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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22
ROBERT BURNS IN EXCISE.
Tale of How Scottish Woman Fooled
Him When He Tested Quality
of Her Liquor.

A story is told in Thornhill,
Scotland, about Burns in his ca.
pacity as excise man. Old Jean
Davidson kept a small whisky
shop, and was suspected of put.
ting more fresh water into his
liquor than was needful or lawful.
Burns accordingly came with his
apparatus andatonce detected the
irregularity. Now, Jean, ma
woman" he said, 81 Gamma tax this
to Dumfries this nicht; it's over
late. But I'll seal it WI the kings
seal, and return to lift it in the
mOrnin'."
When he had gone to his lodg
ing Jean fetched the village coop
er, who removed a hoop from the
barrel and bored a hole through
which the adulterated liquor was
oraWn on, ana stuff of regulation
strength poured in. Then the
hoop was refiXed, and Jean, with a
brave heart, awaited the gauger.
In the morning up came Burns
to claim the keg. Zone minute,
Mr.. Burns said Jean. sweetly.
"Ye might jest test that whisky
to convince me; since | Gamma see
how | could have been maxim sic
a mistake"
sit means breaking the kings
SEAL" said Burns, "but I'll Just fix
on another"
SO the sample was taken and
tested, and, of course, was found
to be all right. Burns was Devil.
dered. "Was there aught wrans
wi me, Jean, last NIGHT ?" he asked.
"Weel, Mr.. Burns, it's ma for me
to say-weel, ! just thocht We were
fully smert Wi yer wee tester"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22
Noted Architect.

The Prussian architect, Gustav
Ebe, celebrated his SEVENTEEN
birthday a few weeks ago. The
buildings which he began to erect
in Berlinin 1874 formed a new ep-
och in the architectur of the Ger.
man capital. He was the first to
use sandstone there as the favor
lite material, the first who carried
out the architectural style in the
inside decorations, the first who
infused a really artistic spirit into
the building business.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22

The Kansas City Star and the ST.
Louis Republic seem to take a great
deal Of pleasure in giving prominent
space to the vaporings of Tom Crit
tenden upon the "backwardness" of
Missouri and Missourians. Tom says
he likes the soil and climate, but that
the people are too slow; that no
better land is worth twice as much In
Iowa or Illinois, aud that in Okla.
homa a new town starts up with
electric lights and all modern conVen-
fences, while a Missouri hamlet gets
these things, If at all, only after a
quarter Of a century Of growth II
do not critlcise Missouri" exclaims
Mr.. C%rittenden sit is the HISTORIAN
that needs Kicking out Of the grass. 4"
What a singular thing it is that these
people who have such keen apprecia.
t on Of The %maryelously superior ad-
vlntages of other places are never
tempted to nov to those places.
Certainly they must be actuated by a
glorious %altruistic motive in standing
their ground in the oenighted places
Of their birth as missionaries OF high
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22

In bis letter exculpating Paul
Morton, President Roosevelt took a
step backward which this country
will not be able to recover in years.
The utter futility OF past efforts to
curb the lawlessness Of powerful
corporations and trusts without the
enforcement OF the criminal clause OF
the statute renders the presidents
action In this matter the more mex
cusable. II has been clearly shown
by carefully detailed facts that the
Standard Oil monopoly, the steel
trust and the beef trust all owe their
existence and their evil power to the
very offeuse Of which Paul Morton
was guilty. The president threw
away an opportunity Of making a
conspicuous example. No enthusiasm
which the president may exhibit for
new laws upon the subjects of trusts
and transportation evils can CON-
pensate for his failure TO stand out
boldly for the enforcement of existing
laws. What is the matter is that
the present laws on these subjects are
not enforced. A scoundrel who has
distinguished himself by helping cor
porations to override the laws is
regarded as worthy Of being sent to
the United States senate rather than
to a federal p%enitentiary. These
evils are regarded as economic rather
than moral. The legislation proposed
is directed against the evils in their
economic aspect 1t is not until the
people firmly grasp the fact that the
crimes Of corporations are committed
by men and not by a paper charter Of
incorporation that results will be
effected. If half a dozen millionaires
were to be sent to a federal peniten-
tiary for twenty-five years the atmos-
phere would be cleared up perceptiblY.
Rebate and transportation favor
ltism crush out competition and
make of trusts monopolies. Thus
the farmer can sell his stock only to
the beef trust. Since it is the only
possible purchaser, 1t can fix and does
fix both the buying and selling price
OF its goods. Both producer and con-
sumner are robbed. II a man breaks
into another's house and takes his
property, the law declares his offense
a crime against society. Society
Furnishes him together with any &C.
complete who aids and abets hin.
Until the crimes Of corporations are
considered in the same light and
enforced with the same rigor all mere
political va%porings on this subject
will be more than useless.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22
A Former Lafayette LOuntian.

