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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-04-10

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The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1906-09-21

Taking out of Jail and putting them into
Office" announced by Sociastic orator last
Sunday in Seattle, may ,und very, very sentimen-
la but if the various states ha to go the ails and
pententares for their governors have a sneaking
idea that ours would not remain al organized gov
ernment very much longer We d ubtless elect
some pretty tough citizens to high office, but the
evil is remedied as soon as possbe but when men
who criminals by nature and criminals by prac-
tice are put at the he I'd of of our naOl AMI state
governments, then there will soon be nothing left
for anyone to steal Itwonld take but a few years
of it to leave but wreck behind.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1906-09-21

S S'eaking OF the coming Ala7k Yukon fair. Gov.
Mead says This Exposition is OF vital interest
not only to every ctz OF the great Northwest, but
is that shond excite the interest and co-opera-
ton of every state in the union for it will bring to
the attention OF the world never before the mag
nifcent resources and remarkable progress of this
youngest portion of the national domain" states the
governor in a recent letter. 81 trust that most of the
states particularly those of the Pacific coast will be
able to make substantial appropriations for repre-
sentation at the Exposition 1t is my intention to
incorporate in my message to The coming legislature
strong recommendation for liberal appropriation
for this exf ositon. ."-Oynpia Chronicle
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1906-09-21

Forty-iour years ago tomorrow the immortal Lincoln
the United States and while these new born citi-
zens not even yet receiving all their rights and
privileges, !et they making long strides in that
direction, and we predict that before another forty
four years will have passed they will be great deal
the goal than they to lay. In other words
they are slowly but surely getting there 1t some
times pays 10 make haste slowly, and forty-four
years from the Negro will fully agree with as
10 the correctness of the assertion.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1906-09-21

How can "Boss" Murphy of Tammany give his
support to Hearst for the governorshp. 1t was
scarcely six months ago that Hearsts New York pa
per- in leading editorial addressed Murphy as fol-
lows: "You have committed crimes against the
people that will send you for many years to state
prison, if the crime can be proved against you. If
you sit in the prisoners dock you will not
out, except in striped cothng.'
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1906-09-21
JUDGE b. o. DUNBAR

Has grown gray on the supreme
bench and his work has been of the
highest type. No man in this or any
other state has struggled harder or done
more to dignity the supreme bench than
he, and his rulings have always been as
fair as the noon day sun.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1906-09-21

The King county Republican ring nom mated
candidates last week on the lines followed by the
Waterville ring in Douglas county Their action is
denounced by of the leading papers OF that
county, and it is predicted that part of the ticket
will be defeated at the polls-Hartline Standard
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1906-09-21
JUDGE WALLACE MOUNT

Who was renominated to succeed
himself has made fearless judiciary
and his record on the supreme bench
can be truly pointed to with much pride
not only by Republicans, but by every
citizen of the state.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1906-09-21

While State Printer G. w. Gorham owns the
Snohomish Tribune, he has in charge of it,
and he not aware that the ed or in charge
template such article as was re- reduced in these
columns last week Brother Gorham is in
every particular, and, ike President Roosevelt be-
leves in, al men up" We make this explanation
lest someone get the idc that Charlie Gorham made
the break Legally speaking, he is responsible fol
the utterances of his hi ed man. but such a senti-
me ut is by no means his
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1906-09-21

1t required actual ward work the part of Sena-
tor Ankeny to Walla Walla from falling into the
hands of the Boxers and even then the most impor-
tant Offices OF the county had to be conceded to
the Boxers to prevent complete overthrow. Our
U. S. senators seem to have been receiving some
pretty severe jolts
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1906-09-21

"Our government made strenuous efforts to have
the Russian government modify its treatment of the
Jews" says Senator Piles. Had ''onr gov, rnment"
made eq lally strenuous efforts 70 have the South
'rn devils modify their treatment of the Negroes
women for alleged crimes Charity should begin at
one
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1906-09-21

