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this morning, and that when Mrs.
Hollister passed by he attacked her.
and when she resisted he dragged her
into the carpenter shop and killed her
by twisting the wire around her neck.
Progress On Sun River Project.

WASHINGTON, Jan. ia report
from Engineer Robbins in charge Of
the Sun River project, Montana, indi.
Gates that the final surveys are nearly
concluded and that plans and esti.
mates may be expected In . short
time. As in other projects, the prob
lem Of adjusting questions Of water
rights, rights.of.way and excess land
holders. is giving more trouble than
any engineering ditaculties. The va
ter rights are being adjusted satisfac.
torily and the engineer has made good
progress with his surveys.
For the most part, the land owners
are eviucing . commend able interest
In the scheme: few, however, espe.
ctally ranchmen living near Choteau,
seem somewhat indifferent. Out OF the
whole north side nearly 10000 acres,
including the government, state and
private lands signed up, about SO per
cent. has come into the project. 1t is
expected that another 10 per cent. will
be added during January. It is re-
gretable that 80 little interest is being
taken in the project by the people Of
the south side. It is probable that II
II, 600 acres are not secured during
the present month that this section Of
the project will be abandoned.
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Enormous Importations Of Sugar.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE value
OF sugar brought into this country
during 1905 will far exceed that OF any
earlier year, according to q bulletin
issued by the bureau of statistics OF
the department OF commerce and labor.
The bulletin says:
The value Of sugar imported during
the eleven months Of 1905 ended with
November s, was sl4s, ,575, ,345 of which
s5l .485, 1856 was from noncontiguous
territory of the United States. The
estimate is that the total sugar imports
for 1905 will aggregate considerably y
above $3.50. .O0O, 900 while the highest fig.
ure 10 any fiscal year prior to 1905,
was 1927 ,00O, 600 in 1894, when an un.
usually large quantity was imported in
anticipation of change in the tariff.
The United States is the largest su.
gar consuming country in the world.
The average consumption for each in.
dividual in 1904 was about IS pounds.
The United States consumes about
one.fourth Of the sugar production oi
the world. Nearly all the sugar
brought into this country ia produced
from cane and the United States con.
sumes fully one-half of the cane pro.
duced in the world. Cane sugar Il
forming at present larger proportion
of the worlds sugar supply than
during 1890. 1902.
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For Irrigation T0wnsites.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE senate
committee on irrig alton is considering
bill intending to authorize the secre.
tary of the interior to lay out town.
sites and sell lots at public auction;
also bill authorizing the government
to condemn lands within irrigation
projects and sell them again to present
owners subject to charges for reclaim.
alton. The question Is raised a. to
the coustitntionality OF the proposed
legisl alton.
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Cannot Enforce Prohibition.

KANSAS CITY. Jan. 12.-sDamu the
law. God could not enforce the pro-
hibition law in Kansas and Jesus
Christ would not"
Rev. John C. Lynn, Presbyterian
preacher and president of the Civic
league, In Kansas City court in the
case brought by the state to oust Maj.
or w. w. Rose from Office because Of
his alleged failure to enforce the laws,
testified today that the above words
were spoken by Major Rose on May
6, 1905. The case is being tried before
H. G. Larimer, special commission.
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Deserted Husband Gets Fortune.

