2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS.! H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. I 'or year. HOO 112 paid iu advance 1 ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate ot pne dul.ar per square for one Insertion and flftj etnls i er square for each subsequent insertion Rites by the year, or tor six or three month* pre low and uniform, and will be furnished oo ppt llcatiou. I>egal and Official Advertising per square three times or less, 12: each subsequent, inser tion :o cents per square. Local notices lu cents pet line for ona inser- ! periion: 5 cents per line for each subsequent j con-ecutive Insertion. Obituary notices over Ave linos 10 cents per I line. Simple announcements of births, mar- j tinges and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, five lines or less. s5 per year; pver live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising- No local inserted for less than 75 cents per luue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PHFSS iscomplate pud affords facilities for doing the best class of j *». rli. PAHL ICLI.AIt ATTENTION I'AII) TO LAW PRINTING. No paper will be discontinued until arrear- : tg'-s arc paid, except at the option of the pub she r. Papers sent out of the county must bo paid tor in advance \ Last year the importations of wild | animals into the United States were valued at $121,039, of which $23,519 | was for scientific and educational pur poses, and paid no duty, $19,580 in du ties being collected on the rest, which were imported by circuses and private menageries. In 1903 the wild beasts imported were valued at $117,514. The courage and valor for which the : Japanese are famous is instilled into j them from their earliest infancy, says ; n Japanese writer. When a baby cries his mother scolds him, and says: 1 "What a coward to cry for a trifling pain; what will you do when your arm j is cut off in battle? What when you are called upon to commit hara-kiri?" Aided by wings the ostrich is the fastest runner, sometimes making 98 feet a second. In measured flights the Virginia rainpiper has a record of 7 500 yards a minute and the Euro pean swallow has exceeded 8,000 yards. The slowest creatures are snails and certain small beetles, a healthy snail's highest speed being Jive and one-half inches an hour. Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cot ton gin, got the germ of his great idea from seeing, through the interstices of a hut, an old Negro work a handsaw among the freshly-picked cotton stored within. The teeth of the saw tore the lint from the seed easily and quickly, and young Whitney (he was barely 13 at. the time), realized at once that a machine working a num ber of similar saws simultaneously would revolutionize the cotton-growing industry. More than 16,000,000 pupils, or 20.04 per cent, of the entire population, .were enrolled in the common schools of the United States in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1904. The total school enrollment for the year, including pub lic and private, elementary, secondary and higher education, was 17,539,478 pupils, and to this there should bo an Addition made for evening schools, •business schools, private kindergar tens, Indian schools, state schools for defectives, orphans, etc., 648,440. The report on crops, live stock, etc., In Manitoba in 1904, shows the total gTain crop of that province to have been equivalent to 90,055,113 Win chester bushels, as compared with 85,- 308,649 bushels in the previous year, an increase for 1904 of 4,946,461 bush els. The area upon which this grain crop was produced in 1904 is given at '3,763,567 acres, as compared with 3,- 670,196 acres in 1903; in 1904 was included for the first time a small area of 2,471 acres devoted to the culture of corn. The fig ures are from the Manitoba depart ment of agriculture. The government of the United States occasionally imports a wild) beast for the zoo at Washington, ■which is under the Smithsonian insti tution, but most of the animals out there have been presented. Rut Uncle Sam imports immense quantities of bugs. One particular kind of bug im ported by the United States from Aus tralia has earned $5,000,000 or $6,000,- 000 every year for 15 years, and has •never received any wages. Another bug imported from Russia saved the •farmers of Ohio and Indiana at least ($45,000,000 in the year 1900. Effusion of blood to the brain and disturbance of the digestive system are no doubt the chief causes of sea sickness; and certainly those of weak digestion are particularly susceptible to it. Then it is undeniable that most people on board ship eat too much and take too little exorcise. The overin dulgence in the rich and sometimes greasy dishes at the elaborate meals on the big ocean liners —where even at breakfast there are more courses than most passengers are accustomed to at dinner at home —is a bad preparation fur a severe attack of mal-de-mer. 1 In Russia every woman of the peas ant class marries, or pretends to mar ry. If a girl conies to the decision that, no one intends to ask her to mar ry she leaves home and returns after a time to announce that she is a wid ow, that she went away to be mar ried,. and that her husband has since died. No embarrassing questions are put to her, for it is, among the peas ants, considered bad form to mention a dead man to his widow. This cu rious custom goes to slow in what high regard the women o( Russia look iipuu the institution of marriage. THE INAUGURAL CEREMONIES. President Roosevelt and Vice Presi dent Fairbanks