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Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21
BEAN CREEK.

r. I. Byars treated himself to a
new buggy, Saturday. His first
ride was south of Mexico to visit
his mother who is quite feeble.
G. w. Miller of Worcester rode
a handsome black. over our Pike,
Sunday, to spend the day with
his sister, Mrs. Joe Bolts, of Mexico
who is very i'll.
Harper & Underwood Of Rush
Hill have completed the bridge
across Goose Greek.
j. w. MoOre's family entertained
relatives from Galloway county sew
eral days fore part of the week.
Ace Ellington was receiving the
glad hands all along the pike Sun
day. "Aee" hasn't changed a
particle, not even a hair with q
silver tinge.
Mrs. M. A. Flood who moved
to Alton, III, this spring after /
years soiourn in Missouri, writing
to a friend here said some mic,
things about our people. making
special mention Of Chas, and Berthi
Turner aud baby, Cecil, saying
WON don't know how we mis-,
them"
A lady requested us to condne
a certain old bachelor to chnrcl
next Sunday, she thinks he does'n
know the way. just pnt on you
ebib aud tucker, old boy. star
east aud stop where the crowd stops
Only one mile down the pike.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21
SANTA "a

Sunday was real taste Of good
old summer time,
Pritchett Humes visited kinfolks
near Santa Fe Sunday.
Quite a number attended an ice
cream supper at G.. D. Massey's
Saturday night.
Mrs. w. R. Campliu is visiting
relatives in Centralia.
Miss Mayme Clyce of Montgom-
cry City is visiting her sister,
Mrs. John Trimble. aud Lock is
all smiles.
d. McIlhauey is visiting his
brother in Fayette.
Miss Genia Carter visited her
brother near Centralia last week
Messrs. Davis aud Horton OF
Goss visited the family Of r. w.
Howerton aud others, Sunday.
Ed. B. g. Reavis is holding q
series Of meetings at Pleasant
Grove church
Trimble & Bolts shipped ont 3
car load of sheep Monday.
Uncle JEFF Sharp bought mare
from P. H. Reed for 800.
}. B. Bates and Perry Davis
will erect a concrete building, 81
BY 80 feet
Fleming Bros sold new spring
wagon to VIM Sharp.
9. S Tumble and wife wer,
trading 10 Mexico Saturday.
j. r Smiley has q load Of fai
hogs ready for market. He il
also feeding 100 head Of cattle.
Quite q number Of young people
met At the home Of J B Bates
Friday evening in song service.
Miss Lens Crigler. formerly o.
this neighborhood but now Of Per
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21
POWELL FoRp

The rain Of Sunday and Monday
did much good in this vicinity.
Mrs. DIR. Creig Of Webb City,
and Mrs. Brown aud Mrs. Buchan.
an of Fulton are visiting Their
aunt, Mrs. Tina billiard.
Ed. Chinn preached two excel.
lent sermons at Sun Rise Sunday
to large audiences.
Miss Mabel Cook is home from
Des Moines, Iowa. where she has
been attending school.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Floyd spent
Monday with Mrs. T. j. Powell
Misses Hattie and Carrie Ken.
nan Of Mexico spent Friday with
Mrs. Chas. Arnold.
Several from Mexico attended
services at Sun Rise Sunday.
Conrad Schultz is attending
Court.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21
FISH BRANCH

Miss Mabel Cook is home for
the vacation. She has been at
tending school at Adel, Iowa.
Q. F. Bush sold a COW to Chas.
Lewis.
r. w. Powell sold a steer to
Rice and Lockridge, price $35.
A. w. Wagner had 60 head of
cattle shipped up from st. Louis
this week and will have a lot more
shipped soon. He is putting them
on grass.
With Harris of Monroe Co. Wis
tied his cousin, Frank Harris, last
week.
Miss Marcie Bush, who has been
visiting friends in Mexico for sew
eral days, returned home Sunday.
Miss Jennie Powell of Mexico
spent a few days with her brother
who has been very ill for some
time. He is slowly improving
now.
Rev Smith will preach to the
children at Trinity next Sunday
Everybody invited to attend.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21
MoLINo.

