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The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1909-03-19

IN the throes of Il disolving legisla-
ture a resolution was passed providing
for the appointment of committee to
investigate the offices of secretary of
state. and the insurance and land com
missioners. This concession was only
secured, after repeated failure. by the
firm attitude of Gov. Hsv He was
prepared to call an extra session of the
legislature to act in the matter. which
forced the legislature to the step at
last taken. 1t is only because of this
determined stand of the governor that
an investigation was made possible
Even in the end the committee NAV
be unable to discover any ire gulari-
ties in the offices mentioned. but for
long time ugly rumors have been in
circulation, and such action as was Ia
ken mad become necessary to quiet the
clamor. The unfavorable feature in
the premises was the strenuous efforts
of friends of the officials under sus-
picion to prevent the legislature from
instituting an investigation 1t would
have looked much better to the people
at large If the heads of the several Of
ices under suspicion had gone before
the legislature and demanded a most
searching inquiry. The people can
only trust that the committee appoint
ed to make the investigation will in
vestigate. If the officials are guiltless
OF wrong doing they are entitled TO vim
dication. If they are guilty the public
ought to know it
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1909-03-19

will find that the low price of our land
is owing wholly to the lack of trans
portation for so many years. But this
drawback will soon be remedied, and
then land values hereabouts will adj
vance with leaps and bounds. How
ever the change will not come about
by its own volition. and without the
assistance of man. There must be eff
fort and action to bring about the de-
sired results. Lands must be improved.
S> stems of irrigation must be inaugu-
rated. Thorough cultivation is neces-
sary. But these things will come to
pass. If those who are now on the
ground cannot. or will not. work the
necessary transformation, new men
with rich red blood, and new ideas,
and the enterprise and zeal to go
ahead will come in and reap the har-
vest. 1t requires no prophetic eye to
see the wonderful changes that few
years are sure to make in this valley.
The run down. half cultivated and in
many instances neglected farms will
give place to thrifty orchards. the val
ley will be one continuous bloom OF
flower in the spring, blushing with
golden fruit in the autumn. a picture
of rural beauty and tranquility. the
golden harvest bringing to the owners
an income that means plenty, comfort
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1909-03-19

He Coneonully Record states that
Wallace r. Strubble, late publisher of
the Riverside Argus. is now EDITING a
paper on the coast. Mr.. StrubhIe i =
nrs'-lass editor. but was never cut out
for tnancier.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1909-03-19

HE Brewster Herald thinks that i,
thinks the time is not quite ripe for
county division. 1t is feared the Her.
aid will never believe the time has
come for division until the knife X ~
applied that Brewster has a show for
county seat.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1909-03-19

HE papers of the state are united in
eheerful roast Of the late legislature
mat body IS only getting What it had
coming.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1909-03-19

Entered at The postofice at oToville. Washing
ton q second class matter.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1909-03-19

Issued Every Friday. 81 30 year
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1909-02-03
Wants State TO Pau for Slaves.

arleston, Jan. 27.-One OF the
usual and freakish features tipped up
at this session of the legislature il
the sworn petition of James Black
of Wayne county, who asks the
legislature to band him over a
modest sum Ike 81, 900, the value
he places on seven slaves which
we're set free by Lincoln's procla-
nation and contiimaIory action on
the part of the legislature of the
then new state of West Virginia.
The petition recites the story of
Blacks grievances in detail, con.
tains an inventory Of his slave
property, relies on liberal excerpts
from the National and State con
situations, and certain acts passed
by The first legislatures applicable
to the subject, and is in other re.
spects an interesting document on
account Of the historical phases 1t
presents and the memories of
troublous days long since gone
which 1t recalls. The petition was
turned over TO the committee of
finance and there it will rest the
balance of these forty-five lawmak-
ing days, when Uncle Virgil Lewis
will doubtless swoop down and nah
on to 1t to add TO his interesting
collection of relics.
q L -
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1909-02-03
Enough and Knows 1t.
&. b. s.

