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The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19
\ BlG TURKEY B|L|
KANSAS CITY IS EXPECTED IA SPEND seo,ooo FOR
 TURKEYS.
THE CITY ALONE WILL CONSUME 3ODN
Hish-Priced Corn Sending the s,s. to Market Early--WIII Be a eus Supply for ThanksgiyIng--A sAsr. age About chrIstnas--msy Co n Forty Gents Per Pound.

Kansas City, Nov. 15.-one vest from next Thursday will be Thspks giving day. It will take 10000 turkev to give Kansas City its annual dinner according to one of the leading com. mission men In the city, and there VIII be about that many birds taking walk to the ohopping block between now and the end of next week. Thsy will sell here, retail, at about % to 22 cents A year ago they brought < to 20 cents. The wholesale price ths year is just cent higher than il Wn last year There were hardly eaoagA turkeys to go around last Thsnk1gl ing, meaning that some of the retail CTS ran out of stock early the day he fore Thanksgiving day, making tAsi customers hurry down town to gsthg up their birds there. This year 5 cent corn will alter the situation ani will make turkeys plentiful
 They are marketing early ths year." said the commission man A turkey eats a lot of grain, and thefe s no fun shoveling 75-cent corn out Q him. The consequence is the birds are coming in thinner than usual aHd much earlier. The farmer is anxious to get rid of his turkeys For thal reason I am sure there will be pleAF tiful supply and at about what we got for them a year ago. After ThanSs giving. though, meaning the holan trade. the bill will be pretty stif am the market scant. l would not aF tempt to predict the Christmas mal ket. The farmer will have to get nA 75-oent corn back"
 As high as 40 cents a pound Aas been paid for Christmas turkeys Y Kansas City, though the pdce IS @ most prohibitive. Hotels have to p1 1t. They recoup by cutting the slles' thinner and getting enough OH 'as joints to take care of their club sana wiches. The average cost oi VH key is s2, SO that with S0,OOo birds OA the tables here at once, 1t costs han sas City s60,O00 for turkeys 0a Thanksgiving day.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19
SOCIALISTS UPHELD eoMPERs
Going Into Politics Pleases That Wing
 of the A. E. of |.

Denver, Nov. 13.-Characterizing the participation of the American Fedora ton of Labor, through its executive council. in the recent national cam paign as a distinct victory for the So cialist cause. 1t Is announced by that element in the federation that there will be no fight in this convention of the federation between the Socialists and their opponents Heretofore this contest has been leading feature of the annual meetings, and President Gompers has been the mark of assault. Now the Socialists believe that start has been made by the federation which will bring the labor movement of the country to their party.
 The convention resumed Its session this morning after taking a day of to visit the Union Printers home at Colo rado Springs. The programme began with the addresses of the fraternal delegates from the English and Cana dian labor congresses.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19

and spreading disease. is being told with the same old lack of result. Maiden ladies of advanced years easily become convinced that kissing is dangerous business. That it 's dangerous everybody will admit. In braving the danger the ardent lover finds happy opportunity to prove both his heroism and devotion. The lover who realizes that there are deadly microbes nesting in the hps of his sweetheart, and does not heroically smack them off, is no man at all.
 It is not likely that the spinsters crusade will appreciably inJure the festive microbes business. The KISS is graft which the microbe IS req sonably sure will hold good. Yet. all that the anti-kiss crusaders say is true. It is a scientific fact that the lips should be carefully sponged with carbolic acid before kissing and after.
 But the world must first be con- vinced of it's error, and until that happy consummation is reached, the great majority of humanity will kiss when the inspiration strikes It, in the same old way, and with the most reckless disregard of the dam age which vital statistics may re- cieve from their thoughtlessness.
 If people die as result of It, others are born as a result of it, and the world manages to hold it's own. Southwest American.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19
The Progress of Corruption.