James Crawford of the Long
Branch Sunday school visited the
Sunday school at Mt. Zion last
Sunday. Come again, Mr.. Craw-
ford.
Cherry, strawberry and goose.
berry picking is about over and
many a nice can is flied for next
winter.
Some of the Mexico and Moline
sports met in one of the pastures
between Moline and Mexico with
their dinner baskets last Sunday
and had a little picnic of their
own.
The Molino baseball niue will
give an ice cream social at Moline
next Saturday night.
Rev. Sutton filed his regular
appointment at the Berea church
last Sunday.
Crops looking nice.
Prospects good for a good fruit
crop.
People in this vicinity are feast
ing on new potatoes, beans, peas
aud fried chicken.
Mrs. Joe Miller who has been
suffering with heart trouble foI
more than a year, had very bad
spell last Friday night; but little
better at this writing.
Shady Dell base ball boys gave
an ice cream socialst the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Masseyls last
Saturday night The boys took in
nice little SUN and all enjoyed a
good time
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21
NEIGHBoRH00D NEWS
: HIGH HILL DISTRICT.

HIGH HILL DISTRICT.
The oat crop is going to be
short.
Millet sowing is the order of th e
day.
w. T. Pulls is feeding nice
bunch of yearling steers.
John Rediger lost valuable
COW last week.
Mrs. Jim Miller in company with
her sister-in.law Mrs. jeff Mill err,
went to Marshall last week on a
visit.
Rev. Witty Of CentraIia preach
ed good serman ut High Hill
Sunday afternoon. Lorge crowd
attended.
Ethel Edwards is still on the sick
list.
Eliza Pulls and wife Of near
Sturgeon attended services at New
Hope Sunday. Rev. e. e. Bradley
filed his regular appointment there.
A large audience greeted him
Ray Miller lost good SOW last
week.
Luther Adkins aud wife of near
Mexico visited Aunt Susan Parks
and Mr.. Dunlap folks last Thurs
day and Friday.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21

Beats a Former Proposition Made
to Mexico.

For several weeks Mayor Ora.
ham aud other I,rprisipg citizens
have been working on the quiet
for shoe factory for Mexico.
A proposition came from Eve
brothers and a sister, all practical
shoe people Of st. Louis, now
earning a combined salary, we un-
derstand, of $3.50 a year with
the Dittman Company of st. Louis.
The Eve brothers have signed a
paper to do certain things if
Mexico will do certain things.
Mexico has taken them up. We
are to raise about 1922 900 as a bo-
nus, and the most of that was
raised Tuesday and yesterday, and
the contract may be closed today.
With the subscription we raise
Mexico is to buy the site and put
up the building. We are to give
Morris Bros. So, 900 in hand. AS
soon as the building is completed
Morris Bros, will install their ma
chinery and proceed to manufac-
ture shoes. They will incorporate
under the laws of the State. The
building and grounds remains the
property of Mexico citizens, held
thru trustees, until Morris Bros.
have paid out 100000 as wages
to employees.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21
LADDoNIA.

Miss Belle Bali of Troy came
Monday to visit her aunts, Mrs.
Joel Pierce aud Mrs, Beatty Rice.
She will remain several weeks.
j. S. McCune was in st. Louis
on business Tuesday.
The city is having quite a num-
Der of brick street crossings put in +.
These are a permanent improve
ment. We notice several brick
aud granitoid sidewalks have been
put IN lately Nothing speaks
more for a town than good side.
walks aud crossings.
The 4th Of July celebration here,
judging from the preparations,
will Guido all tho previous ones.
Everybody come aud enjoy a day
with us.
Mrs. D. w, McCubbin aud
daughter, Verlea. Of Mexico are
visiting Laddonia friends.
] @. DeLaporte made a busl,
ness trip to Rush Hill Monday
+ " Pearson and @. A. viii
der drove through 10 their So,
Bottom farm. east Of Hannibal
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21

