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Washington State journal and Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-05
WORK OF ARMED Mob.
BURNED TOBACCO PLANTS AT
PRINCETON, KENTUCKY.
Loss Is Estimated at ,00O-Mob
Numbered About 800 Men-Seized
I'd Disarmed Night Waterman,
Then Applied the Torch-Forced
Firemen Away.

Louisville, KY, Dec. ga special
from Princeton, KY, says: The to.
bacco stemmeries Of John Steger and
John G. Orr, the latter contro led by
the Imperial To.acco company of New
York, were destroyed by a fire, kindled
by mob of masked men. The loss
is estimated at $4,000
The mob, which numbered about 800
men. entered Princeton between one
and two O'Clock, seized the night mar
shall and disarmed him. They then
went to the factory and quickly ap-
piled the torch.
The masked men stood on guard,
permitting nobody to come near while
the buildings were enveloped in flames
and help was useless. A squad of the
mob took charge of the telephone Of
fee and no word of the affair was per.
mitted to go out.
When the mob saw that the fire was
beyond control they left the town, go.
ing in the direction of Hopkinsville
discharging revolvers and rifles as
they departed. When the fire depart.
ment arrived 1t could do nothing more
than prevent the fire from destroying
buildings in the vicinity. The Steger
stemmery was located on the south
side of town on the Illinois Central
railroad and the Orr building in the
northern part Of town.
The Steger factory is controlled by
the American Snuff company and Mr..
Steger is the Princeton agent for that
concern. Mr.. Orr is the agent of the
Imperial company. There were about
100000 pounds OF tobacco in each
warehouse and all of it was burned.
The mob, in addition to disarming
the night policeman, took charge of
the station and the waterworks. Even
had the fire company responded they
could not have obtained water.
The work Of the mob is believed to
be only furtherance Of the agita-
ton by the tobacco raisers against
the tobacco trust. The organization
of farmers Is known as the Dark To.
Washington State journal and Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-05
Railroads Must Obey Law.

Washington. Dec. 5.-Attorney Gen.
eral Moody has decided that more
suits will be brought against score
of railroad companies to recoer pen
alties for violation Of the safety appli-
ance law. through failure to keep their
equipment in proper condition. The
largest number Of violations attributed
to any one road is 80, against the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul; 20 being
in the northern district of Illinois and
six in the eastern district of Wiscon-
sin.
Washington State journal and Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-05
Internal Revenue GROWING.

The annual report of the commits
sioner of internal revenue, John w.
Yerkes, for the past fiscal year, shows
total receipts of $249, 1O2,73S, an ex.
cess Of $4,914,762 over the preceding
year.
The commissioner recommends a
charge of 20 cents for each stamp
issued to rectifiers or wholesale liquor
dealers for use on packages prepared
and sent out by them and a charge of
25 cents a gallon on all brandy with
drawn for fertilization purposes.
Washington State journal and Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-05
G0LDOUTPUT OF U.s.
GREAT ADVANCEMENT MADE
In WESTERN STATES.
Alaska, Colorado and Nevada Show
Largest Gains-Nearly Four Hun
dred Million in Gold Produced in
the States Of the Union-Statistics
From Other Countries.

