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The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-08-20
A.-Y.-P. Exposition

In order to make good their claim
that there will be something doing
every minute Of the time from the
Inauguration of the Queen of the
Carnival at high noon un til midnight
on Pay Streak Day, one week from
to-day, the General Committee is
lining up the freak-race meet between
almost every animal extant. most
OF them being now on the Pay
Streak or in Seattle.
The races will be held in the
spacious Stadium on the Exposition
grounds and will be free. Amongst
the contestants will be Camels,
Elephants, kangaroos, Bear Cubs,
Dog Teams, Burros, Indian Ponies,
Apes and Ostrich, and any other
family, two or four legged that can
be brought to toe the mark.
The committee laboring with this
circus feature realizes that the
numbering" elephant could only
stand IA poor chance pitted against
the "hop-along' of the Australian
desert; and he will probably receive
q generous start In advance. Many
are ready to back the Burro against
the ship of the Arabian desert, but
the Arabs ON the Pay Streak have
money to place on their hump backed
friend. The DOg-Team, hitched to a
wheeled sled-since a Snow storm can
not well be produced to be effective,
will be driven by Il noted musher
from the far North and Alaskans, to
a man, are ready to bank on the
Malamutes.
The Reindeer, recently brought
over by w. Il. Loft, bas been entered.
He seems to be Il favorite, but the
committee will see to it that he does
not have every thing his own way.
He will probably he hitched to sled.
Prince Albert the educated horse.
will form TN interesting feature; his
owner Mr.. Cuthbert, promising to
give one OF his ra-est exhibitions
during the parade. Those who have
seen this performing quadrnped think
he is too foxy. perhaps, to bother
himself Ivy sprinting his best for ey-
hibition purposes unless he is proper
ly bribed with IL big feed Of oats and
a dish OF lump sugar Oh the side for
desert.
An Ostrich will be secured to run
against some % the athleti,, ~prnters
and against n pony.
The greatest aggregation Of shows
and show people that have ever been
in the city at one time wilyield their
cessionaires' celebration the best that
has ever been pulled off
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-08-20
Heavy Fruit Shipments

During the past week, J.H, Sprague
at the Kendrick Cannery, has been
busy shipping plums and apples. He
has shipped little over tons Of
peach plums and a good quantity OF
early apples.
Mr.. Sprague is in the market fol
plnms, apples. pears, prunes, etc.,
and is paying the market price fol
fruit in bulk, packing and shipping
from the cannery located just west o.
Wilds market.
Besides these shipments of fresl
fruit, Mr.. Sprague has also received
orders for several tons of canned
apples. pears, etc.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-08-20
Idaho Livestock Men Come

To meet with the livestock men of
Washington, the Livestock Sanitary
Board Of Idaho intends to hold q
part OF it's annual session atSpokane
during the Interstate Fair in Sept.
Two years ago the Idaho livestock
experts met at Lewiston, but this
year have picked Spokane as the best
place to get in touch with the live
stock men OF Washington. Good
livestock exhibits are expected from
Idaho this year for the Spokane
Fair, Sept 20 to %.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-08-20
, CERTAINLY NOT

About Christmas time q little girl
was told that she was naughty. and
Santa Claus might not bring her u
present.
'Well," said she, ''you need not
say it so near the chimney The
Delineator for September.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.

Fire destroyed one of the largest bust
ness blocks in ChiLhowie. Va The loss
is 100000.
E. II. Hartman will leave New York.
soon for an extended trip in the South
on the advice of his physician.
The widow of Father John of Kron-
stadt. the Russian priest has been award
ed a pension of $1,000 year.
Richard w Barrett reform candidate
for city magistrate in Philadelphia. was
elected over George Hogg, Republican, by
3.00C.
George Beal. the son of an English no.
bleman. was found insane in the Probate
Court in Wichita. Kan. BeaI was disin-
herited when he married ten years ago.
The Norfolk and Portsmouth Traction
Company's ferry steamer running be-
tween Willoughby Spit and Old Point
Comfort, Va. was burned TO the waters
edge at her Willoughsby pier The pier
also was destroyed. Loss $4,000.
The six-story municipal lodging house,
equipped with the largest disinfecting
plant in the world and accommodating l.
600 persons. was opened in New York to-
day. A hotel for working girls. to be
opened this week, is financed by the wom-
ems clubs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

