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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-06-08
CHEAP Railroad Rates to Farmers
Meeting.

A rate of fare and third for the
round trip ON all railroads in Virginia
can now be definitely announced for the
State Farmers Institute, to be held in
Roanoke, July 10. II and II. Going
tickets will be sold July 8, 10 and II
with final return limit of July IS
These tickets will be sold from all points
aud from Washington.
Any person wishing to attend the
State Farmers Institute should apply
to his local ticket agent several days in
a lvance of the date of the meeting.
and see that he has received instruc
lions with regard to this rate. Should
any ticket agent decline to sell at the
reduced rate mentioned, the purchaser
should call for certificate and bring
this along to Roanoke with him. This
will fully protect him, and will enable
him to get cheap return ticket.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-06-08
TOO SACRED.

The Republicans of the 10th district
are anxious to hold their convention in
Stanton, but are met by the fact that
there is probably no hall sufficiently
large to accommodate them. The
tearing down of Columbi ian Hall takes
out Of Staunton the only hall large
enough to hold body of considerable
size. save and except our cheris he'd
opera house. This is inviolabls.
There is halo surrounding it which
the negro minstrel can walk over,
dance over. kick around as he sees fit,
but which is barred to more decent as
semblies, and indeed has been known
to be barred to the Governor of the
State, During the last campaign the
friends of Gov. Montague went to the
powers who sit high in the theatre
boxes OF this city, and requested th at
they be allowed to rent that sacred
edifice for the purposes of an address
to be delivered by the Governor. But
no. The excuse was that it would be
political gathering, and politics must
not pollute this holy of the holes.
Our Republican friends may have bet
ter success. We are one who has never
believed the real reason was assigned
when Gov. Montague was denied en-
trance. But as it occurred only little
while ago, and the same powers hold
sway now that held sway then, we
have no idea that the 10th district Re-
publican convention could break
through with jimmy. No monastery
wall, no portals of a cathedral, no
shrine, is more sacred than the Bever-
ley Theatre.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-06-08
THE SKEEREO- 'O-NOTHIN

England has arranged to build
battleship, a great and dangerous ship.
1t is to be many cubits long, and many
cubits wide, and manv cubits high, it
may possibly the ark-have a
window and door. and Il lower, Sec
ond, and third stOries-Noa would be
proud of it-and it is TO cost one mil
lion, eight hundred thousand pounds,
or nine million dollars.
No sooner did our naval board Of
strategy, those watchful guardians
hear of this leviatt ian of the deep,
whilst luxuratIng at their quarters in
the Army and Navy Club at Was ring
ton, where they fight battles and plan
victories-than they ordered up fresh
high balls and juleps, and began to
ponder the situation 1t is known
that Secretary Bonaparte has much of
the ancient hatred of a Frenchman for
the English. He must be seen, he
must be made to understand the i'm
pending danger. 1t is true that this
great English battleship, the Dread
naught, as she is called, will be as UNI
able to cross the Atlantic unassisted
as the dry dock Dewey was 10 go to
Manila, but that cuts no figure, the
Dreadnaught is dangerous to cOntem-
| plate. We must block the English
game, We must build a battleship great
er and more costly and do it quick.
The English have Canadian ports. and
| Nova Scotia coal. When we would be
least expecting it they would swoop
down upon New York or Boston, and
with the guns of this mighty giant
turned on Wall Street or State Street,
call for what gold was in sight and
then sail away with broad and ghast
ly grin. Think of such an outrage,
think of such pirate feast, or bucca-
neering pic mic Instantly on hearing
of such possibilities Mr.. BOnaparte
became panic stricken, instantly Pres
ident Roosevelt trembled visibly, in.
| oDuuciy >'OA6A Cb5-uboo ID oPCohOi
CannOn-became visibly impressed
INSTANTLY the naval committee met
The country is safe, Wall Street il
safe, State Street is safe, all is safe ex
cept the treasury of the United States
and the pockets of the people, they
are to be touched to the tune of ten
millions of dollars, and vessel which
when completed, will make the English
Dreadnaught look like 80 cents, Is tC
be constructed. A vessel more cubits
long, more cubits wide. more cnbits
high, to have any number of windows
and doors which the naval construc-
tors may wish in order to Guido the
English, is to be built. and built quick
ly. Thus will we prevent the covetous
British from taking our gold, by
spending it all ourselves. Glorious
thought, glorious country; invincible
navy; thoughtful officers. Well done
good and faithful servants, return
thou to thy high balls and mint juleps
for the "Skeered-'o Nothin" will soon
be aflOat.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-06-08
WASHINGTON LETTER
(From our Regular Correspondent

