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UNDERGRADUATES TO MEET.

Toronto, Ont, April 15.-For four
days next week Toronto will y be
thronged with teachers from all parts
LOT Canada and the United. States, with
some from other countries. They will
assemble to attend the twelfth annual
meeting Of the international Kinder
|garten Union which will begin
its sessions Tuesday An ex-
cellent programme has been ar
ranged for the gathering, providing.
as it does, for large number OF adj
dresses and papers by some OF the fore
most kindergarten experts of athe
world. =,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1905-04-15
SCOUT SHIPS.

Washington, D. c. April I5.-Bids
were opened at the navy department to-
day for the construction of the three
scout ships which congress authorized
last year. Considerable interest is man
ifested in, the construction of these
ships as they are designed to possess
greater speed than any other vessels
in the navy, save the little torpedo-boat
destroyers.. The cost is limited to ST..
Sooooo each. :-.-.Ey =,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1905-04-15
RACING BEGINS.

New York, April 15.-The racing
season in the metropolitan district was
inaugurated today with the opening of
the spring meeting at Aqueduct The
Aqueduct meeting is to run eight days,
on. every, one ofqwhict jGsssstaka e;siH. 81
decided. The classic Carter handicap
is the event of the opening day. y.
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NO FURTHER
INFORMATION
4, = - = = - -
RUSSIANS HAVE HEARD ~
: t...t. NOTHING FROM ADMIRAL
The Officials Believe He Isi Still chas-
ing the Japanese Squadron and Dar-
ing Admiral Togo to a Finish Contest
for Naval Supremacy. 80 .*5.r'y

St. Petersburg. April I5.-No further
news beyond that contained in, foreign
kilograms has been received regarding
the squadron commanded by Admiral
Rojestvensky, but the impression con-
.tinues that he is steaming toward For
inosa with the intention Of giving bat
tie if Admiral Togo accepts the. chal-
3lengc ''f.' ~ Il s. !
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1905-04-15
JAPS CLAIM THEY
DEFEATED THE RUSSIANS

Toxic April 15.-The official an
nouncerncnt says "our forces. advancing
east along the Hailung road, defeated
body of the enemy April I'd, near Heis-
.hihmu. ten miles east of Panshi and
chased them toward Tchot-
SUI ~ Eg5zs sS5 IF 8%a se34 5f Ba
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CONVICTED OF
I CONTEMPT OF COURT

d ,Mankato, April Is.--Phillip Liesch,
proprietor of The Brown County Jour-
nal, OF New Ulm, was convicted of con-
tempt OF court and sentenced to pay
a fine of $I5o or serve sixty days in
Jail. He was charged with printing
an article calculated to prejudice jur-
ors against DIR. Koch, the celebrated
defendant in the Gebhardt murder
case .ra~ =. A. ~ q .f i.g-.8 8,.
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VICTORY OVER JApS
N. !. IS RUSSIAN REPORT

ST. Petersburg, April s. General
ILinevitch, under yesterdays date, re-
ports that on April 10 his cavalry found
the Japanese occupying the hill south
of Mount Gaoschan and forced the Iag-
Ianese to evacuate and retire west.
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STRIKE STILL
UNSETTLED
MAYOR DUNNE IS UNABLE
h ! TO GET AFFAIR ADJUSTED
The Conference Today Brought No
Results, and the Head Of the Tearil-
sters' Organization Said All Negoti-
/ ations Were OFF for the Present. /

: Chicago. April 15.--Peace negotia-
tions in the teamsters' strike in the Of
fee of Mayor Dunno were futile. Pres
ident Shea of the ,teamsters said, after
the meeting that all negotiations were
off az 9Ir.-s. e 1EA4Si, ..
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PRIVATE BANK I'm
MICHIGAN IS eli OSED

Dwosso, Mich. April 1s- The private
bank Of NJ. 4. Stewart closed its doors
today, posting a notice that its affairs
were in the hands Of the Detroit Trust
GO. The bank $ deposits have been Is
timated at oyer 10000
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MUZZLE BLEW OFF
ONE OF THE GUNS

Washington, April I5.--The naval de-
partlnent has been Informed that during
the target practice the muzzle of one
of the guns on the battleship Iowa blew
off. None were injured ss 1zs
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JEFFERS RSON'S CONDITION
REMAINS UNCHANGED

Atlanta, April rs The latest news Of
Joseph Jefferson. the veteran actor, is,
that his condition is unchanged The
physicians say the reports of his illness.
have somewhat exaggerated the serious
mess OF his case.
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SHE IS ORDERED RELEASED
ON FIVE THOUSAND BAIL
Female Frenzied Financier Won Out
N in Her Efforts to Secure Freedom,
and WIN Get Out II She Can Raise
] SIS 900 Bail. r$t sa>h
Cincinnati, April i Mrs. Chadwick
is to be released on bond of 5000,
according to an order made by Circuit
Judge Lurteia. a<
THIS rs DIFFERENT.

