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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-04-25
ENTERED By
BURGLARS DURING THE NIGHT
AND TWENTY GUNS TAKEN.

Some person with more Immaculate
gall than is usually attributed to any
living animal entered the police sta
ton some time last night and COM
mitted robbery.
The police have receptacle for
ell firearms taken from prisoners.
These are carefully put away for
future use or for auction sales. Tho
receptacle In question is a small
showcase In which the guns are
stored The "sally" individual en-
tered the station last night and help
ed himself TO about Is or 20 of the
Instruments OF death and departed
without molestation.
Not the slightest clue was left the
officers on which to work. Micro
scopes were in demand and the vigil
liant officers of tho law ran the mag
nifying glass over the linoleum in an
endeavor to detect footprints. The
chase was at last given up In despair,
someone suggesting that the foot
prints could not be distinguished
from those of their brother officers.
Department in Distress.
This Is the greatest sensation OF
the year at the police station Groups
OF officers congregate to discuss pos
sible clues. The Sherlock Holmeses
of the department have had Ice on
their heads all the morning from OK
'cessive thinking. More cigars have
been consumed IN an endeavor to get
brains to working than have been
used in the department for the past
month.
Chief Coverly has aged years dur
ing the day. His usually benign
countenance has developed a frown
which Is the terror Of the city hail.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-04-25
TORNADO

MCPHERSON. Kan, April 25.-Six
houses were demolished and three
persons injured, one seriously, in
tornado that swept over Mcpherson
Yesterday afternoon. Several farm
houses and other outbuildings were
in the country north of here.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-04-25
HOLD OVER
SENATOR'S
+ HAVE PLAN
Especial to the Press.)

VNptCIdI 10 tHe ITesS.T
! SEATTLE, April 25.-At a meeting
of the King county holdover senators
Saturday night vigorous objection was
entered by those gentlemen to being in
structed by the coming republican con-
vention or by anyone else binding
them. to vote for any particular candi-
date for the United States senate. The
senators expressed their willingness
to. vote for King county man but
declined to be tied up to any one man
subject only to release from him.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-04-25
1N|OBbED
i. BY JAPS
Especial to Press.)

ICTVVTUI 10 ITVSS.T
VICTORIA, b, c.. April 25.-The
foreman at the Sidney sawmill, was
cut and slashed and almost killed and
his assistant. Sidney S. Saunders. Sc
riously wounded by Japanese labor
ers Saturday night. The two men
were attacked by Japs who had been
laid OF on account OF lack of work
for them at the mills. The Japs
used an axe and big knife. 1t is fear
ed the foreman will die.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-04-25
PUG|L|SM

George Dixon, who is still in Eng
land, is booked ahead for four fights
and all are of more than 10 rounds each
This week he fights Cockney Cohen
and he is also matched with George
Moore, of Barkin; Rudolph unhilz, the
featherweight champion OF South
Africa, and Spike Robson.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-04-25
(scripps News Association.)

LONDON, April 25.-Japanese Min
lister Hayashi reports that two RUS
sian torpedo boats entered the hartb1F
of Wonsao the east cast of Korea
tday and sunk small japanese steam
err. the Geyeo Maru, of 600 tons.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-04-25

The railroads, in their continued
maneuvers for Chicago meeting, are
revealing the weakness of their posi-
ton is the opinion of well informed
business men. and if local shippers
stand firm they are bound to win.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-04-25

Mrs. Blabber is well educated
woman, isn't she?"
"No, she even failed to take high
school course
''But she speaks we'll"
"Oh, yes, but that came from
practice"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-04-25
DAVENPORT PROFIT

R. l.. Rutter, secretary of the st.
Iukes hospital association, stated to-
day that the association would receive
between 800 and $3.50 from the Daven-
port lecture.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-04-25

Al HEREFORD, Joe Cans manager, finds
it difficult to arrange engagements for
the negro and will probably welcome
the chance of meeting with Jewey
Cooke, the English pugilist, who IS
anxious to cross arms with Cans. Her
ford says if he cannot find more
fighters willing to box the champion
he will take him abroad this summer
TO look for European honors.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-04-25

Officials of an Illinois hospital for tha
insane have tried moving pictures as
cure for their enthusiastically for
getting that the moving pictures Of
April and May have driven more than
one man insane. TO say nothing Of tho
housekeeping pictures.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-04-25
RUSSIANS DEITY RI.

