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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-12-16

In suggesting the commercial and
strategic need Of canal between the
Mississippi river and the great lakes
the New Orleans Picayune declares
that it is impossible for a ship bound
to or from any United States port on
the shores Of the lakes to sail in from
the sea or out to Il without passing
through many hundreds Of miles Of
waters that are wholly In foreign terri
tory. Our southern contemporary
thinks there is need for some "wator
way entirely within the limits Of the
United States that will place the north
ern lakes In navigable communication
with thc sea. Such n waterway has
% a large extent been furnished by
nature In tho channels Of the Missis
sippi and its tributary, the Illinois
river They need extensive improve
mcut to make them fully available, but
their requirements are entirely within
the bounds Of practicability and Of
reasonable economy A navigablo
commercial waterway from Chicago 20
st. Louis will neccrsitate such a water.
way 20 Now Orleans and the Gulf of
Mexico. Such a waterway Il absolute
~ required 10 enable tho great states
Of the Mississippi valley 70 move their
products which are designed FOR export
90 the sca, and 20 bring In from abroad
their imports, Tho day h not distant
when tho urgency Of the need OF such
a waterway will brook neither dcnial
nor delay. This l. an ago which is
essentially ono Of Industrial and com
mercial evolution, and Il enforoos the
law Of tho survival Of the httest, the
most enduring, tho most capable and
tho most able 20 WELD tho power and
resources Of competition. In this
struggle every advantage must be
taken aud every facility employed 90
the utmost. The American people win
need 10 develop and use every resource
and any failure 90 do 30 viii work
them great disaster. They are not 40
stupid as thab and a waterway from
tho lakes 20 tho 6ulf Of Mexico vii
follow tho Panama canal as the next
great national enterprise"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-12-16

The OFegonian Fejoiees over new Ore
gon railroads and prints list OF seven
proposed roads, hye Of which are not In
the state, Portland is not Oregon, not
an Of IT, The list follows;
LeWistOn-SOutheasteFn Railway Co..
Electric road from Lewiston 10 Grange
vile; White salmon 10 Trout Lake,
electric road.
Central Railway Of Oregon-Conneet-
ing towns Of Grand Ronde valley.
Chicago, Milwaukee 4 81. Paul
From Everett s. d., 70 Wallula, Wash,
with outlet 70 Portland.
Portland Oregon seaeoast Railway
Co.-To TllamOok City and Humboldt
Bay and Eurekai branches 70 Forest
Grove and Grand Rapids.
st. Helens Loop Lne-FrOm Port.
land or Vancouver 10 81. Helens mining
district.
Wallula Pacific Railroad Company
and Columbia Valley Railway Com
pauy-Aequiring rights Of way on north
bank Of Columbia.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-12-16
Furious FfghtinR.

"For seven years" writes Geo. w
Hoffman OF Harper, Wash, "I had a
bitter battle with chronic stomach and
liver trouble, but A. last ] won, ani
cured my diseases by the use Of Flee
trie Bittsrs. l unhesitatingly recon
mend them 90 all, and don't intend in
the future 10 be without them 10 the
house They are certainly a wonder
ful medicine, 10 have cured such a bad
ease as mine" Sold under guarantees
to do the same for you, By J. o. Perry,
druggist, at soc a bottle. Tyy them
today.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-12-16
Magazines for 1906 for Al
most Nothing

Capital has arranged 70 supply ls so -, ,,,
15 t aeaz than tho cost OF hH
pon 70 the Journal but these prices will apply ony 70 Ao''
% hs -, the Journal either daily weekly editions AZ tho same
time os bs extremely low price, subscriptions must DO payable
IN advance Tue Daily Capital will DO delivered R carrier " ~
within the Imits salem mail 20 all outside sap'''p
"a a.. a., .,s,uy Every one representative Of It's class
Ms5aps and womaps Home Companion both rival the Ladies homo
journal Review Of Reviews aud literature OF '
monthly review The Cosmopolitan Of the best OF he s
zines The New FaTmsrand tho Orange 'u'" f -
Tribune Chicago Interoees' as the
these two cities and weekly editions 8 being the D
IN M Ta 49, The Agricultural EptoH valuable noA'hH TOT
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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-12-16
selling capitol Lands IN South Dakota