King and Pacific ountes failed in their Rel ubli
conventions to end orse Gov. Mead. L. Dawes
had better take hike across the mountains and see
if he cannot get in secondhand compliment for
the governor.-Ddvenpo t Tribune
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1906-09-21

Certainly Brys was reluctant to take up govern
ment ownership, because he not dead certain
whether or not it would make enthu husiastc cam
pagn hobby, and, right or wrong, he was not look
ing for issue that did rot give promise Of landing
ing him in the White House.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1906-09-21

Dorothy Davenport, aged four years, fell from the
second story window last we k and was saved from
Moral: Plant more horehound under the windows.
-Anacortes Citizen. ftr..r&
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1906-09-21

Seattle has inviting hotel than the
Tourist and under the management OF Senators Van
de Vanter and Lincoln Davis, who have personally
seen to 1T that 1T be made frst.class family hotel
there is no reason excuse for its not doing we'll.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1906-09-21

And now the Sunday closing law for barber shops
has been knocked into cooked hat. To avoid the
law in the future evry workman will be propri
tor and working for himself. Is it impossible TO
pass law that cannot be broken
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1906-09-21

Even the Young man who is able to hold his own,
may prefer, to hold the han Of pretty girl '-
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1906-09-21

Seattle and Renton took the lions share in the
nominations for offices the Socialistc ticket.
These two places must be the Socalisc seat OF war.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1906-09-21

American Intervention is not wanted by either
the government or the rebel forces in Cuba. Too
much American intervention might end in American
appropriation.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1906-09-21

"The Jungle" is being translated into Jap tnese.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1906-09-21

When the Hon. w. L. Jones takes up his perma-
nent abode at Spokane some of the local politician
are going to think lou enough to be h ard
''you mean old thing"
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1906-09-21

Published every Friday at S161h Srd Av
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-08
HUGE STRIKE NEAR.
MINERS AND OPERATORS EX-
PECT 1T WILL COME.
Coal Conference Adopts Present
wage Scale-keystone Toiiers'
Vote Cast by Chief Against the
Union-MitcheII Sees No Hope.

The joint conference of coal miners
and operators at Indianapolis adjourn
ed sine die Friday after the chair had
declared carried a motion by F. L..
Robbins, Pittsburg operator, that the
present wage scale be continued. Pat
rick Dolan, president of the Pennsyl-
vania miners, voted the miners of that
district in favor of the motion, which
carried it. Patrick Dolan voted yes"
for the Pennsylvania miners and the
vote was challenged. Dolan arose and
said:
4 have authority to cast the vote
for the Pennsylvania miners, and IN
til that authority is taken away from
me 1 vote yes" There were loud cries
Of no." throw him out" well take
the authority away from him."
Unless wiser counsel prevails after
the miners delegates go home and meet
the rank and file of their fellow work
ers, a strike for a 1919 per cent wage
increase, April /, is inevitable. Pres
ident John Mitchell of the United Mine
Workers, speaking his last word at the
closing joint conference, put the mat
ter thus:
I'VE have come to the parting of the
ways and it seems to me the only
thing left to do is to go home and there
try to overcome the seemingly insur-
mountable obstacles. We deeply regret
the necessity for such a step, but we
feel that the time has come when you
can give us an advance in wages with
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-08
OBSERVE CARNATION DAY.
Fitting Flower Tribute Paid to
Memory of William Mex nIey.