(Scripps News Association.)
ST PETERSBURG, April 25.--Gen-
eral Plug, chief of stan at Port Ar-
thur, denies the report that the Jap.
anese have crossed the Yalu river.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-04-25
WHAT NEXT?

G. Hefffer reported to the police
this morning that someone had broken
into the building at Fouth avenue and
Washington street and stolen some
tools.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-04-25
THEY HOLD
CONFERENCE

WASHINGTON. April 25.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Governor O'Dell
of New York held a conference this
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-04-25

A marriage license was issued T. j.
y. Taylor and Frances h. Robbins,
bath OF Trent, by the county auditor
to-day.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-04-25
tscrlpps News AssocIation.l

BERLIN, April 25.-The Post an
nounees that an imperial decree was
signed by the car this morning Off
cially recalling Alexieff. 4
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-04-25
POLICE STATION R0bb[D

Poor widows and orphans, who are
usually accosted with a smile. are. to,
day turned off in the quickest possi-
BILE manner. -
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-16

ment OF Agriculture, it brought SO cents
or exactly double as much
In 1880 the price of wheat on the Kan
sas farm was 81 cents per bushel: last
year. according to the same authority,
it was Il cents
In 1898 the price of oats on the Kan
SaS farm was Ii cents; last year it was
Ga case where 30 cents was a Joke
which the kansan appreciated clear
down to his boots.
During this period freight rates on
wheat per 100 pounds from Atch;Son,
Kan. to Chicago were reduced from "a
to ID cents. and on rye barley. corn and
oats from 20 to Ii cents
In lS9o the revenue of the railways
per passenger per mile in the territory of
which Kansas is the center was 221I:i
cents: in 1902 it had fallen to 2.23t
cents. In the same period the rallrold
revenue from freight in the same terri
tory had fallen from 1.16l cents per ton
per mile to 0.91S cents.
There are good times in Kansas be.
cause OF good government good crops
good prices. increasing manufactures and
declining rates for transporting the fruits
of all kinds of industry to the markets
of the world; and when there are good
times in Kansas there is little occasion
Tor discomfort Throughout, the rest of the
l'nOu
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-16
lain ENGLISH,
1t Comes from Oyster Bny and Applies
to the New York World.


to the New York World.
Sept. !. according to newspaper dis
patch of that date. Secretary Loeb gave
ont typewriter statement denying
story printed in the New York World
TO the effect to ]. Pierpont Morgan has
recently held conferences with Mr..
roosevelt concerning the campaign. 1t
is as follows:
:, Thc story In the World about the visit Of
Mr.. Morgan TO the President at oyster Raw
Is lie from beginning to end. Neither
Mr.. Morgan nor the New York representa-
tive Of Mr.. Morgan has seen the President
or communicated with him directly or iridi.
rectly at Oyster Bny or anywhere else As
far NJ the President or anyone around hin,
Knows Mr. Morgan has been nowhere near
oyster Bay In yacht or otherwise.
One paper comments upon the unusual
use Of the word lie in statements given
out by the President. There are times
when only one word in the English Ian
guage will serve. and President Roose-
welt is an authority on English There
is only one word to fifty and accurately
characterize certain statement -such
statements as that of The World which
the President was contradcting
y lie, according 10 Webster. il "a
criminal fnlsrhood a FALSEHOOD
u L T.hEl) fOt + RIOSE OT De
CEPTlON: AN INTENTIONAL VIC
LATlON OF TRUTH"
The Century Dictionary thus defines
the word:
Lie, A FALSE STATEMENT
MADE WITH THE PURPOSE OF
DECElVING! an intentional untruth;
falsehood; the utterance by speech or
act of that which is false WITH In
TENT TO MISLEAD OR DELUDE.
:. THAT WHICH is INTENDED OR
SERVES TO DECEIVE OR MIS-.
LEAD: ANYTHING DESIGNED OR
ADAPTED TO PRODUCE FALSE
CONCLUSIONS OR EXPECTA.
TIONS"
There can be no doubt that the Presi-
dent used exactly the right word.
1t would be like carrying Goals to New
castle to explain to our friends the Dem.
ocrats the meaning and inner cussedness
of the word lie Past grand masters
in the art, they need no definitions or
fine drawn distinctions. But Republi-
cans and independents are not so we'll
up in this branch Of human activity, and
so it is we'll perhaps, to call their attsn-
ton to the latest proper and desira bic
use of the small English monosyllable
which is just now under discussion.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-16
WHY ALL'S WELL IN KANSAS.
1t Is Because of Sound Money and the
Protective Policy,