aNAAAnA 2ANAANA AsAAsNa -
Pierre. s. D., Dec. l0.-Homeseokefs
from al parts of the country, princi'
paliy from the Northwest are arriving
here In large numbers 10 avail them
selves of the sale of capitol LANDS In
Mcpherson county and IN the counties
Of Hyde, Bdmunds and Faulk, author
izs by the state capitol land commits.
aioucrs. Since the auction Of state lands
month. or more ago tho Influx Of
homcscckvrs into this state has been
remarkably large. In tho last month
the local land oficer has received more
aliugu than ever before during that
month alone In hhiu Office. AZ the same
time tho Chamberlain and Rapid City
officers have been accepting many
claims For the last three months four
and ono half townships Of tho govern.
mont lands IN the Pierre district have
been taken up and tho rush FOR lands
along thc new line Of tho Northwest.
ern road has only begun.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-12-16
A raArmi Pate.

II IL a fearful fate 10 have 10 on
dure tho terrible torture Of piles. "'I
can truthfully say" writes Harry Col
son, Of Aasoavills, Ia, "that for
blind, bleeding, itching and protTuding
piles, Bueklen's AEniea salye 10 the
best cure mads." Also beat for euts,
burns, and injuries. zoe Al ]. @. Per.
rye drug store.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-12-16
In Mad chaso

Millions ruah In mad chase after
health, from ono s1tfome Of faddism
10 another. when, n they would only
cat good food. and keep their bowels
regular with DR.. Kings Now Life
Pills. their troubles would all pass
away. Prompt relief and quiek cure
for liver and stomach trouble, 25e, al
J. @. Perry's drug storej guaranteed,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-12-16

Many children inherit constitutions
weak and feeble, others due TO child
hood troubles. HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea win positively cure
children and make them strong IS
cents, Tea or Tablets. DT. Stone .
Drug Store.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-12-16
A Genuine Sacrifice

THE BUSIEST PLACE IN TOWN
THESE DAYS Is THE YOKOHAMA
TIA STORE, WHERE THE CROWDS
or BUYERS ARE RUSHING IN To
GET THE BENEFIT OF THE ORRD.
TORS SALE IN THE PURCHASE
OF ofRIsTAIAs PREsENTs. ONE
DAY OVER $500 WORTH OF HAvI.
LAND DINNER SETS WE'RE pTs
POSED oF. AND THE sAAfR DAY
AT LHAsT 40 PmoEs oP our
GLASS WERE SOLD, BESIDES TIfH
MULTITUDE OF OTHER ARTIoI.Ra
rlfhHE PINE GOODS HAVE BEEN
CUT TO THE QUICK, AND BAR.
GAINS ARE oIVRN IN EVERY DE.
PAhfMERT. THE MANY oI.ERxsI
ARE CROWDED WITH WORK MOST
or TIE THE. AS THE HOLIDAY
SHOPPERS ARE DETRRArnSRD TO
HAVE THESE ELEGANT ooonaI
NOW BEING sAoRIFIORD. A GREAT
OUT rs BEING MADE ATT.
THROUGH THE STORE, AND Ous.
TONERS ARE ASKED TO REPORT
TO THE MANAGER AMY NE0IRoT
ON THE PART OF CLERKS. AND
kSFhoAALLX ANY DISCREPANCY
FROM THE ADVERTISED PRIo1a
as ~ ~ THE INTENTION TO LIVE
Uf 10 EVERY oRPKR. OR DO BET.
FAA ~ THERE Is ANY QUESTION
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-10-26
BELATED RESTITUTION.
Savings Provided for Widows and
Orphans Absorbed by Re-
publicans.

Far greater disclosures of the repub-
lican campaign fund graft from the in
surance companies are expected by Mr..
Hughes, the attorney in charge of the
New York investigation. The claim is
made that the life insurance companies
contributed an aggregate of $1,000, 900 in
the campaigns of 1896, 1900 and 1904.
Of all the republican scandals exposed
during the past few years, this CAM
paign fund scandal is the most disgrace
full and disastrous to the republican
party. 1t was bad enough to receive do
nations from the trusts and corporations
that were expecting to receive favors,
or to do business with the government,
but to use the savings, especially pro-
vided for the widow and orphan, to de-
bauch the voters of the close states, is
beyound measure ~atrociouS.
1t is said that President Roosevelt
feels the disgrace of this exposure keen
ly and is planning that restitution be
made by having Mr.. Cortelyou, the chair
man of the republican national commit
tee, return the amount received in 1904.
But that would only be a partial restitu-
ton. for there would still remain the
greater amount received in 1896 and
1900.
The policy holders of these insurance
companies have a duty to perform for
their families, and that is to insist on the
retirement of the management that has
%plundered their savings and the voters
have their duty to perform, which is,
ITO turn the rascals OUT who secured
the money.
1t is impossible now for the repub-
lican party to make restitution to the
democrats for their purchase of the cleo
tion in 1896 and 1900, if not in 1904, with
the money furnished by the corpora
tions. trusts and insurance companies.
but the voters of the United States can
even matters up by refusing to condone
the %iniquity, by defeating the party that
accomplished it.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-10-26
SMALL FARMERS SUFFERING
Trust High Prices and Unreasonable
Railroad Rates Are the
Cause,

