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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

The Norwegian Storthing falls
into line with the Norwegian
people and demands dissolution
of the partnership heretofore en-
isting with Norway. Now, IL
Norway will only set up a nice
little Republic there is no reason
why we should not be her big
sister
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

The scandal in the Govern
ment Printing Office has broken
out afresh as everyone who was
on the inside knew it would and
it looks now as though the only
thing left for the government to
make thorough house cleaning
of it and to get rid of the war
ring factions that are seriously
hampering the work OF the big
bureau. The scandal is only
what might be expected from
government servants long en-
ployed who like servants in pri-
vate houses get to think that
they own the establishment in
stead of remembering that they
are paid to do the work. Public
Printer Palmer and his two chief
foremen, Ricketts, and Hay have
long been coyertly at swords
points and their anomosity broke
out over the contract that was
recently let In the printery for a
lot of new type setting machines.
The commission which investi-
gated the contract managed to
frame its report without adver-
Using either of the rival firms
one of the other of which ex-
pected to reap a harvest from
being upheld by the investiga-
tors. Both the Public Printer
and his two foremen were among
the witnesses before the com.
mission and il developed at the
time that there were cliques and
opposing factions in the Office
that initiated against good work.
These personal feuds have brok-
en- out afresh and it looks now
as though it would be best to
make a thorough sweeping out
in the big Office. The investiga-
ting commission and the civil
service commission and all the
other commissions who have
merely succeeded in raking up
an unsavory scandal without do
ing anything so far to rectify it,
may think they see some middle
road that will placate everyone
without curing the evil. But the
best way to handle such SQUAD
bles will be little drastic and
wholesome discipline that will
make the government employee
feel that he is drawing salary
for working and not for plotting
with his fellow employees either
subordinates or superiors.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

The Chinese have promised to
stop the boycott, but 1t is easier
to start a boycott than to stop
one, according to the SanFran-
cisco Examiner.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

Some nervous persons who are
vastly alarmed for the ability of
this country to compete in for
eign markets, have declared that
this cannot be done while the
American workingman contin-
ues to live at his present stand
ard of comfort and comparative
luxury. Nothing could be more
fatuous than such an argument,
says the Spokesman Review.
Not only have high standards of
living been enjoyed by the lab
orers in the United States a re-
suit of general national prosper
ity, but they are essential to the
productive power of our work
ingmen and to their ability to
compete with, the lower paid
labor of other lands.
The fact the American work
ingmen turns out a larger pro-
duct than his European Compel
itor is one of the truisms of sta
tistics. This is due to divers
causes. Higher intelligence, the
result of better elementary and
industrial education, of reading
and travel, is one of these. But
the most important of all is the
fact that he is better fed, better
clothed and better housed. In
deed, the whole matter may be
summed up in the fact that he
enjoys high standard of living,
for education for himself and his
children. Ii includes the ability
to command books and periodic
ais, the facilities for self-educa-
ton. All these combine to make
the average American workman
the most intelligent in the world.
Hence TO a greater extent than
the foreign workman and there
fore TO produce greater results,
in many cases at the same or a
lower cost.
Upon this subject some valu-
able figures collected by Profess
sor Sombart of Breslau in com
parisop of German with Ameri-
can standards, are particularly
suggestive. He points out that
the average American working
mans family occupies five rooms
while the German has to be con-
tent with two. The American
family spends $116 annually for
clothing, the German $32 to $54.
The American workingman's
household food bin is greater in
the same proportion than the
Germans. His folks not only
eat more meat and white bread
few German workingmen have
either in good quantity and
quality-but they eat more fruit,
coffee, tea, sugar and pastry.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

A benevolent administration is
going TO send Panama another
consignment of high priced en-,
cheering talent. Possibly Pan
anna would prefer some men who
would dig canal.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

If the Scotch gentleman who
wrote things about municipal
ownership in Chicago had just
waited there till his report was
read by the natives, his execu-
tors might have added an inter
esting appendix on lynch law in
the Middle West.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

A teacher born, not made"
is the opinion of the Portland,
Oregonian. Wrong, necessity
makes them by the regiment.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

A reward of 81, 900 is offered
by Chinese faction in Seattle
for the head of Mock Duck.
There are very few of us that
can afford duck at that price.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

