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The Mena weekly star., 1907-02-21
TIE HOG INDUS TRY

Last week on the Kansas City market hogs touched the highest point since the great pork year of 1903. A feature of the market is the fact that the porkers are keep ing the price lowering around the top notch figure and the chances are that still greater rise may be expected.
 This calls to mind the fact that the hog industry in Arkansas IS not what it ought to be. There is no better paying branch of agricultural indus try than this same hog business. No state in the United States is better equipped, if so well, to raise hogs successfully than Arkansas. The wooded pastures. natural water supply, even climate and open win ters are ideal for hog raising, and the market is right at our door.
 Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and other northwestern states are the great hog raising states. It is much more difficult and expensive to pro- duce hogs there than here. The farmer in the former section must combat the severe and killing win ters, the short season for pasture and the long season for stall feed ing. Yet he reaps a golden harvest from his hogs, raising them by the hundreds and thousands and de- veloping them into $50 and 450- pound market hogs.
 Hogs can be raised in Arkansas at one-half the expense and trouble and better hogs, too. Why not do it?
 Hogs are gold dollars at every season of the ear.-Fort Smith News Record.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-02-21
 HOW RICH WOMEN SPEND MONEY
forty-Fiye Thousand Dollars for Five
 Hours of Pleasure.

" Mrs. Vanderbilt engaged The Wild Rose company, play ing at the Knickerbocker Thea ter, in New York, to give single performance on her lawn on an August night. For this single entertainment she gave the man agement her check for seventeen hundred dollars writers Auna Steese Richardson in Woman's s Home Companion for March. For the production she had cree ted temporary theater which gave employ ment to small army of carpenters for full a week, and enough electricians to wire a small Western city, The rough board walls were hidden by white and gold bunting, draped with gilt wicker baskets filled with real roses and the florists bill alone was said to be eight thou sand dollars aud the caterers bill even more. The driveway lead ing to the house was coverted in- to a Midway, conducted without charge to guests by fakirs from Coney Islard.
 "The first guest arrived short ly after eleven o'clock; the stage performance began at midnight; the cotillion followed on the heels of light opera, and just as the first cool streak of dawn crept over the ocean tbe guests and the player folks rose from their snp- per tables. During the interval forty-tve thousand dollars had been expended in entertaining a hundred guests or more, and one thousand artisans and players had been gwen employment. Forty-hve thousand dollars for five hours pleasure and Newport did not think it so remarkable, either"
The Mena weekly star., 1907-02-21
ARKANSAS vS INDIANA.

A Chicago paper recently devoted an entire page to a comparison of the natural advantages and resources off the states of Indiana and Ar kansas.
 The summary showed everything to be in favor of Arkansas. More and greater natural advantages and resources, such as timber, coal, gas, etc, better climate, better agricul- tural products, excellent railway and transportation facilities, and a vast undeveloped section of country to the southwest.
 The writer, one of the best known journalists of the day. could not understand why Arkansas, the sec ond oldest state west of the Mlssls sippi river, should not be abreast, il not ahead of the northern state 1T every way.
 In his article he predicted that before ten years Arkansas would become one of the greatest manu featuring states of the country, anc that the agricultural importance oi the state would be second to none of the Mississippi valley states oi the western country.
 Time will show that he was right Fort Smith News Record.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-02-21
HOLD A THROUGH TICKET.

