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fishers Association
through It's Presi-
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wager $1,000 OF his
own money, ana
undertake 10 prove
that THE EVhN-
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has the largest
paid circulation et
any paper printed
in Wilmington.
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ME PURE FOOD AND DRUG Law

THE PURE FOOD AND DRUG LAW
has not only brought the foods and
drugs of this country up to a higher
standard of purity, but it has elimi-
mated the harmful medicines with
Which this country was flooded
@Such medicines, however, as Lydia
r. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
purely a roots and herbs product, will
continue its beneficial work among
women.
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OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENTS.

The AssochUon
OF American Ad-
vertscrs IS
The Association 0f American great advertisers
Adrcrtisers (Nsw York City, has Of this eoqant,ry;
trEmped ored 70 the circulation endorses only such
" this pbneation Only the figures Of papers submit
cirouaeou contained in ia seport are TO Us
I auaxantsod ~ the Association. ana positive proof
S4ss.s 1919. S:', !; Il: :$;::' q;
K issued TO this pa
per.
Evening journal., 1910-02-24
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The Soldier Lad Who JuSti-
fled LinCOIn'S Faith in Him
BY "HOlIand."

This daily series OF anecdotes and incl
dents that throw new, interesting and fire.
quently dramatic light on famous events
and personalities Of the past have been
collected by MIR. Edwards during near
forty years Of more or less intimate ac-
quaintance with many OF the country's s
ecdote or incident is fresh from Mr.. Ed
wards notebook, and, either in whole or
IN part. It constitutes NEW NEWS OF
YESTERDAY, garnered from the men
who made the ncws--the historv-or from
equally authoritative sources As Inn
portant contributions OF the Human in
terest' sort to American history, these
own.
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The United Publishers AssoOla-
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Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-25
CURTIS ANO SHERMAN CLEARED
THEY WEIR NOT CONCERNED IN
McMURRA, CONTRACTS.
At Request Of Senator Gore Commit
tee Announced No Evidence
Against Either.

Sulphur, Oklahoma. The select
committee Of the house OF representa-
tives to investigdlc Indian land anairs
and the so-called McMurray contracts,
and which also has been investigating
the Gore bribery charges has ssued
the following statement:
The committcc has heard and care
fully considered all of the testimo,
submitted and Is Luminous In the
opinion that there Is and was no war
rant for any person 10 use the names
of Wce-President James S. Sherman
and Senator Charles Curtis In con.
nection with any improper relation
with any Indian contract whatever"
This is the opinion Of the committee
after hearing the witnesses who ap-
peared following 'he testimony OF
Senator Il. p. Gore. Senator Gore de.
clared he had been approached by
Jake l.. Hamon and hat Hamon, act.
ing In the interest OF j. +. McMur-
ray, had offered aim tSenator Gore)
$4,000 or $4,000 as a bride to pro-
mote In congress the contracts by
which McMurray was TO receive 10
per cent attorney fee on the sale OF
100000 0 worth OF Indian lands.
The senator testified Hamon men.
toned Senator Curtis and Vice-Presi.
dent Sherman as being interested"
in the deal, Mr.. Sherman being named
as the nan higher up Hamon, on
the stand, denied he had ever said
anything about the contract to Gore.
In giving Its decision the commit.
tee announced it. had received from
Senator lore Il statement relative to
Nice-President Sherman and Senator
Curtis and that the committee com.
mcndcd' Senator Cores statement.
The committees report vas signed by
Representative Charles II. Burke,
South Dakota; &. Il. Miller, Mime.
sofa; Il. w. Saunders, Virginia; J. n.
Stephens, Texas, and Phillip II. Camp.
bell. Kansas.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-25
A Welcome Of Other DAYS.

The Show.You congress, to be held
at Moberly, September 7, 8, and 0,
Will have as a woman's department
a tent with the appearance in the in
terror OF an old fashioned Missouri
cottage. An oldfashioned well, sweep
and curb. from which sparkling Mis-
souri, water will be handed out to
thirsty ones, in gourds, will also be
Designed TO be a retreat for
those who are Omc.comers to Mis-.
souri,, a further feature will be a
lawn stretching from the tent, and on
this will be placed scttees and ham.
mocks, where rest can be taken. A
delegation of northern Missouri
IN will have charge of the tent,
and, to still further carry out their
idea Of depicting olden days, will
wear homespun linscy aprons and old.
fashioned poke bonncst. They will
give souvenirs to visitors and a quar-.
tet of girls will at intervals sing the
favorite songs of half a century ago.
Spinning wheels and looms will also
be placed in the cottage to give it q
more realistic appearance.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-25
FOREST FIRES BURN CITIES
Wallace, Idaho, nearly destroyed and
Newport, Wash, Suffers-Al SOL
diers Pressed Into Service.

