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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-07-06

Will the Sentinel and Leader in
form us what decision was rendered
by the Grafton people on the Gin
dignation meeting ~
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-07-06

The Parkersburg Dispatch in dip
lomatic language tells the Machine
where to head in and clear the track
for the boys who are after it with a
club.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-07-06

Commissioner Dillon might as
we'll save himself the expense and
trouble of travelling over the State
explaining the new tax laws. The
farmers and middle class of taxpay-
ers seem to understand them thor
oughlY.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-07-06
Wanted

Chestnut poles all sizes. Chestnut lies.
six Inches face six inches thick. eight feet
lone Write Tor particulars
GREENBRfEE POLE COMpANY.
Rouccverte. w Va.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-07-06

The people are not going to forget
that 1t was the Republican admins
irations that introduced the inyesti.
eating committees into this State 20
investigate bribery and corruption,
which was charged against Republi-
cans by Republicans for Repubh-
cans Z The committees we're throt-
tied and not allowed 90 probe the
rottenness Of the Machine. They
even invoked the courts 90 save
them from exposure. This is one
Of The things the Journal pleads deaf
and dumb on.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-07-06
A SURPRISE Party.

pleasant surprise party may be given
TO your stomach and liver. by taking Al
medicine which will relieve their pain ard
discomfort. viz DR.. King New Life Pills
They are a most wonderful remedy, AFFORD
ing sure relief aud cute. for headache
dizziness and constipation. Price 2sc
sold by The Cooke supply Co OF Howes-
vile, a. Lenhart OF KingWood and The
lrona Supply Co. Of Irona
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-07-06

According to the financial state
ment of Monongalia county for the
past year as published in the Nor
canton papers the county is about
twenty FIVE thousand dollars i n
debt and with a one dollar levy
last year also. The levy this
year is reduced to IS cents on the
hundred dollars valuation, as a
large amount of extra property and
heavy increase has been made in
the assessment.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-07-06

There are many reasons why the
Journal should tell the farmers why
their calves, colts, pigs, lambs,
ducks and chickens should be as
sessed under the new tax laws, but
the principal reason IS that the Jour
nal is native of the sod and there
should be a bond Of sympathy
existing.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-07-06

Why are good intentions like
fainting ladies Because all they
need Is carrying out.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-07-06

In the Sheriffs delinquent list this
year Pleasant makes the best show
ing Of any district in the county, with
only SO names. Grant comes next
with 81 delinquents and Valley and
Reno tie with So each. Union has
10, Lyon III and Portland I76,
while Kingwood heads the list with
I80, making a total Of Coz for the
county. Next year the list ought
not be half this long as the poll tax
was collected up very closely this
year and amounted 70 more than
ever before.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-07-06

Just cast your eye over the delin-
quent tax list for Kingwood district
this year and you will find il the
banner district. Nearly two hun
dred names and not foreigners
either working around the mines
as might be supposed as there is
only about half dozen foreigners
in the whole business. There are
fellows in this list that spend at
least four times as much for booze
every year as their tax amounts to
and they should not be allowed to
vote without producing their tax
receipt when they come to the polls.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-07-06

State Tax Commissioner Dillon
endeayored to explain the new tax
laws to the Wheeling Board of
Trade one night last week. From
the excerpts given by the Wheeling
papers we take it that Commissioner
Dillon will have to offer some grand
prize TO the one who can solve the
new tax riddle. 1t looks as though
the State administration is afraid of
the tax laws since Mr.. Dillon feels
1t incumbent upon himself to
explain them.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-07-06

In handing down his decision in
a case tried before him at Parkers-
burg the other day Judge Dayton,
of the federal court, took occasion
to discuss the Dawson corporation
law as follows:
FAnd the shame of it all is that
the state of West Virginia is engaged
in manufacturing corporations in
order to get revenue. God pity a
state engaged in a business Of char
tering wildcat and every other kind
of corporations. 1t is abominsble
and dishonest. The fact is that it
is advertised that this sort Of a
business can be done IN West Vir-
GINA easier than any place else.
The irony in this case IS that the
state has heaped up penalties for
creating a corporation whose char
ter permitted it TO do anything or
everything. Any citizen ought to
blush and hide his head in shame,
instead Of taking pride in being its
author.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-07-06

