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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11

This trade made Edmonton a town before
the railroads came, and. with the new
lines here and building, We promise to have
one of the biggest cities of the northwest
The place is rapidly growing. 1t has now
something like 10000 people and its citizens
claim that it will equal Winnipeg some day
Edmonton lies on the north bank of the
Saskatchewan river. a stream almost as
big as the Mississippi and more than 1000
miles in length. The river here flows
through a valley about a mile wide. the
stream itself being about 1000 feet wide
There are high bluffs on each side of the
Saskatchewan, and Edmonton Is built on
one of the bluffs.
The town winds its way with the river
and Main street. which is laid out along
old Indian trail. is as crooked as a dogs
hind leg. The town is like most of those
of the west. It has buildings of all shapes
materials and heights. The older ones are
of one story, but the newer are of brick
and stone and many are four stories high
The prices of business property are out of
sight A fifty-foot lot on Main street sold
last week for $4,000 and a common demand
for land in the business section is $500 or
$500 per foot front.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11
A Metropol,. of the North.

For years this has been one of the great
trading points OF the north lands. There
are wagon and water routes from here to
the Arctic ocean, which in a straight line
is as far above Edmonton as from Phila-
delphia to Salt Lake City. BY the lines
OF travel and freight the distance is al
most as great as from New York to San
Francisco.
The supplies come to Edmonton by rail
and are then taken by wagons to Atha-
basca landing On the Athabasca river. They
are foated down the river to Lake Atha-
basca and thence into the Great Slave lake
and on into the Mackenzie, which carries
them past the various trading posts to the
Arctic ocean Large cargoes of goods pass
over that route every year and hundreds
of thousand dollars worth Of furs are
brought back over It to Edmonton, to be
shipped from here to New York or London.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11

with timothy quite as high. had myself
photographed today between sheaves of
oats and timothy with little bundle of
winter wheat leaning against my chest. The
wheat almost tickled my chin and the oats
and timothy were high as my head The
people claim that the oats produced here
will run from seventy-five to 100 bushels per
acre and about forty pounds to the bushel.
Winter wheat Is said to produce forty
bushels per acre, and the yields of barley
are large. The farmers are now raising
barley for hogs. They claim that barley
fed hogs are better than corn-fed hogs, and
say that they will be soon supplying Can
ada with pork. At present much of the
hog products come from the United States,
there being a tariff of 2 cents a pound
against our pork. These. western Canadians
do not understand pork packing, and most
of the Edmonton stores are now supplied
by our Beef trust.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11
Welded at Eighty Eight

Better late than never" exclaimed Dea-
con Stephen L. G. French of Nashua N.
H., when he announced his marriage en-
gagement to Mrs. Julia Kimball. THE one
great mistake of my life is that l was
never spliced," added the deason.
He is SIS years old and his prospective
bride is rs. He is an inmate of the Hunt
Home for Aged Couples. but which also
accepts single men.
Mrs. Kimball is an inmate of the Home
for Aged Women. The trustees of both
institutions are said to favor the match,
and after the marriage, which will take
place at the Old Ladies' home, has been
performed, the couple will reside at the
other institution.
Deacon French was the market gardener
for many years and pillar of the Congre-
gational church. but has OF late been ac-
companying Mrs Kimball to the Methodist
church. He previously asked Miss Sladock,
a 93-year-old inmate of the home for
women, to espouse him, but she declined.
1t is now said she has declared Mrs. KIM
ball to be giddy widow and that the home
will be better off without her.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11
Much Like st. Louis.

Edmonton, as far as its location is con-
cerned, is much like st. Louis. 1t is on a
good-sized river surrounded by farming
region almost as rich as the Mississippi
valley, with vast country beyond II
which will some time be thickly populated.
The Peace. river district, which extends
northward and westward for hundreds of
miles is composed of good farming lands
and IT has not yet been opened to settle
ment. All supplies for that district will
pass through Edmonton and the town will
be the key to the future trade of the north.
At present It is at the northwestern end
OF the wheat belt and towns are springing
up in every direction. for hundreds of
miles to the east and south OF It.
I came here from Calgary over the Cana
dian Pacific railroad. There are towns
everywhere building between the two
points. They look like the frontier settle
ments of Minnesota and North Dakota.
Their houses are wooden and their streets
unpaved although a few of the older
places have sidewalks OF boards Every
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11