The report of the commissioner who
has charge of taking the state census
in Iowa makes the extraordinary state
ment that Authorities agree that the
loss in population is due to the enlarge
ment of farms, being almost wholly in
the rural Districts AS the decrease of
population has been 30,481, almost
wholly of the farm population, there
must be either a concentration going
on by the well-to-do farmers buying out
the poorer ones. or the abandonment of
farms by those who have not been able
to make a living thereon.
Perhaps Secretary Shaw can explain
this loss of population, but those who
have tried to do so agree, that trust high
prices and railroad unreasonable rates
are the controlling cause. The poorer
farmers, of course, are the first to suffer.
And yet Secretary Shaw is advising the
farmers in his speeches to stand pat"
on the tariff and railroad rate issue and
is to leave the cabinet next February
because he disagrees with President
Roosevelt on the Legislation needed to
protect the farmers of Iowa and other
states from the plundering trusts and
railroad corporations.
The democrats have foretold that
conditions, such as prevail in Iowa,
would be eventually prevalent every
where If protection to trusts and corpor-
atoms is continued, and now, in spite
OF good crops and fair prices for farm
products. the official record proves their
contention.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-10-26
REPUBLICAN, HIGH FINANCE.
Secretary Shaw a Fiscal Charlat&n
Who Is Doing Funny
Stunts.

The address of Secretary Shaw before
the Ohio Bankers association at Cleve-
land, contained some extraordinary
statements, if he is correctly reported
by the Associated Press. After stating
that our monetary system is not per-
feet, because it is non-elastic. Mr.. Shaw
said there will be no further currency
legislation until we have experienced
a panic" and I'VE came nearer such a
panic September 80, 1902, than most
people appreciate. We do not need and
must not have imitation. The average
amount of money is, in my judgment,
abundant. The difficulty lies in the fact
that the volume remains stationary"
Oh! We must not have initiation. Why,
Secretary Shaw must know that infa-
ton is going on every hour and minute.
The treasury circulation statement for
August !, 1905, shows an imitation of the
total money in circulation of $5S.312, 1888
from the same date in 1904, of which
S54,O74 oil was an initiation of national
bank notes alone. This imitation was in
tensified during July of this year, which
is included in the total already given, for
during that month the increase in the
circulation of national bank notes was
SS,251 $50, or at the rate of over $780,
900, 600 a year.
How is that for imitation? Yet Sec
rotary Shaw says: 1.-THE difficulty lies
in the fact that the volume of money
remains stationary" The secretary of
the treasury also seems to have over
looked the enormous gold initiation that
is in progress of over $40, GOO, 900 per u
mum and steadily increasing.
On top of all this imitation the secre-
tary of the treasury would give the ma
tional Banks the right to issue an
amount of currency equal to so per cent.
of their bonds deposited in the treasury
by paying six per cent, upon which the
treasury has already issued to the banks
full face value. That, according to
Shaw, is not imitation. it is merely to
tide Wall street owe its annual debauch
of dear money, ito move the crops
that is to move the crop of undigested
securities.
This high finance is a wonderful insti-
tuition in green republican hands. They
don't want imitation, but they initiate the
bladder almost to the bursting point
and at the same time declare the volume
of money is stationary.
President Roosevelt should call down
this fiscal charlatan, or he will make
the financial end of the administration
a laughing stock to the world, let alone
to our own people.
With the tariff trusts holding up prices
and imitation helping to initiate the cost
of living, those republican policies are
making the lot of those with limited in
comes a hard one to bear.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-10-26