DIR, John d. Ward, who dled last
Saturday, July Is, at Independence,
Mo-, was a former Lafayette Countlap.
He was born at Chapel Hill in 1S4l,
being a sen of Isaac H. and Mary
Satterfeld Ward, who came to this
country from Tennessee in 1887. He
studied medicine in ST. LOUIS, prac.
tlced at Mount Hope and PINK Hill,
and finally moved to Independence
and organized the Bank of Iudepen-
dence in 1887, o: which institution be
was president at the time of his death.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22

j. j. Hill Of the Northern Pacific
railroad has given out a thoughtful
interview in which he says; "What is
needed the country over is a great
awakening, a sort of revival In its
business methods In domestic and
foreign trade and a different and
higher commercial standard or moral
tone. This great awakening will
have to come before we are a world
power" Mr.. Hill says that if we are
to maintain present trade relations,
referring doubtless to tariff duties,
the building Of the Panama canal
will prove foolishness. We have no
ships and cannot afford to build any
in this country. Mr.. Hill says that
he has built ships here and abroad,
and that he will never build another
to fly the American flag so long as
present conditions Obtain, He says
that we are working hard and creating
wealth but that we are living off each
other; that there is no such thing as
commerce with other nations and can
be none under present conditions.
According to Mr.. Hills view nothing
more preposterous ever happened than
the slump in the cotton market last
year. Year before last the crop was
ten million bales-not enough-and
the price was high. Last year the
crop was thirteen million bales-too
much-and the price fell off nearly
200 per cent. Such a result would be
utterly impossible under any reasona-
BILE trade arrangements
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22

The approaching meeting Of the
National Reciprocity Convention at
Chicago is giving the StaDdpatters a
great deal of trouble. They have had
these conventions twice before. The
organization is growing. 1t has
established a monthly publication as
an organ of its views. 1t is educa
ting the people upon the subject of
the greatest and most immoral of all
gratts-the tariff graft. The people
of the agricultural states are begin.
ming to realize that their products
are being kept out of foreign markets
10 order that the ''infant industries
may continue to enjoy their unnatural
privilege. Ninety per cent of our
exports are products Of the soil.
They ind a restricted foreign market
because we maintain a restricted
market for what they have to offer US
10 exchange. In other words our
tariff laws deny TO ninety per cent Of
the products Of American labor the
benefit Of a fair market in order to
afford a particularly advantageous
market for ten per cent. Protective
tariff is not an economic proposition
to be argued, but a criminal graft to
be abolished.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22

Bob White, of the Mexico Ledger,
is trying to persuade the people Of
Mexico to start al oldfashioned county
fair. The idea is a good me. In
Kentucky, the home Of the county
fair idea, any county that has stuck
to the old agricultural show plan pays
dividends, The demand for races is
limited,
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22
Weeding out chiefs.

