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Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-03
ONE MANS RISE TO RICHES
How an Observing Janitor DiseOve1"
| ed n Way to Wealth.


How an Observing Janitor DiseOvea"
ed n Way to Wealth.
Nine years ago the janitor Of the
courthouse in little western town
started to the store on Saturday nigh
to buy groceries for the morrow. Witt
him was his little daughter. and he hsG
only a dollar for the purchases. They
came to a merrygc ~)und set up o.
the main street and stopped to watch
the whirling hobbyhorses and the
swinging seats.
Come on: give the little girl ride!
called the man in charge, and the JAM
tor took the advice Before he LEI
the spot with its then novel amuse
ment he had spent S5 cents out Of tn
dollar with which he started. Hi
wages we're only $50 month, and IT.
credit ut the stores was in consequence
moderate.
Going home with - cents worth C.
food, he thought about the evenings
experience. His meditations did NC
run to recrimination for his extrava
gance, but were something like this
sIf that whirling horse machine coulC
get IS cents out Of my only dollar
badly as / need money. it must be
able to get money from almost any.
body. I believe l can make more run
ming one Of them than can working
by the month
He talked it over with his wife, and
early in the spring he mortgaged his
household goods to make a payment
on a merry -go-round, which he took to
a nelghboring village. 1t met his ex-
pectations. Soon he sold it at an adj
vantage and bought better one. Then
he bought another and another. On"
day at a county fair he took in sos
one circus day his receipts were $3.50.
The idea Of catering to the amuse-
ment loving public took hold of him.
Merry were for children and
young people; they could not be run lr
winter. He worked out a plan for
shooting gallery in which the marks
were moving f1gures-birds, wolves.
rabbits, foxes-all kept swiftly moving
by a small gasoline engine. He set up
q little shop and began their manufac-
ture. They were crude affairs, but the
western men liked them, and hs could
not keep pace with the orders. Then
he manufactured merry-go rounds, and
finally, as the street fair craze came on,
added ether attractions until he was
able to put q dozen amusement con-
Germs together on a train Of Cat cars
and start 4 carnival company, which
could stay a week In each town and
get a bonus from the citizens for com
ing. He employs hundred men. has
four carnival companies on the road,
makes his own railway cars, travels in
a private car and 10 worth something
like 100000. Not 30 bad for nine years
of etfort!-Saturday Evening Post
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-03
Just What Everyone Should Do.

Mr.. j. II. Barber, or lrWlnVllle,
Ca, always keeps bottle OF
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy at hand ready
for instant use. Attacks of collie
Cholera morbus and diarrhoea
come on so sudden that there is
no time to hunt the doctor or go
to the store for medicine. Mr..
Barber says: II have tried
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy which is one
of the best medicines I ever saw.
1 keep a bottle of it in my room
as I have had several attacks OF
collie, and it has proved to be the
best medicine | ever used. " Sold
by Hill Bros.
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-03
Found a Cure For Dyspepsia.

Mrs. S. Lindsay, of Fort Will
liam, Ontario, Canada, who has
suffered quite a number of years
from dyspepsia and great pains
in the stomach. was advised by
her druggist to take Chamber
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets.
She did so and says: 81 find that
they have bone me great deal of
good, I have never had any stuff
ering since I began using them"
If troubled with dyspepsia or in
digestion, why not take these tab
let's. Get we'll and stay well. For
sale by Hill Bros.
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-03

