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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-02
When Sultan Spirited Away1 800
Inmates Remained in Harern.
Mysteries Of YiIdiz Kiosk Are Re.
veaIed by Commission Appointed
After Deposition Of Abdul
Hamid II.

Constantinopie. Mysteries of the
royal harem Of Abdul Hamid IT.. de.
posed sultan Of Turkey, have been re-
vealed by the commission appointed
by the new monarch to investigate at
fairs at the Yildiz kiosk, The most
amazing fact announced is that when
Abdul was spirited away to Salonica,
accompanied by only II women. not
one more than 20 years ola, he left
behind 1900 inmates of the harem.
1t is not generally known that the
Turkish sultan is never legally mar
ried. Ottoman law is in the way. for
the reason that as the vicar OF Mo-
manned and the king Of kings, he can
only contract marriage with a house
Of equal Importance to his own. Lest
he make matrimonial alliance with
q Christian princely house and make
unstable thereby purely Mohamme-
dan monarchy, the makers of this
law conceived the idea that as prince
of the faithful the sultan is supreme
lord of all. subjecting to his will all
his subjects. both male and female.
Taking advantage of this provision
of the law. Abdul Hamid sent agents
throughout the empire in search Of
beautiful girls, acquiring them by pur-
chase from their parents OF guardians
and having them sent to the harem.
the new acquisition taking the place
of those whom he had discarded or
presented, with a dowry and resi-
aence thrown in, to civil or military
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-02
RACE SUICIDE IN FRANCE
on this subject. but only for the 5ene
fit of other people.

on this subject, but only for the 5ene
fit of other people.
Going further into the details OF the
matter, M. Bertillon finds that men Of
letters, and particularly those in uni
versity circles, have the smallest fam.
lilies. In the College of France there
are 127 children among 1873 professors,
The artists, including the tree lances
of literature, show up somewhat bet.
ter with "a little more than one child
per household" Thus the statistician
proves that reform must begin with
the so-called upper classes instead Of
with the working population. The rate
of mortality is higher among the chill
dren Of the latter. yet, even so. at the
age of 81 the hand workers are repre-
sented by more children than are the
brain workers.
M. Bertillon's report will be present
ed to the parliamentary committee on
the depopulation question at its next
session.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-02
SAVES ROYAL WIVES

officials. Another source OF supply
were gifts Of girls to him from Off
Gals who wished to convey fayors.
Once girls, children. got within the
harem portals, they became as good
as dead to their people. The head Of
the harem took them In hand, as
signed them to quarters, ard supplied
their wants. When these girls at
tanned the age OF Is or 16 years they
were sent bag and baggage to the sui
tan's living quarters, and there re-
tanned in majority of instances but
very short time, and then dismissed
and returned to the head of the
harem, never to be with the sultan
again
In the harem were women known as
the sultan's official, but not legal,
wives. These women were so styled
because they bore children to his ma
jesty; still not all the women who
bore him children were of this class.
To be an official wife a woman must
have been officially united to him on
the seventeenth day of Ramadan, and
thereafter bear him a child.
A child thus born is a legal or
spring Of the monarch, although the
mother is not the sultan's legal wife.
Children born to him by other women
are not considered legal children
Thus It is explained how it is that
Abdul Halnid, who has had number
less women, can only have few chill
dren.
Since Abdul Hamid's deposition the
reform government, through the Yil-
diz kiosk commission, has been en-
deavoring to locate the parents and
relatives Of these unhappy women.
Success has followed in few cases. So
hopeless seems the governments eff
forts that many of them are being
given to officials to marry, while
others are being assigned to villas and
given pensions.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-02
SQUIRREL PLEADS FOR DRINK
Thirsty Little White House Pet, De.
spite Ban on Nature Fakes,
Asks for Water.