frOm our REGULAR CORRESPONDENT
Washington. DC June Popular
interest Is still centered on the effort
of the House to set aside the provision
in the Senate Amendment to the Agri-
cultural Appropriation Bill for an
adequate meat inspection service in all
the packing houses of the country big
enough to do an interstate business.
1t will, of course, be remembered that
the so. called Beveridge Amendment,
providing for this inspection was put
on the appropriation bill 10 the last
hours in the Senate and went through
without question. 1t means very
light tax per head of cattle On the big
packing houses. though it amounts to
total of about 81, 200, 900 to pay the
full force of inspectors. OF course the
disclosures Of the disgusting methods
in the Chicago packing houses and the
unspeakable filth and horror of the
whole business raised storm
of popular indignation. The packing
interests up tO.date have not dared to
fight the bill in the open. But they
know that popular storms are usually
short lived in proportion to their viol-
ence, and it is almost a certainty that
if the packers can hold off action on
the bill and get ''calm and dispas-
sionate view of the situation" that
they will be able to carry their point.
What they are fighting for now is de-
lay.
The meat inspection provision has
thus been held up in the House and all
the energies of the packers are devoted
to getting the reading of the amend
ment altered SO that the cost of the in
spection shall be borne by the govern
ment and not by the packing houses.
This is a strategic move. The cost of
the inspection amounting to about five
cents a head, would not be hardship
on the Meat Trust. and they know it.
But they do not want the large force
of inspectors. In the first place, 1t
would close up most of the avenues of
law breaking that they have compla,
Gently followed for years, and further
it would enable the independents out
side the trust to get government in
spection which they can now do only
in few cases and with great difficulty.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-06-08

When our new city government is
installed we advise it to study the WAYS
of Harrisonburg with reference to
water, light and taxes, and be wise.
They will find there water in abun-
dance at small cost, lights in abundance
at small cost, and municipal taxes onIy
rs cents. When one pays $40 State
taxes on piece of property in Staun-
ton, and $40 city taxes ON the same
property and q water tax in addition.
he naturally thinks he is burdened. and
when he finds no water in his house
after II O'Clock at night until daylight
in the morning, he wonders where bis
$40 and bis water taxes shave went. ,,
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-06-08
no, DING THEIR FEET no THE FIRE

The Board of Public Works of West
Virginia has been forced into perform
ing q duty it heretofore neglected by
being brought face to face with public
opinion. West Virginia has for some
years been only a short way behind
New Jersey in the manner in which
corporate control manifested itself.
The corporations contributed to the
Republican campaign fund, the rail-
ways had free trains fer Republican
candidates and Republican rallies, and
what these corporations wanted they
usually got, even to having their rep
resentatives on the various boards.
But there has been new assessment
of property in West Virginia. as well
as a change of sentiment. The most
inauisitorial assessme ut it is here
noted, this side of Russia. The cradle
and the grave have been Gelved into
for subjects of taxation. and the PEG
pie have bten put upon the rack. LII
doing SO the railways have come in fol
a square DEAL" thing advocated by
Republican authority OF high order
| AID which these roads prOfessedly
wanted.
| The total assessment of all railroads
in that State is fixed at $3.50, 22S 900
This includes several traction com
panies. The total assessment On al
of these railways and traction com
panies last year was only about 1885,
900, 900. Rather healthy increase /
seems. The B. & Q. comes in TO
about $S0,000,000, the G. q o. 70
about $2S 900, 900, the N. & W. TO
about $29,OOO,OOO, and the smaIle
roads and traction companies for tn
residue. Tue railways were responsl
bic for the law which allowed thel
properties to be assessed by the Boar
lOf Public Works, but even their chOse
agents could not stem the tide OF put
lie opinion which was plainly visible
demanding an assessment at the "tru
land actual" value.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-06-08
SENATOR GERMAN.