St. PAUL, Jan. ia special to the
Dispatch from Sioux City. Iowa, says:
Because the man who eloped with his
wife placed the fortune which he sub.
sequently accumulated in her name,
V. E. Douglass, . prosperous farmer
residing six miles from Sioux City.
has become possessed of wealth.
Fourteen years ago. Douglass wife
deserted him and joined G. S. Porter
in California. Porter had formerly
boarded with the Douglass family and
had been ordered from his residence
by Douglass who discovered he was
making love to Mrs. Douglas. Doug.
lass did not attempt to pursue the
eloping couple. He learned that they
resided together in California 40 man
and wife and were rapidly accumulat.
ing fortune.
Four months ago Douglass learned
that his wife was dead. He consulted
q local attorney and upon his advice
went to California to search for the
property. In the end he located Por.
ter In Los Angeles. He found that his
wife had left property valued at s40,.
600 which Porter claimed as q legiti.
mate inheritance.
It seems that Porter. who was Q
truck driver In Omaha when he met
Douglass, had elected to keep the
property in his wife's name. or to be
more exact, in the name of Mrs.
Douglass, because there was an out.
standing judgment against him. So
far a. the records show, Porter had
no interest In the property which
his industry and management had &C.
cumulated. It all belonged to Mrs.
Douglass.
Douglass employed an attorney at
Los Angles, and has just succeeded in
having the courts decide that the es.
tate left by Mrs. Douglass rightly be.
longs to him.
Douglass has just returned to his
Sioux City farm bearing q copy of
the decree of the court and bonafide
evidences of title to $4,000 worth of
Los Angeles property. that formerly
stood in his wife's name.
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TO PROTECT BEET SUGAR.
COugressmeu Fear Effect Of Lower Duties
On Philippine Products.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-Mr. Brous.
sard OF Louisiaus, opened the debate
on the Philippine bill. He figured
the Philippine treasury would receive
ss.64 on every ton OF sugar shipped
from the islands to the United States
under the bill; that the shipper would
make q profit because of tariff con.
cession of Sl0.50. With this situation,
the Philippines could we'll afford to
ship their product of sugar and i'm
port for their own use from Java or
other countries. Mr.. Broussard as.
serted that to reduce the tariff on raw
sugar. as contemplated In the bill,
would benefit the "sugar trust" more
than anyone else, because it provided
It with raw material At q less cost.
Asserting that the beet sugar indus-
try was the essential factor in the sue.
cess Of the irrie alton projects of the
west, MIR. Brooks Of Colorado, char.
acterized as bad statesm anship any
move to cripple it. II let alone, in
ten years the sugar beet would fur.
nish half the sugar consumed in the
country.
Mr.. Brooks provoked good natured
applause BY applying Mr.. Dalzell's >
argument addressed to the beet sugar
industry: "You need no protection;
what you need is improved methods, 4"
to the iron and steel industry OF Pitts.
burg.
The statement of Mr.. Dalzell that 1t
would cost e4.13 a hundred to lay
Philippine sugar down in New York
was disputed by Mr.. Brooks, who
placed the figure at 1856. The friends
OF the bill, he said, claimed that un.
der it but 200. 900 tons of Philippine
sugar would come here. Beet sugar
men were not afraid of that amount,
but were afraid Of the amount they
themselves believed would come, from
zoo, 900 to 1000, 900 tons. The Philip.
pine laborer who would produce
sugar, Mr.. Brooks said, wears for
clothes breech clout; he gets his
breakfast from tree, his dinner from
the same tree and works for Is cents q
day. This 10 the labor that will be
placed in competition with the Amert.
can laborer.
Opposition was made to the bill by
Mr.. Howell OF Utah, on the ground
that 1t was not only mem ace, but
threatened the very existence of the
beet sugar industry. He reviewed the
inception of the beet sugar industry at
the time the republican party voted a
bounty Of two cents a pound to en-.
courage it. Now that party, he said.
WAS about to deatroY it.
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No Passes For State Officials.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Jan. 14.-Em.
ployes of state departments and insti.
tutions under the control Of Governor
Deneen must cease accepting or using
railroad passes. While no order to
this effect has been issued from the
executive Office, the fact has been
made clear to appoiutees that they
must "pay as they 60" and be abso.
lutely Independent Of corporation in.
1uences.
The abolition of the prac.i.. VI ac-
ceptineA a->> ~ seuspovtation on rail.
roads will work q revolution among
the state employees. Governor Deueen
has been consistently opposed to the
practice and ever since his induction
into Office has purchased q full fare
ticket whenever travelling. Even on
the Illinois Central railroad, Of which
he 10 ex.offlcio director during his
term OF Office, he has made no excep.
tiou.
Denial was made of the report that
employees coming under the jurisdic.
ton OF the executive department are
to be required hereafter to make afi.
davit to the correctness OF their ex-
pense accounts when turned In for au.
ditinR. Governor Deneen stated that
these accounts are itemized and re.
ceipts are required to be produced for
oil expenditures.
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Investigating Panama Canal Waters,

