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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-03-26
Election Notice.

Notice is hereby given that an cleo
ton will be held on the 18th day OF
April, 1908, in the city of Aberdeen,
Wash, for the election of six coun-
cilmen to hold office for the term of
two years each. One councilman will
be elected from each ward; also one
city treasurer and one city clerk, for
the term of one year each.
The polls will be opened in each
precinct or ward at s o'clock a. M,
and close at s o'clock p. m.
Dated at Aberdeen, Wash, March
23d, 1908.
1t p. F. CLARK, City Clerk.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-03-26

purchased the interest of Mr.. Leyde
in the blacksmithing business. Mr..
Leyde will go to Tacoma, where he
has purchased some farm property,
and the business will continue at the
old stand under the firm name of
JobDcop G, uolliprcuortb
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Felled by Cigar Store Indian.

DIR. H B. West touched a bunch of
cigars held by an Indian sQuaw in
front Of the Maheckemo cigar store
with the tip of his umbrella during
a shower here this afternoon, and
she Knocked him unconscious In the
gutter.
Dr. West was senseless more than
ten seconds. and it was an hour or so
before he really realized what had &C.
CURED. He is willing to swear that
this Indian squaw has a punch that
would put out John L. Sullivan in
his prime. Through a short circuiting
of wires the metallic sign had become
charged with the $500 volts of the
electricity, and but for his having
rubber heels on his shoes and gloves
on his hands, the doctor might have
been killed.-South Norwalk dispatch
to New York World.
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A Cats Long Fast.

Ex-Councilman r. B. Reitenour is
proud of tabby cat that has just
emerged from an Imprisonment of p
days. during which time it had neither
food nor water, and the family is max
ing every effort to nurse the animal
back to strength, as it is a goo1
mouser. On April II the cat was Sleep
ing on the floor OF the barn when d
load Of hay was thrown into the NOV,
covering the feline unknown to the
farmer who delivered the hay. At in
tervals men working about the barn
heard strange noises not unlike the
man Reitenour decided to investigate
so with a fork began turning over the
hay until he finally uncovered the cat,
weak and almost famished, but still
alive. He was about to pick it UP
when it jumped and, with true amin al
instinct, quickly found water. Today
pussy seems to be gaining.-Lock Fa-
ven Dispatch to Philadelphia Press.
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Prince Georges Visit.

When King Edward VII visited New
York as Prince of Wales in 1860 he
was a mere stripping of nineteen. trav-
cling as Lord Renfrew. His son and
heir to the throne of England, Prince
George of Wales, is forty-three, and in
all probability will be king within a
few years. Edward assembled the
throne at sixty and is now sixty-seven
years old II he lives to be seventy
son George will be king at forty-six.
The Iatter's visit. therefore, is of the
utmost importance.
American newspaper enterprise rem
ders it impossible that Prince George
shall travel incognito. He could no
more conceal his identity in America
than Niagara Falls could hide its
thunderous roar from passengers on
the Maid of the Mist. Even his faith
er. in 1860, was unable to cloak him
self as Baron Renfrew.
After being in this country five
days, Albert Edward threw off all re-
serve, and made himself easily the
most popular prince that ever visited
a foreign land. He was handsome
youngster, and could beat any man he
ever met at waltzing. The young wo-
men declared him very entertaining
partner, as he rested frequently and
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100000 ENTIRE COST.
Details Of Big En-.
cheering Feat.
Other Items of Interest in
Railway Circles.