The bureau Of the mint and the geo.
logical survey which are cooperating
in determining the annual production
Of gold and silver in the United States,
have agreed upon a tabulated state.
ment OF the output of states and terri.
tories for the calendar year 1905.
The most important changes in gold
production are shown by Alaska,
which advances from SO, 100, 500 in 1904
to $14,925,60 in 1905. Colorado shows
an increase from 1924, 1856, 800 in 1904 to
S25, 701 100 in 1905, due to freedom
from labor troubles. Nevada shows a
gain from $4,3O7,sOO in 1904 to $685..
100 in 1905, and gain in silver from
2,695,1 100 to $500, 500 ounces.
The director of the mint says that
Nevada will show for 1906 a much
larger gain in both gold and silver,
and that the state will likely make a
contest for first place as a producer
Of the various previous metal. The to.
tai output of silver Is about 1900, 900
ounces under that of the previous
year, the three heaviest producers,
Montana, Colorado and Utah, showing
decline. Washington produced 1870.
900 gold and 119,400 ounces of silver
Idaho produced $1.075,60O gold and g..
125,600 ounces of silver. Oregon's gold
output was $1,244,00O and Montana pro.
duced $4,Ss9,300 gold and $685.
ounces silver.
The total number of ounces Of gold
produced was 4.265,742, and the com.
mercial value Of the silver produced
was $34,221,976.
The director of the mint has also
completed a compilation of returns
upon the production of gold and silver
in the world for the calendar year
1905.
The totals are $376,2S9, 200 gold and
157 ,339,362 ounces of silver.
Commenting on these figures, the d.
rector says:
The total figures compare with a
gold output of $346, 1885,, 200 in 1904, and
silver output of 16S,390,238 fine
ounces. The important gains in gold
production were $7,716,O00 by the Unit.
ed States, $27.415200 by Africa and
$2,655,900 by Mexico. Losses in gold
production were $1,913.000 by Canada,
81, $4,000 by Australasia, 1851 400 by
Russia. All of the principal silver-pro-
ducing countries showed a falling off
in the output of that metal compared
with the previous year, the United
States of 100000 ounces, Mexico of
6,156,000 ounces, Australasia 100000
ounces, South America of 1,742,00O
ounces and Japan of nearly 1000. 900
ounces. The average value Of silver
in New York, based on London prices,
converted at the current rates of ex-
change, was 81 cents per fine ounce,
which may be compared with So cents
for 1904, 81 cents for 1903 and So
cents for 1902, the lowest years price
on record.
The United States produced $780,
700 gold and 56,1O1. 900 ounces silver.
Mexico produced $15,261,200 gold
and 54,652,S92 ounces silver.
Canada produced $14.4S6,SOO gold
and s5.974,s75 ounces silver.
Africa produced $113,329, 100 gold
and 619,620 ounces silver.
Washington State journal and Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-05
May Be the Tomb of Cicero,

Naples, Italy, Dec. 3.-What would
appear to be a most important arch.
aelogical discovery has been made
at Formaie, near which place Cicero
was assassinated 20 centuries ago.
This discovery consists Of remains
which are thought to be the tomb Of
the great orator.
Washington State journal and Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-05
Famous Indian Woman Dies.

Tacoma, Wash.-A report from the
Quinault Indian reservation states
that grandma" Mason, mother Of old
Chief Mason, of the Quinault Indians
Is dead, at the age Of 119 years. She
was buried with the ceremony Of the
Shaker religion. This woman was the
oldest of the tribe. and from her was
handed down much of the history OF
the tribe.
Washington State journal and Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-05
China's Trade SIackens.

The tea and silk trades of China are
in bad way, and there is no use on
the part of the government to longer
attempt to disguise this fact. In 1864
the silk represented SO per cent of
the exports of the empire. Now they
account for only As per cent. The
commissioner Of customs at Canton is
authority for the statement that the
tea industry seems doomed.
Washington State journal and Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-05
Black Patti Expires.

Philadelphia, Dec. 4.-Flora Eaton
known on the concert stage as the
"Plack Patti" died suddenly in this
CITY Sunday of uremia. Although only
about IS years old she had acquired
considerable renown as singer, not
only in this country but in Europe.
Washington State journal and Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-05
Crapsey's Adieu to Pulpit.

Rochester, N. Y, Dec. 3.-Dr. Al
gernon S. Crapsey preached his fare
well sermon at st. Andrews church
Sunday morning. The church was
crowded, many of his parishioners
were deeply affected. Or. Crapsey
made no reference to his L. oarture
from the ministry.
Washington State journal and Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-05
SPOKANE


