THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG. PA.
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED 1S66.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
Established 1837. Consolidated 1869
Published Every Thursday Morning,
At Liloomsburg, the County Peat of
Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
CEO. E. El. WELL, Editor.
D. f. TASKER, Local Editor.
GEO. C. KOAN, Foreman.
Terms : Inside the county fl.oo a year
in advance; 1.50 if not paid in advance.
Outside the county, $1.25 a year, strictly in
advance.
All communications should he addressed
THE COLUMBIAN,
Bloomsburg, Pa.
THURSDAY, MARCH a8. 1901.
The Pennsylvania Commission to
the Pan-American Exposition at
Buffalo have decided to erect a State
building at a cost of $15,000 on the
Exposition grounds, where Pennsyl
vanians can rendezvous.
Hon. Fred Ikelcr was placed on
unimportant committees of the Leg
islature at the opening of the
session, as were all Democrats
opposed to the machine. His
ability however has already com
manded attention, and he was re
cently placed on the Judiciary Gen
eral, and Ways and Means Com
mittees to 511 vacancies caused by
the resignation of Representative
Chew.
Luckiest Man on Earth-
. The friends of Col. James M.
Guffey, of Pittsburg, Pa , are loud
in their claims that he has already
claimed his right to be called the
luckiest man in the world. At any
rate he has dazzled the eyes of the
oil field speculators with the suc
cess and daring of his operations.
His latest strike is the big ol
gusher at Beaumont, Texas, which
is now spouting a fortune in oil ev
ery day. How he happened to get
possession of that bonanza illus
trates the luck which has followed
.most of his operations. One day
last summer there was a letter in
his mail from a man in Texas, of
whom he had never heard before.
The letter stated that the writer had
15,000 acres of land in Jefferson
county, Texas, under oi! leases.
He had no idea whether there was
oil under the ground there or not,
but had hopes. He would like Col.
-Guffey to go in with him and bore
a trial well. Col. Guffey wrote the
enterprising Texan to get leases on
30,000 acres, when he would help
him. The bargain was made and
the first well bored at Eeainont, 200
miles from any producing oil well,
has already produced oil worth
$150,000. In the same lucky way
Col. Guffey has been instrumental
in developing producing wells in
California, Mexico and West Vir
ginia. He is also said to have suc
cessfully backed his luck in natural
gas and silver mining ventures.
kn Indemnity for All Soldiers Lost-
In figuring up the indemnity
which this Government will demand
of China as a result of the Boxer
outbreaks claims w'll be included,
for the loss of life in our army, navy
and marine corps, incident to the
operations of the American forces
in the empire. It has been figured
out at the war Department that in
the army two officers and 30 en
listed men were killed in action, 16
died of wounds received inaction,
45 died of disease and two met their
death by accident, while seven of
ficers and 170 men were wounded.
In the marine corps 25 officers and
men were killed in action, and 77
were wounded.
It could njt be learned what
amount of compensation would be
demanded of China for the lossof lite
i:i the Americau expedition. It is
believed thai if the indemnity ever
is obtained from the Chinese gov
ernment the amount allowed on
this score will be distributed among
the families of deceased soldiers
and marines. These claims will
be in addition to the general claim
for the cost of Chinese expedition.
The total indemnity, u is admitted,
will be iu the neighborhood of $25,
000,000. ,.
KEDEEMING THE STAMPS-
Amount Needed Will Approvals $12,900,
000. The Wir Revenue Reduction Act
becomes operative on July 1 and
the Internal Revenue Bureau has
issued this statement:
"All documentary and proprie
tary revenue stamps in the hands
of purchasers on and after July 1,
1901, should be presented for re
demption to the collector of Internal
revenue from whom they were pur
chased, who will supply the appli
cant with necessary instruction for
preparation of his claim. Regula
tions will be issued for redemption
of imprinted documentary stamps
without requiring the destruction
of the checks or drafts 011 which
they are imprinted."
DOCUMENTS AND CHECKS.
Officials familiar with the subject
estimate that of the classes of stamps
for document, checks, etc., from
which the tax was entirely removed
redemptions may aggregate $1 ,ooo.
000, and possibly a little less. This
is based on the assumption that the
public will have on hand on July 1,
a month's supply.
Articles upon which the tax was
reduced represent a much larger
sum, but in those cases the redemp
tion will.be in the nature of an ex
change, although these stamps, like
the others, probably will be re
deemed in cash. Other stamps,
made to conform with the reduction
in the rate of tax, will be immed
iately issued, so that the net loss to
the Government will not be very
large.
WILL PAY OUT $12,000,000.
On the basis of users having a
month's supply of stamps on hand
on July 1, 1901, it is estimated that
redemptions will approximate the
following amounts: Checks and
drafts, $600,000; documents, $409,
000; proprietary, $400,000; tobacco
and snuft, $3,500,000; cigars and
cigarettes, $2,000,000; beer, $6,
000,000. Total, $12,900,000.