Spokane, Neutrality-suspicious. hun.
dred iirefighters are reported dead
In the flooded canyon near Wallace,
Idaho, and five citizens we're burned
in their homes as the result of forest
fires which for 60 days have terrified
the Coucr D'Alene country and which
have spread TO the town OF Wallace.
the metropolis of the mining d strict.
More than a third of Wallace is burn
ed. The Pacific, Michigan and Couer
DAlcne hotels, the o. X. Il y. depots,
a big hardware warehouse and $50 to
200 residences were destroyed. The
town Is almost dark by day and the
heavens of the surrounding country is
a seethlng mass by night.
Newport, Wash, a town of 1000 Is
burning, but the loss of life Is as yet
unknown, cries for help being
answered as rapidly as relief parties
can be made up, All available sol.
diers in this part Of the country are
pressed into service.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-25
MISSOURI STATE NEWS
No Cross State Flight.

Although $4,000 was raised as .
prize and the route was laid out for
the translate aeroplane flight from
st. Louis to Kansas City, to have been
begun August "a, the aerial attraction,
which was inspirec by the board Of
immigration, has been called of in.
definitely. Failure CT the committees
to ecure aviators is given as the
reason why the fight has been aban-
doned. To those towns along the pro.
posed route, where it was planned for
aviators to land temporarily, and
which had contributed toward the
event, Chief Immigration Commission
err John II. Curran sent letters inform.
ing the commercial bodies Of the
towns that the flight would not be
held, as advertised. The towns over
which the flight q to have been
made 20 Kansas City we're St. Charles,
Montgomery City, Mexico. Sturgeon,
Huntsville, Carrollton and Lexington,
thence to Kansas City. While not at.
tempting to criticise, Commissioner
Curran holds that no blame for the
postponement of the fight al rest
on the immigration board, because the
board, he says. secured the money ac-
cording>t to agreement and LAID out the
and Kansas City were to perform their
part Of the programme by securing
the aviators.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-25
JUST A NATURAL MISTAKE
Gussis, In Fancy Costume, Astonished
the o%oorkeeper for q
Moment.

Gussie was knock.kneed, angular
and round shouldered. He had a ter.
rible squirt. and a mouth like a steam
roller. All the same. he reckoned on
making something OF q hit at the
fancy dress ball. and mis- costume was
as elegant as his figure was unlovely.
With f~ast-beating heart he stepped
j%auntily from his automobile outside
the town hall, where the ball was bo-
ing held. The hall porter stepped back.
ward at the unsightly apparition.
Great Christopher Columbus!" he
gasped as he regarded Gussie.
mo, no, my good mani" chirped
Gussie, as he tripped through tho por.
tails. "Chawles the First, my dear fell.
low-Chawles the First!"-London An.
swers.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-25
IT IS PRESIDENT ESTRADA NOW
Nicaragua and Madriz Has Fled
With His Family.

New Orleans, La.-Gen. Estrada
has assumed the presidency Of Mica.
ragua, the Office being transferred TO
him by Jose Dolores Estrada a broth.
or who on Saturday was made pro-
visional president by DR., Joe d, Mad
riz, who abdlcatcd following sweep.
Ing victories of the insurgents In the
interior and at Granada.
This information Is contained in
private cable advices received here,
Gen. Luis Mena, with his revolu.
tlonary army Is within ~ miles OF
Managua and expected to enter the
capital city.
Rioting Is in progress ut Managua
and many have been killed. There is
practically no government. Those
who could escape fed to Corinto.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-25
Excellent Definition.