Few people realize how or why the
condition of Kansas is watched with
such solicitude throughout the country
especially in the Western States.
The fact is indisputabic that there is
something about its climate. the mer-
cnrial disposition of its people and the
conditions of life in Kansas that make
it q sort Of barometer for the rest of the
republic. When there is anything seri-
Gus the matter with Kansas it is GER
tain that all is not exactly right with
her neighbors. When there is IL drouth
in Kansas there is apt to be mighty
thirst in all the region west of the Mis-
sssippi. When the rains and sunshine
bless Kansas with bountiful harvests
and the cyclone and grasshopper give her
Il wide berth, the fairness is apt to extend
beyond her borders and fill the land with
reason for rejoicings and content.
When Providence frowns on Kansas
the heart Of the nation is usually SORROW
full for her-and for itself.
When Providence smiles on Kansas
the rest Of us generally bid au revoir to
melancholy.
Therefore Senator Fairbanks did well,
i'll opening the Republican campaign ut
Marion, Kan. Sept. /, to remind his au-
ditors of the change that had come over
their prospects since the DAYS when the
whole land rang with the cry whats
the matter with Kansas?' Happily he
was able to proclaim, if not from the
house tops, at least to the telegraph op-
orators for dissemination throughout the
nation that "Alrs well in Kansas"
Swiftly he drew the picture of the con
dtions as they existed eight years ago:
kansas was suffering from the effects
OF Democratic administration. The in
tcrests of her agriculture languished. Her
crops rotted i'll the field or were market
ell at unremunernted prices" And much
more to the same effect. Then he point
ed to the prosperity Of the present. with
out need to recapitulate the blessings
that good crops. good prices. good govern
ment and sound money showcred uDon
Kansas as from an cXhauStIess urn.
During the last seven years. he said, y
mo one has shared the prosperity which
has come to the country i'll fuller de-
gree than the farmers of Kansas" And
he illustrated the prosperity of the State
by the increase in her bank deposits
from S33O0O.000 in 1895 to over $780,
100000 in 1903" As matter of exact
record it might be well to say that the
bank deposits in Kansas Increased from
$50 ,523,4S7 in 1896 to $S4.O55. ITO, or
$50 per cent, while those Of the whole
country increased from 1921 .S2S.339 to
$54O, ,7O2, or slightly under 1874 DER
cent.
Would the reader know how all this
wonderful prosperity came to Kansas :
Il was through her own industry stimu-
lated and protected by the sound econ
omic and monetary policies of the Re-
publican party,
In 1896 corn on the farms Of Kansas
was bringing 10 cents bushel; last year,
.'aa'slagg to lns rspsrt Of tss Depart
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-16
FARM WAGES.
Figures IA to Rates rnid in England
and the Unite States

