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The Commoner.
VOLUME 7, NUMBER 10
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Mirny people have HUfTerodjind much
property hiiK boon damaged by the
Hoods in the Monongahela, Alleghany
and Ohio rlveiu
An Associated Press dispatch from
Chicago Hays: "It having proved Im
possible up to the present to obtain
any trace of the $17!1,000 whlcli mys
teriously disappeared from the Chi
cago subtroasury, the secret service
oMlelals are now working upon a
theory which they believe may bring
tangible results. This theory is that
an employe of the subtreasury Is sub
joet to periods of mental aberration.
Ho lias boon examined and has admit
ted Unit ho Is subject to attacks when
his mind Is a blank and he cannot re
member what; occurred during this
time. It; is thought that, the man
who, in his normal condition is care
ful and thoroughly honest, may have
taken the money and has now forgot
ten where It was placed. He will be
closely watched In the hope that some
clew to the location of the money
may bo found."
The democratic state committee of
Massachusetts gave a dinner to Mr.
Ilryan at Boston, March .15.
Oklahoma's constitutional conven
tion adjourned sine die March .15. The
proposed constitution will bo submit
ted to the people of Oklahoma and
Indian Territory at a special election'
to be hold August 0.
to the expressed wishes of the family.
In the summer of 1801 Perier was
elected president of France, Immed
iately after the assassination of Pres
ident Carnot. He was not popular
owing to his opposition to the agencies
v Inch threatened the national security.
iin was openly Insulted In every pos
sible manner and eventually the gov
ernment prosecuted M. Richard, who
had published libels on the president,
for whlcli he was sentenced to six
months' Imprisonment.
Lord Cur.on, cx-vlceroy of India,
has been elected chancellor of Oxford
university.
Maurice Gran, the famous theatrical
manager, Is dead.
Governor Hoke Smith of Georgia,
delivered an address on railroads be
fore the receivers and shippers asso
ciation at Cincinnati.
James L. Pugh, former senator
from Alabama, died at Washington,
ago 87.
William Glasby, a messenger for the
National Parks bank, New York city,
has disappeared with $25,000 belong
ing to the bank.
Archie Roosevelt, son of the presi
dent, is rapidly convalescing.
last week and asked the judge to give
him a home even In prison. It is said
that McNally made over half a mil
lion dollars by working on the cupid
ity of his fellows, no Is now a men
tal and physical wreck.
Chairman Knapp of the interstate
commerce commission says: "A.t
the request of Mr. Evarts, Harriman's
attorney, April 4 has been set apart
to hear arguments on whether the
Union Pacific railroads are parallel
lines. If this question is decided In
the afllrmatlve the government will
bring suit for the dissolution of the
narrlman merger." 'When Mr. Harri
man's counsel asked for the hearing
on April '1 It was understood by the
commission that if Mr. HarriiSan'ti
counsel or the senate desired to sub
mit additional testimony on that date
tliy might do so. Chairman Knapp
said that if Mr. narrlman desired to
take the stand he would be permitted
to do so."
been more than 800,000, and still oth
ers contend that there were never
more than 500,000. At the present
time there are about 284,000 members
of the rod race In the United States. .
There are Indians in eighteen states
and 'three territories, exclusive of the
Indian Territory. Nearly all the tribes
aro west of the Mississippi, in fact'
most of them are beyond the Missouri.
There are 150 reservations in all. In
the northwestern part of New. York
there are about 5,000 descendants of
the great warrior tribes living on eight
reservations.
Today there are 159,000 Indians who
wear citizens' dress in whole or in
part, and 70,000 who can read and
speak English. There are 28,000 In-
dian families now living in comfort
able modern dwellings. The Indians
make quite a strong religious showing.
They have 390 church buildings and a
total membership of about 40,000.
Union ship builders in the Clevelaud,
Ohio, yards are on strike for higher
pay. The strike threatens to -spread
through every ship building yard on
the Great Lakes.
On March 11 Governor Gillett of
California sent to the assembly a mes
sage from President Roosevelt com
plaining that the recent action of the
legislature would nave a most unfor
tunate effect on the president's effort
to secure exclusion of Japanese labor
ers by friendly agreement. The presi
dent asked the governor to secure
suspension of further action until re
ceipt of a letter from the president.
The governor asked that the assembly
give the matter very careful consideration.
John R. Walsh, proprietor of the
Chicago Chronicle, and former presi
dent; of the Chicago National bank,
was hold to trial in the federal court
of Chlcugo on 1(50 counts In the Indict
ment against him.
The Indiana legislature adjourned
An Associated Press dispatch undor
date of Nashville, Tenn., March 15,
follows: "The lower house of the leg
islature today adopted a resolution
ordering the arrest of the mayor and
city council of Nashville and request
ing that the members bo brought bo
fore the bar of the house next Mon
day. The council Is charged with con
tempt, having recently adopted a res
olution bitterly criticising Speaker
Cunningham for a speech In which he
Is alleged to have said the councllmen
were controlled by a telephone company.
James T. Gavlov. first vlco-nroslrtontr
of the United States Steel Corporation, Lt midnight, March 11.
dors a larger amount of armor plate
from his concern it will shut down tts
mills now devoted to that production.
The corporation, ho said, must have
a market for more than 15,000 tons of
armor plate to make it worth while to
run the plant.