Cincinnati. o., April I5.-The 5000
bond required by Judge Lurton for. Mrs.
Chadwick Is additional to the $4,000
bond already required for her and in
no wise affects .lie other sums. a..'1-s
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THREE KILLED i'm A
FIGHT OVER LAND

\ Poplar Bluff, Mo, April 18Th. S,
Adams, William Hoch and Riley Hen
son are dead as result Of a pitched
battle over d piece of land.
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PRESIDENT IS NOW
AFTER THE BIG GAME.

New Castle, Colo, April IS Presi-
dent Roosevelt left his private car and
started on horseback for she first bear
hunt ID the Rocky Mountains
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JAP TURNING MOVEMENT
... ..,. /. is NOT WORKED OUT

Gunshu Pass. April rs.-The japanese
turning movement is not developing but
preparations, it is understood, are pro-
crossing. G "a s2%2s "a naSE3"
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MENINGITIS DEATHS
FOR WEEK WERE Ito

New York, April Isl Since last Sat
urday the total deaths from spinal mem
nights is no
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FORMER HEAD OF q. Al. R.
DIED I'm ALBANY TO-DAY

Albany, N. X, April IS. Gen John
Palmer. former coInlnander-in-chief Of
the G. Al. RI died at his home here to-
day.
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The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1905-06-09

created, were sapping the foundation
of the system, and continuous in
creasing drain upon the tax payers
to such an extent that it had become
necessity that some immediate and
radical change should be made.
When the people shall realize that
while the change may seem revolu-
tionary and radical that its result
will be the concentration of system
of higher education with two institu-
tions, placing them upon a solid bas-
is, helping to build up in time a great
university in the state, which is to
be desired, and will give to the pub
lie school system greater amount
of money than they have had i'm the
past without drawing upon the treas
ury for their maintenance and sup
port, it will be better understood and
appreciated.
| believe that the change will be
more readily appreciated when it is
learned that instead of seven hun
bred and forty thousand dollars TAX
ell out OF the treasury the present
system will take less than one hun
dred and fifty thousand, and the
counties which have been maintain
ing these schools and have been
levying no, or but a small, tax for
the support of the public schools
within them, being now required to
do so, there can be levied for the sup
port of the public schools annually
an eleven mill tax for maintenance
of common schools, which will give
one million, two hundred thousand
dollars for that purpose alone, and
as II result the country schools can
have at least six months schooling,
which now in many instances, have
only three, and each county the ben
eft of IA high school of its own, which
should commend itself, if these were
the only benefit obtained, to every
thinking man and tax payer in this
state.
l therefore take the liberty Of sub
hitting these views of the matter to
You, feeling that upon IA thorough
investigation you will take pleasure
in giving Mr.. Wall the full credit his
efforts in this connection should
command. Respectfully,
H. H. BUCHANAN.
Tallahassee, Fla, May 20, 1905.
The Buchanan bill is now a law.
Whether its results will prove bene-
fetal or not remains to be seen. At
the time our editorial on Money
and Education" was written the
News had not read the bill and only
knew in a general way of some of its
provisions, which seemed good. Since
then we have learned more of the
bill. 1t is a most radical measure
and one the results of which can not
easily be predicted. For the present,
and until it becomes better acquaint-
ed with all its provisions, the News
prefers to remain mere ''looker on. "
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AN ORDINANCE