James ]. Hill gave the principal adj
dress at the annual convention of the
State Retail Grocers' and Retail Ner-
chants Association, held in st. Paul.
At the annual convention of North Da-
kota furniture dealers, held in Grand
Forks, sentiment was strong that coon
erative buying by retailers and systemat-
ic newspaper advertising would overcome
the competition of mail-order houses.
As the opening move in a war for
cheaper sugar through the reduction of
tariff duties. national committee of
wholesale grocers, which has been form
ed to do the fighting, is sending out a
letter showing the effects of the present
high schedule According to this letter,
the duty now amounts to 50 per cent of
the sugars value in bond
A bill by Representative John A Gates
prohibits pooling" by fire insurance COM
panies, and agreements among such com
panies to charge uniform premiums in
Minnesota.
The railroad commissioners of Canada
had ordered that farmers skipping grain
are to be paid 81 for each lower door and
80 cents for each upper door which they
place on grain cars. This decision is the
result of a bitter fight waged by the
Grain Growers Association. which claim
ed the farmers were invariably obliged to
furnish doors for cars in which they
shipped grain, but never received any pay
ment for them.
The Bureau of Statistics estimates the
number and value of farm animals in
the United States on January / as fol-
lows: Horses 20,640O0O. value S1.974,-
100000; mules 1,053,O00. value S437,-
$4,000; mich COWS 21,720,0OO, value
S702, 945, 600; other cattle 49,379,OOO val
ne 1868, 764, 900; sheep 65,084,OO0, value
1892, 632, 600; swine 54,147,O00, value
1854, 745, 600 During the last year the
value of farm animals has increased
S194.O29, 600.
At the meeting of the Wisconsin But
termakers' Association in Eau Claire, the
Southeastern Buttermakers' Association
of Wisconsin won the silver trophy cup
for the best exhibit of high-grade butter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
FROM FAR AND NEAR

The plant of Frederick Schulz & Sons,
in Hoboken, \. J., bakers. was destroyed
by fire. The estimated loss is $225. 600.
New York city authorities will issue no
permit for the sale of fireworks at retail
between June 10 and July TO-
James Barnett, a stockman and land
dealer of Abilene. Texas. is under arrest
there, charged with the murder of Alex
ander Sears. another stockman. who was
reputed wealthy. Sears body was found
in the ruins of a schoolhouse burned to a
crisp.
Rat poison was used. instead of baking
powder. in buckwheat cakes. cooked by
Mrs. Sarnowiski in Newark. y. J.. and
Sarnowiski is dead and his wife is in a
hospital
Men who gather in the Bowery bread
line in Now York have declared against
proposed legislation. providing for a
State farm colony where tramps can be
forced to work.
Col. J. a. Owenby of Trinidad. Col.
announced that the 1000 acres of coal
land owned by himself. J. P Morgan and
&. F. Cheney of Boston, situated near
the Colorado-Naw Mexico line. would be
made into game preserve and thorough
~ stocked with wild animals.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
Impressive Scene in Senate.
TOLD IN A FEW LINES.

Many fashionable women of Pelham
Manor. just north of New York City,
voted in Il special election there.
During the absence of former Assem-
blyman Randolph Perkins in his villa
"Wildhurst." at Woodclif Lake. \. J.,
was burned almost to the ground, caus-
ins 4 loss of 100000.
The town of Nowata. Okla. was al
most wiped off the map by a fire that de-
stroyed thirteen business houses, two
banks and the county court house. The
loss is estimated a 100000.
Seventy courses of instruction. includ-
ing everything from sewing to baking
bread. will be opened to students of the
household arts branch in the Teachers
College in New York.
Abraham Lincoln's head is to appear
on the l,nw 1-ccat pieces which will APP
pear III 4 month, President Roosevelt hav-
ing approved the plan presented by Mr..
Leach. director of the mint.
Morris Guggenheim is victor in a con-
troversy with the government as TO the
duty to be paid on $4,000 worth of
pearls The board of general appraisers
has decided that the duty co.lectible is 10
per cent, instead Of Ii per cen, of the
articles value.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
DOWNFALL OF SNOW AND SLEET
Thousands of Disappointed Visitors
Wade in SIush Through Streets
of the Capital.
DECORATIONS ARE BEDRAGGLED
Induction Into Office of 9th Presi-
dent Most Costly Affair of Its
Kind in Nations History.
Washington correspondence:

