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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-06-01
Where Dynamite is King.

When the grandfather of the
present car found his engineers
disputing asato the best route for a
railway between two cities in his
dominions, the.sssautocrat took rules
and pencilsandsdrew on the map a
straight:line from the onesssstown to
the other.
Build it sol" he commanded. And
he was obeyed.
That was the freak of despotism.
In this present century, skilled en-
gineers set themselves a like task
at saner bidding. Up in the
mountains of New Jersey today a
great railway is busy with a cutoff
that, when completed, will shorten
the right of way by a few miles.
incidentally, this is the largest rail-
road contract ever undertaken. The
cutoff is being built to save miles
nothing else. To that end. the
topography of the country is disre-
garded as recklessly as the car
disregarded it in Russia afOretime
Simply, the road must run where
the company wishes it to run, not
where nature offers a path. A
mountain in the way must be tun-
neled, a valley that interposeS
must be filled.
1t is for this sort of work that the
god of dynamite girds up his loins
and piles miracle on miracle in
achievement. About thirteen cars
loaded with dynamite are sent to
the ut.off from the nearest powder
works each week. Allowing four
hundred and fifty cases, of fifty
pounds each, to a car. we have a
total of 292,500 pounds used there
in a single month, which amounts
to almost ten thousand pounds
daily. Just think of it ten thous-
and pounds of dynamite exploded
in that nook amid the mountains
every day. And that has been. 60.
ing on for year already, and the
end is not yet. 60 Journal.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-06-01
Applause" is Overworked.

Washington, D. c., May "a. Rep
resentative Mann, minority leader
of the House. is on the trail of those
who obtain leave to print their
remarks in the Congressional Rec
ord, and who than intersperSed
these remarks with applause"
"laud applause" "tumultous ap-
plause" and other complimentary
annotationS indicating that the
House was in d state of frenzy while
the distinguished gentleman" was
speaking on the woes of the peo-
pie.
Representative Mann has been
glancing over the records contain
ing the debate on the free-list bill
and the statehood resolution. He
is understood to have picked out
one oratorical gem in particular,
that will be made the subject of a
little satirical comment on the part
of the minority leader. This speech
as revised by the gentleman who
made it, met a most wonderful re-
ceDtiOn.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-06-01
Useful to Know.
Onions drive away flies.

Onions drive away flies.
Clean boiling water will remove
tea stains.
Onions peeled under waterloo not
disturb the eye.
Meat should always be cooked
with the fat downward.
Never shut the sunshine out.
Sunshine means health.
Baby's bath should be given at
the same hour each day.
Raw cabbage is more easily di-
gested than when cooked.
Whipped cream is more easily
digested than plain cream.
Half lemon dipped in salt will
keep copper vessels bright.
Wooden kneading boards for
bread are declared unsanitary.
A cup of very hot milk at bed
time will prevent sleeplessness.
German bakers are not allowed
to handle bread with bare hands.
-Fv
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-06-01
A Little Boys Dilemma.

Ev'ry time l come to grandma's
Grandma calls me Little dear"
Kisses me and says she's very,
Very glad that l am here;
Gives me pie and crispy cookies -
Wishes I could stay year.
When l 90 home in the autumn,
You'd most think grandma'd be
sad;
'Membering the pleasant summer
She and l and grandpa'd had.
But, my sakesl she looks so smiling
You'd imagine she was glad.
Helen M. Richardson.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-06-01
Call E. Y.

When you want your sales cried
and want Col. w. T. Youell. call up
Ebert Yates at the F. & M. Bank
and he will give you dates, Re-
member and call E. Y.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-06-01

Miss Ella Dibble, of Eureka
Springs, Ark, was the guest of D.
M Proctor and family several days
last week.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-06-01
Claims Too Much.


