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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-12

W.T.. Fitzpatrick of Lisbon Falls was
killed Thursday by an electric car on q
steep grade five miles from Brunswick.
After an investigation the officials were
convinced that he had lain on the track
while walking from the railroad station,
where he arrived on the morning Pull
man from Portland, to his home. he
was about 80 years old.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-12
Mason.

Rain, rain, lots of rain.
E. c. Uhlman has sold bis home place
to Everett M. Wheeler, and his outland
to Douglas Gushing and Leon 81. Tyler,
and he is talking Of moving to the far
Northwest.
TIE. Westleigh has moved his family
into town.
E. H. Morrill, has bought nice pair of
steers.
Archie Hutchinson has been doing
quite extensive repairs on his buildings,
clapboardipg and shingling the walls. i.
E. II Morrill, is shingling the walls Of
the O. g. Mason barn.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-12
A SIGNIFICANT PRAYER,

"May the Lord help you make Buck
lens Arnica Salve known to ALL" writes
j. G. Jenkins of Chapel Hill, N. G. ut
quickly took the pain out of felon for
me and cured it In q wonderfully short
time" Best on earth for sores, burns
and wounds. 25c ct F. A. Shurtlsf d
Co.'S drug store.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-12

Elections were held Tuesday in thir-
teen states. In Massachusetts Governor
Guild was reelected by plurality of
over 100, O00-so large that his Demo-
cratic opponent, Henry NJ. Whitney,
scan't understand it," Higgins, Demo
crat, is reelected governor of Rhode
Island. Tammany still rules New York
city, Tom Johnson is once more mayor
of Cleveland, and Salt Lake City goes
anti-Mormon stronger than ever before.
Otherwise the election results are not OF
particular significance, and we in Maine
look on and wonder why those thirteen
states have annual elections, anyway.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-12

Thanksgiving.
Mems Clothes.
Fur Driving Goats and Caps.
You VIII All Agree.
Probate Notices.
Appointment OF ADMINISTRATIVE.
Putting IL on.
For Sale or To Lease.
Lowell Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
Bankrupt's Petition for Discharge.
Wanted at Once
Notice of Bankruptcy.
For Sale.
Pigs for Sale.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-12
sIgGLE COPIES.

Single Copies of the Democrat are four cent
each. They viii be mailed on receipt Of price BY
the publishers or for the convenience Of patrons
Angle copies Of each issue have been placed OF
sale at the following places In the County
South Paris, Shurtler's Drug Store.
Norway, Noyes' Drug Store.
stones Drug Store.
Buckheld, Alfred Cole. Postmaster.
Paris H,ll Mrs. Harlow. Post Otice.
West Paris samuel T. White.
+. A. Shurtle6 4 Co.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-12
Coming Events.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Nov. Il, lS.-Oxford Association of Uniyer-
salists, Turner Center.
Nov 2s-Thanksgiying.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-12

The total area Of the Sandwich or
Hawaiian islands IL about the same -
New Jerssy.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-12
Here and There.

ssLol the poor Indian" is soon to be-
come almost an unknown quantity IN
this country-in fact, is nearly that now
When the principal remnants OF the race
of red men in America were settled IN
what was once Indian Territory, part
of which is now Oklahoma, it was doubt
less thought that the land would be
sufficient for their simple needs, without
much margin of wealth, unless the red
man acquired enough energy to make
riches for himself out of the product OF
the soil. But in the course of the years,
and quite rapidly of late, it has been dis
covered that certain portions of these
lands are rich in oil and gas, and the
Indians are now drawing fat royalties
from these God-given products, without
having to lift a finger. IL is estimated
that at the present rate of development
within five years every Indian man,
woman and child will be in receipt OF an
independent income of $1,000 per year. Is
there a parallel in the history of any
people?
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-12

TERMS ell so a year II paid strictly In advance
Otherwise $500 year. Single copies cents
ADVERTISEMENTS: - All legal advertisements
are given three Consecutive insertions for $l.5O
per Inch In length of column. Special contracts
maize with local. transient and yearly sdveres-
ers.
jon PRINTING New type, fast presses, electric
power experienced workmen and low prices
combine Co make this department Of our busi-
ness complete and popular.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-12

