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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-11-24
WASHINGTON ASKS
MONEY FROM CITY
State Is Making Another Effort to
Collect Ten Year Old Bill Amount
ing to $4,000.

The state of Washington wants $2,-
643.8O from the city of North Yakima.
Further, the attorney general says If
the money is not forthcoming with
extreme quickness, he will start suit to
recover this money. Such was the in
formation contained in an official let
ter sent Mayor Armbruster by At
torney General w. P. Bell on Satur-
day. The money sought is supposed
to be due to the state as it's share
of ten per cent of the annual liquor
licenses of the city some ten years
ago.
This claim of the states has been
before the council at various times
for the past four years, and seems
liable to be before the city fathers
for another four years. The council,
whenever the matter has been brought
up, has voted to pay no attention to
the claim of the state; it being I'M
derstood that the amount asked is due
to a mistake in bookkeeping: and
that the state has never been able to
furnish competent proof that the
money is due.
The mayor declared Saturday after
noon that he would again present the
matter to the council, but added that
he did not think the council would
do anything except pass the claim up,
as 1t has in the past. 1t Is said by
attorneys that there are several rea :
sons why the state cannot collect this
money, and the city seems to be will
ling to wait until the state proves
the Indebtedness before 1t takes ac-
ton. Other cities, which have had
similar bills presented, have been
'bluffed" into paying them; but North
Yakima is willing to "call' the states
hand before paying up.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-11-24
internal Catarrh.


Miss Nora Kelley, r. r. 1, Box l9l,
London, Ohio, says:
81 write to thank you for the wonder
full good your Peruna has done for me.
81 was a sufferer from kidney and
other internal trouble for twenty-five
years. Two years ago l began to take
Peruna and only took about three bot
ties and to-day can say am q we'll
person"
Could Not Eat without Suffering.
Mrs. H. A. Weaver, Somerset, Ohio,
writes:
81 can safely and truly say that Peru
ma has been blessing to me.
"Ihad catarrh so badly that had lost
the sense of smell and taste.
81 had stomach trouble so bad that
could not eat anything without suffer-
ing afterwards.
"My friends advised me to try Peru
ma. ! bought one bottle and was greatly
benefited by it, and so bought one-half
dozen bottles, and will say that l am
completely cured of stomach trouble
and catarrh.
81 cannot say enough for Peruna."
Pe-ru-na Brought Appetite.
Mrs. Selma Tanner, Athens, o., writes
that Peruna relieved her of stomach
trouble and brought her good appetite.
Do ,,u no A., Hama
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-11-24

A friend in need is Pinesalve CARROLL
lied. Never be without it. Pinesalve
Carbolized is good for cuts, burns,
bruises and scratches. Sold by c. w.
Cap, West Side Drug Store.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-11-24

There is nothing so good for all
kidney troubles as Pineules, the new
kidney remedy. Pineules act promptly
in relieving backache, weak back pain
in the bladder and all urinary disord-
ers. Sold by c. w. Camp, West Side
Drug Store.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-11-24

Not only does the wrapper of every bottle of DR..
Pierces Golden Medical Discovery, the famous
medicine for weak stomach, torpid liver or bilious
ness and all catarrhal diseases wherever located,
have printed upon it in plain English, full and
complete list of all the ingredients composing it,
but small book has been compiled from numer-
Gus standard medical works. of all the different
schools of practice, containing very numerous ex-
tracts from the writings of leading practitioners of
medicine, endorsing in the strongest possible terms,
each and every ingredient contained in Dr. Pierces
medicines. One of these little books will be mailed
free to any one sending address on postal card or
by letter, to DR.. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N Y. and
requesting the same.
AS made up by improved and exact
most efficient remedy for regulating all the
as prolapsus, anteversion and retroversion,
nerves and bringing about perfect state
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-11-24
Now Has Best Of Health.