Portsmouth does not wish any
i'll to the world at large but if
there are any more wars to be
wound up, she is perfectly will
ing to do it at summer prices.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

Good Old DIR. Dowie says Zion
City will have a surplus of $780,,
900, 900 in few years, which
may be just another way of an
nouncing his intention of start
ing Zion City Life Insurance
company.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

The Kaiser now proposes to
emulate the President by going
down in submarine. The only
thing the leftists in the Reichs-
tag object to is the idea of his
coming back.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

The Gar has been criticised
because he would not call an as
sembly. Having called one at
last, he is criticised just the same.
You never can plaase some
people.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

The beef trust is sending car
loads and ship loads of beef to
the Philippines-it seems that
beef follows the Flag,if the Con-
stitution does not.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

Before we express doubt con-
corning the adequacy of the new
assembly the Russian Gear is
about TO establish, we had better
consider our own legislature and
Congress as bodies representing
the people.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

1t is stated that the Japanese
intend TO give their peace en-,
voys warm reception. From
the Japanese press comments,
one might infer that the warmth
would emanate from boiling oil.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

The Marine Hospital Service
says it fears that moving day in
New Orleans may interfere with
the quarantine. Our idea of
quarantine was that it was more
likely to interfere with moving
dav
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

II the Taggarts don't get very
dry in the Wooster divorce court
room, somebody has been lying
about their capacity for the alb
sorption of red liquor.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

Senator Foraker of Ohio, presi-
dental aspirant for 1908, finds a
good deal of consolation in the
fact that when the Ohio republi-
cans get SCARED, they wire for
him instead of his rival, Secre-
tary Taft.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19
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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19
OFFICIAL PAPER OF CUSTER co.

The cotton statistics" exile
colony of the Agricultural De-
partment, now in Europe, il re-
ported prosperous and increas-
ing in numbers.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

The republican council of
Cleveland, Ohio, really might
have known better than to have
taken Tom johnson for fool.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

Governor Vardaman is cooling
off a little, as he is about con-
WINGED that Louisiana did not
contract the yellow fever just to
spite him.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

The Sultan of Morocco is will
ing to pay an idemnity anyhow,
the French had not licked him to
a standstill.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

The dispatches say that Sena-
tor Depew has been paying back
a lot of money to the Equitable.
The question arises is this prin-
cipal or interest |?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

Mr.. Croker hopes to time his
next visit to. New York when he
can hang highly ornate wreath
on Mr.. Jerome's tombstone.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

1t may be that the high price
of leather has something to do
with John d. Rockefeller going
about in his bare feet.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

Russia may get the reputation
of being stingy, for refusing to
pay Japan's expense of licking
her.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

The fate of the Subway Tav-
ern is simply another indication
that New York is not champing
with impotence for the millen-
uiuro
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

Milwaukee expects to be able
to report bumper crop of in
dictments before the year is
over.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

Mark Twain declares that the
treaty of peace has put back the
cause of reform in Russia twenty
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

IL il somewhat to Secretary
Wilson's credit that he never re.
ferred to the grating in his de.
partment as Irregularities. I"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

Delaware dropped Addicks,
and the seismographs in Indiana
and Illinois recorded an earth
quake.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

Loomis wants TO go abroad.
Any objection ? Hearing none,
unanimous consent is given.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

The Virginia primaries are
now safely over. The earth al
most quaked but not quite.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

Life Insurance company. They
may have noticed of late that a
life insurance company is a good
thing.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

Being man of peace, it must
grieve the President to learn
that Castro is about to lick him.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

years. Mark probably means
that if the war had gone on there
would have been fewer Russians
to reform.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

The army 'sideboard" outcan.
teens the canteen.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

A Los Angeles man has been
discovered whose heart is on the
right side.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

The Treasury reports that it
is getting 100000 day in
tainted money. Is Mr.. Rockefel-
Ter responsible for all this :?
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

Chicago University professors
seem TO discover everything ex-
cept what fools they are.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

Some wealthy New Workers.
are about to launch another big
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-09-19