On the first page of this issue will
be found the County's Annual Roll
OF Dishonor as published by the
Sheriff. There are some prominent
and well known citizens in this list
who do some loud kicking when
anything does not suit them in the
way of administration of county and
district affairs, repairing the roads
etc. Yet they do not pay cent to-
ward the support of the government
under which they live except in the
way of the tax on cigars, snuff, to-
bacco and whiskey. 1t maybe that
some of these people think they pay
enough tax in this way.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-07-06

The Wheeling News has a column
editorial headed, "tBlame the Tax
Laws J" For months we have been
praying for the conversion of Bro.
Ogden and now we feel that our
prayers have been answered. When
we exhausted every othery argument
on the brethren of the press we
resorted to prayer. At meeting
of the Editorial Association, Father
Morris of the State Journal told us
that he had unlimited faith in pray
er as cure for all ills and political
disturbances.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-07-06

THE ARGUS has the largest circu-
lation outside of Preston county of
any paper ever published in the
county. The official receipt from
the Kingwood postoffice for the
quarter ending July Ist, shows
total of LIZA lbs for the county and
646 lbs for circulation out side of
the county, making total in all of
1873 lbs for the last thirteen weeks
or an average of nearly $40 lbs per
week, as much as any other two pa
pers in the county. This shows
that the reputation and standing Of
THE ARGUS is not confined to Pres
ton county by any means.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-07-06

John Hay. Secretary of State,
died at Newbury, New Hampshire,
his summer home on July Ist. He
had been in i'll health the past year.
He was born at Salem, Indiana, in
October 1898. He was Secretary
of State in the cabinets of both Nc
kinley and Roosevelt. He was
made Ambassador to England in
1897. He was an author of we'll
known reputation. His "Life of
Lincoln" and 'Pike County Ballads"
were his best known works. The
funeral took place yesterday at
Cleveland, Ohio in the Wade Me-
mortal Chapel, conducted by Rev.
Hiram c. Hayden of the Presbyte-
ran church. Mr.. Hay held a pol
icy for SIoo, 900 in the Equitable
Life Assurance Society and a check
for the full amount was made out
the day of his death.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-07-06

The Journal objects to THE AR.
GUS quoting from the Fairmont
Times in regard to the coal leases
and laws generally in regard to the
coal business. What worries the
Journal is that the Times knows
what it is talking about and keeps
thoroughly posted on such matters.
The Times being located in the
greatest coal region of the State and
its editor being heavily interested in
the coal business, and the support
and prosperity OF the paper largely
due to the coal business, IT naturally
follows that the Times is good au.
thorlty on the subject, hence our
quoting from it. If the Journal on
ly quoted from as good authority 1t
would not get into trouble so often.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-07-06
KlngwOOd, July @, 1905.

J. SLIDELL BROWN. Editor and
Proprietor.
Yukon Valley news., 1905-02-08

with the counts disasters. The incident is extraordinary and romantic When he left home sixteen years ago to engage i'll mining his mother gave him superb opal of immense si as keepsake, a family jewel set in a brooch In Austra lia he was stricken with a fever and the opal stolen. He got we'll and had good luck thereafter until the day he first saw me and protected me from Galp il. was wearing his mothers brooch He recog- nized it instantly by its size and pecu far setting. had bought from an Austra- lian miner in Daws on who had gone broke and wanted II oney to get to the i States.
 A week later the count and were mar ried i'll IawS son, the witnesses bC Cirg Mir. | Shepf ard of the gold commission, and the editor of the Daw son News. Receiv- ing woid of the dc ath of my husband s father, we started for Russia. his was in the fall of last year. We were too late to catch the ls s. st amer at S. Michael, and winter shut us in at the Russian Mi . sion on the Yukon, desolate spot Gal pm had preterded such penitence and he begged SO hard to come with us and work his way, that my good-hearted husband consented. not suspccting his treachcry.
 Al the Mission he entered into a con- spiracy with Duncan Me Donald, United States commissioner there, who was dis charged the following spring for nal practice in office. They not only robbed us of our valuable baggage, worth sss ,ooo and not to be replaced by that sun. but tfumped up false charges against us and arrested us without reading warrant. ! was in delicate condition and one of the officers struck me with hts fist on the temple, knocking me senseless. He also broke my finger with gun. Galpin tried to murder my husband aud would have succeeded had not the Esluimaux inter trred. The count wss b.,dly hurt, We wvfe separately imprisoned ,or weeks. became critically ill and was without medical help. Finally wv were placed under k7 .eoo bousls to appear before the grand iary at Nome Sessly dead, wa' tlsd n a dog sled slxteea inches Wi'le
Yukon Valley news., 1905-02-08