Memory of William Mcbi nIey.
Many carnations were again worn
this year on the sixty-third anniver-
sary Of the birth of William McKin-
ley, the martyred President. The car
nation was President McKinley's IA
vorite flower. For years he daily
carefully placed one of the blooms in
the lapel of his coat. whether in Wash
ington. while Congressman and Pres
ident, or at home in Canton, Ohio
This custom of President Mckinley
became so characteristic of him, that
those gifted in the finer diplomacy in
variably paid him subtle compliment
by presenting to him masses of the
rich blooms. The first anniversary Of
the Presidents death, thousands Of
persons wore the flower in memory Of
him. While the practice has waned
mand for the flowers.
Carnation day was created by Lew
is G. Reynolds of Dayton, Ohio, who
upon presenting his idea to the trus-
tees of the Mckinley National Memoir
ial Association received hearty in
dorsement and cooperation.
1t was Mr.. Reynolds original idea
to observe the anniversary of McKin-
ley's death, but several of the trus-
tees, notably Justice William r. Day
of the Supreme Court, the late Senator
Hanna and Alexander Revell, because
of the tragedy associated with that
date, suggested as a more fitting time
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-08

Celebrations like this, founded upon a
universal interest in the annual move
ments of the seasons and grounded even
more deeply in the human affections, are
little likely to pass away, but if anything
could make them it would be the hideous
practice of sending comic valentines.
Hurting the feelings of another and
shielding ones self behind ones nameless-
ness is the act of co ,ard if done in
tentionally, or of a fool if done thought
lessly.
1t is a matter of congratulation that
so evil practice is dying out and becom-
ing more and more restricted year by
year-a pleasant proof or advancing civ
ilization. But the older and better Gus
tom, of sending little words of cheer and
affection, shows no sign of falling off.
Children love to get valentines and moth
ing can be more kindly than for grown
folk to spend a few cents and take pains
| to remember ali the little folk they know
Small girls especially long for many val
entines, and are correspondingly disap-
pointed if they do not come.
If there is any sentiment left in your
soul after this graceful little performance.
| it will be well to remember your faithful
! spouse and see the blush of pleasure
mount to the cheek at the unexpectedness
| of the remembrance. st. Valentines day
| is nothing if not for this and affairs OF
sentiment like it.
There is none too much loving kindness
in this busy workaday world. Add drop
or two of its essence, and see how happy
| it will make you.-Wallace Rice in Chi
| cago Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-08
(HONe>Z 9
Onr4D { OR.H.EGES
~~~-N~~N~N~0~

David 2. Kenney of Plainfcld. n. J.
has given forty acres on the slope of
the Watching mountains, commonly call
ed The Picture Lands" to the Sisters
of Mercy of the Trenton diocese. A
convent school will be erected.
1t seems likely that the school board of
Lexington, Ky, will include in its Jan
uary budget an appropriation for manual
training in the public schools. Supt.
Cassidy is heartily in favor of it and
again urges it in his excellent annual re-
port.
The fact that the oyerseers Of Harvard
university had voted against the continu-
ance of intercollegiate football contests
by students of that university was
made known at Cambridge, the prohibi'
ton to remain in force until the commit
tee on the regulation of athletic sports
reports on changes in the game and that
report is approved by the overseers. All
depends on the degree of reformation
which the athletic committee effects. The
overseers regard the present game as bad
in every respect and say that the method
of formation absolutely encourages trick
cry and foul play. They think the result
is bad for the morals as we'll as for the
body, and that the present intercollegiate
rules committee are not capable of prop
erly reforming the game because they are
so far committed to the present system.
The Board of Education of Orange, n.
J., is considering a proposition to install
printing Office in the local high school,
at cost of about $1,000 under the SUI
pervision of practical printer. 1t has
been stated that several citizens are will
ing to establish the plant.
Superintendent Cooley Of the Chicago
schools has issued a circular to his teach
ers directing a rigid enforcement of the
rule against corporal punishment of pu-
pills. Even parents are not to be al
lowed to punish their refractory children
