2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. f'er year 12 00 112 paid in uil vanoe 1 Ml ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate of ene dollar per square fur one insertion and fifty eents tier square for each subsequent insertion. Rates by the year, or for six or three months, •re low and uniform, and will be furnished on application. Legal and Official Advertising per square, Itiree times or less, 52: each subsequent inser *'.on £>o cents per square. Local notices 10 cents per line for one inscr iption: 6 cents per line for each subsequent •onsecutive insertion. Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mar riages and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, five lines or less, 45 per year; over live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising No local inserted for less than 75 cents per Issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PKICSS Is complete •nd affords facilities for doing the best class of work PARTICULAU ATTENTION PAIDTO LAW PRINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear agi s are paid, except at the option of the pub lisher. Papers sent out of the county must be pai< lor in advance. CURRENT TOPICS. New York cloth examiners demand $24 a week. New York pipe ealkers get $3 for eight hours. Georgia and Alabama have line wheat crops. The population of Oklahoma is something over 400,000. A contract is to be let soon for a 20,- 000 spindle cotton mill at Columbus, Ua. Airs. Wm. Neil], of Augusta, Ga., has a mockingbird which she has taught to talk. A flour war is on in Chattanooga, and prices have been cut fifty cents a barrel. Grasshoppers are playing havoc with the cotton crop in the Missis sippi delta. On the 110 square miles of London's area, it is said 1,000 tons of soot set tles yearly. The Chattanooga opera house is to be remodeled and made a ground floor theater. There are 30,000 more exhibitors at the present Paris fair than there were in 1889. Portland is the largest prison in England. Nearly 2,000 convicts are located there. The annual production of jute fab rics in Germany now amounts to sll,- 900,000 in value. New Orleans has an ice war, and ice is sold at eight cents a hundred pounds at the factory. Joseph Quong, a Chinese laundry man, is a candidate for a seat in the city council of Toledo, O. For some years the Nova Scotia government had expended about $25,- 000 yearly upon agriculture. Queen Victoria never removes from her hand the three rings connected with her courtship and marriage. Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Schofield, of New Canaan, Ct., have been married sixty years—the record for the state. Russia's war debt has been wiped out. hi eight years the remaining total, 742,000,000 rubles, has been paid oif. Nine important British steamship companies earned in 18' JO a net profit of $4,960,000, against $4,743,000 in 1898. Henry James, the novelist, has turned mountain climber and will try his prowess this summer in the Swiss Alps. Tarmtulas are being raised in Aus tralia for their webs, which are being used in making threads for war bal loons. A new substitute for celluloid re sembling horn in appearance is now manufactured under the name of mariod. Since j>igs were introduced into the New Hebrides ilie natives, it is said have come to regard human food as second best. A < The English peerage is divided into dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts and barons, and the spiritual peerage into archbishops and bishops. A Russian count and a French prince are among the prisoners cap tured by the British and now enjoy ing tlie sea air of St. Helena. Charles A. Towne, nominated for the vice presidency by the populists at Sioux City, is 42 years old —two years older than Mr. Bryan. He was born in Michigan, and all his fore fathers on both sides were repub licans. During the czar's recent visit to Moscow his sanction was obtained to the project for the erection of a church in commemoration of the lib eration of the serfs nearly forty years ago. Only half the money has as yet been collected. From Manila to Australia is "like goiny down a river, for one is out of sight of land only two days." The voyage lasts twenty-one days, but. the course is through the South Sea islands, which accounts for its resem blance to river nagigation. the French authorities controlling the athletic events to be held in con nection with I'aris exposition have announced that, as a concession to America's desire to eliminate Sunday games, the sports which were sched uled to begin Sunday, July 15, will instead commence Saturday, July 14, the great I'rench national holiday, and will continue on the following Tuesday and Thursday. The finals, in which Americans are entered, will be put ahead, and the games will con clude on Saturday, if possible. Two persons named William McKin lev are on Uncle Sam's pay-roll. One draws a salary of $4,106 a month as president, and the other SIOO a month as engineer in the Louisville custom bouse. IOWA IS PROSPEROUS How J. P. Dolliver Talks About His State's Prosperity. Great Increnfte In H'collli Amon( I'oriiifrn mid \VnK<* Kitrnera One to Priced fur I'linn Priillart*. "lowa is brimful of prosperity this year," said Hon. J. I*. Dolliver, mem ber of congress from the Tenth district of that, state. "The factories out there have been running sis they never ran before, re ceipts for farm crops have been larger during the last season than in any pre