Mrs. Mi t tie Huffaker.
HAD GIVEN OP ALL HOPE.
CONFINED TO HER BED
WITH DYSPEPSIA,
"I Owe My Life to Pe-ru-na,"
Says Mrs. Huffaker.
"Mrs. Mittic ITufl'akor, R. R. No. 8,
Columbia, Tenn., writes:
«•/ was afflicted with dyspepsia for
several years and at last w as confined
to my bed, unable to sit up.
"We tried several different doctors
without relief.
"/ had given up all hope of any re
lief and was almost dead when my
husband bought me a bottle of Pe
.runa.
"At first I could not notice any ben
efit,.but after taking several bottles I
was cured sound and well.
'•lt is to Peruna / owe my life to
• day.
" I cheerfully recommend it to all
: sufferers."
Revised Formula.
"For a number of years requests
have come to me from a multitude of
grateful friends, urging that Peruna
be given a slight laxative quality. I
have been experimenting with a laxa
tive addition for quite a length of
time, and now feel gratified to an
nounce to the friends of Peruna that
I have incorporated such a quality in
the medicine which. In my opinion,
can only enhance its well-known bene
ficial character.
"S. B. Hartmax, M. D."
The sun that shines in the face
rises in the heart.
Garfield Tea, the herb laxative, is better
'than drugs and strong cathartics; it cuics.
No Pretense.
"So you want to work?"
"Please den't misunderstand me. 1
don't want to work, but I've got to."
—Philadelphia Ledger.
Merciless.
He —I goto bed at night with gloves
onto keep my hands soft.
She —And do you wear your hat,
too? —Illustrated Bits.
Heard Papa Say It.
■School Teacher —Willie, tan you
tell me the meaning of leisure?
Bright Pupil—lt's a place whore
married peo>le repent.—Brooklyn
Eagle.
Where the Fault Lay.
Doctor —Have you any idea how you
caught this terrible cold?
Patient —I think it was my cloak.
"Too thin, eh?"
"No; it was a last winter one and I
'didn't care to wear it." —Illustrated
Bits.
A G-antle Slam.
Miss Jolly—Eddie Plank is an aw
ful flatterer. You can't believe a word
he says. But I always like to meet
him.
Kathleen —Must be a ca=e of mu
tual admiration. I've heard him -ay
•the very same thing about you.—De
troit. Free Press.
"White Disease" in Africa.
Sir Harry Johnston, the famous er>
t>!orer, ouce escaped Irom a very tyjht
corner In Africa by a queer strata
gem. A score or tT7o of murderotn
natives had surrounded his tent., inro
which, before rushing It, they sent an
envoy. The envoy was told the small
pox was in camp, and a wretched Al
bino was Kent out as the awful exam
ple. In five minutes the scared tribes
men had vanished. As Sir Harry well
knew, they eared the "white rtseaso"
more than all the inventions of Maxim
WHOOPING COUGH
111 % II % Hl* I « II II
•«*»<»., til',
Uru* ww , Mfr§., CCt.VfcLANU, U.
CAME EASILY
Mr. Patton Got $307,000
in Coal Stock.
FREt Of ALL COST.
An Assistant to President Cassatt,
of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
Testifies Unwillingly.
Philadelphia, Pa. Further reve
lations concerning stockholdings
in soft coal mining companies by of
ficials of the Pennsylvania railroad
were made Wednesday when the in
ter-state commerce commission re
sumed its investigation into the al
leged discrimination by railroads in
the distribution of cars.
Three high officials of the railroad,
First Vice President John P. Green,
Third Vice President Samuel Rea and
William A. Patton, assistant to Pres
ident Cassatt, were the important wit
nesses of the day.
Mr. Patton was under examination
the greater part of the morning and
was an unwilling witness. The per
sistent questioning of Attorney Glas
gow, for the Commission, however,
brought out the fact that Mr. Patton
had acquired stock the par value of
which is $307,000 in various coal com
panies without cost to himself. He
explained, however, that he had sign
ed notes obligating himself for his
share of the ]omo?s and declared his
belief that it was proper for him to
accept the stock under those condi
tions.