To Grant to the Georgia Southern Il
Florida Railway Company Franchise
and right of way for its Railway Track
along a Portion of Laurel Street in
the City of Palatka, and to operate its
Trains and Cars thereon as a Main
Line.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and City
Council of the City of Palatka, Florida {:
SECTION |. That the Georgia South
ern and Florida Railway Company, its
successors and assigns, are hereby
granted a right of way and complete
authority to build and construct line
Of railway along Laurel Street, along
North side of the Atlantic Coast Line
Railway Track, commencing OH Laurel
Street where Fourth Street intersects or
crosses same, and extending in wester-
ly direction along said Laurel Street,
North of Atlantic Coast Line Railway
Track to Jones Street.-The streets here
in referred to being given with reference
to the plat OF said city on file in the
office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court
of Putnam county:
That the said Georgia Southern and
Florida Railway company, its successors
and assigns shall have the right to ope-
rate its trains and cars along and over
he railway track that may be built I'M
der this Ordinance, as main line of
railway. in accordance with the laws of
Florida and the ordinances Of the City
of Palatka, provided the same shall not
be used as a switch or for the storing of
cars.
SEC. 2. That this franchise is granted
upon the express condition that the
Georgia Southern and Florida Railway
company, its successors and assigns,
shall pave said Laurel Street with rock,
brick or other material that may be ac-
ceptable to the City Council, the entire
width of said street from Fourth street
to Jones street; and upon the further
condition that the said Georgia Southern
and Florida Railway company, its sue
cessors and assigns, will keep said street
paved and in good condition, and will
maintain its tracks on such grade and
will maintain such pavement in such
manner as will permit the free use there
OF by the public; and upon the further
condition that said Georgia Southern
and Florida Railway company, its sue
cessOrs and assigns, shall not interfere
with or disturb any sewers, water pipes
or gas pipes.
SEC. 3. That all Ordinances or parts
Of Ordinances in conflict with the pro-
visions OF this Ordinance are hereby re-
pealed
Passed in open Council this May 10th,
A. D., 1905.
A. NJ. STEEN,
Attest: President City Council.
]. N. BLACKWELL,
[Seall Clerk City Courcil.
Approved May II, 1905.
A. USINA.
Mayor
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TENNESSEE.

Midas Criterion has lately dis
covered" that all prohibitory laws
are failures. No one advocated the
abrogation of the laws against steal
ing and murder because they are
violated. Liquor selling is prohibit
ed in "a out of the So counties in
cities in each of the IL liquor cOun-
ties, except one or two places in
each county: yet there is some Illicit
liquor selling in all the prohibitory
counties, and constant stream of
jugs from the wet to the dry coun-
ties, for many of those who formed
the habit when they had the saloons,
still order their liquor from a dis
lance and drink it. Yet no one fully
acquainted with the situation in
Tennessee, believes there is so much
liquor sold as under the saloon re-
gime.
Testimony gathered from all parts
of the state show everywhere an in
CT ease of from 10 to 10 per cent in all
kinds of business since the saloons
went out. The banks have never be-
fore handled so much money. They
not only get the money that was
once spent for liquor, but the wage
earning capacity of the people is
greater as they drink less liquor.
There is no open saloon to tempt
the boys. Even were there as much
liquor drunk as before it would still
be worth while to have its sale I'M
der the ban of the law. The only
lines of business that do not claim to
have increased under the prohibit
tory laws are the magistrates courts,
the city recorders, the undertaken
and other institutions of like nature.
to be continued
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The BUCHANAN BILL.

The News has received the follow
ing letter from Hon. II. II. Buchanan
Of Jacksonville, author of the Buck
man Educational Bill:
Editor Palatka News:
In looking over your valuable
paper under date of May 26th, note
au editorial headed Money and Ed
ucatiOn," which, while it states that
the News is glad Mr. Wall voted for
it," (meaning the bill for higher ed
ucation which has just passed the
Florida legislature) does not, in my
opinion, give Mr.. Wall, the honored
representative from your county, the
full credit he is entitled to for his
advocacy of this measure.
/ am satisfied that this arose from
the fact that the bill aud its effects
have not yet been clearly understood
by the press and the people of the
state, as it has required a long and
detailed investigation of statistics
and data in relation thereto. which
could hardly have been had Gas they
had not been made public outside of
the legislative halls, and as yet /
nave seen no detailed statement pub
lished of the matter. In your article
you quote Mr.. Wall as asking the
question ''if the people could stand
an appropriation of fifty-five thou
sand dollars, when as a matter of
fact it is not a question of an appro-
priation of that amount, or of more
than three quarters of million in
vOlved in the then present asking
for schools for higher education, but
the continuous appropriations of like
a mounts at every meeting of the leg
stature with no commensurate re-
suits obtained therefrOm, and the
maintenance of a large number of
State schools which continued to be
The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1905-06-09
SOME RESULTS OF SCIENTIFIC TEN.
PERANCE INSTRUCTION IN
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
An English paper, 1.-The Alliance
News" commenting on the report of
the Mosely Industrial commission
which last year was sent from Eng
land to discover the secret of our
commercial success, says:
1.-The Americans have realized
that alcoholic liquor is not one of the
things which tend to industrial SUI
premacy and national progress.
There is no disputing that the mass
of the evidence given by the Mosely
delegates shows that the use of alcO-
hOlic liquors among American work
men is much less than among Eng
glish workmen."
Another Englishman, Mr.. John
Newton, in a later edition of the pa
per quoted above, says:
THE universal testimony of those
who know both countries is that the
workman of America is superior to
the workman at home mainly be-
cause he is more sober. He neither
wastes his physical nor his mental
resources in the public-house 10 any
thing like the extent our workmen at
home do"
Looking for the cause of this great
er sobriety, the same writer says:
"In the United States, scientific
temperance instruction is universal
in the elementary schools. They
early recognized that the star OF
hope for? the temperance reform
stands over the schoolhouse.
MRS. STEPHENS,
Sup't. of S. f. |.
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HOW'S This!

