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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-12-09

fine line Of splendid quality Jap Mink,
almost as nice as the American Mink, at
much less price. They come in a good
variety Of styles, separate pieces and sets.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-12-09
INEVITABLE MoNoPoLIEs.

An official Of the federal govern
ment was recently quoted as follows
by q Washington correspondent upon
the recent consolidation of the three
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-12-09
I6ifs(ssdl Capital
a EXPENDITURES.

Our good friend. Col. Bowen, O
the Huron Huronite. has made il
plain enough that he is not by any
means devoted to the reelection O
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-03-19

they We're mistake. They frightened
the whales from the grounds they had
frequented, and there were other cir
cumstances that were a drawback. The
masters of steam vessels are required
to take out a license, and some of the
best whalemen could not meet the re-
quirements. So it happened that the
'boat-header' system was introduced.
Men of the merchant service we're
placed in command of the steam
whalers in some instances and ex-
pert whalemen were shipped as boat
headers at a lay above that allowed the
masters of the vessels. The boathead-
er was in command of the boats when
they lowered for whales, and at other
times he was an anomalous figure
aboard ship.
The disasters Of 1871 and 1879 de-
stroyed the vessels by wholesale, the
Shenandoah preyed upon them, and
the ice pack picked them off one by
one To the evor-present foes of nature.
the United States government contrib
uted its menace to the investment, and
so ends another incident of the brayest
industry in which daring men ever en-
gagged,
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-03-19
Maine Fox skins.

1t is estimated that about seventy
five thousand fox skins are sold out Of
Maine every year. Very few of the
sly animals are shot Many are killed
by the use of poisoned bait, while
hundreds Of others are killed in
drives" known as the New Hamp-
shire method" This is not sportsman
like, but the fur hunters are in the
game for cash. not sport. No accur-
ate statistics are available as to the
number Of foxes captured in Maine in
a year. but some time ago Charles E.
at committee hearing that more than
$4,000 fox skins were sold out of Arros-
took County alone every year. Out
side of Aroostook County, where sever
al men make business of fox hunting,
perhaps $4,000 pelts are taken in a
year, making the total output of the
state $4,000. The price of good fox
skins reached the highest notch last
winter, even red pelts. commanding
from $3.50 to IS each, as against $3.50
two years ago and $3.50 five years ago.
For silver grays, which are rare, and
blacks, which are very rare, prices re-
main very much as in former years,
though the rates have advanced some
what, and the market is much stead
Ter since the close of the war between
Japan and Russia, as nearly all these
expensive skins are marketed in Rus
STA. One fox skin in 200 is from a
"cross" fox, and is valued at $50; one
in 10000 is silver gray, and is worth
from 5000 to $500, and perhaps one in
100000 is a pure and radiant black,
which may bring $500 or even $500,
thus making the coat of the black fox
the most valuable garment worn by
any animal on top of earth.-Kennebec
Journal.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-03-19
WOMEN PAYING PENALTY.
Increased Death Fate Among Female
.Wana.E arners.

Wage-Earners.
Women have begun to pay the pen
atty for entering the. fields of employ
ment formerly occupied by men exclu-
siyely, according to a mortuary table
for Manhattan and the Bronx recently
prepared by DIR. William H. Guilfoy,
the registrar Of records Of the health
department.. He has compared two pc
rlods1868, when women had not TAX
en- up general employment in CONNER
clal and professional life, and 1907,
when there is hardly an occupation in
which they do not figure, Despite the
tremendous gain made in the fight for
supremacy over the great white plague
the deaths from all causes between the
ages of As and 65 or over show that at
the period when the manner of the past
life is most potential for health or dis
ease, the death rate. exceeds that OF
forty years ago.
Between the ages of As and 54 in
1868 the percentage of deaths from
all causes was 1859, as compared with
1857 in 1907 between the ages sf 55
and GA in 1868, 29.37, and in 1907, 3s.4S;
for 65 years and over 88.4G In 1868, and
$3.50 in 1907. In tuberculosis Of all
kinds there has been great reduction
in the death rate for all years This
reduced the foregoing figures, or the
showing of an increased percentage OF
deaths would be still greater. From
other diseases the increase has been
uniform.
Life insurance companies have long
recognized this adverse condition, hay-
ing observed the gradual increase Of
deaths among women who are in bust
ness, While the health departments
the country over keep the statistics
as accurately as possible, they are not
as accurately as practically as by the
life companies which figure the dam
gers Of risks to nicely unknown In
other lines of activity. DR.. Guilfoy
sees great advancement in the fight
against tuberculosis, but even in that
disease he has shown that the mean
average of death among women has
shortened the duration of life since
1868.-New York Tribune.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-03-19
scottish FISHING Colony.