TUfiN Ttf THAITOKS OUT-
It is hoped that the attempt now
in progress to re-organize the Dem
ocratic State Central Committee in
the interest of Senator Quay will be
defeated. It is not to be under
stood that the present organization
of that committee is in that interest,
lor we believe that Chairman John
S. Rilling is both honest and sincere
in his political convictions and
actions. But there was a meeting
of the Democratic State Executive
Committee in Harrisburg the other
day and according to the Star Inde
pendent of that city, of the eight
members present four were fresh
from the Quay lobby in the Legis
lature. There was Donnellv. of
Philadelphia; Love, of York; Gar-
man, of Luzerne; and Ancona, of
lierks. The present plan of these
political hucksters is to elect one of
their number chairman of the State
Committee.
If this is done the Democratic
party might as well go into volun
tary bankruptcy. Grover Cleveland
in a letter recently written to a
Democratic club in Baltimore, de
clared that if the Democratic party
would restore itseit to usefulness it
must first make itself thoroughly
Democratic and deserve the con
fidence of the people. In this State
the Democratic vote has ben dimin
ishing year after year. It is the
custom of superficial observers to
say that this diminution in strength
is the result of differences of opinion
among Democrats on the currency
question or some other party tenet
or dogma. There have been such
differences, no doubt, and thev
may have impaired the voting
strength of the organization to some
extent. But the great enervating
influence is in the fact that the rank
and file of the party has had no
confidence in the personal and
political integrity of the so called
leaders and the organization has
been corrupt.
But the attempt to prostitute to the
base uses of Quayism was never
made so boldly as it is being made
now. Ryan and Donnelly, of Phil
adelphia, have been hewers of wood
and drawers of water for Quay for
six years and have been ready and
willing to perlorm any menial
service for him at any time since
the legislature of 1897 spread polit
ical pestilence throughout the State.
Lemon Love, of York, used all his
influence to induce the imbecile
Members of the Legislature to vote
for Marshall for speaker and thus
guarantee the election of Quay.
Garman, even while he was chair
man of the Democratic State Com
mittee, was a pensioner of the Quay
machine, and has lost no oppor
tunity since to serve that master of
and Ancona, a cheap recruit of the
traitorous combination, has been
doing his best to earn the favor of
the corrupt boss ever since the pres
ent session of the Legislature was
organized.
Shall the Democrats of Pennsyl
venia submit to such an outrage
upon their party principles and
political integrity? We sincerely
hope not. The calamity can be
averted if the Democrats are just to
themselves. Let them rise in their
indignation and hurl the traitors
out of the organization absolutely.
There is no peril to the organization
in such a course. The party will
lose nothing by throwing such men
out. f hey rarely give their own
votes to the candidates and deter
thousands of honest men from going
to the polls. Therefore let every
Democrat who is opposed to so
gross a betrayal of faith demand
that the representatives in the State
Committee, outside of those tainted
with treason, vote to turn out the
traitors at the re-organization on
April 17th, and they will succeed
in electing an honest chairman.
Bellefonte Watchman,
WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, March 25 1901.
President McKinley, Senator
Hauna, and Representatives Dick,
and Grosvenor got their heads to
gether this week and arranged Rep
ublican State convention of Ohio
Of course, the Ohio Republicans
will thank these gentlemen for
having relieved them of all respon
sibility in the matter of nominating
a State ticket, thus enabling them
tc turn the convention into a ratifi
cation picnic. It was decided that
the entire State ticket, except Lieu
tenant Governor Caldwell, should
be renominated. He will be turned
down because his being the attorney
for the State Liquor Dealers Asso
ciation has got him the enmity of
the temperance element. Senator
Foraker was not a party of this
White House conference, but he
dropped in while it was going on
and asked whether the bosses in
tended to have the State convention
endorse him for reelection. They
assured him that it was, knowing
that the Republicans would have
no votes to spare in Ohio this year
and that Foraker had following
enough to make trouble if he was
antagonized; Mr. Foraker then left
the Ohio big four to complete their
programme.
The deadlock of the powers, in
Pekin, on the question of the
amount of indemnity that shall be
demanded of China, is causing the
administration to realize that it has
been placing to much confidence in
Li Hung Chang, that crookedest of
all Chinamen. Commissioner Rock
hill has asked for new instructions
and the administration is in a
quandary as to what to say to him.
m
The death of "lion. Mark S..
Brewer, member of the Civil Service
Commission, added to President
McKinley's worries by making an
other desirable vacancy for him to
fill and the republican bosses to
fight over. So many of the high
salaried positions will be retained
hold-overs that the fight is extra
ordinarily bitter over everything in
sight. This Ins been shown by
the cat and dog scrapping over the
U. S. Commissionerships of the St.
Louis Exposition, and the office of
Commissioner of Patents, which
Mr. Duell has resigued.
