had lapsed through the DIS
pleasure OF the car at speculation with
the concerns stock.
Il will get half that stock and the re-
ncwal Of the concession" said John Ro-
senc.
He got them, The London holders We're
anxious to unload worthless stocks, and
they We're cheap. Then he Went back to
Seattle and organized the Northwestern
Commercial company. In a few weeks
word came from St. Petersburg that the
concession had been revived by the car.
John Rosene fastened 10 the Russian cap
ital, had personal interviews with the
car, was given a free hand III several
kinds Of commercial operations. These in
Guided taking American miners to Siberia
to mine, TO use timber, to fish, to take
furS and to operate between Sea tile and
Siberia with trading vessels.
Within a month the Northwestern Sibe-
rian company was organized, capitalized
at $5,oJ0,o 900 and purchased the three Pa
c.fic liners recently operated from Puget
sound to the orient by the Northern Pa
ciic railroad. The ships will probably
sail under the flag of the Northwestern
Siberia company as Russian transports.
Who can tell. The ranifications of Amer
lean enterprise run 70 unexpected places.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-08-18

country and as in everything else, "the
early bird catches the worm" Those
who come first are first served. When it
is preferred to purchase railway or other
company. lands they can be got at from
So per acre up. This section cannot be
better closed than by showing practically
what is made by wheat growing in this
district. The average from the first Of
operations is 20 bushels per acre. Break
ing the prairie, as first blowing is called,
is, of course, an exceptional expenditure,
rs when it is once done it is lone for all
time. This costs about $3.50 per acre.
After the breaking, blowing and seed
ing, harvesting threshing and marketing
all expenses combined amount TO about
500 per acre, that is, if a man likes
everything done it will cost him $5.25
per acre. If he does the work himself
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-08-18
Free to Twenty-Five Ladies.

The Defiance Starch Co. will give
rs ladies q round trip ticket to the
St. Louis Exposition. to five ladies
in each of the following states: I'LL
nois, Iowa, Nebraska. Kansas and
Missouri who will send in the largest
number of trade marks cut from a ten
cent, 16-ounce package of Cefiance
cold water laundry starch. This
means from your W home. any
Where in the above named states
These trade marks must be mailed to
and received by the Defiance Starch
Co.. Omaha, Nebr., before September
LIST, 1904. October and November
will be the best months to visit the
Exposition. Remember that Defiance
is the only starch put IL in 16 OF. "a
full pound) to the package. You get
one-third mure starch for the same
money than Of any other kind, and
Defiance never sticks to the iron,
The tickets to the Exposition Will be
sent by registered mail September
til. Starch for sale by all dealers.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-08-18

Green Diamond Found in South Africa
Philadelphia Record: Considerable In
terest, writes a correspondent. has been
aroused in johannesburg by the liscov-
cry on a mining property at ~Klerksdorp.
Of a green diamond of about t~hrec-quar-
tiers carat. The gem had slipped into a.
crevice in the iron plates OF the crushing
mill, and was found during the disman-
Ting of tile mill to make room FIR a neus,
stamp battery.
In 1898 over 70 similar colored diamonds
were found upon the same property. They
had all slipped between the dies n cS-
capped destruction. 1t Is conjectured that
many other green stones Were crushed
out of existence, For the first time since
that date the Klerksdorp G. and d. com
pany proposes to resume operations on
this particular ground, which contains
both gold and diamonds, and the prospects,
Of u~nearthing more of these green gernE,
are being eagerly watched from the Rand.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-08-18

r,s,i,l correspondence;
Mic old Romans used to say that Gaul
.uos divided into three parts; so Is the
"n,1;an Northwest. Gaul's divisions
uara political; those OF the Western
Cauada's p~rairies are created by the un-
/ erring hand Of nature.
I chiefly because of the elevation of the
country, the absence Of large lakes and
tyars, and the operations OF the Chi
nook" or Pacific ocean winds, which
| readily cross the Rocky Mountains in
/ southern Alberta through gaps and
masses, the southwestern portion Of the
1 canadian provinces is regarded as some
1 what arid, and less fertile than other por-
.;oos Of the country. Although this has
haen a prevailing idea in the past, it has
! hepn left for American settlers, who have
! Invaded this district within the past two
or three years, 10 prove that splendid
crops Of grain can be grown on the land,
which had hitherto beer the feeding
ground for the herds Of cattle and bands
/ Of horses that ranged there.
That ranching is carried on most sue
| c~esSfully in other portions of the p~rairies
West. Just as agriculture is to a limited
extent conducted successfully within this
boundary is fully established. but taken
as A whole it constitutes a territory above
el others most admirably adapted to this
particular industry.
The buffalo, bunch and other grasses
that grow in p~rofuSion in this district
and retain their nutritive properties the
wear round, and the moderate climate OF
mid-wintcr rendered such by the Chinook
winds preventing any considerable depth
Of snow at any time, especially tit the
district for the peculiar methods of the
, Misunderstanding his herds the year
round i'll the open country.
While there are no large lakes or riv-
erS i'll this whole country, there are
numerous fast raining streams fed the
year round by melting SNOW III the noun
tainS. furnishing an abundance of the
coolest and purcst water, the best for
beast rs we'll as man. The country has
at once an abundance of the best Of
food and drink the year rouni. a clear
say. but little wet or stormy weather and
. favorable climate the year through.
This makes Southern Alberta more es-
~perially the most favorable ranch
ing country in the known world.
and the enterprise is making most unpre-
celeNted Roadway. Ranchcrs, however,
as well rs others, learn that it pays best
to raise thoroughbred stock and accord
insly the wild herds of scrub horses ana
cattle are fast giving way to better ami
mails through the Importation of thor
oasibred males. Just how many ranch
ers, ranches and horses, cattle and sheep
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-08-18
GOOD Stories.
- TOLD BY CONGRESSMAN -
No "Shrep5kin" for Him,