The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad now has two tunnels through
Ration pass. The second was compile
ted last week.
The floor OF the new tunnel lies 7.54S
feet above sea level, The summit OF
the mountain is 7,7T6 feet above sea
level. The tunnel runs east and west
and is 2,7S6 feet long from portal to
portal. 1t is 26 feet high, II feet wide
and is lined with concrete. In the roof
the concrete walls are u to "a inches
thick. and in the sides vary from IS
TO "A inches. Penetrating the roof of
the tunnel from the summit of the
mountain are two air shafts. which
also are concrete lined. The west end
is Sc feet lower than the old tunnel
and the east end ~ feet lower. The
old tunnel will be repaired and used
with the new as a double track.
In the construction of the great tun-
mel the work was expedited by work.
ing from both ends and from two places
between. To work from the middle two
shafts were sunk 1000 feet apart, and
by pumping in air two gangs of work
men We're employed in each. This made
room for six gangs of men to work day
and night. remarkable feature of
the work is that the mountain was
pierced almost exactly on the line of
only about an inch. The workmen en-
countered shale, sandstone and coal.
The statum of coal penetrated was
from a few inches TO three and one
half feet in thickness. 1t was of the
best quality and enough was taken out
to have made steam for the construc-
tion plant had there been any practi-
cal method for cheaply separating the
coal from the waste. Such means
lacking, the coal went into the waste
heap.
From the tunnel between portals
81 900 cubic yards of shale, sandstone
approaches 10000 cubic yards. The
portals are constructed of concrete
walls, reinforced with buttresses six
feet apart.
e Since the work was begun 5000 diff
ferent workmen have been employed
The average daily force was $50 men
The constructing company has paid fol-
labor about 100000 the laborers receiv-
ing from BIS to $3.50 a day. In the
construction 1870 barrels Of cement
and million feet of lumber were used
The entire cost was 100000.
The old tunnel was bored 80 year.
ago. 1t will be repaired Immediately
for temporary use, and later it will bt
made larger and lined with concrete
1t is now 1000 feet long but will b.
made longer by the proposed changes
The two tunnels lie Immediately be-
low the old Santa Fe trail, and they
succeed as the highway of commerce
the old toll road maintained by Uncl,
Dick Wootton. a famous character WHIT
owned the pass and the land adjacen
TO it. He was on the ground in tn,
old days when oxen and mules wer,
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HORRIFIES HER.
Mrs. Myra McHenry Objects to a
Very Gay Picture
On Display on a Calendar in
Wichita City Building
THOUGHT ITIMMORAI.
Fixes a Garland of Lace and
Flowers for Neck Yoke
Seine Naughty Man Protests and
Tears 1t Off.

wichita. June 15.-Mrs Myra Nc
Henry is always trying to do sometime
winch she believes. will tend toward
Improving the minds and morals Of the
peopie. She not only is opposed to the
seihns OF Intoxicating liquors. but she
'hihks That immoral pictures shou,d
not oe exposed to public view. She
taxes this stand with a view toward
public decency.
II the elevator car in the city build-
.ns tnere was calendar attached to
inc picture OF a pretty woman who
s mas coined in one Of the low and he
liolu style dresses. It was q catcbinc
picture and when the councilr,ar, 80
Trips TO the council chamber they look
de the pretty woman and NOT AZ TIC
calendar which was attached to TIC
picture All the city officials eazed IN
ohI, picture daily; even the mayor was
ounseu TO look at the lady with the
alapaster bust. as he would ride nm md
ooWn from one floor to the other
Inere really was nothing shockin1
ABOUT the picture, but Mrs. McHenrV
!nougnt the beautiful lady was expos
| ing more Of her painted SELF than W.
exactly proper considering TIC go
| pany she was forced to keen
yesterday Mrs. McHenry made a
beautiful yoke out of lace and Swiss
with row of artificial fowers-lilies
Oh .se Valiey-around the top, and she
Wended her way to the city buildius
where she took down the picture of the
pretty lady in the elevator car. She
carried the picture into quiet place
where no man could see what she was
doing, and she sewed the dainty woke
around the neck and over the bust OF
the unprotected lady on the Calendar
1t was beautiful yoke and it gave tht
lady on the calendar a dressed-up an
pearance. She no longer looked as
though she had been caught dressins
and her picture taken before she had
time to fix up a bit.
But the properly arrayed picture die
not suit the men who ride in the ele.
vator, and one of them carried it away
He said he did not like the frills the
woman was putting on.
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DIFFICULTIES OVERCOME.
Erie Arranges With J. p. Morgan for
Meeting Debts.

