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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25

King Alfonso recently had curious
adventure at Madrid. He had left
Granda one morning incognito. He
guarded his identity so strictly that
no one suspected his presence and
when he presented himself at the royal
palace the sentry refused him admit
lance. The King inspected the apart
ments being prepared for President
Loubet of France, who was preparing
to visit the youthful Spanish monarch,
and then sent summons to the aston
ished ministers to come and hold a
council
The Empress Dowager of China is
thoughtful of her subordinates. Here
is an edict of hers issued recently
which will bear out the idea: Wong
Wen-Shao. the grand secretary, has
served under us many years, and he
has shown great diligence and faith
fitness. He is now over 20 years OF
age. and in the daily audiences his
obeisance is now very difficult. and oul
sympathy must be shown him. Lei
him be relieved from the grand coun
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25
COUNTING UNCLE S4M'S CASH.
Occurs Every Time New Treasurer
is Appointed.

Owing to the recent change in the
Office of Treasurer of the United
| States, task of no small magnitude is
going on in the Treasury Building.
Every time one Treasurer gives way to
| another the cash must be counted and
verified before the new official becomes
responsible for the money under his
care.
As soon as a change is made the
Secretary of the Treasury appoints a
Committee of Three to select a force to
count the cash. This committee picks
out number of clerks in the various
offices of the Department, and they are
set at work to count the millions. Per
haps there may be forty men selected
to perform this huge count maybe
fifty or eighty 1t is always considered
an honor to be one of these counters.
The total sum counted by these men
is somewhere in the neighborhood Of
five hundred and thirty millions in
money, bonds, notes and everything
else. One vault alone contains over a
hundred millions in silver dollars. An
other has a heavy amount of silver
fractional currency, and many tons of
nickel fve-cent pieces and pennies.
The working cash is handled first,
and in order to give it a chance to do
regular duty it is counted at night.
Most of the money is counted in bulk
and stored away in uags, each contain
ing a certain sum. 1nese are weighed.
and if there is even one dollar short,
there is instant detection Of the wrong
count. AS each bag is filled by a clerk.
who attaches his name by a tag any
discrepancy in the number of coins or
any coin missing from the sack is
charged to him. This is done, not only
to check any tendency toward dis
honesty, but also to cause each counter
to exercise the greatest care. The new
Treasurer is Charles H. Treat, of New
York, who takes the place of Ellis II.
Roberts.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25
THE SAYING OF OREGON.
HOW DIR. WHITM4N BRAVED
billiards. AND DEATH.
determined to Save Country From
British : Daniel Webster Opposed
to Retaining Territory. :

A bloody trophy in possession of the
government at Washington is an In
dian Ratchet. The tomahawk reeks
with red and horid association. It is
the weapon with which DR.. Marcus
Whitman, the Indian missionary and
his wife We're slain in 1S47 and with
which the first blow of the tearsome
Whitman massacre was begun-an en-
ormous crime which nearly obliterated
the white American settlers in the Ore
gon country, sent a thrill of horror
and Indignation throughout the Amer
lean republic and saved to the Amer
lean people the great northwest cOun-
try out of which Oregon, Washington
and other states were created. It is
one of the very cruel chapters in his
tory-a chapter embracing eight years
of war between settlers and savages
the result Of which was that the Hud-
sons Bay Company and the British
crown were compelled to relinguish
their claim to the territory. Another
result was the virtual humiliation of
the Cayuse tribe of Indians. So much
tragic history centers about this rusty
hatchet that it is one of the fareSt rel
les of the government. A government
official familiar with the period says
The Whitman massacre was the re-
suit of the Vaccinations of England
TO secure by treaty or otherwise all
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25
The World Moves Quickly.