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE formal
iuvestig alton Of the man agement of
the Panama railroad canal and zone
government began today behind closed
doors by the senate committee on ca
malls. Secretary TAFT was present to
furnish the names of those who are in
. position to give inform alton. The
public hearings will probably begin
on Tuesday. Engineer Stevens will
be the first witness. A subcommittee
may visit the isthmus.
1t was rumored in Official circles to.
day that there would be sens alton al
disclosures at the hearing which will
probably involve high officials in the
South American republic who have a
finger In the pie. There were also ru.
mors that certain officers of the United
States government would be involved
in the scand ais which, it Is said would
be uncovered in connection with the
control of the route Of the canal by
the federal government a. Washing.
ton.
President Roosevelt is known to be
keeping in close touch with the prog.
ress of the investigation. The appear
ance of Secretary of War Taft at the
secret hearing before the senate com.
mittee today was taken as an indica.
tion that the president is anxious to
have the whole matter probed to the
bottom. No one connected with the
scandals will be allowed to escape.
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Railroad Employees In Session.

ST. PAUL, Jan. l2.-Differences as
to working rules 80 far as they affect
Great Northern brakemen afforded the
only ground for an especially amin at
ed discussion At several meetings of
Great Northern and Northern Pacific
conductors and tratnmen in session
here. A committee representing the
Great Northern members of the Order
OF Railway Trainmen began . biennia al
meeting today. The business before
this committee presented apparently
more difficulties than that before the
conductors representatives. One OF
the trainmen's officers said that II
would be impossible 10 tell just now
whether the q questions under discussion
were likely to cause serious differences
with the company. The public must
do Its own guessing.
Elsewhere, however, it was learned
that Great Northern trainmeu, nearly
all Of whom are brakemen, have no
special fault to find with the wage
schedule. It is the same on both the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific
roads. Under the "joint schedule,"
so-called. passenger sratn brskemen
receive go q month on the east half of
the road and e75 month on the west
half. Freight train brakemcn are
paid from 2} cents to cents mile,
according AZ they run on through, in.
termediate or way freighls.
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nant, and threaten to get even, and
more trouble is anticipated. The
range on which the outrage was cem-
mitted has long been in dispute, and
the sheep men have been frequently or.
dered away.
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How Fatigue Is Caused.

The fatigue felt after muscular ex.
ertion is chiefly due to the formation
within the muscles themselves Of GER
tain heterogeneous p2isons which are
the result Of chemical action going on
and which have paralyzing action on
the muscular fbers These poisons are
formed by the breaking up of certain
reserve materials which exist in the
muscles without actually forming an
essential portion Of them. When these
reserve materials are thus split up they
give out energy which may be avail
able as a source of heat or as a cause
Of motion. They accumulate In the It's
sues Of persons who lead sedentary
lives, and when such people take much
exercise they are very liable ID an at.
tack Of govt or fever!sh prostraton,
owing to the sudden accumulation
within the blood Of too many waste
products for the kidneys to remove at
once. The immunity from fatigue pos.
sessed by those who are continually
exercising is due to he fact that these
reserved materials has been gradually
removed during the course of training
and little remains capable of producing
equity poisons when much exercise is
taken.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-23

CARE OLA GOOD ROAD
VALUE OF "HONlNG" ITS SURFACE
AFTER A RAIN.

How the Mount Hope Road, Near
Hiddletovvn. y. T.. Was Improved
by T.,is Meth od-Imrortancc of Gut
tiers and Grading.
The work Of the Maple Dale Good
Roads CLUB OF farmers has attracted
quite good deal Of attention in To-
cal WY Ii Orange county, y. T., and
* Of ceaaral interest. writes o. ".
Mapcs, president Of the Maple Dale
Cool Roads club, in the Good Roads
MAGAZINE.
Just west OF the thriving city Of
Midl,etovn is a section OF farming
country which is tapped by the Mount
Hope road. This is part Of what was
formerly the Old stagecoach route lead
ing from Nevburc. On the Hudson riv-
or. to Milford, Pa, on the Delaware
river.
The following article by the writer
published In the Rural New Yorker in
1904 shows pretty we'll the methods EN-
ployel In Improving the road:
The nr;t step is 70 stake out the
work ly Mahing a li-ht furrow on each
side OF IT, proposed work twelve or
fourteen feet apart. If any part Of
these first burrows comes within the
beaten track where it is hard 1t should
be done Just after soaking rain. either
with plow or the point Of road ma
chine. Next pat the wheel Of the road
machine in this l-ht furrov, hold the
point Of tie blade firmly down in place,
remove every stone which the point
strikes and work down and out until
enou-n dirt is secured to bring GOOD
crown to the center Of the road and
good cutter on each side. making suita-
be outlets from all low points in these
cutters
This Is only a question Of applying
sufficient team power and removing all
stones that interfere with making
good gutter. on portions Of our road
this alone will give us a good road
with proper care in honing down after
each heavy rain and rakinc out all
loose storcS Other portions will need
a little gravel Or sha!e along the crown
of tie roll. There are several hills
where this can be secured. requiring
only short hau!s. y cubic yard hauled
Oh a twelve foot wagon * enough for
the worst places by dumping full
bad in a Place. and in other places a
half or 4 third Of a load in a place
will finish The crown Of tho road.
Grading with the machine should not
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JUST ONE DOLLAR