Washington Times: Uncle Lon I w.
ingston, who represents the Fifth con.
glesSiOnal district of Georgia, takes
time from cutting Parker timber to tel
this interesting story about BOZ
ToombS and the old oak tree which
bears the name of Bob Toombs at Ath-
ems, Ga:
while all of these young raduate
are getting their dinlof1as il is \ GOOD
time to say that the great Robert
Toombs, of my state. didn't want a
sheepskin.
When the ungovernable young fell
low was at the state university he was
easily the leader in his class. but there
was no devilment pract;ced by the SIN
dents in which Toombs diJn't play a
full hand. Just before
when TOombS was to graduate a first
honor man, there was a fearful infrac-
ton of some of the rules, and the fac
ulty decided that a diploma should not
be given Toombs.
when the day came around Toombs
was on hand with his class as chinner
as though he had ALWAYS been the hest
boy in the university, but he knew he
WAS going to be hit and hit hard. The
chancellor announced that for good rea-
sons Nh. Robert Toombs would not be
permitted to speak, and that a diploma
would not be given him
Toombs rose from his seat and with
a courteous Thank YOU. sir walked
down the aisle and Oh, of the chapel,
meeting his negro servant at the door
and saying to him, Tom. go down ia
one of those stores ON Rroad strcat and
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-08-18

there are in this district of country at
ne present time, it is hard to say, as
.aeEe are no positive statistics available.
II Is known, however, that the country
IS settling up fast.
Engiishmen and Americans III the
western territories are bringing in their
AtFlS as fast US they can and leasing
vt purchasing land in lots from 1000 to
-'VVo acres from the Dominion Govern
inFAf' An idea of the growth OF the in
n0S'!y VIII, however, be gathered from
we iaet that in 1899 there were but
nff'l head of cattle shipped and sold
,.o.a the ranches, these figures ran to
0'i-9 IN 1900, and to 1GO, 900 in 1908.
1u'efatsing $40 per head for the owners.
~ II takes Il great many ranchers and
: 'alse number of cattle to cover an area
" -U'W)O.OD acres. the area available
VI fahchlns III the Canadian Northwest.
l.. ~ IS not at all necessary that large
@,eS',nehts should be made at the out
y Maly men commenced with small
aaN'ai and small herds. and have worked
AsuseiVes into large herds and great
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-08-18
Cured With Pills and Aumor,

Representative Warnock, of Ohio, re-
lated this story as one OF the best he
had ever heard:
Ohio produces good physicians as
we'll as men in other professions and
trades. One Of the wtttiest physicians
l ever knew lived at a small place near
Cleveland. He was greatly liked and
his practice vas very heavy.
Sometimes people would tell him
that they called him in more for the
fun that was in 1t than the virtue of
his medicine. His wit was fully equal
to his skill, and it was difficult to say
which did his patients the most good
his wit or his pills and pellets.
A he always did his best with both
at the same time they probably helped
each other, just as 1t happened when
one Of his patients revolted at a mon
strous dose of physic and said:
why, my dear doctor, you don't
mean such a dose as this for a gen
tleman?'
"'Oh, no. answered the doctor. It's
for working people,"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-08-18

The director OF the census has mad,
public a report on occupations of citizens
pf the United States, as collected by 53,O
enumerators of the census bureau. The
report was prepared by William C. Hunt
Chief statistiCian for population, assisted
by Or. Joseph A. Hill and William S. Ros-
sitter, of the division Of publications, The
publication is p~rofuSely illustrated with
maps Il diagrams repaired in the geo
graphical division under the direction OF
Charles S. Sloane, acting g~eographer.
The report shows that over SO per cent.
Of the persons employed in gainful occu-
pations in the United States are employed
In agricultural pursuits. In collecting sta
ttstics of occupations only persons 10
years of age aud over were considered.
The generaliZations and comparisons
which follow are restricted to the re-
Turns for continental United States, which
consists OF that part of the United States
On the continent of North America south
Of the Canadian boundary, and there
fore excludes Alaska, Hawaii and the mil
ltary and naval stations abroad.
In the classification for the twelfth CEN
sus ther4 We're 1903 specified occupations, or
lm occupation groups These were CLASH
fled under the five main heads, showing
as follows, with the percentage Of the
population employed therein:
Thirty-nine and six-tenths per cent.
were engaged III agricultural pursuits, l4.l
per cent. in manufacturing and mechani-
cal pursuits, lI.9 per cent in trade and
transportation, 14.7 per cent. in domestic
and personal service and 8. . per cent. In
professional service.
Agricultural puruSits constitute there
fore, the most important class of occu-
pations for this sex. More than one-halt
of the males in this main class are farm
ers. planters and overseers, and about
tTo-ffths are agricultural laborers.
In each of the other geographic divisions
agricultural pursuits constitute the most
important branch of occupations, being
$40 per cent, or two-ffths of all in the
north central division, and 66.3 per cent,
or two-thirds of all in the south central
division.
In the western division the percentage of
male workers engaged in agricultural pur-
suits, 29.9, is not much higher than the
percentage engaged in manufacturing and
mechanical pursuits, 26.4. This is because
manufacturing and mechanical pursuits
include mining, which is an important
occupation in that section of the country.
OF the total number of females gainfully
employed S9.4 per cent. We're engaged In
domestic and personal service, this being
the most important branch of the occupa-
tons for this sex; 24.7 per cent. were en-
gagged in manufacturing and mechanical
pursuits, 1874 per cent, in agricultural pur-
suits, ga per cent. in trade and transpor-
tation, and 81 per cent. in professional
service.