NOW mas Best OF Health.
Mrs. Victoria NJ. Pickel, 100 L. Mound
St., Columbus, Ohio, writes:
"I have been using Peruna for catarrh,
having had very aggravated case, so
bad that it clogged the nasal organs.
When did get the nasal organs opened,
the mucus would drop into my throat
and make me very sick.
"a friend advised me to take Peruna,
and after using four bottles was cured.
al have no trouble now, and am happy
to say that l am enjoying the best OF
health and attending to my lodge du-
ties, being a member Of the Rebecca
Lodge of Odd Fellows.
81 would recommend Peruna to those
suffering with the same obnoxious
trouble"
Catarrh for Several Years.
Mrs. Alice Boyle, SOB Clinton St.,
Circleville, Ohio, writes:
81 want to inform you what Peruna
has done for me.
81 have been afflicted with catarrh for
several years. l have tried different
medicines and none seemed to do me
any good until I used Peruna. | have
highly for the good it has done me.
81 also find it of great benefit to my
chiidren ~
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-11-24

Los ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 90
The steamer City of Topeka. which
arrived at Redondo tonight, reported
passing the burning hulk of the
steamer st. Croix, three miles off
Point Iona, about 5 o'clock this
evening. No persons were in sight on
the wreck. The steamer was mass
of flames, and the Topeka was I'M
able to get very close to her.
No boats or life RATS were in sight,
and the one hundred passengers and
crew of 35 may have escaped to
shore. Considerable wreckage was
floating about the vessel. The sea
was calm, but a heavy fog had set
tied over the water.
The City of Topeka. after ascer-
tanning there was no life aboard the
st. Croix, proceeded to Redondo. The
st. Croix left San Pedro at o'clock
this morning for San Francisco.
The st. Croix was owned by the
North Pacific Steamship company, Of
Seattle. She was brought south about
six weeks ago as one of the vessels of
an Independent line between San
Francisco and southrn California
points, to compete with the Pacific
Coast Steamship company
The advent of the st. Croix on the
run between San Francisco and the
south resulted in a rate war, in
which the fare from Los Angeles to
San Francisco was cuC as low as one
dollar. AS a result of. the low rate,
all steamers were crowded with pas
sengers to their utmost capacity.
Point Iona is IS miles from Santa
Monica, and almost as far from
communication of any kind. If the
people who We're on board the St.
Croix have landed there, it will be
several hours before any Of them
reach point where communication
with the outside world can be had.
They may be compelled to walk over
mountain trails to the Bailibu ranch
house to reach the first telephone sta
ton. Reporters have left this city
for Point Iona in automobiles, but
will be compelled to take round
about route over bad mountain trails.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-11-24
BIG STEAMER
BURNS At SEA
ALL PASSENGERS ARE SAft
Vessel Found as Blazing Hulk OF
California Coast, With All Life
boats and Rats Gone.
ALL ESCAPE FROM WRECK.

Los ANGELES, Cal. Nov. 81.
"A telephone message has Just
been received from First Officer
Mills of the st. Croix. saying all
on board got ashore at Point
Iona.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-11-24
Bee S LAXATIVE COUeH SYRUP
A BOLD STEP

To the and reasonable objections of
intelligent medicinal
DIR. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, NJ y. decided
make bold departure by
makers of medicines domestic 81 has pub
lhed broadcast and openly the whole world, full and
list all the ingredients
celebrated med
patrons patients
icnes from among doubtful
placed them a making them
KNOWN COMPOSITION BY bold Dr.
Pierce shown
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-11-24

From this little DO k it will be learned that Dr.
Pierce's medicines contain no alcohol, narcot-
les, mineral agents other poisonous or injurious
agents and that they are made from native, med-
cinal roots of great value; also that some of the
most valuable ingredients contained in DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription for weak nervous, over
worked, rundown, nervous and debilitated wom-
en-, were employed, long years ago, by the Indians
for similar ailments affecting their squaws. In fact
one of the most valuable medicinal plants entering
into the composition of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription was known to the Indians as Squaw-
Weed" Our knowledge of the uses of not a
few of our most valuable native, medicinal plants
was gained from the Indians.
processes, the "Favorite Prescription is a
'omanly functions, correcting displacements,
overcoming painful periods, toning up the
Of health. Sold by all dealers in medicines.
Rock Island Argus., 1909-02-20
CUR GUARANTEE