Senator Arthur P. German is dead,
He had been sick for long time and
whilst bis death was not unexpected
1t will nevertheless carry sadness to
many hearts. There are two acts OF
Mr.. Gorman's life, if no more. fol
which his memery will always receive
our reverence and respect. One il
his having saved the country from the
Force bill. and the other is for the cas-.
tigation given by him to Grover
Cleveland.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-06-08

Seeing that the trusts are being pur.
sued with more "reminiscences than
ever before, young MIR. John d. Rock
efeller might lecture to his Sunday
school class from the 18th chapter OF
Genesis, oath verse: "Peradventure
there be fifty righteous within The
city, wilt thou also destroy and not
spare the place fol the fifty righteons
that are therein 7"
Then he might get busy and go about
hunting the fifty righteous.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-06-08
SDIendidFarmf0rS Sale

I will sell privately my splendid farm,
situated on Christians Greek. in Augusta
county, three and one half miles from
Staunton, containing 255 acres. This farm
not only crops as well as any farm IN the
county, but it is one of the best stock
farms. One-h half of 1t IS in blue grass sod
of twenty years standing, and is unsur-
passed for grazing. Sixty acres in rich.
alluvial river bottom. The farm has on it
a com mOdiOus brick mansion house and
two barns, one of them new, with large
capacity for stabling both cattle and
horses; all other necessary outbuildInRs.
/ offer the farm for sale because it is
impossible for me to give it my personal
attention. Address,
S. BROWN ALLEN,
323tf StauntOn, Va.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-06-08

The conference committee has agreed
on the amendments to the Rate bill.
Among them are some which 60 fur
Their than either house had gone. For
instance railroads are prohibited from
dealing in the commodities they haul,
even to timber. Timber had been
omitted in the Senate amendments.
Free passes of all kinds are barred.
This last cuts off both the Blue and
the Gray.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-06-08

The President has just made speech
at Portsmouth, Va. We always feel
sorry for community in the South
where the president speaks. Some
thing is sure to happen, as happened
to Charleston, s. c., where the people
were SO cordial in their reception OF
him. A negro collector of the port was
their reward. What will unfortunate
Portsmouth get ?
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-06-08

That excellent paper, the Richmond
Evening Journal, celebrated it's first
anniversary on Tuesday with a AZ
page addition. 1t makes a splendid
showing of RichmOnds business indus
tries, and speaks well for it's own abil-
ity as newspaper. May it have many
more birthdays.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-06-08
$25,OOO.OO

to loan on easy terms, or we will build
you home on acknowledgements plan
M. ID. MILLER can be seen at the Pal
mer House in Staunton, Va. Ion Thursday
and Friday of each week, and at the CT
ton Forge Office Tuesday of each week.
Write for circular Address
G. g. SPITZEK, Har risonburg, Va.
or
M. d. MILLER, Mgr, Coyington,
jan II 3m va.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-06-08

A community which is afraid of the
dust and blasting of a cement plant a
mile or SO away, to be consistent might
object to the piercing screams of
freight locomotives right in their
midst But no
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-06-08