Vice President Rea read a state- ,
ment to the commission in which he
explained all of his stock transac
tions, stating that he did not believe
he was 'debarred from such ownership
because of his connection with the
railroad company. Mr. Rea said that
most of his stock was acquired \
• through his association with land
purchasing syndicates which took up (
the coal properties for development.
Vice President Green said tha'
or 30 years ago it was not considered i
improper for an official of the railroad j
to own coal company stock, but that
conditions had changed and such
holdings might not now be regarded
j in the same light as formerly. He in- j
formed the commission that the board J
of directors of the Pennsylvania rail- :
| road, acting upon the information that \
had been brought out at the hearings, j
had appointed a committee of five di- j
rectors to make an investigation into j
the connection of its officials with coal 1
I companies. Mr. Green said he did not ;
s own a dollar's worth of coal company !
stock.
ISTHMIAN CANAL AFFAIRS.
Mr. Wallace Scores Secretary Taft—
Sentiment in Favor of Sea Level
Canal Grows in the Senate.
Washington, L). C.—Former Chief
Engineer John F. Wallace, of the
isthmian canal, on Wednesday ad
' dressed a letter to Senator Millard, >
; chairman of the committee on inter- !
oceanic canals, in reply to Secretary |
i Tuft's recent testimony before that j
committee, in which he charges Sec- j
; retary Taft with having abused his of |
ficial position in order to make a sec
ond assault upon him and to place in
a public record statements "calculat >d i
! and apparently intended to affect my j
i reputation for veracity."
He also imputes to Gov. Magoon a 1
breach of confidence in having advis
ed him to take a certain course of ac- ;
tion and then anticipating it. by secret- I
ly writing to Secretary Taft.
While expressly stating that he j
j bears no ill will toward William Nel- j
son Cromwell, Mr. Wallace speaks of j
the bias of Secretary Taft in favor of j
that gentleman and says that Taft i
: was aware that, Mr. Cromwell, among |
other things, was trying to secure the
j payment by the United States of an j
! improper claim which, however, was
afterwards disallowed by the presi- j
dent.
A growing sentiment in the senate
in favor < 112 making the proposed canal [
I appropriation applicable only to the j
I construction of a sea level canal j
I across the isthmus of Panama, in ac- j
cordance with the majority report of!
I the senate committee on inter-oceanic j
canals, is proving embarrassing to i
the administration, which is commit- j
i ted to the lock type. President Roose
velt on Wednesday discussed the sub
ject with senate leaders who called at. j
the White House, and apparently he is
much concerned as to the outcome.
As the result of the president's in :
I quiry an attempt was made to ascer j
| tain how the senate stands on the j
question of canal type. There were
j too many absentees to make an ef j
fective poll.
~
Congress.
Washington.—On the 2!! d the senate
| passed the immigration bill, providing
' stricter rules f< r keeping out the de
| fective classes of aliens. The liousi
sp« nt the day In d> bale of the consu
! lar and diplomatic appropriation bill.
Norway's Greatest Poet Dies.
Chrl.stianiu,,Norway Henrik Ibsen,
Norway's great i t poet and dram'iHui
j died Wednesday. Ills llUfar) MtiV
ity ceased some years ago, when at:
1 apoplectic seizure forced him tore
fialn from mentftl effort He w a"s
; years of age.
Oldfleld Makes a New Record.
Lexington, Ky. Hartley Old ft old
broke the American automobd
record for s"> miles here on Wedut
day 'l ime one hour, IU minute. ..nd
2 aeeondx. The previous time
I one hour, Iti minute#, _'o gei'inli
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1906.
AFFIRMS BURTON DECISION
Ksr.sas Senator Mast Serve Six
Months in Jail and Pay Fir 0 . Be
sides Losing Office.