Missouri follows as a close second to Arkansas in passing the 2-cent rate bill and Iowa gives promise of coming in third. It would seem Mir. Two Cent Rate Bill got a through ticket over some direct lines from Arkansas through Missouri and to all points in Iowa.
 Referring to this railroad legisla- tion the Kansas City Times says: If there had been preserved the records of the legislative debates when the three cent maximum pas senger fares were prescribed by the Missouri statutes, they would un- doubtedly show that the railways had predicted dire calamity to them selves and judicial repudiation of the bill on the ground that it was unreasonable and confiscatory. That type of lamentation has attended the enactment of the two cent fare bill by the present legislature. It is a safe hypothesis that the same thing prevailed in the earlier legis- lation because 1t had never failed to attend any move to narrow the privileges of a public service cor poration or of any other kind of corporation.
 Of course the courts will be ap- pealed to to declare unconstitutional this reduction of fare to the two cent rate. It is a curious fact that no one would assume it unconstitutional to raise the rate to four cents; but, then, the constitution in these days has been monopolized chiefly by the
 interests. This is pretty rough on the constitution, but there may be a reaction in it's favor after a while.
 For the present the fact of great- est interest will be to note how the poor railways will continue to do business at the old stand. One of the marvels of economic tor indus trial history has been the number of threats of corporate bankruptcy which have not been fulfilled. It is really quite cheering to reflect that consistency or a desire to fulfill petulant prophecy of doom has never caused corporation, enjoying big privileges, to slip cog in the process of taking in the money Since there is not the slightest req son to suppose that the present instance will prove an exception to the rule, the commonwealth of Mis- souri may breathe easily at the legislative compliance with the de- mand that something be done for the people.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-02-21
ection of stockades, bathing

erection of stockades, bathing houses and hospital, and to pre- vent the future leasing or hiring out of conyicts. It provides that after May I 1907, the convict farm in Lincoln county shall be the "peni- tentiary of Arkansas, to which all convicts shall be transported when convicted and that the board of penitentiary commissioners shall cause the offices of the penitentiary officials to be moved there for the transaction of business. It prohibits the commissioners from hiring out or leasing convicts and from extend- ing or renewing the contracts now in force. It also prohibits the guarding of white prisoners by ne- groes. The board is required to erect before July 1, 1907, stockades for the separate accommodation of white and negro prisoners, a hospi- tai with wards for the separation of whites and negroes and a bathing house"
 Don't make the states home for criminals too comfortable but make it sanitary. Stop hiring the ponvicte ont to contractors who value them only for the greater amount of labor they can get out of their bodies at the least expense, the same as the mules on the works.
 Our convicts should have some thing better than this, not that they deserve it, but just because they are human beings.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-02-21

After voting down one bill in tended to provide the legislators with stamps and newspapers, enough members of the house of represen- tatives had a change of heart to pass another bill just like it, and so, as the senate is known to favor this pet scheme the chances are good that forty citizens in each county will get extra daily papers during the remaining days of the session. This newspaper and stamp legisla- tion is getting to be pretty near as big hobby as the congressman free seed law.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-02-21

ture the most startling comes from Representative Black of Sebastian county, calling for an investigation of the States Old Soldiers Home and charging that our aged and in valid veterans are inhumanly treated If there is the slightest foundation for this charge let the probe go down deep until it pierces the very heart of any man who dares to live in the land and do aught that would bring anything but peace and comfort to the old soldier who is not able to care for himself.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-02-21
ANTITRUST LAW AND THE
 PACKERS.

On account of the antitrust prose cution the Armour Packing Com pany has sold its business and assets in Arkansas to the Southern Beef and Provision Company, an Alabama concern, and was withdrawn from the state.
 The branches at Little Rock, Fort Smith, Hot Springs, Pine Bluff and Texarkana are involved in this trans fer We are told that there will be no change in the managers or em- ployes of these houses. The new company is no packer, but is com mission company which handles the products of the Armour Packing Company.
 Of course the public will say that despite this change the Armour company will in reality be just as much in Arkansas under the new arrangement as under the old. But this development brings us face to face with the question: What real, tangible benefits have accrued to the people of Arkansas through the enactment and enforcement of the antitrust law? We run out Ar mour because he is suspected of being in a beef trust, and then we buy his meat through commission house just as we formerly bought it from him. We don't get any better meat or any cheaper meat. No room is made for independent pack CTS. Where does the benefit come in Arkansas Gazette.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-02-21

ders today would indicate that the people in Tennessee do not look at matters in just that way.
 Down in my state, said Mir Sanders the people are for Roose- welt for another term. By the peo- pie mean the Democrats and the Republicans. The Chicago man who is flooding the country with talk ot a third term for Roosevelt is a poor politician. Down our way we call t a second term for Roosevelt. The President is going to be offered a renomination and cant see what he can do but take it. Kansas City Star '
The Mena weekly star., 1907-02-21
 LEGISLATORS ARE BARRED