New York. June 15.-The financial
difficulties Of the Erie railroad, some
of which were removed or postponed
by the assistance given in the pay
ment of the $5,500,000 matured notes
on April g. have now been entirely
overcome by an arrangement whereby
the company is to be relieved Of the
burden of it's fixed charges for series
of years. The arrangement is made
with j. P. Morgan & Co. According
to it the bankers will pay the interest
charges on the two largest bond is
sues of the company and leave the
company free to use it's earnings for
the completion of improvements that
are calculated to increase greatly the
earning power of the road. The
bankers will pay the interest on $751;
100000 per cent bonds and in re-
turn receive from the company its
per cent notes. Two small mort
cages will be extended at per cent.
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L. N. Penwell
Undertaken and Embolmee
81 Quincy Street
Both Phones 1e7

filled up the interval with cheerful con-
yersation and amusing remarks upon
the company.
Albert Edward came and went in
the Hero, a big steam frigate. capable
of at least nine knots an hour. Her
consorts were the Ariadne. Nile, Fly
ing Fish, and Styx. The Ariadne could
sail-steam all around the Hero, and it
was actually impossible to keep from
running away from the flagship.
Several times on the voyage the
Hero got lost from her fast consort-
In fearful storm the Ariadne threw
out a line and towed the princes
vessel at nine knots through heavy.
seas. The idea of a twenty-six-gun
frigate towing a line-of-battle ship
under such conditions seem absurd;
but the Ariadne was the wonder OF
her age. Prince George. who Is
dandy sailor, will have something un-
der his feet a little better than his
fathers Hero.-New York Press.
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NO MORE BAD CROSSINGS.
Railway Commissions Of Five States
Declare War.

Chicago. June 15.-The railroad
commissions of five states, Illinois.
Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Wis
consin. met in Chicago today and
decided that the deadly grade cross
ing must go. The movement was led
by the state of Indiana, with its TO-
900 unprotected grade crossings,
which exact a toll of 100 lives an
nually. The terrible loss of human
life by reason of people being COM
PEELED to cross railroad tracks and
through trespassing was declared by
Commissioner Wood Of Indiana to be
the great American crime" and it
was insisted that only the reckless
spirit of the American people would
countenance such a national calamity.
AS a correlative movement it was
also decided to work for the passage
of laws where needed and the en-
forcement of existing statutes pro-
hibiting trespassing on railroad rights
of way and on railroad property.
The congress of commissions was
called at the instance of the commits
mission of Michigan, and so impressed
were the commissioners present with
the value of cooperation among
commissions whose action affects the
same railroads in different states that
it was determined to form a per-
manent organization.
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MANHATTAN COMMENCEMENT.
The Triennial Reunion of Alumni OF
X. S. A. C. to Be a Feature.

Inc lf1enn1al reunion Oh AAuIlHl VI
X. S. A. C. to Be a Feature.
Manhattan, June 15.-Sunday
marked the opening Of commence
ment week at the Kansas state
Agricultural college. The baccalaureate
sermon was delivered in the college
auditorium at o'clock in the after
noon by Rev. Robert E. l.. JARVIS,
pastor of the Presbyterian church at
Winfield, Kan. The principal feature
today will be recital by the music
department at the college auditorium
at o'clock p. m. On Tuesday there
will be examination from 8:35 a. m.
to 2:4O D. M, and at O'Clock in the
evening the senior play will be given
to invited guests, at the college audi
torium Examinations will take up
the time of Wednesday morning. AT
2 O'Clock in the afternoon bus1-
ness meeting of the Alumni associa-
ton will be held. From $3.50 to p.
M. there will be class and society
reunions, and in the evening the
livered by Ernest F. Nichols of the
class Of 1888, professor of ex-
perimental physics at Columbia uni
versity, New York.
On Thursday morning will come
the graduation exercises. The an
nual address will be delivered In the
college auditorium at 10 O'Clock by
DR.. Albion w. Small, dean of the
graduate college and professor of
sociology at the University of Chicago.
This address will be followed by the
presentation of diplomas. On Thurs
day afternoon there will be a con-
cert by the cadet banG at 2 o'clock
and military drill at 8 O'Clock. On
Thursday evening at 1880 O'Clock will
take place the triennial reunion of
alumni and invited guests at the
Young Mems Christian association
building.
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ELECTRIC OAR LINE STRIKE.
Conductors and Motormen at Pitts
burg Dissatisfied.