The country is soon to be afflicted
with another Thaw trial, but apparently
with extenuating circumstances. 1t is
announced, apparently with some su-
thority, that Evelyn will not be wit
ness at this trial, and that the "unwrit-
ten law will be discarded by the de
fence, which will rely upon the plea of
insanity. For this relief we should be
thankful.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-12

Oxford County orchardists are not the
only people in the state who are hard hit
by the early freeze of the fall. With a
small crop of the standard product of
potatoes in Aroostook County, and the
rot making iuroads even on that, the
shortage OF labor and the untimely freeze
caught the potatoes in bad shape, and it
is said that hundreds of acres are frozen
int, the ground. An unusually large
number of Aroostook farmers are ap-
pearing in the bankruptcy courts.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-12

An administrator has been appointed
ON the estate of the late George Wash
ington, first president of the United
states. To be sure, it is rather late
day, but the purpose is simply to prose
cute a claim in behalf of Washington's
heirs to certain lands in Ohio granted
him by congress. One of the tracts OF
land includes a portion of the site OF
Cincinnati. Past experience with that
kind of claims doesn't lead to the belief
that the proceeds to the heirs will be
anything rich.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-12

The following composition, written by
a girl about II years old, pupil in the
West Sumner school, is published by
request:
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-12

Some fault is found because the Unit
ed States government is encouraging the
tipping habit by allowing forty cents
per day for tips in the travelling expenses
of employees when on the road. Well,
the government ought to be censured
for counte nancing the evil practice. But
probably the luStiest kick will come from
the grafters who get the forty cents:
Think of il, Forty cents to be divided
among all the walters, porters ana
leeches to be encountered in day S
travel To be sure, man might have
courage To leave measly ten cent piece
under his plate, if he could get out OF
sight before the waiter discovered it,
but how could he preserve his self-re,
spect when dropping that intinitesimal
coin into the open palm OF lordly Pull
man porter who has just given him hall
a dozen swipes with corn broom?
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-12
West Bethel.

"By the signing Of the trees,
BY the dropping OF the leaves,
BY the gamers full OF grain,
By the stubble on the plain,
I;y the harvest gathered all
We note the coming OF the fall."
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-12
MINES DOUBLE POPULATION
Surveyor General Kelley of Nevada
Says 10000 Dwell In State

AS the inhabitants of Nevada have
not been enumerated since the census
of 1900, which was prior to the mining
revival and the work of Government
irrigation projects, the present popula-
ton of the State is unknown. In his
biennial report Surveyor General
Kelley gives the following estimate
of the present population of the State:
According TO the census OF 1900 the popu-
lation of Nevada was 42. 335. The total vote
for Presidential Electors that year was 10. 196-
about voter for every four inhabitants. In
1906 the total vote for Governor IA S37
which. the basis of 1900, would indicate
population of about 80 900, which, beyond rea-
sonable doubt. is several thousand less than the
actual number.
Since the mining revival thousands have come
to Nevada from other States, and the immgra-
ton has been especially large during the past
year. As the newcomers had not been long
enough in the State to entitle them to regis
tration of course they did not vote, and owing
to change in the laws closing the registra-
tion lists much earlier than usual, at least
thousand persons otherwise qualified did not vote
because they failed TO register. Other thousands
were prospecting in the hills remote from vot-
ing places and did not exercise the right Of
suffrage, and the opening of the Walker reserva-
ton just the of election day kept many
from the polls. Taking these facts into con-
sideration, it is reasonable to assume that the
population of the State today is at least So,0O0
or nearly double what it was in 1900.-Goldfeld
Review.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-12
POTRERO FAVORED
FOR NEW DOCKS
Purchase by the State of
Sixty-Four Blocks Recon-
mended by Committee
ASK APPROPRIATION