"Bjornstjerne Bjornson. in his hotel
fronting the Tuileries gardens, re-
ceived a few friends up TO the last in
Paris" said tho continental agent Of a
typewriter firm.
II had the honor to be among those
friends and l never wearied OF the
great Norseman's wit and wisdom.
The last thing he said to me. In
c%autioning me not to give an impor-
tant provincial agency to an easy.go.
ing nan OF the world. was this:
beware the easy.going man. An
easy.going man. you know. is one who
makes the path of life very rough and
difficult for somebody else"
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-25
Wriqhts Elect Officers,

Inc Wright Family Association OF
America, composed Of 175 persons, in
family reunion which met at Columbia
elected these officers: J. Kelly Wright,
Columbia. president; w. p. Wright Of
st. Louis, secretary; Harriet l..
Wright, columbia, assistant secrctliy;
Paul NJ. Wright OF Columbia, trees.
urer. The officers will call ne next
reunion two years from now. and will
serve until then. The Wrights are dc.
scended from Adam W-igh: of New
England, who lived zen gentrlrions
ago and married Jane liugart, remnv.
Ing TO BOtetOurt county. Wiz. Inia.
They had 10 children, eight daughters
and five sons. From these ell the
Wrights are descended. There are
known to be over 400 members If the
family scattered over the United
States.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-25
Faults In American Character.

In an address on botanical educa-
ton in America, Prof. w. F. Ganong
remarks that disregard Of particulars
and a tendency to easy g~eneralities
are fundamental faults in American
character" and he insists upon the
necessity Of laboratory and expert
mental work in all scientific study.
Books ease the Wits" but independ-
ent observation is the source OF sound
knowledge in science.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-25
SchooImate Of Daughter.

Harry X. Williams OF Jackson,
United States consul at Costa Rica
during Cleveland's administration and
a graduate Of the University OF Mis-.
souri, in 1884. has made arrangements
to enter the agricultural college of
Missouri university this fall, and will
attend lectures regularly, while his
daughter, Miss Irene Williams, Is a
student in the college OF arts and
science. She will be a freshman. Her
father will be a special student.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-25
Or. CRlPPEN BACK TO LONDON
With Miss lie Neve He Will Face Q
Charge Of Having Murdered
Belle Gilmore.

Quebec. Canada.-IIawley Harvey
Crippen and Ethel Glare lie Neyc
have sailed for England on board the
White Star liner Megnatic and are
due at Liverpool at neon o Satur-
Jay. by Saturday night they prob.
ably will be lodged In a London jan
to await trial for the murder of a
woman supposed to be Crippen's wife.
Belle Gilmore.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-25
TO Inspect Ozark Schools.

To inspect the rural schools II the
heart Of the Ozarks. Dean W. W.
Charters. of the School OF Education
at the University of Missouri. and
Prof. X. II. Emberson Of the chair OF
rural education left to spend two
weeks in Stone. fancy, Ozark and
Douglass counties. Most OF the travel.
Ing they will do will be on foot, horse.
back or in farm wagons.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-25
To Tap Harrisburg Coal Field.

j. L. McElree. representing the st.
Louis and Kansas City Electric Rail
way Company. has made first payment
on the thirty-year leases which the
company holds on a body of 1000
acres OF coal lands near Harrisburg,
Boone county. A spur track will be
built from Columbia to Harrisburg to
tap the coal fields. A blanket vein I
feet thick Is known to exist.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-25
A NJ. s. V. Teacher to Minnesota.

DIR. +. T. Bell. assistant professor
OF anatomy In the school OF medicine
of the University OF Missouri. has
been notified OF his election to a sim.
liar position OF the University Of Min.
nesota
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-25
Espirantists 10 Portland Next.

Washington. u. C.-The next con-
vention of the Esperanto Association
OF North America will be held In Port.
land. Ore, In 1911.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings OF the
Pas: Seven Days.
Interesting ltsu"s Gathered from all
Parts Of the World C]ondensee
INTO Small Space for the Ben
eft OF Our Readers.
Domestic Items.