The troubles at San Francisco which resulted from the unearthing of system of boodling that had been going on for years, eliminated
 Friday afternoon in Morris Haas, a rejected juror, shooting and infiict- ing a possibly fatal wound upon Francis J. Heney, who has been a leading figure in the prosecution of Schmitz, Ruef and the other scoun- drels. Haas had been accepted as a juror in the trial of Ruef but was rejected upon the later discovery tha. he was an ex.convict. The shooting occurred in the court room.
 For years California has had an un- savory reputation by reason of off, cial crookedness, and San Francisco has been her foulest spot. ~orrup- tion has permeated her whole off, cial system. To escape punishment for their misdeeds the unconvicted violators of the law have pursued every method that could be con ceived. Judges have been corrupted juries packed, and witnesses bribed and suborned to commit purjury. Now possible murder has been brought in as last resort to end the prosecutions which threatened the exterpation of one of the worst gangs of corruptionists that ever cursed America.
 It is up to California to awaken to the condition with which she is cursed and rid herself of the chains of corruption with which she is bound. The attempted murder of a prosecuting officer in temple of justice should draw together all law abiding citizens of the state in a determination that an end shall be put to the carnival of crime which has so long been rampant in their midst. Fort Smith Times.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19

w. J. Bryan objects to the idea that Roosevelt should be sent to the United States senate on the ground that it is discredit to the nation to turn it's ex-presidents loose to shift for themselves. And MT. Bryan is right. If Roosevelt is sent to the senate it should b. solely because of the service he can render the people of the county in that high station. More than that. probably no man would more heartily resent that idea that the country should take care of him when he steps down from the presidency than would Mir. Roosevelt. He is mighty well able to take care of himself and has no desire to be made a mollycoddle under any pretext.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19
AN INNOVATION FOR THE
 STAR

On Saturday next The Star will give it's readers the first of a con tinaed story of more than usual in- terest. and will follow with good installment each day thereafter until it is ended.
 The story relates the experience of a young man and woman thrown upon an isolated coast by ship wreck and has to do with their bat tie for existence against the ele. ments.
 Into the Primitive" is the title: Robert Ames Bennett is the author. and it is illustrated by Roy Walters. Look for it Saturday.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19
No Longer Grafters, Paradise.

The Republicans of Missouri in nominating State Attorney Hadley for governor probably selected their strongest man for the position. At any rate he was elected. Governor Folk was elected on his personal reform record four years ago but this year the Democratic candidate represented the influence that had been hostile to him, and. as in New York, the people stoutly resented the attempt to lower the standard of political morality which they had helped to establish. They have shown that they want men of back bone and courage. Missouri has ceased to be the grafters' paradise.
 Boston Evening Transcript.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19

Harry Thaw's mother and sister have moved to Matteawan to be n ear their son and brother, who is still confined to the asylum for the criminal insane for the murder of Stanford White. What a punish ment has fallen upon this family all be.ause a boy was allowed to live without learning to do any useful thing for humanity,
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19
Had the Tafts as Patrons.

Hot Springs Va, Nov. 1S.-Presi dent-eleet and Mrs Taft were patrons Wednesday night at the lecture for the benefit of the blind. given in the ball room of the Homestead hotel by Mrs Walker Fearn. widow of the late late American minister to Greece and Roumania. Mrs. Fearn told of The work being done for the blind by tiie King and Queen of Roumania. She was introduced by Winston Churchill of New Hampshire. Judge Taft had no callers Wednesday and devoted himself to the preparation of his speech to be delivered in Brooklyn.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19
F,om 0vsr,urf School.

To The Star:-The Star IS the best county paper we have ever had ana I like it fine.
 I have made good start with the winter term at the 0verturf school The people seem we'll pleased and we expect to have a better school than we have ever had before. Many of the people here are old friends and give me every assistance. which IS neces' sary to a teacher to do the best work We have preaching and prayer service every Sunday.
 J.. N. Galloway.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19
A New lnformatlon Man

Kansas City, Nov 15.-A. "Pl" How. ell has resigned as chief of the infor. mation bureau at the Union depot and has gone into the grocery business at Forty-sixth street and Tracy avenue. Howell had been in charge of the bu. reau for six years. owen Barbre. the assistant in the bureau. has been gly. en Howell's place. The change be. came effective Saturday.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19