William II. Taft of Ohio and James
s. Sherman of New York were inaugu-
rated at noon Thursday as President
and Vice President of the United
States. The ceremony of the Inaugural
tisn was accomplished with all due
formality and finality, but under most
unusual conditions, owing to a terrific
blizzard which swept over the national
capital, paralyZing street traffic, de-
stroying communication with the out
side world, and bringing dismay to the
thousands of assembled visitors who
had gathered in expectation OF the
usual spectacular demonstration. Not
withstanding the adverse conditions, al
Of the main features of the Inaugural
ton program went through. The main
change was in modifying the original
program so that the inaugural address,
usually delivered from the east pOrti-
co of the Capitol, was delivered by Mr..
Taft in the Senate chamber. The in
augural ceremony had been designed to
he more imposing and costly function
than any of its predecessors. but the
weather married the magnificence of the
affair and bedraggled the expensive
decorations.
wet, clinging snow, driven before
a singing northwest wind, fell through
out the night and wrought havoc with
telephone and telegraph wires, com
pletely cutting off the capital city from
communication with the remainder of
the country for many hours. Snow
and slush filled the streets to the depth
of foot or more in places.
For several hours during the morning
Washington was out of communication
with the outside world because of the
fury of the storm. Telegraph and tele-
phone wires were all useless.
Inaugural Ceremonies.
Important features of the inaugural
program were the morning escort of
the President from the White House to
the Capitol the exercises at the
Capitol concluding with the admins
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11

The color manufacturing plant of c..
J. Breidbach & Sons. in New York, was
burned. Loss. 100000.
According to the .Korona passengers
who arrived in New York. the yellow
fever situation in Barbados is serious.
Famed by high wind, fire practically
wiped out the town of Patton, Pa The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
Pretending to be a thief. Tony Blair
started commotion in a chicken coop
near Nolan. W. Va. and his sister, whom
he sought to brighten, shot and killed
him.
William Pringle, New York. was
killed and several others were injured
yesterday when a floor collapsed in the
Union Electric Light and Power Com
pany in that city.
Discovery of the germ that causes
spotted fever" was announced from the
camp near Hamilton, Mont, where DIR.
Ricketts, of the University of Chicago is
carrying on his investigations.
The four-story building at 431 and 433
Broadway, Brooklyn, \. Y, occupied by
Baldinger & Kupferman, gas fixture man.
ufacturers, the Greater New York Plat
ing Company End other manufacturing
firms. was burned the other night Loss
S200, 200
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
CHICAGO.

A new high record in the volume of
payments through the banks this week
testitieS to increasing commerce and
more encouraging faith in the immedi-
ate outlook. Activity is seen TO be
making Il seaSonable advance. Read
luStmentS in costs create Il wider in.
terest i'll the prominent industries. Dis
tinct Improvement is noted i'll contracts
closed for steam and electric machine
cry, the aggregate being far ahead of
that year ago, substantial commit
ments are pending in rails. cars and
structural forms. Inquiries have multi
piled within the past ten days for vari-
Gus factory outputs.
Weather conditions were more IA
vorable to large measure of diStrib-
utive trade. Retail dealing here and
at interior points is of good volume,
and stocks of winter merchandise have
run quite low. Buyers in notably large
numbers attended the wholesale mar
kets and there has been further ex-
panslon in the demands for dry goods,
footwear. millinery, clothing. furniture
and food products
Bank clearingS. S311. 52T. 2TT. exceed
those of corresponding week in 1908
by us per cent and compare with
S271 .309.35U in 1907.
Failures reported in the Chicago
district number 81. against II last
week, 40 i'll 1908 and 10 in 1907. Those
with liabilities over 5000 number 10.
against . last week, Is in 1908 and t
in 1901.-Dun's Review of Trade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
NEW YORK.