A delegation Of Scottish fishermen
is now visiting Australia, and its mem
bers have proposed to Sir Thomas
Bent, Premier Of Victoria, the es-
adjustment of fishing colony on
Snake Island, some seventy miles to
the southeast of Melbourne. They
promise to bring out $50 families from
Scotland and settle them on the isl
and. where the canning, curing and
oil extraction industries would pro-
vide plenty of employment. They have
satisfied themselves that the waters
Whereabouts are well stocks with fish
of considerable commercial value.
Snake Island has an area of 5000 acres
and is at present used as sanctuary
for the preservation Of birds and 9th.
er animals.-London Chronicle.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-03-19
Experts in CLIMBING.

Some Of the guides are experts in
climbing. There are a number who
are noted for their skill in what the
Alpinist calls snow and ice work"
That means going up peak which
has so many snow fields and glaciers
that it's sides and SUBMITS may be
nearly covered with them. The gla-
cier guide can tell you all about cor
nices" masses which project
from the edge Of precipices and over
hang the valley beneath like the roof
Of house. Experience has told him
whether a cornice can be crossed safe
ly or whether it may break off if one
ventures upon 1t. He is also an ex-
pert with the ice axe carried in his
belt, cutting footholds in the glittering
walls that may rise so or 100 feet
above your head. These ice precipic-
es are frequently found at the heads
Of glaciers, which, as the schoolboy
knows, are merely rivers of frozen
water slowly moving down the face Of
a mountain on, account OF the force Of
gravity and the great pressure of the
ice masses which form their source
on the upper part of the slope. 9th
err guides make speciality OF rock
work." conducting persons up peaks
which may be only partly covered with
snow and ice, but having sides Of bare
rock so steep that in places the cliffs
may be almost straight up and down.
Here it would seem that one must be
as spry and as sure-footed as the
chamois-- the rare goat that lives up
amid the Alps. While the crevasse
and other dangers of the snow and
ice fields may be absent, the mountain
may be so abrupt that the climber
must ascend hundreds Of feet pulling
himself up with his arms aiding his
legs. while often the guide hauls him
to the top of the most difficult slopes
BY main strength.-St. Nicholas.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-03-19
some TUNNEL BUILDERS.
The SOLITARY Bees" Dig Out Their
Homes Under the Earth.

The SOLITARY Bees" Dig Out Their
Homes Under the Earth.
Not all the bees one sees on the
flowers are the busy little fellows
who supply our tables with honey. OF
course, you all know that the great
family Of bees may be roughly divided
into the social bees, those that live
together in populous communities and
the solitary bees which live only one
or two in home.
Instead of building their homes of
wax some of these industrious little
solitary fellows are tunnel builders
and excavate their homes in the
earth. BY no means is theirs a light
task, and the amount of work some
times done by a single bee is enor-
nous almost beyond belief 1t has
been approximately calculated that
the little blue digger bee lAugochlora)
digs such a tunnel in proportion to
her weight that if man weighing 1856
pounds would equal it he must dig a
hole four feet in diameter and 1895
miles deep. And this represents less
than half the work done, for this COM
putation takes no account Of the
branches and cells. Furthermore, it
has been since discovered that this
little bee digs two Of these tunnels
during her lifetime.
The tunnels of some of the solitary
bees are driven horizontally in the
sides of steep slopes, and others are
sunk vertically from the surface Of
the level ground, according to the hab-
its of the different species. Leading
from the main passageway, there are
short branches which terminate each
in a widened chamber or cell. The
whole interior of this cell is plastered
with cement that makes the walls
smooth and waterproof and also hard
ems them so the earth does not fall
in.
These little bees differ slightly in
their opinions as to which is the best
food and, consequently, some species
store their cells with a pellet of pol
len while others are sure that honey,
with little pollen added, is by far the
best food for a young bee. In either
case, an egg is placed on the food
mass and the entrance to the cell
closed up. When the lowest cell is
properly stocked and sealed, then the
next higher one, and so on toward the
top. In this way the earth from each
succeeding cell fills the passageway
below it and so prevents access to the
cells by the natural enemies of the
bees.-St. Nicholas.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-03-19