Guard your kidneys; the health ot the body depends on those snall but important organs
 ltey extrae. uric acid from tbc blood which if allowed to remain m The system would cause dronsy and Bright's Disease. prickly Ash Bltters is a successful kidney teniei It heals and s,rengtbeas the kidneys, regulates the livar. stimulates the stomach and d,- gestlon, eleanses the bowels |, will prevent or cure Brigbt's ms, ease. W. C. Xaudiyer, special agent.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19

Tenderness or aching 10 lus small of the back IS se'lou' .. symtom. The kidneys are lss.a''. saas' ing. Take Prickly Ash bi,'s's ,as at once. It is a reliable k'uO.3 " remedy and system regula'oi. a1s a". will cure lhe trouble beiJie AvS W velops in a dangerous stage c. Vandiver. special agent
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19

Ii. Clay Pierce, chairman of the board of directors of the Waters. Pierce Oil Company is out op $20.- 900 bond in Austin. Tex, for false swearing in connection with the re- admission of that company to Texas after 1t had been busted tor viola tion of the antitrust laws. If he is convicted of the charge it will make a lot of corporation heads a mighty sig ght more careful how they
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19

In the death of Senator Carmack at Nashville at the hands of a poli- tician whom he had criticised in his paper, the Tennessean, the South loses one of her most brilliant and fearless men. This death is another severe lesson as to the evll practice of pistol toting. It is not pleasant to see citizens in the top walks of violating laws that they should help to enforce and for the viola tion of which they would most heartily condemn others.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19

An article in The Star of this issue gives an idea of the good work being done by the Forest Service ir developing and building roads Supervisor Record asks people desir- ing to develop good roads through the National Forest to notify him and he will cooperate in securing the improvement if practical.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19

word has come from the junior senator from Arkansas concerning the results in those states m the North where it is alleged that he made speeches and which he pre- dicted a Bryan landslide. Gazette.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19

Perhaps times" are not so good for you as they have been: maybe business is a little slow. But you only make others doubtful and un- easy and help to keep things that way when you stand on the street corners and talk about it. If you want to see your town prosper don't be a growler.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19
If It Could Only Be !

If the people of Arkansas could only forget politics for few years and go to work to develop the re. sources of their state and bring it out of the lag-behind column, it would make very little difference to them who is elected President. Gazette.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19
THE MENA EVENING STAR

Is progressive newspaper furnishing to it's readers a daily service covering the most important of the worlds gem eral happenings. as well as those Items of local news that go to make a home paper invaluable to citizens Of any com munity. If you want the news in your home each week day. subscribe for The Evening Star. By carrier or mall, 40c
 CT month.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19

The United States court of appeals has denied the governments peti- tion for a rshearing in the % million dollar Standard Oil fine case an- other victory for Rockefeller's mo- nopoly. The case now goes to the Supreme court. We never really expected to spend any of that money anvhnw
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19

One of Japan's greatest states men says the United States and Japan are sure to clash in war and that it may last 100 years. Now if they will just postpone it that long not many of us will seriously worry.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19

The emperor of China is i'll and refuses to accept foreign medical aid or medicines. And, after all, isn't he playing about as safe as as most people?
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19

The public rights are again being threatened by the courts. A Ten nessee judge has ruled that base ball fan has no right to roast" a player, or if he does he has no rights in court when he gets licked.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19

Morse, the high-financier who was sentenced to fifteen years in prison recently for crooked banking, is said to be bankrupt. Perhaps that helps explain why he is in prison.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19

Carrie Nation is said to be going to Scotland and the Carthage Press aptly suggests that the Bonny Scotts be notified in time to let down a tuck or two in their kilties before she arrives. Doubtless the exposure manly limbs customary in that coun- try would cause q severe shock.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19

Manufacturers of chemicals are already taking steps to prevent a reduction of the tariff on their wares. That's to be expected. But it is up to a Republican Congress and President to see that the inter- ests of others than the manufac- turers are cared for.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19
The Microbes Safe Graft

Boston is the source of the latest crusade against unhygienic kissing. The same old story about microbes reveling in the osculatory contact,
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19

James Hazen Hyde. the American millionaire dude who turned up his nose and quit the country when his part in the New York insurance scandals was made public, is heard from again. He is about to marry a French actress.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19
Al the Notion Counter.

