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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-10
MnhiIe sociefr Ner..

Mir Hunter O'Rourke gave sailing party. this afternoon on fhe Quo Vadis In compliment to Miss Kitty Sheppard. party which was composed of Miss Sheppard, Miss Virginia Sims. Miss Gertrude Smith. Miss Elizabeth Rhett vis.. William Chandler. Ben Rhett. Maury Lyon and Elmore Bundle.
 Ut has been a, long time since the Discards have met together. but the weeks of rest have in no wise lessened the enthusiasm Of the members. and their game today was full of snap and enjoyment. Mrs. F., c. Hughes-.enter- spent on the verenda of her pretty home. Miss Irwin was the only substi- tute., The next meeting will be with Miss Jessie Whiting.
 Mrs. D. F., Huger and her family circle are enjoying a few days stay at Dog River Club. It Is strictly a family family psrty composed of MT. and Mrs; Mrs. Robert Wilkie and daughter. Mrs. Charles Huger, Misses Meta and Ruth Huger and Mir. Edmund Huger.
 Mrs. F.. W. Christian. Miss Mollie Thurber and Miss Helen Boone left last night for Union Springs to attend the State Convention of the U. D. c.
 yViohri duu MTs' F. D. Merr1ll enter talned at launch party this after noon complimentary to Miss Laura Hill of Montgomery.
 Mrs, Burwell Boykin is in the city, enroute to Texas. She is visiting Mrs Rives Boykin.
 MT. W, H. Monk, Jr. left at noon today for Louisville and French Lick Springs.
 The Afternoon Tea Club was enter tained today by Mrs. z Nj. P Inge
 Miss Kate Robinson is visiting friends in Stockton. Ala.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-10

Fresh Ripe Strawberries 1Oc per quart. Special Price on Preserving Berries.
 BROCK GROCERY co
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-10

Mir. George w. Cater. Jr., passed through the city today from Meridian en route to Maplesville.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-10
Mayors Court.

In Mayors Court this morning Willie wood, a negro. was fined $25 for beat ing his wife. Another case that at tracted interest was that charging Turner Brandon win carrying con cealed weapons. After hearing the evidence the Mayor concluded to dis charge Brandon and he was sent his way rejoicing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-10
Street Railway Transfer.

LHc representatives oI ctOue ana Webster. of Boston. purchasers of the Pensacola Terminal Company. were busily engaged today going over the property and affairs of the company. Last night star chamber session was held, at which. in addition to the rep resentatives of Stone and Webster. were present the attorneys of the com- pany and others interested. Nothing was given out, however, regarding the changes contemplated, although ]. W. Leadley, who will be the General Mana ger, said he would take the public into his confidence as soon as all preIimt- nary matters were completed. It Is the general impression that W. H. Northrup. who for several years has been president of the company. will not be connected with the management un- der the new order of things. and that sveral other important changes will be made.
 Bell Telephone Strike.
 Six non union men were brought to the city yesterday to take the places of the union 1inemen of the Bell Tele- phone Company who are on strike. but did not go to work. and It is not be- lieved they will do so. The strikers captured them soon after arrival and during the afternoon and night several conferences were held between the new arrivals and the strikers with view to getting the former to leave the city. Another meeting was held this morn ing. and. as result. 1t Is believed the new men will refuse to go to work and return to Atlanta.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-10

Arthur Picard has returned to Bir nlinglaam after a short stay here.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-10

Miss Rosebud Land entertained d few friends tonight at bridge.
 Paul Stewart has gone to Eufaula on business,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-10

Colonel and Mrs. F. B. Merrill enter tained at a launch party this after noon complimentary to Miss Laura Hill of Montgomery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-10

Mrs. F.. W. Christian. Miss Mollie Thurber and Miss Helen Boone left last night for Union Springs to attend the State Convention of the U. D. c.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-10

Mrs, Burwell Boykin is in the city, enroute to Texas. She Is visiting Mrs Rives Boykin.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-11