At 2 o'clock he goes out for physical
exercise and may not return until
about 5. Then comes the afternoon
tea, to which one usually invites a
friend.
Dinner is served at o'clock in the
common dining room, where students
and teachers dine together. The place
in which Giffen has dinner is a big
fine room with high ceiling. The
sides are panelled in oak and hung
with the portraits of ancient bene-
factors of the college. The silver
used at the table is from fifty to 300
years old. After dinner the students
usually go out to amuse themselves.
University Missourian.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-03-19
WALLETS FOR ALL AT OXFORD.
Life Easy at the English University,
Says Student From Missouri.


Says Student From Missouri.
Morrison Beall Giffen, at the Uni
versity of Missouri last year and now
a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, has writ
ten letter to the head of the Cos
mopolitan Club in Columbia, of which
he was a charter member and the
first chairman.
Mr.. Giffen says that during the last
two months he has been kept busy
preparing for an examination which
he must take before the Christmas
holidays.
Oxford has a peculiar system of
examination. There are three exam
nations only during the entire
course, one for entrance, one in the
middle of the course and one at the
end.
Life is very easy at Oxford-per-
haps too easy-thinks Giffen. There
are servants for everything. A days
program begins at 1870 o'clock in the
morning, when servant wakes the
student and gets his bath ready.
Breakfast is brought into the room
at $50 o'clock.
From 9 o'clock to noon the student
is supposed to study At / O'Clock a
hight lunch is brought into his room.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-03-19
And He Probably Did.

What can 1 do" roared the fiery
orator, when see my country going
to ruin, when 1 see our oppressors'
hands at our Threats, strangling us,
and the black clouds of hopelessness
and despair gathering on the horizon
to obliterate the golden sun of pros
perity. What, ask, what can do?"
''Sit down." shouted the audience.
New York Times.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-03-19
An Encumbrance.

Little Helen had been very noisy
all day long. Her papa asked her to
stand i'll the corner to punish her.
After crying while she very indig-
nantly said, Il do wish papa had never
married in this family. Delineator.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-03-19

The Laplander can travel about
$50 miles day on his skates.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-10-18
TRACKLAYING STOPPED.
Landslide Eight Miles East of Roch-
ester Checks Work for a Few
DAYS.

Work of laying rails on the Grays
HarbOr & Puget Sound line between
Rochester and COsmopOlis was stop
ped Friday. A large landslide con-
tanning thousands of tons of earth,
blocks the way at a point south Of
Oakville. A steam shovel was hur-
ried to the scene and the crew is
working night and day to clear away
the earth. 1t is said this will take
three or four days.
The contract for completing the
line from CosmOpolis to Hoquiam has
been awarded to Winters, Caughren,
Smith & Co., of Spokane, the firm
which has the contract on the road
from COsmopolis east The grading
crews will be put to work at once
and the work rushed to this city A
telegram from J. ID. Farrell of the
Oregon & Washington Railway COM
pany, reads as follows:
Contractors are examining the
depot ground at Aberdeen, prelimin-
airy to making bids. The grade ,e
tween Cosmopolis and Hoquiam is
covered by the Caughren, Winters e
Smith contract. The completion of
the line to Aberdeen is contingent
upon the construction of the bridge
and the acquisition of the right of
way under proceedings now in court"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-10-18
ANOTHER FAKE LAW.
Voter Does Not Have to Announce
His Party Affiliations to Register.