Weather Irregularities and tariff and
price revision uncertainties combine to
make for rather quiet tone in trade
and industry, pending clearer views of
these and winter wheat crop possibli-
ties. The trade reports come from the
Central West and Southwest, and in
those sections jobbing trade shows
moderate Improvement, as do collec-
lions. The urgent need of rain in Tex
as is accentuated this week, while in
the rest of the South business is still
rather dull. At large Eastern markets
trade with nrst hands is in Il between
seasons condition and a slight decrease
in retail demand has been nterfered
with by Il severe storm along the
Eastern Seaboard.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending with March
were 219, against 244 last week, 2S7,
in the like week of 1908, 172 in 1907,
III in 1906 and 100 in 1905.
Canadian failures for the week num-
Der thirty-three, which compares with
forty last week and forty-nine in the
like week of 0S.-Bradstreet's.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
NOTES OF CURRENT EVENTS

Fire at Coffeyville Kan. DESTROYED 4.
II. Holoway'S boarding stable. together
with twenty-six horses. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000.
Following 4 suspension of four months
the Forge and Bolt plant of New Cas-
tie. Pa. resumed operations affording en-
ployment to 600 men.
The town of Milton. thirty miles east
of Pensaloca. Fla, was practically do
stroyed by FIRE. the entire business Soc
ton and several residences being burned
Loss $4,000 to 100000.
viii Parker, negro, was hanged bv q
mob ut Mexia, Ala, for mistreatinr tho
3-year-old daughter of y. Q. Bailey. for
whom he worked.
George Evans, minstrel. was operated
upon for appendicitis in hospital st
Utica. \. Y. and his condition is re-
ported as favorable.
Alleged timber frauds of gigantic pro-
portions in Southwest Oklahoma are nm
der investigation by the federal grand
jury at Muskogee. Okla.
Fire at Gananoque, Ont. DESTROYED
the Turner Block loss $4,000. The
tIItAu NtNiA AAoVS'' 'ACNtSt Il year ago,
at a cost of $4,000, also was burned.
About 1900 persons attended testi-
monial concert to the late Senator Car
mack, given at Nashville, Tenn by the
Women's Christian Temperance Union.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad round-
house and division shops at Portage Ia
Prairie. Ont, were destroyed by fire
Three locomotives were badly damaged
The loss is 100000.
At a meeting held at the residence of
Or. Roswell Q. Stebbins in New York.
a committee of ten was organized for the
purpose of equipping relief expedition
to look for DR.. Frederick Cook of Brook
lyn, supposed to be wintering IN the DO
lar regions after an attempt to reach the
pole last summer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
.N%R11f%;jNkzy/

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime.
$500 to 1925; hogs, prime heavy $3.50
TO $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $5.15; wheat, No. ., $1.21 to $1.2f;
corn, No. 2, 64c to 66c: oats, standard.
53c to soc; rye, No. =, 7Sc to SOC: hay,
timothy, $500 to $1,000; prairie, $500
to S11.50 butter, choice creamery. 25c
to 2Sc; eggs, fresh, 1Sc to Ole; potatoes,
per bushel, soc to SOC.
Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $500
to $3.50; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to $500; sheep, good 20 choice
$3.50 to $500; wheat, No. 2, $f.2O to
S1.22; corn, No. 2, white, Gle to 63c;
oats, No. white. 49c to ole
st. Louis-Cattlc. $50 to 1925: hogs.
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2, S1.3O to $1.32; corn. No. ..
64c to &c: oats, No. 2, 53c to soc; rye,
No. ., TIC to 7Sc.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $500 to $685.;
hogs. $500 to $685.: sheep. $500 to
1925; wheat, No. 2, $1.27 to SIPS; corn,
No. 2 mixed, &c to Csc; oats, No
mixed, 54c to 55c rye, No. ., SIC to sc.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to 5000; hogs,
S4O0 to $500: sheep, $3.50 to $4.75:
wheat, No. 2, $1.23 to $1.25: corn, No 3
yellow, &c to Csc; oats. No. 3 white,
54c to SIC; rye, No. 2, SOC to SIC.
Miwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 northern,
SLIT to $1.1S; corn, No. 3, 6Jc to &c;
oats, standard, 55c to 56c; rye, No. /,
79c to Soc; barley, No. 1, 6jc to &c;
pork, mess, $3.50.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers.
$500 to $7O5; hogs, fair to choice. $500
to $685.; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to S4.75 lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $3.50.
New York-Cattle 800 to $3.50:
hogs, $3.50 to $6.60; sheep. $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2 red. S123 to 1924:
corn. No. 2. Toe to &c; oats, natural
white, 59c to G2c; butter, creamery. 25c
to 2Sc; eggs, western, Tic to dc
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 1922 to
$1.23; corn. No. mixed, Gjc to SIC;
oats. No. mixed, soc to SIC: rye. No.
., Sic to S3c: clover seed, Sob
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11