How the thought of the world passes
from one thing to another, and then
forgets. Attention for months was
centered upon Port Arthur, and then
it was transferred to the movements
of the naval fleets, the meeting of
which was so disastrous to Russian
hopes. 1t will be remembered that
when Rojestvensky entered the China
Sea he wired to the Gear: "If l am
victorious l shall inform you. If l am
vanquished, Togo will inform you"
To the public Port Arthur is no more
than one of the countless red
splotches that disfigure history, and
the naval battle of all history is
already relegated to dry discussions as
to what branch of service was most
disastrous to ship and lives.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25

ell II order that he may be saved
trouble As a dismissal this could
hardy be improved upon.
Father John of Cronstadt, whose
extraordinary influence over the Gar,
no less than his propaganda against
the reVolutionaries, continually rouses
the ire of the secret committee, is Sc
years of age. In personality he
answers to the description of the aver
age Russian peasant, only in his case
abstemiousness has wrought a refining
effect on his features.
VAN CALAVA.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25


abstainer, the finest vintage wines are
always offered to such guests as dine
at the palace.
The recent visit of the Shah of Persia
to England recalls a former call of his
upon Queen Victoria, when London
was startled at the Oriental methods
employed by this picturesque Eastern
potentate. Thousands of dollars worth
OF damage was done in the famous
Buckingham Palace by the nochalant
orders of the Shah. The sheep which
provided his mutton were brought into
the palace rooms, which had been
placed at his royal disposal, and
slaughtered upon the magnificent and
costly rugs and other such extravagant
practices were the order of the day.
While the meat which the Shah eats is
always supposed to be slaughtered be-
fore his eyes, it was believed at the time
that these performances were simply
the carrying out of an Eastern regal
fancy, to show Western barbarians
what the Orient was accustomed to.
The Queens maids of honor have
very little to do. They live at home,
and when the Queen is in London they
are conveyed to Buckingham Palace
after luncheon in royal carriages, and
remain in suite of charming salons
until required to accompany the Queen
and her unmarried daughter out
driving. They must dress very we'll
and not appear in the same clothes too
often, and, above all, study the wishes
Of Her Majesty in regard to colors and
modes. The millinery embargo, that is,
not to wear picture hat, must be fol
lowed to the letter. With salary OF
1,500 and the attachment of Honor
able" to their names, the fair maids-of-
honor manage to worry along until
they marry.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25
Literafure and Music Prosper.

During the past year the Library of
Congress made entries for copyrights to
the extent OF 106,577, an increase of
7,141 over those made in 1903. OF
these, compositions of a. musical char
acter head the list, there having been
entered for copyright 23,74O. Period
icals in single numbers follow closely
behind, with total number of 21,O41
The classification Of books" showed
entries to the number of 29,516, some
1881 of which were books and the
remainder booklets, leaflets, circulars
cards, newspapers and magazine arti
cles.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25
the settlers, dispatching parties of
braves after the murderous Cayuse.

the SETTLERS, dispatching PARTIES of
braves after the murderous Cayuse.
american Immigration Won the Day.
The surviving settlers were not slow
in seeking revenge and they made the
name 'Paleface" a fearful word to the
redskin murderers of the northwest
forests. War to the death was c:lrr:e j
on against the Indians for eight years.
Government troops were in the coun-
try, and stream of immigration had
set in. The leaders of the Cayuse
who attacked the Whitman mission
were captured by the Nez Perces on
the upper John Bay river and five of
them were hanged at Oregon city.
The graves of DR.. Whitman and his
wife are pointed out near where they
fell at Wahula on that bloody Novem-
Der morning 1S47.
In the light of this does it not seem
that the government might have been
little considerate in it's treatment of
the late chief Joseph and his Nez
PerceS band?
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25

gress allowing the railroad companies
to construct this station, provision
was made to drive tunnel directly
beneath the Capitol building, with ele-
vators running Immediately from the
Senate Chamber and the House Cham
Der into private Congressional stations.
This would have enabled the United
States Senator from Oregon, for in
stance, to pass out of the Senate and
walk directly aboard his Pullman
sleeping car without exposure to the
open air until he reached his far
western home. A great convenience
this, doubtless. to delicate legislators
but a literal undermining of Congress
by the railroads probably wisely ex.
Guided from the architectural plans.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25
EUROPEAN GOSSIP.
Tales of Diplomatic and Court In
trigue.