Where the Illusion is Dispel1ed.
Strip the stage of all it's settings and turn
off the electric lights; hush the music and
substitute for the elves and fairies and
hreflies and all the rest, half hundred or
more little girls and boys in Heterogeneous
school clothes and effervescing with the
spirits that have been curbed all day in the
school room; place before them wildly
gesticulating young woman endeavoring to
bring order out OF a chaos that rings and
echoes through the sem-dark emptiness be-
yond a floor line of gaudy red and green
and white glass bulbs that must not be
stepped on or stepped over, and you have
your first glimpse of the real of the how
a juvenile operetta is staged.
1t is as disappointing and as shocking as
was that first revelation of the facts con-
corning the nursery rhymes and fairy tales
and tn make 1t even more tragic 1t is
fraught with consequences. In brief the
person who pays so cents or 81 for a ticket
to juvenile performance is not over
charged even II he fails to get value re-
ceived in pleasure. and the person who
trains and directs the affair earns a life
mortgage upon the gratitude OF the organ
ization that derives the benefits of the per-
Torrance.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11
raining Little Boys and Little Girls Produce Juvenile Opera

choruses, scenes and natural fitness the
trouble is not over. II by chance some
youngster overhears some well intended
suggestion that he might be suited TO
certain part like as not he sets his heart
on that part or on that chorus and the
director is fortunate II the result is nothing
more serious than an angry letter from
an irate mother who has hurried to make
up n costume for Elizabeth or Johnny,
only TO learn that II cannot be used in
the part to which her child has been as
signed. 1t is amazing the estimate that
It frequently develops some of the small
innocents have come to place upon their
own accomplishments. In this day of
dancing schools the majority Of children
appreciate their ability to the utmost and
insist upon its being recognized by others
as we'll And not infrequently the mischief
Of older heads is recognized when some
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11

which stretch from here to the Arctic
ocean. Edmonton is the northernmost
point Of continuous railroad connection on
this continent. 1t lies $50 miles above our
state Of Montana and there is q line of
railroads from It to the edge of Central
America. As It is now, one can go In a
sleeping car from the isthmus of Tehuan-
tepec clear across Mexico and the United
States and this far into Canada When the
railroads now planned are completed there
will be an extension northward to ALI 5ka,
and, II the road should be built across
Boring strait, we may some day be able
to so from Calais, on the English channel,
by way of Paris, Moscow and the trans
Siberian road over to North America and
on down through here to the isthmus of
Panama and thence by the intercontinental
line to the strait of Magellan, OF almost
to Cape Horn by rail.
Edmonton has already two railroads II
Is reached by the Canadian Pacific and the
Canadian Northern. By this time next year
the Grand Trunk Pacific will have been
built through II, and eventually there will
be extensions northwesterly to the Klon-
dixie and Cape Nome.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11
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~ tion and that charm that efna-
mates from the presence of little children;
when the parents heart thrills with pride
as they see their little ones go through
their parts with that half-shy assurance
that charms the rest into realization Of
the beautiful innocence of the child, there
is one phase of the Juvenile operetta that
is entirely lost sight of by the enrapt audi
ence on the other side Of the footlights-
lost sight of, that is, If It has ever boca
realized, and that is, the how" of the
thing. +s-...-
It is peculiarly fitting that little children
should be employed in the production of
those beautiful make-believes that delight
them so in story and song. and as the a.
rector stands, baton in hand, directing the
songs and dances that move off like clock
work with each scene on the eventful day
of the production, one is quite pardonable
for the delusion that II is q pleasure to
deal with all the dear little sprites and
fairies, firefiies, frogs and all the rest Of
the familiar characters of the nursery
rhymes. There are few II any in the audi
ence who know the tumult Of fear and APP
prehension hidden behind the directors en-
couraging smile, or that the hand that
yields the baton is only kept from shaking
by the same strong nerve that has sus-
tained her during the past weeks of re-
hearsals. In fact, II is only when one I'M
dertakes the staging of one of these affairs
or assist in that scantily appreciated task
that he comes to anything approaching I'M
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11

hundreds of miles north of Edmonton"
What do you think Of Edmonton, gov
ernor?'
1T will be the largest city OF the north
west 1t will be the key to this whole re-
gion and the supply point for the Mac
kenzie river. When the Hudsons bay route
to Europe il completed great part Of the
goods from Asia will pass through here and
we will have short haul for our products
to that point 1 doubt not we shall some
day have railroads from here to Hudson's
bay"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11
Eastern VS.. western Canada.