Washington. The supreme court of
Hie United States Monday rendered a
decision in the case of United States
Senator Ralph Burton, of Kansas.
The decision was against Burton, af
firming the decision of the United
States circuit court for the eastern dis
trict of Missouri, hy which Burton was
sentenced to six months' imprisonment
in the jail of Iron county, Mo., re
quired to pay a line of $2,500 and de
prived of the right to hereafter hold
office under the government. The
opinion was by Justice Harlan. Ali
of the points made In Burton's inter
eat were overruled.
Senator Burton was prosecuted on
the charge of violating Section 1752
of the revised statutes, which prohib
its senators and representatives from
receiving compensation for services
rendered before any of the government
departments in any matter in which
the government may be interested.
He was specifically charged with ac
cepting a fee of SSOO per month for
five months from the Rlalto Grain &
Securities company, of St. Louis, for
services rendered that company in an
effort to prevent the issuance of an
order by the post office department
prohibiting the use of the niaiis by
the company.
Immediately after promulgating its
decision in the Burton case the su
preme court of the United States Mon
day granted a motion to give 60 days
to Senator Burton in which to pre
pare a petition for a rehearing. The
action will have the effect of taking
the case over until the next term of
court beginning in October, as the
present term will expire next Monday.
CHURCH TO QUIT BUSINESS
Mormon Leaders to Dispose of Great
Co-Operative Store and Other
Holdings in Utah.
Salt Lake City.—The Mormon church
is going out of business, according to
a local paper. Its principal holding in
Salt Lake City, the Utah Light and
Railway company, is to be taken over
by a $25,000,000 corporation composed
of English and American capitalists.
If this jx>licy is completely carried
out, the sale of the traction interests
will be followed oy the sale of stocks
in banks, sugar factories, the great
Zion cooperative mercantile institu
tion department store, and many small
er enterprises. It will be nothing less
than a commercial revolution which
will profoundly affect the political and
social life of the state.
Simultaneously the announcement 1-
made that the Salt Lake & Los Angeles
railroad, another church property, ha*;
been sold to a local syndicate for SSOO,
000. This road is 13 miles in length,
and runs from the city to the lake.
President Joseph F. Smith, of the
Mormon church, is quoted as saying
that the divorce of religion from busi
ness is made on account of the fact
that the Mormons whom the church
sought to protect years ago no louger
need the protection of the chwch in
business affairs. The church entered
business, he says, to assist converts
and strangers belonging to the church,
but as they are now on a firm footing
the church withdraws from buslussn
entirely.
CROWTH OF THE TELEPHONE
Nearly Two Million and a Half In
struments in Use in the
United States.
Washington.—A special report on
telephones and telegraphs for 1901 has
been issued by the census office. It
shows that in 1902 the telephone sys
tems of the country operated more
than three-fourths of the wire mileage
reported for both telephones and tele
graphs, gave employment to seven
tenths of the wage earners, and paid
more than two-thirds of the wages, re
ceived more than two-thirds of the to
tal revenue, and paid more than two
thirds of the total expenses.
For the commercial systems ihfi
mileage was 4,779,571, and the number
of telephones 2,225,981; for the mutunl
systems the mileage was 70,915, an.'
the number of telephones 89,:-il'>; and
for the independent lines the mileage
was 49,905, and the number of tele
phones 55,747.
Sign Rio Grande Treaty.
Washington.—Ambas tador Caaasus,
for the Mexican government, and Sec
retary Root .Monday signed a treaty
regulating the use of the waters of
the Rio Grande, which, if approved
by the senate, will remove what has
been for 20 years past a source of fric
tion in the relations of the two coun
tries.
Will Move Whole Town.
St. Paul, Minn. —In order to avoid
a controversy with the property own
ers and business men of Winnipeg
Junction, In the removal of Its sta
tion a mile distant from the present
point, the Northern Pacific Railway
company will move the entire town at
the same time.
Woman's Way.
McJlgL'.-r That's a funuy thlun.
Thin umbo!) \\ hut is?