Rich Customer--l want to set soue alarming cotton. What kind do lO' recommendg
 Airy shop Girl-Really ] cant sa'' I always use silk Judge
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19
The fact that because of expecte

The fact that because of expected prosperity steps are being made to largely increase immigration in order to supply cheap labor is very much like 8 fly in the soup. In- creased prosperity ought to bring better wages to our own people first.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19

answer questions in court, and may lead to an easier enforcement of laws for the protection of the people.
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19
Should at Least Report.

A week has passed, and yet no
The Mena weekly star., 1908-11-19
The Country Against Cannon.

There is no possible way by which
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-12-23

term in penitentiary in a middle
west state for daylight burglary.
The Swede" as the third member
of the gang is known, is believed to
have left the city with a portion Of
the plunder. The railroad detectives
are confident they will arrest him
within a short time.
What part, IL any, Mrs. Hebron
plays in the affair is thus far a mys-
terry. She is supposed to have lived
with Hayes at the Densmoro, 2bO1
First evenue North. corner of Len
ora, in Seattle. They quarreled, ac-
cording to Hayes statement and he
struck her. The police in Seattle are
said to have had a warrant out for
his arrest on the charge of striking
her since last June, when Hayes
says he was chased by policeman,
shot in the leg and slightly injured
and made his escape by running
through the Great Northern tunnel
and beating his way to Tacoma.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-12-23

bers Of the state Railroad Commis-
sion have announced their Intention
of bringing suit 10 compel The Or
egon Railroad aud Navigation com
many 10 comply with the laws Of
Washington I'm regard 10 an annual
report.
Secretary Calderhead of the COM
mission has returned from Portland
where he says ne failed In his ef-
tort 90 have the company make the
rep1rt the commission asked for
The commission insists that eacn
road report In detail its earnings
and expenses I'm the state. The o.
II. a. \. company. which belongs %
he Hartman system, has refused 10
segre gate state business.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-12-23
THE DAM GOOD, AND
DAM SITE BETTER

Colon, Panama Canal Zone, Dec
25.-To answer the stories that So
rious errors I'm the construction OF
the Gatun dam caused a collapse OF
portion OF the wall and have
caused n serious slide under the
trestle OF the relocated Panama
railroad AT Gatun and that the site
OF the Gatnn dam had been mad
yertently placed over subterranoan
lake, and ofiicial statement has Just
been issued by the authorities In
charge of the big Ditch"
The collapse OF the dam wall is
described aB a minor happening,
which. instead OF running previous
work, only goes To ensure the future
permanency OF the wall inasmuch as
Il means that the rock nll will keep
sinking until n reaches firm bottom.
The slide underneath the trestle, II
IN said. has been expected, and
others Will follow These slips also
are interpreted as only minor hap
penings In the natural settling Of
earth fills.
The story that an underground
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-12-23
INCREASED EXPENSES
DEMAND BETTER PAY