II have my home, my wife, nv
business, my friends. | am no,
rich, but l have all the money |
need. L am contented man.
Why should L reopen my ring Ca
reer Tor the sake of few dollars
L don't want?"-Jim Jeffries.
This is what he said when be.
set, yea, beseiged by persons VIII
are ardent In the wish that be
once more 60 into training, pro
mote his being with prayer and
last and wrest from the proud
son OF Ham certain wreathes of
laurel deemed unbecoming ex.
cept bound on fairer brows.
"Who," say these meters to bat
tie, "who among men can 90
forth and do this deed but
Jefferies, Jim, our Jim. Jim
Jefferles the unconquered and the
unconquerableI
But the prize fighter has learn.
ed one lesson that is worthy of a
more distinguished teacher of the
higher life-he is content. More
benehcent Of all the blessings
abides contentment. She is the
flower of all the winged flock
which flew forth when Pandora
opened the door of their cage.
And contentment is not for one
man alone. 1t can be the Dos
session of the prize fighter and
the preacher, the laborer and the
lawyer, the printer and the poll.
tician. The man wke has had
enough and knows it and is guild
ed by the knowledge deserves un.
told fluctuations. Exchange.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1909-02-03

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Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1909-02-03
Valuable PrODertu for Sale.

The two-story building known a
the "Frasher Property" situate on
B street ION the street car line)
Cereio. w. Va, Is for sale AT A
BARGAIN. The building contains
l6 rooms. The premises contain
the necessary outbulldings, splendid
well OF pure water and a nice grape
arbor. The building could not be
built today for less than $4,000, but
1t and the two lots can be bought
for good deal less, if the trade is
made at once. For further
particulars apply to T. T. Nc
DoUGAL. Ceredo. w. Va.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1909-02-03
The Palace Hotel.

The most popular hotel III
Cincinnati is the Palace, corner of
9Th and Viue streets. Maxwell &
Lee are it's managers and thew
spare no pains in making their
guests feel at home. improvements
have recently been made to the
building and now hot and cold
water is supplied to most of the
rooms.
When in the "Queen City" stop
at the Palace Hotel. You will
never regret it.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1909-02-03

PETITIONS are circulating through
out the country beseeching the
president to give up his African
hunting excursion. They are the
pleas of sentimental and hysterical
members Of humane associations
There are few such members in
the societies for the presentation of
cruelty to animals and they harm
rather than help these excellent or.
CARNATIONS. The intelligent and
thoughtful members of these
societies devote their time and
means to the alienation of the
sufferings of domestic herbivorous
animals. 1t is in the interest of
the welfare of these animals that
lions, tigers, wolves and all preda.
tory carnivora shall be exterminat.
ed. Just as tits good to extirpate
weeds, to hang assassins, it is
also desirable to rid the earth of
the beasts of prey. 1t is presum.
aoly against these that the presi.
cent is going abroad in Africa.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1909-02-03

HERE can be no greater mistake
that business man can make than
to be mean in business. Everybody
has heard the proverb of penny
wise and pound foolish. A liberal
expenditure in the way of business
Is always sure to be capital invest.
ment. There are people in the world
who are short sighted enough to be.
lIeve that their interest can be best
promoted by grasping and clinginp
10 all they can get and never letting
cent slip through their fingers.
As general thing it will be found
other things being equal, that he
who Is most liberal is most SUCCESS.
iul IN business. OF course we do
not mean it TO be inferred that q
man should be pro ligal in his OK.
penditures; but that he should
snow his customers, If ne is a trader
or those whom he may be doing
any KIND OF business with, that in
all his transactions, as we'll as so.
cial relations, be acknowledges the
everlasting fact that there can be no
permanent prosperity or GOOD feel.
ing m community where benefits
arc not reciprocal.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1909-02-03