McJigger Miss P.ts.->ey wis 'in old 1
maid before she married, and now that!
her husband i. dead sho has become a 1
yotuiK widow Uoyal.
Quite Original.
Lady Novell*! I'd like to have my j
her.due di nutuethlng ab il'itely i
•inlque.
Frs til Ye " Whv don't y<m make ,
h " faint when theie Is no < ao look
ing?— Uoyal.
"DEVILFISH"
Independent Oil Man So
Calls Standard Co.
A NINE-YEAR EIGHT
The History Thereof Is Told to the
Inter-State Commission at a
Session in Cleveland.
i
Cleveland, O. —Calling the Sland
. ard Oil Co. a "devilfish," Louis
F. Emory, a veteran independent oil
man of Bradford, Pa., was the most
| important witness before the inter
state commerce commission at its in
quiry into the methods of the oil trust
in Cleveland Thursday. Emory, who
promoted a rival pipe line company to
compete with the Standard in the car
rying of oil from western Pennsylva
nia to tidewater, told the commission
of a tight lasting for nine years, dur
ing which period he was combated by
the Standard with all the resources at
its command. He told how their prop
erty had been destroyed by men in
the employ cf the Standard, and legal
processes were used to drive the in
dependents out of New Jersey, thus
closing their outlet to the seaboard.
The fight, he said, cost the independ
ents nearly a million dollars, but they
were finally victorious.
Emory told how the Pennsylvania
and other railroads forced him to
close a refinery at Philadelphia by re
fusing to give him cars. Nearly 1,000
cars, he said, were shipped out of the
state and scattered idle over the coun
try. This testimony was taken over
the protest of the Standard Oil that it
had been heard by the industrial com
mission.
"When certain wells were drilled 1
near Bradford," said Emory, "we sent !
the oil to Bradford at 25 cents a bar- j
rel. This was over the Pennsylvania i
railroad.
"A small line agreed to carry the oil
for ten cents until the Pennsylvania
by threats of withdrawing their traffic
agreement made them refuse to give
us this rate.
"We were forced to build a 19-mile
pipe line at a cost of $22,000. Then
the Vacuum Pipe Line Co, came to \
drive us out, and the Pennsylvania
railroad gave them a right of way and
permission to build their tanks along 1
the tracks.
"Jerry Burns, now a Standard Oil
employe, was employed by our inde-1
pendent company as a shipper at $75
a month. I don't know how much he '
got from the Standard, but every night i
lie made his report to the Standard of- i
fice at Bradford."
T. G. Westgate, an independent oil
reftiKT and producer of Titusville, Pa., i
the first witness who testified before
the commission Thursday, was close- j
ly questioned by Commissioner Prouty !
and by Chief Counsel Marchand in !
reference to the shipment of oil in i
tank cars, but his testimony on that j
subject was not particularly enlight- j
ening.
TRIAL 0E ALLEGED REBATERS.
Sensational Statements Are Made by
Kansas City Merchants.
Kansas City, Mo. Members of ;
half a dozen large business firms
admitted hero on Thursday at the !
trial in the federal court of George H. j
Crosby, the Burlington traffic man- |
ager; George L. Thomas, the New I
York freight broker, and the latter's j
clerk, L. B. Taggart, that they had j
received thousands of dollars in j
commissions from "unknown sources." [
All of the firms had hired Thomas to !
attend to the shipping of goods from
the Atlantic seaboard to lit. Louis and \
Kansas City, but none of the wit- j
nesses would say that the money j
came from Thomas.
J. K. Burnham, president of the i
Burnham, Hanna & Mungcr Dry
Goods Co., of Kansas City, testified !
to hiring Thomas at a salary of SI,OOO J
a year, and admitted having received j
$-13,000 from Thomas in the past three j
years, supposedly for mistakes in j
classification, claims for damage, etc. j
W. E. Emery, a member of the Em-1
ery, Bird & Thayer Dry Goods Co., of j
Kansas City, had hired Thomas at a \
salary of SSOO a year and for a period 1
of four or five years had received be- )
tween $1,500 and $2,000 a year at his
New York office. The money was ,
given him by a man to him unknown, |
hut he supposed it had come from 1
Thomas.