be to spr.A...e a very I.tlle good gravel
shale Or even har1pan right in the cen
ter Of the beaten tack occasionally.
according to the amount of wear on
the road. and keep the cutters from
filling. throwing the stuff secured out
of them away from the road instead Of
back into it.
What are the scientific principles IN.
volved: The beaten track on the
crown of the road Is hard crust al
most impervious to water while the
soil beneath this crust and at the side
near the lower cutters is porous and
open. l cannot Illustrate better than
the hone frequently keeps the upper
surface of the crust so smooth that rain
flows quickly into the cutters at the
side, as it would from a turtles shell.
Rain cannot saturate this crust from
the under side any more than Il could
on the under side Of a turtles shell.
If any happens TO work its way through
the crust Of = beaten track it falls
away quickly through the more porous
soil beneath and into the cutters at the
side. just as rain would run from the
under side of the shell to q turtles
back through the openings for his legs.
At any rate. the sample which was
built after this. pattern and at this
cost has stood the test of years serv.
Ice and is still in almost perfect condl.
finn
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VOL. NH.

foods was found among people ss
highly civilized as the Egyptians, the
Greeks and the Romans. Quite list
OF animals whose flesh was forbidden
might be drawn up. For example, IN
old Egypt the sheep could not be eaten
IN Thebes. nor the goat in Mendes, nor
the cat in Bubastis, nor the crocodile
at Ombos, nor the rat, which was sa-
cred to Ra the sun god. However. the
people of one place had no scruples
about eating the forbidden food Of an.
other place, and this often led to re
ugious disputes and bed blood
Among the vegetables tabooed as
food by the Egyptians may be men.
toned the onion, the garlic and the
leek Lucian says that the inha bitants
Of Potassium adored the onion. Accord
ing to Pliny, the Egyptians used to
swear by the leek and the onion. Juve-
nal pokes fun at those who thought 1t
a sin to eat them. He exclaims, Surely
u very religious nation and blessed
peace where every garden Is overrun
with gods"
The survivals Of totemism among the
ancient Greeks are very interesting.
Families named after animals and
plants We're not uncommon. One Athe-
MAN genus, the IoXidae, had for It's
ancestral plant the asparagus We
may be sure that this plant was tabooed
as food to every man. woman and child
Of the Ioxldae New York Post
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-23

In California Tie miners inch is the
dow Of about S.79j gallons Of water
per minute Fifty miners inches are
equivalent to one cubic foot per sec
end. The most common measurement
IS under mean pressure OF four
iacAe-, through a. aperture two inches
high ana two inches above the bottom
Of the box, tie plank being one aad
quarter inches thick and the height Of
water above the aperture three Inches,
giving Mean pressure OF four Inches.
Each square inch Of the aperture rep
reseuts one miners inch or about Ia
cubic feet flow per milute.-NaIwells
Tal!snan.
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Popes ord III cir Bear&s.

II we are to believe tie old prsverb,
prolha have always had Lizards for
tie faithful - swear by. Mt 80 With
the popes From Tie time u st. Peter
down /, tie ye4r 1853 the popes all
wore full boards. but for the next four
csntul les they We're c!esnly sha7en.
Then came a period Of two centuries
n which they again wore the beard,
bur from the year 100 until the pres
cat time the smooth face alone has
been seen in the papal line
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-11-23

HOW TO CHOOSE A SMART FALL
WARDROBE.