RoBABLY the most maritorious
piece of constructive statesmansbip
initiated by President Roosevelt
is In the conservation Of the natural
resources through the concerted ac-
ton of national and state autbori
ties This action is appeal ny to
congress for official recognition.
The president asks that fund be
provided for its maintenance and
the continuance Of this work.
work 20 far conducted at private ex.
pense. The sum asked for is fftv
thousand dollars. Tariff revision
IS no doubt very important sub.
jet and congress is committed 70
action upon it, but there are other
subjects that the people Of The
United States are interested in
AL over the country, farmers, bust.
ness men and men in the professions
are urging congress and will hold
ats members responsible for neg
lect of such important legislation
as may 90 TO preserve the natural
resources Of the country, or as are
necessary to develop the inland
waterways, or establish postal saw.
1Dgs banks, or TO develop a par
cells post. Congress, by husband
ing It's time, can accomplish much
toward desirable and even neces.
= Try legislation before the Fourth
of March next.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1909-02-03

to create a public utilities COM
mission, have not yet put in an
appearance, but are due to show
up in a few days, perhaps, Mon
day if the program now about
agreed on is carried out.
G. B. S.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1909-02-03

Local agents needing superior insurance sup
plies for their Office customers should cor.
respond with tue RoUGH NOTES COMPANY. In
dianapolis, publishers of RoUGH NorEs. the
leading Insurance Journal of the West, and
other publications
Yours truly, he. MARrtS.
Rough Notes 20.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1909-02-03
PROHIBITION BILLS.

The great number of bills in
now are for the most part local in
character, of high Importance, to
be sure, to the people and govern
ment of communities affected by
them. The proposed measures of
statewide bearing are as yet COM
paratively few and far between,
that of most interest to the gener.
al public being, of course, the A.
d. Williams prohibition amend
ment resolution IN the house.
leading all others in popular in
terest, as an incentive 70 gingery
discussion, and a boon to the
telegraph companies who trans
ported thousands of kilograms TO
legislators from watchful consti-
tuents earnestly praying not to
vote for the resolution or az ear
nestly pleading to vote for it. In
addition, and along the same line,
the three local option bills, by
Senators Santee, Hazlett and
Craig, were strong bidders for the
public attention. The former
two bills take the county as a
basis; Craig's bill, the last plump
ed into the hopper, exempts
towns Of two thousand population
or over whose councils have now
the right to grant license.
The other measures of most inn
portance are Delegate Nugents
railroad commission bill; Hat
fields higher license bill which
jumps up the saloon licenses from
six hundred dollars to one thous-
aud dollars and gives city coun.
ellis the right to do the same;
bill TO BRING in more revenues
from the inheritance tax, and one
raising fees in the secretary of
states Office, which will bring in
a good sized bunch Of coin to the
state by way of that department.
The state administrations chief
measures, to-wit, bills to tax
coal oil and gas production, and
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1909-02-03
THE uniform text book hill now

The uniform text book bill now
pending In the senate and receiving
the usual attention, is one OF the
most important matters of legisla-
ton before that body. IL is step
IN the direction of cheapening the
pricH of text books and securing uni
form ity In the schools Of the state.
Charlie ston Mail.
1t should be passed, by all means.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1909-02-03

SENATOR GRAY SILVER has in.
PRODUCED bill in the state senate
creating a commission to inquire
into the subject of free school
books for children. Whether or
not free books are furnished child
rem, there should he a uniformit7
of books. Everyone should be in
favor of law Of this kind.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1909-02-03
The LEGISLATURE.
Seventeen of the Forty
five Days Gone and But
Five Bills Passed.