The harbor Improvement committee
of the affiliated commercial bodies OF
the city decided after a personal in
spection OF the harbor yesterday to in
Ndorse and advocate the plan Of the
Potrero Commercial and Manufac-
turers' Association for the purchase by
the State of sixty-four blocks of land
in the Potrero as site for new docks
The committee accompanied Pres
ident Spear of the State Board OF Har-
Dor Commissioners on the tug Re-
lance. They skirted the bay from
the Presidio to Hunters Point and
gave every proposed plan for increas-
ing the dockage facilities OF the port
careful consideration.
As it is important that the land be
secured with as little delay as pos
sible a special executive committee
was appointed to assist in securing
from the present Legislature an ap-
preparation of $750.000 for this purpose.
This committee is composed as fol-
lows: Thomas Magee (chairmar),
James d. Phelan. ". J. Bartnett. r H.
Swayne and F. W. Dohrmann. Repre-
sentatives of the Potrero Association.
armed with the Endorsement of the
harbor improvement committee. left
last night for Sacramento to confer
with the lawmakers.
On board the Reliance were repre-
sentatives of every commercial body in
the city and the Endorsement of the
Potrero plan was unanimous. 1t was
decided that with the land available
there the most satisfactory results
could be secured with the least ex-
pense. When the contemplated work
is finished San Francisco will have
some real docks and an addition of so
per cent to her shipping accommoda-
Dtions.
The harbor improvement committee
has on hand about $4,000 sto be spent
in securing plans for the proposed
docks. 1t takes time, however, to
make plans and for the time being
the energy of the committee will be
devoted to securing a site in keeping
with the needed increase.
The sixty-four blocks that 1t is pro-
posed that the State shall buy are
bounded on the north by Is1ais Creek,
on the west by Maryland street, on the
southwest by First avenue, along India
street and including India Basin. Out
side Of this tract it is proposed to con-
struct a substantial breakwater and.
inside, modern basin docks equipped
for the handling of freight safely, rap
idly and at minimum OF expense. The
committee believes that all this will
follow and that the dockage problem
will be settled for years to come il the
State Legislature can be induced to
see the wisdom of Immediately securing
the necessary land.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-12
Hickey Is Coming to
Adjust Sullivan
Trust Affair

President Hickey of the L. M. Sui
livan Trust Company is expected to
arrive in this city today or tomorrow.
He comes to effect a settlement of the
affairs of the company in SO far as the
San Francisco mining stock brokers
are interested in them.
News was circulated yesterday of
a strike of ore in the Stray Dog mine.
which is one of the properties of the
L. NJ. Sullivan Trust Company. Frank
Torpey had two samples of Stray Dog
ore in his office on Bush street that
looked well and were reported to be
from a vein in Stray Dog that is seven
feet wide and that yields hundreds
of dollars to the ton. The interest
of the brokers was stirred visibly by
the approach of Hickey and the sim
ultaneous story of wealth in Stray
Dog.
Hickey is at once the head of the
L. NJ Sullivan Trust Company and
of the State Bank and Trust Com
pany of Nevada. The bank is one
of the large creditors of the Sullivan
Company. In his dual capacity of pres
ident of the two Institutions he will
have good opportunities to know all
about Stray Dog. That he will be
asked many questions about the dis
covery is certain. for many of the
orders to buy that involved San Fran
cisco mining stock brokers were for
Stray Dog and the stock of that COM
pany to the extent of many shares
is still held by the creditors of the Sui
livan Company
Apart from the story about Stray
Dog discovery the first business day
of this week in Bush street was COM
paratively uninteresting. Few stocks
were sold very largely. The Diamond
field Triangle shares were sold to the
number of 26,500. Twenty-one thou
sand shares of Black Butte Exten-
sion, $4,000 shares of Blue Bell %, 500
shares of Great Bend and $4,000 shares
of Monarch Pittsburg were taken.
Straw Dog, temporarily the center of
gossip. was sold to the number of
1900 shares Twenty hundred
shares of Goldfield Consolidated Mines
were sold, the price varying from $3.50
to sS.631s.
Great Bend had range of IA
points in the forenoon. from s1.o5 to
S112h In the afternoon the price fell
to s1o27s.
Combination Fraction sold at $3.50
in the morning and s5.25 in the after
down to s2.4715. st. Ives to the extent
of 500 shares was sold at S1.271A to
$3.50.
The array Of stocks listed in the
San Francisco Stock and Exchange
Board was swelled yesterday by the
addition of the following:
Goldfeld Central Gold Mining Company, Gold
field district with 100000 shares of the par
value of 81 each; directors-R- Chester Turner,
John A. Kirby Walter G. Lamb. E. B. Cush-
man. L. A. Gibbons and NJ. j. Monette.
Mohawk Consolidated Mining and Leasing
Company Goldfeld district, with 300, 900 shares
of the par value of 81 each; directors-M. G.
scully, T. E. Edwards, n. N. Farnam, George
Austin and A. D. Meyers.
Jumbo Extension Leasing and Mining Com
pany with six claims in Esmera1da County and
one on Jumbo Extension ground, with 700. 00o
shares of the par value of 81 each; directors
Robert l.. Topliz W. B. Nichols Henry T.
Parker. Theo Rougeot.
Bullfrog of Columbia, Of the Bullfrog and
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-12
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE
ARRIVED

