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Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13

A tramp met noted trust mag.
nate and accostcd him familiarly
witt" Hello, parl." Don't be so
familiar" said the trust magnate,
haughtily. You and | don't be.
long to same class. ""That's where
you are off, pard," said the tramp.
I'VE are both on the line, only
you are working the public at one
end of the line and | at the other.
Both of us are dead beats aud
CRAFTS and the difference between
you and me bein' | am honest
enough to own up to it and you
amt.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13
Drunkenness No Excuse.

Many people in Audrain county
were interested in the case of
Frank Dawson, accused of shoot
ing Annie Hartman at n dance,
tried at Paris, Monroe county, last
week. The MESSAGE mentioned
last week that Dawson is to get 80
years in the penitentiary for his
crime.
Dawson testified in his own be-
half. At his previous trial he
claimed to have no recollection of
anything that transp:red at the
scene of the tragedy. but this
time his memory served him better.
He accounted for this difference
on the ground that he had no
recollection Of what he said be-
fore. His testimony in substance
was us follows:
| remember the night IF De-.
ccmber /, 1903. Went with Al
Riley to the dance at George Own
by'S. Don't know what time we
got there. We tied our horses out
on the west side aud started to the
house. | did not go in but laid
down on the porch and went to
sleep. When | walked up saw
Riley aud went into the house. A
dance was in progress. l noticed
VIM. Riggs, Cluud Overstreet, AL
Riley, and ODE Hughes in the
room. A dance was about to be-
gin. | went Oat on the south
side of the house to take drink
of whisky that | had brought out
from Madison. Several of the
boys drank with me. Then we
went back into the house. re.
member the shooting. l did part
of it. Don't know of anyone else
shooting and don't know how
many shots were fired. Somebody
grabbed me. pulled loose and
went out at the door. The next |
remember was when l woke up in
a rail pile in front of the Williams
house. Didn't know where | was
until ! reached the state road, and
then | knew l was about 81 miles
from the home of my brother, Or
vile. 1t was a cold night. l re-
member that l was almost frozen
when woke mp. did not see
Annie Hartman when | was shoot
ing | didn't see her at the dance
and didn't know she was there. /
had no intention of shooting her
aud no intention to injure her in
any way. Ibid not flourish a re-
volver before anybody. did not
say | expected TO shoot anybody.
| never at that time or at any
other time said anything to any
body about doing Annie Hartman
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13
The Wife in Jail, Too.

Clinton, No. July G.-The sum-
mons in bankruptcy in the Federal
Court at Kansas City against Doc
tor G.. y. Salmon and Major Uar-
vey w. Salmon was auswelable
10 day.
The SaImons and Rccicvcr Eg-
g., who is still in charge of the
q tnnct institution, will fight the
bankruptcy proceedings, and have
five days in which to answer the
petition filed by the creditors.
The attorneys Mann & Daniel
representing The Salmons and Egg
ger, will appear before the Kansas
City court within the pr, s,ribcd
time.
Cashier Thomas NJ. Casey, who
was taken TO Jail last night 10y
Sheriff }. ID. Hall, remains there,
but is confined to his bed in his
cell.
Mrs. Casey asked permission ia
be with her husband during his
incarceration, and permission was
granted by the jailer. She remains
by his bedside, Mr.. Casey is still
suffering from nervous prostra-
ton.
He made no attempt to give
bond in the sum of $1,000, which
was the amount affixed on the
charges Of forgery.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13

The Mexico IutelliDgencer thus
speaks of school paper which
was printed in the MESSAGE last
week: Miss Blanche White,
daughter of Justin White east of
Mexico, has received a very com
plimentary communication thru a
local paper from County Superin-
tendent j, N. Cross about her re-
cent grade of 100 in the June ex-
animation for teacher held in this
city. Miss White is only 16 years
of age. She will not teach for
some time yet, altho duly qualified.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13

Judge Eby's instructions to the
jury were clear and strong In
dealing with the fact that Dawson
was drunk at the time the fatal
shots were fired he was especially
emphatic, as the following copy
of the instruction will show:
Voluntary drunkenness is nei-
Their an excuse for crime, nor a
mitigation of crime. If the jury
believe that shortly or Immediately
before the fatal shooting the de-
PENDANT voluntarily drank large
quantities of Intoxicating stimu-
lants, and that being under the in
fluence of such intoxicants he shot
and killed Annie Hartman while
aboring under u temporary frenzy,
or madness and while being uncOn-
scious of the act, and that such
temporary frenzy or madness and
such unconscousness were then aud
there the immediate result of alco-
hOlic liquors voluntarily drank by
the defendant, then such temporary
frenzy or madness and such uncOn-
seriousness afford neither justifica-
ton, mitigation nor excuse for the
shooting and killing by defendant
Of Annie Hartmann nor in such
case can you consider it in deter
mining whether the defendant act
ed willfully, deliberately and pre-
meditatedly, and he is equally.
guilty under the law as if he had
been sober and sane at the time of
the shooting"
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13
Little Jack Horner.