Charleston, w. Va, Jan. 30
Seventeen days of the forty five
days of this Legislature session
have teen swallowed up by the
yesterdays, and this is what has
been done: Five bills passed,
namely-the legislative appro-
priat:ons bill, the Martinsburg
chatter, creating a criminal conrt
tor Harrison county, creating a
water works and sewerage board
tor Clarksburg, passing "mod-
ell" charter for Huntington; two
hundred and thirty bills have
been introduced in the house and
one hundred and SEVENTEEN in the
senate, not to mention numerous
resolutions.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1909-02-03

HERE is much discussion in
Washington, concerning memoir
1al to President Lincoln. 1t is the
desire of the country at large that
ne snail have a monument comen.
surate with that of ashington. A
road to Gettysburg is under dis
cussion; an arch over Sixteenth
street is favored by some. Atower.
ing monument on the Plaza he
tween the new Union Station and
the Capitol is perhaps more popular
with artists than any other sug-
gestion. Old Andrew Jackson.
however, had great contempt for
architects and artists, as was shown
when he walked out and planted his
hickory stick in the center of Penn
sylVanla avenue aud ordered the
Treasury building erected there.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1909-02-03

V' Ouai'eI lor huntington, TWO
hundred and thirty bills have
been introduced in the house and
one hundred and SEVENTEEN in the
senate, not to mention numerous
resolutions.
HAVE BEN BUY.
Five bills passed in seventeen
days will strike many people as
being very little accomplished in
that length Of time But it is
not fair to Legislators to take that
view of ii. 1t requires time to
organize a Legislature, appoint
committees and get them working
Gu the multitude of bills, sorting
out the good from the bad and
getting them started on their un-
certain way. 1t requires a GER
tain line of procedure, seemingly
slow at first, to get bills along on
their reading after they are re-
ported favorably aud get a place
on the calendar. Yesterday the
house got thirty-four bills up to
their second reading aud, al
though there are no bills on third
reading yet in that branch, there
will be by Monday. There are
three up to third and final read
ing in the senate branch. This
legislature has been busy. 1t is
the busiest aggregation of law
makers that West Virginia has
had In number of years.
While from mere sizing up of
actual results in the shape of the
number of bills passed, it would
seem that the legislators have
been tagging, the contrary is the
truth, and next week will see
bills enacted into acts at a pref
ty lively rate. The business ia
now In shape to shoot new laws
over the home plate, as it were,
and next weeks record will, one
may be sure, be swift enough to
suit the most critical and impa-
tlent.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1909-02-03

A man named Orr, who moved from
TINS county 20 Iowa 81 years ago. was i'm
town last Monday.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1909-02-03

We acknowledge receipt of the follow.
ing invitation.
Governor and Mrs Dawson
invite you TO meet
the Members Of the Legislature
wednesday evening, February the third
nineteen hundred and nine.
from eight-thirty TO eleven-thirtv
o'clock,
Executive Mansion.
Charleston, West Virginia.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1909-02-03

HUNTiNGroN's new charter bill
had clear sailing in the Legisla-
ture. 1t was passed last week with
but little opposition and is an ideal
charter. 1t completely removes
politics from consideration in the
government of the municipality of
the "second city" placing the
control of the city in a board of
four commissioners, with the veto
power imposed in an assembly of
"a citizens of mixed politics.
There will he numerous poll
tlcians in Huntington now out of
jobs. What will they all do?
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1909-02-03

1t should be passed, by all means.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-05
itself more easily to attractive deco