The sublime porte, tired, appar
emily, of continuous fighting with
the Albanians, without obtaining
any result, seems to have adopted
the more inidious plan of weed
ing out the chiefs. Osman Pasha,
one of the most powerful chiefs id
Albania, lately arrived at Scutaril
ostensibly on a visit to the COVER
nor of the province. He is stated
to be really, however, in a condi
ton Of gilded exile, and many
other chiefs are believed to be
threatened with similar treat
ment.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22

The Equitable investigation has
revealed the fact that on the COM
pany's pay roll was Chauncey M.
Depew, "Adviser." Further investi-
CATION revealed the fact that he
advised a loan Of $3.50, 900 on some OF
his own property, which the company
had to bid 10 at auction at $50, 600;
that he advised the raising Of Jimmy
Hyde's salary to 800, 600; that he
advised the company to defray the
expenses Of Hyde's Paris ball. II the
people in New York are not as rotten
as Depew they will advise him ia
resign his seat in the senate.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22

Mr.. Roosevelt made the greatest
mistake Of his life and lost the
greatest opportunity that has ever
came to him when he whitewashed
Paul Morton and decided that corpor-
ations should be punished for their
outlawries but not the officials of the
corporations. This principle might
as we'll be applied to municipal cor.
p%orationS. The misdeeds Of legisla.
tors and executives might as we'll be
charged up to the states and cities
and the officers themselves held free
from blame. We had better abolish
corporations altogether, better repeal
all Incorporation statutes, than to
juggle with moral accountability. A
corporation cannot be confined in a
penitentlary or hanged on a gallows.
1t cannot be guilty then Of an offenSe
greater than a misdemeauor. Per-
haps Mr.. Roosevelt would hold that
race track gamblers in this state, by
taking out incorporation papers,
could commit felonies under our laws
and be punished by fines for mlsde.
meanOrs as a corporation.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22
August Meeting.

The seventy-sizth August meeting
of the Dover Christian church will
be conducted this year by Rev. j. M.
Blalock, of Marshall. Mo-. The meet.
ing will begin tbs first Friday night
after the second Sunday in the
month, that is August IS.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22

The federal investigation of the
harvester trust revealed the fact that
the cost Of manufacturing and deliv
ering a harvesting machine is s57.
The retail price is 1925, The general
public seems to think that this is
pretty bad. The general public ought
to have to buy a linotype machine
occasionally. The size aud cost OF
manufacture Of this machine is less
than that of a harvester. The retail
price is SO, 500.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22

The paucitY of newspaper sensation
now a.days is evidenced by the fact
that the sea serpent has been revived.
A very respectable lobster Fisherman
OF Nantasket saw the serpent a few
days ago at a distance of one hundred
yards. Such a story is good for a
column any time in the dog days.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22

The Springfield Herald has an.
nounced S. A, Haseltine as a candl.
date for congress from this district.
With four candidates In the field
before Mr.. Welborn has taken bis
oath of Office there is no prospect of a
dearth of willing ones when the cam
paign really opens.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22

The international Reform Bureau
has been convicted Of perpetrating =
fraud to secure ranking privilege,
defraudlng the government out Of
SIS, 800 in postage, Reformers are
quite as likely to be g%ratters as other
people are. Crusaders and pirates
differ more 10 ends than in means.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22

er civilization aud better things. And
then, COO, maybe Tom has an enron
eous impression as TO the connection
between civilization aud gentility on
the one hand and "electric lights''
and ''modern Improvements" on the
other. And then, too. maybe the
Star made this long detour Of a
column merely to lead up by an easy
grade to his political Views: "Theodore
Roosevelt ranks with Jefferson aud
Lincoln among American presidents
and Joseph W. Folk is his natural
and logical successor
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22

Governor Vardaman, Of Mississippi,
is a candidate for Senator Moneys
seat IN the United States senate on a
platform calling for the repeal of the
10Th constitutional amendment.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22
Pink Hill PICNIC.

The eighteenth annual Pink Hill
picnic will be held on the old ground
three and one-half miles northwest Of
Oak Grove, Saturday, August 5. W,
S Cowherd, Frank Walsh, and L. 7.
Dryden will speak. Special rates on
the @. & A.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22

Tom Lawson has found a presiden.
tial possibility in John A. johnson,
democratic governor Of Minnesota.
His recommendation reminds once Of
Nerissa's compliment on Bassanio.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22

Senator Tom Platt says that his
life has not been worth while. The
people have long suspected that the
case is worse than that.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22

The August number of Everybody's
Magazine is at hand with another in.
stallment Of Lawson's Frenzied
Finance, but up to this time the
Standard Oil Company has shown no
signs of going into the hands of a
receiver.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22

Elk President Cleveland, Mr.. West
inghouse and Judge O'Brien became
directors Of the Equitable Life Assur-
ance Society with the distinct under
standing that the company was to be
mutualized. They have stood pat on
this proposition and the Ryan shares
have been transferred to the society.
1t is believed that the Equitable will
soon be in a better condition than ID
has been for years.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22
Lost.

