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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01

Massac and Miss IIough in the coun-
" on the Lovelaceville road.
The winners of the second and third
prizes are equally well known peo.
pie.
Miss Hinton gets $3.50 piano.
The Valley Gem, sold by w. T. Mil
Ter.
Mr.. Dunaway gets 500 in cash.
Miss Hough gets lady's gold
watch from Warren.
DR.. Young gets a SOS runabout
from Powell-Roger 4 Co.
Mr.. Bert Gilbert gets the $50 gold
watch at VOLTS. second prize in his
contest. Mr.. Pierce gets a $40 UNI
brella as third prize in the same con-
test.
Mrs. Denker gets a gold watch at
Nagel & Meyers as second prize in
the ladies in Paducah contest, and
Mrs. Albert Meyers gets a $40 UNI
brella as third prize in the same con-
test.
The contest has been very satisfy
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01
RIVER NEWS

The steamer Columbia which lef
| Paducah last week, is now running
in the Davenport and Burlington
trade in place of the Helen Blair
which is undergoing repairs.
From June, 1884 to 1908. Capt
Ed. Howard at Jacksonville has
built 1913 steamboats, and barges. In
1898 he built fifty-seven boats and
barges. Included in this number
were several of the largest, finest and
fastest boats ever built in this or any
other country.
The Pittsburg Leader says: The
occupants of houses along the river
WHICH were partly under water,
feared that the swell made by the
boats would start their homes afioat,
and made strenuous objections to the
crafts passing near their premises
during the high water. When a boat
would make its appearance in a
flooded district, windows would be
thrown up in nearly all the HOMES
and imprecations and threats hurled
at the heads of the pilots IL they
steered their fleets too near the
banks or had the steamers wheel
turning. Most of the pilots took
great care in passing from washing
them from their foundations, and
most of the boats were allowed to
drift past, If the river conditions per-
mitted 1t. One boat reported that
two shots were fired in its direction
just below Wheeling Island on Thurs
day by resident of one of the flood
ed houses. The bullets took no eff
feet. however. and the crew thinks
the shots were fired high just TO
frighten them.
Gauge today Ell. a rise of four
tenths.
Capt S. A. Fowler has returned
from several days business trip out
of the city.
The Dick Fowler cleared at a.
m. for Cairo.
The John S. Hopkins is the Ev-
ansville packet today
The Cherries Hook arrived from
Cumberland riveT.
The LYDIA left for Cumberland rlv-
err today.
The Harvester arrived from the
mines with coal for the u. S. Gas.
Coal and Coke Co.
The Charleston will arrive tomor.
low from Tennessee river.
The City of Memphis is due today
from Tennessee river.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01
GETTING TO UNDERSTAND EACH
OTHER RETTER.

The feeling throughout McCracken
county towards the city of Paducah
was never better. Keep up the good
work. Our interests are theirs. and
their interests are ours. Citizens of
PaducAh pay about eight-tenths of
the taxes paid in the county. Citi-
zens of Paducah buy most of the pro-
duce, tobacco and grain raised in the
county and the residents of the
county spend most of their money in
Paducah.
Ii is therefore natural that the
people of the city should want the
people of the county TO multiply and
prosper. have good roads and good
crops. and feel like they are at home
when they come to town.
The farmer is becoming more edu-
Gated, more exacting in his tastes,
and more "citified" every day. His
progress has been rapid. stimulated
by railroad, telephone, rural delivery
and the newspaper. and 1t will be
more so during the next few years.
This Is one reason the Commercial
club of Paducah sees an opportunity
TO help. 1t will do all in its power
to augment friendly relationsbetween
country and town, and we believe
will be met half way by the people
of the county. Each can help the
other. and neither has anything to
lose by trying.
By inducing others to come to Me-
Cracker county and locate we make
land more in demand and conse-
quently more valuable, and in this
way reduce the burden of taxation
on every individual taxpayer. and at
the same time have more money TO
spend for public improvements, good
roads, and other things that tend 20
bring about the greatest good to the
greatest number.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01

Residents in the neighborhood of
18th and Tennessee streets have been
annoyed lately by small boys who
oonsregate about that corner, use
bad language and throw rocks Mr..
w. II. Mustaine, day operator at the
local |. c. ticket office, last night
was attacked by a small boy who
used rocks as a weapon. The opera
tor secured shovel and chased the
boy several blocks. He never intend
ed to strike the urchin but frighten-
ed him a great deal. His cries at
tracted considerable attention.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01
Operating Under New Rules.