There is nd truth in the rumor
that Russia is going to erect a
monument to Commodore Perry.
The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1905-07-28

these goods a specially. Mr.. Nesbitt
will leave in August to make visit of
some duration in New York, during
which he will select his new stock and
fixtures.
Other Projects.
H. I. Klopp has under consideration,
plans fol an addition to P. P. Cobb
house, known as the Walter Bass place.
Mr.. Cobb has not yet made a final de-
cision as to the details Of the work,
and it will be some little time before it
Is finished.
With characteristic energy, Messrs.
Alexander and Ferdinand Libossart,
the new arrivals from Tnrini. France,
have begun work on their land in North
Fort Pierce, lately purchased of Dit
mar & McCarty. They have part of
the material on the spot and have be-
gun the erection of a comfortable
dwelling.
The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1905-07-28

the conditions and possibilities of the
new canal. That it does not accom-
plish the object for which it was built
Is very evident, and it is for this reason
that these engineers are now here.
In conversation with The TRIBUNE
reporter the gentlemen said that their
mission here Is to determine the ex-
tent to which the canal must be en-
larged in width and depth to thoroughly
drain the praries situated five miles
west of Fort Pierce.
The railroad company and their al
lied landed interests are determined
that the canal shall drain this territory,
and when the report Of the engineers
is submitted, the question of future
procedure will be determined.
A prominent official of the railroad
announced last year, that If the one
canal was not sufficient another would
be put in, and our citizens may well
have confidence in them that the work
will continue until the entire country
west of town is completely drained.
The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1905-07-28
OF NATIONAL
REPUTATION
o. o. PoppIeton, of Stuart, High
Among Apiarists.
REGULAR VISITOR HERE
Each Year Ills Bees are Chartered on
the Peninsula Opposite
Fort Pierce.

Most people know something about
bees If 1t Is only the fact that they usu-
ally accord to visitors very warm re-
ception but it doubtful If the majority
appreciate the magnitude of the bee
keeping industry of the United States
Perhaps but few residents of Fort Pierce
are aware that we have among us at
this season each year an apiarist of ma
tional reputation.
o. o. Poppleton of Stuart, a lifelong
specialist in Bookkeeping, and one of the
most prominent aparists OF America,
comes each year with his several hum
dred hives of bees to the mangrove
islands opposite Fort Pierce to secure
the honey secreted during the period of
bloom, through June, July and August,
and in this way materially adds to his
harvest of honey.
Mr.. Poppleton has followed honey
production as business for thirty odd
years, operating in the western states,
Cuba and Southern Florida, and with
his especially constructed boats and
other. appliances necessary in handling
modern apiary, appears to be doing
very prosperous business.
The honey Is separated from the
combs by a peculiar centrifugal ma
chine, known to bee-keepers as an sex
tractor" without injury to the combs,
which are returned to the hives to be
refilled by the bees, when the operation
is repeated again and again. Cypress
barrels holding about 300 pounds each
are used as shipping packages, and the
extracted" honey finds its way to the
great trade centers of the north.
In conversation with a TRIBUNE rep
resentative this week Mr.. Poppleton
stated that the present season had
been the poorest in his experience, as
the fora had failed to secrete anything
like its usual amount of honey, and
while his honey harvest usually aggre-
gates number Of tons, this seasons
output will be but a few thousand
pounds.
At present, the work Of rearing a
large number of high class queen bees
for his own use is in progress on the
islands and when this is completed
preparations will be made for returning
the bees to their winter quarters on the
st. Lucie river.
The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1905-07-28
LIGHTS
AND ICE FOR ALL
Work on the New Plant Is Progressing
MACHINERY Nearly All Here.