In discussing another matter, in a
private conversation, a prominent
Senator incidentally said of a mat
ter that has been more or less talked
about in Washington, the adminis
tration's favorite for the Republican
nomination in 1904: "President
McKinley is now serving his second
and last term, and everybody is
casting about to decide the all im
portant question of his successor.
In the Senate there are various
gentlemen in whose bonnets the bee
is buzzing, but it is evident that
the Senator who at present has the
Look at your tongue.
Is it coated ?
Then you have a bad
taste in your mouth every
morning. Your appetite
is poor, and food dis
tresses you. You have
frequent headaches and
are often dizzy. Your
stomach is weak and
your bowels are always
constipated.
There's an old and re
liable cure:
Don't take a cathartic
dose and then stop. Bet
ter take a laxative dose
each night, Just enough to
cause one good free move
ment the day following.
You feel better the
very next day. Your
appetite returns, your
dyspepsia is cured, your
headaches pass away,
your tongue clears up,
your liver acts well, and
your bowels no longer
give you trouble.
Price, as cent. All drufrglita.
" I have taksn Ayer'a Pills for SI
years, and I consider them the Lett
made. One pill does nie more good
than half a box of any other kind I
lutT ever tried."
Mra N. JS. Talbot, .'
March 30, Arrlngton, Kans.
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PRBMG
A large and elegant line of Foreign and Domestic Suitings and Trousers just
received.
For more than a quarter of a century we have been making Clothing for the
citizens of Bloomsburg and Columbia County, and we are still making our goods in
the Latest Styles and reliable goods by experienced workmen. Call and sec the
largest stock.
Trousers to
Heasure
from $4.50
best chance of being nominated is
Fairbanks, of Iud. Of course it is
too early to attempt to positively
pick the winner, but of the Senator
ial candidates Fairbanks seems to
be the coming man. He is generally
regarded as the administration
caudidate.ju.st as his wife was when
she was so easily elected to the of
fice of President of the Daughters
of the American Revolution. Every
body who has an axe to grind has
an eye on Fairbanks, and is trying
to get "next to him.
An official of the state Depart
ment said of Senator Morgan, whom
he had just met leaving the private
office of Secretary Hay: , Senator
Morgan is a wonderful man, and
you can depend upon it that he
will have ground broken for an
American Isthmian canal before he
leaves the Senate. I have heard
some criticism of his constant talk
ing for the Canal, and this reminds
me of a Western Senator who blurt
ed out in the cloak-room on the
Republican side of the chamber
that Morgan is dinging on the Can
al again. He was immediately
snapped up by one of the oldest
men 111 the Senate, also a Republi
can, who said: Don't you worry
about Morgan dinging. We laughed
at him when he dinged on Hawaii,
and he got Hawaii. We laughed
more when he dinged for years on
Cuba, and we have just about got
Cuba. We are laughing now be
cause he is dinging ton the canal,
and you can depend upon it we 11
have a canal. If there were more
dingers and fewer ringers in the
Senate we would accomplish more.
Senator Bacon started this week
for the Philippines, where he in
tends to personally acquaint him
self with conditions on the island.
The imformation he obtains will be
utilized by the Democrats at the
next session of Congress. As he is
a close observer aud hard to fool, he
will be apt to find out just how
things are before he leaves the is
lands. s
The plan of having Rear Admiral
Sampson's profile on the medals
that are to be prepared by the Navy
Department, in accordance with an
act of Congress, for presentation to
the men who participated in the
battle of Santiago, has, it is thought
been headed off. The storm raised
by the announcement of the plan
frightened its authors.
Secretary Root has found out that
the politicians have no monopoly
in the job of worrying him over
army appointments. More than
five hundred preachers are after the
twenty-three new chaplaincies in
the army, which carry the rank of
captain and a salary of $2,000 a year
and which can be made sinecures
if those who hold the commissions
are so disposed, and they and their
preacher friends are making life a
burden for Mr. Root. About every
known sect and denomination is
represented among those five hun
dred hungry applicants, and some
of the denominations are fighting
each other as viciously as rival fac
tions of a political party ever did
over the distribution of patronage.
-
Fnormona Crop of Oranges,
eillCAdO, Munh Oiliclulg of the
Santa Kc railroad today continued re
ports from C'uli furnlu that millions of
dollars' worth of ornnuon iu that state
are rotting in the ruicklng houses and on
thu grounds of tlu groves bi-cailHu ot
lack of trnusiiiortatlou facilities to move
thu euoriuous clop.
Cyclone In Ohio.