One writer claims all the following
for Colorado woman suffrage, but
other states that do not have wom-
an suffrage have as good or even
better laws:
Laws forbidding insuring the lives
OF children under 10 years of age;
establishing a State Home for De-
pendent Children, three of the five
members of the board to be women;
requiring that at least three of the
six members of county visiting
boards shall be women; pure food
law; making mothers joint guardians
of their children with the fathers;
raising the age of protection for
girls to Is; establishing State In
dustrial Home for Girls. three of the
five members of the board to be
Women; removing the emblem from
the Australian ballot, our nearest
approach to- adopting an education
I al qualification for suffrage; estab-
fishing an indeterminate sentence
for prisoners; requiring one woman
physician on the staff of the insane
asylum: establishing parental or
truant schools; providing for the
care of the feehle-minded; for free
preservation; for the inspection of
private eleemosynary institutions
by the State Board of Charities; re-
,qulring IN public schools lessons on
humane treatment of animals; max
ing the Colorado Humane Society a
State bureau of child and animal
protection; making education COM
pulsory for all the children between
8 and 16 with a few proper excep- |
tion); providing for the examina-
ton of the eyes, ears, teeth and
breathing capacity of school chill
dren; making father and mother
joint heirs of deceased child; pro-
viding that union high schools may
{ be formed by uniting school districts
adjacent to town or city; estab-
fishing State Federation of
Women's Clubs, appointed by the
Governor; making the methods of
the sweat box in connection with
the examination of prisoners a
felony; providing that any person
employing a child under ID in any
mine, smelter. mill, factory or under
ground works shall be punished by
imprisonment in addition to fine.
requiring joint signature of husband
and wife to every chattel mortgage,
sale of household goods used by the
family or conveyance or mortgage
of the homestead; forbidding chill
dren of 16 or under to work more
than eight hours a day in any mill,
factory, store or other occupation
that may be deemed unhealthful;
providing that no woman shall
work more than eight hours day
at work requiring her to be on her
feet; making it a criminal offense to
contribute to the delinquency of
child; making it a misdemeanOr to
fail to support aged or infrm
parents; prohibiting the killing of
doves, except in August; abolishing
the binding out of girls committed
to the Industrial School; girls COM
mittel till Fl and then if considered
reformed to be paroled and many
others
In Denver the women voters have
also secured ordinances placing
drinking fountains in the streets,
garbage receptacleS at the corners
and seats at the transfer stations of
the street cars, forbidding expecto-
ration in public places, parking GER
tain avenues and planting trees.
A Little Boys Dilemma.
FU'rv time I come tO 6randma'S
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-06-01

A new six room house in Hanni-
bal for Monroe property. What
have you for trade?
DIX. VOWEL.
The Keota news., 1911-10-20
u. S. Fails To
Recover Land

Denver, Oct. 13.-Judge Robert E.
Lewis of the United States district
court made ruling today which
checks the effort of the United
States government to recover mil
lions of dollars worth of Colorado
coal land alleged to have been OBJ
tanned fraudulently by coal companies.
land companies and railroad COM
panies prior to 1905.
Judge Lewis maintained that the
statute of limitations had expired and
that the government is powerless to
sue for recovery of property alleged
to have been patented more than six
years ago on fraudulent representa-
tions.
Investigations conducted recently
convinced the attorney general of the
United States that some of the big
companies had stolen government
coal lands and had made false rep
reservations in securing patents.
Special Assistant Attorney General
B. D. Townsend of Portland. Ore,
was instructed to bring suits against
the American Smelling and Rein
ing company, the Colorado Fuel and
Iron company, and the Exploration
The Keota news., 1911-10-20
PRIZES FOR oR'coRREspoNDENrs

The News has decided to give prizes
each week for the best two news let
tiers. These prizes are not offered as
payment for contributions, but simply
as tokens of our appreciation of our
readers help in making this an inter-
esting local paper The prizes will
be announced in each issue for that of
the week following. together with the
names of the winners of the preced-
ing week.
This weeks issue of The News
shows that good paper can be made
with the help of half dozen friends.
Let's make each issue better than the
one before. Send in your items; we
should like to print eight full pages
of local news each week. Keota
couldn't have a better booster than
that would be. If you don't win first
prize you are sure of second or third
This Weeks Winners.
Golda Hughes.
Edna Mckee.
Prizes for Next Week.
First: Booklet,
Second: Dozen Post Cards.
Third: A bonus prize of six post
cards to every person sending in
items.
Why not enter with list of news
next week? Address, Keota News,
Room 8, Express building. Fort Col
Inns, not later than Wednesday.
The Keota news., 1911-10-20
SUFFRAGE WINS
IN CALIFORNIA