vious season in the history of the state. Money is abundant, debts are being paid off, interest is lower, labor is well employed, wages are better, and no man need look for a job unless he wants to take a vacation. "In the last Ave years." continued Mr. Dolliver, "there has been an in crease of 80,000 bank depositors in our state alone, and' the total amount of the bank de-posits has increased!by 000,000. That money has been distrib uted more among the farmers and wage earners than among the business men, is shown by the fact that both in the savings banks andi the smaller state banks the deposits have doubled, while in the national banks the increase has been about 75 per cent. Every man or woman in lowa, w ho has a savings bank account, has an average of $350 to his or her credit. Taking the whole popu lation of the state at 2,230,000, there is $34 for each one of us on deposit in our banks, so you see we have $s more v fij,nn*a?''l"J ourr) " ALL THE DONKEY HAS TO DO IS TO FOLLOW. in our one state than the per capita of circulation for the whole country. "What has brought about this pros perity'.' Why, the busy factories have created a better demand for the farm products. Yon know that it is tlia home market that is the best for the American producer, and: when people are steady at work they have money to spend, with which to buy what the farmers grow. The more, factories we can get out west, the better it wall be for our farmers. Since * lie last dem ocratic administration has become a matter of history, the value of the live stock on our farms has increased by $45,000,000, that is to say in five years, being now worth, according to the de partment of agriculture's figures, SIGS,- 000,000, as compared with the total val uation of $123,000,000 at the beginning of 1595. "Talking about factories: You re member how the free traders ridiculed the idea of making pearl buttons in the United States? A duty was first put on pearl buttons by the McKinley tariff in 1892. Of course the Wilson bill cut. this down and checked Ihe growth of the business. But the Ding ley tariff of 1897 again made another effort to buildi up another American industry. What was the result? There are now upwards of 40 pearl button factories in lowa. Shells from which they are made are procured from the river beds. There are nearly 1.500 peo ple employed in the factories alone, besides the hundreds of fishermen oc cupied in getting the mussel shells, and the people employed in making the machinery for the factories. Indirect ly, the merchants, draymen, transpor tation companies, as well as the farm ers, are benefited l by this one little in dustry, which has been as successful in its way as the greater American tin plate industries, which were also in augurated by the McKinley tariff of 1892. "Another instance, and I may say, a cause of the prosperity in lowa," con tinued Mr. Dolliver, "is to be found in the railroads. A large number of rail road men live in our stale, and when you consider that the railroads in the country are now employing over 100,- 000 more men than they had in 1«95. and arc paying out fully $60,000,000 a year more in wages, you will see what an important factor railroad prosper ity is to the country, and prosper ity is to the railroads. The roads made good money last, year, but this has not been at lire evp-ense of the farmers, because freight rates are lower now than they were five years ago. T am within the mark when I say that there was over '200.000;fMV) tons more "freight carried by rail last year than in 1595. "Stock in western railroads grad ually being acquired by Hie employes CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1900. pf the company. Take Iter- case of the Illinois Central, which runs through lowa, Thi re are now about 1,000 of its employes who hold considerably over 3,000 shares of stock in that company. An employe is offered the privilege of subscribing for one share at a time. This lie can pay for by installments in sums of $5 or $lO or sls, and when one share is paid for the owner has his name registered on the books of the company, when, if he wishes, he can begin to buy another share on the in stallment plan. While paying for his stock the employe receives interest at the rate of four per cent, per annum, provided he does not allow 12 consecu tive months to elapse without making any payments at all. In case the em ploye leaves the service of the com pany he must either pay in full for the share to which he has been subscrib ing, or withdraw his money with the interest that-is due thereon. "This is an excellent system. It gives the men a direct, personal inter est i« the affairs of the company for which they are working, and makes an investment 'at a fair rate of interest for their savings. Besides this, they be come partners in one of the gigantic corporations or trusts of the country, and may be classed among those who are decried by the democrats as being capitalists, monopolists and extortion ists. But the men out our way don't mind what, they are called, as long as they are well employed, with goodi wages, have a mutual interest in the ownership of the property for which they are working, and can see a little l capital accumulating every year f»r their families. And,these tire condi tions that exist in lowa to-day, both among the railroad hands, the farmers and the factory people. Business, of course, is better for the merchants and store keepers, and for these Tea sons