Washington Were 1t not for the
fact that nature taking" in and
around the White House is supposed
to have received death blow several
years ago, the experience OF one of
the bluecoat guardians OF the execu-
tive mansion might be disbelieved by
the overcredulous.
One Of the squirrels, which. long
before the present administration be-
gan, played about araong the big
trees and over the fine green lawn in
front of the White House, according
to the policeman. kept running up to
him and then scampering away AS
the squirrel refused peanuts, the no
liceman could not make out what 1t
wanted.
Finally, the policeman says, he no
ticed that every time the squirrel ran
away from him, the little fellow
would make for a water spigot in the
grass and jump up at 1t as If trying to
turn the handle. This gave the no.
liceman his cue.
With Sherlock Holmes instinct he
turned on the water, which was exact.
~ what the poor little creature want.
ed. for 1t drank as II suffering greatly
from thirst. When 1t had drunk its
fill. the policeman AYERS. the squirrel
sat up on It's launches. grinned at
the policeman, and with grateful
flip OF its tail scampered away.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-02
WORST IN HISTORY

Larendo, Tex, Aug. 2s-Word reach
ed this city this afternoon of one OF
the most disastrous floods that mas
ever been experienced in northern
Mexico, caused by overflow Of the
Santa Catraina river.
For the past forty-eight hours a YER
table deluge Of rain has been falling
which, together with the flow OF wa
ter from adjacent mountains INTO the
Santa Catarina river, 30 swelleed
that stream that It reached the
width Of mile and half and COM
pletely overlooked certain portions Of !,
Monterey. wrecking houses and caus-
ing loss Of life. !.
Information reaching here through
reliable sources states that SO se-
we're was the flood that the inhabitants
in the vicinity Of the flooded stream
barely had time to flee for their lives,
that the on-rush Of waters carried
away their homes and chattels and in
many cases drowned occupant,
huts used by natives. It is said the
plazas are crowded with poor. homs-
less natives who escaped with their
lives.
81 From reliable sources. but which
cannot be quoted, information is
cleaned that IN Monterey the loss Of
life. as q result Of overflow OF Santa
jcatarina river is placed at 100 to 500
persons. The first estimates placed
the loss 81 6'ao-t to /, 900
Until communicate ~ establish
ed, 4 viii be impossible TO give aecur-
ats figures on the number Of lives lost.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-02
REscuEs $4,000 FROM WASH
Chicago Man Leaves Large Roll q
Bills In Nightshirt and Remem-
bers II Later.

San Francisco That time-honored
saying about the coming out Of things
in the wash came near being all too
true with $4,000 roll of bills belong
ing to H. B. Munger, Chicago lum-
herman at present on business trip
to San Francisco.
Mr.. Munger is staying at the Hotel
st. Francis and, being q careful man,
the other night he put a. neat bundle
of $4,000 in yellows and green's in the
pocket of his nightshirt for safe.
keeping. Then he slept the sleep of
the very tired. In the morning he
went to one of the stores and reached
for the roll" after making a few
purchases. Being as careful OF his
dress as his money he was not CARRIED
in nightshirt. In fact, he remem-
bered having sent that article to the
hotel laundry.
1t is estimated that 1t took Mr..
Munger just three long jumps and
two medium steps to reach the four
teenth floor, where the laundry is To-
Gated. In ten seconds the air was
filled with shirts, collars, socks and
other wearables and then came the
nightie. Munger whooped as he bore
down on the garment and pulled out
the roll"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-02
Finds Riches; wife Dies.

Denver, Col.-After about twenty
seven years search for fortune
which he finally found in an Alaska
gold mine. William w. folds of Bris-
toll. England, arrived in Denver on his
way home, only to receive here a tele
gram stating that his wife was dead
and that the little home in the suburb
of the English city had been sold for
debts. Broken-hearted. Mr.. folds
will return to Olholt mining camp in
Alaska, where he gained his fortune.
there to remain, he says. until he
dies.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-02
American Flour Best.

Washington.--Just why more Euro
pean bone and tissue is not nourished
with American flour is the problem
that Special Agent M. H. Davis of the
department Of commerce and labor
tried to solve in investigations re.
ported in a bulletin just prepared.
American flour, he says. is better to
eat than that Of any other country.
He says 1t should have large sale
abroad.
The population of Berlin is ,decreas.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-02