PEPPER FOR RATS
Jeptha Coleman, of Atchison, gets
rid of mice and rats by wrapping cay
enne pepper in a cloth and stuffing it
iuto the holes where the animals pass
in and out. They gnaw at the rags
and the first thing they know they
have a dose of the pepper that makes
them wish they had not been so In
dustrious. Mr. Coleman does not
know whether they sneeze themselves
to pieces or simply hike to the neigh
bors. Anyhow, they disappear. Kan
sas City Journal.
The Handy Doctorin Your
Vest Pocket
Wall street was greatly disturbed
for several days, panicky conditions
generally prevailing. There was a
heavy decline In stocks.
A Washington dispatch says:
Complying with the provisions
of the Immigration act approved
February 20, last, President Roose
velt today Issued an executive
order that such citizens of Japan or
Korea, to-wit, Japanese or Korean la
borers, skilled and unskilled, who have
received passports to go to Mexico,
Canada or Hawaii, and come there
from, be refused permission to enter
the continental territory of the United
States. This order was issued by che
president in fulfillment of his prom
ise made when the negotiations re
garding the Japanese school question
were had In Washington."
The San Francisco board of educa
tion has repealed the segregation res
olution In accordance with the agree
ment made between the president and
Mayor Schmitz.
M. Casimer Perier, ex-president of
i' ranco, died in Paris last week. The
funeral was not a state affair owing
Attorney General Jackson of New
York has filed charges implicating pol
iticians of high rank and prominent
lumber men of Unit state in Adiron
dack lumber thefts. Jackson attacks
the forest, fish and game department
anil intimates that the Insurance de
partment is In collusion with the in
surance combine.
The city of Knoxville, Tenn., on
March 11, voted by an overwhelming
majority to abolish its charter and re
incorporate without saloons. The fight
has been made squarely on the "wet"
and "dry" proposition. The temper
ance forces won by a majority of 2,-000.
Information has reached the post
otllce department that railway mail
clerks In the middle west who have
been forced to work with negroes are
preparing complaints to Washington.
The clerks, particularly those on long
runs, maintain that often white and
colored men are compelled to work In
the same car and, as a result, to sleen
and eat together. Several weeks ago
a negro entered the postal service In
Nebraska and was put to work. Ob
jections were raised by the white
clerks, and as a result the colored man
was sent to Wyoming. Ho was as
signed to a branch line, and his labor
does not take him iuto the company
of white clerks. On some of the
longer runs in the west two or three
days are required to make the, trip.
Colored men have recently been as
signed to several of the longer runs
in company with whites. The western
clerks will ask that the colored men
l)e assigned to runs which will not
bring them in proximity to whites.
The strike of electrical workers in
Paris last week loft the city In dark
ness several nights. The strikers re
sumed work the first of the week
pending arbitration.
James McNally, once known as tho
king of tho green goods men" walked
Into the Center's street police court
Tho French battleship Iena blew up
on the dock at Toulon, owing to the
explosion of n compressed air torpedo.
Over two hundred lives were lost. The
destruction of property was very
great.
Japan has made no protest to the
state department against the action
of the California legislature, the up
per body of which passed a bill for
separate Oriental schools and another
to prevent land owners from making
long leases to Japanese before Presi
dent Roosevelt interfered through his
protest to Governor Gillett. The as
surance from California officials that
these measures unfavorable to Japan
will not become laws has not relieved
tho anxiety of the administration en
tirely as it Is feared tho effect of the
California senate's action on pendln.-j
n?gotiations between Japan and the
United States will be decidedly unfavorable.
Mrs. Russell Sage has announced
that she has set aside ten million dol
lars for the endowment of what is to
be known as the "Sage Foundation"
to carry on philanthropic work
throughout tho United States. The ob
ject will be to improve-social and liv
ing conditions in the country.
THE INDIAN POPULATION
It has never been definitely deter
mined just what was the greatest
number of Indians in America when
they were unmolested and at the
height of their power in this country.
inuine numonues claim that the mini
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TS a thin, round-cornerad ltttla
Enamel Box-
When carried in your vest pocket
it means Health-Insurance. '.
It contains Six Candy Tablets of,pleasant
taste, almost as pleasant as Chocolate. - --
Each tablet is a working dose of'Cas
carets, which acts like Exercise on tho
Bowels, and Liver.
It will not purge, sicken, nor upset tho
stomach.
Because it is not a "Bile-driver," llko
Salts, Sodium, Calomel, Jalap, Senna, nor
Aperient Waters.
Neither is it like Castor Oil, Glycerine,
or other Oily Laxatives that simply lubricate
the Intestines for transit of the food stopped
up in them at that particular time.
The chief cause of Constipation and
Indigestion is a weakness of the Muscles
that contract the Intestines and Bowels.
Cascarets are practically to the Bowel
Muscles what a Massage and Cold Bath
are to the Athletic Muscles.
They stimulate the Bowel Muscles to
contract, expand, and squeeze the. Diges-
tive Juices out of food eaten.
They don't help the Bowels and Liver In
such a way as to make them lean upon
similar assistance for the future.
This is why, with Cascarets, the doso
may be lessened each succeeding time
instead of increased, as it must be with all
ther Cathartics and Laxatives.
Cascarets act like exercise.
If carried In your vest pocket, (or carried
In My Lady's Purse,) and eaten just when
you suspect you need one, you will never
know a sick day from the ordinary Ills of life.
Because these Ills begin in the Bowels,
and pave the way for all other diseases.
"Vest Pocket" box 10 cents. 737
Be sure you get the genuine, made only
by the Sterling Remedy Company, and never-
be could not have exceeded 1,000 000 y Ine sterling Remedy Company, and never
others assert that it could not have 5Sl bulk. Every tablet stamped "CCC'l
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