The Parker Brown Mount Mckinley
expedition has returned to Seward,
alaska, and report failure to reach
the summit. Members of the party
c]orrobora'c the statements made by
(. y. Rusk. who recently led an un.
successful expedition, that the peak
climbed by, Or. Cook and used in his
photographs as Mount Mckinley is a
smaller peak. easy of access and ten
miles away from the real summit.
Within the last ten days 100000
bushels Of American wheat have been
purchased for expectation to France.
The French crop of wheat this sea.
son according TO advices received
here has shown q deficit of about
g., 0OO, 900 bushels.
Nicholas LOngworth who Is a candi.
date for reelection TO congress in Ohio
while at Beverly and following D con.
ference with President Taft, gave
out a statement announcing that he
would Opprs" the selection Of Cannon
again for speaker. He made il clear
that he would oppose him only in
caucus and that the action was taken
because he believed party interest de.
mandcd 1t.
A train OF loaded coal cars over a
mile and a quarter composed Of 100
steel cars Of 10000 pounds capacity
was hauled over the Pennsylvania rail-
harrisburg.
An alicniSl employed by counsel for
j. J. Gallagher examined Mayor Gay
nor's as,ailant and reported that he
found abnormal conditions and a de.
preston in The skull denoting brain
disorder.
A big Indian pow WOW will be held
81 MnskOgcc. October lO,l1,l2 and -.
This is the second meeting of the kind
to be held at MuskoEce. The other
occurred in 1916. This will probably
I've the last event of the kind TO occur
in the United States.
The Democratic members of the
appointed to
investigate the cause of the high cost
OF living has made Il report which
holds the tariff and the trusts to be
the two chief causes with the in
creased money supply as the third.
Promoters are unv at vork nm G
plan TO build a railroad from Bcatrice
TO Wichita, taking in the towns Of
Grecnlcaf. CLAY Center Industry Man.
chester, Salina, IiLdsborg, Neither.
son and iIalstead. all in Kansas.
The Kansas Hoard of railroad com.
m~issiouors has given ror,nigetor IN Tho
Scot, CIV Northorr R,l,,y comr,ry
10 issue $500 Ooo in ,,,ck and s,-oo.
600 in bonds ia buiId i,s limo from
Scott civ 70 Winou,
r,. om -
r., 49, NJ, -, - '"'' "'",o"
oil i,,nan,Iau , , sg''h
in tho state trcasury ~, ,ho roY,,, -,
i,s first vear,s ouor,.inn
Tho avorayo ,i,o or uho., ,,,,,,
tho I.nlted c,.toe ,,aa. ,,a,, sea
,croe IN Co,irorni, ,a",' ~
acres IN vormon, ,c,ar,ina 49,,
lctin iseuod hv Tho ,rrin,,,n.o, ~.
,au.. 49,
o. ,,a p.''"'' ooJ'c'ed
.ona,. ,,.h """ ~ '"e 'oh'
bile and ordered him ont, ~ ,hn ohn.ah
Tho man resueod IN O., ana n,, ,ana
ibIy elected after a mart If tho c,,,bin,
OF each NJ tho particinon,s hod ho"1
torn away.
In a desnorate stroo, h,,,,o h
two alleged horse Thieves AND sauora,
.berin,s omcors a, Ito, cnriaaa 49,,
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-25
Her Rest.

How do you expect to spend your
summer vacation, Mrs. Brown"
Frying fish for the men as usual.
| suppose"
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-25

1t ia easier to raise a disturbance
than q mortgage.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-25
After tvo weeks OF effort whics in.

the Jury TO try Lee O'Neill Browne on
The charge OF being concerned In the
election OF william Lorimcr to the
United states senate was secured.
Five ard onc.half miles of the
Panama canal az the Atlantic end and
five miles a. The Pacific end have been
30 far completed that those portions
are in use.
Announcement vas made at the
state department OF the appointment
OF Fred NJ bearing Of Missouri to be
secretary OF the embassy at Mexico
City.
The fifth annual session OF the Dry
Farming Congress is to begin at Spo-
kane, Wash. October 3 and continue
three days delegates will attend
from every state and territory.
Foreign Affairs.
One weeks ,holera record in Russia
shows 23,'ii new cases and 1878
deaths.
The total number of cases Of
cholera in Russia since the disease
started this year is 112.9Sj with 80.
PSI deaths.
Fifteen soldiers are reported to have
been buried by a premature explosion
OF dynamite in the mancuvers Of
pioneering troops at S~cchtsheimsr-
berg, Germany.
The international Free Thought
congress Was opened at Brussels by
Mrs. Kate Trimblc.W oolsey of Coving.
ton, Ky, prominent ~sufYragette and
delegate atlarge from the United
States.
Francis Joseph, the venerable o
ereign of Austria and Hungary has
Just celebrated his SOth birthday. lie
is the dean of all the European
monarchs and the occasion was ccle.
bratcd on an unusually extensive
scale.
The Alabama, the vessel Of the
Danish Arc'i, expedition was lost last
winter off Eastern Greenland, The
members Of the expedition reached
Shannon island after great difficulty
and news OF their rescue has just been
received.
Three Persian boys, sons Of high Of
ficials of m" shah arrived here on the
Cundrd steamer Carmania to cntc the
public schools in Washington and from
there TO continue their American edu.
cation through the universities.
Alfred Leblanc achieved a notable
triumph by winning LeMartin's $2O,oO0
prize for a mapped out circular course
OF 4S9 miles to be covered in six
without regard TO wind or
weather conditions. Leblanc covered
the distance in II hours and 30 min
utcs actual flying time.
Cabling from Toxic the United
ambarrador to Japan says the
floods have been worst in Toxic and
It's suburbs whore the city Is sup
1905 600 refugees. Official re-
port showed LIZ killed or missing
1858 houses destroyed and 15l.655
homes damaged.
The Spanish ship Martos went down
of Gibraltor after a collision with the
steamer Tarifa and 80 persons
we're drowned.
No estimate has yet been made OF
damage to Relgium's exposition
by the fire which destroyed several
but 1t Is announced that the
will reopen in a few days.
Personal.
]. +. McMurray testifying before the
congressional committee at Sulphur,
Ok, said that the fee of s750,O0O re-.
seived by him from the Indians was
divided only between his two part
ners and himself.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-25
Personal,