1t seems that Mr.. w. w. Aster has
bought the historic Hever estate in
Kent, England, and is improving it. It
includes 1000 acres of land and a
moated castle, nearly six hundred
years old, where at one time Henry
VIII. maintained Anne Of Cleves. On
this estate Mr.. Astor has put to work
about one thousand men, with due ap-
paratus, and is making changes rated
as improvements which the calculating
natives estimate will cost him million
and quarter pounds. He is building
lake, a model village, roads, bridges
and gardens, and is doubtless having
good deal of the sort of fun that Mr.
Kipling in a recent story has suggested
as a suitable recreation for tired Amer
leans.
Though the Sultan is himself total
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25

cans across the continent and in the
autumn entered the valley of the
Oregon.
Develish Work.
The British agents slowly poisoned
the minds of the savages against the
new Corners but it was not till 1S47
that the savages in council determined
to massacre all the American settlers
in their country.
The site of DIR. Whitman's dwell
ling was on the north bank of
the WalIa Walla river at what is
now the town of Wahula. The In
dams surrounded the houses of the
mission their weapons hidden under
their blankets. At dawn of November
%, 1S47 an Indian entered the doctors
house and asked for medicine. As
the missionary turned to his medicine
chest the savage buried his tonla4
hawk in the good mans brain. Mrs.
Whitman was killed a minute later
by the same savage with the same
weapon. The murder of the mission
airy was the signal for the wholesale
slaughter to begin. The butchery COM
menced on all sides. The crash of
firearms, the groans of the dying,
screams of women, yells of the painted
demons filled the air. The Indians
women and children danced and sang
as the atrocious work went on. They
multilated the dead. Women and
children of the settlers sank under
bloody knife and club. The massacre
lasted all day and then numbering
parties started in every direction
Everybody in the Whitman mission
was killed and many settlers all
the woods were slain. The
Cayuse attacked mission among
the Nez Perces but these Indians
1eat them back and took the Sides of
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25
TheBrickbats Never Touched Hin

l had funny dream last night.
Thought that John D. Rockefeller was
running for Office
Yesi
And he was about to make a speech
in brickyard, when woke up.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25
PENSIONS.

Over one Million Dollars
allowed our clients during the last
six years.
Over one Thousa and
claims allowed through US dur
ing the last six months. Dis.
ability Age and In
CT g a . g pensions obtained
in the shortest possible time.
Widows claims a specially
Usually granted within 90
days if placed with us immedi-
ately on soldiers death. Fees
fixed by law and payable out OF
allowed pension. A successful
experience of rs years and benefit
of daily calls at Pension Bureau
are at your service. Highest ref
erences furnished. Local Magis-
trates p e C u niari1y
benefited by sending US
claims.
TABER 6 WHITMAN CO.,
Warder Bldg, Washington, D. c,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25

cans across the continent and in the
autumn entered the valley of the
Oregon.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-10-25

There will be special entrances and
also rooms for guests of the nation, the
diplomatic corps and for the President
of the United States, who will thus be
enabled to quietly seek their train with
out hindrance.
In the original bill introduced in Con-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-14
TEN KILLED., MANY INJURED
Collision On the Union Pacific Near
Rock Springs, Wyoming.

Omaha, Neb., Dec. S.-Ten persons
were killed and eleven train employees
and seven passengers were injured in
4 collision of Overland limited passen-
ger train No. 2 on the Union Pacific, and
4 freight, five miles west of Rock
Springs, Wyo., just before 2 a. m.
Several Of the bodies were incinerated.
The passengers injured are mostly
western people,
Engineer Brink of the freight train,
who, it is stated officially, is RESPONSE
Bile for o%verrunning his orders, was one
of the killed. Several trains had been
badly delayed at Granger, with the re-
suit that the four passenger trains were
running close to each other. The
freight had received positive orders, it
is said, to meet all four Of these trains
at Ahsay. After three had passed the
freight pulled out and met the fourth
passenger, the limited.
Tho flyer a running at high rate Of
speed TO make up an hours lost time,
and the freight was also running at
high speed to make Green River to n;eet
the flyer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-14
SENATOR MITCHELL IS DEAD
The Aged Oregon Senator Succumbs
to Weakness Following HemOr-
rhage From Tooth Extraction