and dragged for thirtythree days, lying thirteen hours at time without being moved. Galpin was brought along at government expense as prosecuting wit ness. My husband and were placed ill jail at Nome. Next day was removed to hospital. l was at deaths door for two months In all was bedridden for seven months.
 Finally Judge Moore released us, dis charged the commissioner and marshal from office and refused to deliver to us our property nearly Goo miles away at the Mission. My hip and shoulder meantime became partially paralyzed, and my hus- band worked at any task that would pro vide food and shelter.
 begged for a trial, knowing we could not be convicted of any wrong. NOlaw yer, however, dared to gc into court against United States officer Matters were ill this state when wrote at length to President Roosevelt. Proml response came from the department of the interior and also the department of justice Vim. A Day, assistant to the attorney general of the United States, came with his sec retary and a stenographer to Nome.
 Fortnight previously Henry NJ. Ho,t had been sent from San Francisco to Nome as district attorney. He is an able and honest official. Mir. Day made thorough investigation of our case and ordered Mir. Hoyt to proceed accordingly. In the next grand jury Galpin and Me- Donald were indicted for robbery and conspiracy to commit murder. Galpin "squeal,d, bringing SO many others into notoriety that the petty jury let him loose through the usual process when things are getting uncomfortable for them-Galpsn was given an opportunity to escape Mic Donald also disappeared. Mortimer stevens. editor of the Nome News. tried to blaCkmaii Us and pub lished slandefous articles. He is now ia the peaitcntiary eu Me Neill's Island. his senteace being & COG ane aud four years imprisonment. Detectives afs now after Me Donald ansi Galpiu, tt found thsv wtli bs taken back to Nomg fog tF,al ia the spring.
Yukon Valley news., 1905-02-08

forty-hve years ill the employ of the Russi Il government. Alexander II gave him several medals for his services as custodian of revenue funds. My sister graduated on the musical con: ervatcry ill War saw with Taderewski, and my mother was educated at the college for the nobility founded by the wife of Alexander l. My identi V was established with the Russian consul in San Francisco by Right Rever- end Innocent Pustinsky, tue bishop who recently came from St. Peters burg to take the station at Sitka.
 All the evidence gathered by Bishop Pu>,insky and myself will be turned over to the Russian ann bassadol.
 "On returning to Russia to settle the family estate l will personally request the czar to open up eastern Siberia to American prospettOrs. l think I can convince him that it will be an advantage to tho govern ment instead of granting conces- sions. the present policy. My wife, who speaks so much Letter the language, will tell you about our terrible affair in the north. Up there the Indians are better citizens than the officials. They commit less crimes. They are white men,"
 Countess Morajeski was formerly Mrs. Alice Rollins Crane. She went to Alaska some years ago with credentials from various ruag- azines ard rev spapers and the bu- reau of ethnology at Washington, D N oIlC iS d lllC UlDCI Ol lUG ~ T. tional' Geographical Society and engaged i'll the collection of histori- cal data for government reports and curos for the Smithsonian Institu- tion.
 My troubles began, said she, when l was induced 10 go into business partner ship with a man in Dawson named Gal pin, who had come from England. thought him a good man because he used to read the service in Dawson when the curate was i'll. He knew that was sue. cessful and had located .ev,r.l go od clains. His purpose was to make mt liable for his debts as his partner. HC swindled me and thereby lost the none for a mining venture which had been eE trusted to me by friends in Los Angeles who now accuse me of abusing their coh fdence. They do not know how hard worked to save their investments. livoC in buekskin suit and did slavish worI to earn money.
 Human vultures swarm in Alaska. T, add to my troubles Galpiu persecuied m, with offers of marriage. threatening mI life. fled toward Panama. over the ice goo-mile trip with dog team and mul, Al
Yukon Valley news., 1905-02-08
Northern Romance
 I Thrilling Stoiy. For Outside Readers