Clothes That Make the stout Woman
slim and the Slim Woman 1.-the ald
Grac"fui--T!.t. importance of IL Hap
Ply selection In HeadseGr.
No set rules can be given for cAoos-
ing the fall wardrobe. Each person
must study her own appearance and
dress in accordance. What VIII suit q
tall woman Will look quite ont Of place
on woman OF short dimensions, and
stout person cannot dress IN the
same style as Il slim one without en-
uhasiz!ng her s;outuess. And 50 each
Individual must find out for herse.'
what will suit her best and srudY the
minor details. 50 that her appearance
helps to form a pictures q.e whole.
In choosing her dresses the tall wom-
an should bear in mind that q short
one delracts from the height, and In
this matter fashion favorS her. for the
long trailing dresses for everyday Wear
are thing Of the past. and il j. se.-
dom Z woman is seen ii the Strce-S
with her skirt; trailing alon- IN tie
mud Or dust Or tucked away under her
arm.
Some tail women in order to make
themselves appear shorter make the
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Philosophy.

A Kansas philosopher warns the men
against the girl who takes time to con-
iider a proposal Of marriage. He init
mates that She IS hopeful that some
thing better will turn up. Still, the
man she finally accepts can console
himself Will tie reflection that she has
discovered it wasn't possible for any
thing better 70 turn up. - Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
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Mr.. Upjo1n at tie banquet The
colonel is good after dinner speaker
but did you notice how Queer.y lie Xix
81 his metaphors: Nj St.uckoyle-
Why-er-po He's been liking en-
straight. I think, s. far.--CAicago Trib-
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Right In His Line.

Could you DO the landlord In the
Lady OF Lyons?" asked the manager
IF the seedy actor. well. I should
.hnk I might have done e.
nany landlords. "-Kaasas City hide
pendent.
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. he Western Farm, JorunaI

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the farm and home In rcueru.. cattle, horses
hog. sheep ana poultry. ihc domestic
practice ami formula department j. parucu.
y invaluable to every man. woman All
hid in the land. The regular price is 25c
year, but in order to get it introduced
quick We offer it for a short time at loc
year or if you accept our unparalleled
offer. of course YOU will get it and the other
TWO farm papers. all for the price Of the
Twice.a-Week Dawn
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Some tail women In order to make
themselves appear shorter make the
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-12-16

swer to this problem which viii harmo-
nizc AN its discordant clements and make
clear its various complcations?'
Ar Harper shook his head. bat there
was restrained excitement in his man
nrr which was not altogether the re-
Election OF that which dominated RAN
som and tle latter observing it, leaned
across the table till their faces almost
touched.
"Do you guess my thought?" no whis-
rored Look nc me and tell me II you
guess my thought"
The lawyer hesitated. cycling well the
trembling lip. the changing color. the
widc-oren, deeply flushed eyes so near his
own; then with slow smile of extra
ordinary subtlety, if not of comprehcn-
sion. answered in barely audible muir
muir:
81 think 7 do. I may be mad. but I
think / DO"
Tie other sank back with n sigh
charged with what the lawyer inter
prctcd as relief. Mr. Harper reseated
himself and for moment neither looked
at the other and neither spoke; it would
almost seems as If neither breathed.
Then. as bird. deceived by the silence.
hopucd 60 the window sill and began it's
chcep. "checp.' Mt Ransom broke the
spell by saying in low but studiously
business-like tones:
"IIave you thought 81 worth while to
study the ground under her window or
anywhere else for footprints? 1t might
not be amiss; what do YOU think about
it?"
let us 60" readily acquiesced the law
yer. rising 10 his feet with an honest
show OF alacrity; after which I must
telegraph 10 New York. ] was expected
back to-day"
II know it; but your duties there viii
keep. these here cannot. Your hand on
tho promise that you viii respect my
secret til-weu. till can assure you that
my inuiuons are devoid OF any real
basis"
The lawyers palm met HIS; then they
started 10 go ont, bat before they had
passed the door. Mr. Ransom came back,
ana lifting the comb from the table he
put il ina bis pocket AS he did this.
his eye flashed sidewise on the other.
There were strange hints and PRESENT.
ments in il which brought the color to
the usually imperturbable lawyers cheek.