Last week We gave synopsis of the
progress on the st. Lucie Ice and Elec-
trio Light company's property to that
date. The old building had been en-
tirely removed by the first of this week,
and on Wednesday the framing of the
new structure was begun.
Mr.. Brewer, who is in charge CT the
work, has ten men helping him, but
this force Is insufficient to accomplish
the work as rapidly as is desired, and
during the coming week it will be in
creased to at least twenty.
With the exception Of the boiler,
which is on the way, the various parts
of the ice plant have all arrived, and
portion Of it has been unloaded. In
two weeks it is expected that the work
will be so we'll along as to allow the
machinery to be installed.
The outfit is supplied by the Henry
Vogt Co. Of Louisville, KY, who will
laton. The old boiler will be repaired
and reset in battery with the new one.
The other parts of the old plant will be
stacked 'and shed built to protect
them from the weather until they can
be disposed of to advantage.
As the ice plant Is shipped complete,
with building of just suitable size for
its accommodation, it will be necessary
to erect separate building for the cleo
trio light machinery, the double boilers
supplying steam for both.
Ice will be made in 3OO-pound cakes,
instead Of the 200-pound blocks gener-
ally supplied by smaller factories.
1t is the intention of the owners to
push the work on the ice plant to COM
pletion as quickly as possible, after
which the electric light matter will be
taken up. There Is nothing definite to
be made known about the latter at this
time, except that we will have the
lights before the year is out.
The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1905-07-28
TO FURNISH
COUNTY SITE
Resolution BY Board of Trade
So Proposed.
APPOINTED
To Meet Town Council and County Com
missioners---Res0l utiOn was Intro
duced BY J. T. Andrews.

An important meeting of the Board O:
Trade was held yesterday afternoon in
the Office of Dittmar & McCarty. Those
present were c. T. McCarty, president;
G. 5. Emerson, secretary; II. G. Br0n-
son, treasurer; A. G. Dittmar, A. B.
Lowry, j. E. Andrews, M. F. Gold
smith, c. l.. Faber T., j. O'Brien and
r. Whyte.
The meeting was called for the pur-
pose OF receiving reports of the Fourth
OF July committees, and closing up
matters in connection with the celebra-
ton. The financial report showed that
about $500 had been collected and ex-
pended for the different events incident
to the celebration. This amount had
only to be supplemented by few dol
lars from the funds of the Board Of
Trade to pay every obligation that was
out standing. Undoubtedly this is a
record that few towns can boast.
On motion the chairman appointed q
committee Of three, composed of A. G.
Dittmar, A. B. Lowry and Il. j. o Brien
to make an examination of the drainage
canal from the town westward to the
prairie, and make a report of it's effic-
iency, and to observe any improvements
that would make it more efficient. One
copy of the report to be filed with the
Board of Trade and one to be forwarded
to the Florida East Coast Railway Of
ticials for their information.
The following resolution was intro
duced by Jas. E. Andrews, and was
adopted:
Whereas, The law creating st. Lucie
county made Fort Pierce the temporary
county site of the new county, and
Whereas, In such cases It is custom
airy for the town so hOnored to make
some concessions or inducements for
the permanent location Of the county
seat within its limits, and as 1t will
greatly enhance the value of all proper
ty and the interests of the holders
thereof, and be to the advantage of the
business of the town and the citizens in
general, therefore be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of the
Board of Trade Of Fort Pierce that the
town furnish good site for the county
buildings to be erected on, and that
committee of three be appointed from
this Board to confer with the town
council of Fort Pierce and the County
Commissioners of St. Lucie county rel
alive to the same, and that the chair
man of the Board of Trade be the
chairman of this committee. The
chairman appointed the following to
serve on the committees: c. 7. Nc
Carly, w. j. Tucker and w. j. Nesbitt.
The Board elected as members at this
meeting the following business men Of
Fort Pierce: Fred Fee, X. B. Rauler-
son, G. S. Tucker and w. j. Tucker,
and the secretary was instructed to no.
tify them of their election.
The Fort Pierce Board of Trade Is
one of our live and progressive institu-
tons and has done much for the bene-
fit of the town. Among the most prom.
inent results that it has accomplished
may be stated that it has conducted
two very successful Fourth of July Gel
ebrations; it was instrumental in secur-
ing the canal that has been built through
The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1905-07-28
East Coast Railway Extension,

Work on the Florida East Coast rail
way extension to Key West Is progress
ing rapidly. Each day the freight
trains passing through Fort Pierce
carry an immense quantity Of material
for road construction. Tuesday, large
pile driver, hollow steel tubes for cast
ing cement piles, and other materials,
passed through town, while Wednes-
days freight had four cars of steel
bridge decking. This shipment con-
tanned twenty pieces, seventy-fve feet
long and twelve feet wide. 1t is est-
mated that more than 1000 men are
now engaged in the work.