Between l mile east Of old Silver
place on Columbus road and Lexington
n rocking chair. Finder please
notify postmaster Or B. d. Brock at
Mayview. 1t
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22

The SHAREHOLDERS of the twin ter.
ritories after making a fine show Of
unity at Guthrie last month are now
making a fine show Of division at
Muskogee. This last convention wants
separate statehood
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22

1t is to be determined officially this
month whether the Kaw river Is a
nayigable stream. Meanwhile the
Missouri has been abandoned.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22

William Travers Jerome says that
the next time he comes West he will
furnish to the "kid governors" a
cipher book to his jokes.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22

Fulton is agitating the matter Of
establishing a local cold storage plant.
Would such an institution profit the
investor and the community here?
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22

Thomas F. Ryan, who recently
bought the Equitable Life Assurance
Society, is now seeking to get pos.
session of the Virginia legislature.
He wants Daniels seat in the senate.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22
Woman as Reformer

The average woman would
rather marry a man to reform him
than not to be able to pose as any
sort of a reformer ~ Chicago Sun,
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22

The Korean loan Of a million
dollars was last week oversubscribed
by four to one. and that in Japan.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22

Died, in Hlgginsville, July Is, the
infant daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Willard.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-07-22

&. n. HOPKINS Editor
l. HEALE : Business Manager
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-25
CHINESE MAsoNS CELEBRATE.
Over 800 Members of the Order In
Walla Walla County.

The local lodge of Chinese Masons
yesterday celebrated the birthday of
Gin Mum, the organizer of the first
lodge of the order, says the Walla
Walla Union. Chinese history reach
es 50 far back into the past that it
becomes mere mythology, The exact
date of the organization of the Chin
ese Free Masons is not known to n
certainty, but Gin Mum is supposed
to have lived 5000 years ago.
Each year the Chinese Masonic fra
ternity celebrates his birthday ac-
cording to custom i'm vogue from
time immemorial As In most lodges
of other nations there is a close rela-
ton between their ceremonies and
those of the dominant religion.
There are about 800 Chinese Ma
sons in Walla Walla county and yes
terday there We're representatives in
the city from Waitsburg, wallula
and other towns who took part In the
ceremonies.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-25
NEW TRAIN SURELY COMING.
Announced That Walla Walla Passen'
ger Starts Tomorrow,

The Walla Walla Union. speaking
of the new passenger train between
this city and that point, says:
The new passenger train service be-
tween walla walla and Pendleton will
go into effect Saturday morning. Such
was the announcement made by City
Ticket Agent Van De Water last eve
ming. The train will leave this city at
: o'clock In the morning and arrive In
Pendleton one hour and 40 minutes
later. The return trip will be made in
the evening. arriving in Walla Walla
at 7:45. There has been some uncer-
tainty about the exact date on which
the new train would be inaugurated,
owing to the necessity of working out
number of details in the equipment
and the printing of the time cards.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-25
.D|SCOvERER OF
JUNEAU MINES
RICHARD II. HARRIS ILL
PORTLAND HOSPITAL.
Juneau was First Named Harrisburg
after Mr.. Harris but was Later
Changed - Mining District Which
He Discovered Still Retains His
Name.