No, he amt smart, | guess.
He's just quiet, thoughtful lit
tie cusS, that boy. But it does
beat four kings, the way he seems
to notice things! | kinder think
he'll be some day a sort % nater'-
list, Why, say! last Friday, when
she comes to bake, his ma she made
the son Il cake chock full o. plums,
and out he tro's and sets among
his flower pots and picks them
plums out one by one, and eats 'em
just the way you done when you
was little, while his eyes keep busy
watching butterflies afOat above
the four.o'clOck and bees among
the hollyhocks, so good, so quiet,
not a sOund-yOu'd nev err dreamt
a boy was round, when, just, as if
he'd struck a pin he jumps and
comes a'toddin' in (a-rubbin, 'puz-
zIed-like an slow, the place where
all his vittles go) to where his ma
is beatin eggs; Oh ma, he chirps;
"hez plums got legsH" "Why, no, "
SEE she. well, them" SEE he. 81
observation-disclosures ia
bee"
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13

A gentleman once said to a re-
porter: Il never took paper
that didn't pay me more than |
did for it. One time a friend of
mine started paper way down
south and sent it to me and l sub.
scribed just TO encourage him and
after a while it published a notice
of an order to sell a lot at public
sale. So l inquired about the lot
aud told my friend to runit up $50.
He bid me off the lot at $38, and |
sold it in a month for 800, so |
made s62 eIeal b, taking that pa,
per. Ny father told me that when
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13

he was a young man he saw no.
tice in a paper that a school teach
er was wanted away off in a GER
tain county and he went and took
the position and a little girl was
sent to him and after a while she
grew up sweet and beautiful and
he married her. If he hadn't TAX
en- that paper what do you suppose
would have become of me?
wouldn't have been here at all.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13
The Panama Canal.

AN e-AeAeAAN NesAeA'
The present status Of the Pana.
ma Canal is one of the most i'm
portaut public questions of the
day. This article contains a brief
history Of the project.
In 1879 an international congress
met in Paris and recommended the
building Of sea.level canal from
Colon on the Atlantic to Panama
on the Pacific. NJ. DeLesseps'
sea.level plan was adopted and
work was begun in 1881. An es.
innate of II years time and $240,-
100000 capital was considered
sufficient. b u { owing TO land
slides, enormous freshets, appal.
ling sickness, etc, the scheme
was abandoned and in 1889, after
and expenditure of $lj6, 400, 600, a
receiver was appointed.
In 1894 a new company with
cash capital of $4,000, 600 was
formed to complete the canal. They
spent four years in making thoro
engineering examination of the
problem. They found that a canal
with locks was better than the
sea.level plan. The canal thus To-
Gated and likely to be followed is
40 miles in length, and has
summit level of 6S feet. Common
cling at Colon on the Atlantic, the
first section is tidal Is miles in
length mp to the proposed locks at
Bohio, by which vessels would be
admitted 10 the lake formed by the
Bohio dam. Thence 1917 miles
along the bed of the lake to Obispo.
Here another lift would carry the
vessels TO GS feet above sea-levCl
for n distance of 5 miles. Descent
10 the Pacific would be make by
locks at Puraiso, Pedro Miguel,
and Mirahores, where vessels would
reach tide level on the Pacific.
Now the United States enters
the field, The Nicaragua canal
which we have been considering
for some years is now given up.
The Isthmian Canal Commission
appointed by the President strong
~ recommended the Panama route
instead. Thru legislation in Con.
gress negotiations have been made
with the Panama Canal Company
and with the Colombian govern
meat. The United States pays the
company $40, 600, 900 for work al,
ready done, drawings, working
plant, etc, and pays Columbia
$40, 600, 600 for strip of land ex-
tending 3 miles on each side of the
route of the canal from ocean to
ocean. Recently a new commits
sion has been formed, and one of
the chief topics of the day is the
progress of the Panama scheme.
The work of digging the canal is
soon to be commenced. Roosevelt
says the supplies must be bought
in the markets of the world, the
Republican tariff or no tariff.
Drcadfully unhealthy down in
Panama. Employees going there are
said to be dying by the score.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13
SalOonist Strikes Preacher

