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Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-30
MONTANA ITEMS.

Samuel Studzinski, a fur buyer and
pawnbroker, who conducted a small
place of business at Lewistown, Mont,
was murdered last week. No clew.
The new Christian church of Bill.
ings will be dedicated September g.
Rev. ]. H. Garrison, l.. L. D., Of st.
Louis, Mo-, will deliver the dedicatory
sermon.
Cut off from the main body of the
mine by several tons of rock, Con
Sullivan, single miner, was buried
alive on the 200 foot level of a leased
mine in the Butte camp.
The city council of Havre has de.
cided that church and school property,
which is exempt from regular taxa.
ton, must be taxed the same as citi.
zens' property for the new sewerage
system being installed at Havre.
Fraser brothers have sold to George
Mitchell Of Cody, Wyo., 2700 head of
yearling sheep. The price is various
ly reported at from $3.50 to 81 per
head. Sheepmen say that the eastern
market for sheep was never better
than at the present time.
James Cairns, the tenth victim of
the street car accident which occurred
at Butte last Sunday night, died at
the hospital. failing to survive the
amputation of his left leg above the
knee. He was an electrician, aged 80
years. and is survived by a wife and
three children.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-30

An extra stock train, bound east
wac wrecked at Essex Sunday night
and six cars of cattle teiescoped.
Fireman Fred johnson was pinned un-
der his engine for two hours with a
bolt through his leg. Engineer Har-
rington and his fireman were also
badly hurt.
The Custer Sheep company. through
the manager, M. F. Trask, at Billings,
has sold to Fred Klink of Denver H..
500 wethers for $4,000, or at the
rate of Of $4.1O per head, which is one
of the best sheep sales made in east.
ern Montana in many years. The
sheep purchased from Mr.. Trask are
worth from $5.75 to Sc per head in
the Chicago market and will be ship
ped there as soon as delivered. The
dates of delivery are August 81 and
September l at Peritsa, point on the
Burlington railroad.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-30
IDAHO sQUIRBs.

Lewiston.-Grain dealers estimate
the wheat crop in the Clearwater
country to be at least 10 per cent
larger than last year.
John Wright, who was arrested at
Huntington, Ore, on the charge of
horse stealing, has been taken to Can
yon county, Idaho, for trial.
Little Mabel Ingram, who wandered
away from the picnic grounds near
Wardner was found down near the
Chance mill at the home Of E. 8.
Weird.
The miners picnic, held last week,
across from Kellogg, was a largely
attended affair, nearly all the resi-
dents of Wardner and Wellogg at.
tending.
During a quarrel Oscar Olson, a sa.
loon man of Burke, was killed by
Chief of Police Beck recently in the
Western saloon at Wallace. Olson
was shot in the back of the head.
William Hodges has committed sui
eide at Boise by taking carbolic acid
He has made three attempts on his
life previously. Dependency over
sickness was the cause of his act.
The Occur d'Alene & Spokane Rail.
way company Saturday declared q
semiannual dividend of per cent, OF
$4,000, payable September 20. The
company paid a similar dividend in
February.
Pedro Spina, an o. R. & N. Goa
HEAVIER, was killed Friday morning al
the company's coal bunkers at Wal
lace, Idaho. No one observed the &C
cident, and the exact manner in which
he met death is not known.
Charges have been filed with The
general land commissioner in Wash
ington which may result in setting
| aside the sale of some of the lands II
the old Fort Sherman military reser
yation, recently sold at auction a
Occur d'Alene.
Governor Gooding has issued .
quarantine proclamation agains
horses in Latah, Nez Perez and par
| If Idaho counties on account of thu
prevalence of mango on the Nez Perc,
reservation, where the state has nj
jurisdiction over live stock.
Roadmaster Brown of the Northern
Pacific has a crew of men with {
steam shovel at work filling in bridge
100, three miles northeast of Ken
Trick. The bridge is 300 feet lont
and stone abutments have been put ii
Tor waterway 60 feet wide. All thu
remainder of the bridge will be filed
Sheriff Matt w. Stewart of Lehm
county, Idaho, went to Bozeman
Mont, to get Charles E. Bloom, wht
is wanted in Salmon City for alleged
murder of John Strom. Strom wa!
killed at Salmon City, Idaho, July 1.
Of this year and lay in his cabin fol
two days before it was discovered
that he was dead. He had been strucl
with a rock.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-30
MASKED MEN LYNCH NEGRO.
Mob Takes Him From Jail at New
burn, N. c.