But will the two countries not split
apart? Eastern Canada is largely manu-
featuring; western Canada will always be
more or less agricultural"
II think not" said Governor Bulyea. 81
look for a harmonious future
The eastern Canadians are for high
tariff against the United States" said L.
what do you people want?"
MARY of us believe in reciprocity" re-
piled the lieutenant governor. 1--WE should
like closer trade relations with you. and we
will I believe, eventually have reciprocal
treaties. We expect some day to be filling
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11
Farming In Alberta.

This whole state of Alberta is COMPARE
lively temperate. The climate of Calgary is
much like that Of Denver. and all along
the foothills of the Rockies the weather is
mild. The state is adapted TO mixed farm
ing. 1t produces enormous crops of oats,
barley and timothy and both winter and
spring wheat. Within forty miles from here
they are growing oats as tall as a man.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11
when the Boy Gets Busy.

The rehearsal of the firehies chorus in
boy Blue only a few days before the
performance was equally discouraging and
entertaining. The darting movement was
a most impossible lunge and the heels came
down on the floor with a certainty that
suggested cavalry charge. To make 1t
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11

town has a coat of new paint and its store
windows are packed with new goods. Great
quantities of farming machinery are kept
in sheds or out In the open awaiting pur-
chasers. 1 notice that the cattle are feed
ing out of doors. The grass is gray. 1t is
cured on the stalk. ana the animals are
fat although there is some snow on the
ground.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11

more realistic one ingenious youngster
located the switchboard and flashed the
electric lights on and off to the delight
of another chorus waiting in the wings
until the absorbed director located the
cause of the disturbance and put an end
to 1t. Deprived of this pastlme, the boy
gathered the members of the frog chorus
in one Of the boxes and there set up a
rehearsal that sounded loud even above
the nrefies.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11

The first step is the culling of desirable
material. 1t is little trouble to get children
for such things. They are willing enough
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11
Nerve Rncking Business.

And when the preliminares have been
gone through and the chorouses all
lected the first essential is the most difficult
task even for a person gifted with the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11
Talk with Lieut.. GOV. BuIyea.

l met at Edmonton Mr.. G. H. v. Bulyea,
the lieutenant governor of this province,
and had a talk with him about his princi-
pality and it's new citizens. Said he:
Alberta promises 10 be one of the most
populous parts OF the new Canada. We
have already about 100000 people. and we
can support several millions. We are hav-
ing q large immigration from the Uaited
States, and fully one-third OF our citizens
are Americans. the remainder being equally
divided between the Canadians and the
Europeans"
what are the.Amerlcans doing?" asked.
They are mostly farmers, engaged in
raising wheat and other grain. Not few
are cattlemen, who have come across the
boundary. and are now running large herds
about Calgary and Medicine Hat. We have
also a colony CT Mormons. who have irri-
gated lands about Lethbridge. where they
are doing mixed farming and suSar-beet
raising
What kind of settlers are the Ameri-
cans?"
"They are the very best. The most of
them bring money with them, and they buy
lands, In addition to the homesteads, which
they get for nothing They understand how
to farm. and are able to go to work at once
in the right way. The most of our Cana
dian and European immigration comes in
with empty pockets. or with little more
than enough to support themselves while
opening up their farms They are chiefly
homesteaders Many Of the Americans take
advantage of the,homestead act, but nearly
every one buys some land adjoining him. -
-
some Queer European Immigrants.
TELL me something about your European
immigration. governor. / understand you
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11