BuD McCfOSky Has Hdue d
full confession, admitting that at
the instance of Mrs. Blackshire
and for price, he assisted in the
murder of Henry Blackshire, of
Calhoun county, w. Va.
His brother-in-l law, Burt Hend-
ricks, now in the Gilmer county
Jail, fired the fatal shot. He &C
complished and helped in the
struggle.
Mrs. Blackshire held the lantern
while the blacklist murder in the
history of this part of the state
was being done, making her hus-
band the victim.
The two men had to nerve them.
selves with whiskey before they
dared to commit the deed. They
passed the house four times before
they dared to enter.
A plan to murder Blackshire
and then make it appear that he
had killed himself was given up
when it was found that this
would invalidate the insurance
policy-the price of the crime.
The two men had been employed
long before the murder was act
ually committed to shoot Black
shire in the dead of night, through
the window, while he played DOM
inoes with the children.
When they saw him peacefully
playing their nerve failed them
and only after Mrs. Blackshire s
appeal did they consent.
McCrosky is removed to the
Richie county Jail to prevent Il
Jail delivery, and to keep him
from communicating with Mrs.
Blackshire.
While on the way from one Jail
to the other, McCroskey broke
down and made a confession. He
made a clean breast of it and told
what is regarded as the first
straight story he has told yet.
Sheriff Gamer believes that Nc
Croskey is telling the truth. Nc.
Crosby now admits-and for the
first time, despite previous rumors
that he was with Hendricks on
the night of May 3rd, and helped
kill Henry Blackshire. He still
insists. however. that Burt Hend-
ricks fired the fatal shot.
Nc Crosby does not implicate
his wife. He SAYS that Mrs. Black
shire had been trying to get him
and Hendricks to kill her husband
since some time last fall. Once,
she planned to have them waylay
Blackshire on his way home from
the mill. They were to have shot
him and left the revolver by his
side. so as to give the impression
that he committed suicide. This
scheme was frustrated, says Nc.
Crosby, by Mrs. Blackstone and
Jack Petit taking a look at Black
shire s life insurance policy. They
learned that suicide would invali>
date it. This put an end to the
implied suicide plan.
At various subsequent times
Mrs. Blackshire arranged to have
the fatal shot fired through a
window before which her husband
sat of evenings playing dominoes
with the children. Every time,
however, the nerve of the two
hired assassins failed them and
the deed was not done. On the
evening of May 3rd, McCrosky
says. Mrs. Blackstone visited them
and made a last appeal to him
and his brother-in-law. which had
results. as they had been drinking
heavily and were in the proper
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-03
S21OO Ohio Hotels, PAY; $4,000

This large furnished hotel for
$4,000 is on the old National Pike,
8 miles East of Cambridge, 3 IL
miles from a railroad. While 3d.
900 is all that is asked for this
pretty Hotel, situated in a pretty
town, write W. F. Richmond,
GAINESVILLE, Ohio.
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-03

$50 you have read your daughters
commencement essay"
Yes" answered the matter Of fact
father. Il am dumfounded. l can't
understand how a.s'I.ly who can
write so sensibly and profoundly
vorh chew G;lm AMI wear high heel
cd shoes. "-WaShingtOn Star.
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-03
The wonaanb WY.

MANY q married man who might
make fortune is handicapped because
his wife demands too much Of his at
tention."
"Thats right. Just as soon as for
tune begins to nirt with him his wife
gets jealous "-Philadelphia Press.
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-03

We call your attention to the
item of losses paid OF SEVEN
MILLION DOLLARS, which is q
vast sum, yet it was paid without
the sacrife of the company's Sc
curities. On the contrary, cash
assets show an increase OF over
one million dollars, while the net
surplus has also increased nearly
one hundred thous and dollars.
We represent other large COM
panies equally as well backed
financially, such as the
Pennsylvania, of Philadelphia.
Phoenix Assurance Co., Of Lon
don; home office, Wheeling, VIVA.
Pelican Insurance Co. of New
York.
Phoenix Assurance Co., OF Brook
Ign, N. Y.
Atlas Assurance Co., of London.
German Insurance Co., Of Pitts
burg, Pa.
Rochester-German, Of Rochester.
N. Y.
Calumet Insurance Company, of
Illinois.
The United Firemens' Insurance
Company, of Philadelphia, Pa.
The Metropolitan Plate Glass In
surance Company, of New York.
The Lloyds' Plate Glass Insurance
Company, of New York.
Continental Causaulity, of Chica-
go, Ill.
Under the Insurance rules and
regulations in force in this city
every policy has to be approved
by the Stamping Secretary, so it's
impossible to get a policy unless
all the rules and rates are follow
ed out. In other words, every in
surance company charges the
same rates. It is then simply a
question Of which is the best COM
pany, as all charge the same
rates. The above companies are
old established insurance compan.
les, pay your losses promptly and
without any quibbling. Select
your company, and in choosing
any of the above named COM
panies you can make no mistake.
We can insure you in any OF the
companies above named. We do
not advertise big companies in
our agency and then write
your policy in a small, uninowp
company. If you want insurance
in the big Hartford you can get it
from us. If you burn down or
are damaged by fire you can have
your insurance for the asking.
Sistersville daily review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1905-1907, 1905-06-03
How He Got II.