Newburn, N. c., Aug. 2S.-John
Moore, negro 20 years old, was taken
from Craven county Jail in this city
and lynched by a mob of 100 masked
men, armed with rifles and revolvers.
Moore entered the country store Of
George Eubanks at Clarks, seven
miles from Newburn, last Friday,
when the proprietor's wife was alone
in the store. The negro attempted
robbery, and struck Mrs. Eubanks on
the head with a meat ak, fracturing
the skull and inflicting serious in
juries. Mrs. Eubanks screamed and
people came to her rescue. The negro
fed, but was captured in a swamp,
after chase of few miles, and was
placed in jail.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-30
Buck the Meat Trust.

Retail Kosher" butchers of New
York, who recently formed an organi-
cation to act independently of the
western packers, have opened their
new abattoirs. On the opening of the
latter, 500 head Of prime western cat
tie were slaughtered, dressed and car
ried into the refrigerating rooms,
there to remain until September 4,
when the stockholders, who are also
to be the customers of the concern,
will be allowed to come in and buy.
The new concern was organized
three years ago and the plant just
completed, at cost of $1,500,000, is
declared by the promoters of the
scheme to be the most complete affair
Of its kind in the country.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-30
FLOUR TRADE PARALYzED,
Bake Shops Of Hongkong Refuse to
Handle American Flour,

Advices received at Seattle, Wash,
by the Hammond Milling company
from its agents in Hongkong state
that the Chinese. boycott of American
goods has completely paralyzed the
flour trade between Pacific coast ports
and China.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-30

An artificial bait consisting of a
gelatinous paste has been invented by
Frenchman for use in the New
foundland fisheries.
The first woman physician in Bos-
ton, DR.. Sophronia Fletcher, is ninety
nine years old, but is said to be still
very active.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-30
NORTHERN PACIFIC

To-.
Chicago, Washington,
Philadelphia, New York,
Boston and all points
East and West.
Through tickets to Japan and China,
via the Tacoma and Northern Pacific
Steamship Co. and American line.
Through Tickets to
st. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth, Fargo,
Grand Forks, croo<ston, Winni.
peg, Helena and Butte.
Passengers must get permits for
local freights 81 and So.
For information. time cards, maps
and tickets. call on or write
L. E. PASKILL, Agent.
Ritzville, Wash.
Or A. D. CHARLTON,
Asst Gen. Pass. Agt.,
225 Morrison St.,
Portland. Oregon.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1905-08-30
BURNING Commended,

The burning at the stake of Tim
Williams, a negro, for attacking a
white woman, was commended at the
Texas state convention Of negro Bap-
lists at Dallas.
The Washington times., 1905-08-06
AR is heil!"

GGy JAR is hell"
~ But If Gen. William Te-
y cumseh Sherman were Iiv-
ing In this day and gen
GRAFTON he would probably be sorry he
said IL forty years ago, and left himself
nothing more expressive to say now. If
1t had been given him 10 see the war
game as it has been played IN the Far
East for the last two years; If he had
witnessed the life and death struggle
between the dragon and the bear he
would have realized that the hell. which
is war, has depths which he and his gen
Grafton never sounded and he would
perhaps apologize to the modern scribe
for having left him no stronger wa- of
putting it,
War is hell!-heIi with the lid off.
And these pictures of war as it is, as
modern Ingenuity and modern engines
of humiliation have made it. might fit
ttngly be labeled "glfmpses of hell"
Dante dreamed Of nothing more horri-
Bile; Dore pictured nothing more ghast-
y. From that first sudden torpedo at
tack right down 20 the last great battle
Of the Sea Of Japan, the war has been
hell at which civilization shuddered, and
yet has watched fascinated, unable to
avert its gaze. Il has been a gruesome
spectacle of the logical evolution, of the
perfection TO which civilization and
progress and developments of the arts
of peace have brought the science of
war.
From the beginning reports have been
meagre. Correspondents have not been
allowed TO see much Of what was going
on, and little as they have seen they
have been allowed to write even less. 1t
has been only the barest outline with
few details, Yet these few have taught
the world what 10 expect when it was
all over and the true story Is told
of widespread ruin and of havoc and
destruction beyond belief, of blood shed
like Wa ter. and of men moved down ike
wheat.
The Washington times., 1905-08-06
Ricalton's Great Work.