j. +. McMurray testifying before the
congressional committee at Sulphur,
Oh, said that the fec Of S750,000 re-.
seived by him from the Indians was
divided only between his two part
ners and himself.
Thomas J. Phillips has been ousted
from office as mayor of Ottumwa, la.
The charge was that he permitted re-
3orts and gambling houses to run.
David Rankin, Jr, who a month ago
devoted his entire fortune of $1,000
900 to endow a trade school in st.
LoJiis, Mo, that bears his name, ended
a long and busy life and a useful one.
at Atlantic City. He died in Haddon
Hall of heart failure.
Mr., Frank II. Hitchcock, postmaster
general, will leave Washington in a
few days for an extended trip through
me Western part OF the United States
to study the political outlook.
A gigantic system OF fraud by which
the Burlington railroad is said TO have
been looted out OF many thousands
Of dollars has been discovered by of.
iicials of that company and a whole.
sale discharge OF employees Is ex.
pccted.
James Il. Hurley general manager OF
the Eastern lines OF tho Atchigon, To.
peka & Santa Fe railway, died at
Carlsbad, Germany, of heart trouble.
International President r. |. Lewis,
OF the miners. has received a black
hand letter saying that he would be
killed.
Judge Silas Porter has been declared
the winner in the Kansas primary race
over Judge Graves by 1876 majority.
Despite the declaration OF Repre.
sentative Longworth that he viii not
vote again for Joseph G. Cannon for
speaker of the house Mr.. Cannon will
continue in the race, according to his
" statement.
J. J. Hill chairman of the Great
Northern railroad after a trim through
the West told the New Workers ina,
conditions were good and that not one
condition essential to bring sbout
severe financial depression was pres.
ent.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-03
Itching Eruption
Quickly Cooled

Just few drops of oil of winter
green properly compounded in the thy.
mol, glycerine, ETC., and applied to the
skin will take away instantly the
worst kind of itch. We positively
know this.
The D. D. D. Prescription made at
the ID. d. D. Prescription Laboratories
of Chicago, seems to be just the right
compound. 1t sells regularly at 81 90
bottle, but we have secured limit
ed number of special bottles for trial
at rs cents, on a special offer, and ad-
wise you to take advantage of this Of
fer now, as We do not know how long
the laboratories in Chicago will con.
tinue the 25 cent offer.
We KNOW you can take away that
itch TONIGHT.
The Owl Drug Store, T. E. Williams
& Sons, Proprietors.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-03-03
An Effective Alarm.

Flanagan had been discharged from
the artillery and went to live in a cot
tage in his native village. One day he
left on weeks visit to some distant
relatives, and day later the village
constable was standing at his door
when he heard the sudden boom of
the rusty cannon Flanagan had
mounted on his front hedge.
An instant later a brick whizzed
past the constable's ear and smashed
his door to smithereens.
The indignant. officer, followed by
the populace, rushed to Flannigan's
cottage and found it still tenantless,
but showing signs of recent burgling
When Flanagan returned the next
week he heard the news and was de-
lighted
"Oi prepared for burglars afore OF
wint away" he said, "by thrainin' the
gun on yer front door, constable, and
connicting it by sacret wires to the
doors and windies and loading it wild
a brick. An it hit the door slap in
the middle? Bedad, OF wasn't a gun
layer in the artillery for nothin'T-
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