OLYMPIA, Oct. 16.-The provision
of the primary law requiring voters
to register their party affiliations is
unconstitutional, according to a de-
cisiGp. handed down by Judge John r
Mitchell of the Thurston county SUI
perior court yesterday in denying the
application for writ of mandate
made by Marvin Arnold. Arnold ap-
piled at the city hall for the pur-
pose of registering. He insisted up
on putting his party affiliation of
record and City Clerk James Dever in
formed him that he could not register
his affiliations. He said he was a
Republican and demanded his right
to put down his party belief. The
clerk refused to let him, so he re-
fused to register at all and went in
to court for writ of mandate.
In his decision Judge Mitchell
holds that the portion of the direct
primary law that seeks to amend by
implication the statute coveing reg
istratiOn is null and void. The de-
cision is of much Importance at this
time as many towns and cities are
preparing to hold elections within
the next few weeks, and the attorney
generals office has been deluged with
requests for opinions covering the
portion of the law relating to regis
tering the voters party belief.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-10-18
LICENSING PEDDLERS
IS HELD TO BE LEGAL
New Law is Sustained by State Su-
preme Court in Most of Its
Provisions.

OLYMPIA. Oct. 16.-The state su-
preme court today sustained the val
idity of the state licensed-peddling
law passed by the legislature of 1909
The decision was madde in the habe-
as corpus case of A. D. Mcknight
against Sheriff Hodge, of King coun-
ty. Nc Knight was arrested for
violating the law.
He claimed it was unconstitutional
because different amounts of license
were exacted from. different classes
of peddlers and because certain ped
dlers were not required to take any
license. These facts do not bring
the law within the constitutional
provision of class legislation, says
the decision.
The court, however, does hold void
the provision of the law that all an
nual licenses shall expire the second
Monday in each January, and holds
that the license is good for twelve
months from the date it is issued
This decision will probably end the
effort Of a Hoquiam Chinaman to
invalidate the Aberdeen ordinance,
requiring some peddlers to have a
license.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-10-18
HIRED PERJURY SAYS COOK.
DR.. Cook Saws Barrill Was Paid for
Mt. Mckinley Affidavit and
Miller Lies.

NEW YORK, Oct. 15.-Dr. Fred
erick A. Cook, denying the charges
that he had not ascended Mount Nc
Kinley, in Alaska, came out with a
statement here tonight, after three
hours conference with his attorney,
intimating at Edward n. Barrill, the
guide who accompanied him, had per-
jured himself in his recent affidavit
for a consideration by Cooks dertac-
tors, and that Walter P. Miller, the
photographer, was seventy miles
away and could not know.
To disprove Barrill's statements,
DR.. Cook further announced that he
had taken preliminary steps to Or
ganize an expedition to ascend Mount
Mckinley to procure the records
which he says he left there He has
wired Anthony Fiala, the Arctic eX-
plOrer, to head the expedition. and
has wired Prof. II. c. Parker, of CO.
lumbia University, to accompany
Fiala. Their answers are expected
tomorrow.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-10-18
A. BLOW AT DOCTORS TRUST.
Seattle Court Holds That No Diploma
is Required From Practitioners
OF Two Years.

SEATTLE, Oct. II Fifty of fifty
nine applicants. who were refused IL
censes to practice by the state board
of medical examiners, can procure or
ders from the superior court requir-
ing the state board to issue the IL
censes, under the terms of a decision
rendered yesterday by Judge o r.
Holcomb. The question arose as to
the construction of the new state law
governing the issuance of medical IL
censes. The court ruled that 1t was
not necessary for applicants for Ii
censes to practice the healing art to
file diplomas with the state board,
where they could show that they had
been in continuous practice in the
state for two years prior to the pas
sage of the act of 1909.
The attorneys for the state medi-
cal board yesterday asked the court
for judgment on the pladings. and
when this was refused by the court,
the attorneys for the appellants ask
ed for Judgment in their behalf on
their pleadings. Judge Holcomb
heard arguments on this motion
which took up the whole day. and at
the conclusion made the ruling that
will admit fifty applicants to practice
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-10-18
OCOSTA COMPLAINT PROBED
BY RAILROAD COMMISSION