Pittsburg. Kan, June 15.-The con-
ductors and motormen employed by
The Joplin Z Pittsburg Railu ay COM
pany went out on a strike, and the c:ty
is without street car service There
has been no violence and everything
is peaceable. They ask for recognition
as a union by the company, and con-
tract that none except union men Will
be employed by TIE company. A
month or six weeks ago the company
voluntarily increased their pay to
something more than the regular
standard pay embodied in the con-
there is no grievance from that stand
point.
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KILLS SELF AND CHILDREN.
The Awful Act of an Insane Farmer
Near Peabody


Near Peabody.
Peabody, Kan, June 15.-The most
shocking tragedy that has occurred in
this vicinity in many years happened
near here Friday night. Frank Good,
young farmer living seven miles
north of town, Killed his three young
children and then committed suicide.
The instrument used to commit the
terrible deed was a pocket knife. His
father, mother-in-law and young
woman of the neighborhood slept on
the upper floor of the house, but knew
Eothsng of the tragedy until the father
arose at o'clock Saturday morning
and came down stairs. The bodies
were stiff and 1t is supposed they had
been dead for several hours. The
children's threats had been cut and
they had been stabbed in the heart,
and Mr.. Goods body was cut in vari-
Gus places. Circumstances indicated
that the children had died without a
struggle and probably never knew
what happened to them. Mr.. Goods
wife died May %, and it is supposed
that grief over her loss and financial
troubles had unbalanced his mind. He
had been acting rather strangely ever
since her death and had made several
remarks which indicated very de-
spondent frame of mind. The chill
dren were Elsie, aged 9; Wesley, aged
Z, and Ruth, aged years.
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DALTON AT COFFEYVILI.E.
Was an Object of Much Attention. But
No Ill Feelino Shown.

Coffeyville, Kan, June 15.-Emmett
Dalton visited Coffeyville Saturday
afternoon. coming here from Tulsa. He
was the object of much attention and
a large crowd of citizens crowded
around him almost from the time he
landed at the station. He met some
of the men who helped kill two of his
borthers, and some of the relatives of
the citizens who were killed by the
bank robbers in the Dalton raid here
in 1892. All joined in talking over the
details of the fight, and If there is any
bitterness on either side it was not ap-
parent. Dalton walked through
death Valley where the gang was
shot down and up the stairs where he
was carried to have his shoulder dress
ed after the fight. Late in the evening
he went to Elmwood cemetery and
visited the graves of his two brothers.
Dalton is now running grocery and
meat market at Tulsa. and has for his
partner Scott Younger, relative OF
Cole Younger, once member OF the
James gang. Dalton says he will try
to so conduct himself that neither the
people of Coffeyville nor Governor
Hoch will ever regret his having been
hardened q
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POSTNIASTERS AT CHANUTE.
To Have q Two Days Convention
With Congressman Present.

Chanute, Kan, June 15.-Prepara-
tions are under way here for the ninth
annual session of the Kansas State
Postmasters' association, which meets
in this city, June 1928. This will be
the first meeting the state association
has ever held in the Third district,
and indications are that the atten-
dance will be much larger than usual.
In addition to the state association,
the state league of postmasters of
fourth class offices will hold their an
nual meeting in Chanute at the same
time. Features OF the meeting will be
a banquet, rendered visitors by the
Chanute Commercial club, at the clos
ing session and an auto ride through
the residence and factory districts of
the town. A number of prominent Wis
itors will be present. including Con-
gressmen P. P. Campbell and Charles
F. Scott. the president OF the Missouri
State Postmasters' association and
Washington postoffice department Of
ficials.
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An Economical vacation.

Round trip tickets at figures but
slightly in excess of one way fares to
a hundred or more resorts in Canada
and New England will be placed on
sale on various dates after June 1,
1908.
Full particulars of dates of sale.
limits, stopovers and descriptive
literature can be obtained by writing
Geo. w. Vauv, A. G. P. & T. A, Grand
Trunk Railway System, 1875 Adams
ST., Chicago.
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NEW UNION DEPOT?
The Project Is Now Up to City
Council

Chicago. June 15.-The fate of the
new union depot at Kansas City is
now in the hands of the city council
of that city. At a meeting held here
in the Office of President B. L. VIM
chell Of the Rock Island, at which all
the directors were present, President
Harmon of the Kansas City Union
Depot company was instructed to go
ahead with the negotiations for the
erection of the building. and the ac-
tual work will be started as soon as
the city council grants the necessary
franchise.
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RUNNING AT LOSS.
Mexican Central Hurrying Merger on
This Account.