which I have been talking - about lowa will give President -Me Kin ley a bigger majority in 1000 than the state in 15%." I-'oreljgn Trade Fact*. Figures of the bureau of statistics of the treasury department show: That we exported $43*459,765 more of our own goods last April than we im ported. That we exported $30,130,000 more of our goods in April this year than in April, 1899. That our exports were $135,048,857 greater in value in the ten months ending with April, than in the corre sponding' ten months of the last fiscal year. That our exports in the last ten months were $455,495,141 greater than our imports. That, under the Dingley protective tariff, the articles which we import fr*e of duty were $70,000,000 greater in value the last ten months than a year ago. That our total foreign trade for the fiscal year ending June 30 next, will be $300,000,000 larger than in the fiscal year ending .Tune 30, 1899. That our combined import and ex port trade for this fiscal year is likely to exceed two and a quarter billion dollars, of which exports will be $1,407,- 000,000. When \V> Buy Ilrcnil. In 1894 there were only 231,- 848,596 bushels of wheat retained for home consumption; in 1899 the quan tity retained was 452,530,285 bushels. In 1894 there were thousands of peo ple too poor even to buy bread. In 1899 everybody could buy bread. These two comparisons represent the differ ent conditions of the country under democratic and republican adminis trations. Corn ami Silver Vbliiob. A bushel of corn wortn an ounce of silver! Pretty near it. On May 7 corn was worth 45% cents a bushel in the New York market. Silver was worth 59% cents on the stune day. In ISWS, at the time of llryanic prophe cies as to free silver, corn was worth only 21 y s cents on the farm. But it lias kept on advancing in price undei the gold standard. Money In Idaho. Idaho's bank deposits amounted to $904,412 in 1894. Last year they were SI .355.(,c,5. showing an Increase of $454,- 256 in live years. A belter demand for lead and protected wooi were the main factors in bringing about thus prosperity under the republican ad ministration. THEIR METHODS WERE LOOSE. Poet Oilier liih|»«M-lorH Hit! IVot Attend to Their Hilly in tuba AnotUel 4 liH|»tcr of tlie NK IJ t'a«e. Havana. June I.—Acting Director of Posts Bristow says that Inspectors Seyhold and Xeal, WHO reported on April 2.'! that Xeely's accounts were correct did so because they took Un report of Reeves as a basis of judg ment, u system regularly observed. These inspectors point out that the auditor's report was aiways taken as a voucher at full value. Mr. Bristow declares, however, that no man could hate inspected Xeely's office without being thoroughly convinced that the gravest irregularities were being committed. In his opinion Seybold and Xeal were completely under the influence of Xeely, wno seems to have dominated the whole department of posts. They have not yet, been dis charged, as they may yet be needed. lien. Wood had a long conversation yesterday with Mr. Ones, the Ameri can counsel, who has been detailed especially for work in connection with the frauds. \ orydon Rich was brought down to the palace by the detective who has him in charge, but he did not furnish any information beyond what was contained in the statement to which he had already sworn. Kieli, as well as Beeves, says that another man profited to the ex tent of at least $15,000, as an inves tigation of mortgages paid off and of other expenditures would prove, but at present absolute evidence of this is wanteds neither Hicn nor Beeves swearing that he saw the individual in question receive the money. La Discussion has a bitter article regarding Mr. Rathbone, in which it says: vVe did not know that politi cal economy required the object les son of a minor omeial paying his coachman, gardener and day laborer out of the public funds." Mr. Bristow yesterday issued an or der more sweeping than any of its predecessors, an order practically completing the reorganization of pos tal headquarters. Its financial reduc tions aggregate $23,1U)0, making a, to tal reduction of expeditures at head quarters of more than $42,000. ine special agents, n in number, who have been getting $3,200 each, are cut down to six, and their clerical force is correspondingly diminished, the salary of the chief clerk of the bu reau being reduced from SI,BOO to $1,600. The bureau of transportation loses the services of one $1,200 clerk, the translation bureau loses one $1,400 clerk, the salary of the chief clerk being reduced S2OO, and the bu reau of dead letters is treated in the same way. losing a clerk, while the salary of its chief clerk is reduced. P. 11. Bristow, chief clerk of the de partment, had his salary reduced from $4,000 to $2,500. THEY ARE NOT DISCOURAGED. Horr ICllvoyat !»<> Not Seem I>e|irc«»esk of you whether you hold stock in the American Ice Co., or in any of the companies that have been merged m that company. "If you could hold such stock with out compromising' your character my inquiry might be unwarranted, but the ice trust is a devilish scheme for wringing shekels ojit of the poor and speculating upon their distresses, and no man, yourself or any other, can become contemptible in his per sonal capacity without a forfeiture of all the consideration otherwise due him in his official capacity, particu larly when, as in a position like your own. the grand essential is personal probity, dignity and a gracious shep herding of the people whose interests you are set to safeguard. "The people want to know what the facts are in the ease, and the longer and more obstinately you evade the issue the more damaging the construction that will be placed upon your reticence. You said a week ago lliat the people need not fear that any fact could be proved ihta would challenge your official conduct. Such generalities do not meet the case. What the city wants o know is- Do you hold stock in th»* American ice Co.? ics or no?" TRADE REVIEW. Downward .Movement of Price* < on liniies Failure* liicrea*e„ Mew York, June 2. —It. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of t'rade says: While returns of failures in May by branches of business cannot be given until next week, it can be stated that no month in more than six years has shown as large defaulted liabilities as Mas will show, owing to the fail ure of a firm principally engaged in , otton brokt rage. The most conspicuous feature of domestic news is the steady progress toward a lower level of prices fort h<* chief materials of industry. Without excitement and with very small sales —it is believed the smallest ever re corded in May in the three chief east ern markets except in lh'.K; prices of wool have declined so that quotations average about 21.si emits, against ~4.T!.' at the highest point February 1. Orders for boots and shoes have been reduced much more than ship ments. because many works had or ders which are not yet exhausted. The shipments in May have been smaller than in any year since ISU2. The decline in pig iron continues, grey forge reaching $18.50 at Pitts burg. Only small changes have ap peared during the week in prices of finished products, but these are to ward lower tigures. There are state ments that some of the properties taken by the Steel Shed Co. have been sold back to former owners, and that properties of the Steel Hoop Co. will be divided likewise, but it is not surprising if a few out of so many combinations result in the dis appointment of some. Failures for the week have been 110 in the United States, against 145 last year, and 21 in Canada, against 14 last year. RAISED THE SIEGE. A Hritiftli Iteliel Party ICnter* Koo ninNKle« lint llic Situation IN still Critical. London, June 2. —TJie colonial of fice has received a dispatch from Cape Coast Castle, dated May .'ll, say ing it is believed there that Capt. llall, with a relief party, entered Koomassie May 26. Tin 1 governor. Sir Frederick Mitchell Hodgson, with the sick, wounded and refugees, was expected to arrive at Fumsu. May HO. Notwithstanding the optimist rone of the dispatch, it reveals a serious situation, inasmuch fis apart from the possibility of Gov. Hodgson's party being cut off by the enemy north of Fumsu, it practically an nounces the evacuation of Koomassie. which will be interpreted by the hos tile Iribes as a British retreat and thus tend to spread the rising. The rainv season is now in full swing and no punitive expedition can be suc cessfully undertaken until autumn. Smith Dellvrr* Hi* Mewage. Philadelphia, June 2. —The Xortli American has received a dispatch from Pretoria stating that Messenger James Smith delivered to President Kruger on Tuesday the greeting' from the school boys of Philadelphia. Mr. Kruger in reply tendered his tluwks to the American people for their sympathy and requested Smilli to return his (Kruger's) greetings to the citizens of the United States. I»i*;;race«i HIM I lli to rill. Washington. June 2. By direction of the president first Lieut. Samuel G. Hazzard. First artillery, has been dropped from the rolls of the army for desertion. Hazzard was stationed at Tampa. Fla., and disappeared from that post February 21 last, since when nothing has been heard of him. It is reported that, before bis depart ure. he forged some checks and bor rowed a large amount of money. lie was also short in his amounts. An other allegation was that he had run off with a woman with whom he had become infatuated. Kninher "Slifcen." In his history of New York , one of the* classics of American authorship?, Died rick Knickerbocker (Washington Irving) wrote lovingly, yet with unctuous sarcatm, of the, beauties ar:d tradition* of riin loved "Nicu. Netherlands," the peaceful valley of the' Hudson from Albany to Manhattan, the many legends with which the entire region, abounds notably that of Kin Van Winkle and his long sleep—and of the ancient names and families whose descendants art* still a power in that locality. So far-reaching were the effects of the "History" that in time the name "Knickerbocker" became the popular one for the patron saint of New York City, he usually being represented as a benignant old German of ample girth, clutching firmly the long .stemmed clay pipe which Irving im mortalized and gazing over hie beloved City. Uecognizing the vein of sentiment in the American people long ago a train service was inaugurated to New York from St. Louis to which Father Knickerbocker lent his name hnd through the efforts of the line which introduced the service the "Knicker bocker Special" hag become as familiar to the average traveled American as to the res idents ol his own City. Leaving St. Louis at noon, the traveler is liorne swiftly mid safe ly to Father Knickerbocker's abode, trav ersing by daylight those scenes with which he was so familiar, arriving at New York the next day in time for a leisurely preparation for evening. So popular has the service proven thut the Hig I