Tho August Labor Gazette. Il govern.
mont publication issued monthly by the
fr1lsh Board Of Trade. gives an inter
c>tlng account of the half-ycArly agri-
cultural hirings Mt Whitsunti,!c. 1901. Tor
the counties of Cumberland. WcS1murr
land and North Lancashire. which affords
an instructive view of the rates paid
farm hands in England. The official re
port prepared for the department states
liiat the supply of male farm servants
was fairly plentiful, owing partly to
slackneSS of employment in other midas
tries, but that wages showed Il down
Ward tendency in the ease Of men. but
women were scarce and their wages
were well maintained"
lhe Following were the rates generally
agreed upon for the half year.
Per six months
with hoard,
Test men ,..,,....,....... .$7J.oo t" Sl~',H,
second class mcl.......... :n.oDto 110o
lou \ "u'h MS ana boys .......... 2o.uDto 0n'n
i,eSl women =,....0......,..... ,i5.tSitu I-.Go
Second class women ana
SiriS .......... .....,.... 2O.0ot to COCO
These rates have been slightly incrcas-
cl i'll the transcription from English
money into dollars and cents ut the ratio
Of 50 per pound but they afford n clear
and authoritative exhibit OF what British
farm hands are receiving by which every
intelligent American farm hand can com
part the wages he receives
Without knowing the number of men
employed in each class and at varying
rates therein ii is, of course. impossible
to arrive at an average rate of compensa-
ton. But with 500 per half year for
the highest and 500 for the lowest Of the
second-class men it is evident that the
yearly average for male farm hands cX-
elusive of youths and boys in Great
Britain cannot be much. if any. above
500 year, while the average for wom-
en- would be somewhere around 500.
We have no similar figures for the
United States. but in recent bulletin
entitled Wages of Farm Labor in the
United States issued by the Depart
ment of Agriculture, the figures of the
average monthly wages of farm laborcrs
iii this country arc given. Multiplied by
SIX, to arrive at the half yearly rate,
they furnish the following:
Average wages of farm lnborcrs In the
United States.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-16
NOT FIT TO BE PRESIDENT,
IN "Evening Post" Opinion of Judge
porker

An "Evenine Post" Opinion of Judge
Parker.
New York Evening Post, July /. 1902
We presume that Judge Parkcr's greet.
ings in Georgia as 'our next President
will not rue his judicial calm. Like
the rest of us, he has seen too many next
Presidents year before election.
They usually swarm like grasshoppers
in July before the nominating conven-
ton. But the Judge will be subjected
in his Georgia address to Il pretty sharp
test Of his fitness for President. next
time or ever. Will he have the courage
to speak a direct ana wholesome word
to the people of the South on the question
which is rapidly becoming the leading ma
tional issue?
We mean. of course, the whole matter
of abridged suffrage, denied citizenship,
refusal Of equal treatment before the
law, and the recrudescence of slavery. as
affecting our negro populations The
Southern papers are full of it, and de-
handing that the South be ''let alone"
in its challenge of human rights and dis
regard of the constitution. Edward NJ.
Shepard told the people of New Orleans
that the South ought to be left TO go its
own way. But can man named as
"our next President" agree to such a
local notification Of national laws! If
he can, he is not fit to be President next
year or any year.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-16
Average wages of farm luborcrs in the
init oil Stnt,v

1T VIII be perceived that the average
rate paid in the United States in 1902
for six months is within SLIGO OF the
maximum rate paid to the best farm
hands. i'll Great Britain in May. 1904 and
almost double tho minimum paid second
class men.
The figures Of our Department Of Ag-
ricnlture. moreover, apply only to those
laborers hired by the year or season. the
rates whore the engagement is by the
day are very much higher being 80
cents per day. with board, and $1.13
without, in 1902, against SO cents with.
and 81 cents without board, in 1894.
This would make the pay. with board,
in 1894. average S94.5O for n half year
of $50 days, while the average compen-
sntlon Of the American farm laborcr paid
by the day in 1902 would be $l33 30
for the six months, with board
But statistical averages. valuable as
they are in rejecting the general condi-
tons are elusive and tuntalizing things
when they attempt to cover the rate Of
wages in an occupation like agriculture
which. including employers and employ
ed, numbers at least 100000 persons
over 10 years of age and upwards of ev-
cry age, color and sex. The American
fnrm laborer knows what wages he re-
ceives and he can compare it with what
is paid in England, and greatly to his
own satisfaction.
lie also knows that the above aver
ages in the United States for 1894 and
1902 fairly though family reflect the
difference between his industrial rondi-
ton during the last Democratic national
administration and now And in Noyem-
her he will not vote for any party whose
success would forcshadow return to
the conditions of 1894 and 1880
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-16