For the purpose of investigating
the complaint made to them by the
citizens of Ocosta, the state railroad
commission, accompanied by George
T, Reid, of Tacoma, general Western
counsel for the Northern Pacific. and
w. c. Albee, division superintendent
reached the city Thursday night in
superintendent Albee's private car.
They left Friday morning for Ocosta,
where they spent the morning, leav-
ing in the afternoon for the Sound.
Some time ago the people of Ocosta
complained to the state railroad COM
mission of unfavorable discrimination
by the railroad company and asked
for daily train service with Aber-
deem. They also asked that an ag-
ent be established.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-10-18

ment of those counties. AS the Sc
lection Of congressman appears to
have degenerated into the choice of
the most expert grab bag artist. we
all desire the one who will secure us
most of the plunder, and the danger
with McCredie is not he would omit
an opportunity to get his fist into
the bag-his thrift is amply illus
trated in his canny holding on to
his judgship while he makes his
gum shoe campaign-but that he
would convey most of the loot to
Portland and the Columbia river.
This is not meant to convey the idea
that Judge McCredie would not, in
his judgment, try to play fair with
other harbOrs, but, it is so easy in the
performance of a public duty to con-
slider that ones duty begins at home
and his business home is Portland.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-10-18
A SHOOTING AFFRAY.
A. Midnight Orgie Concludes With a
Morning Shooting Scrape-Un-
steady Nerves Prevents
Tragedy.

A telephone call was received at
the police station this morning, say
ing that two men had shot a woman,
at a house on Pacific avenue west of
Washington street The message was
very indefinite as to the location, and
the police were some time in learning
where the shooting took place
The affray took place at the home
of Leroy Condlin, on Pacific avenue,
and his story is to the effect that
John Ferguson, formerly a logger,
now clothing salesman, came to the
house about midnight with quart
of whskey, and the two men, and
Mrs. Hollingsworth, who keeps house
for Condlin, proceeded to fill up His
recollection of this mornings affair
was rather hazy, but. he said, that
Ferguson had shot at him with a
revolver, and that he returned the
compliment with shot gun, and that
after the shooting Ferguson ran
away. In the melee the woman
was kicked on the mouth, and severe
ly injured
e. Cox was a sober witness of the
affray and narrowly escaped being
'iCtlHl VI lHe SlOOllHS ulCH was
wild owing to the shaking nerves of
the shooters. Cox, who with COnd-
lin is clearing lot close by, went
in the house this morning to call
Condlin to work, and found his part
ner and the woman in a drunken
sleep on the floor. While he was
waking Condlin, Ferguson came into
the room, and resented an attempt of
Condlin to take the woman to her bed
room and threatened to shoot. Cox
and COndlin went out of the back
door, when Ferguson took shot at
them. Condlin returned to the house,
and securing a shot gun, shot at Fer
guson. who ran. Later, while Mr..
Cox and Mrs. Holingsworth were
standing in front of the house, a
pistol shot was fired at them, by
whom Cox is unable to say.
Condlin was found at the house,
and placed under arrest. and Cox was
held for a witness. The police are
actively searching for Ferguson, who
made his getaway before their arrival
Cox will be given a hearing before
Judge Phillips this afternoon.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-10-18
BODY OF MISSING MAN
FOUND IN VACANT LOT

HOQUIAM, Oct. 16.-The body of
John G. Wheelock, who mysteriously
disappeared last Monday, was found
yesterday morning by Mrs. Alma Up
son. WheelOck, wealthy pioneer.
left his boarding house Monday and
never returned. Tuesday the police
were notified, and a search failed to
reveal him. The papers noted his dis
appearance and this morning Mrs.
Upson saw the account. Having re-
membered seeing Wheelock at work
on vacant lot across the street, she
found the body there. Wheelock was
65 years old and had acquired valu-
able property in the town. He had
lived here twenty years, having serv-
ed term on the city counl. His
funeral took place yesterday after
noon, interment in the Aberdeen
MausOleum.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1909-10-18
TRAINMASTER GOES UP
TO SUPERINTENDENT

TACOMA, Oct. 16.-ThOmas E..
Coyle, for several years trainmaster
on the Ellensburg division of the
Northern Pacific, has been promoted
to the position of assistant superin-
tendent. The promotion was made
this week by President Howard Ell
lott and is one of the results of Mr..
Elliott's recent tour of the Western
lines of his company. 1t came as a
surprise to Mr.. Coyle, who will re-
lieve Superintendent w. c. Albee Of
part of the burdens the latter has
heretofore borne alone
Thos e. Coyle is a son of Mr.. and
Mrs. o. l.. Coyle and brother of
Mrs. w. j. Crosbie, of Aberdeen.