This morning the Paducah City
railway is operating. It's ears under
new rules. Il was announced that be-
ginning today the cars would be
stopped to take on and discharge
passengers only at street corners and
on the depot line signs have been put
up on cross guide wires indicating
the stopping place. They read; Cars
stop here" Such signs have also been
placed ON West jefferson street be-
yOnd Fountain avenue, where there
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01
Not a Word Spoken at Woman's
Funeral.

(Danbury, Conn. Telegram to the
New York Herald.)
In perfect silence. as is the Gus
tom of the Sandermanians. reli-
gious sect now almost extinct. the
funeral of Mrs. Annie Croal Blaik-
ley, one of the last of the survivors
was held in this city. Mrs. Blalk-
ley died from shock caused by a fire
in the neighborhood of her home a
few days ago. She was SO years
old.
The funeral was attended BY
many of the townspeople, but nc
word was spoken from the begin.
ming of the services at her home
until the body was Inferred.
The Sandamanians once had a
church in this city, where they met
each week, greeting each other with
kiss as they entered the meeting
place and partaking of food before
the services concluded. They wer
followers of Robert Sandman. a
Scotch clergyman. founder of the
sect. The funeral of Mrs. Blaikley
will probably be the last ever held
with Sandemanian services.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01

pondents. The stories are simply
dished up in the offices of the big
dailles, and even pictures have been
printed purporting to be of the pris-
oner and children, when in fact no
pictures had been taken at the time.
These stories may do Paducah no
real harm, but there are at least a
few local representatives of outside
papers who have had nothing to do
with sending out sensational reports,
and do not care to be blamed for IL.
The accounts of the Brockwell affair
that tend to offend loyal Paducahans
were sent by no one. They were man
ufactured out of the whole cloth in
the offices of these saffron-hued
newspapers.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01
NOTICE.

Green River Coal CO., ct. al. in adj
miralty, VS.. Steamer City of Idaho.
whereas libels were filed in the
district court of the United States for
the Western District of Kentucky at
Paducah. KY. on the 9th and 2Sth
day of March, 1905, by the Green
River Coal company and others
against the steamer City of Idaho,
her engines. tackle apparel, furniture,
etc, alleging in substance that said
steamer was indebted to them In the
sum of about 81 for supplies, ma
terial, barge hire etc, furnished said
steamer and on TIE credit of same.
That said steaifer City of Idaho is
Justly indebted to them in said sum
and that same has never been paid
and prayed process against said
steamer City of Idaho, her engines,
tackle apparel, furniture, etc. and
that said steamer be condemned and
sold TO pay said claims with costs and
expenses.
Now, therefore in pursuance to the
motion under seal of said court TO me
directed, do hereby give public mo-
tlce to all persons claiming the said
steamer City of Idaho. or in any
manner interested therein, that they
be and appear in the district court of
the United States in the city of Padu-
cab. KY. on or before the LIST day of
May, 1905, at 10 o'clock in the fore
noon of that day. then and there to
interpose their claims and to make
their allegations in that behalf
A. ID. JAMES, U. S. NJ. w. X. ID.
BY G.. w. SAUNDERS, Deputy.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01

ing in every detail to The Sun. II
oongratulates all the winners, and
thanks everyone for the kind words
received in the comments on the con-
tests.
The contests have served to intro
duce TIE Sun to many people who
did not know It before and we trust
we may have the pleasure of continu-
ing the acquaintance. II giving our
readers the newsiest and best paper
in Paducah will aid in doing so we
rest assured IL will be done.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01
, o o o o o o o o o