itself more easily to attractive deco ration.
 For the sake of brevity we have condensed in the form of brief para graphs, some of the new and unusual uses to which cotton Is put. We have added rough estimates wherever they could be obtained.
 Several million yards annually are used in making cloth signs ani ad- vertisements. The American Tobacco Company and similar cons cerns use enormous quantities of cloth In their large decorating advertisements.
 "Pottery establishments use millfons of yards of army duck annually for the purpose of squeezing water out or clay.
 .,rhe Government requires 100000 wards of cotton duck annually for coin bags. ooo
 "Cement companies use about SOUL 900 yards of cotton bagging annually.
 About 2,00o, 900 yards of cotton duck annually are made into feed bags TOT horses.
 naner mills use enormous quantities Of heavy cotton duck for driers. The material frequently runs twelve rect wide and weighs from seven to ren pounds.
 "Cotton drills and ducks to the ex- tent of millions of yards annually are lsed for wagon tops, cushions, water proof coats, 'pantaoste,' and the like.
 "A heavy duck, forty-six inches wide is used to the extent of millions of yards annually for the purpose Of hl- tering oils.
 Cotton In Rubber.
 cotton duck is the basis of rubber belting and all kinds of rubber hose. Sales to these branches of the trade amount to 50,000,000 yards annually. Among the smaller uses. but making Il heavy aggregate: In gloves 10 stiffen gauntlets; leggings, tennis and gym- nasium shoes, duck canopy for shower baths when rubber formerly was used: covering of trunks and telescopes, binding of books. draining mines heavy duck to the extent of 100000 yards annually.
 While we do not presume to have set forth here more than s nall por- ton of the uses to which cotton Is put, the above items should go far toward showing that the staple Is val uable aside from its merit as wearing apparel There are many fields into which 1t enters where curtailment would be impossible except under extraor- dinary conditions. Even at much further adavnce it would not be likely to enter into competition with the pro- ducts 1t has displaced.
 Tn the matter of wearing apparel it's nearest competitors are linen end wool. Today the term household lin- en' is largely a misnomer There is as much cotton as linen ir collars and shirts. All wool clothing is practi- cally A thing of the past. and the world is none the worse for It."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-05
COTTON USES
 A MULTITUDE Account of Staples Dis
 tribution. ITS WONDERFUL ADAPTABILITY Finds Place in Manufacture of Greatly Varied Product. Electricity and Rubber Need It--It Replaces Wall Paper and
 Takes the Place .. of Wood.

What becomes of all the cotton raised in various parts of the world is, perhaps. a question asked many times. An interesting account of the disposi- ton of the cotton crop Is given in a statement issued by Dick Brothers ana Company, of New York It says:
 Not long ago a man noted for broad grasp of the industrial and commercial situation said: This is the age of cot ton. It is just as far Tn advance of the iron age as the iron age was in ad- vance of the stone age.
 Tn this sweeping statement lies even more truth than veteran cotton men will admit at first glance. The world has achieved it's greatest progress since Whitney's invention 116 years ago, and no man can measure even approximate iy the influence exerted by cotton in that period of a little more than cen- tury. Cotton today plays a bigger part in industrial development than any other commodity except steel It en- ters into the manufacture of more ar ticles of commerce than any product of the soil. Eliminate cotton, and the mere stoppage of spindles and looms would be but a trifie compared with the paralysis that would visit countless other industries.
 Tn the last ten years the horizon of cotton has broadened so immeasurab1y, that old traditions of the trade-form- CT methods of caIculatiun-are as anti quated as the stage coach. In the good old days the late Thomas Ellison, of Liverpool used to express orthodox sentiment by stating that consumption made an average annual increase of 2 1-2 per cent per year, when calculat- ed by five year periods. It was quite simple: The worlds population 1n- creased and new markets were devel- oped, and the who ole situation could be figured out with mathematical prects- ion like the flow of the tides. True, Il was admitted that greater expansion was possible, but not probable, until John Chinaman could oe persuaded to add that two inches to the tail of his shirt.
 But in spite of the fact that John Chinaman has done nothing of the kind, and the worlds populations has snown no sudden increase. the trade to- day is confronted with the fact that in the last five years the spindles of the world have shown an actual expansion of more than 2S 1-2 per cent. Another cold fact is an actual consumption du- ring the last, year, of 13,116,000 bales, notwithstanding that the textile indus try was emerging from a period of widespread depression, with talk of poor trade in this country and abroad. Why has a new record for consumption been established in the face of such conditions? Where has the cotton gone?
 After a careful investigation ex- tending over period of several months, we have come to the conclu- sion that the old, hide-bound theory concerning cotton consumption will have to be abandoned. There might have been a regular increase of 2 1-2 per cent yearly If cotton had been val uable only for sheets pillow cases 'ta- bIe linen dress goods and the like.