There was (Democratic) primary
eIe ctiOn IN Staunton for Aldermen and
Councilmen a short time ago. but few
people seem to remember the names
of those selected. If there be those
who are interested in knowing these
names, We can only say, that safe
and sure way is to enquire of the can
didates themselves, who possibly re-
mem Der the occurrence and will fur
nish the information.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-06-08
EDUCATIONAL.
COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY,

WILLIAMSBURG, VA.
Two hundred and thirteenth session be-
gins September Goth, 1906. Two Courses:
D Collegiate Course leading to the de-
grees of b. A. and M. A. (2) Normal
Course; tuition free and board at reduced
rates. Buildings renovated and newly
equipped, lighted with electricity and
supplied with pure artesian water. Send
for catalogue.
LYON G. TYLER, M. A., LII. d,
may Is I'm President.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-06-08

Don't enquire of us whether you can
vote in the approaching election.
Voting in Virginia is not an exact
science. but since the Winchester decis.
ion it has been called Christian science.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-06-08

II anybody thinks the peach crop has
been destroyed he will change his
mind as soon as he attends one of the
finals of our female schools.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-06-08

eAaAAk6 lSSs
The kidneys are your
blood purifiers, they fill
ter out the waste OF
impurities in the blood.
II they are sick or out
OF order, they fail to do
their work.
Pains, aches andrheu-
matlsm come from ex-
cess of uric acid in the
blood, due to neglected
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-06-08

Middlebrook is looking longingIy
for the trolley car-the car which
cOmeth not.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-06-08

Staunton, like San Francisco, comes
In for her share of destroyed buildings
Just now.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-06-08

Kidney IOuDlc.
Kidney trouble causes quick or unsteady
heart beats, and makes one feel as though
they had heart trouble, because the heart is
over-working in pumping thick, kidney
poisoned blood through veins and arteries.
1t used to be considered that only urinary
troubles were to be traced to the kidneys
but now modern science proves that nearly
all constitutional diseases have their begin
ming in kidney trouble.
If you are sick you can make no mistake
by first doctoring your kidneys. The mild
and the extraordinary effect of DR.. Kimers
Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy is
soon realized. 1t stands the highest for its
wonderful cures of the most distressing cases
and is sold on its merits E1Env
by all druggists in fifty @sE'sszI11sf Es:ss
cent and one-dollar siz- HI III 4 H. Co.
es. You may have ssSsss ss4 lsss sEssSEsaG0
sample bottle by mail Home of swamp.Root
free, also pamphlet telling you how to find
out if you have kidney or bladder trouble.
Mention this paper when writing DR.. Kilmer
& Co., Binghamton. N. Y.
Don't m axe any mistake, but remem be
the name, ''Swamp. Root" DR.. Kilmer's
Swamp Root, and the address, Bingham.
ton. N, Y, on every bottle.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-06-08

TOM M lSSION ERNS OFFICE
StauntOn, Va, May %, 1906,
James M. Splitter, & ais.
VS.
Lewis H. Miller, & ais.
III parties interested in the foregoing
cause pending in the Circuit Court of Au-
gusta county, are notified that shall pro-
coed to take, state and settle, on the 23rd
day of June, 1906, at my office in Stanton.
Va, the accounts required by decree
therein entered on May IA, 1906 viz:
LIST. Who are tee parties under the will
of l.. III. Splitter. decd. entitled to partic-
ipate in the fund arising from the sale of
the interest in the lands in this cause,
which the said II. Splitter inherited
from his father, John Splitter. decd and
in what proportion said parties are enti-
tied to share in said fund.
End. ANY other matters deemed peril
nent or required to be stated.
A. G. GORDON,
Master Commissioner in Chancery.
W. H. Landes, p.q. 614t
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1906-06-08
OVer-WOrk Weakens
Your Kidneys.
Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.

All the blood in your body passes through
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-05-21
CONTINUANCE In
TRAIN ROBBERY CASES
John Murphy, Jim and John Black to
Be Tried at Next Term Of Fourth
Judicial District Court.