According TO representations OF
the Rev. lrl X. Hicks. the famous
forecaster. we may expect q marked
change to warmer weather during
first three days of April, with rain.
wind and thunder following. Some
hail may be expected. The period
will end in change to much cooler.
with snow nurries northward. and
cool to frosty nights up to the 9th
The 9TH ami Sth are central dates.
on and touching which reactionary
changes TO storm conditions will take
place.
A regular vulcan storm period ex-
tends from the 11th to the 18th.
Look for more rain and much storm
mess. Next storm period extends
from 18th TO 21st. Very threatening
electrical storms. violent and posi-
lily tornado in places westward and
central, are probable at this time.
These storms will break up in snow
squalls over much of the country
northward, with frosty weather. Late
sleet storms may be looked for In
many sections. From 23d to 9th
April showers will be in order. The
rainfall will be very heavy in some
sections about this time. The month
will end with much warmer weather
ana series of thunder showers will
follow.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01

The last assessment for McCrack-
"males over 21"-legal voters. as
2.340. Yet last November the
county's vote was: Roosevelt 1857,
Parker 1879, a total for president
of 3433 votes, not counting the
miscellaneous. The last registra-
tion shows in Paducah alone 1887
voters, or l747 votes more in the
city alone than the county assessor
oertifies are in the entire county,
II this can be taken as fair ex-
ample. how far from right must the
remainder of the county assessment
be-
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01
are no interseeting streets.


The school census enumeratOrs
started work this morning and will
make complete canvass of the city.
They started out with explicit in
structions not TO miss a school child
because every one missed will mean
the loss of s2,95, this being the
amount Of money received by the
city schools from the state.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01

Most of the sensational publlca-
lions in the big yellow journals Of
the Blackwell poisoning case were
not sent by anyone in Paducah. They
were faxed in the various Offices
Outside of few unfounded stories
telegraphed by some OF the CORES
pondents the night of Mrs. Brock
wells confession, very little has been
sent out Of Padueah by local CORES
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01
Popular Machinist Hurt.

Mr. George Schroeder, machin-
list employed in the local I. c, shops,
was injured this morning by beine
accidentally struck IN the forehead
by a fellow machinist with a ham
mer A painful cash and bruise was
inflicted. rendering the young man
partially Unconscious. The injury
was dressed at the |. G. hospital and
will not disable Mr., Schroeder.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01

The board of works is considering
proposition to buy lot of some
thing to pour between. the cracks of
the brick streets" Ii would confer
more of a favor on the general pub
lie by considering some sort of a
proposition to buy a lot of gravel to
put on the streets, instead of the stuff
they have been putting there.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01

To The Sun:
wish to thank my friends.
through your paper for their support
and encouragement that made posi-
BILE my winning your prize for the
most popular man in Paducah and
assure them of my hearty apprecia-
ton of the same. Respectfully.
JOHN DUNAWAY.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01

rs he really great financier?'
We'll, he has piled up billion or
so Of dollars. But he has never
written anything for a magazine. f"
Washington Star.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01
The Weather.

Increasing cloudiness tonight with
probable showers in extreme west
portion. Sunday probably showers.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01

The Adventures of Sherlock
Homes In every Sundays Post Dis
patch. Get one early from your
newsbOy.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01

Before buying your spring
mating, visit our carpet depart
ment and see our line at l21sc,
f5c, 1Sc, zoe, and 25c.
RUDY, PHILLIPS A. co.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01

t'C'N sNRNNhN's ehtNih WIN AHt
following as winners:
MEMS CONTEST.
John Dunaway. ...........210, 95S
Bert Gilbert. .............14 ,G92
Willie Pierce. ............ 1888
MOST POPULAR LADY.
Miss Pauline Hinton. ......230,7O6
Mrs. A. Denker, ,942
Mrs. Meyers, ............. 36,S02
LADY ON RURAL ROUTE.
Miss NJ. Hough. 1874 ,065
MAN ON RURAL ROUTE.
DR.. Young. ............. 25S.524
This is the third year The Sun has
held these contests and each year
has seen them grow in popularity.
The ones just closed have been mark
ed by the good feeling all around
and the tremendous voting and inter.
est taken in them.
The winners are all well known
people, Miss Hinton and Mr.. Duna-
way living in the city, DR.. Young at
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01

Stamp Deputy Louis Bebout re-
ported a fair month IN his business
for March. During the month he
collected total OF $lO,7S737 and
issued stamps for whiskey amount
ing to 925 barrels.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01
NORTH VIEW!!!
Sixty-twO Lots For Sale In North
vicW!!!