cwt; tomatoes, SOC crate; huckleber-
ries, IL 1-2c; cranberries, $11@12 Dbl;
potatoes, $4,000 cwt; turnips, $1.25-
cwt; onions, $1.25@1.50 cwt; carrots,
75c@$1 cwt; cauliHower, $102 doz;
horseradish, 10@12 lie Id; beets, 10
$1.5O ,cwt; celery, $4,000 doz; hot
house lettuce. 15c; rutaDegas, 81 per
cwt; parsnips. $1.25 cwt; pumpkins, 81
@1.25 per doz; squashes. 75c@1.25.
per doz.
Apples-Cooking, 75c@$1 box; JON
athan, $3.50; Rome Beauties, $1@1.50;
Baldwins, $1@1.50 per box; pears
$1.20@1.50 per box.
Nuts-English walnuts, 17@17 1-2c;
lib; almonds. 21c lb; pecans, 23c Id;
chestnuts, zoe Id; black walnuts, Sc
Id; hickory nuts, Sc lib; soft shell hick-
DRY nuts, 15c Id.
Grapes-Muscats, $1.S5 crate; To-
kays, s1.S5; Cornichons, $1.S5.
Oranges-$4@5 box; lemons, fancy.
$7.O0@775 case; dried figs, S0@90c 10
lib box; figs in bulg, 7c lb; black figs,
10 lb package. 90c; Fard dates. 9@10c
Id; golden dates. s@sc ID; bananas,
$2.75@3.25 bunch, raisins, fancy, H.
1-2c; raisins, bulk, 9 1-2c lb; curra ats,
IL 1-2c ID.
Butter and Eggs-Local eggs. $3.50
OF; eastern eggs. 81; best creamery
butter, 3Sc ID; cheese. twins, 15c Id;
Wisconsin loaf Swiss, 18c Id; limburg-
er bricks. tic lb; cream brick, 1885,
Wisconsin twins, 16 1-2c lb; Tillamook,
16 lie Id.
Honey-$3.5O; strained honey, 1Oc.
lib.
Sugar-$5.65 per 100 lbs; beet, $5.45-
Coffee-Common package goods,
$17.25 per 100 lbs.
Seed-Alfalfa, $14.50 cwt; red clo--
yer. $14.50@15; Kentucky bluegrass.
$16@16.50 cwt; timothy, $5.50@S cwt;
white clover. $1701s.5O.
Wholesale Meat Prices.
Beef-Steers. dressed, SOS 1-2c lb;
cows. dressed. 4@4 1-2c lb; mutton,
dressed. &c lib; pork, lie lib; hams,
Is 3-4c lb; bacon. 16 lac Id; lard, IL
1902 1-2c lib; dry salt extras. $11.25,
cwt; dry salt backs. $12@12.5o cwt;
veal, fancy small, 6 1907 lie; veal.
fancy large. S 1900 Id; smoked SAL
mon, 15c ID.
Wholesale Feed Prices.
Bran, $14 ton; bran and shorts, SIS
ton; white shorts. SIS ton; corn. $3.50
cwt; cracked corn, $1.40 cwt; timothy
hay. $40 ton; alfalfa, $14 ton; rolled(
barley, $1.15 cwt; new oats. $3.50 cwt;
chopped oats. $1.40 cwt; wheat, SO
ITO cwt; red shorts. SIC ton; grain
hay, $14 ton.
Prices Paid to Producers.
Dressed Meats-Mutton. &C lib: veal.
fancy small No. 1. 70sc lb; fancy
large, 5Q6c Id; pork. 10c ID.
Poultry and eggs-Live hens, lac;
live spring chickens. 11@12c; live
ROSTERS. 12c; dressed hens, 14c:
ducks. 12c; turkeys. live, 1sc; dressed,
zoe; fresh ranch eggs, $3.50 case.
Hides-Green steers, Sc Id; cows, Sc
lb; sailed, 1c higher; dry hides. 14@
15c; calf skins, green, 1oc Id; kip, Sc
ID; skeepskins. $101.25.
Creamery produce, (. O. b. Spokane
First grade creamery butter fat, 29c.
Feed-Timothy hay, $17@1S ton; al
falfa hay, $10.5O@11 ton; oats. $40
LIS cwt.
Vegetables-Apples, 75c@$1 box;
beets, 75c@$1 cwt; potatoes, 75c cwt;
cabbage, s1@1.25 cwt; onions, SIPS.
cwt.
Wheat Report.
portland-Club 64c. hluestem 66c.
red, 61662c; valley, 66@67c.
Tacoma-Unchanged; bluestem, ESQ.,;
club, 66c; red. Gao.
Washington State journal and Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-05
RECEPTION FOR AMER.
Chief Of India to Give Welcome
Ruler Of Afqhanistan.

6U'S' Vt V'9''o''oSd''
Simla.-About 20 of the ruling chiefs
will assemble at Agra in January in
honor Of the visit of tho ameer of
Afghanistan. The program will include
the state meeting OF the viceroy with
the ameer, military review. the hold
ing of a chapter Of Indian orders, a
vice regal garden party and a recep-
ton, fireworks and state dinners. Two
extensive visitors camps are being ar.
ranged.
New-York tribune., 1906-05-20
TYPOGRAPHICAL MISTAKES