Rural free delivery has enabled farm.
ers to obtain better prices for their prod
ucts. Being brought into daily touch
with the state Of the markets, they are
enabled to take advantage Of nforma-
ton heretofore inaccessible to them. For
this practical help they are indebted to
the party that does things"-viz., the
party.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-16
E6nnuaiau a Hleaninn

United States Consul General Guen-
ther, at Frankfort, Germany, quotes
noted German professor as saying that
expansion does not lessen a nations in
herent compactness and strength. On
the contrary, nation can only become
great, he says, by having space in which
to expand. Great Britain is cited as an
example of what expansion has done for
a nation that originally had little terri
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-16
OF Course Not.

David b. Hill stated, In one of his
speeches, that Mr.. Roosevelt. on taking
the oath of office after the death of
President Mckinley, said that he would
not be candidate for President in 1904
President Roosevelt has never made a
promise as to his own personal action
which he did not redeem The President
is outspoken, fair and square. These
are characteristics of the man. He
makes no promises he does not intend to
keep. and he keeps such as he makes
The silly story started by Hill had no
foundation i'll fact, and it is really not
worth the ink and paper that has been
used in denying it, except that it once
more marks the character OF Hill.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-16
steel 1ndu.tr. Doe. Not Laa.

A director of the United States Steel
Corporation refutes one Of the stats
ments made by calamity Demo
Gratis by saying that business is 80 good
there will be no cut in prices Of steel.
adding: All our plants will be running
at full capacity in month or two, and
by that time the demand for steel OF all
kinds will be greater than at any time
during the past year.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-16

The general prosperity the country has
enjoyed under Republican administration
during the last seven years has proftsd
the farmer as much If not more than any
other one class. The farmers know II,
and should and undoubtadly will Tots ID
sonsinAs conditions as they are and kaYs
hrssa 81, 80
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-16

With the immense crops which are now
assured it is essential that prices be
maintained so that farmers may reap the
full reward of their labors. This Is as
snrod II the Republican party IL eontp.
sea In power
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-16

~ have words Of abnse for
Theodore Roosevelt. believe him to
be a brave, honest, conscientious IN an.
1 give him full credit for having
splendid courage of cenvictiou.''-
Thomas E. Watson's speech accepting Populist
nomination.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-16

Liberal compensation for labor makes
liberal customers for our products. The
Republican policy Of protection makes
both
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-16

St. Joe st. RAPID CITY.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-16

The following tables show how steady
have been the gains in cash values of
staple crops, despite fluctuations from
year to year in size Of crops:
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-09-15
EAST sRAlNrREE.

J. G. Goodan OF Norwood. Mass, was in
town Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Sumner were IN
Barre last week.
;. J. Flint OF Mortified was al A. K
Mcintire's Sunday.
Mrs. Emma French went to Roxhury
Tuesday TO do nursing.
Miss Mary Linfield is at r. c. Packard !
in Randolph for a while.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emerson OF Bristol are
visiting at j. Z. Mclntire's.
Mr.. and Mrs. X. J. Flint have been visit.
ing friends in Waterbury this week.
Mrs. Clara Grain sold her household
goods al auction Saturday afternoon and
has gone % Randolph 70 care for Mrs.
Wilson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Waldo J. Flagg and daugh-
ter returned to Miller, Neb., tuesday after
a month East. Mr.. Flagg was in Boston
last week, returning Monday.
Rev. Mr.. Urban, who was taken suddenly
and seriously IN few weeks ago. mas re-
covered so that he filled the pulpit sunday
at the West Brookteld church.
Roy Thayer ana Helen Lewis. who had
been spending their vacation here with
relatives, returned 10 their homes in West
Fitchburg and Lynn, Mass, Saturday.