Remember, every article Of
fered in this sale is absolute
" brand new and guaran-
teed as represented. Your
money back if you are not
satisfied.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-17

manian surgeon, has succeeded in talk ing from stoyaine and strychnine all dangerous properties, and the anesthet- ic is now administered as safely in the upper portion as 1t had been in the lower portion of the spine. It no longer interferes with respiration, and 1t is being freely used in hospitals in New York and Philadelphia under the watchful eyes of the famous Rou- manian surgeon himself.
 Dr. Jonnesco does not speak Eng fish, but he does speak French, and his addresses are in the latter Ian guage. He is professor of surgery in the University of Bucharest, and he was well known among medical scien- lists even before he succeeded in elimi- mating all dangerous factors from stovaine and strychnine as dual anes- thetic. His methods of using these drugs are new-the drugs themselves are not. He has found way to in- duce insensibility by injecting the two drugs without producing in the patient unconsciousness or sleep. The patient sees and knows all that is going on, but he does not feel the knife or the surgeons efforts.
 The medical profession seem to con sidcr the new anesthetic another great advance in the treatment of human afflictions. It is used now in patients suffering from cancer in the breast in fact, it is applicable in all cases in which any anesthetic is desirable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-17

a former day, to hear La File de Mme
 Ansot," for example, done by a compe- tent French company in a style quite as Parisian as anything in Paris. might have been expected to appeal to discrim- mating music-lovers. Not since the tour of Aimee quarter of a century ago has there been such an opportunity for Americans to enjoy this form of mu- sical entertainment at it's best It might indeed have been expected that the re- awakening of old memories would have
 What has caused the public indiffer- ence to MT. Hammerstein's brilliant re- vival of opera comique, leading Phila- delphia and New York to slight 1t in turn? Grand opera 'endures the changes of time and grows in favor, but is there some evanescent quality to the lighter opera which passes with It's day and champagne7
 If Lecocq and Offenbach were alive, Broadway managers would be seen bid ding for their newest productions and applying for injunctions to restrain ri- vals. AS it is, there works are only occasionally taken from the managerial pigeon holes, and then with an indif- ferent success. while "Aida'' and "Lch- engrin' and Lucia" grow yearly more hourishing. Possibly it is a Caruso that old-time opera comique most needs for its revivincation. Next to novelties 1t is names that most attract the play-going public.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-17
Alabama's DisoualiAed Army

Before the registration books were opened in the week preceding the amendment election 254,000 citizens had been registered, and the Mont gon,ery Advertiser says 11OOo names were added to the lists in the two days of registration just before the recent amendment election, thus bring ing the total possible vote of the state up to 265,OOO.
 And yet only 125,0O0 in an excited and disturbing contest voted out of registration of 2e5,o0O! Out of that 265,oOO not more than 125,o0O ever will vote as things stand.
 For example, in Jefferson county H. 395 voted in the amendment election, and yet the registration books of this county carry over 16,o00 names. Many have removed from one precinct to an- other, some have left the county, and their names remain as they were first recorded. A good many registered persons have not paid poll taxes as- sessed against them.
 The registration books and the cumulative poll tax will soon create a hopeless muddle unless the legislature te kos hold of the subject in earnest. One poll tax in support of the public schools should be retained as condi- ton of voting, but the present cumu- lative system Is filling the state with men who cannot vote. One hundred and forty thousand names of non voters are carried on the registration books. Fully 100000 of the non-voters have been disqualified by the cumula- tive poll tax qualification. This qualii- cation should be modified for the gen. eral good of the state and the particu- lar good of the disqualified,
 It is not the part of patriotism to say that the disqualified voter should have paid all poll taxes assessed against him. He did not and will not, and the state suffers from a dis qualified but registered electorate 100000 strong. The army of 100,000 white men who stand disqualified can- not reasonably be expected to become active and intelligent public citizens while they are excluded from the polls and are really listed as the states black electoral sheep.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-17
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Getting What People Want.

