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The newspaper., 1907-01-04

The quality of the goods and the
price is what draws the trade for
WooD's GROCERY AND BAKERY.
The newspaper., 1907-01-04
LOCAL ITEMS.

w. H. Garvin's new residence
is very nearly completed.
The newspaper., 1907-01-04

PICKLES! Sweet, Sour and Dill,
also the best Sauer Kraut you ever
ate, at the Paonia Meat Market.
The newspaper., 1907-01-04

Arthur Cline is back in the
Colorado Telephone Office after a
weeks vacation.
The newspaper., 1907-01-04

Miss Aza and Geo. Wyman
spent several days in Denver last
week.
The newspaper., 1907-01-04

Two children of James Smith
were down from Somerset Wed.
nesday.
The newspaper., 1907-01-04
USEFUL INFORMATION
Trains and Mails

Regular Passenger train arrives from east
at 6:1O p. M. departs for west Mt $40 n. IN.
Mails close at 7:45 Il. m.
The newspaper., 1907-01-04
Societies.

49,. PAONIA LODGE No. 1872. ]. o.
sNN9S q. i. meets every Thursday night
SSiI}sSssse ia Odd Fellows hall. Visiting
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F~isherman's Luck.

"Perhaps my most amusing fishing
experience in Italy was during a week
in Naples" says the author of "The
Salt of My Life" and gives the story
in these words:
Toward sunset one afternoon I
was strolling toward my hotel along
the parade, when I came across a
ragged sportsman angling with a very
long bamboo from the pavement. He
looked a merry sight, and I seated
myself on the parapet beside him.
We were soon deep in as comfortable
a conversation as is a%ttainable be-
tween broken Tuscan and pure Nea-
politan. We discussed rods, and I
asked him to let me feel the weight
Of his, which must have been thirty
feet long. With native courtesy he
handed it to me as If it were mine,
and no sooner was it in my hands
than down went the top, and I vas in
a good fish, which circled in vain on
the unyielding line, and I soo raised
a black sea-bream of probably three
pounds.
~Of a certainty none of his other
fish weighed more than as many
ounces. He was too amazed to do
more than stammer his thanks, and
as I turned away I fancy that he
crossed himself, regarding the black
Dream as the fruit of black magic"
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AUTO CRASH KILLS THREE
Charles ]. Root, of Bristol Conn, q
Millionaire Manufacturer, Dead.
Young Niece Falls Heir to a Fortune
Miss Root Fatally
- : Injured.

o., 10. r "
Great Darlington, Mass.-The au.
tomobile tragedy nea Ashley Falls,
in which Charles J. Root, the Bristol
millionaire, his mother and aunt were
instantly killed and his sister fatally
hurt, has made an heiress of Miss
Katherine Root, the millionaire's
fourteen-year-old niece. Mr.. Root
wassgreatly attached to his niece. His
wifekdied years ago and the niece
lived With her uncle.
A few days before the accident
Mr.. Root made his will, giving all but
$4,000 Of his estate to Miss Kath.
crime. 1t is estimated that her share
will be considerable more than ST..
100000. 1t is a singular fact that
the young girl who thus comes into
this large inheritance is the only one
OF the automobile party who will sur.
vtve. The accident wipes out the en-
tire family, with the exception of the
niece. Miss Mary B. Root, sister of
/, the millionaire, is fatally injured.
Katherine Root, fully recovered
lrom Iue eueCCS VI Tue re-
turned to her home in Bristol. She
said she did not believe her uncle was
racing with the New York, New
Haven and Hartford express that the
automobile hit. Her uncle, she de-
clared, was running a little ahead. of
the train, and she does not think he
saw it. Being deaf, he could Lot hear
the noise. His niece said the whirr
Of the automobile prevented her hear
ing the trains approach.
Her. uncle steered, the machine to
cross the railroad track, she said, not
knowing that the express was'directly
upon him. Miss Root tainted from
fright and recalls nothing Of the &C
cident. When she recovered her
senses she was being taken from the
side Of the track. F.,,..t.r.
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An Underground City.