Washington. Dec. Ex-senator
Bourne of Oregon, who has intro
duced bill to increase the salary
of the President from $4,000 a
year TO 100000 n year ana the sal
airy of the vice-president from $l2,-
600 year to S25.000 year Is ac-
lively at work in favor of his meas
ure aud hopes to have II pass con-
gress and signed by the President
before March 4, 1909, so that Mr..
Taft and Mr.. Sherman will get the
benefit of the increase.
Unless the bill is passed at this
session of congress, Taft would not
get the benefit of it unless re-elect-
ed 10 the presidency.
at seems to me. said Senator
Bourne today. that the arguments
in favor OF the increases provided
for In my Oill, are unanswerable.
The truth is that the question Of
money Is mighty serious consid-
GRAFTON in connection with the filling
of first-class positions in Washing
ton, which involve heavy social ex-
pendltures. III the time has not
come when the president Is actually
cramped TO live within his salary, Il
is surely near at hand.
People who claim TO know about
the experiences of our latcr-day
Presidents declare that the time is
ident TO save any money from his
past when II Is possible for Pres
salary and perquisites. Mckinley
saved something and President Har-
rison Is said TO have saved some
money, but Cleveland Is known 20
] has H..Na A l..
a comparatively poor man and 20
have been glad to write for maya
zines occasionally to exc out his In
come.
In filling the vice-presidency and
cabinet positions IL even worse. The
viee-presidency has pretty nearly
fallen into the unfortunate situa-
ton OF the embassies where none but
rich men dare accept positions. The
last Republican convention wavered
between two men now senators from
Iowa-Cummins and Dolliyor In con-
nection with the presidency but
neither could AFFORD the place. Sem
tor Spooner would probably be the
next secretary OF state but for the
fact that he had TO leave public
life TO earn more money.
~ ~ not 100 mucn 10 say that
Mr.. Taft's cabinet would today be
well on the way to completion II
men liable 60 consideration were
not stopped by financial considera-
ton.
Washington gets more expensive
year by year for those 10 whom so
cial duties are compulsory. There
has been an influx OF people OF great
wealth and social ambitions of re-
cent year and they have made social
Washington almost an impossibility
save for people OF large means
Congress added 90 per cen 10
It's own salary two years ago and the
country aid not md fault This In
not an auspiciouns time for cOnsid-
Grafton OF more increases, but the
bill should pass congress shortly
after the holidays"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-12-23
EVIDENCE POINTS TO
BURKE AND HAYES

Portland, Dec. 23.-All doubt as
Jo the chances of the rival candi-
dates for indictment fOrthe TObbing
Of the Oregon Railroad q Nayiga-
ion train near the city limits last
thursday night seem 10 have been
determined In favor of Burke and
Hayes. the two men held ~ the coun-
IS Jail
This morning a watch sent by
Hayes 20 Mrs. Ida Hebron Of Seattle,
ves rerOyered bY the sheriff and re-
turned BY the Seattle postal author
titles. Although II has not yet been
Identified as having been stolen
from the express car, ID Is believed
by the officers that 10 b. part Of the
feselry taken by the three bandits
Hayes. the suspected leader OF the
trio. made "a long statement 10 the
this morning in
which be- gave good part Of his
Ilfe history, denied that the knsa
auythlng about the train robbery.
but admitted that ne had served q
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-12-23
ED SCHWARTZ SOUGHT
BY HIS BROTHER

Frank Hansen. OF Aberdeen, souih
D9kota was iu the city today making
inoulries for hia hslf-brother IA.
schwartz, who has been missing iiol"
his home in PrOcser Wa D. TOT 'He
past two months.
nan IA has searched over ey p
oonpt- in the stare. from Medford 10
mis- civ. IN the hopes Qf locating 'ls
baIf-broth. r. bat 30 far he ha zen
Several weeks ago
s~bwartz IN bis home iu Pfoss =.
,v~sb fo prove uD on a claim pc h1d
come I'm possessi0n of Wiih the un-
Aorsts,ding that be- vas % rerifn
within ten DAYS. lie had on MS pe'
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-12-23

Some statlsticlan figures that $50.
OOOOOO every year Is being diverted
from the local merchants OF this coun
Try TO the mail order concerns IN The
great cities
How much Of that MONUMENTAL
MOUND or MONEY goes out Of this
community
Every dollar 80 spent helps to
SWELL THE HEAP in the city that
has NO use for us except TO get our
GOOD MONEY.
Every dollar mailed away helps 10
S'fRANGLE ENTERPRISE AND
sCUTTLE PROSPERITY right here
AZ home.
When you strange your neighbor
you strange yourself.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-12-23

lake lies beneath the Gatun dam is
pronounced absurd. although Il 10
admitted that In borings close %
the dam site water under pressure
was found In most OF the holes. The
engineers assert that the dam In be-
ing built on "A very firm foundation
of lmperyious clay and that there
In no doubt about the satisfactory
character OF the whole task.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-12-23
A nnnrrona nnernlIon-

II the removal OF the appendix ~
surgeon. No one who takes DR.
Kings New Life pills Is ever sub
jeeted 10 this frightful ordeal. They
work so quietly you don't feel them
They cure constipation, headache. bl,-
lousness aud malaria 25e at J. g..
perry'a drug store