Portland, Ore, Dec. 9.-United States
Senator John H. Mitchell died at the
Good Samaritan hospital in this city at
lao O'Clock Friday forenoon, death
resulting from complications which fol-
lowed the removal of four teeth at a
dental office.
A hemorrhage Of unusal severity fol-
lowed the removal of the teeth, and
despite the application of the most pow
full styptics known to dental science,
the flow of blood could not be stayed.
Physicians were summoned to the dem
tai office, but the combined scientific
knowledge of the dentists and physi-
clans could not stop the flow of blood.
Senator Mitchell had long been a suf-
ferer from diabetes and other vitiating
diseases and in his weakened physical
condition rapidly succumbed to inevita-
BILE weakness following such violent
h~emorrhages and lapsed into a stage Of
semi-consciousness from which he
never rallied.
Senator Mitchell's wife is in Paris,
France, where she has spent a large
part Of her time since the marriage OF
their daughter, Margaret, to the duke
Of ROuchefoucould.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-14
ELDRIDGE SHOWS PAPERS
He Thinks They Are the Best Evil
dence of the Truth of the state
ment Made by Him.

New York, Dec. 9.-Xice-PTesidenl
George D. Eldridge was shown the pub.
.,ished denial Of Col. w. H. Phelps OF
having received $4,000 for obtaining a
license for the Mutual Reserve Life In
surance Co. 70 co business in Missouri,
and responded:
so Col. Bill has been saying things,
has he? Well, here is the best answer
l can make to his words" and he O
duced the following written on the pa
per of the law department of the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railway Co.:
81 inclose bill for legal service. Kind
ly send draft for the amount and oblige.
Yours truly, "W. H. PHELPS"
The attached bill simply read, ITO
legal services, $500" The nature of
the services was not specified.
Attached to this was the company's
warrant for $500, and it is stamped
Paid With these papers was also
the compan"'s chov.;, dated August 2,
1898, on the Merchant Exchange ma
tional bank, drawn to the order of w.
H. Phelps, for $500, signed by George
ID. Eldridge and j. w. Bowden, and
countersigned by George W. Harper,
treasurer. Endorsed upon the check is
the name w. H. Phelps" and the
stamp showed it to have been cleared
through the Continental national bank
of st. Louis.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-14
MRS. MARY ROGERS HANGED
Vermont's Celebrated Case is Now
a Closed Chapter.
H Crime, the Murder of Her Hus-
band, Was Prcmeditated and the
Law Claimed Her Life.

Windsor, Vermont, Dec. 9.-With-
out a tremor and without a word Mrs.
Mary Mabel Rogers marched to her
death on the gallows at the state prison
here and paid the penalty of numbering
her husband, Marcus Rogers, at Ben
nington, on August Is, 1902. To all ap-
pearences Mrs. Rogers was the calmest
person in the chamber of death. She
faced her end with the same stoical in
difference that had marked her de-
meanor ever since her arrest, more
than three years ago. Greatly to the re-
lief of those officials who we're assist
ing in executing sentence, Mary Rogers
last hour was remarkably free from
narrowing incidents. 1t had been feared
that the woman's wonderful nerve
would desert her at the final moment
ard that she would be carried to the
scaffold in a state of collapse. Instead,
however, Mrs. Rogers met death brave
ly. There were no sensational incidents
in connection with the hanging.
Mrs. Rogers mounted the gall
lows with a steady step. Although
a deathly pallor overspread her counte-
nance, hardly a muscle quivered as
Deputy Sheriff Spafford pronounced the
fatal words:
Il now proceed to execute the SEN
tence of the law, and may God have
mercy on your soul"
When the words were pronounced,
Deputy Sheriff Angus McAuley sprung
the trap and the drop fell.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-14
BOOMERS FOR STATEHOOD
The Oklahoma and Indian Territory
Rooters Invade Sacred Precincts.
Helen Renstron, a Fiftecn-Yenr-Old
Oklahoma Girl, Makes n Hit
Singing ''Uklahoma."