s~thS sshak TCOPiS s'ahe
 Martin Beck, the general manager of the orpheum circuit, has peculiar fac ulty of finding out exactly what class of vaudeville act will please the patrons of the various cities on his circuit" said Max Fabish, personal representative Of MT. Beck, who is here 10 open the Orpheum. MT. Beck studies the daily reports from his theatres and watches carefully to see how various acts take in various cities and offhand he can come very nearly telling how any act will go in any city.
 Tt Is the faculty and the unusual managerial ability that has enabled him to build up the largest circuit of vaude- vile theatres in the world. He will watch every report from the Birming- ham Orpheum and in 60 or 90 days he will be able to say exactly what class of act will please the people here, and after that he will send those acts to this theatre.
 Tastes vary wonderfully in different bowling success in one part of the states will be a rank failure in another. En- vironment and local conditions frequent ly are what we have to study in or der to make a success of our houses. How well Mir Beck and his able corps Of assistants have done that is dem onstrated by the fact that we have never yet lowered an orpheum sign. It is our distinction that we have never left city where we once opened"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-17
LiYIne Is Fast Becoming a Luxury

The bureau of statistics of labor and industry of New Jersey presents the resudts of a study of the cost of living in 1909. It finds that list of over 50 articles consisting of the stan- dard varieties of table supplies in use by families of average income has been increased in cost during the present year GA per cent In il years prices of necessaries have been increased 37.13 per cent Butter shows an ad- vance of 65. 5S per cent; flour. per bar rel. 5s. .65 per cent: fresh meats of all kinds show increases that are very large, the greatest being 54.56 for fresh pork. Bacon leads among the smoked meats with an advance of 44.64 per cent. The average increase of s7.13 per cent in the cost of food supplies which is shown to have taken place since 1898 means that family whose consumption of goods selected from this list in 1898 amounted to an
 average of $6 weekly, finds itself in
 1909 obliged to pay $8.23 for the same
 quantity of similar articles.
 The New Jersey bureau goes on to
 show that the increase in earnings has not kept pace with the increase in the cost of food. While the prices of food articles have been advanced 37. IS per cent in Il years the increase in wages has been but 19 per cent, and the wage-earner is today approximately 1s per cent worse of than he was il years ago.
 The New Jersey figureA represent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-17
Farm Demonstration Work

The farm demonstration work in the southeast is supervised by Dr. s. A. Knapp, and he is about to deliver a series of addresses in the interest of better farming in this section of the country. He is to speak at Anniston and Huntsville in this state. No one is better qualified to discuss farm i'm rroyement in the southeast than Dr. Knapp. He has long studied farming in the southeast, and he assuredly will bring both science and good practice to bear on this subject.
 The nine addresses he proposes to deliver in the southeast will constitute a collected study of farm life, methods, opportunities and possibilities in the southeastern states, and the nine ad- dresses will perhaps be published later on for the benefit of the states in this section of the country.
 The demonstration farms should be multiplied. There should be one at some central point in each county. At present they are few and far between. Comparatively few are influenced by them because comparatively few have a chance to see, much less to study, one of them. If southern agriculture is to be set right by demonstration farms, they must be increased in num- Der until every farmer is brought into contact with one of them. Few farm CTS. indeed. have ever seen demon stration farm, so small is their number The south needs more of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-17
Greater Blrmingham Stands Approved