Monterey, Mex, Aug. 28-The scene.
in the flood swept section of Monterey
tonight is one OF utter desolation. Four
city blocks on the south side have
completely disappeared, the buildings
being swept from their foundation BY
the swift current. Cries of drowning
could be heard as they were swept
away by flood, but on lockers were
powerless to render aid.
Az daylight, throughout the food
ed area were groups of people, hud-
died on tops of their homes One by
one these houses disappeared with
their human freight and the cur
rent was so swift it was beyond. hui
man possibility to rescue them.
BY o'clock this afternoon the river
was back in it's banks, but two hours
later was again at flood tide. Among
the losses: Monterey steel company
$1,000. 900. Mexican Shelter and Lead
company, $s,O00,00o.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-02
MONT EREY Is
STORM SWEPT
~ "
~, - . .
EIGHT HUNDRED PEOPLE PER
lsH AND THOUSANDS
ARE HOMELESS
WORST FLOOD I'm YEARS
MILES OF COUNTRY ARE UNDER
WATER---APPEALS FOR
AID SENT OUT
: A FLOOD DESTROYS
LIFE AND PROPERTYSa

Monterey, Mex, Aug. 2s-Bul-#
letin: Eight hundred persons
drowned, 5000 homeless, prop Z
erty damage s12,c00.0OO is. re-
: suit of the flood this city today.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-02
APPEAL FOR AID

Mexico City, Aug. 2s-Dispatches
rom Monterey say the suburb OF San
Luisito and half the city of Monterey
are under water.
The deluge of rain continues.
The American colony tonight issued
an appeal to the United States and
other powers or aid.
It is reported the city of Bagdad,
is badly damaged. Nine bridges and
more than fifty miles Of track have
been washed out on the Pan American
railway. Two Indian villages In Tam
aulipas have been wiped out and the
light house at Tampico swept away.
The latest reports state that 125
miles of the track of the National rail-
way have been washed out in Nuevo
Leon and Coahuila.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-02
~ ,it'4 T.! =
/ G.ensral.5

ssS$ the supreme court must decide
nationality 81 Hepburn rate Law
( this fall.
p. n. Hartman has retired to the
exclusion Of his mountain estate ia
complete his after cure. .
President Taft Will urge postal
savings banks on next session Of con
gress. y
An increase 81 3 cents Ii TO be
made soon Iii the Zee for registration
scf letters and packages. Uncle Sam
needs the money.
Il Thompson, OF Lincoln, Neb.
samhassador to Mexico. has bought
y the PAn.American railroad, paying
\ on. 900 for same.
President Taft Is determined that
census work shall not BE mixed with
politi h;
Army men o. Beverly have pre-
svAiled upon the president to change
his resolution and review them.
The Federal circuit court 1T Chi.
scsgO made ! ruling In what Is known
~ the Missouri river rate cases. II
fAyorH the railroads.
rs nty.seyeh building abandoned
hy saloon keepers III Lincoln ars nov,
: occupied byS other business.
coal fields production Of the
United States Tor the year 1908 show
talling IN OF $s3, ISL e. com,
Dared It'll the product Ion of 1907
1ccordin& report made public
AZ nv lJntted States geolog ical surs
5Neys
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-02
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i Good Dsalof Information Given
II ! Short, Typographical Way
Foreign.

s s F oretgn. AZ
" AT Rotterdam the death OF four
children supposed to have been
i caused by poisonous sweets has been
found after a bacteriological examina
ton to have been due to Asiasic chol
era.
s Emperor Nicholas has accepted
the post Of patron to the Aero club OF
81. Petersburg, which consequently
will hereafter be qualified as "imper
ial. He has donated q large sum OF
money to the club, at the same time
permitting four OF the grand dukes
20 be enrolled az honorary members
a terrible railway disaster occurred:
} when two trains came together In a
collision thirty miles north Of Santi.
ago. Many persons were killed or ii.
5ured. Both trains were completely
I destroyed. The monetary less will
reach $3.50, 900.
There was 4 suffragette disturbance
at several political meetings in the
British Islands. The women made de-
termined Sfforts to invade st. Andreas'
hal, Glasgow. and q crowd OF British
ssympathixers came into violent CON
dict with the police. which resulted
g riot0us scenes.
Announcement Of an amicable set
itlement OF al pending questions that
have served to disturb the friendly re
iations between Japan and China win
be made oticially within q short time.
Arrangements of the differences relat
Ing TO the Antnng-Adukden railway
probably win be contained In : note
20 the powers.
Greece's reply 70 the last Turkish
note regarding CreteShas been com
municated . the pewers Its terms
IRE ciliatory, and diplomats here
consider that II SHOULD be satisfactory
10 the porte. to which II was delivered
soon. The note regrets that after
Greece' previous assurances the
Turkish government still complains 81
The attitude ot* Greece IN Rumelia and
( Crete,
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-02