There may not be general knowl- edge of the fact that in case a vacancy shall occur in the governor ship of Arkansas no member of the present legislature would be eligible to the executive office.
 The state constitution, Article 5, section 10, says:
 No senator or representative shall, during the term for which he shall have been elected, be appointed or elected to any civil office under this state. '-Arkansas Gazette.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-02-21
IF THE Tf1AW CASE WERf
 IN ENGLAND.

The London Daily Mail, with the Thaw case in mind, tells how such things are handled on that side of the water.
 Had MT. White been shot in England" says the Daily Mail, ''Thaw would have come before a police magistrate the following day and his case would have been dealt with in few hours at Old Bailey at the July session. Only a few days would thus have elapsed between the act and the verdict of condem- nation and acquittal. It is the free dom from technicalities and delays which American publicists most ad- mire in English criminal law and it's administration"
 And when a man is convicted in England he cannot delay the carrying out of his sentence by appeals to higher courts. There is no appeal. When he is found guilty he is hanged or sent to prison, and that is the end of him. Just now, however, there is quite movement in England for court of criminal appeals. But even if this court is established there are not likely to be any Albert T. Patrick cases in Great Britain. Arkansas Gazatte
The Mena weekly star., 1907-02-21

What drop Senator Bailey of Texas has taken. A few short months ago he was the acknowledged leader of the minority in the Senate with presidential bee buzzing around tha "halo" plainly visable o'er his head. And look now-he has the smell of Standard Oil on him so strong it won't wash off and the more they rub the stronger the odor, and when those around him are caught holding their noses, his only defense is s''you'r liar"
The Mena weekly star., 1907-02-21
Willie and Papa.

Willie-''Papa if I am liar will l go to the bad place ?"
 Twickenham-"Ce ertainly. Why ?n
 Willie-"I was thinking how far away you and would De from mother. "-Chestertou Todd in Woman's Home Companion fer March,
The Mena weekly star., 1907-02-21
STATE CONVICT BILL.

Representative Ruff has intro duced House bill No. 1855, to make the state convict farm at Cummins the headquarters for the peniten- tentary officials, to require the
The Mena weekly star., 1907-02-21

wrongs the man had da and pure minded girls
 Dr. Evans next descrl visit on August q last into the examination Toulbs with q large pss his arms, It was fillA He yfas nervous and looked at both myself ner with the peculiar \ an air of self importansl telling us what to do ! dergolng an examinatin| said he felt all right ] well. He then proceeds| same story Of persecus| lated 10 me on the s| fist visit.
 "J tried to save tal said to us. and added. i power. l never wanis5 creature I never wan'i know he was a ioag stroying all the noth6 ters in America, butI4 legal means to bring < wanted 70 get him i'd 5 would be brought to s
 "l then asked him T circumgtances he had
 Providence took cS fe iicd This was aa E ttapre Faw my rad E have had him suflsr k initiation the reYeiatitS E would have caused.
 "Did he tell you wh f anything. 10 bring into court?" asked M 8
 He said he had g tnony CofHstock. nisti# x rome and 2 private q He said Mir Jerome had letter lot the mi there was nothing 0 # lives told him they # matter up. hut they h a ploper report. As he said. he diseoyer Nicoll. the attorney. cal a1Vispr both to and to ComstocA as another link ia aiBst him.
 As a rule femorx are found in the sane opinion the absence is an indication Of ness.
 This ended the A of Dr. Evans. who 2 enable the defens Charles c. Wagner tae state hospital z Blreaamton. N. !.
 FARMING HAS
The Mena weekly star., 1907-02-21

Among all the :lany resolutions for investigations which have been presented to the Arkansas legisla-
The Mena weekly star., 1907-02-21
Small Fortune Made
 Washlnsia