Take the Oaths ot Office. PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS IS BRIEF. We Must Not Shirk the Duties We Owe to Others and Ourselves —Our Responsibility Is Heavy and We as a Nation Must Not Fail. Washington, March 4. —President Roosevelt took the oath of office to-day before a vast gathering of the people lie has been elected to serve. The at tendant scenes were not unusual. In augurations from the timo the east front of the capitol first became the setting for the ceremony have been much the same. Many of the central figures have officiated in a like capac ity ou other occasions when presi dents have acceded to the highest of fice in the gift of the American peo ple. Chief Justice Fuller, in adminis tering the oatli, repeated a solemn function lie has performed four times -—to-day his last. Yet, with all this repetition, nothing was jaded and everything appeared new. The great crowd, assembled for the crowning event of a day full of fea tures, cannot be estimated even by comparison. It. extended far beyond the reach of the voice and was so densely packed as to carry the stage out of the sight of many. The capitol plaza, resourceful in accommodating the thousands eager to view the cere mony, was completely filled. People came by its numerous streets and ave nues, which, like so many yawning, ravenous maws, greedily swallowed the throng until every coign of vant age was occupied. The trees, barren of foliage, carried their human bur dens on limbs capable of bearing the weight of man or boy, and as far away as the terraces and marble steps of the library of c< ngress thousands stood. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, Although the ceremony differed lit tle from those thai have preceded it.in the great sea of spectators probably there was a larger number of repre sentative Americans than any inaug uration has brought to Washington. The eastern states were rivalled in point of attendance by reason of Pres ident Roosevelt's great popularity in the middle and far west. Delegates were present from every one of the in : sular possessions. Many of them had never seen the capitol and, to a large j number, the inauguration of a presi | dent was wholly strange. The movements of the gathering I troops and organizations were not all j the crowd had for its entertainment. Directly in its front preparations were In progress for the inauguration itself. A monster stand in the form of an open amphitheatre had been erected on a line with the rotunda of the capi tol. The stand was built in the form of a semi-circle inclining to a level plat - form on which was placed a pavillion for the president's use. The amphi theatre accommodated nearly 7,000 persons. At about 1 o'clock the official party came through the main door. Cheers were sent up from the multitude, all eyes were directed that way and strained to get the first glimpse of the president. The official entrance was dramatic. All except those who were participating in the ceremony were seated. When the justices of the supreme court, with the exception of Chief Justice Fuller, emerged from between the pillars and marched down the sloping aisle to their station, they were greeted with applause. Then came the members of the diplomatic corps in their gorgeous uniforms. After them came members of the cabinet, senators and repre sentatives in congress. Taking as a signal the arrival of Mrs. ltposevelt and a party of friends, and a moment later of Vice President CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1905. Fairbanks and liis escort, the applause subsided to await the coming of the man of the hour. Suddenly the crowd on the stand began to cheer. This was taken up by those immediately in front of the platform. The military presented arms, tho committee un covered, and soon the great sea of peo ple was waving hats and , flags and shouting itself hoarse. President Roosevelt was escorted by Chief Justice Fuller. With measured | tread in harmony with the dignified | step of the chief justice, the president i advanced instate down the aisle. At a sign from Chief Justice Fuller | the clerk of the supreme court, stepped ■ forward holding a Bible. A hush fell | over the crowd. The president raised ; his right hand and the oath to support the laws anil constitution of the lTni ted States was taken amid deep | silence. When this had been concluded j there was practically no demonstra 1 tion and the president began bis in ! augural address, as follows: My Fellow Citizens: No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastt'ulness in our own | strength, but with gratitude to the Giver i of Good Who lias blessed us with tho ! conditions which have enabled us to achieve so large a measure of well being and of happiness. To us as a people it lias been granted to lay the foundation A our national life in a new continent. ! We are the heirs of the ages, and yet ! we have had to pay few of the penalties ' which in old countries are exacted by j the dead hand of a bygone civilization. We have not been obliged to fight for our existence against any alien rate; I and yet our life has called for the vigor j and effort without which the manlier j and hardier virtues wither away. Un- S der such conditions it would be our own fault if we failed; and the success which | we have had in the past, the success j which we confidently believe the future 1 will bring, should cause in us no feel | ing of vain glory, but rather a deep and abiding realization of all which life has ! offered us; a full acknowledgement of the