ELLENSBURG, Wash, Jan. kit
- titas county, believing it has been
overlooked by the government
projectors of irrigation schemes, pre-
sents it's claims for consideration. A
letter under date of December 30, 1905,
has been sent to the secretary of the
interior, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, and
reads:
Esteemed Sir: With minds void of
the spirit of criticism and faultfnding,
the people of Kittitas wish at this time
briefly to express their sore disappoint-
ment in the trend of affairs respecting
the irrigation of arid lands in the sew
eral valleys of the Yakima river, and
to express with brief argument the
feeling that the claims of Kittitas val
ley have not been as carefully investi-
gated and presented as the situation
warrants.
This appeal to yourself, your associ
ates and assistants does not come from
wealthy corporation, but from the
people of an extremely fertile valley,
prosperous beyond average in portions
now we'll watered, and up to The pres
ent time encouraged and sustained by
the legitimate hope and expectancy
that the thousands of yet richer acr es
in the same tract shall be made fruit
full by waters easily conserved at its
borders.
The history of kittitas county has
been shaped and controlled by the
thought that the snow falling so abund-
antly in the hills of Kittitas county
should at some time be used to water
the arid lands of Kttitas county lying
Immediately adjacent. The thought
that this water, when conserved, will
be taken by our doors, to leave our val
ley largely desert, though fertile
land, without hope of betterment, is
little less than paralyzing to mind as
we'll as vested and prospected rights.
Based upon careful investigation
costing many thousand of dollars, we
have for many years looked to the ulti-
mate reclamation of this entire valley
and do now hold the belief that the
claims of kittitaS county for govern
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-11

year becoming more important. The
crop for 1905 is placed at 6,772, $50
bushels, as against 1924, 1913 in 1904,
and the 1905 crop is valued at So, 1885,
lO3, as against $2,5S3,S57 for 1904.
Washington ranks seventh among all
the states in barley production for 1905.
The average yield per acre was 40
bushels, this record being surpassed
only in Arizona.
The crop of potatoes in Washington
in 1905 is estimated at 4, $50, 25S bushels,
a record which is exceeded in only
three or four of the new states, and the
farm value of this crop is placed at So,
223,S79. The average yield of potatoes
in the state was larger than anywhere
else in the country except in Maine,
California, Colorado and Wyoming.
One of the most valuable crops in
the state this year was hay, the pro-
duction of which reached 9O6, PA tons,
valued on the farm at 49, 763,670. The
yield per acre is supposed to have av-
eraged 2.65 tons, as against an aver
age of LA tons for all the states and
territories.
The wheat crop, the chief figures for
which have been given, was divided as
follows for 1895: Winter wheat, ID,
545, 10 bushels: spring wheat, 1871,
100 hNShe1S The com hined crOD DutS
more than $2l 100000 into the pockets
of the farmers of Washington.
The estimated farm value of all prin-
cipal crops in the state for 1905, in
Guiding corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye.
potatoes and hay, is $39,070,111. These
figures of course do not represent the
proceeds of diversified or intensive
farming, in which there has been a
very great development during the last
few years.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-11
Manford L. Hicks Dead.

On good authority we are informed
that Nj. l.. Hicks, formerly of this city,
but more recently of Ashland Oregon.
died in that place, Jan. 4th of injuries
received from a falling tree. Mr..
Hicks came to the Sound country in
1859 and to this valley some twenty
five years ago. Age 66 years, he was
a good man, honored and esteemed by
all who knew him. Peace to his ashes.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-11
nTSCOURAGING as it may be and is
- to the real taxpayers OF the state,