hit, 1906, by Frank q. Carpenter.)
Feb. S.-(Special Corre-
spondence of The Bee.)-I write
this at Edmonton, the biggest
city Of central Alberta and the
depot for the vast territories
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11

youngsters ambition has been disappointed.
An amusing but serious instance of this
sort occurred during the rehearsals for
Little Boy Blue" presented under the
direction of Miss Blanche Sorenson at the
Lyric theater Saturday evening. One
Youngster conceived the notion that he
should have a certain part. He was one
of several others asked to try the part,
and when it developed that his voice was
not strong enough and another must take
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11

len the curtain goes up on the
finished production; when the
stage is aglow with the lights and
the symmetry of color and mo-
ton and that charm that ema-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11

Some Queer European Immigrants.
Tell me something about your European
immigration. governor. / understand you
are getting the off-scourings OF the south
eastern part OF that continent"
81 do not believe that" was the reply.
Holbrook argus., 1906-03-24

Central trains half a day tocross the farm. Don Louis'is thought to own more than 1 00,OOOcat-
 le, but a bagatelle ot 100000 or so more or less never bothers him. His stable consists OfsOme 100000 head of horses, his sheep fold of 100000 sheep. From 100000 to 100000 calves are branded with his brand every spring. More than 1000 cow boys and so on keep his cattle on a thousand hills. -Ex
Holbrook argus., 1906-03-24
An 8,0O0,OO0 Acre "Farm"

Don Louis Terrazas, the Mexi- can Croesus, who once offered to assume all the debts owed by his country, has a tarm of about S,OOO,OOO acres in the state of Chihuahua. It takes Mexican
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-05-10
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP
To Be Given a Trial at Madi-
sonville.

The Bailey Light and Water Com
pany will not surrender the privilege
of furnishing Madisonville with elec-
trio lights without hard struggle.
This fact is evidenced by the strenu-
Gus efforts being made by the Bailey
Light and Water Company to have,
action postponed with reference to.
closing the contract for the city plant,
says the Hustler.
At the last meeting of the council
Mr., Bailey appeared and presented
an instrument Of writing, asking
that time be given him to prepare
and submit a proposition looking to
reduction in price of lights and the
Improvement of the service. By a
tie vote, with the mayor deciding it
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-05-10
Sciatica Cured After Twenty Years Of
Torture.

For more than twenty years Mr..
]. B. Massey, of 1922 Clinton St.,
Minneapolis, Mimi. was tortured by
sciatica. The pain and suffering
which he endured during this time
is beyond comprehension. Nothing
gave him any permanent relief until
he used Chamberiain's Pain Balm.
One application of that liniment re-
lieyed the pain and made sleep and
rest possible, and less than one bottle
has effected a permanent cure. Mr.
Massey relates his experience for the
benefit of others who may be SINH
larly afflicted. If troubled with
sciatica or rheumatism why not try
a 25-cent bottle of Pain Balm and see
for yourself how quickly it relieves
the pain. For sale by L. L. Elgin
and Anderson & Fowler, the up-to-
date druggists of Hopkinsville.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-05-10
QUEER EXPLOSION.
Body Blown Out of Grave at
Fulton.

An extraordinary incident is re-
ported to have happened near Fui-
ton Thursday afternoon. The grave
containing the body of DR.. f. L. De-
Meyer, who died at Pierce, Tenn,
near Fulton, on April 20, is reported
TO have blown up from the combus-
ton of lime and the body and casket
thrown some distance out of the
grave.
DR.. DeMeyer died of smallpox and
was buried at night by two negro
immunes.
Three barrels of unslacked lime
were placed in the grave. The rains
which have fallen so heavily this week
caused the lime to come in contact
with the with the water, causing
steam and gas to form in such guam
titles that the dirt which covered the
grave was unable to withstand the
pressure and gave way to the chemi
cal explosion The first one to reach
the scene viewed a horrible sight and
as soon as the news spread the ex-
citement and interest caused great
anxiety in that section. People were
afraid to go near the grave for fear
of contracting the disease from the
floating germs. - Mayfield Messen
ger.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-05-10
For Sale.