Twelve years axe secured a homestead ono of the first setlls1 (Yakima) At the were selling at s2Se was left in sagebrusA ago. when it was c's1 There are at pressn | S5 acres in clover of pears, apples, pe'1 and one acre in sl'1 $400 an acre has portloa of this ia'1 th 2 lncr ey proap'S wick place. The last season vas oe tons. Timothy gs. tons to the Ere. mand af SIS a ioh timothy sall at ths Alfalfa is the ranges about sle is easy to figure is worth 900
 four years ago. the first cost Of fencing and lmpIs land complete e the orchard wia suits. Seattle fo
The Mena weekly star., 1907-02-21
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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-10-08
RELIEVED MANY
Prepare II at Home BY Shaking Well
In a Bottle.

What will appear very interesting TO
many people here is the article taken
from a prominent health journal. CIV.
Ing simple prescription, as formu.
lated by noted authority. who claims
that he has found positive remedy
10 cure almost any case OF backache
or kidney or bladder arrangement, In
the following simple prescription, II
taken before the stage OF Bhgbts dis
ease:
Fluid Extract Dandelion. onehalf
ounce; Compound Rargon, one ounce;
Compound Syrup sarsaparilla, three
ounces. Shake well In bottle and take
in teaspoonful dose. after each meal and
again nj bedtime.
A well known local druggist. when
asked regarding this prescription. stated
that the ingredients are all harmless.
and can be obtained ut small cost
from any good prescription pharmacy.
lie further stated that while this pre-.
seription Is often prescribed in rheumat.
ic Affections with splendid results, he
could see no reason why il would not
be- splendid remedy for kidney and
urinary troubles aud backache. as II has
peculiar action upon the entire kidney
structure, cleansing these most import
ant organs and helping them to slit and
filter from the blood the foul acids and
waste matter which cause sickness and
suffering Those who suffer can make
no mistake in giving II trial.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-10-08
NUGGETS.

Genius Is inspiration Talent Is per-
spiration.
Do not measure your enjoyment By
the amount OF money spent In produc-
Ing It.
Education turns the wild sweetbrier
into the queenly rose.
A vigorous initiative and strong self
faith make up the man OF power.
Be sure that the honors you are striy'
Ing for are not really dlshonors.
What men get and do not earn Is
often curse instead OF blessing.
You can purchase a mans labor, but
you've got to cultivate his good will.
Ignorance itself is a disease, the
deepest, most treacherous and damn
ing malady Of the soul.
Worry polsons the mind just as much
as deadly drug would poison the body
and Just as surely.
While you stand deliberating which
book your son shall read first, another
boy has read both.--Success Magazine.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-10-08
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS

Notice is hereby given that special
meeting of the stockholders of the
Portland, Oregon, Seacoast Railway
Company will be held at the Company's
office, 670 WorcesterBuilding in the
city of Portland and State of Oregon.
st o'clock, on Saturday, the 26th day
of October, 1907, for the following pur-
poses:
FIRST. To increase said Company's
capital stock, now $5OO,0OO, to $l,lOO,-
300, and when such increase of capital
10 approved by said meeting of stock
Aolders to issue not more than ll,000
shares in all of 500 each for the first
100 miles of railway to be built and
swnsd by it, apportioned as said meet
ing of stockholders shall direct.
SECOND. To ratify, confirm and ap-
yroye of contracts heretofore made under
authority from said Company's Board
Of Directors for the sale Of 100 miles
Of this Company's first mortgage five
per cent bonds, and also of the deed of
trust or mortgage securing payment of
same to the holders of said bonds.
THIRD. To ratify, confirm and ap-
gsoye in whole or in part Of contracts,
or any portion thereof made by said
Board of Directors for the construction
of this Company's first 100 miles Of
railway, commencing at the Lewis and
Clarke river, and at Clatsop station
Oregon; westerly therefrom and east.
erly to the Willamette river near to
Portland, and
FOURTH. To transact and consider
whatever other business may be brought
Before said meeting, of which notice
IL hereby given to stockholders of said
Railway Company.
Gigned) "a. HAYWOOD, of Los An
ge4es, California, President.
william Reid, of Portland, Oregon, Sec
retary of Portland Oregon Eeacoast
Railway Company.
Dated at New York, September l3, 1907
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-10-08
Lincoln and Stanton.