Cameron, Mo, July 5.-The
Rev. c. o. Mills, the Methodist
minister, who has recently been
giving the temperance question a
prominent place in the Sunday
night sermon, was attacked last
night by Ed. Bennett, who had
tended bar in saloon which had
closed by the enforcement of the
law regarding the sale of liquor to
minors. The attack was made
without warming. The secretary of
the Y. NJ. G. A. was walking with
Mills at the time and by his
prompt assistance the minister
was protected from serious injury.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13

A Texas girl advertised for a
husband and got him. The total
expense for advertising, wedding
outfit, ETC., was S11. Within a
year he died, leaving her an insur.
ance policy of $4,000. And
yet some people claim it don't pay
to advertise.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13
Home Seekers Excursion Rates

Via the Chicago & Alton or Wa
bash r. r.
On the first and third Tuesday
of each month, to aud including
December, 1905. Home Seekers
excursion tickets will be on sale to
points in many States and Terri
tories at rate of one fare plus 81
for the round trip. Return Limit
p days from date of sale. Liberal
stopOvers.
l. NJ. RICHARDS,
Ticket Agent.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13
SUMMER EXCURSIONS
VIA
.IcFoUR
FROM ST. LOUIS

FROM 81. LOUIS
S 1865 IN INDIANAPOLIS and
return. Tickets on sale June 2O,2l,
%, %.
$3.50 NIAGARA FALLS and
return. Tickets on saleJune IS, 10,
20
1885 TORONTO, ONT. and
return. Tickets on sale June 10, 20,
%, %.
$24.35 ASBURY PARK, N. j.,
and return. Tickets on sale June
20, 30, July l, 2.
$21.25 BALTIMORE, MD. and
return. Tickets on sale July 2,3,4,
s 9.25 CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y,
and return. Tickets on sale July
a, 28.
S $50 BUFFALO, N. Y, and
return, Tickets on sale July 8, 8,
10.
$500 PITTSBURG, Pa, and
return. Tickets on sale August
10, 10.
5000 PHILADELPHIA and
return. Tickets on sale Sept. 10,
l6, II
For full particulars address
Q. L. HILLARY, A. G.P.
ST. Louis. Mo.
Or
G. w. GREEN, T. PA.
sOe Boston Bldg. Kansas City, Mo.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13

Grandpa was taking a nap, aud
his little granddaughter was sent
to call him to dinner. WAS he
asleepi" asked mamma, as Flossie
came back. "All but his nose, +"
was the innocent answer.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13

Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Sherman
Jones, hear Mexico, twins--a boy
aud girl. The boy weighed N
pounds and the girl 81. Jones
pays the freight" and is happy.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13

All who want Fire and Light
ming and Tornado insurance shonld
come to see mel can write You in
the Phenix of Brooklyn. the great
farm insurance company, on most
reasonable terms.
JOHN w. HOWELL.
At Agent.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13

The Missouri State Fair Board
held a meeting last week at Sedalia
with Hon. j. A. Potts of Mexico,
president, presiding. The entries
in the several departments of the
Fair this year are breaking all
records.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13

Miss Edith Elliott, of England,
is visiting in Mexico, the guest of
her relatives, R. E. Elliott and
family.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13

Home dressed meats, corn-fed
beef, Juicy aud tender-spring
lamb, veal and pork.
F. p. CARRIERS MARKET,
Phone 359. Harper Block.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13
DurOc Jersey Pigs.

DurOc Jersey Pigs.
100 head of spring pigs. splendid
individuals, eligible to registry.
Prices very reasonable. Can furnish
male or female not akin.
b. w. HALE, Laddonia, Mo.
Farm Insurance.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13
Notice Of Final Settlement.

Notice is hareby given that Final
Settlement of the estate of Jane Berrcy,
deceased, will be made at the August
term Of the Probate Court of Audrain
county, State of Missouri, to be held at
Mexico, Mo, on the second Monday in
August, 1905.
j. N. BERREY,
Administrator.
First insertion July 6, 1905.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13

bodily harm, l did not intend to
harm her nor any one else at the
dance"
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13
Monuments!

It will be to yonr interest to see me
before placing an order for mon.
ument or anything in the monu-
mental line. Yard and office,
Glandon Bldg, Mexico, Mo.
Branch office, Vandalia, Mo.
JAMES w. GALLAHER.
Mexico Missouri message., 1905-07-13
A. M. PATTERSON.