San Francisco. Oct. 13.-After
tasting all the bitterness of defeat,
supporters of woman's suffrage awoke
with the realization that victory was
theirs.
Astonished, but not disheartened. by
the apparently overwhelming defeat
indicated by early returns Tuesday
night, suffragist leaders Immediately
announced plans for forcing the
question on the attention of voters
again. but before plans could be whip
ped into shape returns from outlying
districts gave hope for successful,
however tardy, elimination of the
present election.
Returns from mountain and desert
precincts and from the more remote
counties poured in steadily all day
Thursday, and formed an almsot un-
broken list of suffrage majorities. The
anti-majority was wiped out. and early
this morning, with 244 precincts miss
ing out of 3.1s1 in the state, suf-
frage had majority of 2.051.
The figures thus far are: For,
1880; against, 117,77s.
1t is believed the final majority for
suffrage will approximate 1000.
In San Francisco, where the suf-
frage amendment had been defeated
by majority of thousands of votes.
the spirit of rejoicing was let loose
in all its vigor and intensity to-
day.
Women embraced and kissed one
another indiscriminately. and all per-
sonal and sectional differences were
forgotten in the glad word that suf-
frage had won.
Clubwomen, college women, work.
ing women and just plain women
joined hands and hearts in one great
happy throng and sang and shouted
the California verdict so long and
Justify that it must have been heard
around the world.
kilograms and cablegrams, franti-
cally penned by excited fingers, were
sent chasing over the wires to all
points of the globe, informing men
and women everywhere that the SOW
ereign state of California had voted
for votes for women.
The Keota news., 1911-10-20
BEGINNING OF END.
DECLARE EASTERN
SUFFRAGE WOMEN

New York. Oct. 1a-The national
headquarters of the Woman's Suf-
frage organizations are in gala dress
today over the news of their victor
in California.
I'VE are gloriously happy" declar-
ed DR.. Anna Shaw. national presi-
dent Of the suffrage party. "This is
the beginning of the end. The vic
tory in California gives to the cause
as many votes as in the five other
states where we have previously won.
Kansas, Oregon, Wisconsin and 9th
er western states are bound to fol-
low the lead at the next elections.
The politicians are also sure to re-
alize that the women are winning
their long contest and will climb into
the band wagon"
Mrs. Pankhurst, the English suf-
frage leader, declared:
"The news is worthy of great re-
joicing. English women will be par
ticularly glad, because it will be =
very great help in our campaign"
c. F. Lewis left last week for Dem
yer for work.
]. U. Painter arrived Thursday from
Sterling.
The Keota news., 1911-10-20
News Items Wanted

Are you entertaining visitors?
What are their names and residences,
when did they come and how long are
they to stay?
Have you been visiting? With
whom, where. and when?
Any friends or neighbors sick2
What is their trouble?
Are you building or otherwise i'm
proving your property? Are your
neighbors making improvements? OF
what nature. dimensions. approximate
cost, ETC.?
How are the crops and crop pros
poets? Are you or your neighbors
breaking new ground? Have you
bought new stock or machinery?
New neighbors? What name. form
er home, occupation and present To-
cation?
Any weddings. births. deaths?
Any parties, dances or other social
events held or planned?
In short, do you know of any hap
penings of interest? Remember, what
interests you will interest others.
See our offer of weekly prizes for
best lists of items.
If no stationery is convenient
write your items on the blank space
: in this advertisemnt-but write them,
without fail
For the present the editorial office
of The Keota News will be at Fort
Collins. and all copy for publication
should be mailed to the address given
below. Forms close At p. m. each
Thursday; therefore matter received
after that time will be held until the
week following.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-08-23
AND THIS TOO
INDICATES A
LABOR FIGHT