nIsCOURAGING as it may be and is
to the real taxpayers OF the state,
the report of state auditor shows
that the state is not able to meet her
bill, in fact has big deficit on her hands.
This Shows deficit of more than
$4,000.
A telegram from Olymdia dated Feb.
10, says: 1.-The state auditors financial
report for the month of December gives
the receipts to the general fund at 1925,
5000, and expenditures at 1852, 43o. u.
December has been counted on as
one of the most heavy payments of
taxes. 1t was thought the payments
would Offset the deficiencies of previ-
Gus measures, but funds from this
source were but little more than 952,
600, and it is an Indication that the
number of taxpayers who waited until
November to pay the second half OF
their taxes was not large. 1t also in
dictates that the deficiencies in the gen.
eral fund will continue from month to
month until the large payments of
1906 taxes are received in cay.
The principal receipts came from
the following sources: State taxes
paid by the several counties, $52, 25S
So; tide land sales, $26, 554.3 liquor liz
censes, $37, 4l7.76; Inheritance taxes,
S2;741 10 secretary of states Office, 49,
1915.
The general fund shows an overdraft
on January 10, of $50, $3.50, an increase
of $4,000 in the one month. The ex-
penditures from special funds were
s32, 076.S9, and receipts $40, 36O.24.
The receipts were principally to the
current and permanent school funds.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-11
Salaries Raised.

The county commissioners at their
last meeting according to the census,
raised the salaries of the county officers
as follows: Clerk from 81, 800 to 81. 500:
sheriff from 81 500 to 100: Attorney
from 81, 900 to Sl,S00; treasurer from
81. 800 to So, 100: auditor from 81, 500 to
81, 700; assessor raised to ST., 200. Dep
uties, Crimp, Crowley and Mathews
each raised from $72 to so per month.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-11
On the City Of Puebla.

Z. c.. Pautzke and wife were passen-
gers on the City of Puebla, which was
adrift with a broken shaft for several
days on her voyage between Seattle
and San Francisco. Mr.. Pautzke is a
brother of O. w. PautZke. one of our
photographers, and in letter written
after disembarking, states that for a
couple OF days matters looked very
serious.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-11

THE state of Washington is making
1 record in crop productions that
the east looks at in amazement
but when the arid district becomes ir-
rigated, the great productions will,
when compared dwindle in to insig-
nifcance:
Last year, 1905, was fat for the wheat
farmers of Washington. The second
largest crop of wheat in the history OF
the state, and had the production been
only about 100000 bushels more, the
crop would have been twice as large as
that of two years ago. AS it was, the
1905 harvest was only a little smaller
than the bumper crop of 1901, when
virgin fields produced phenomenally
large acreage yield, and when the
grand total of 34,51S, 96S bushels were
harvested. Last years crop amounts
to 81, 5l6,SlO bushels, as against 81, 14O,
SOB bushels in the great year of 1904.
These figures are from the latest esti-
mates of the department of agriculture.
Other crops in the state last year
were very large, and are only less no.
table than that the wheat harvest be-
cause they constitute smaller total
value. The production of oats, for
instance, reached total of 1927, 900
bushels, as against 7,407, 1913 bushels in
1904 and 1895 S5 bushels in 1908.
The total farm value of the 1905 crop
of oats is estimated at $685. 70.
The state was again far in the lead
in the matter of high average yield of
oats per acre, the average being placed
by the government statisticians at fifty
bushels. The nearest approach to
enormous acreage yield was in Mon
tana, where the estimate is placed at
ALB bushels per acre. The yield in
Oregon was only 24.1 bushels, and the
average for the whole country was
only "a.
Washington is not one of the corn
states. but the estimated crop in the
state for 1905 is POI, 1868 bushels, or con.
.siderably larger than in 1904, when the
CROP amounted to 242 430 bushels.
The barley crop in the state is every
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-11

N. U. Blackmore shipped Silver
Laced Wyandotte c0ckerel and r. c.
White Leghorn cockerel to Tacoma
breeder Friday. Also 4 pullets and
one cockerel to Alfalfa.
The county assessors of the state
meet in annual session ia Olympia,
Jan. 10th, the meeting place being
changed from Walla Walla to Olym-
pia few days since.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-11
New Post Office.