There are three OF us here-Frederic
Villiers. the war artist; James Rtcalton,
the war photographer. and myself. The
public knows about Villiers. hero of Plev-
ma and the Soudan, dfscoverer of artistic
Abyssinia, decorated by seven govern
ments, veteran of seventeen campaigns,
dean of the war correspondents. who
has Travelled the world round lecturing,
sketchng. writing. The public knows
less of RiCulton, one Of its obscure great
men. He has gone through a long life
with his nose to his work, like dog to
a scent, needless of fame and money. He
Is original. alone, and has done things
no other man has done. It was he that
Thomas A Edison sent into all the
tropical jungles twenty years ago to
search for a vegetable fiber for the
electric lamp. He took most Of the pho
togra phs' for John H Stoddard's lee
lures He was the first foreigner TO walk
through northern Russia, 1890 miles
from Archangei to St. Petersburg He
has travelled through every country on
the globe. exposing 1900 negatives, and
has photographed most OF the great
men of his generation. OF late years he
has become one of the most expert of
war photographers. In the Philippines
he was the only man to get troops
actually firing on the foe. At the battle
of Caloocan a soldier near him was
winged; Ricalton picked up the useless
rife. grabbed the cartridge belt and went
up with the slirmisneTs. At the siege
of Tientsin be stood on the walls and
photographed Americans as they were
dropped by Chinese bullets. Little the
public knows when il sees photograph
Of war how few of them come from the
front Ricalton is one of the few who
gets the real thing. He is sixty years
The Washington times., 1905-08-06
The Man Behind the Camera.

that are being enacted in ManChuria.
and pass on TO description of some
thing that is nearer home. The reports
of the correspondents are sufficiently
graphic, but il is all SO far away that
somehow il seems unreal and like a
page from fiction.
But when these same men and women
are confronted with actual photographs
of the horrors that have been de-
scribed and know that the representa-
TONS are genuine and not clever fakes
the terrible destruction OF human life
and valuable property is realized for
The Washington times., 1905-08-06

the first time. The photographs can do
what no written words can.
OF those shown in todays Times the
best we're taken by James Ricalton, the
war photographer. Curiously enough
the public knows very little of Riealtop.
He is a man of deeds, not words.
His work speaks for itself. War cor
respondents sign their dispatches, Ri
cliton rushes his films to New York
and dashes out for more and better
copy.
Richard Barry, the correspondent who
achieved fame during the siege of Port
Arthur, took occasion in one of his dis
patches to pay i just tribute TO the
man with the camera. Writing from
the headquarters of the third imperial
army at Port Arthur last October. he
saws:
The Washington times., 1905-08-06

old. yet he tramps ten and twenty miles
q day with a thirty-pound camera under
his arm. for he sneers at the snap shot
and will carry tripod. Yet he outlasts
the young men on the march. Here he
goes everywhere-into captured forts
while the corpses are still about, through
the most dangerous artillery positions,
among reserves waiting for battle, into
the actual lighting if they would let him.
Today he is off to crafty one OF his few
remaining ambitions, Tor he IS signing
Ike Alexander at already exhaEsting the
world. He wants TO ~et one of the new
siege shells. 500 weight, as it leaves the
gun on its trip 10 the battleships in the
bay. Four of these shells were dropped
yesterday into the Rervizan and PaIlada-
Today the gunners viii try 10 put in
another. Ricalton plans 10 have his
camera ali set and tilted at the proper
angle behind. Then as the gunner pulls
the lanyard he presses the bulb. He has
stuffed his ears with cotton so the
shock will not break the drums. for
gunner yesterday was deafened for life.
He viii probably be hurled 10 the ground
and his camera may be smashed, but he
wants that shell hurting through the
air. 10 bigger than Il bee. while the dust
Of the recoil curls up over the emDIace-
menf and all the grand tensity Of power
ana motion IS about The place,
The Washington times., 1905-08-06
But That wouldn't Be the Real Thing.

Why take the risk says I, when
you can so easily take the gun at rest
and then paint in a little dust and that
wee DOT up in the air
- But It wouldn't be the real thing,
said he. as he started off. Then l saw
why he is Ricalton and not some faker
at his ease over a chemical tray in the
city. Just now, looking out Of the win
dow under which write, I can see the
battery where he has gone. It lies snug
among the hills. two great guns cooked
on concrete and ffanked by howitzers
aloft on peaks. The Russians have the
range and are pumping shells in, two or
three a minute. 1t looks as If nothing
could live there. but ( know that prob
ably not a man IS injured, for 1 was
there yesterday and saw how safe the
dugouts are. VilIiers looks up from his
sketch1ng and watches the firing through
his glasses. \ ten-ineher plunges into
the hillside and the earth boils up as
if tho foundations were ri~-ed away.
II hope dear old Ricalton is out OF
that he exclaims
Don't fear for him He has gone
through too much to be raped by that
reply. I remember how he walked
there yesterday, his eye always on 3
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1905-04-20
Hunter. Mus. BE Careful.