Monday. They will harvest their
wheat crop of some 200 acres be-
fore returning.
Miss Margaret DeLaporte is
home. The Vandalia schools
closed last week where she has
been teaching the last two years.
She has been retained for next
term.
Mr.. Fulton of near Blooming
ton, ILL.,, was here overseeing the
building of fine farm house on
his farm south Of town. This and
other improvements he is putting
on his place makes it one of the
best improved farms about here.
Elder j. D. Greer, Misses Della
Quisenberry, Lutte Darlington and
Grace Burns are attending the
State convention of the Christian
church at Hannibal.
DR.. Rex Hancock made a bust
ness trip to Mexico Monday.
Little Miss Sybil Lust took the
train Tuesday to visit friends at
Farber.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21

Fritzie Mann is looking after the
agricultural interests of NJ. S. Will
bingham while that worthy gentle.
man looks after the highways.
H. A. Grier sold a nice male pig
to Frank Goodrich, south Of Mex.
leo. Mr., Goodrich recently came
from Iowa. Having attended the
State Fairs there for a number
of years, he knows good stock and
says Meddler Second. at the head
of the Powell Ford herd Of Polands,
is equal to the best of them.
A widower over Moline way
wants to know the meaning Of a
dream. He dreamed Of an en-
counter with a neighbor. and
aiming to completely annihiIate his
antagonist with one great kick. he
struck the foot board and broke
one great toe.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21
RuSHHILL.

Ed, W Fl Hook failed to put
in an appearance At the Christian
church Sunday anu BY so doing
disappointed q large audience. We
hope be viii not do 50 again. We
are still 81 sea, not having heard
from him 10 regard g bis not
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21

Alb year old negro boy shot a
horse belonging to Asbury 8 Son
with an air gun Monday. II was
a base and mean trick, deliberately
done. The shot struck the animal
under the belly, cutting vein.
Immediate assistance was given
the animal or it would have BLEED
to death. The boy is said to be q
bad fellow. aud if he does moi
check bis way soon he may wish
he had. The officers took his cas-,
ia hand
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21

There was q Children's Day SER
vice at the Mexico Baptist church
last Sunday night, A splendid
program was rendered aud the
large audience crowded the house
to the doors. There was a prayer
song' BY Edwin and Theodore
Winans. duet BY Leona As
bury aud Margaret Million and .
talk BY the pastor besides other
most interesting numbers, both 10
the line Of musie and speeches and
declarations
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21

In the case of Curry against La
Fon in the Circuit Court last week,
under instruction from the court,
the jury found a verdict for the
plaintiff in the sum of 81. 6.54.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21

The county teachers will be in
Mexico tomorrow and next day.
The June examinations take place
for teachers certificates.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21

The new well at Hardin College
is completed. 1t is about 400 feet
in depth and is suppling about 10, :
600 gallons of water daily.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21

A heavy rain at Thompson and
on south Of there to the Shan Brown
farm 16 miles. People couldn'tplow.
They had been needing rain out in
that section for weeks.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21

Rev. Luther Byrns Of Fulton
was ordained last Sunday as a
Presbyterian minister. He will
have charge as pastor of the Lad
douia and Bethel Presbyterian
churches of this county.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21

DR.. j. B. Hawkins of Mexico
was telegraphed for Saturday to
come to Vaadalia to see the
daughter of Thomas Ryans, who
is very i'll.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21
THURSDAY, JUNE q. 1906.

Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. John
Leniton Of Mexico, ten. pound
son.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21

Miss Ida Bolts is home for the
summer from her teaching duties
in the vandalia public school.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21

j. G. Lakenan came home from
Amarillo, Texas. last week. He
returned this week He is having
good success in handling Texas
land.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21

Mr.. 2. ], Null aud Miss Edna
Ellis, both az this city, were united
in marriage last week. Rev. @. Q
selaeman olaeiaiing
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21

Mrs. j. D. Morris rem aims in a
very weakened condition Of health,
we are sorry to report. Some
months ago she suffered the loss of
one Of her eyes and now it is
feared she may lose the other.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21

Mrs. Anna L. Brinker, late Of
Rush Hill, this county. gets the
MESSAGE at Melville, N. d.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21

j. w. Jones, Of Benton City, and
little son called on the MESSAGE
Saturday. Mr.. Jones says his corn
crop is coming fine, but the oats
will be little short. He sends
the MESSAGE for a year to his bro.
Their, Thomus q. Jones. at Indepen.
dence, Mo.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21

City Clerk Wallace bearing has
been on the sick list for several
days
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21
]. o. Lower, who owns the John

j. @. Lower, who owns the John
Blanchard and Dick McClintic
farms, north of Rush Hill, is a
new reader Of the MESSAGE. Be-
sides his Audrain holdings Mr..
Lower owns a farm he paid
$28. 600 FOR in the Mississippi bot
tom. Glad to have these substan-
tiai and prosperous farmers com
ing into Audrain.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21

~, was married last week to Mr..
Thos. Blackwell. Of Vandalia.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21

Thieves broke into j. w. Gill
pins store at Thompson Tuesday
night Of last week. The postofice
is in the same building. Bat the
thieves got only about 55 cents in
money and some canned goods and
tobacco aud cigars. Mr.. Gilpin
had his money hid out" that
night.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21
E. F. Matthews, C. & A
Agent, Mexico, Mo.
WABASH RAILROAD.
MEXICO.
GOIna East.

@S~sa
No. 4. Atlantic Express 3O5 a m
No IA Atlantic Exp. 4 10 a m
No. 10, Columbia Accom-. 724 a m
No. 20, st. Paul Linn, IL I3 a M
No 2, East'n MI & Exp 8 90 D m
No. II, st. Louis Expr., 8 10 D m
No 81 Moberly Accom- Sunday
only 5 "a D m
NO.70 Local frt lex SUMS so a M
No 64 Z 5Sp m
COLRg West.
No Z, Pacific Express, l 30 a
No 10, K. G. Express, IL SO m
No ID Katy Exp ex Sun IL 3Sp pm
No 3, Western Mail aud Express,
II Is p m.
No 9, K. c. Mail and st. Paul
Limited, 5 Is m.
No 8 Kas C'y MI & Exp 5 Is D m
No 5 Columbia Aenom., 9 4Opm
No l, Pacific Express, 10 so D m.
No II Way frt(ex SUM- 425 D m
|. NJ. RICHARDS. AIT.
Mexico Missouri message., 1906-06-21
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Pontiac, Joliet and Chicago 1.s1am
No "A 1.-THE EarlyBird" for st
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No % Daily ''The Night Hawk" for I Sc.
\, 80 LOUIS 4 10 q N
no ~ Daliy Ior Uni ana st l. Tam
mo liz Local Freight for RoOdhouse
No IA Ill. State Express for BloominG-
No % Daily, "Red Flyer" for St. Louis
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WEST-BOund.
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No : Daily, 1.-THE Hummer !" for
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ter, Marshall, Kansas City aud be-
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No lis Mon. Wed. and Fri. only, Local
Freight for Slater. IOI5am
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No : s. Mo Si State Express for Kansas N 81 m
City Ii5nm
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No 2l3 Exc. Sunday, Jefferson City Ac-
com 245pm
TRAINS ARRIVE
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bloomington 81 st. Louis $50 pm
No lI3 EX Sun Local Freight from
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From the West.
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@ PERSONAL MENTION. o
@ @ O @ @ @ O @ @ Q O O O O @ Q @