Chicago, Aug. 22.-The unem-
ployed mechanics in the country now
number 20 per cent of the country's
labor, according to reports to Chi
cago headquarters, which even state
that skilled mechanics are begging
for work in every city, and farm
ers can get all the harvest help they
want for $3.50 to s2.OO, against
$3.50 and $4.00 a year ago. A re-
tieX of the London situation also is
predicted, and the INDICATIONS point
to clash between the railroads and
some of the unions of railroad en-
ployes, as their leaders have not
waited for the managers to assume
the initiative. but have taken the bull
by the horns. Shop employees of six
or more leading western systems
have formulated mass of demands,
which, reduced to dollars, would cost
the western group between $40,-
100000 and $50,000,O0O. "Will we
grant any increase" said a promi-
nent railroad official. 1--WE will not,
but we do not say so to the unions.
We are sparring for time, each pre-
ferring to see the trouble break out
on some other fellows road. We
cannot afford to make any more con-
cessions. Even if we had the money
to throw away. We should not back
down any further, unless we propose
to turn over the properties to organ
lied labor. We will have no values
to conserve unless we stand pat now.
1t looks suicidal for employees to
force their demands to an issue when
the labor market is glutted with all
sorts of capable men. We have had
no demands recently from engine or
train forces or other employees, ex-
cept those in the shops and tele-
graphers, but it is an endless process
sion. No sooner is one delegation
put out of the front door than an
other comes in through the side
door, and the first one begins figuring
what it will demand the next time,
and how soon it can get back. The
inviolability Of a contract is a joke
with many of them, whenever it pays
them to make joke of it. l have
reason to believe that the old solid
organizations are not disposed at
this time to press unreasonable de-
mands, realizing how well off they
are"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-08-23
Notice of Intention to Improve Alley
In Block 40.

Notice is hereby given that the
common council of the city of Salem,
Oregon, deems 1t expedlent and pro-
poses to improve the alley in block
40, of the city of Salem, Oregon,
with concrete, at the expense of the
adjacent and abutting property with
in said limits, according to the plans
and specifications adopted for said
improvement, and on file at the office
of the city recorder.
Reference to which Is hereby made
for more perfect description of
said Improvement.
This notice is published for ten
QO) days, pursuant to the order of
the common council, and the date of
the first publication thereof Is the
22d day of August, 1911.
Remonstrances may be fled
against said improvement within ten
(10) days from the last publication
Of this notice, as provided by the city
charter. CHAS. f. ELGIN,
S-22-11 Recorder
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-08-23
DON PULL OUT
THE GRAY HAIRS
A Few Applications of a Simple
Remedy VIII Bring Back
the Natural Color.

"Pull out one gray hair and q dozen
will take its place" Is an old saying,
which is, to great extent, true, il no
steps are taken to stop the cause. When
gray hairs appear it Is a sign that Ma
ture needs assistance. 1t is Natures
can for help. Gray hair, dun, lifeless
hair, or hair that is falling out, ID not
necessarily sign of advancing age, for
there are thousands Of elderly people
with perfect heads Of hair without 4
single streak OF gray.
When gray hairs come, OF when the
hair seens to be lifeless or dead, some
good, reliable hair-restorinR treatment
should be resorted to at once. Special.
lists say that one OF the best prepara-
tions to use Is the old-fashioned "sage
ten" which our grandparents used. The
hest preparation Of this kind is Wyeth's
Sage and Sulphur Hair REMEDY, a prep.
aration Of domestic sage and sulphur
scientifically compounded with later dis
covered hair tonics and stimulants, the
whole mixture being carefully balanced
and tested by experts.
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Is clean and
wholesome and perfectly harmless. It
refreshes dry, parched hair. removes
dandruff and gradually restores faded or
gray hair TO its natural color.
This prenarntion is offered to the
public at fifty cents bottle. and is
rccOnmended and sold by all druggists.
Special, agent ]. C. Perry, Druggist,
Salem, oregon.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-08-23
y X X X X X X X X x X X 4
Y STATE NEWS. =
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According to the Medford Sun,
that city, commencing today, will
ship five carloads of pears daily.
An electric road through Rogue
river valley is being advocated, and
bids fair to become fact.
A fire on Silver creek DESTROYED
the homes of several settlers last
week. One of them, A. j. Potter
lost his shoes in the fire, and had to
walk 25 miles barefoot to reach a
store where he could get a pair.
A big forest fire is raging on the
divide between the headwaters OF
the Willamette and Mckenzie rivers
George Miles, 28, who disappeared
from the camp Of the Oregon Nation
Guard, at Columbia beach, it is now
believed was drowned.
Hood River is having a warm
quarrel as to whether or not picture
shows in that village shall be closed
on Sundays.
The Portland, Eugene & Eastern
began construction work at Eugene
yesterday.
W. A. Parkhurst, aged II, a
pioneer railroad builder, died al
Portland Monday.
Many pioneers visited Astoria yes
terday.
A Mrs. Reynolds, of Sumpter, was
shot and killed yesterday by her
nephew.
The 5-year-old son Of Mrs. Helen
Tully, of Portland, was run down by
an auto yesterday, and probably IA
tally injured.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-08-23
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Eastern Oregon State Hospital.