The game law enacted by the late
Legislature is very stringent, provides
heavy penalties for violations, and
makes it to the interest OF all would-be
hunters to be informed. The chief
provisions of the law are as follows:
The first thing to impress on the
memory is that the only birds not pro.
tected are the great horned owl, sharp
Skinned hawk, goshawk, chicken hawk,
English sparrow and crow. In the
judgment of many close observers the
crow should have been on the protected
list.
Wild turkey, prairie chicken and
quail may be killed from November 10
to December Is, plover, snipe, ducks
and geese from. January to April l
and from September ] to December 81,
Of each year. Violations are punish
able by a fine OF not less than S25 nor
more than $50 for each offeuse, and an
additional fine OF S. for each bird so
killed.
Squirrel are protected from January
to July |, under penalties same as
above.
Woodcock and Mongolian, Chinese
and English pheasants or other i'm
ported game birds are protected until
1910.
1t is unlawful to kill any birds or deer
between sunset and sunrise, TO kill any
doe, any deer under one year old, or
any bucks save during the months OF
November and December, the penalty
for violation being fine of SO to $780,
II is unlawful TO hunt without a
license, to be procured from the county
clerk, good for one year, The fee being
81 for resident and $l5 for nonresident
hunters, the penalty being as above.
The law requires the appointment OF
u state game warden at a salary OF
S2400 o year by the governor, and
makes all sheriffs, their deputies, mar
shals, constables or other peace officers.
ex-ofiicio game and fish wardens.
The law is now in force.
Lookout.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1905-04-20
From q TaneyIte In Oregon.

J. II. Bradley, IN writing to the Re.
publican from Rainier, Oregon, says;
"Tell my friends in Taney that |
have reached the honey pan at last.
and that IL they want any 1t is time
for them to be getting here. The
chickens here lay twice week--three
eggs ut time. They don't lay on Sun
day. but the people work the same
Sunday as any other day. The hardest
habit for the people to quit here is
swearing on. The Irshman said he
tried to quit the liquor habit, but that
when he went 10 pass a saloon his legs
would give down with him. but when
he started In the saloon they would
straighten out and carry him all right.
am getting along all right. How is
everyone in Taney? Hope that the
Sunday schools and smallpox are both
progressing we'll. Some people seem
TO think that God never gets on this
side Of the Rockies, but find that a
mistake. There are good Christian
people everywhere.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1905-04-20
TANEY COUNTY PROBATE COURT
Probate Docket, May Term, Commencing
Monday, May 8, 1908.
FIRST DAY.

rIRsT nay.
Estate Of Louis lIouseman, A. j. Houseman guard.
ian and curator, final settlement.
Estate Of Henson A. Stewart deceased, L. s. Cole
administrator final settlement.
Estate Of William Grady Senior, William Grady
Junior administrator, final settlement
Es,,,a NJ AIoxo,aor n MINNIE aa,oosad yohn I'm
derwood administrator final settlement,
SECOND DAY.
Estate Of W. j. and ]. l.. Hopper, minors, L. +.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1905-04-20
OZARK PHILOSOPHY.

Ideals mould lives,
Taffy is a great persuader.
Tie best fish are most wary.
Force is nothing without aim.
To shirk duty is palpable cowardice.
Dollars are the lowest possible meas
ure of success.
The cackle OF the hen is justified by
her achievement.
Saurkraut by any other name would
smell just as sweet.
The sucker, and some who fish for it,
1--we up TO the name.
Ignorance may be bliss, but TO start u
fire with kerosene is blister.
To face condition may require more
courage than TO face cannon.
The man who is happy is well off
whether he has bank account or not
That cat may be handsome does
not mitigate the nuisance of midnight
cat chorus.
Weight is entirely relative matter
what would pass as trillc on ones
knee, properly garnished with ribbons
and cologne, would seem like a ton or
two when supported on a real sensitive
corn.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1905-04-20
Last Hopc Vanished.

hen leading physicians said that
W. NJ. Smithart, of Pexin, Ia, had in.
durable consumption, his last hope van.
ished; but DR.. Kings New Discovery
tor consumption, coughs and colds,
kept him out of his grave. He says;
This great specific completely cured
me, and saved my life. Since then, l
have used it for over 10 years, and con-
slider it a marvellous throat and lung
cure. Strictly scientific cure forcoughs,
sore throats or colds; sure preventive
of pneumonia. Guaranteed, SOC and
sl.0O bottles at City drug store. Trial
bottle free.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1905-04-20
Cheated Death.