Sixty-two Lots For Sale In North
Vicw!!!
The new street car line has been
recently built along 18th street to
Rowlandtown through North View.
We now offer for sale G2 of these
lots.
They are situated In a rapidly
growing part of the city, on graveled
streets,-beautifui shade trees
many of them on the car line, and
are very desirable for residences.
VIII sell cheap. only part cash,
balance on good long time to suit
purchasers.
NORTH VIEW REALTY & I'M
PROVEMENT co.
BY w. +. PAXTON,
JOS. l.. FRIEDMAN,
w. ID. GREER.
WILLIAM REED,
WILLIAM HUGHES.
w. G. ELLIS.
Il. M. FISHER.
Apply to w. ID. Greer. Fraternity
building, Paduoah, Ky.
w. ID. GREER. Gen. Man'r.
A No.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01

-Nicest lunch In the city at \. Is.
Cots tonight.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01

The Suns great contests came to a
close yesterday afternoon with the
following as winners:
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01
Daily Thought.

Make perfection your aim and be
satisfied with nothing less.-Success.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01

Average for the Month. ......S,47S
Personally appeared before me
this day Il. J. Paxton, general mana
ger of The Sun, who affirms that the
above statement of the circulation Of
The Sun for the month of February,
1905, is true to the best Of his
knowledge and belief.
PETER PURYEAR,
Notary Public.
My commission expires Jan. %,
1908.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01
YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT

Every dose makes you feel better. Lsx-Po
keeps your whole ipsides right. Sold on tn
money back plan everywhere. Price so cents
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-04-01

In q recent letter TO The Pcruna Met.i-
cine Co.. Miss Julia Marlowe OF New
York city, has the following TO say Of
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-08-25

For freaks and strange occurrences
the state of Pennsylvania is running
Kansas a close second. The latest ex-
traordinary account from that State
is that OF cow that yields red milk
What is said to be the qUeerest freak
in the COW line ever known in England
or America has just been discovered
on the dairy farm of Stanley r. Brun-
ges a former member of the State
legislature near here. The COW gives
red milk, not a dull watery, milky red
but bright crimson. The milk is white
when drawn but changes to red in the
course of few hours. A scientific in
vestigation by the state veterinarian
was made resulting in the cow being
marked as the only one Of her pecu-
liar nature on record. So interested
are state scientists in the case that the
COW has been bought from Brunges and
taken to the University of .Pennsyl-
yania, in Philadel phia, for observation.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-08-25

1t is plain that the japanese are de-
termined not TO permit a combination
of the powers to dictate terms of peace,
as was the case at the close of the
war with China ten years ago. At
that time, it will be remembered, Ger
many. France and Russia interposed TO
protect the Chinese. A japanese
writer of note, Adachi Kinnosuke,
commenting upon Admiral Togo's vie
tory over the Russian fleet says:
The joint note of the triple alliance Of
Germany, Russia and France which
crowned our victorious arms with the de-
feat of a coward was a bitter medicine.
Ten years ago that was. Whatever hap
pens is for the best. The ghost of that les
son has been always wandering through
the imaginations of the nation. With the
people of Nippon there is one sin that
can never be either forgiven or forgotten.
1t is the sin against the honor of the sun
round flag II is small wonder, therefore,
that Admiral Togo has been fighting like
a man whose chief enemy is on the other
side of the peace negotiations with Rus
sia, as If the imposing might of the Pa
cifc suuadrons of the czar were nothing
but a preliminary curtain raiser to the
real drama, as If he were quite ignorant
as to the exact power of his final and
most formidable antagonist, whose name
or nationality he at present knows not.
No doubt the Japanese fighting men
have been nerved in the present war
by the hurt put upon their feelings
and honor when compelled to renounce
Port Arthur in 1895. Russia has been
first to feel the avenging blow. Inas-
much as the United States is not par
ty to any Of the coalitions, Japan could
well receive without suspicion the good
offices of this country in bringing
about a settlement at this time.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-08-25