responsibility which is ours; and a ! fixed determination to show that under | a free government a mighty people can ! thrive best, alike as regards the things j of the body and the things of the soul. Much has been given to us, and much j will rightfully be expected from us. We ; have duties to others and duties to our- I selves; and we can shirk neither. We i have become a great nation, forced by | the fact 01 its greatness into relations J with the other nations of the earth; ; and we must behave as beseems a peo | pie with such responsibilities. Toward | all other nations, large and small, our ! attitude must be one of cordial and sin i cere friendship. We must show not only i in our words, but in our deeds that we ; are earnestly desirous of securing their | good will by acting toward them in a I spirit of just and generous recognition ; of all their rights. But justice and gen | prosily in a nation, as in an individual. 5 count most when shown not L/ the weak, but by the strong. While ever j careful to refrain from wronging others, i we must be 110 less insistent that we are ! not wrongeil ourselves. We wish peace; j but we wish the peace of justice, the i peace of righteousness. We wish it be j cause we think it is right, and not be | cause we are afraid. No weak nation i that acts manfully and justly should ; ever have cause to fear us. and 110 strong I power should ever be able to single us { out as a subject for insolent aggression. Our relations with the other powers j of the world are important; but still | more important are our relations among | ourselves. Such growth in wealth, in | population and in powers as this nation | has seen during the century and a quar ter of its national life is inevitably ac | companied by a like growth in the prob j lems which are ever before every na- J tion that rises to greatness. Power in- I variably means both responsibility and j danger. Our forefathers faced certain perils which we have outgrown. We I now face other perils the very existence I of which it was impossible that they j should foresee. Modern life is both com j plex and intense, and the tremendous j changes wrought by the extraordinary i industrial development of the last half ] century are felt in every fiber of our j social and political being. The conditions which have told for ! our marvelous material well-being, ' which have developed to a very high de gree our energy, self-reliance and indi j vidual initiative, have also brought the i care and anxiety inseparable from the accumulation of great wealth in indus | trial centers. Upon the success of our experiment much depends; not only as j regards our own welfare, but as regards | the welfare of mankind. If we fail, the j cause of free self-government through- I out the world will rock to its founda- I tions; and therefore, our responsibility j is heavy, to ourselves, to the world as it | is to-day, and to the generations yet I unborn. | Yet, after all, though the problems are new, though the tasks set before 11s differ from the tasks set before our fathers who founded and preserved this repub lic. the spirit in which these tasks must be undertaken and these problems faced, if our duty is to be well done, remains essentially unchanged. We know that self-government is difficult. We know that 110 people needs such high traits of character as that people which seeks to govern its affairs aright through the freely expressed will of the free men who compose it. But we have faith that we shall not prove false to the memories of the men of the mighty past. They did their work, they left us the splendid heritage we now enjoy. We in our turn have an assured confidence that we shall be able to leave this heritage uuwasted and enlarged to our children and out' children's children. To do so we must show, not merely in great crises, but in the everyday affairs of life, the qualities of practical intelligence, of courage, of hardihood and endurance, and above alt the power of devotion to a lofty ideal, which made great the men who founded this republic in the days of Washing ton. which made great the men who pre served this republic in the days of Abra ham Lincoln. >''• "" V'—-jl'. '■ .si r/ Ji\\i i I-, ■ PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TAKING THE OATH OF OFFICE. When the president finished speak ing he re-entered the capitol and as he disappeared within the building a signal was flashed to the navy yard and the roar of 21 guns was begun in of ficial salute to the president. In the presence of as many of his fellow «itizens as could be crowded into the senate chamber, Charles War ren Fairbanks was at noon inducted into the otfice of vice president of the United States. The ceremony was quickly followed by the final adjourn ment. oft lie senate, the beginning of a special session, an address by the vice president and the swearing into office of almost a third of the membership of the senate. All these official acts took place in the chamber just before the inauguration of the president and were in reality, while themselves of great import, the prelude of the more important event. VICE PRESIDENT FAIRBANKS. The installation of the new vice president was simple anil brief. It consisted of a promise, solemnly made with uplifted hand and bowed head, to perform the duties of the office and to support and defend the constitution of the United States. This was the oath of office, and it was administered by Senator Frye as president pro tempore of the senate. The two officials stood confronting each other on the