In Galicia, in Austrian Poland,
there is a remarkable underground
city, which has a population of over
1000 men, women and children.
scores of whom have never seen the
light of day. 1t is known as the "City
Of Salt Mines" and is situated sew.
eral hundred feet below the earth's
surface. It has its town hall, theatre
and assembly room, as well as a beau
tiful church, decorated with statues.
all being fashioned from the pure
erystallized rock salt. 1t has we'll
graded streets and spacious squares,
lighted with electricity. There are
numerous instances in this under
ground city where not a single indi-
yidual in three or four successive gen.
erations has ever seen the sun, or has
any idea of how people live in the
light of day.
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" NE VS.
WASHINGTON.

A stakeholder Of the Louisiana and
Missouri River Railroad asked the n
terstate Commission to force the AL
ton, which controls, it, to make an &C
counting.
The Government is considering the
turning over of the coast defense to
the marines.
Acknowledgement Bonaparte de-
c1ared that the criminal prosecution
Of rich men or corporations, wilfuI
violators of the law on a great scale,
was precisely what he intended to
bring about.
Speaker Cannon, interviewed in
Washington, was emphatic in favor OF
the b%attleship cruise to the Pacific.
B. F. Peters, for many years past.
the chief clerk Of the Navy Depart
ment, died at his home of tuberculo-
sis. He was ffty-four years old. His
wife died three weeks before.
Charged with running down Mrs.
Mary Chase with his automobile, Rog-
or Wetmore, son Of the United States
Senator, was arrested.
Washington officials expressed the
opinion that the yellow fever epidemic
in %Cienfuegos, Cuba, would be easily
controlled.
Chaplain Harry w. Jones, U. 8. NJ,
has been found guilty Of several vio-
lations Of the neutrality-suspicious. by a
court-martial in Norfolk, Va, and
sentenced to dismissal from the serv-
ice. "
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Misses Fancy Blouse.

Such a fancy blouse as this n has
almost innumerable uses. 1t is en-
inently girlish and youthful in effect,
It can be utilized either with skirt
to match or as a separate waist, and
again the garniture can be made to
match the skirt or Of lace or of the
trimming material, the blouse be-
meath being of lace or in lingerie
style. AS shown, however, the over
blouse or garniturei is made OF tmi-
tation Irish crochet and is edged
with pale green velvet banding, while
the blouse is Of a pretty simple net
that matches the skirt. The droop-
ing shoulders give the broad shoulder
line which is fashionable, and which
is always becoming to girlish cures,
while the sleeves of the guimpe are
charming under them. Almost mum.
berless suggestions might be made as
to material and combinations. At
the present moment pretty simple
silks, yelling and the like are much
in demand, and any one Of these a
be made with skirt and garniture to
match while the gufmpe is Of muslin
or of lace and a little later such a
garniture as this cut from heavy
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OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.

Cubans, were happy at the dispersal
Of armed bands by Government forces.
Private Roland Sheppard, of the
Hospital Corps Of the American Army,
died from yellow fever at the Military
Hospital at Cienfuegos, Cuba
The resignation Of Governor Geo.
r. Carter, of; Hawaii, sent to Presi-
dent Roosevelt about six weeks ago,
has taken effect. His successor, W. F.
Frear, Chief Justice Vof the Supreme.
Court of Hawaii, entered upon his du-
ties as Chief Executive Of the islands.
The records of the Manila Bureau
Of Health show that for six months
not a contagious disease has been in
evidence a record not known to have
been equalled in the history of the
Islands. =, : .
Oscar 8. Straus, Secretary of Com
MERGE and Labor, and X. Ishii, direa-
tor of the Bureau of Commerce OF the
Japanese Foreign Office, sailed from
Honolulu for San Francisco on the
steamship Asia.
Army officers in Cuba are trying to
exterminate mosquitoes in an effort
to check the spread of yellow fever.
The Royal Bank, of Canada began
business at San Juan, Porto Rico.
This is the sixth bank started in San
Juan since the American occupation.
An armed band at klquizar, Cuba,
stole a horse and saddle belonging to
Alexandra Planas. Later they re-
turned the horse with this inscription
on his rump in paint: HE can't ira
vel" '.., '
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COST OF POLICE.
1t Totals Over Five Million Sterling
For England and Wales.