After years of effort interspersed with reverses and errors Greater Bir- mingham stands at last vindicated by the highest court in this state. It is idle to say that in this purely state natter there are federal issues. If the fourteenth or negro amendment of the federal constitution can be con- strued to defeat a state municipal proposition then indeed would state legislation be well rounded up. There would not be enough left to quarrel over It Is a waste of space or time to consider even such a possibility.
 Greater Birmingham Is in other words assured. It would be fact if the day of consummation had arrived. It will be fact on New Years Day.
 Alabama is 90 years old and better, and it Is time she had city in the 100000 class. The supreme court has rendered assurance doubly sure by put ting its seal upon the validity of the Greater Birmingham law, and on New Years Day Alabama will have a city that contains 100000 people with a good margin to spare.
 No one need be troubled over Bir- mingham's welfare hereafter. Some outlying districts, including Corey and Mary Lee and Shades Valley may have to be added later on, but let no one doubt what the census of 1920 will dis close. Atlanta and Memphis will then be left behind. and industrial Bir- mingham will line up in the south next behind commercial New Orleans, and the two will be linked together by long tows that will keep almost in New Orleans will be on two arms of the sea, and both will pull together to meet the worldwide demands created or rather concentrated by the Panama canal. Both Birmingham and New Or leans are to become in the next 10 years creations of the great canal that slices in two the hemisphere, opening to both the great Pacific world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-17
SHANGHAI.
The Great Chinese City Is Both An
 cient and Modern.

Ella D. MacLaurin in the Boston
 Watchman.
 There are practically two shanshais, an ancient and modern one. The an- cient Shanghai is distinctly Chinese. while the modern is as distinctly occi- dental Leaving your steamer at Woo sung, or the mouth of the Yangtse. you proceed 12 miles by launch up the liver whangpoo, passing great many indus trial plants, handsome residences and the Shanghai Baptist college. The lat ter occupies a most commanding posi- ton and has already become . land mark.
 Shanghai is considered by it's enthusi- astic inhabitants the great cosmopolitan metropolis of the east. Its large, sub stantiai buildings. wide, clean streets, and attractive homes bespeak commer- cial prosperity and European and Amer lean influence. The population is about 100000 and there are three foreign set dement's, the English, the American,
 
 war of all nations are always to be found. The central district is the heart of the business portion of the city. In it is the ''bund.'' which is not only a great business thoroughfare. but also shanghais promenade. Here are the public gardens. where during the after moons and evenings the city band plays. kIo but two of the many great show streets.
 If you want to see and know some thing about old China, you want to visit the native city, where the Chinese are as thick as mosquitoes in tho Kiondike and as numerous as the sands of the sea- shore! There you sec the Chinaman on his native heath. You will be impressed with the multifar1ous occupations that the Chinese have of earning liveli- hood. It is perfectly astonishing to see the craft and skill with which he utilizes space and material and his lavish sx- penditure of time in the execution of his work. He may be covered with O ragbag of patches. variesated in colors, diffusing parasitical insect life in great abundance, yet that fast4dious China man, if it be cloudy, will carry an um- breila, if 1t be hot, . fan. Dc not im- asine for one moment as you approach the native city that you arc about to enter a botanical garden filled with rare plants emitting delightful odors. for if you do disappointment will stifle you on descending the steps near the gate. But there is more to Q Chinese native city than edious odors. It Is full of great object lessons of the oldest civilization in the world and in numerical strength the greatest. the population of China exceeding one-quarter of that of the globe. Here you may see the little boy at the crude lathe, his feet furnish ing the power. his hand dexteriously guiding the tool, his eyes intent on his work. every muscle being called into play in fashioning the artistic csncop- ton of his handiwcrk- It Is wonderful. Hours could be prontably spent in study ing the industrial life of this human beehive. There are too many points of interest in the native city for any fur thor description here. It is ail so strange, 10 full of interest. 50 full of infinite possibilities
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-17
StoYaine and StryChnlno

The use of stovaine and stychnine as an aesthetic was for considerable time confined to operations at the lower portion of the spine. It be- numbs a patient without rendering him unconscious. He remains wide awake and fully conscious to all but physical pain. He knows but he does not feel.
 Heretofore the use of stovaine had been in connection with operations at or near the foot of the spine, but Dr. Thomas Jounesco, tho well-lnown Rou-