Several officials of the Burlington
railroad were examined and their tes
timony developed the fact that vouch- !
ers for the payment of the commis- :
Kiuns had disappeared.
Congress.
Washington.—On the 24th the sen
ate passed th > bill relieving denatured
alcohol from the internal revenue lax
and then took up the aKrlcultural ap
propriation bill. The house devoted
its session to poliut al speeches.
Castle Is Named for Governor.
Harrlsburg, Pa. The prohibition
state convention on Thursday
nominated a ;ni\i d ticket 112 <r the Mate
officers to be vut.*d r at inext
generul election. William II Berry.)
democrat, who wa • : -ctcd statu
triuHiii »r .•-•> a f'i ioiilsi htsi NIMCIU- '
ber, was uan d fot toil rnor.
The 01-Jest Ed.tor Diss.
Columbia, Mt. \V. ' s wittier,
sn»'d H7. r-iounl d as the old
est eiiit'r hi i'. l i.ii i Slates
died here Thur lay. He t-tablUlied
the ColutuVia Witter titan In 1 s 11.
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IWE have the best stocked
general store in the county ||
and if yon are looking for re
-9 liable goods at reasonable jj
(prices, we are ready to serve
yon with the best to be fonnd. |
Onr reputation for trust- 01
yy worthy goods and fair dealing Hi
is too well known to sell any
[a but high grade goods. jj
|j Our stock of Queensware and jf
B Chinaware is selected with p
great care and we have some
H of the most handsome dishes S
jg ever shown in this section, S
®) both in imported and domestic H
makes. We invite you to visit
fp us and look our goods over. I|
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H THESE PRICES AND FACTS AT
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fcji the largest line of Car- . r .^ggggga' & j
|| pets, Linoleums and ■
J! Mattings of all kinds /* " !!
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P* town. Also a big line ..M>
mi of samples. [UJOuGGIIInip ||
A very large line ot -FOR THE ££s22s
Lace Curtains that can- _ ff
A rcreVr' the P Hce an CONFORTABLE LODGING N
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Art Squares and of fine books in a choice library
£1 Rugs of all sizes and select the Ideal pattern of Globe- PJ
H kind, from the cheap- Wernicke "Elastic" Bookcase.
S* est to the best. Furnished with bevel French M
Sj (J plate or leaded glass doors. q
Dining Chairs, " Lt °* f>
|| Rockers and GEO. J. LaBAR,
Ik & High CliairS. Bo!e Agent for Cameron County. |g|
A large and elegant ' 1 112 1
|| line of Tufted and
|| Drop-head Couches. Beauties end at bargain prices-. |j
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N|:iO Bedroom Suits, OC S4O Sideboard, quar- CQfl fc*
solid oak at 4)20 tered tak 4)OU 9 V
J? |2B Bedroom Suits, CII f32 Sideboard, quar- OC
If solid oak at 4)11 tered oak oxo 5 $
S* |25 Bed room Suits, COH SO2 Sideboard, quar- CIC M
M solid oak at ] tired 0ak,... * ID M
N A large line of Dressers from I ChifToniers of all kinds and M
M $8 up. I a 1 prices. M
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14 The finest line ot Sewing Machines on the market, fcg
|J the "DOMESTIC" and "FI.DRILCE.' All drop- gj
E2 heads and warranted.
A fine line of Dishes, common grade and China, in *1
St -'ts and by the piece. PJ
Pi As I keep a full line of everything that goes to P{
»« make up a good Furniture store, it is useless to euuui- €
M crate tliem all.
* £ Please call and see for yourscll that I am telling
|| you the truth, and n you don * buy, there i> uo harm |g
|| done, as it i.-> no trouble to >ln>u j;o >ds. Js
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