African hunting trip, while Mr.. Taft
went to the White House to continue
the chief figure in the long round of
ceremonies marking his induction into
office and to begin four years of service
as the guiding spirit of the Union.
Net the least picturesque feature of
this gathering was the assemblage of
the entire complement of the foreign
diplomatic representatives to the Unit
ed States in all the pomp and panoply
of their rank. On the same platform
with The new President was his prede-
ceSsor. the incoming and retiring Vice
President and other representatives of
the different branches of government
of the United States.
At 7:30 the greatest display of fire
works ever seen in the country was
given at the White House grounds.
The inaugural Ball.
Later in the evening there was the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
Recalls Second Cleveland Inaugural.
a Colony of Com unisrr.

DR.. Frederick Van Eeden. the noted
Dutch poet and communist. who came to
America last year to lecture. has now
returned to this side of the Atlantic. with
the intention of organizing a communis-
tic colony. in which he hopes to "oust
the middle man. starve out the parasite,
provide high wages and plenty for the
worker and work for the idle" DR.. Van
Eeden says his scheme is not socialism.
and that it lets politics and religion
alone. but he declares that the present
economic life is a failure.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
Radium as n Cancer Cure.

The Paris Radium Institute where
Nine. Curie superintends the extraction
of the wonderful radium from pitchblend
and other materials. reports Sixty-four
cases of surface cancer. cured out of six
ty-cight cases treated. Hundreds of cures
have been Trade of cutaneous affections.
including tumors. some OF great size.
Thousands of birthmarks and scars have
been removed and remarkable cures of
chronic rheuma tism. eczema and tubercu-
losiS have been recorded. The institu-
ton now possesses Il grains of radium
valued at SS1. 900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11

President. Mr.. Taft's Inauguration i'm
mediately followed that of Vice Presi-
dent James S. Sherman, which was
carried out in accordance with the
original program. The distinguished
company which gathered in the Sen
ate to witness the Inauguration and
which afterward was to have been es-
corted to the immense inaugural stands
on the east front of the capitol, sim
ply remained in their places in the
chamber to view the more impressive
ceremonies attending the induction
into Office Of the new chief executive
of the nation.
Vice President Fairbanks. presiding
officer of the Senate. administered to
Mr.. Sherman the brief oath of office
prescribed by the constitution and
turned over to him the presiding Off
GERS gavel. Vice President Sherman
made but brief inaugural address and
then raped the chamber to order for
the further business of inaugurating
the new President OF the United States.
Mr. Tafts induction into office was
the same simple ceremony devised in
the early days He swore to uphold
and defend the constitution. to enforce
all laws. and to protect the republic
against all enemies, both foreign and
domestic. The oath was administered
by Chief Justice Fuller. who was Off
ciating at such Il ceremony for the last
time in his notable career as the chief
presiding officer of the country's high
est court. Mr.. Taft delivered his in
augural address in abbreviated form in
the Senate chamber.
Parade in SIush.
After Mr.. Taft had taken the oath
of office and delivered the inaugural
address he was escorted to the White
House by the Black Horse troop Of
Cleveland. After luncheon, President
and Mrs. Taft. with their guests,
entered the stand in front of the
White House and reviewed the pa
rade. Thousands of men marched in re-
view before the new executive. There
were veterans of the civil war and of
the SpaniShAmerican war in the
ranks. and mingled with the blue and
khaki were Il few companies of gray
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11

iZaticnS, including more than 100 clubs
and political associations, many of
them in unique uniforms.
The new President reviewed the pa
rade from a stand in front of the
White House. in accordance wits Gus
tom. From 10Th street to 18th street
on Pennsylvania avenue a court of
honor had been designed which sur
passed all previous efforts in street
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-11
To Run Model Dance Halls.

The Committee on ADJUSTMENTS and Va
cation Resources of Working Girls at
New York is working for the regulation
of dancing academies. and to this end has
decided to establish a number of model
dance halls in various parts of the city.
close by the improper places. These. it
is hoped, can be made so attractive at
moderate prices as to draw the working
girls and their friends.