TOI.KIM), March liO. Uoporta reeciv
cd licit' stilt e that u terrible' tornado puss
t-d through tho outsklrtK of KundiiKky,
wrecking houses uud doing much duuv
aj,'e.
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TOWMSEND,
RGHANT TIMW
STYLES
TOWNSEND,
Merchant and
Haberdasher.
BLOOMSBURG, PENN'A.
lilt
i
nor
j To Important Features.
Such as the season's opening sale of waist and dress
jjj goods, the full showing of tailor made suits, the grand
k values in new waist fabrics, big values in bed room fur
S niture and sideboards, some brave hosiery bargains, in
2& teresting notion items.
2t Items. Dress foods and
3$ Waist Goods.
7
We have already empha
sized some of the fresh
lines of gown stuffs. Now
we invite you to view the
big.handsome spring show
ing in its entirety.
Much to choose from,
and that much all of the
best. A few items for you :
Granite cloths, all colors,
at 56 and 75c.
Storm serge and chevi
ots, sponged, 50 ins. wide,
85c.
Striped and plain Chud
dah cloth, for summer
waists, 55c.
38 ins. wide, mixed chev
iots, steam shrunk, 50c.
Fine, mixed French suit
ings, 46 ins. wide, $1 00.
Pull Showing cf Tailored Suits.
Ready for you now. Ev
ery line of the best makes
is here. You may select
with full assurance that
what you select will be
just right in every particu
lar. We have all sizes again
of the misses Eton suit,
trimmed with gold buttons.
Price, $7 00.
Ladies' Eton suit, made
of the best make of chevi
ot, trimmed with stitched
Taffeta silk, on jacket and
skirt, Price, $12 75.
Any fitting needed, we
do it.
Very Pretty Printed Cottcns.
And lots of them. There'll
be a "power" of wash goods
Groceries.
If you like good peas, buy a can of our Loudon peas,
or good corn, try our Sunbeam, or good tomatoes, try
our Sunbeam tomatoes. Try a sample of our string
AC
beans. You can always hnd fresh groceries at our store.
The best prunes, dried fruits money can buy. We han
dle nothing but the best
try butter. .
FIRE!
Bbr Fire
JLJLL J
Commencing; Saturday
February 9th,
and continuing until entire
stock is disposed of.
Tooley & Co. 43 E. flain St.
ADMINISTRATRIX'S NOTICE.
ESTATR OK Wit. B. PRTEKMAN, I.ATI 09 Till
TOWNBUIP OP glJOAKI.OAP, DRCRAHKU.
Notice la hereby jjlveu Hint Letters of Admin
lHirullOD on tliu Estate ot Mm. H. Petermun,
lute of niKurluaf TowcBblp, deceased, have
been granted to Klioda L. 1'clenniiD : to whom
persona Indebted to said estate uro requested to
make payment, and those having claims or de
nibiiila will make known the auuie without
duluy to t 21-tlw
RHODA L. PETEUMAN, Administratrix,
Jobn U. Fkmzh, Atty. Uuava, col. Co., I'a
en
Suits to your
measure from
$15.00
sold in this shop during
the next few days. Prices
are so very reasonable that
you'll buy if you look.
Printed Pongee.as pretty
as silk, at 28c.
Fine satin striped Dimi
ties at 22c.
Lawns and Dimities at
r"2ic.
Curs 'II be a Busy
Hosiery Section.
Proper qualities, proper
sizes, proper spring assort
ment, and prices to prompt
you to buy your whole sea
son's stocking outfit.
Heavy ribbed hose, for'
boys, worth 25c, at 15c.
Ladies dropped stitched
hose, worth 40c, at 30c.
Misses' fine ribbed hose,
would be value for 18c, at
I2jc.
Bed-Room Furniture and
Sideboards.
Easter is not far away.
You'll want your bed room
to look nice. You'll want
a nice, fresh looking place
to eat your meal in. You
can make it look fresh if
you get some of our furni
ture, and you won't need a
big pocketbook.
Bed room suits, from $18
to $50.
Sideboards, from $12 to
$35.
We put them right in
your house, fresh from the
factory, and no extra ex
pense to you or trouble.
country lard, fresh eggs, coun
r. r. rUKSEL.
FIRE!
Sale of
fULJLk JdJ
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
I8TATH OP DANIRI. K. TROY.
Letters of adiulnlst ration on the estate of
Daniel E. Troy, late ot Heaver township, Col
umbia, county, I'a., decreased have been granUxi
to Charles II. Troy and I. 8. Troy, residing lm
said township, to whom all persons Indebted to
said est at are requested to make payment and
those huvluK claims or demands, will make
known the same without delay or to
CLYDE C. YKTTKH, t'HAKKS II. TKOT.
Attorney. J. 8. Troy,
March Mill, liwi. Administrators.