hflSIAkES in punctuation have often led
lsI to ridiculous blunders. Sometime ago.
in an article telling of the opening of a new
hospital in New York, the writer was made TO
state that, ." An extensive view IS presented
from the fourth story of the Hudson River"
The omission of comma in a paper an
nouncing the death of famous man made the
sentence read: His remains were committed
to that bourne whence no traveller returns
attended by his friends"
The reputation of DR.. Pond, an eminent
theologian, was nearly ruined, back in the
sos by typographical error A paper came
out with an account telling how the divine
had given a series of lectures in Bangor. Maine
to the effect that theology was no science and
that there was no truth in it whatever. The
world rose in arms, and the unfortunate Pond
was heaped with abuse as being gross infidel
In time the paper in which the first account
appeared printed a paragraph acknowledging
that the excitement was all caused bv a tVpo-
graphical mistake the type-setter having used
the word theology instead of phrenologv
a few years ago a paper informed the public
that a man had been brought before a maqis-
trate for having stolen a small OK (box) from
a wOman's handbag, and Western paper told
OF how rat (raiD, descending the river came IN
contact with a steamboat and, crushing IN its
bow, injured several people
Another New York paper intended to tell
New-York tribune., 1906-05-20

of a celebrated man who had begun practice as
legal practitioner, but had been diverted
from it by his love of letters The proof
readers were careless, and the article appeared
IN the morning follows 80 He began life
as a legal politician, but was diverted from it
by his love for bitterS"
All errors OF the press have not been free
from malice, however, and when a man named
Hughes who was exceedingly unpopular and
not over-intelligeut, was married 10 a woman a
little his inferior intellectuallv it was an oppor-
tunlty not TO be resisted by the boys in the
prlntlng-ofice. In those DAYS it was custom
airy to send marriage notices To all the papers
and to tack on a few lines of sentimental verse
at the end. Accordingly. Hughes selected
the following line from one of the poets
and sent 1t along with his weddng-notice
hen heart meets heart reCiprocallv soft"
The following day when the paper came out
the line read; When head meets head re-
Ciprocally soft"
An edition of the Roman Catholic Missal
was printed in France. in which the accidental
substitution of the letter for changed the
sense OF the text entirely and gave the sentence
a ludicrous meaning. The bunder changed
the word Cdl0nc Tan ecclesiastical cap) into
cHIoh6, which means a mans trousers. Strange
ly enough, the error occurred in one of the
directions for the service, where IT said:
Here the priest shall take of his cMl0tte"
New-York tribune., 1906-05-20


dred and fifty sheep, eight hundred turkeys,
three thousand chickens, one thousand par
tridges besides thousands Of pounds OF other
kinds of food and drank ten thousand gallons
of wine, and twenty thousand bottles OF Macon.
The feast given at the coronation OF Emperor
Nicholas of Russia in 1920 lasted eight days
and one of the most costly and elegant
on record. About two hundred thousand
persons were served
The dishes and dinners of barbarous people
differ materially from those served 10 the
delicate epicures of civilized nations For in
stance. the natives of the South Sea Islands
are fond of sharks. Cooked as we cook most
of our fish, the flesh of the shark IS positively
inedible being so tough and stringy. but
the South Sea Islanders have a way of pre-
pairing IT that makes it a palatable dish. They
cut the fish into pieces parbOll It, knead It
with their hands and then cook it in bread
crumbs.
In South Africa the flesh Of the hippopot-
anus is eaten with relish. 1t tastes much
like our beef, and unless man knew what he
eating he would think he was putting
away portion of prize OK.
The Hottentots eat Camel's flesh, and the
gorge themselves on the leather-like meat Of
the elephant. Porcupines and hedgehOgs made
into pie or roasted are really an excellent dish
Dinner 70 a Dead King
DERHAPS the most unusual dinner on record
corpse of Francis | of France at the house Of
the Archbishop of Paris. When Francis died in
I547 his body was kept in an abbey for SIX
weeks, and then taken 70 the home of the
Archbishop at Saint Cloud Here a wax dupli-
cate of the King lying. The dead King
was placed on a couch Of rich red satin, about
which were constantly grouped numerous
priests, whose duty it was to offer up prayers
for the dead monarch. In the adjoining
chamber lay the effigy IN wax. II was attired
in the most gorgeous apparel and every
thing that could lend solemn glory TO the
scene was displayed. On the head of the
duplicate sat the crown of France, and a host
of guards, sentinels, prelates, and mobiles moved
gaily about the chamber; for it was the last
festlvity to the dead King. The royal dinner
table was laid at the side of the bed, cardinal
blessed the viands and other mobiles served
the wax effigy with food After the repaSt
was over a knight wiped the wax lips Of the
similitude of the defunct King. All these
things were performed amid a deathlike
silence, and the room was lit only by funeral
torches.
One of the largest banquets. as far as num-
bers go. was held in Paris last autumn. Over
fifty thousand persons sat together at an
enormous dinner given in the Galerie DIES
Machines. At this feast. which was the largest
of modern, if not of ancient, times, the meats
alone which were consumed weighed almost
seventy tons.
New-York tribune., 1906-05-20