Sealed proposals for the construc-
ton of concrete and rock levee of
about 1000 feet in length, to be erect
ed one and one-half miles west of
the city of Pendleton, Oregon, will
be opened by the Board of Trustees
at 2 p. m, Tuesday, September 5th,
1911, at the state capitol building,
Salem, Oregon. Plans and specifica-
tions may be obtained at the office of
w. c. Knighton, architect, capitol
building, Salem, and from Chas. A.
Murphy, superintendent of construc-
tion at Pendleton, Oregon. A certi-
fed check for $1,000 must accompany
each proposal and drawn to the or
der of R. A. Watson, clerk of the
board of trustees, to guarantee that
bidder will enter into a contract and
execute the required bond; same
shall be forfeited to the state of Or
egon if award of contract is made to
bidder and he or they fail to enter
into a contract and furnish the re-
quired bond within 10 days from
date of award of contract. Propo-
sails shall be made only on the form
furnished by the architect. The
right is reserved to accept or reject
any or all bids, or to waive any in
formalities in bids.
R. A. WATSON,
Clerk of Board of Trustees Eastern
Oregon State Hospital
2-22-1 II
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-08-23
CLEVELAND
MAY GET The
NEXT ERIE
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE !

San Francisco, Aug. 23.-While
the delegates were in session today
at the Grand Aerie of the fraternal
order of Eagles, the women visitors
participated in what is known as
shopping day by inspecting the
business places of San Francisco as
the guests of local women.
Reports of committees and nomi-
nation of officers and selection of the
place of next meeting we're the prin-
cipal matters on the program for the
second secret session.
The fight for president still wages
with Frank E. Herring, of South Bend
Indiana, and j. ]. Cusack, of San
Francisco, the only open candidates.
The latest caucus favored Herring.
Frederick j. Lynch, of New West
minister Canada, is out today for
grand conductor. He has the back
ing of the Canadian and Northwest
ern Aeries.
Cleveland still leads as the choice
for the next grand Aerie session.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-08-23
ATTENDED THE
FIRST FAIR AND
TOOK A PREMIUM

Mrs. P. B. Strong, living on South
Commercial street, tells me she not
only attended the first Oregon State
Fair, but that she took a first pre-
MUM at it. Her husband, who was
a tanner, tanned a sheep skin and
her son made frame which she COW
cred with leather flowers made from
the skin, and it took a first premium.
Her son, Nathaniel BARN, painted a
picture of his pet deer, in water col
ors and she made him a frame of
leather flowers for it, initiating a
wild rose, and tinted them natural
colors, and he took a first premium
on his picture. Mrs. Strong says she
will attend the pioneer reunion
Monday, the first day of the fair.
She still has the leather frame and
will exhibit it at the state fair this
year. If any other old pioneers have
such mementoes, it would be inter-
esting to get them all together at
this fair. S. c. D.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-08-23
DAVE YANTIS
PURCHASES
AN AUTO COLT

Dave Yantis, of "The Toggery"
has purchased a "Motorette." and
yesterday drove it up from Portland
in four and half hours. The young
auto, which has only three wheels,
is equipped with a ten-horse power
engine, and weighs about 500 pounds
1t is capable of travelling % miles
an hour, and can run % miles on one
gallon of gasoline. The engine is of
the two-cycle type, without valves.
thus eliminating the possibility of
valve trouble. A delivery box. hold
ing $50 pounds, can be attached to
the machine, and Mr.. Yantis expects
to use the delivery feature in con-
nection with his suit pressing depart
ment The little three-wheeled ma
chine is the first to arrive in Salem.
The two front wheels, the seat and
other equipment resemble the or
dinary small auto, but only one
wheel is used in the rear, instead of
two This wheel Is in the center
and the chain is connected with it in
somewhat the same manner as on
the rear wheel of a motorcycle. Two
persons can ride on the one double
seat. The little machine attracted
considerable attention on the streets
yesterday.