Washington, Dee. 12.-Single state
hood for Oklahoma and Indian terri
tory was promoted, Monday, in one OF
the most novel performances ever en-
acted in the national capitol building.
A delegation $50 strong from these ter
ritories called to pay its respects to
Senator Beverage, chairman of the
committee on territories. The COM
mittee room would not accommodate
all the visitors and the senator received
them there. The overflow occupied the
stair leading to the marble room, one
Of the semi-sacred precincts of the SEN
ate.
The prettiest scene of the entire pro-
ceeding was at the close, when Helen
Renstron, a 15-year-old girl from Okla
homa City, sang three verses from ok
lahoma" the joint statehood song. By
this tine it seemed as if half the
hahitues Of the capitol, including a
number Of senators, had been attracted
oy the gathering. The little girl has a
remarkably good soprano voice.
When she had finished, Senator Bev-
eridge shook her hand and thanked her
FOR the privilege of hearing her sing,
saying that anyone who heard her
would be sure to favor the cause she
promoted, Other senators praised the
little girl, who departed with her
friends, wearing a happy smile.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-14
ON THE MERCY OF THE COURT
DR.. Oliver II. Hart Enters = Plea OF
Guilty of the Murder of Irene
klokOw in Chicago.

Chicago, Dec. 11.-Dr. oliver 3. Hart,
of a well-known and wealthy st. Louis
family, pleaded guilty in Judge Barnes
court to the murder of ten-year-old
Irene Klokow, whom he drugged with
morphine and attacked in his w
home, in Rogers Park, on October 5.
His plea up to this time had been mot
guilty and he maintained tEGt the
child's death was due to the accidental
eating of morphine tablets, which she
slistook for candy. He charged his
plea, and threw himself on the mercy
of the court
A strong effort was at ICE begun by
the defense to prove that DR.. Hart ~
insane, and should be sent to an asy-
lum instead of to the penitentiary.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-14

members of the royal family and of
the diplomatic corps. The recipients
of the prizes were:
In physics, Philip Lenard, profess.
or of Kiel university, for researches
into cathode rays; in chemistry,
Adolph Won Boyer, professor at the
University of Munchen, for researches
leading to the evolution of organic
chemistry and the development of the
chemical industry; in medicine, Prof.
Robert Koch, of Berlin, for researches
looking to the prevention of tubercu-
losis, and in literature, Henry Sienkie-
wicz, the Polish novelist.
Nine, Sienkiewicz was unable to be
present. being i'll at Cracow.
Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Christiania, Dec. liking Haakon
and Queen Maud, the ministers Of
state, the members of the storthing
and the members of the diplomatic
corps and their ladies were present at
the Nobel institute, where in solemn
ceremonial Baroness Won Suttner, of
Austria, was adjudged the inner of
the Nobel peace prize. The baroness
FOR many years has been prominent
in international movements looking to
the peace of the world. She was one
of the Austrian delegates to the in
ternational peace conference held in
Boston a year ago.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-12-14
MOTHER AND SON CONVICTED
Mrs. Mary Spnugh and Her Son WILL
lam Found Guilty of killing
Sheriff Polk of IrOn County, Mo.

Centrevllle, Mo-, Dec. 9.-The jury
in the cases of Mrs. Mary Spaugh and
her son, William Spaugh, Jr., reported
at l p. m. The son is convicted of MUIR
der in the first degree. The mother was
convicted of murder in the second de-
gree, and was sentenced to ten years in
the penitentiary,
The case of Arthur Spaugh, the Sec
one brother who was granted a sepa-
rate trial, was continued until the May
tenn Of court. ,
The crime of which the mother and
son have been convicted was commit
ted last May in Irontoa. William
Spaugh had assaulted and beaten the
son of Mayor Edgar of Ironton. Sheriff
Polk went to the Spaugh home to ar
rest him.
William was on the porch when the
sheriff arrived, and called on him to
step out.
You've got a warrant for me-" said
William. 81 won't come"
He went into the house, and the
sheriff followed closely. He had hardly
entered when he received a load of
buckshot from a shotgun in the hands
of William. He was also shot several
times in the back with a revolver from
an adjoining room. Arthur is supposed
to have fired these shots.
The Spaughs will be taken to st,
Louis for sa%fekeeping.