Monday, February II.
stmr State Of California, Thomas al hours
stmr NJ F Plant, Nelson. 80 hours from Coos
Bay. O". oo0a
stmr South Coast. Paulsen, II hours from
Csspar. ol
stmr Phoenix, Hansen IA hours from Bow
ems Landing.
stmr coquille River winkel days from
Tillamook.
stmr Navarro, Lofstrom. SO hours from cres-
stmr Pomona. Swanson. 20 hours from Eureka
Stmr Unimak. Hansen. 2S hours from Fure<a
Stmr North Fork, Nelson, % hours from Eu-
reka.
stmr Fulton. Larsen. 80 hours from San
Pedro
stmr Redondo. Bendegard, DAYS from Coos
Bay, Mare Island direct.
Stmr Mayfair, Olsen, 72 hours from South
Bend.
stnr Maverick Daniels. 2 DAYS from As+or,a
Stmr Mackinaw, Meady, 96 hours from Sc
attic.
stmr Signal. Sears. 27 hours from Eureka.
Stmr Greenwood, Fagerstrom, 36 hours from
Eureka
stmr Charles Nelson. Preble. go hours from
Astoria, bound south, put in TO land passengers.
Nor stnr Telius, Arntzen, 105 hours from
Br stmr Hazel Dollar. Bruce. 30 davs from
Hongkong. via Moji % days. Kobe % days and
Tug Mariner. McKenney, s days from TIA
Schr Santiago Matison, II hours from Mon
ferey in tow tug Relief
Schr Roderick Dhu. Anderson, 16 hours from
Monterey, in tow tug Relief
Schr Volante, Bachlund. is days from Blaine.
CLEARED
Monday. February IL.
stmr City of Puebla, Jepsen, Victoria; c
stmr Corona. Hail. Eureka; Co.
Stmr Costa Rica, Mason. Portland; and
P Co
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-12
TWO ROADS FoR GREENwATER
Clark Announces Intention of Sal
Lake Railway System Management

The Salt Lake Railway System, says
the Goldfeld Review. will be extended
to Greenwater. ]. Ross Clark, vice
president and general manager of the
San Pedro and Salt Lake Railway, and
president of the Las Vegas and Tono-
pah Railway, has authorized this
statement. Clark said:
We have kept pretty close tab on the Green
water district, and have determined to build in
there. 1t is good country. I have seen many
copper camps, but ] can say, after personal
inspection that l have never surface show
ings so favorable for good copper mines. That
these indications hold with development I am
reliably informed. We are now satisfied that
the district has a future, and we are going TO
build branch from the Las Vegas and Tono-
pah road.
The two railroads now assured will give ex-
direct access to the custom smeters of Utah,
and the Tonopah and Tidewater, through the
Santa Fe will give equally direct access to
Arizona smelters. This is a highly desirable
situation for any young copper camp.
If, with proper development the Greenwater
district makes good its present promise, at least
two large smelling plants will be established
at points where sufficient water can be secured.
The fact that after few months only of
development two railway companies have un-
dertaken to build branches TO this copper dis
trict is very good evidence that the work ac-
complished has shown payable ore in consider
able quantity and that indications point strong
" to continuance of favorable conditions
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-12
MOGAN To DECIDE
HEALTH Of BOY