SSS tAitNC Nol!lliS NidiS -hOidJSSNi, two northern characters who, as sisted by one Captain Ga!pin, aired their domestic tribulations along tine reaches of the American Yukon i'll 1905, are i'll San Fran ci co. The "coun,ess' has sent to the Fairbanks News the following clipping from the Examiner of Dec. IT:
 Love, hate, revenge, robbery, blackmail, treacherv, broken bones, damaged reputations, official cor ruption and attempted murder these form the warp and wool of a story from Alaska life told by the Count and Countess Morajeski. In the ice locked land of yellow treas ure they have survived series of sensational adventures, the outcome of which, they declare, will be suit against the United States gov ernment for S25o, 900. As Rus sian citizen Count Victor Morajeski will seek redress from the adminis- tration at Washington for outrages which, he alleges, he and his wife suffered at the hands of corrupt officials of tue government. The couple are now III this city on their way to Washington, D. C.
 Although taking warlike steps toward a clash of international colors in the courts, the count has no personal desire to see the Amer ican eagles feathers ruffled by the paws of a Russian bear. He IS an admlrer of American customs, speaks very good English and makes modest reply to questions concerL- ing his title He prefers the prefix of plain Mister to the ski of hi, baptism.
 My suit against the govern ment," said the count, will be brought from motives of simple justice. In Alaska all sorts of atrocities are committed in the name of the law. The opportuni- ties for robbery and worse crimes are practically unlimited. The ter rible state of things existing in Nome and other Alaskan places should be exposed and this pro pose to do. My wife. an American woman. was made the subject oi savage attack as to reputation. and was also the victim of personal vio- lence by government officials. These are outrages which the gov etnmeut ts responsible for.
 For seven years 1 have been a peaceable resident of Alaska 1 am miaing engineer. Ny father, who died last year leaving me hts two
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-07-13
is THE CANAL HooDooED?

Is there a mysterious plot to pre-
vent the construction of the Panama
canal? The country is periodically
treated to a sensational statement
that there is. and periodically lives it
down. only to find It bobbing up
again.
]. D. Yeomans. a former member
of the interstate commerce commits
sion, we'll known in Walla Walla, is
the author of the latest scare.
In a highly sensational interview,
he AYERS that there is no intention Of
building a canal at Panama: that the
route is not feasible. while the Mica
ragua route was, and that, therefore,
the Panama route was substituted by
the conspiracy against any canal.
Mr.. Yeomans' ideas may be colored
by the fact that he was moved from
the interstate commission" and that
he was one of a syndicate which made
proposition to construct the Nicara-
qua canal.
Nevertheless, Mr.. Yeomans must be
looked upon as a responsible individ-
ual and it must be assumed that he
believes, to some extent at least. in
what he says.
The evidence of a conspiracy to put
the government in a hole. to make it
spend untold millions in an effort to
construct a canal where no canal can
ever be constructed. is not conclusive
Eminent engineers have testified
that a canal can be made over either
route, it being only question of time
and money. Unless we are to assume
that all engineers who have been oveI
the route are fools or attached to the
conspiracy" we must believe thai
the Panama route is practicable.
Certainly the French engineers
thought so and they also must, years
ago, have been either mistaken oil
corrupted by the alleged conspiracy
Is IL possible that an influence, inter
national in character. has laid par
alyzing hand upon this project anc
held it there for years and never un
masked?
It does not seem probable. But il
is possible, and the very possibility
makes it worth while to have Mr.
Yeomans' warning. If it does nothing
else, it will add zest to the hunt fol
the canal hoodoo.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-07-13
WILL THEY BE GOOD?