One complete j. l. Case threshing
outfit, consisting of one Is h. p. Sim
pie traction engine, jacketed boiler
with large cab, two wheel steel
engine tender holding 8 bbls. water
and 200 lbs. coal. One 36x58 TWEEN
ty-bar cylinder separator with wind
stacker, self-feeder, weigher and bag
ger. New 150ft. 8 in. A ply CANDY belt
steel water tank, with pump and
hose, This outfit has threshed less
than thirty thousand bushels of
wheat and is as good as new. See.
j. Y. Owsley or E. B. Long.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-05-10
LOCAL LEAFLETS.

Exams" are now min the schools
and soon books will be forgotten for
a season by the pupils.
The usual large crowd was in
town Saturday Being the first Sat-
urday in May, the merchants all did
big business.
Some one writing to the Ovens
boro Inquirer as to crop conditions
in this county says that tobacco
plants are short here.
1t is not too late in May for black
berry winter" Some think we have
already had it, but as blackberries
are just blooming, several cool days
may be expected.
"A sure enough casus belli in every
sense, when the grocer puts his APP
Piles out in front to tempt the pass
ing small boy. Louisville Herald.
How about tree loaded with apples
about the size of a large marble?
''The Hoptown people don't pro-
pose to have Old Piedy' excluded
from the streets Of that burg, hence
sued out an injunction against the
enforcement of the anti-cow ordi-
nance. "-0wensboro Inquirer. Just
wait until about May 10, if you want
to see "the COW jump over the moon. A.,
to get off the streets in time, say the
anti-cow people.
There has been a great deal of
speculation since the death of Mr..
billiard Dalton, as to whether or
lot we are to have a street railway |
system. Mr.. Dalton told number
If his friends that he had arranged i
o build the system and he expected I
o begin work by the 10Th Of this
month, the limit named in the fran
hise sold to him. OF course at this
.arly date nothing can be known of
DIR. Dalton's arrane ements, or as to
whom he had transferred his fran
hise, if he had made transfer.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-05-10
BARNES BRIEFS.
Farmers Busy--CrOp Pros
pects---The Sick.

Barnes, KY. May 5.-Farmers
were glad to see the rain this week
They are now busy working up tn
remainder of their old crop of to-
baeeo. Some have not yet finished
stripping while others are hauling
the weed to the market.
Owing to the dry weather of last
month, wheat is a little backward
Oats look well, and corn planting
has been in order for some time.
The prospects for a good peach crop
are good. The apple crop in this
section will be light. Dewberry
bushes are full of blossoms.
Miss Georgia West, who has been
sick for some time. is about well.
Mr.. E. M. Barnes, who has been
confined to his room for some time
with influenza, is out again. Mrs.
Barnes has also recovered from a
similar attack.
Mrs. Eunice King, who presented
her husband, Esq. N. o. King, with
a nine-pound daughter, has since
been critically i'll, but her condition
is now somewhat improved. Mrs.
Kings mother and her sister, Miss
Nina Wood, of Livingston county,
have been with her.
Well, the election has been over
for some time and the Offices were
divided between the Democrats and
Republicans. We hope to have a
good administration. General Wash
ing, in his farewell address at the
close of hissecond term as president,
said that the best government was
when the two great parties were
about or nearly equally divided |
Ring rule has been broken up, we
hope, and we can have fair nominal
lions for county offices, especially in
Our magisterial districts.
SENRAB.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-05-10
PROGRAMME
For Closing Exercises Penn
broke Graded School.

l. Baccalaureate sermon, Sun.
day, May 18th, II o'clock a. M, by
Rev. Harry D. Smith, D. D., Hop
kinsville, KY.
2. Junior medal contest and
music recital, 8 o'clock Tuesday
evening, May Is. Five contestants.
3. Grand concert, 8 o'clock We'd
nesday evening, May l6. by school.
4. Annual commencement exer-
cises, 8 o'clock Thursday evening,
May II. Literary address by Rev.
J. S. Dill, D. D., of Bowling Green.
Annual examinations begin Mon
day afternoon, May IA.
c E. DUDLEY, Principal.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-05-10

against Mr.. Bailey, the council de-
clined to give further time for a
proposition ana proceeded to close a
contract for certain machinery to be
used in the erection Of municipal
plant.