elevated platform on which rests the desk of the presiding officer of the senate, practically on the same spot on which the incoming vice presidents for tho past 50 years have stood, and where a majority of Americans have decreed that Mr. Fairbanks shall pre side for tho four years to come. Plain and democratic though the ceremony was, it attracted to the sen ate a gathering of notable people, many of them of such importance that, in accordance with time honored cus tom, their appearance was heralded with pomp and platitude sufficient to atone for the simplicity of the official acts of the occasion, if not to quite overshadow them. These guests in cluded the foremost representtaives of the official life of the capital city, for eign and domestic, civil and military, and also many other persons of promi nence from all parts of the country. On the senate floor, with his cabi net, were the president of the United States, himself about to be inaugurat ed; the diplomatic corps, the supreme court of the United States, the house of representatives, the admiral of the navy, the lieutenant general of the army, the governors of states, and others distinguished by reason of posi tion or achievement. These sufficed to tax the capacity of that part of the hall, and thy were splendidly supple mented by the attendance in the gal leries. A Very Fatal Explosion. Pikeville, I<y., March 4.—At the rail road camp of A. H. Calligan, a Chesa peake H. Ohio railway contractor at the month of Greasy creek, ten miles south of here, four workmen were instantly killed, two were fatally hurt and four dangerously injured by an explosion yesterday. The men were heating dynamite in powder cans when the ex plosion occurred. Retracted His Story. Washington, Pa., March 4.—Adolph J. Bloch, who confessed to having mur dered Mrs. Kate Falzinger at Allen town, Pa., on August 0, 1903, for which crime his brother, Eugene Bloch, was hanged there this week, took it all back yesterday. He said he had never been in Allentown and the story was intended as a joke. | THE BEEF BARONS' PROFITS An Official Report States that the "Big Six" Have not Been Making Any Too Much Money. Washington, March <l.—President ! Roosevelt on Friday transmitted to i congress the report of the commission | er of corporations upon the beef indus ; try submitted in compliance with the , resolution of the house of represent atives adopted March 7, 1904. The report is to the effect that six packing companies—Armour & Co., Swift & Co., Morris & Co., the Nation al Packing Co., the Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Co., and the Cudaliy Pack ing Co. slaughtered in the year 1903 about 45 per cent, of the total indicat ed slaughter in the United States; that the average net profit in 1903 for three of the companies was 99 cents per head; that the year 1902, instead of be ing one of exorbitant profits was less profitable than usual, and that during ; the months when prices of beef were ! the highest, some of the leading pack ers were actually losing money on i every head slaughtered. The changes in the margin between I prices of cattle and beef are in them selves no indications whatever of the j change in profits, says the report, j Prices and conditions for the years • 1902, 1903 and 19<)4 are reviewed, and 1 the conclusions are stated that the ! six companies especially discussed are j apparently not overcapitalized; that ■ the percentage of profit on the gross j volume of business is comparatively 1 small, and that during the years 1902, | 1903 and 1904 Swift & Co.'s profits l have not exceeded 2 per cent, of the | total sales: Cudahy & Co.'s is stated at j 1.8 per cent, for 1904 and 2.3 per cent, for 1902. With reference to private car lines j in the packing industry it is stated j that the profit is a very liberal one, a I net return of from 14 to IT per cent. | being indicated, but it is added that, 1 reckoning on the basis of dressed | beef transported, the profit would add but little to the cost of beef to the | consumer. The profit of one concern. ! Cudahy Packing Co., on its investment j in cars was as high as 22 per cent, in 1 one year. BUSINESS BULLETIN. Reports are Somewhat Conflicting, but the Outlook Is Considered Favor able. New York, March 4. —R. G. Dun & ! Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Trade reports are still somewhat ! conflicting, but on the whole improve j merit has followed more settled weath ! er, and the outlook is considered j favorable, even in sections where I current business is irregular. Mer j cantile collections are not as prompt at the east as elsewhere, but the lia bilities of commercial failures in Feb ruary were much smaller than a year ago. Traffic blockades have been lifted, restoring a normal distribution of merchandise, and railway earnings in February were only 5.1 per cent, smaller than last, year, despite the se vere weather at the start. Little idle machinery is noticed in the iron and steel industry, textile mills are in creasingly active, and New England shoe shops are shipping more freely than a year ago. Commercial failures this week in the United States are 245, against 23G the corresponding week last year. Fail ures in Canada number 35, against 27 last year. A Jail Delivery. Madisonville, Ky., March 4. —Three alleged murderers and two alleged thieves were freed in a jail delivery here Friday. The delivery was made by some one from the outside cutting iron bars from a rear window of the jail. Congressional Proceedings. Washington, March 4. —The last day's session of the house before the final adjournment of congress found that body almost through with its work of disposing of conference re ports on the great supply measures of ihe government. All the appropria tion bills having been passed, the ses sion ot the senate was given up large ly to general legislation and to con ference reports on appropriation bills. Final reports were presented on the naval, post office, Indian and sundry civil bills, leaving only the river and harbor and the general deficiency bills to be considered in their final stages. DEATHS IN A COLLISION, A Crasn of Special Trains on the Cleveland &, Pittsburg Road Near Pittsburg, NINE PERSONS WERE KILLED, . Many Persons Were Injured—The Train Carried Cleveland Militiamen and the Tippecanoe Club, Who Were en Route to Washington. Pittsburg, March 4.