Physician and Druggist, north
west corner Public Square,
Mexico, Mo.
Full line of Staple Drugs and
Druggists Sundries, Patent
Medicines, Dye Stulfs, Etc.
A full assortment of Homoe.
pathic Medicines always on
hand. These remedies sent by
mail when ordered.
Will do strictly an Office prac-
tice.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-02-06
cHrTTIM BARK EXHAUSTED.
Supply on the Coast Range Has Beerl
shipped Out.

As good authority as the opinion
of experienced mountaineers supports
the prediction that chittim peelers
will not In the coming season bear off
as spoils from the cascara groves Of
oregon such quantities of the cura-
tive bark as rewarded the search and
toll of the peelers last year.
Last season a countless multitude
of bark traffickers swarmed through
the coast range, slashing and peel
ing. and when the season closed there
were but few quarter sections lying
in the range between the Columbia
river and the California line that had
not been despoiled of their wealth
of Rhamnus Purshiana, as the drug
is called in pharmaceutical parlance.
II have secured the coast range in
oregon, searching for chittim pros
poets, and my opinion, based upon
the results of such search. is that,
after last years enormous output,
this years yield will not amount to
more than half of last seasons.
Such is the expressed opinion Of
Richard S. Derrick, a chittim buyer
of Eddyville. who, assisted by his
brother, last year stripped and sacked
AZ tons of bark.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-02-06

Vincent Konasek, a laborer, aged
a. years. shot and killed himself at
Bingham Springs ut $40 this morn
ing.
He tied Il 45-calibre revolver to a
fence post. and placing the muzzle
against his breast, pulled the trigger,
the large ball passing entirely through
his body, carrying away part of his
heart and plowing a hole two inches
in diameter through the back, where
the bullet passed out. Death was in
Simultaneous
Operator Swayne, at the o. II. &
n. office at Bingham Springs, heard
the report of the revolver, and caught
sight of the man as he fell forward
on his face. When Swayne reached
him. few seconds later, Konasek
was dead. Dependency is said to
have been the cause Of the suicide.
II is said that he attempted suicide
once before, by shooting himself In
the mouth. the injury causing an i'm
pediment in his speech.
Konasek was a single man, AZ
years of age and came from William
ette valley to Umatilla county, in
1881. He leaves brother here,
Frank Konasek. the well known o.
r. & N. pump engineer at Bingham
Springs. Another brother, Joseph,
and a sister, Mrs. Anna Yonka. live
In Iowa. He has resided at Bingham
Springs for the past year. where he
has worked In the timber and as
sisted his brother with the O. X. q
N. pump.
Coroner T. NJ. Henderson and NJ
A. RAIDER left for Bingham Springs
on a freight train this afternoon,
where an investigation will be con-
Quoted. II is known TO be a piain
case of suicide. however, as the prep
arations for the deed were wei Hahe
and the operator was an eye whness
to the shooting, although he dld not
have the least intimation mat ROM
asek had suicidal intentions before
he heard the report of the pistol
The suicide took place In plain sisht
of the depot and station buildings
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-02-06
CANADA WANTS SETTLERS.
Dominion Invites Americans TO the
North.

The Canadian authorities are in
creasing their efforts to encourage
immigration to the Dominion. They
announce that their advertising at
the recent Worlds fair caused live
ly interest throughout the United
States and is likely to be followed by
an increased flow OF immigration to
the Canadian west.
1t is intended to carry on a vigor-
Gus propaganda in New York state
and Pennsylvania. Substantial results
are anticipated from the movements
through Great Britain of travelling
cars decorated with trophies emblem
attic of Canadian agriculture.
Lastly, IT is hoped, by making a
really first-class Canadian exhibit at
Liege, Belgium. in the very midst Of
a frugal and Industrious people well
drilled in agriculture. to attract 80
the Dominion some Of the best ele-
ments in Europe.-W. R. Holloway,
consul general. Halifax, Nova Scotia.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-02-06

st. Petersburg, Feb. 6.-Petitions
for and against a constitution con-
tinue to be received by the car. The
mobiles are divided. The nobility of
the Jaroslow and Simbarsk districts
for example, favor a constitution,
while the mobiles of Kursh demand
the abolition of bureaucracy, but
decree that power shall be given the
nobility, not the people.
1t is forecasted today that should
the car call an assembly the mobiles
vote will probably show a reactionary
majority Endorsing the ideas of the
Kursh district
A committee of jurists will assem-
BILE at the ministry OF justice this
week to elaborate a law legalizing
strikes, which are now recognized as
an inevitable accompaniment of the
industrial development of Russia.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-02-06
NEW ROAD TO KLAMATH.
Southern Pacific. WIN Extend Branch
Line In Southern Oregon.