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any
case of Catarrh that connot be cured by Hall S
Catarrh Cure.
FL CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0
We, the undersigned have known F. j. Cheney
for the last 10 years, and believe him perfectly
honorable in all business transactions and fnan-
cially alb e TO carry out any obligations made
by his firm.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c.
per bottle. Sold by all druggists
Take Halps Family Pills for cOnstipatiOn.
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To KEY WEST
and
HAVANA.
Via PENINS ULA AND
OCCIDENTAL STEAMSHIP co.

interchangeable mileage
of the Southern The
ThrOngh Pullman Sleeper
Line; also via Atlantic
FRANK BOlLSION Dist
I3S West Bay Building Jacksonville Florida
H. NJ EMERSON Traffic Manager
Wilmington, North Carolina.
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St. Augustine I'm.
provement Co.. -.
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CONNECTIONS:

! THE ATLANTIC COAST LINE, via Charleston,
Richmond and Washington.
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If YOU want to get your moneys
worth; and see good COLD knock
ont, use Peek's Pine Tar Syrup
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The Louisville & Nashville via Montgomery.
The Mobile & Ohio R. R. via Montgomery.
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quarter book so, page 600 ;. >.
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ter =. =.
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ter - - ';'- - -
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page 20 - :. :.
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ter and N. w. quarter of N. f. quar-
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(ess 10 acres to Taylor).. :.
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page 457 E. -. :. =.
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-28
Consultation Free.

take their chances without preliminary investigation much failure and dis appointment are in store,
 The reports from many of the prairie districts where the pinnated grouse in times past were in abundance, or at least plentiful enough to afford good sport indicate an unusual scarcity.
 Undoubtedly the destruction of the pinnated grouse Is greater than it's pro- duction. The decrease in It's numbers seem to steadily progressive with the passing years. The area of the habitat Of the species also in gradually di- mfnishing, though this is not manifest by the entire and sudden extermination of the chickens in a certain section, nor their sudden abandonment of. it.
 The change from abundance to dearth comes about gradually. Some sections in former years which afforded sport for weeks in later years afforded sport for days only. From abundance the supply becomes meager. Often times the changes from plenty to poverty, the lamentabfe results of ex- termination or abandoned habitat, arc not noticed by the sportnan till he is confronted with the fact when diIigent seeking for sport afield with dog and gun ends in failure.
 The enormous decrease in the num- bers and the decreasing habitat of the prairie chicken are not realized by the younger sportsmen of the present time NIT do the oldser sportsmen realize it by any comparisons of more recent years A comparison of present conditions concerning chicken shooting with those which obtained fifteen or twenty years ago will bring into conspicuous relief the progressive decrease. which has re- suited in the scarcity of the present.
 Twenty years ago the habitat of the prairie chicken, beginning in Western Louisiana and Texas extending through the prairie region of the mid dle South and west, far up. into British America and plentifully stocked with chickens. was far in ex- cess of the prairie chicken habitat of the present. Plentiful as were the birds then, they occupied a lessened habitat and were far less in number than they were when Audubon, on a visit to Kentucky, wrote of them as being so overplentiful there and de- structtve to crops that they were little short of being 9est.-~Forest and Stream