How He Got II.
De Bore - How did you catch
your cold?
De Bristle-You know colds are
contagious?
Eyes"
aWell, 1 caught it asking other !;
people how they caught their colds"
New York Weekly.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-11-23
Look at The Bright.

The optimistic editor of the Kinks
will Echo is responsible for the follow
inv: Don't become Respondent. Cheer
up. why, in II teH-minute walk YOU
NAV see ii score of people worse OF
than YOU are. And here you are dig
ring your own grave and paying pail
bearer in the bargain. You must do
YOUR own work. Smile, though it be
through tears. Look on the bright
side. Don't be pe>,imist.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-11-23

prove of great benefit to our truck farm
ers and market gardeners, and all
should interest themselves in helping
10 establish one in our midst.
There are hundreds of townlots in
and around this city that are now pro-
ducing nothing Of value, which could
be turned into profitable gardens, and
would help to feed and clothc the fami-
ly and furnish Il little surplus money
to fix up the home and make it more
pleasant.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-11-23
WE NEED MANUFACTURERS
TO BUILD up BOTH CITY AND COUNTRY

A Canning Plant Would Be Worth Thousands
of Dollars to This City and Valley Every
Year Picking and Vinegar Plant Could
Be Made a Profitable Concern Here to All
We know of no good reason why II
canning factory would not pay hand
somely in this city We know much
smaller town in the East which has one
of the best paying canning factories in
the state. Every year this factory puts
up thousands of cans of sweet corn,
peas, tomatoes, etc, etc for which it
pays good price. In the srme build
ing is also conducted Il picking and
vinegar plant. where thousands of airs
of pickles are put up and sold. Beans
and caulilower are used sam" As small
cucumber,. for all of which II good
price is paid the producer by the facto-
ry, and the factory makes goo money
on its invest lent. l he vinegar is all
made from fruit. and at Il small cost
SO that all used in factory is actlcally
50 much found, besides hundreds of
barrels are put on tie market annually.
The main thing : to get man who
understands thoroughly how to manage
the business, an then 20 get the farm.
ers 10 contract t. plant the sweet corn,
peas, tomatoes, Cucum berS, etc, etc.
The factory W. have in mind lays out
thousands of dollar, annually to farm
erS, and in it, running season employs
more than hundred lahorers to which
it pays good wages Then it pays out
annually to the producer, of the vege-
ables IA small fortune.
There are a number OF canning facto
ries in this state which have been in
operation for years, and which are pay
ing handsomely on the capital invested.
tllensburg j. better situated by far
than most other towns for such an in
sttution, and factory here would
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-11-23
West Side Irrigation Meeting.

Dear Sir: The annual meeting of
The West Side Irrigating Company
will be held at the court house in FL
lensburg on December >, 1909, at ! 30
p. m. for the purpose of clcctin% oiii-
GERS for the ensuing year and any other
business that may come before the
meeting. Respectfully,
BrRTpEASE, Scc'y.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-11-23

- a. CAUII y CO.,
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-11-23
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON

Oncc in Ramsay Residence pli"h' PIN PIN -
IiIoCk PHI'' P'""' DIN ''
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-11-23
Choppinc Mill

Mr.. viii am, now has ms NM III
order to do custom work and do chop
ping on Tuesdays and Fridays 5.
+ f.. WILLIAMS,
on Bloomqviot ranch mile, y. r. OF
f. Ilensburg.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-11-23
II j. FELCll, NJ u,