p. w. Madison of Salt Lake, is a busi'
ness visitor in Astoria.
c. A. Sharkey OF Baltimore is in the
city on business trip,
W. Brownson of Portland is in the
city and domiciled at the Irving.
Il. ], Camp of Sacramento arrived here
yesterday noon on business trip,
+. F. Hall of Portland is business
tourist in Astoria for few days.
l., A. Mofratt of Memphis, was tran.
sient visitor in the city yesterday.
D. A. Colvig of Boise spent the day
in Astoria yesterday on business.
c. G. Kautner of Memphis, spent the
day here yesterday on business bent.
c. b. Catlin OF Los Angeles was a
business visitor in the city yesterday.
G. b. LAndon of Chicago arrived in
the city on the noon express yesterday.
p A. Stokes will leave this morning
for San Francisco, for brief business
trip.
r. G. Colchester, San Francisco tour
ist, was in the city for few hours
yesterday.
w. S. Harshow and wife of st. Louis
are in the city, guests at the Hotel
0ccident.
r. l., Murphy came in from Spokane
on the 1885 train yeskefdas morning on
business. returning eastward on the .6:l0
last evening.
Cashier G, b. Blessing of the 0, r. 4
n. office in this city, went to Portland
yesterday on business trip,
R. J. Tangworthy of4Boston Is touring
the northwest and took in Astoria in
J an incidental wayyesterday, a1e
r. A. Longcamp Of Denver was doing
business in Astoria yesterday leaving
Iup for Portland on the'B:1o p. m. train
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DOCTOR CURED
Of ECZEMA
Maryland Physician Cures HimseIfo Of
Eczema with Cuticura Remedies.
Prescribes Them and Has Cured
Many Cases Where 0therF Formulas
Have Failed DR.. Fisher Says:
CUTlCURA REMEDIES
POSSESS TRUE MERIT

My face was afflicted with eczema
in the year 1897. used the Cuticura
Remedies, and was entirely cured. l
am a practicing physician and very
often prescribe Cuticura Resolvent and
Cuticura Soap in cases Of eczema, and
they have cured where other formulas
have failed. / am not in the habit OF
endorsing patent medicines, but when
/ find remedies possessing true merit,
such as the Cuteura Remedies do, ] am
broad-minded enough to proclaim their
virtues to the world. l have been prac-
ticing medicine for sixteen years, and
must say find your Remedies A No. l.
You are at liberty to publish this letter,
or any part of it. Iremain, very truly
yours, G. NJ. Fisher, NJ. D., Big Pool,
Md, May "a, 1905"
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GRAY HAIR AND WRINKLES.
A womaa's Frofest Against the Fem.
infne Fight Against Time.

infne Flight Against Time.
have very little regard for the fight
against time which spends itself on
strife with gray hairs and wrinkles,
There used to be picture published
as an advertisement In WHICH an elder
" woman had one side Of her face all
ironed out smoothly, while the other
was wrinkled and worn. The wrinkled
side was the more pleasing. As we
grow older every line in the counte
nance should tell story OF loving
deeds. We are making for ourselves
in youth the masks we shall wear tc
the very end Every fretful. discon'
tented, dissatisfied expression writes
itself upon the face, so that the sweet
est and ripest natures will have the
rarest loveliness when they grow old.
A woman is as old as she looks and
as old ms she feels. A siga of our in
creased health and vitality today is
found in the fact that woman OF
city looks about as old as a woman
formerly looked at thirty live, and
many an active woman Of eighty has
the vlgor that was formerly common
at sixty. The milestones need frighter
nobody. Older people are no longer
put in a corner, nor are they expected
to hug the chimney corner. 1t Is Q
woman's obligation to be charming tC
her latest Margaret E. Sangstel
in Woman's Home Companion.
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CUTICURA- -THESET, ST.
Complete Treatment for Every
Humor from Pimples
to ScrOfula

Battle the affected parts with hot
water and Cuticura Soap, to cleanse
the surface of crusts and scales and
soften the thickened cuticle; dry,
without hard rubbing, and apply
Cuticura Ointment freely, to allay
itching, irritation, and Inflammation,
and soothe and heal; and, lastly, take
Cuticura Resolvent Pills to cool and
cleanse the blood. A single set, costing
but one dollar, is often sufficient toS
cure the most torturing, disfguring,
itching, burning, and scaly skin, scalp,l
and blood humors, with loss of hair, i
from infancy to age, when all else fails.li
Cuticura Soap, &C.. Ointment So. Resolyens SOC. n
form Of Chocolate Coated Ps 2c per vial Of co., sod
throughout the world. Potter Drug and Cheni Corp.s
Sole Props, Boston.
~ Mailed Free, "How 10 Cure Torurtng, DtsAgurtnes
HumoEs Of Infancy and Age" I.
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DO You Get Up EaYlyl