The Morning Oregonian rejoices
that such a thrilling example has been
set before the United States senate,
as the conviction of one of its venera-
BILE members and says this example
will mean the beginning of a higher
standard, a new condition Of honesty
and obedience to law in that body.
Will the example set before that
body mean the beginning Of an era of
better public morals or will 1t only
serve to make the members more
skillful in hiding their jobs to prevent
detection? This is question.
Graft and dishonesty are so widely
prevalent in public office and SEN
tences in the penitentiary and heavy
fines have so little terror for brazen
rascals, that it is very doubtful II one
small example of this sort will have
the result Of removing graft from
public service.
Never before in the history of the
government was there such an cpl
demic OF grating. public rottenness
official thieving and other forms Of
brazen public crimes as now. and
present laws are scarcely adequate to
a just punishment of this sort of ras-
cality.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-07-13
STRUCK THE RIGHT SPOT.

The conviction of senator upon
a fine point of official probity testl-
fies to the conscientiousness of the
courts and the virility of the jury
system, says the Minneapolis journal
If we need deterrent examples of the
disgrace of supine yielding to conven-
lent sin, surely the United States SEN
ate is tempting place for the lightn-
ing to strike. From no other source
could an illustration be drawn more
calculated to attract attention.
The senate is the highest Legislative
body in the world today 1t should
illustrate in it's membership the high
est ideals of the people. When the
people find senator's who are a failure
they are led to moralize on how far
they contribute to the result by Sc
Hlecting improper men for the trust and
how far the declining traditions of the
senate contributed to the corruption
Of senator originally pure. Reform
must be consistent. The people will
correct any error Of judgment In
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-07-13
OPPORTUNITY.

This 1 beheld or dreamed it in a
dream,
There spread a cloud of dust along
plain,
And underneath the cloud, or in it
ragged
A furious battle, and men yelled, and
swords
Shocked upon swords and shields. A
princes banner
Wavered, then staggered backward,
hemmed by foes.
A craven hung along the battles edge
And thought Had / sword of
keener steel
That blue blade that the kings son
bears-but this
Blunt thing" he snapt and flung il
from his hand,
And, lowering, crept away and left the
field
Then came the kings son, wounded
sore bestead,
And weaponless, and saw the broken
sword,
Hit buried in the dry and trodder
sand,
And ran and snatched it, and will
battle shout
Lifted afresh, he hewed his enemy
down
And saved a great cause that heroic
day.
Edward Rowland Sill.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-07-13

governor OF Oregon. or to name the
next United States senator? What is
the verdict of the voters who live in
Multnomah county?
If Portland dominates in the for
nation Of the next republican ticket
the verdict will be the same all over
the state. Portland has had too much
political power and has not used it
wisely.
Political power in Portland has but
one objective point-graft. If good
state law has originated there we
would like to have some one mention
the article in plain English.
What is the moral Of the matter?
The next republican ticket must be
taken from the body of the country,
if it is to be elected by the thinking
people of this state. who are repub-
licans.
It was republicans who elected
Chamberlain governor. Word sheriff,
Manning district attorney, and Lane
mayor. It is republicans, not demo-
Gratis that Oregon politicians must
reckon with.
party movement might originate
in Portland that would reach out and
take in all the interests and men of
brains, thought and ability in the
state but that is hardly likely to oc-
cur.
Portland is stepped in graft politics
to such an extent that Portland man.
ayers will not trust men outside the
city, and few in the city will trust one
another.
The people must make up their
minds to make up their own program
to select their own ticket, to do theil
own nominating, to follow no rotter
leadership, or pursue ancient ant
time-worn methods.
With practically a whole delegation
in congress to select, with a whole
state ticket to nominate, with legis
lature to choose, with a new constitu
ton that needs to be framed, Oregon
has a big job just ahead.
With leadership distrusted, with or
ganizations smashed, with an admins
tration in Washington determined t.
indict and convict every man of prom
inence in the state, need anyone b.
surprised if Oregon goes democratic