Portland, Feb. 6.-The Southern
Pacific railroad is to be extended 50
miles, from Weed station to klamath
Falls, by March 81, 1907, IL the peo-
pie of klamath county carry out the
terms OF an agreement Just entered
into between them and an agent of
the company. The property owners
are required to subscribe. by March
81, 1905, a subsidy of 800. 600 in
money and land, and the subsidy is
to be placed In escrow in the Klamath
county bank and the First National
bank of klamath Falls, to be turned
over to the railroad company on its
completion of the line within the time
limit.
klamath Falls has appointed a fl
nance committee, composed of Coun-
Gilman B. G. Bishop and H. Fred
Shallock, leading business man.
With 100000 acres of rich land,
unsurpassed water power. and 15,-
OOO,O00,O00 feet of superior white
pine timber accessible, it is expected
that a large city will be built up at
klamath Falls when railroad COM
munication with the outside world is
secured.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-02-06
WORK ON OLD PLACERs.
sparta Mines win BE opened Next
Summer.

The year 1906 will see great devel-
opments in placer mining in the old
camp of Sparta. For the past few
years more attention has been given
to quartz mining than to placer. prob
ably owing to the excellent showings
made. the richer deposits discovered
with depth, and the general awaken
ing Of the quartz industry throughout
Baker county, says the Baker City
Herald.
The principal factors this year will
be, first the operations conducted
under the management of Frank w.
Talmadge and the company behind
him. known as the oregon Mining &
Irrigation company. This concern
has been working a large force OF
men all winter constructing a bed
rock flume at the lower end Of Saw
mill gulch to facilitate the extensive
operations necessary to mine their
numerous patented claims above on
the gulch and its tributaries.
This has been no small undertake
ing. for in addition to removing the
deep surface deposits they have had
to cut into the bedrock i'm places from
five TO 10 feet, requiring the constant
use of powder for blasting. The
greater part of their undertaking Is
finished, embracing 5000 feet of
flume which. with the flume yet to
be constructed. will give il one Of the
best working plants in Oregon.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-02-06

Portland, Feb. Ga trolley car
loaded with &c people going to work
jumped the track and turned over at
Monta villa, a suburb, at 1880 this
morning Three to six were killed,
and everyone aboard was more or
less injured.
Later-One is dead Charles. john
son; two are fatally injured. 16 badly
and So slightly. The car struck a
curve at a high rate of speed, left
the trucks and crashed into the
street. rolling over and was complete
~ demolished.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-02-06
TYPEwRITERs UNDER THE BAN.
Are Dangerous Weapons for Thosc
Who Think.

81. Petersburg, Feb, 6.-The police
of the town of Romni, in the prov
ince of Poltava, have confiscated all
the typewriters in the place, which
has over $4,000 inhabitants. No rea-
son is assigned for the action, but as
II is taken under the law of sin
creased defence" equivalent to
minor state of siege, there is no
doubt that typewriters are regarded
as dangerous organis of sedition.
Since the first Introduction of type
writer's In Russia the authorities
have loked upon the machines with
more or less suspicion. They can
only be acquired in tue smaller towns
of the empire under special permit
of the police, who are thus easily able
to locate every instrument. Up to
year or two ago permit was need
ed even in Moscow and st. Petersburg
All the "proclamations" which have
been in circulation this year were
Autographed from typewriter copy
the typewriter having enabled the
discontented to circumvent the ex-
tremely stringent laws which regulate
the possession of printers type and
the use of 1t. a.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-02-06
Japanese Are Fortifying.

Mukden, Feb. 6.-Lieutenant Cen
eral Grippenberg, former command
er of the second Manchurian Nrmy,
left today for st. Petersburg.
The Japanese are attempting to
turn the Russian right wing north
west of Sandiapu. They are fortify-
ing their east flank and center, evil
IDENTIFY apprehending a Russian Of
fensive movement.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-02-06

Toxic, Feb. "a dispatch from
the front states that the Russians are
strongly entrenching themselves in
the vicinity of Chang Tang Tan, south
of Mukden. They shelled the Japan
ese position there February 4, and on
the 5th an attack was made on the
Japanese position in the vicinity of
Machuan Tevshan. The Russians