1t is not healthy In any country, at
any season of the year or at any time
Of life, to get up early habitualiy. The
sld are better rested by lying late.
even IL not asleep, while the young re.
quire all the sleep they can get. In all
ATTITUDES, in warm weather, the morn
ing afr, although feeling cool and
fresh, is laden with the pestiferous
miasma. In winter the atmosphere be-
fore breakfast Is SO cold and chilly
and searching that II fairly Chrivels up
man and beast, chilling to the very
marrowbone sometimes; hence the av-
erage duration Of human life would be
increased and the amount Of sickness
largely diminished by late rather than
early rising, as all the older nations
full well know and practics.-Mx-
change.
Net Anxious 10 Please.
Neptune--I say, Boreas, II you keep
On blowing like that you'll get yourself
disliked. Boreas-What do care? It
asM't my business to furnish popular
airs. Modern Society
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Double der.--Thee will be

Double Header. will be u
double header on Sunday afternoon when
the Shamrocks OF this city will meet the
strong Skamokawa and Warrcnton
mines on the A. +, c, grounds, The
Shamrocks will first play the Skomo'
kawa nine and Immediately afterwnrd
meet the Warrenton boys, The boys in
all three teams have been practicing
hard and each team is confident OF vic
tory. The game will be called Mt l'3O
p IN. sharp. Everybody come and see
the big contest,
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All Have Deserted. Slipping over the
side Of the vessel yesterday when the
captain was away, the only two sailors
who remained on the British ship Proc.
Won went ashore with their personal be.
Iongings and failed to return. The
tar. have been leaving in twoS and threes
since their arrival several weeks ago.
A large number Of letters, across which
the word "dcserter" IL marked lie wait
ing for them at the Office OF British
Consul Laidlaw When the ship sails the
men are expected to put in an appear
ance to inquire for their mai. Origin
ally there were twenty In the crew, and
they are all supposed TO be in Portland
and vicinity The British ship Bardowie
has also lost most Of her men through
desertion. Az she will soon he ready Ia
sail for Port Piric with cargo Of hm'
her. scamen viii shortly be In demand
The German ship Emile. which Is also
completing lumber cargo will also be
IN need Of tars, as the majority OF hel
crew have left.
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Not to Blame. Coroner pobl yc.ter.

Not 10 Blame. Coroner pohl ye-ter-
day morning completed taking the tcs'
timony In the inquest into the death OF
Matt lIummnst drowned on ths river
on May II. after his fishing boat had
been run down by the steamer Costa
Rira, Several witnesses we're called.
among them being Captain SNOW, pilot
Of the Co-ta Rica TN the night IN ques'
tIon, The captain testified that the iish'
Ing boat displayed no lights, aud on
this account IL was impossible 10 .rc IT,.
Henry Iiummasti u brother Of the de-
ceased in the boat NJ the time ot the
accident, testified that he saw the
steamer bearing down on them and at
tempted to light q lantern. though for
some reason unstaied did not succeed.
Aitrr hearing all the testimony the jury
returned the verdict "We. the under
signed Jurors. sworn TO inquire into The
cause OF the death of Matt llnmmnsti.
on oath find; That Matt Hummasti came
to his death from accidental drowning
in the Columbia river opposit" Astoria
on MAY Is, 1906. about 3 o'clock IA. III,
That the drowning was caused by hi.
fishing boat colliding with the steamer
Costa Rica, and that those In chargf
Of the steamer Costa Rica ~erc not "a
blame in the matter. there being NJ
light on the said fishing boat"