Mexico City, June 15.-It was an
nounced last night that when Pablo
Macedo returns from New York the
merger of the Mexican Central and
the National Railways will be put into
effect Immediately. This step Is made
urgent because the Mexican Central
has been running at a loss for some
time. having to depend on its govern
ment subsidy to meet operating ex-
penses. With the merger the road
will pay expenses without dependence
on the subsidy.
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A Deaf Mute Drowned.

Leavenworth, Kan. June 15.-Em-
NETT stevens, 16 years old, was
drowned while swimming in a pond
near the Merritt lake at Fort Leaven-
worth. The boy was a deaf mute and
he was allowed to go out with num-
Der of companions. John Stevens, his
father, is a barber.
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KANsAs-COLORADo LINE.
Will Run From Garden City to
Canon City

Denver, June 15.-The Kansas
Colorado Railroad company has been
incorporated to build an electric or
steam railway from Canon City.
Colo. to Garden City. Kan. The
company is capitalized at million
dollars and its Incorporation papers
say that the proposed line will pass
through all the principal cities and
towns in the Arkansas valley. The
general offices of the company will be
in Pueblo. The incorporators of the
company are S. H Atwater. Canon
City; j. A. Lockhart, Rookyford:
Robert w. Patterson. La Jurca; A.
H. Warner. Garden City, and Andrew
Russell, Dodge City. Kan.
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the only means of transportation over
the mountains. Uncle Dick made
good revenue from his toll road. Then
came the Santa Fe railroad and the
old man sold to it the right of way
over the mountain. Uncle Dick" died
about Is years ago. A Santa Fe sta
ton on the mountain side at the east
end of the tunnel is named Wootton In
his memory.
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Wichita Man Inherits Money.

Wichita, Kan, June 15.-R. S. Cra-
vens, living at 702 South Topeka ave-
nue., has received word that his uncle,
Charles A. Crabb, a millionaire, whose
home is in Syracuse, y. Y, had died
of heart disease. As r. s. Cravens is
the only close relative of Mr.. c. A.
Crabb. he will inherit the money his
uncle has left.
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= ee PURIFIES
o.o.o.THE BLOOD

Bad blood is responsible for Of the
vital fluid
% in some form is to follow Eczema letter
nn Is iaI r. impure blood and until this
T VIII remain Rheumatism caah Sores and Ulcers scrou
all other blood
ua and will continue unless the poison
seii perfect remedy It down into the circulation and all
sng Nothing reaches inherited and old chronic troubles
circulation
blood medical tot
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA "a.
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New Kansas asters

Washington, June 15.-These post
masters have been appointed: Kansas
-Bayneville, Sedgwick county, Thos.
H. Libugh. vice Ida L. Sawyer, re-
signed; Mentor, Saline county, Maude
Maxwell, vice S. Maxwell, resigned:
Traver, Stevens county. Emma Holm,
vice J. Traver, resigned
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Swine Plague Near Solomon.

Solomon, Kan. June 15.-During
the past three months George Cryder-
man, a farmer near hert, has lost 1875
head of his herd Of 225 fine hogs. DR..
Jones and Mr.. Cryderman took a
three-months-old pig and the lungs Of
one of the animals that had just died
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CHARGED WITH PERJURY.
Doniplan Man Said to Have Mad
False Return OF Property.

TROY. Kan. June 15.-An interesting
case developed in Doniphan county
when Lewis Pohl, deputy assessor of
Iowa township, swore to complaint
charging A. j. Bliss with perjury. 1t
is alleged that Bliss did not give in
correct account Of his property to the
assessor. Bliss was arraigned before
Justice Smith and bound over on a
bond Of $1,000. His preliminary trial
will be held Wednesday.
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I,iphtninc DESTROYS a Store.

LaCygne, Kan. June 15.-During a
severe storm Saturday, lightning
struck the Granger store at Cadmus,
seven miles west of here, and it was
burned to the ground.
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pleted. Elaborate preparations have
been made to entertain the delegates
and 1T is expected that six hundred or
more will be here. The chamber of
commerce has arranged several fea-
lures for Endeavorers. The session
opens Tuesday and closes Thursday.
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DROWNED IN A SLOUGH.
Webb Burns and His Wife Lose Their
Lives Near Kiowa

Burns and his wife were drowned in
the wagon road near here in attempt
ing to cross a slough in a wagon. The
bodies were recovered. Small streams
are now raging torrents.