II j. FELCII, NJ. u,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Onlcc IN Ramsay Residence phone lt .W ~
mock once phouc Blk %
I G.. MCCAULEY, NJ u.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
once in ,,..,.,,
Ramsay Block. ELLENSBl WASH
* c. FROST
Licensed cry BILL POSTER
All work in my line. hin posting and diN'rihnt'
ing entrusted to me viii be promptly attended
to and cared for.
ELLENTBI'RG, WASH
| G. WALTERS
EXCELSIOR STEAM DYE WORKS
Cor FintN Main ST
Al kinds Of dying. cctuiua and repairing ncat.
ly done bN most modern methods aud ~Hlt~i"c
ton Guaranteed. Ladies garments u Speciality.
j. g. WALTERS.
Proprietor
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-11-23

who desire it regarding kiitita, county.
IIIE\~BI- re- WASH
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-21

little creatures known as "wrigglers'
which are so often found in rain
water barrels The life of mosquito
is from two to 16 days, according to
the warmth of the weather, the life
being shorter as the weather is hot
ter,
The common mosquito is found
from Alaska to Central America, but
the yellow fever germ bearer as pic
tured, is peculiar to the swampy dis
tricts of the southern state. There,
however, it breeds only under condi-
tions of uncleanliness. In New Or
leans the yellow fever started in one
of the poorer sections of the city,
whore the cesspoos wer permitted
to remain open in the hot sun of tor
rid days.
The stegomya fasciata could not
live in Colorado and the altitude
makes it impossible to breed here.
and, in fact, the same reason applies
to all germ carriers of the mosquito
family, for the dangerous ones can
not thrive At greater height than
200 feet above sea level
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-21
MERIWETHER LEWIS FATE.

John Swain, in Everybody's Maga-
zine for September, writes an enter
tanning story of his search for Meri-
wether Lewis grave in Lewis county,
Tennessee, and of the happy ignor-
ance of the mountaineers of that re-
gion.
People living within two miles of
the Lewis monument do not know
who Meriwether Lewis was, what a
monument was placed over his grave
for and never inquired why his mon
ument was larger than the others in
the deserted cemetery in the desolate
woods of Central Tennessee.
It seems incredible that such could
be the case, in this year of all years
for the Pacific coast, when the names
of Lewis and Clark are in every news
paper and magazine, in every railroad
advertisement and ON the tongue OF
every tourist from ocean to ocean.
Hidden away in his lonely home in
the Tennessee mountains this hero OF
the day sleeps unknown by his near
est neighbors The country surround
ing his grave is almost exactly like II
was 100 years ago. 1t certainly has
changed but little since he was bur
led there i'm 1909. If there has been
any change it has been to more com
pletely barricade the once splendid
country roads with bramble and brush
to hide the ragged mountain cabins
in deeper tangles of oak grubs and tc
obliterate all signs of human life from
the once active highway leading from
the national carital to the NIissssip.
pi river
The mountaineer farmer plows hi:
corn I'm the vicinity of Lewis lonely
home, with a plow that is but notch
above the Filipino's crooked stick
with single mule hitched with ropC
harness and driven by hickory bari
lines.
And to the anxious inquiry of th'
stranger as to who sleeps under thi'
monument around which these noun
taineers hunt and work, they stare il
open-eyed wonder and say that it ha'
been so long since the poor man wai
buried there that everybody has for
gotten who it was.
And here, in Oregon. 1000 miles
away the greatest achievement of th'
nineteenth century, inseparably con
nected with the name of Meriwethe
Lewis is being celebrated by the en-
pire which he gave to his country.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-21

Mukden, Manchuria the day before
the memorable battle in tnat city last
spring.
The words on the flour sacks We're
perhaps the only English words ever
looked upon by thousands of the ig-
norant Russian soldiers, who wonder
ingly tried to decipher some meaning
from the strange legends printed upon
this Pendeton, Oregon, product.
Down in Niu Chwang, Manchuria,
at the same time, Pendleton Indian
robes were to be found in large num-
bers in the American and English
colony, and in the office of the Amer
lean consul at Niu Chwang, was to
be seen copies of the East Oregonian
which is regularly read by the mem
bers of the legation in that city.
No other oregon city has enjoyed
as wide advertisement through its
products as Pendleton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-21
MAKERS OF THE NORTHWEST.