Provence, not far from Marseilles. "A
child born in the new moon will en-
counter great perils in life is a we'll
known Proyencal saying. 1t was sure
ly true in my case, for my whole life
can be best described in one sentence
Out Of the pan, into the Goals Not
to weary you, | shall skip the early
years up to the time I entered the
service of M. Fouquet."
"The late superintendent of
inance" interrupted Tonti in some
surprise.
1.-THE same. For ten years I was one
of his confidential servants. When M.
Colbert, as intendant, set about to
ferret out something by which he
could cause M. Bouquets downfall, I
was employed to watch M, Colbert.
He was too strong for us. You know
the rest; how M. Fouquet was finally
disgraced and confined in the fortress
at Pignerol. Whether he be dead or
no lie bon Dieu rest his soul!) l know
not. Colbert wished to be revenged
on me for having thwarted his plans
so long, but could do nothing until he
got one of his creatures, an innkeeper
Feriol, to swear that | had tried to in
duce him to join me in a plot to muir
der the king. This was excuse enough,
so after five years Imprisonment in the
Bastille, l was sent to the galleys in
the hope that l would be killed. After
three years of that life l escaped, was
recaptured, and sent back to the Bas-
tile. That was six years ago. They
tried their utmost there to incite me
to violence so that they could have a
new excuse to execute me. They
dared not kill me without some cause,
for many of M. Bouquets friends are
alive still, and WELD sufficient power
to make it hazardous for even Colbert
to attempt anything like that without
some shadow of legal right. They
finally succeeded, however. A fellow
prisoner, a feeble old man whose cell
adjoined mine, was so ~ill-treated be-
fore my very eyes that l grew reck-
less and killed his assailant in my
rage at their inhumanity. Hence my
condemnation and attempted execution
to-day"
"Well done, mon brave" cried Tonti
"Just what | should have done my.
self. A feeble old man-sangue d
Dio! 1t makes by blood boil to think
what my poor old father may be this
moment suffering. He incurred the
displeasure Of the king and mazarin
and was imprisoned while l was away
on my first campaign. No word car
l get of him. No, not even the place
of his Imprisonment. All! Louis,
Louis! you accept the oath of the sor
to fight for you, to die for you, ant
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-10-26

America, and | never saw a man who
seemed to be so ashamed that he was
a brevet Englishman. as he did. He
said he had SO much money that ii
made his head ache to hear the inter-
est accumulate, nights, when he
couldn't sleep, and yet he had no more
enjoyment than Dreyfus did on Devils
island. He had automobiles that vou1d
fill our exposition building, horses and
carriages by the score, but he never
enjoyed a ride about London, because
only one person in ten thousand knew
him, and those who did looked upon
him with pity and contempt because
he had renowned his country to get
solid with the English aristocracy, and
nobody would speak to him unless
they wanted to borrow money, and il
they did borrow money from him he
was afraid they would pay it back, and
make him trouble counting it. He
told dad he wanted to get back into
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-10-26

everybody hates me here, and l don't
Care go home to collect my rent for
fear | will be %quarantined at. Ellis is
land and sent back to England as an
undesirable emigrant who has commit
ted a crime, and is not welcome in the
land where I was born. Old man, have
a glass of Milwaukee beer and let's
talk of your home and my birthplace,
and forget that there is such a coun-
try as England
dad sat down on the porch, and I
went out on the lawn chasing peacocks
and freeing guinea hens, and setting
dogs on the swans, until a butler or a
duke or something took me by the col
lar and shook me till my teeth got
loose, and he took me back to the
veranda and sat me down ON the bot
tom step SO hard my hair raised right
up stiff. like a %porcupine. Then L
listened to dad and Aston talk about
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-10-26