4. ' 49, e. 4. p
1t costs just under 5,75O,O00 sterl-
ing to maintain for a year the $4,000
police who guard the interests Of
citizens of England and Wales,
s4,195,000 being absorbed i'll salaries
and pay. The most expensive of all
the forces in proportion to its size is
the City Of London, in which the cost
Of the individual constable works
out to s112 a year. This leaves a
considerable margin over the s93
which is the average Of the pro-
vincial forces, and is even appreciably
higher than the upkeep of a con-
stable in the metropolitan force,
which is s1O5.
There are in the city 1,006 police
men Of all ranks, and as the popu-
lation is only 1928, every twenty
seven inhabitants can claim to have
a constable to themselves. The
calculation is, of course, somewhat
illusory, for the census is taken at
night, and when Suburbia pours its
thousands into the city streets in the
early working hours OF the morning
the police are quickly lost in the
throng. The same destructive facto-
does not apply to a similar calcula-
ton in regard to other areas, and &C
cording to a Blue. Book issued re-
Gently, from which these figures are
taken, there was q constable for
every 470'people residing in the Met.
ropolitan district and one for every
942 persons on the average Of the
rest Of England and Wales. Since
1905 there has been a total addition
of some 900 men to the police forces
Of the country, while in twenty-five
years the strength has risen from
10000 to 46,000-an increase Of
Dver fifty per cent.-Tit Bits.
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never come to we to asst We to teach
me sh%epherdin'. An We couldn't ha'
taught me if I 'ad, I doubt. sent
FIR We to make MT place fit an right.
not to rob me O. me thatch, an splle
me walls an mess mt ceilin', an &C
a-spyin' in me scullery an me bed
room. An I'm tellin' ye to go quick,
fore l."
Don't get excited, Father Will
iam," said the agent, closing his book
with a bang and picking up his hat.
I'm not going to stay. Good day"
So saying, he turned to the door.
mounted the dogcart and drove away.
AN right glad I am ye're goin',"
remarked Father William, following
him into the road. TIL fool" he
added, as the agent drove off. Fan
cy SIGH as e earnin' a good Twin!
Lord he concluded, turning to me,
seems now I'm in me nineties there
amt nothin' but fools in tn parish.
'Cept rogues," he added. as an after
thought, glancing to where my hedge
screened the garden.-London
Sketch.
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The New Style.

In order that the young man may
know what is coming to him when
he asks a girl to marry him, we
quote the following acceptance from
a popular novel:
"She put her fower-like face to
mine.
my first thought Of you and my
last are the same, beloved she an
swered, and the thought is this
that you have a heart for whose
belated waking queens might keep
vigil"
Does a man, in addition to the
contract to buy a Woman's clothes
and groceries for the rest of her
life, have to stand for something like
this?-Atchison Globe.
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Concrete in Steamer Repairs.

A British trade newspaper states
that concrete has come into use in
connection with steamship repairs.
The Iron S-e declares that it was sue
cessfully employed to patch up the
hull of a steamer. She struck on a
Jagged rock, and several holes were
made in the iron hull Of the vessel.
The largest one was about eighty
feet from the bow, and it measured
about thirty-fve feet in each direc-
ton, and through this great gap came
the rock, projecting for nealy eleven
feet into the. hold. Those responsible
for the salvage operations managed
to patch up the breach by means of
concrete. and although leaks devel-
oped, the water was pumped out of
the hold and ship was towed forty
miles to a drydock.
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MARKETING WESTERN FRUIT.
Shipments Directed by Wire to Point
of Greatest Demand.

of Greatest Demand.
Until 1898 California fruits were
sold through commission merchants,
to whom the individual growers con-
signed their entire crop. The ex-
pense for transportation and the keen
competition, as we'll as the immense
outlay for commissions, resulted in a
number of the large growers of Cali
fornia organizing the Southern Cali
fornia Fruit Growers Exchange.
Since 1893 this has been reorgan-
lied several times, but it is still in
existence under the title of the Cali
fornia Fruit Exchange. 1t is cooper
alive and has only a nominal capital
stock. According to Moody's Maya
zine, it performs every duty for the
growers belonging to it from the
time they bring their harvest to the
packing house until they get their
crop money.
It takes complete control. grading,
packing, stripping, finding buyers
and selling, so that its members do
nothing but the agricultural part. Its
representatives throughout the dis
tricts receive and receipt for the
wagon loads, and the h~orticulturist
goes home to attend to his orchards
and wait for his check. The chief
competitor Of the California Exchange
is California Citrus Union.
By. the present method OF market
ing fruit daily wire reports on the
condition and whereabouts Of every
shipment are sent to Los Angeles.
Like a train dispatcher the manager
at headquarters guides every car
from the side tracks in the orchards
over the branch lines and the trunk
lines. He has the power to divert
shipments into the most available
markets.
Hundreds of cars leave California
daily with only a general destination,
and these cars must be sent to the
point of greatest demand. If through
his wire reports the manager finds
that New York is receiving too much
fruit, that there is danger of a break
in the price, he diverts a part of the
New York shipment to Philadelphia
or Baltimore or Pittsburg.
He must see to it that every dis
trict has enough fruit, but not too
much. He must keep the market
even. He must get the top prices
and yet sell all his fruit. He must
figure against changes in the wealth
er in each district and against compe-
tition from Florida, Europe and other
California shippers.
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The Field OF Labor.