within the school grounds. as they have
sometimes been encouraged to do.
Statistics of teachers wages in the
State of Michigan show that in forty
years the average monthly wages of men
have increased from S2S.11 to S57 So of
women, from S12.44 to S40.5J The in
crease in the last ten years has been, for
men, 1898 for women, SJ.47.
In 1870 there was in the United States
but one educational journal having a cir
culation of more than 10000 and that
had $4,000 In 1884 there were eight
such with an aggregate circulation of
$4,000. In 1903 there were nineteen
with an aggregate circulation Of 100000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-08
Ct v.trr,Nr,e nav

Saint Valentines day! And midst old rec
objections
That rush to my heart with an echoing
joy,
1 remember once more the old hopes and
objections
When you were girl, dear, and I was
boy:
When I sent you rose on that February
morning
And with it a passionate, rhyme-halting
lay,
And met your reproaches and well-acted
By whispering: sweet, it's Saint valen-
tines day! -
And the sky was so blue, and the sun
shine so yellow.
And the soft southern wind blew so chill
ly and sweet
And each tiny bird sang so loud to its fel-
low.
While the snovdrops and crocuses doomed
at your feet,
Small wonder our hearts broke to trem-
As we learned in the wonderful, old
fashioned way,
What the earth, and the sky, and the air
were repeating
And now that the crazy-sweet babble and
laughter
OF golden-haired children have rung in
our ears,
And brought US the hope Of a tender here
after
To link to the thought Of those far-away
years
Once more in the words of the happy boy
l veil deeper meaning in whimsical way !;
meaning your heart will be quick to dis
cover
By whispering: Sweet, it's Saint Val
-Housekeeper.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-08
LINCOLN'S EARLY HOME.
Bed of the Great American Was Il
Heap of Dry Leaves in a Loft.


Heap of Dry Leaves in a Loft.
The furniture in the home in which
Abraham Lincoln spent his early years
in Indiana was of the most primitive
kind. The table and chairs, according
to Miss Ida Tarbell in her life of the
great American, were of the rudest sort
rough slabs of wood in which holes were
bored and legs fitted in. Their bedsteads,
or rather bedframe, was made of poles
held up by two outer posts, and the ends
made firm by inserting the poles in au-
ger holes that had been bored in a log
which was a part of the wall of the
cabin; skins were its chief covering. Lit
tie Abraham's bed was even more print
tive. He slept on a heap of dry leaves
in the corner of the loft, to which he
mounted by means of pegs driven into
the wall.
Potatoes were the chief food of the
family, and Miss Tarbell gives US this
account of the way in which all the meals
were prepared:
The food was prepared in the rudest
way, for the supply of both groceries
and cooking utensils was limited. The
former were frequently wanting entire
~. anu DIS AOl lnG AdNtNAs tlAC must LII
portant item was the Dutch oven. An
Indispensable item in the kitchen outfit
was the "gritter" 1t was made by fat
tening out an old piece of tin, punching
it full of holes, and mailing it on q
| board Upon this all sorts of things
were grated, even ears of corn, in which
| slow way enough meal was secured for
bread Old tin was used for many other
contrivances besides the ''gritter, and
every scrap was carefully saved. MIST
of the dishes were of pewter; the spoons
iron; the knives and forks horn-handied
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-08

ness and then only after repeated rollings
to get the water out of his lungs.
There are still the initials of the two
boys carved on the inner side of the old
water wheel. Abe made them while
waiting for his clothes to dry. The boys
were afraid to go home with wet clothes
and they stayed naked under the wheel
while the clothes were drying in the SUM-
Neither boy told of the affair and it was
only after the assassination that Abe's
companion detailed his part in the scrape
which came near unconsciously changing
the history of the country.
Lincoln once came very near fighting
duel with James A. Shields, later
prominent in national affairs. Lincoln
offended Shields in manner which can
not be described here for lack of space,
and the two met on the st. Charles duel
ing ground just over the river in Mis-
souri,. 1t may be said, in passing, that
Lincoln's greatest offense against Shields
lay il taking the part of some of the
latter's enemies. Shields, who was an in
ordinately vain man, would have satisfac-
ton, though. Lincoln regarded the whole
thing as a huge joke, but he went to the