Judge Mogan OF the Superior Court
will add to his other official ordeals
today the duty of passing judgment on
the health of a ve-and-a-half-year-
old lad, Charles Watkins Pryal, whom
he has ordered brought into court for
the purpose. The boy is the son of
Charles L. and Helen w. Pryal. who
year.
Pryal. who is an electrician. was or
dered at the time of the divorce to pay
Mrs. lPryal $50 month for the support
Of herself and two children. PryaPs
attorney argued a motion yesterday in
his behalf for the reduction of alimony
to $40 a month and also a petition
that the custody of Charles Jr. be given
to him instead of to the mother In
substantiation OF the latter motion
Pryal averred that the child had not
been given proper care and was in a
sickly condition. The mother stoutly
denied this, contending that the boy
was in the most robust health and at
tended school regularly. 1t was to as
sist him in determining the merits of
the conflicting claims that Judge Mo-
gan ordered the boy into court
John J. Klapperich, a wagonmaker.
who was divorced April 2. 1902. from
Jeannie M. Klapperich, was ordered
by Judge Seawen yesterday to be taken
into custody and held in Jail until, he
pays 800 back alimony to Mrs KIap-
perich.
Divorces were granted yesterday by
Judge Trout to Emma Brown from
Charles A Brown for desertion. and to
John Henry Cook from Mary Cook for
desertion.
Suits for divorce yere filed yesterday
by Anna Attinger against Frederick H.
Attinger for willful neglect, John T.
McCann against Elizabeth McCann for
habitual intemperance, Emma NJ Clark
against Samuel M. Clark for desertion,
Jennie Richards against George ].
Richards for failure to provide, and
Ellen Chase against John G. Chase for
habitual intemperance.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-12
GUNsT BUILDING To
COST s214,000

An application was filed with the
Board of Works by M. A. Gunst yester-
day for a permit to erect an eight
story class A brick office building on
the southwest corner of Geary and
Powell streets at cost of s214,0
Other applications were filed by Con-
gregation Emanu-El. north side of SUIT
ter street, near Stockton, for the re-
construction of the synagogue, $3s,5O0;
NJ Kalisky, east side of Sixth street
near Natoma, 10000; B. Plegat. north
side of Polk street, near Washington
s24, 900; Grossini & Lepori, west side
of Powell street, between Union and
Green, 100000; Livalli & Ghiotti. two
buildings, north side of jackson street
east of Powell, s7700 each.
The San Francisco call., 1907-02-12
ASK NEW TRIAL OF
A NOTED SUIT

An effort to secure a new trial of
the noted damage suit in which Attor-
ney Walter H. Linforth secured judg-
ment of S10.S00 against the San Fran
cisco Gas and Electric Company for
the destruction of six flats at Leaven-
worth and Washington streets on No
vember II, 1904. through a terrific ex-
plosion, was begun yesterday in Judge
Graham's court. At the previous trial
evidence was introduced to show that
the explosion was due to a defective
gas meter belonging to the defendant
company, and the motion for a new
trial Is based on newly discovered facts,
supported by affidavits, which it is be-
lieved by the defense will controvert
the evidence which led to decision
favorable to the plaintiff.
The affidavits introduced yesterday
by Attorney Samuel knight set forth
the substance of the confession made
by Harry Orchard alias Frank Berry.
who declared that the explosion in this
case was not due to gas, but to an in-
fernal machine which he himself had
placed at the door of one of the flats
with the intention of killing F. w.
Bradley, a prominen mining man.
Attorney Shortridge, counsel for Lin
forth, has filed counter affidavits
through which an attempt is made to
show that Orchards confession is with
out merit and that the facts stated
by him are false. The answer filed
by Shortridge contains statements
from workmen who were in the vicin-
ity of the flats where the explosion
occurred and who saw nothing of any
bomb, and also the testimony of the
men from whom Orchard claimed to
have purchased his explosives. and who
deny that any dynamite or powder was
ever sold to him.
The argument on the motion for a
new trial has been continued until this
afternoon.