The Southern Pacific boilermakers
have gone on strike at Sacramento,
Cal.
Brotherhood Of Railroad Freight
and Baggage Men has established its
national headquarters Office at Bo5-
ton, Mass.
Canadian unions favor interna-
tional rather than national afiilia-
lions, and this sentiment is prevalent
in all trades.
The first steps have been taken in
Boston, Mass, for the purpose OF Or
ganizing a union of the Hebrew paint
ers Of that city.
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plain but the fronts are tucked at
the shoulders and are finished with
hens. The cape collar is arranged
over the sacque and can be finished
as illustrated or with the standing
collar; also if better liked the stand
ing collar can be used alone. The
sleeves are the simple mes gathered
at the upper and lower edges and
finished with band cuffs. A belt or
ribbon confines the fulness at the
waist line.
The quantity Of material required
for the medium size is four and one
fourth yards twenty-seven, three and
6ve-eight yards thirty-two or two and
one-eighth yards forty-four inches
wide.
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FOREIGN.

The Zionist Congress at The Hague
resolved to dissolve the committee
dealing with diplomatic negotiations
regarding Palestine.
The United States cruiser squadron
in the Pacific started on a visit to ia
pan.
In a proclamation the Sultan of
Morocco urges universal calm, and is
reported to be using all his efforts for
peace.
MerrADel Val, the Papa1 Secretary
Of State, was hooted by an anti-cleri-
cal mob in a suburb Of Rome.
It was believed in Toxic that the
Russo-Japanese treaty contained an
unpublished clause defining the
spheres Of influence of the two eoun-
tries.
An epidemic, supposed to be chof-
era, broke out in Brest-Litobsk, in
Russian Poland.
A Caracas court fined the New
York and Bermudez Asphalt Com
pany 100000 for aiding the Matos
revolt in Venezuela.
The Congo government has issued
a. pamphlet in reply to king Leo
pold's %Soliloquy" by Mark Twain.
Severe fighting occurred in For
mosa, where the natives made strenu-
ous resistance to the Japanese troops.
At Talkokan the Japanese casualties
numbered 200.
Three Americans-Poe, Christmas
and Eysler-were reported to be fig
uring largely in preparations for the,
pending war in Central America.
Moors at Mazagan and Azemmour
turned loose the prisoners in the jails
and Europeans fed.
German navy experts at Berlin are
elated over the result of a trial trip
IF one of the new turbine torpedo
boats which maintained a speed Of
more than thirty-nine miles an hour.
Lord Seton, master of the horse.
resigned his post in consequence of
being. unable to agree with the "e1-
IRENE measures OF the British Gov.
srnment."
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dis the requirements and is pretty
and becoming at the same time that
it is simple in the extreme. In the
illustration it is made with a cape
collar and this feature is an attrac-
tive one, but it is not obligatory and
the neck can be finished with a sim
pie straight standing collar if liked,
and, again, there is a choice of long
Or elbow sleeves. AS illustrated ring
dotted batiste is trimmed with en-
broidered banding, but all the pretty
:ambrics and dimities of the summer
are charming so made, while also
light weight flannel cashmere and
aannelette would be equally appro-
pirate.
The dressing sacque is made with
the fronts and back. The back is
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Sleeves and Gloves.

1t may be that the new idea of wear
ing gloves of the color of the sleeves
is one of the indications of the return
to long arm coverings, but it re-
quires imagination to see it. AS yet
the short sleeve is in everything but
the strictly tailored coat or shirt
waist.
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Farmers Wait For 81 Mark.