dueling grounds, where being the chal-
lenged party, he had the choice of weap-
ons. Here he was asked what weapons
he would select, when, with a quizzical
twinkle in his eye he replied: Lets
have some originality about this duel. l
prefer cannons at 80 PAGES" Even
Shields was forced to join in the general
laugh which followed. and while he was
in this reasonable frame of mind, the
seconds patched the matter up, and in
all amiability and good nature the duel
was declared off. A great crowd had
gathered at the Illinois shore to see the
party leave for Missouri and to learn the
result of the encounter. On the way
back, Lincoln's whimsical nature again
asserted itself and he took a log and
placed it in one Of the boats with a big
coat over it. This appeared from the
shore to be a dead body and the excite
ment was great until the landing was
made. Lincoln then removed the coat,
and with a grin took up the log and
threw it overheard. Lincoln and Shields
remained firm friends ever after the
duel" though fighting each other po-
litically with fierce intensity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-08
Brief News Items.

DIR. Sergei de Besselitsky of Chicago
has been elected to the chair of modern
languages at Vincennes university.
The American Breeders Association
met in conjunction with the Nebraska
Corn Improvers' Association in Lincoln.
John Singer Wallace, army chaplain,
who was appointed by President Lincoln
in 1868, died at Alameda, Cal, aged "A.
W. r. Brandt, a wealthy politician,
ans, her alleged paramour, at Otsego,
Mimi, and committed suicide.
Fire at Ashland, Ohio, caused a loss
of 100000 at f. E. Myers & Brothers
implement and tool works. William
Leonard was probably fatally injured by
falling walls.
Reform, the most sweeping ever at
tempted IL a large city, has been begun
in the police department of st. Louis,
where grafters and tools of corrupt poll
ticians are to be discharged from the
force.
A trust fund of about 100000 for the
poor of Cincinnati is provided for in the
will of Joseph Earnshaw, a civil engi-
neer, in the event that his widow does
not dispose of the estate or dies intes-
tate.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., told his New
York Bible class that a doctor should
sacrifice the life Of his patient rather
than lie.
President Eliot of Harvard predicted
in an address at Cambridge, Mass, that
in 100 years the United States viii be
the most democratic country the world
ever has known
E. K. Robinson, receiver of the Win
field Mortgage and Trust Company of
Winfield, Kan, since 1894, is said by H.
E. Patterson, who completed his reports
of Robinson's accounts the other day to
have appropriated for his own use from
$4,000 to $4,000 of the company's
money.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-08
Phenomenal Auto Sales.

The automobile shows just closed in
New York City smashed all previous rec
ords. There were 100000 enthusiastic
men and women spectators during the
week and the sales were phenomenal.
Three million dollars worth of automo-
biles were sold to individual buyers for
private use, and at least 100000 worth
more were sold to wholesalers and agents.
When the auto men left the shows, tired
to exhaustion by their seven days of exer-
ton, they were happier than ever before.
A canvass of the exhibitors showed that
every one of them had done an excellent
business during the week. Some have
scored heavier than others, and at least
three makers may be said to have closed
contracts for their entire output, and
they will now prepare for 1907 models.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-02-08
Short News Notes.

Funeral drivers in New York have or
ganized the Funeral Drivers Union, with
100 members.
An autom bile driven by Major Edwin
B. Babbitt of he United States army Gre
ated a panic among the natives in Bag
Mo, 2. /.
The reelection of James p Goodrich
as chairman of the Indiana Republican
committee is regarded as triumph for
the Republican faction headed by Vice
President Fairbanks over that headed by
Senator Beveridge.
The Eberhart Manufacturing Company
of Cleveland is about to close a deal for
the purchase of the Racine Malleable
Wrought Iron Company plant.
The prairie fire which began in the
northern part of Duell county. Nebraska,
swept south over forty miles of prairie
before being extinguished. The loss to
ranches is SO, 900.
Congressman John Wesley Gaines OF
Tennessee and Robert Adams. Jr., of
Pennsylvania are said somehow or other
to have acquired a reputation of being
extremely poor speakers. When either
begins speaking the galleries become emp
ty about as rapidly as if the house were
on fire.