There was marked contrast be-
tween Lincoln's manner, which was al
ways pleasant and even genial, and
that of Stanton. The latter's stern,
spectacled visage commanded instant
respect and In many cases inspired
fear. In receiving visitors, and they
were legion, Stanton seldom or never
sat down, but stood before high desk
as the crowd passed before him and
one by one presented their requests or
complaints, which were rapidly dis
posed Of. He was naughty, severe,
domineering and often rude. When !
think Of him in the daily routine Of his
public audiences the Characterization
of Napoleon by Charles Phillips, the
Irish orator, comes to mind, Grand,
gloomy and peculiar."-David Homer
Bates In Century. ..
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-10-08
PORTLAND MARKETS
Wholesale Price List as Re-
ported Daily.

PORTLAND. Oct, THE scarcity OF
cars promises to hit the Oregon potato
market pretty hard this year. said a
dealer today. "Just now tho shortage
is not seriusly felt by the growers tor
labor also is scarce, and the farmers
are finding 1t about as hard to get their
crops dug as to get them to the market
The spud product OF Eastern and West
ern Oregon, and Of Washington and
California as well, is big ono this year
and with the help needed for the har'
yesting of the crop hard to procure and
cars not to be had when they are needed
for the marketing OF the output, the
prospect is rather dark one for both
growers and dealers.
Stocks OF flrst.class apples on Front
street are very limited and the demand
for good stock is strong. with prices
ranging from 1926 to $l.65 box. read
lily paid for the best offerings. Among
the best apples received today were a
lot OF Kings, from an orchard near the
city. The fruit is OF fine colo and
quality, and moves readily at the top
prices. There is fair demand even for
common apples. which sell at 6oc to ~
a box.
Despite the cuts that were made in
prices in the poultry market the past
few days. available stocks are still large
and a good deal OF the product will have
to be carried over to Monday. The
chances are that next week receipts will
be lighter. and that will mean improve
ment in the market.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-10-08

al per cwt.
Potatoes--New, $l.@l,25 per cwt,
sweets, Q Lao 2Ac pound.
Produce.
Eggs Ranch, candled, 3l@32c.
Country creamery, SOC $50;
city creamery, 35c, store, 20@2l; butter
fat. 33hc.
Cheese--Young America, 1885, Oregon
full cream, flats, Ito.
Honey--Dark, l0a@llel amber, l2@
l3c, fancy white, l4@l6c,
Poultry--0ld roosters, s@oc pound,
hens, l2@lsic ID, Springs, l2@l2Acj
dressed stock. l@lAc higher than live,
ducks. old, la@lsc, young, l4@l5ci tur.
keys, young l7@lsoi old. l6c per n /;
geese, old, 7Casc young, s@9e; pigeons.
$l@l.25 per dozen, squads, sl.76@2 per
dozen.
Groceries, Provisions, Etc.
Sugar, sack basis--D. c., $5.67b; Xxx.
S5,47A; beet. $5.S7h; Golden c, Si,07 l.2,
sxtra G, $507A; powdered, S5.07 IL;
cube, $5.s2h, fruit or berry sugar
S557i; boxes. 5oc cwt advance over
sack basis (less l'4c II paid for In IL
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-10-08

The mania for gambling will out,
no matter how carefully hedged about
by the law. Here is an illustrations:
at took O conversation overheard
at the close of the church service last
Sunday night to bring me to a realiza-
ton of the virulence Of the betting
fever" said Harlem woman. II ac-
tually heard two boys betting on tho
skill Of the sexton in snuffing out the
candles. One bet 25 cents that he
would extinguish each candle at the
first application Of the snuffers, the
other that he wouldn't. had been
watching the proceedings with the
same thought in mind, but 1t never 90
cured to me to bet on the outcome."-~
New York Tribune. Vt.