John Murphy and Jim and John
Black, United States prisoners, held
under indictments for train robbery,
were brought to the Territorial peni-
tentiary last Saturday night by Cap
tain Fred Fornoff of the New Mexico
mounted police and Deputy United
States Marshal Harry Cooper and
turned over to the authorities for safe
keeping.
The three men are accused Of CON-
plicity in the train robbery on the
Rock Island Railroad at Logan, NeE
Mexico about three years ago. They
have already been tried twice In the
United States District Court for the
Fourth Judicial District at Las We
gas, the jury In each case disagreedng
and being unable to find verdict.
The prisoners were to have been
tried at the present term Of court at
Las Vegas, but on the motion Of Unit
ed States Attorney q. i. Medler, In
behalf of the United States, contin.
uance until the October term was
granted. This was asked for by the
United States on account of the alb
sence of a material and important wit
ness who coull not be procured on ac-
count of severe illness and who is
now In Oklahoma The motion for
continuance was strongly fought by
the defendants Attorney, Judge E. v.
Long, but was nevertheless granted by
the presiding Judge. Chief Justice vii.
liam J. Mills.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-05-21
MEMORIAL DAY
PROCLAMATION
Governor Haeerman Calls on All Pa,
triotc Citizens to Observe
Decoration Day.

Executive Office, Santa Fe, N. NJ,
May IS, 1906.
The truest patriotism is the patriot
ism which shows itself in action at
those times when the nation calls for
the sacrifice of personal interests in
order to preserve the honor and In.
tegrity of the flag Of our country. The
test of good citizenship is not only the
holding of high ideals of civic honor
and righteousness, but the willingness
of the individual to proclaim those
ideals and, if necessary, devote his
property and his life to upholding
them. The men who in times of stress
and danger to the republic have been
called upon to make such sacrifice
and have not flinched, but have given
their lives that the nation might live,
by whose faith, energy and devotion
the integrity of our institutions has
been preserved, are true patriots
whose memories should be cherished
in gratitude by all the people.
AS the day approaches which has
so fttingly and properly been set aside
for the decoration of the graves OF
our dead soldiers and sailors and for
the celebration of their deeds of hero
ism and self sacrifice, we should also
remember the great services done by
the living survivors of the wars,
which in the inscrutable wisdom Of
God have come to try the souls of
the men and women of all parts of our
country during the past generation.
In accordance. therefore, with es
tablished custom and usage, |, Har-
bert J. Hagerman, Governor of the
Territory OF New Mexico, do recon-
mend that on Wednesday, the thir-
tieth day of May, 1906, the people in
parts of the Territory refrain from all
unnecessary labor and public amuse-
ments, and add their efforts 10 those
of patriotic associations to bring about
a proper observance of the day and
devote 1t to services in honor of the
nations dead, and to acts of respect
for those soldiers and sailors who
have survived the wars in which they
were engaged
Done at the executive office this the
18th day of May, A. D., 1906.
Witness my hand and the great seal
OF the Territory of New Mexico.
(Seal) H. J. HAGERMAN,
BY the Governor:
J. w. RAYNOLDS,
Secretary of New Mexico.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-05-21
DAMAGE BY WATER.
River Cuts in Golf Links of Ell Paso
County Club Causing Members
Much Inconvenience.

A dispatch from El Paso says that
the waters of the Rio Grande have cut
into the leased property of the Ell Paso
Country Club near Washington Park
and made necessary the changing of
the course Of one OF the golf links.
The originsl lifGey 1were ESQ feet from
the river, but the overflow has sent
the back waters on to the grounds of
the club.
With the change in the links to the
present location, there Is no danger
Of an inundation. AS soon as the
waters receded and the ground dries,
the links will be moved back to the
original location in order to complete
the symmetrical position of the whole
links. The overflow does not touch
the club grounds proper.