The fixtures for the new postof1ice
are now here and w. O. Ames and
Frank Schorinan are putting the same
in place. The office will be moved as
soon as possible. The fixtures, boxes,
etc.. of the old office have been sold to
he used in the office at Kennewick.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-11
WHO THINK THE STATE OF WASHINGTON

Is a Sasebush Desert or a Barren Plain That
Produces Little More Than Seed Planted
surpassed in fertil Soil and Grain Produc-
auctions Many Of the Older States.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-11
WASHINGTON'S FARM
PRODUCTIONS FOR THE PAST
VOL. NH.

Year 1905, Were Amazing TO
Even the Greater Part Of our
Own Population to say Moth
ing the Surprise to the East
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-11
GOV. MEAD'S RETRENcn AND REFORM

Ideas May Accomplish Some Good But Its
Like Locking the Barn Door After the
Horse has Been Stolen-Reform Is Badly
Needed All Along down the Line.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-11
SHORT OF FUNDS
A BIG DEFICIT SHOWS UP IN
No.. z.

The State Funds With Situation
Growing More Serious Every
Day-Warrants Stamped mot
Paid for Want Of Funds"
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-11

Miss Mint has been a student and
teacher of art all her life and has
evolved from her difficulties as a stu.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-11
ASKS FOR FAIR PLAY
KITTITAS SEEKS HER RIGHTS

Demands that Part of Her Wa.
ter Supply Be Used at Home
and Gives Reasons Why This
Should be the Case.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-11

will come; quit, and I'll
for how are men viii
noncl tn kn0v WI, arg
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-11

storm, resulted in wholesale destruc.
ton of millions of dollars worth of fruit
and growing crOnS
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-11
FERTILE LANDS ARE WAITING FOR WATER

Secretary Hitchcock is Assigned Few Reas-
ons Why Investigation Should Be Made
Natural Reservoir Cost, Fertile Lands, Fine
Climate, ETC., Are Plainly Set Forth.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-11
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The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-11

Peterson, {
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The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-11

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The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-11

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The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-11

and fro, ct FIRST quite slowly, but grad
uslly Increasing in speed, continuing
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The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1906-01-11
X. TO III

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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-01-27
Couldn't MIX The BievcIc,

Some years ago, soon after BICYCLES
began to be freely used throughout the
United States, an agent for a New York
house turned TIP at a village in Central
New York. He expatiated to an old
farmer upon the virtues of the new ma
chine, dwelling upon what a time-saver
1t was, and withal how fashionable il
would be for the old farmer to be able
to ride down to the village on one of
the new-fangled machines whenever he
wanted to.
why" said the salesman, whenever
you go to the postoffice, bank, or store.
everybody will stop and stare at Farmer
Wilson, and pretty soon you'll be the
most-talkedof man in the whole colIn.
ty"
That may be so" replied the farmer
but | tell you I'm a-necdin' a good
new COW mon | am one O them things
you're a-talllin' about"
Nevertheless, the agent extracted a
promise that the old man would save
up his money and purchase a bicycle
when the agent came around in the fall
According to promise, the agent was
on hand in the fall with the wheel The
farmer took him in charge and carried
hum out to the lot and showed him a
fine Jersey COW.
That's what I bought with the money
| saved up for YOU said the farmer
And without waiting for the agent TO
recover from his surprise he went on
l. lowed that | needed the COW mon I
did the bicycle, an there she is. Amt
she a beaut?"
When the agent recovered his breath
he said: You'll look funny riding that
COW to town, won't your"
~, "Ya,as," drawled out the old farmer
'but Id look a darned sight funnier
tryin' to milk bicycle"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-01-27