The population of Berlin is decreaa
ing.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-01-07

Albro's work is the best and guar
anteed. Get him to make your picture
frames. Next door to F. w. Days
store.
Good service and good food at the
Royal Cafe. tt
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-01-07
PROPOSALS FOR SUPPLIES

Sealed proposals for furnishing
supplies. delivered at the Nevada
State Prison for one year from Feb.
ruary /. 1909, will be received up to
February ), 1909. All articles to be
flrst.class of their kind, and to be de-
livered in such quantity and at such
times as the Warden may direct.
quired. All articles not satisfactory
to be returned at contractors ox-
pense. Bids to be directed to Sec
rotary Board of State Prison Com
to February 3. 1909. The Board re-
serves the right TO reject any and all
bids.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-01-07

.... THE queerest kind of graft has developed in Japan. The execution
crs who separate criminals rom cir heads arei in the habt o getuhg
thirty mt for each head that comes under their a 1t has trans
money from the victims or their relatives. They make a bunghng and
consequently painful execution unless m extra money S forthcom-
ing.
A NEW form of regulating the trusts comes from China. Some
merchants combined to raise the price of rice. Immediately sol river
pirates, with N eye to business notified the merchants that unless the
price of the commodity was lowered by a certain day that they would
raid the town where the rice trust was located ant kills all the men en-
gagged in the combine. ON the day specified the price "a where the
pirates wanted it and the people all agree that here are worse per-
sons in the country than pirates. America might take some valuable
lessons from the Orient n the matter of regulating combinations in
restraint of trade.
RECENTLY in Spain some ten thousand of the leading society
women of that country signed a petition asking clemency in the case
of n girl who had killed her beuay yer. This is regarded a al endea
or to hamper the course of Justice in Spain and every slgner of the
petition has been arrested. The trial of the leaders has begun and the
packed courtroom looks like a bea uy show. All society is there and
the ladies' contemporary ask the government II they propose to buu
more jals to accommodate them.
WHILE Roosevelt Is away in Africa next summer lying o his
saying about him, the jungles will be alive with elephants and hippo
picanuluics adj hb and wondering why the President don't get mp and
bag something. If he gets enough Congressional literature the game
will be perfectly safe
THERE win be several county division fights to enlven the com
ing session. The Legislature is II vr dull when the county fights are
in evidence.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-01-07
PROPOSALS FOR SUPPLIES

Sealed proposals for furnishing
also meats of all kinds, to be deliver
ed at the State Orphans Home, Car
son City, Nevada, for six months
from and including January LIST 1909,
will be received up to noon of De
cember Goth, 1908. according to the
requisition furnished by the Super
intendent of the said Orphans Home,
now on file in the office OF the Sec
rotary of the Board of Directors of
the Orphans Home.
All articles to be first class Of their
kind, and to be delivered in such
quantities and at such times as the
superintendent may direct, quantity
varying each month as may be re-
quired.
All articles not satisfactory will
be returned at the Contractors eX-
pense.
Bids to be directed to the Secre-
tary of the State Orphans Home
Board of Directors, Carson City, Ne
yada.
The Board reserves the right to re
ject and and all bids.
ORVIS RING, Secretary of the
Board, Carson City, New. Dec. %. 1908
d22t29
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-01-07

required. All articles not satisfac'
tory to be returned at contractors
expense. Bids to be directed to Sec
rotary Board of State Prison Com
missioners, Carson City, Nevada up
to February >, 1909. The Board re
serves the right to reject any and all
bids.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-01-07
PROPOSALS FOR SUPPLIES

Sealed proposals for furnishing
meats, delivered at the Nevada
State Prison, for one year from Feb
ruary /, 1909, will be received up to
February 5, 1909. All articles to
be first-class of their kind, and to be
delivered in such quantity, and at
such times as the Warden may di-
rect, quantity varying each month as
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-01-07
SON FINE