Their one care is a constant watch
for opportunity and their rule of hon
or is respect for every other mans
right to try. They laugh when they
win. because success in a successful
country need not be taken too seri-
ously They laugh also when they
fail, because failure amid so many
opportunities is ludicrous. They are
crude and they meet their social
problems in their wives names Their
optimism is the optimism of plenty;
their conceit grows out of their
achievements.
The New Yorker scornfully says:
"Why should I go west? have
everything that is worth seeing right
here I'm New York" To this the
American replies Yes everything
except the United States of America. 4"
"You think you are the whole ma
ton" says the New Yorker.
NO" says the American, "I am
only part owner. But I know my
country and my partners You
don't"-W Worlds Work.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-21
THE OREGON GRAPE.

Sing no. helgh no, for the Oregon
grape,
Heigh no for the oregon holly,
Her beauty blooms through all our
rooms
ON every day that's Jony;
Her gay leaves tell of wedding bell
And glad Thanksgiving day.
Or Christmas chime and New Years
time
And merry first of May.
In winter snow or summer glow
Her green leaves laugh as fair
Her lustrous smile the days beguile
When rain-clouds fiji the air,
she crowns our dead when life is
sped,
She wreathes the bridal hall,
The day of birth, the day of mirth
She garlands first of all.
Al sweet sixteen her luster sheen
with lights and music vie.
Commencement days reflect her rays
Above each earnest eye;
Then no, sing no. for the Oregon
grape.
Our brilliant winter bloom,
Her subtle spell enveileth well
The bridal or the tomb.
Eva Emery Dye.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-21
IN NORWAY.

on pay day saloons are closed and
savings banks are open until mid
night.
Servant girls hire for half a year
at a time at public registry office.
There is a telegraph box on every
street car. Write messages, put on
right number Of stamps and drop in
to the box.
Young farmers can borrow money
from the government at 3 per cent.
Iliterates: Two men In 1000 in
Sweden. three in Norway and Den
mark. IS in Russia, which wants to
improve Norway and Sweden by di-
vidlng and conquering them; 1876
even in England--Chicago Evening
Post.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-21
NEW ERA OPENS.

For 10 years Pendleton and Uma-
tilla county people have labOred to Sc
cure train service adequate and
commensurate to the business and
population of the county, between this
city and Walla Walla. By the pecu-
liar necessity of railroad schedules
by which a morning train has left this
city and county for the north every
morning, hundreds Of thousands of
dollars have been added to Washing
ton trade which have logically and
reasonably belonged to this county.
4 new era opens with the beginning
Of the Walla alla-Pendleton passen-
ger train on the o. r. & N. next We'd
nseday morning and Pendleton comes
info her inheritance after these long
years.
The people OF Umatilla county will
now have access to their county seat
every week day, and all day long, and
they will have the certainty of reg
ular, pleasant train service.
It would be an appreciative thing
for Pendleton to do now, in order to
make it pleasant for the people which
this improved service will bring to
the city, to build a small park and
prepare free seats and lounging
benches for women and children who
will be found in the city In increasing
numbers hereafter.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-21
THE PEST OF THE SOUTH.

"Stegomya Fasciata" is the name
applied to mankind's present great
est enemy in the south. says the Den
yer Post
The bite of the rattlesnake is as
nothing compared to the sting OF
this little insect-so small that it is
difficult to see it until it has inflict-
ed its bite, leaving the dread yellow
fever germ. You scarcely hear its
buzzing as it strikes you-perhaps on
the face. perhaps on the ankle-and
this is why all the people now keep
tanning desperately.
The stegomya fasciata is a member
Of the mosquito family but very
recent one, bred in the open cesspools
and drains of New Orleans and other
sections of the south, spreading
plague in all quarters.
AS spreader of disease the mos
quito is the most deadly of insects
and the manner in which mosquitoes
breed and the tendency to carry dead
ly germs make them a pest difficult
to combat. Usually depositng her
eggs. in number from 200 to 400, on
the surface of the water in some un-
clean hole, the female mosquito is
easily more to be feared than a pest
house. In warm weather the eggs are
deposited before dawn and will hatch
by afternoon. The larvae are active