—ln a rear end collision last, night between two spe cial passenger trains from Cleveland on the Cleveland & Pittsburg railroad, en route to Washington, eight men and ; a boy were killed and 20 others injured. The accident happened at Clifton Station, eight miles west of here, and was caused by the first special stop ping for a hot tox and the second fol lowed so closely that the flagman had not time togo back far enough to pre vent the collision. Tho first train carried a battalion of the Ohio Engineers. It was made | up of six coaches and a baggage car. | The second train, with the same num. I her of cars, carried the Tippecanoe j club, of Cleveland, with a band and 25 j or 30 women. When the crash came the passen | gers in the rear car of the first train j were the principal sufferers and all of j the fatalities were in that car. The j wrelcage took fire from the engine j and the entire first train and three | cars of the second were burned. Capt. Charles E. Pope was the only | officer of the Engineers to escape in j jury and he will be in command of the ! battalion, which will return to Cleve '' land. The Tippecanoe club will con | tinue their journey to Washington. When roll call was made of the Tip j pacanoe club only two men were rniss i ing. They may be among the injured ! who were taken to the hospital at Rochester, Pa. The engineer of the second train says the block signal showed a green light and his train went ahead at the rate of about 45 or 50 miles an hour. When the impact came the engine of the second train plowed through the rear Pullman in which the officers were and half way into the tourist car I just ahead of it. At 1 o'clock this morning six bodies had been identified. They are: Capt. William Hendrick, battalion surgeon and a prominent Cleveland physician. Lieut. Donaldson C. Schofleld, of Company I), a Cleveland architect. Corporal James Kehoe, Company C. Private H. R. Held, Company C. James Gray, negro cook, Battery R Frank Pinney, aged 10 years, son of Lieut. O. C. Pinney. He was the only boy on the train. Two men died while being taken to j the Beaver county hospital at Roches | ter. Their bodies will be brought to | this city for identification. ] Unidentified man in uniform of ; Pullman conductor. Had cards in j pockets bearing name C. Ilealt. The injured are all from Cleveland. They are: George Reilly, will likely die;, George Fannan, C. Orbitzer, Charles: Sturgis, Frank Johnston, George Ger browski, Sergeant William Mclrish, George McCabe (colored), Lieut. F. Vanderberg, P. C. Davis, Capt. Geck ler, Adjt. Wall. i" McArron, Lieut. O. C. Pinney, skull fractured, may die; Floyd Palmer, condition serious; Lieut. Clifford B. Haskins, of the Naval Reserves; Hugh Bidmann, gen eral agent of tho Connecticut Life In surance Co.; Lieut. Eugene Steam, Lieut. E. W. Briggs, of the Naval Re serves. . t Stanford Home Under Surveillance. San Francisco, 51 arch 4. —Although every effort is being made to find a motive for the poisoning of Mrs. Jane L. Stanford and to fix the guilt, no ar rests have yet been made. The de tectives are keeping their eyes on Albert Beverly, tho former butler, and Elizabeth Richmond, the former maid of Mrs. Stanford, and upon the six or eight employes, mostly Chinese, in the Stanford house in this city, which no ono is permitted to enter or leave without permission of the authorities. Hundreds Were Killed in Riots. Berlin. March 4. —The Lokal An zeiger's Baku correspondent gives the number killed in the riots between Armenians and Tartars as SOO. The belligerents have now buried the hatchet, but a general exodus from the city is in progress I .-cause it is feared the troubles will be resumed to-day when demonstraions are announced in celebration of the liberation of the serfs. Killed His Wife and Himself. Tulss.. I. T., March 4.—Will I. Neet,. iy:ed 25, of this city, shot and killed, his wife and then committed suicide' yesterday. At the inquest it develop ed that the tragedy had been planned,, as both had written letters directing what, disposition should be made of their personal effects. They were married last Sunday in Longton, Kan. Congressman Hermann Is Indicted. Washington, March 4. —Binger Her mann. member of congress from Ore gon and former commissioner of tho general land office, was indicted Fri day by the federal grand jury here on the charge of destroying public rec ords. The charge is that: Mr. Her mann, just previous to his resignation as commissioner of the general land office, which was on February 1, 1903. destroyed S5 letter press copy books containing copies of official com munications written by him and re lating to the business of that bureau, lie gave bail in $5,000.
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