l could not help thinking to myself
whether 1t might not be possible some
day or other to awaken the people of
he Mississippi valley to q realization
Of the fact that forestry is a problem
extending from New Orleans to the con-
tinental divide of the Rocky mountains
on the west, to Canada on the north
and to the crest of the Alleghanies on
the east, where the Ohio river has its
source; and that failure and destruC
ton are inevitable if it shall be eX-
pected in the years to come to control
that great flood by increasing the
leyees to protect the sugarbowl of the
nation. The time will come when they
cannot build them higher and the
country will revert to a swamp cOndi-
tion and be as desolate as it is today
where the st. Francis basin is covered
with water through which you may
look down and see the tops of trees
you going to prevent that2
This great problem of forestry, is
not alone a matter of sentiment. 1t
is just as much a cold blooded Ques-
ton of business The speakers who
preceded me have spoken upon the i'm
port8uce OF forestry to mining. ]
have listened with much interest to
their mastery discussion on the rela-
tion of forestry to mining and 1t
brought more torcihly than ever to my
mind the conviction that the whole
country and those engaged in all its
industries are fast coming to recog-
nize the Importance of forestry. 1
regret that we cannot include the
lower house of congress. They do not
seem to have yet walked up to It,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-01-27
The Government Printing office
The Largest Print Shop in
the World.
Charles A. Stillings, the New
y Public Printer.

surrounded himself in the administra-
ton Of the Government affairs. He re-
ceived his education in the Phillips
Grammar School and the English High
School at Boston. After leaving school
he entered his fathers printing Office,
where he received varied and thor
ough experience in all branches of the
trade, finally working up to the posi-
ton Of general manager and later be-
coming sales manager of the Griffith
Stillings Press, an organization which
took over the business formerly con-
Quoted by Mr.. Stillings, Sr.
In all Of Mr. Stillings' transactions
he has shown an unusual aptitude for
organization, and, possessing marked
degree of personal magnetism has
drawn into close friendship with
himself many men Of dignity and posi-
ton. Mr.. Stillings is Mason. having
attained the honors of the thirty.sec.
ond degree of the Scottish Rite, and is
also Mystic Shriner.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1906-01-27
Revolutionary Russia.

Like the Stuarts of Great Britain
and the Bourbons of France, the
reigning dynasty of Russia goes from
bunder to blunder. Such a revolution
as is in progress throughout Euro
mean Russia cannot be suppressed by
the sword. The thing to have done
was to make concessions to the spirit
of liberty when the agitation began.
Grants that would have been
hailed as liberal a year ago would be
rejected with scorn to-day as wholly
insufficient.
The revolution is strikingly like that
of France, and there will be no stop
| ping It, The proletariat has fought
and tasted blood. Suppose they sup
press the revolt in Moscow? 1t will
break out at some other point--in Po'
land, or Lithuania, or Finland, or
elsewhere between the Baltic and the
Black seas. The army will be kept on
the jump, and its loyalty put to the SUI
premest test. Then, when order has
been shot into the nation, and reigns
everywhere as it once did at Warsaw,
the revolution will break out afresh in
Moscow or somewhere else, and it will
all have to be done over again.
Before the thing is finished, Russia
will be a republic; not free republic,
but a revolutionary republic guided by
a Cromwell or a Napoleon. And if such
ighryLb be her destiny, she will be q
,Ely customer in a quarrel with
iddle of the sevent9e England was in the
France was at the close n century, Jus'
nth century. IT the elght
For full 100 years republicanism
IS been driving autocracy to the wall
Europe. France is a pretty good re-
Iblic and getting better every day.
le Kaiser of the great German En-.
re- has in the Reichstag a partner in
e government, ofttimes a very med
esome and q very obstinate partner
that The CorteZ holds the purse of
ain, and Italy is a constitutional
lnarchy, Austria-Hungary has a leg.
allure, and the Scandinavian PEG.
IS have enjoyed liberty for ages.
Russia is rousing from the slumber Of
lturies and she cannot be put to
ep again. There will be battle and
'od and terror, but it will end in a
)ublic-at least, in a legislature
d then Russia will begin the new
son Of learning what liberty is md
lat to do with it.