America, and become a citizen again
OF that grand old country of the stars
and stripes, and asked dad how he
could do it, for he said he had rather
work in a slaughter house in America
than be a grand duke in England.
Il never saw dad look so sorry for a
mar as. he did for Astor, and he told
him the only way was to sell out his
ranch in London and go back on an
emigrant ship, take out his first pa
pers, vote the democratic ticket and
eventually become a citizen. Astor
was thinking " the proposition, and
dad had asked him if he was not
afraid of dynamiters, when he shud-
dered and said every day he expected
to be blown sky high, and finally he
smelled something burning and said
the smell reminded him of an Ameri'
car Fourth of July.
you see, l had been sitting still OF
the step of the veranda so long | got
nervous, for something exciting, so |
took a giant frecracker out of my
pocket and lit the long tail, and showed
it under the porch and looked limo.
cent, and just then one of the 1unkies
with the highest pants you ever saw
came along and patted me on the head
and said | was a nice boy, and that
made me mad, and when he went tc
sit down beside M on the step took
my horse chestnut out of my pocket
and put it on the step just where hi
sat down, and how it happened tt
come out so l don't know, it must have
been Providence. You see just as the
turnkey flunked on the chestnut burr,
the firecracker went off, and the man
Jumped up and said: 'Ell's-fre, ham
bowed and he had his hands on his
pants, and the air was full of smoke
and dad got on his knees and said:
Now | lay me- and Mr.. Aston faint
ed all over a rocking chair and tipped
beer bottles on the veranda and more
than 40 servants came, and l told dad
to come on, and we got outside the
gate, ahead of the police, and got q
cab and drove quicker than scat to
the hotel, and | asst dad what he
thought it was that went off, and he
said: You can search me- but he
said he had got enough of trying tc
reform escaped Americans, and we go,
in the hotel and laid low, and the
newspapers told about a dynamite
outrage. and laid it to anarchists"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-10-26

yet the nobler father lies languishing
in ome Shiny dungeon, his services
unrewarded, his very name forgot.
Mon Dieu! and if it were not for my
oath and my fathers last words to
me that in the years to come the king
would need the service of every loyal
heart and wrist, / VOW by Saint Denis,
and the finger bone of holy Sainte
Anne | saw at Rome, / would try my
sword whether or no it could pierce
the stone you wear in place of a heart
-Ha! | hear the sound of soldiers on
the stairs. To work, Pompon, and
may Saint Anthony of Padua carry us
through in safety"
A loud knock at the door and a gruff
voice crying, open, in the kings
name!" He hesitated, then began to
sing. A second call, more %peremptory
than the first, followed.
'Hola!" he exclaimed in a loud tone,
II believe | heard some one at the
door. Entrez! whoever you are" And
thus speaking, he turned his head and
looked over his shoulder at an officer
of the guards who stood in the door
way, while the heads of three soldiers
were seen behind him.
"Diamine!" he cried in well-feigned
surprise. Soldiers! And led by my
old friend Bertrand. Sit here, mon
ami, and tell me how you came to find
me out"
The officer addressed, as fine a speci-
men as any in the kings service, gave
him his hand and shook it heartily,
laughing as he did SO.
mon Dieu! Captain de Tonti,
where did you come from? You we're
far from my thoughts, NOR ami, when
entered. I knew not that you lodged
here. am after different game. l am
on a hangman's errand. That accursed
criminal that escaped in the crowd in
the square below is supposed to be in
hiding somewhere near, and | am de-
tailed to give all the houses in the vi
entity a careful search. Have you seen
or heard anything of the rascally
rogue?"
mot l" said Tonti. Neither rogue
nor rascal have | seen this day. No
one has been here save my servant
Jacopo and myself. We two are q
jolly company. He has no tongue,
hence cannot answer back when | scold
him. Wait until I tell him to fetch
another glass. Hola! Jacopo!"-then
he muttered an italian phrase that
was unintelligible to his companions.
At this the supposed servant arose,
and, placing a second glass on the
table, retired to his corner without
uttering a sound. Bertrand looked at
him sharply, then turned to Tonti and
said:
Where got you yon pirate? From
one Of your Mediterranean cam
paigns2"
Tonti noticed his glance, but said
nothing until he had carefully filed
his friends glass and then his own,
ma fol! You would call him pirate
! in truth did you but know his his
tory. Some day l shall tell it you.
It is too long to begin now. Dssue!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-10-26
Patrick Henry's Grave.

Inquiry is made now and then"
sale, James Atkinson, Of Philadelphia,
las to where Patrick Henry, the
Tongue of the Revolution, is buried
The great orator lies in a quiet grave
on the estate in Charlotte county
Virginia, where he formerly lived
Red Hill is the name of the estate,
which is on the Staunton river, IS
miles from Lynchburg. When Pat
rick Henry bought the place it com
prised about $500 acres. One of the
nearest neighbors was the celebrated
John Randolph, of Roanoke, Is miles
away. Red Hill is now owned by Hen
RVS grandson, William Writ Henry
Baltimore San.