Is what everyone says when they get
a glass of Anheiser Bush beer at Eli
Barkley's. Remember that il cents
will ct you the best glass of beer in
this city.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-01-07

nentIy. FOi every "femaIe cOmpIalnt"
and arrangement, or in any ~"run-down"
and exhausted condition of the female
system, this medicine is the only remedy
so safe and certain that it can be relied
on. 1t does benefit or cure. in the case OF
every tired or afflicted woman. ChOrea,
St. NituS'S Dance, Nervous and General
Debility. Sleeplessness and kindred all
ments promptly relieved and cured by it.
DR.. Pierce's Medical Adviser is sent
free for 81 stamps for paper-covered, or 81
stamps for cloth-bound copy.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-01-07

Nye county is almost certain to
ask for county division at the next
session., as is Lincoln and possibly
Esmeralda.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-01-07
Subscribe for the APPEAL.

Remember the erch;Olts lunch at
the Royal Cafe, 40 cents.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-01-07

First class service at the Airing
ton Barber Shop. adv
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-01-07

Wcdk lleSScS ptCu-
liar to W~OmanhOOd
comes with Doctor
Pierce'S F'avOrite
Prescription, First
it relieves them :
then it cures them.
Have a little p"
thence. perhaps. if
they're serious. Tie
troubles that come
slowly have to go
slowly; but go they
will, if you'll faith
fully use the "Pre-
scriptiOn," d
they'll go perma-
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-01-07
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
TRANSATLANTIC FIRE INSUR-
ANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG,
GERMANY Gin Liquidation)-
NOTICE is HEREBY'GIVEN, That

all policy holders, creditors or other
claimants in the United States and
Alaska of and against the said Insur-
ance Company Except as have ap-
peared in tie action hereinafter refer
red to- are directed and required to
present their claims against said In
surance Company. on or before the
9th day of January, 1909, to Edgar M.
Doughty, Esq, at Room No. 4O1, No.
25 Broad Street, Borough of Manhat-
tan, City of New York, the Referee
heretofore appointed under an order
of the Supreme Court of The State of
New York, in an action brought by
the United States Trustees of the
said Insurance Company to account
for and distribute the trust fund held
by the said Trustees and the Superin-
tendent of Insurance of the State of
New York for the benefit of the said
policy holders and creditors within
the United States.
Dated, New York City. November "a
1908.
PAUL LICHTENSTEIN
EDWARD T. HULST,
JOSEPH ANDREWS.
Trustees
Underwood, Van Worst G Hoyt,
Baths, hot and cold, at the Airing
ton Barber shop adv
New line of hats at Joe Smyth'S
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-01-07
HAVE you A ROOM TO RENT

So many inquiries are being made
at this office for rooms and houses,
furnished and unfinished, that The
Appeal will be glad to have any and
all persons who nave such accOmmo-
dations list the same at this office
for the benefit of the hundreds who
will be here during the session. The
hotels have reservations that will fill
them and more are to come.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-11-18
FARMING
IS UP TO KITTITAS

The old hap hazard, happy go
lucky way of farming i'll kittitas
valley is a thing of the past. With
farm lands selling all the way from
$50 to $500 per acre and even
higher-and it will be long time
before it sells for less-calls for
more intensified farming. Every
acre must be made to produce all
that it will stand for of all the
products it is adapted to.
TO illustrate: You can take a
field of 100 acres and perhaps not
an acre will be adapted to growing
of potatoes successfully, while 1t
will produce fine crop of oats or
some other kind of grain. Every
farmer should understand what the
nature of his soil and what it is
best suited to growing, and he who
does and 50 farms, that farmer may
be termed successful. The too,
every foot of his holdings want to
be made productive. One acre laid
to waste knocks the profits OF five
acres galley west. If that acre be
too rocky to plow, set it out to
winter apples, they thrive well on
such land as a rule as it is warm
soil and the rocks covered gather
and hold moisture.
Hay raising, now the big thing
in Kittitas, will soon be thing OF
the past. A few years later and
each farmer will raise only enough
hay for his own use. By that time