Forces are at work to put wheat
at 81. The American Society Of
Equity processes to. have persuaded
10000 farmers to hold their wheat
until the 81 level is reached, and it
Is claimed that many thousands Of
farmers are planning to construct
steel tanks for the storage Of their
grain, not letting it go for low prices.
1t is claimed the steel tanks do not
cost the farmers more than $3.50, and
each contains 1000 bushels of wheat.
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DOMESTIC.

Governor Stokes and q committee
presented a silver service n behalt OF
New Jersey to the b~attleship New Jer-
sey, lying in the North River, OF New
York. r
A report of the insurance commit.
tee Of the American Bar Association.
made public at Omaha, scored the
State insurance departments, at.
tackled the, dividend reserve policy
and suggested various legislation.
Martin A. Knapp, chairman Of the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
was married at the Hotel Manhattan,
New York, ito Mrs. Nellie Maynard
Gardner, of'syracuse. q
The Rev. Asolph Derosa, the evan.
gelist, who vas threatened at Green.
witch, Conn, with lynching for alleged
h%ypnotism, declared he would clear
his name from all aspersions.
Judge Lands, on receipt Of a com
munication from Attorney-GeneraI
Bonaparte, postponed till September
3 the Grand Jury investigation which
he had ordered for the Alton road.
Negro soldiers, from the Twenty
fifth Infantry, which figured in the
Brownsville riot, raised a disturb
ance on the "Barbary Coast" in San
Francisco, and were not quieted until,
a riot call had been sounded.
While undergoing an operation in
New York for adenoids, the seven
yearsold son of William A. Whiting.
a. Vermont millionaire, died Of CO.
eaine poisoning.
E. H. Hartman and the Chicago
and Alton Railroad will escape pun
ishment for granting rebates to- the
Standard Oil Company, because the
Government promised immunity in
return for evidence to convict the
Standard. r"'
The counsel for the next friends"
In the Mrs. Eddy hearing have agreed
TO the suggestion Of the masters for
tests Of her mental competency in the
presence of alteniSts.
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Crest Fad

A new fad of the ultra fashionable
-and one which is expected to become
popular within a few weeks is the
wearing Of mittens of gold studded
with rubies and ornamented with
monogram or crest. Such mittens
have long been popular among the
women of the German court, and
leaders Of fashionable New York now
in Paris has been seen wearing one.
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linen and finished with a scalloped
edge would be exceedingly chic and
smart over a lingerie guimpe, as well
as eminently youthful in effect.
The waist is made with the under
blouse and ,garniture. The blouse
consists of the front and backs with
the full sleeves over which the frills
are arranged and which are gathered
into straight bands. The garniture is
quite separate and can be either
joined to the waist beneath the belt
or left entirely detached as preferred.
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HOW LONG TIE ROAD.

fThe ~woman-need is gone that made thy
kiss
My mama, and a heaven of thine eyes;
The patience-preaching years have made
me wise.
Till, in the woods and fields, the sturdy
bliss
F0f fellowship and work, I cease to miss
The throbbing ache of those old eestasies,
Save to remember with a wan surprise,
Sometimes, how long the road that led to
this.
But to be sure that somewhere. strong and
whole,
Thou livest, striving, noble though beset,
Master again of the essential soul,
|. i doubted when my cruel wounds were
- wet
This long my deepest, direst need of thee,
20, ouce beloved! it is granted me.
Charlotte Wilson, in Metropolitan Mag
~ azine.
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Ways Of Reading.

Reading without purpose is saun-
tering, not exercise. More is got from
one book on which the thought settles
for definite end than from Libraries
skinned over by a wandering eye.
A cottage flower gives honey to the
bee, a kings garden none to the butt
terfy.-Lord Lytton.
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|, sCHNnTz LEGALLY oUsTED.
Supreme Court Decides That San
,Francisco's Mayor Has No Claim.

San Francisco.-The State Supreme
Court decided that Mayor Schmitz
was ousted legally and has no right
to draw his salary from the city.
The Court directs the auditor and
treasurer to recognize the signature
Of Mayor Taylor on all warrants for
payment Of money from the city
treasury and fully establishes that
the appointment of Taylor as Mayor
was legal. ~ .. .st-
1t disposes of the claim of Schmitz
that conviction and Imprisonment for
felony did not forfeit his tenure of
Office, and removes the last vestige of
doubt that the Supervisors have the
right to remove a convicted Mayor.
The decision of the Court was
unanimous and was signed by all the
Justices. i&4# .