As the threshing of wheat in east
ern Washington proceeds some extra
o dinary turpouts are reported.
The record yield of wheat 50 far
reported this season that of c. B. Keg-
ley whose farm lies south of Pullman.
Mr.. Kegley had an average yield of 30
bushels an acre from 90 acres of ''Forty-
fold wheat a comparatively new va
rety of winler wheat for this section.
Mr.. Kegley says the grain had shat
tered badly before it was cut and he
thinks fully five bushels an acre were
wasted and that had it all been saved
the yield would have been at least
80 bushels an acre. Mr.. Kegley had a
large field OF red Russian which aver
aged 43 bushels an acre. In speaking
OF his yield Mr. Kegley said:
This proves that it pays to cultivate
summer fal ow. l have cultivated my
summer fallow land several times and
always get good returns fer the extra
work. l have always had better crops
on summer fallow land that was we'll
cultivated than on that which was not.
Both these yields were on land which
was summer fallowed and thoroughly
cultivated.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-08-25
How Poets Are Born.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox presents In the
recently published story Of her career 4
novel and plausible theory about the
origin of poetic faculties. She says:
1t has always been my belief that chill
dren inherit ;he suppressed tendencies OF
their parents. A Clergyman's son fire.
quently shows abnormal tastes for the
pleasures that his father denied himself.
and talent Is quite often the full blown
flower of a little shoot which circum-
stance has crushed under its heel in
former generation
So at the age of eight I began to COM
pose prose anG rhyme because the literary
tendencies Of my mother had never beer
graufed. The poetical gift was no doubt
greatly the result of her having acci-
dental access to a library of the poets fot
the first time in her life. the year previous
to my advent and the happiest and most
hopeful year of her life.
Whether or not the literary bent of
this gifted writer was inherited, 1t is
evident from her story that she did
not sit down and wait for the spirit
within her to move She began to
write at thirteen years of age and at
first only looked for small return
from editors for her offerings-for in
stance, books and pictures and bric-a-
brac and tableware, articles from their
prize lists. which were more precious
than gems would have been 10 me"
Three poems which brought Ella
Wheeler Wilcox her first check were
inspirations. In her raids upon the
editors prize lists she had not courtel
the muse for the reason, as she says
l had not supposed verses to be salable.
wrote them because they came to me.
The check was a revelation. l walked.
talked. thought and dreamed in rhyme
after that A day which passed without
a poem from my pen l thought misused.
Two each day was my idea of industry,
and once achieved eight.
Mrs. Wilcox's life sketch shows that
it was sheer persistence" which won
success in the end She often sent out
ten manuscripts in one day, to have
nine of them to come back. One story
was declined by nine editors and even
ridiculed by one of them. The tenth
paid her $75 for it, and she rightly ar
gued that there must be more dollars
where those came from.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-08-25

The following interesting. in re-
gard to LincolnCounty' wheat is going
the rounds; The wheat crop of Lin
coin county is estimated at II, l,000,0
bushels and valued at 81, 100000. The
largest VIII Eat cars hold 10000 pounds
or 1000 bushels The cars are "A feet
long and it would require 1000 OF
them TO hold this countys harvest max
ing a train 81 miles long. The crop
will require 4,S8S, ssS sacks which will
cost s4l, ,555. 1t will cost $3.50, 900 to
thresh this grain and the railroad
company will charge Sl,l00,000 to pull
it to the coast market
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1905-08-25
Real Estate Transfers

Jas Keeth to Keeth, 81, u int. in
Review No. and 2 Leavenworth
Dist.
Anna NJ Woods to st. p NJ & NJ Ry
Co, 500, lots 3 and blk I'd Add to
LeavenwOrth.
VIM Douglas to E Cromwell, $50,
lot 90 blk l Leavenworth.
Clarence Wheeler to Eagle Barn
s250O, lots 3. L. 3, and !, G. N. Plat
Wenatchee.
United States to Clarence Scamen,
lots 3 and 4 and the e14 OF the sw1= 80
"a r 10.
Wen Dev Co to G e Morse and
Wheeler. $1,000, lot "a blk II G N
Plat Wen.
j Huntsinger to r F Holm, s13 swA
nwA nw14 33 80 r 20.
Chas ] Anderson to Hunter and
Young, 81, " int. seH swA and lot .,
sec 10 % + 20.
Wen Dew Co to Alex Mcneil, sl75,
lots and 5, Garden Home Add Wen.
Alex Mcneil to W L Franks, Sl200.
lots 4, G, and Z blk l Garden Home
Add to Wen.
Marriage Licenses.
Writ B Channel to Florence Harter.