FOR dishes and feasts the world always has
l. time. New dishes still being in
vented, and banquets large, small, strange,
and conventional, are still held. The greatest
pride has always been taken by the cook in
his art. The ancient cooks had only a small
variety of dishes, however, and it was not until
about 1880 that French cookery began its
evolution. At that time mobiles of both sexes,
and even Kings and Queens, began to vie
with each other in devising delicate dishes.
So keen was the competition that duels were
frequently fought between men who both
claimed to have invented the same dish
Among famous royal cooks We're Charles w.
of France and Henry " Cardinal Richelieu
was lover of fine victuals.
Tons at This Banquet
During the reign of Louis NV, cookery
made rapid advancement toward excel
lenCe. This monarch was an epicure of no mean
taste, and the French court was noted for its
sumptuOuS repaStS. In the following TeignS of
Louis XIV. and XVI French culinary art was
at its zenith, and the famous dishes named
Ia COHde, la COHti, and S0nbise originated
at that time.
One of the great banquets of the seventeenth
century was that given to Louis Nv. by the
Duke of Orleans
At this feast, which was attended by the
majority of the leading nobility of France,
expense was not spared, and eighteen hundred
pounds of beef and mutton were cooked and
consumed. Besides this, three thousand
pounds of ham was used. and ten thousand
pounds of bacon and lard, fourteen thousand
pounds of fish, thirty-six thousand eggs, sixty
six hundred pounds of butter one hundred and
fifty thousand pounds of bread. eighty thou
sand bottles of wine, twenty thousand bottles
of UiH OrdiHdfYe, eight hundred bottles of
Rhine wine fourteen hundred bottles of cider,
three thousand bottles of cordial, eight thou
sand pounds of sugar, two thousand pounds
of coffee fifteen hundred pounds of chocolate,
eighty pounds of tea, sixty-five thousand
oranges and lemons. fifteen hundred pounds
of sweetmeats fifteen thousand pears and
apples, and two thousand sugar-pluns. In
other words. food sufficient to supply an
average community for a year or more was
served to the courtiers of the French King at
one meal Four hundred special cooks were
employed to prepare this banquet, and it took
them two weeks to do it.
Napoleon as a Diner
NAPOLEON, though not gastronomer, gave
many grand dinners. On the event of his
marriage with Maria Louisa in 1870 he gave
a banquet to three thousand people, and a
year later was the host at another one in
honor of the birth of the King of Rome
Talleyrand the diplomat was also famous
for his dinners, and even surpassed Napoleon
in this respect.
After the fall of Napoleon Louis XVIII.
gave the allies numerous banquets. At one
of these one hundred cooks were employed
for ten days getting things in readiness. They
New-York tribune., 1906-05-20
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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-11-28
Card of Thanks.

;Mr. Editor Please allow me
space in your columns to express
thanks to the relatives and friends
of my deceased husband who so
kindly administered to him dur
ing his short but painful illness.
I Shall ever feel verf grateful aud
remember them il my PRAYERS.
After a sweet union Of nearly
twenty-five yeara, the great Crea-
tor taw Fl to call him to bat hap
py home above, and now while
my heart is all lacerated, torn.
and bleeding with sorrow aud
grief, the dark clouds Of despair
hover around me and everything
seems SO sad, yet [ can lcok to
God and say thou art q just God
and doeth all things for the best.
Some day may all of this cloud of
sadness be removed and NAV we
meet around Jesus throne there
to live and bo reunited for ever
and ever, is my humble prayer.
Mrs. N. G. Mayson.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-11-28
Fortunate Mlssourians. {.

"W aen I was druggist, at Iii
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now Of Graysvil!e, Mo-, "three
of my customers were permanent
ly cured of consumption by DR..
Kings New Discovery, aud are
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trying to sell his property and
move to Arizona, but after using
New Discovery q short time ht
found il unnecessary 10 do SO. ]
regard DR.. Kings New Discovery
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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-11-28
In Time Of Peace.

In the first months of the Rus
sia-Japan war we had striking
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preparation and the early advan-
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shave shingled their roofs in dry
weather." The virtue Of this prepa-
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to our greatest men. The inaivid-
ual as we'll as the nation should
be prepared for any emergency.
Are you prepared to successfully
com bat the first cold you tase? A
cold can be cured much more
quickly when treated as soon as it
has beeu contracted and before
it has become settled IN the sys-
tenn. Chamberlaiu's Cough Rene
DIV is famous fo~ its cures of colds
and it should be kept at hand
ready for instant use. Sold hy G,
L. Penn & Son.