Kidney trouble often ends fatally, but
by choosing the right medicine, Z. Fl.
Wolfe, OF Bear Grove, Iowa, cheated
death. Hesays; "Two years ago / had
kidney trouble, which caused me great
pain, suffering and anxiety, but took
Electric Bitters, which effected COM
plete cure. have also found them OF
great benefit in general debility and
nerve trouble, and keep them constantly
Or hand, since, as find they have no
equal" A. H. Parrish druggist,
guarantees then. at SOC.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1905-04-20
Best Cough Medicine for Children.

When you buy cough medicine for
small children you want one in which
you can place implicit confidence. You
want one that not only relieves but
cures. You want one that is unques.
tionably harmless. You want one that
is pleasant to take. Chamberlains
Cough Remedy meets all of these con-
ditions. There is nothing so good for
the coughs and colds incident to child.
hood, 1t is also a certain preventive
and cure for Group, and there is no
danger whatever from whooping cough
when il is given. 1t has been used in
many epidemics OF that disease with
perfect success. For sale by City drug
store.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1905-04-20

A new platform has been built along
the south side OF the Masonic building.
The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1905-04-20
rANEY COUNTY REPUBLICAN
BY w. H. PRICE.
Taney County

fancy is the fourth county from the west
line OF the state, in the extreme southern
tier, and so bordering on Arkansas ana en-
loving to its fullBess the wonderful climate
Of the Sunny Side OF the Ozarks, where the
temperature rarely touches zero in winter and the
nights In summer are always cool enough 10 make
sleep delight. ,..oo
acres, of which about 61,uO0 acres are under i'm.
proyement. The soil varies from the rich ailuviai
bottoms to the strong limestone soils OF the ridg-
es, producing successfully wheat, on which the
county was awarded the silver medal at the Lou
isana Purchase exposition, corn second TO none,
Ia stalk grown this season on display IN thls once
measuring IL feet in length) potatoes, cotton,
melons, tame grasses, berries, fruits vegetables,
In fact ything except tropical products fears
and peaches do especially well.
The surface is rugged and picturesque, covered
with forests and traversed BY streams OF spark
ling .clearness, among them the beautiful White
river, famed for Its scenery aud It's unny tribes,
including the gamey black bass and jack salmon,
while the wooded expanses abound In small game
OF various kinds. including fox, raccoon, opossom,
squirrel, quail and turkey, atording abundant
recreation with rod and gun.
The population of the county by the last census
was l0,l37 only two OF whom were colored and
all but 10 American born. The county tax Is but
W cents on the SlUU, and there Is practicaiiy no
county debt Wood for fuel is plentiful and cheap
selling In Forsyth for 81 wagon.oad with side.
boards. Church and school facilities are fair and
increasing, many Of the schools manfesting such
a spirit Of up.to-dateness as TO provide libraries
for the use OF pupils. Improved farms are valued
at $40 TO $50 an acre, while unmproyed lands can
be had at 81 90 to IS. There are still about 5000
acres OF government lands, subject to homestead
or cash entry. The county Is hneiy watered, the
White river alone winding In and out for about u
hundred miles within its borders.
There Is considerable timber OF commercial val,
ne, including hickory, whiteoak, walnut, pine and
cedar, and vast mineral wealth, us Indicated by
the little prospecting that has been done. Our
minerals include marble, hydraulic lime, mangan'
ese, copper, lead and zinc in their multitudinous
forms, silver and gold recent prospecting showing
the presence OF both in paying quantities, all Of
which will afford matchmaking opportunities TO
men of means, Judgment and energy.
In no spot on earth, perhaps, can poor man
so easily acquire a home and make living, and
any man who is honest and energetic will be well
coined, be he rich or poor. The railroad, white
River line OF the Missouri Pacifc,) Is just reach
ing us for the first time, and a freight and pass
enger steamer will be put on the river next sum
mer, greatly stimulating activity in every direc'
tiop, and sending values upward. Now is the
time to get In right aud reap the benefits