In a local sanatorium Richard T.
Harris, discoverer of Juneau's rich
placer fields in Alaska and founder
of that city, is under treatment, says
the Oregon Daily Journal.
over 20 years ago Mr.. Harris and
Joseph Juneau, a French-Canadian,
discovered Silver Bow basin, four
miles back of Juneau, and located
the townsite where the city now
stands. The town was named Har-
risburg and retained that name for
four years. The mining district was
called Harris, which name it still
bears.
Almost 25 years ago he went to
Alaska and has only been away from
that territory three times Although
he has been a frontier miner during
the greater part of his eventful life
Mr.. Harris is a college graduate.
He is a cousin of John Dalzell, the
famous Pittsburg politician, who as
congressman was one OF the promi-
nent members of the ways and
means committee. He is almost 10
years of age. but until his present
troubles was as active and as greatly
interested in mining affairs as he was
when he started in Colorado over 40
years ago.
In 1880, Mr.. Harris and Juneau en-
tered into an agreement with George
f. Pilz of Sitka and the Hall brothers
of San Francisco to prospect the
mainland of Alaska for gold and sill
yer quartz lodes and placer mines.
1t was agreed that the explorers
should reserve the right to locate all
the placer mines they might discover
besides the extensions on every quartz
lode. Harris was also to receive SO
a day and Juneau 50 day for all
time spent in prospecting.
The experiences of the explorers
were thrilling. They encountered un-
rulH Indians, though Mr.. Harris says
that as a rule the Indians offered no
obstacles to their efforts.
After stalking the placer mines
and quartz lodes,' he said, 1--WE stalk
ed off a townsite and named il Har-
risburg. I named 1t after the Capt.
tai of Pennsylvania, in which state I
was born and raised. | recorded the
lots and was elected the first recorder
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-25
CHARLES j. ferguson Ill.

Charles ]. Ferguson, of the Pen
dleton Woolen mills. was brought
down from Bingham Springs this af-
ternoon suffering from a severe at
tack of rheumatism. The attack was
induced by hard mountain climbing
and over-eXertion while enjoying his
summer vacation in the mountains
He is suffering greatly from the at
tack and It was necessary to carry him
from the train to his home on a
stretcher. Mrs. Ferguson, who has
been at Bingham Springs for the
summer. came down with her hus-
band. Or. Fred Lieuallen is attend
ing him.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-25
NO SALOONS AT GRAND FORKS.
Council Also Limits Number OF HoteAs
to Eight

Grand Forks, B. c., Aug25.-At
the city council session last evening
the proposed liquor license bylaw was
brought forward, and after much dis
cusslon a resolution was passed lin
iting the number of hotels in the city
to eight and entirely abolishing all
saloons from the corporate limits.
This resolution was strongly opposed
by Aldermen Clement and Hutton, the
remainder of the city fathers being in
favor of it.
The restriction as to the number OF
hotels is not a measure that will In
any degree or manner interfere with
legitimate hostelries, with which the
town is now amply supplied. 1t is
aimed at the suppression OF disrepu-
table lodging houses with or without
grill rooms. but all masquerading as
"hotels" while every form of iniquity
was conducted within their portals
and under police protection.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-25
CITY BREVITIES

U C RAIDER. Nuf sed.
Nuf sed. U C RAIDER.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
-Furniture-Rader.
Pendleton Business College leads.
Watermelons on Ice. Lyman Bros.
See Withee for gasoline engines and
pumps.
Our complete stok OF fall hats
are here. Boston Store.
Our new shoes for fall are here.
Roosevelt's Boston Store.
Call for Ross Nichols transfer to do
your hauling. Phone Main 6.
Leave orders for Alfalfa hay at
Telephone Stables. w f. Cook.
wanted-Lady roomer. Nicely fur
nished room close in; I'll Cosbie.
Headstrom & Greenawald, shoe
makers at Teutsch's Department
Store.
For sale-one "a wagon. Cheap.
Can at office OF F. t. Wade. II. s.
Scales.
For sale-one tour-year-old thor
oughbred Jersey COW. Apply at BY
ers' mill office.
For fine shoe repairing. see Green
Greenawald & Headstrom at Teutsch's
Department Store.
For Sale Cheap-House and lot:
best location on North Side. Inquire
at Hamley's Harness Shop, Court st.
Salt glow, vapor baths and massage
treatments will be given by Mrs. r.
Fl. Sawtel. at her residence at $40
cosbie street.
Anyone wishing to go to Hldawoy
Springs leave orders at Tallman &
Co.'S Stage will not leave with less
than four passengers.
For sale-Two lots and new six
room house with all modern convent
ences, northeast corner Garfield and
Washington street. Apply to Howard
s. swingle.