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W0RTHIN6T0N ADVANCE.
PUBLISHED BVBRY FRIDAY.
THOS. DOVERPUBLISHER.
The strike on the iron range has
apparently petered out, owing to
the determined stand taken by.the
authorities in enforcing order. The
governor's proclamation had a
quieting effect on the situation.
Judge Lochren's interpretation of
law is being aptly compared with
the "unwritten law." Few office
holders die and none ever resign
otherwise there might be hope of
release from Lochren's administra­
tion.
The St. Paul'l Dispatch's political
prognostication in reviewing the
situation in the Republican camp,
says Attorney General E. T. Young,
Bob Dunn, U. A. Smith, a million­
aire lumber man of Minneapolis,
are among the aspiring can­
didates for governor, with the
woods full of available timber:
The Standard Oil oetupus has
been fined $29,240,000 by Judge
Landis, at Chicago. It is to be hoped
the fine will be collected, and if it
is, it will be the first substantial
•set-back the oil trust has received,
and should be a severe lesson to all
corporations who think themselves
greater than the government. The
action of Judge Landis has re­
ceived unanimous popular approval.
Rev. A. S. Phelps, pastor of the
Methodist church, Plainfield, Wis­
consin, evidently believes in news­
paper ink, as would appear from
the following ad. in a local paper:
"Eternal Life Assurance Society,
Home Office, Heavenly City, New
Jerusalem. President, the Lord
Je3us. Capital, God's Everlasting
Love. The [firm assures yon peace
andjoy here and in the next world,
a life of everlasting blessednss. No
certicfiate of health necessary. A.
S. Phelps, Representative.
Discussing'the mailorder evil last
July before the Missouri Retail
Merchants' association, Gov. Folk
said: "Every man should be proud
of his state and his town. I do not
believe in ^the mailorder citizen.
It is better that we should have a
thousand towns than one large city.
If a place is good enough for a man
to make bis money in, it certainly
should be good enough for him to
spend it in. The merhantB have a
just right to all the business of the
town in which they have their
stores, and every good citizen will
help the to get it. No town is better
or worse than its citizens make it.
Show me the stores and newspapers
of a place and I will tell you the
sort of citizens it harbors."
Johnson and LaEollette.
If Gov. Johnson and Senator La
Follette should be opposing candi­
dates for the presidency Uere would
hardly be enough of an issue to fight
over.—Fairmont Sentinel.
Coming as the above does from Col.
Day's paper, maket it all the more
absurd.
So far at least as our governor has
taken the people into his confidence,
he has along way to travel to reach
the ground occupied by LaFollette.
There is as much difference between
LaFollette and Johnson, as between
Roosevelt and McKinley. Nor is the
likeness between McKinley and
Johnson inapt in some other regards
as well as in aggressive reform—but
to compare him to LaFollette—well
the comparison is most striking but
the likeness is emphatically absent.
Goyernor Johnson is in favor of clean
upright methods of conducting all
enterprise, and of regulating corpora­
tions but as for loading up with the
deadliest amunition known to politi­
cal warfare, the plain unvarnished
truth, and going out far in advance
of the firing lii^e and doing the exe­
cution of a regiment as LaFollette
does—well, he doesn't, that's all. It
is men of the LaFollette brand that
the people are looking for in the pres­
ent emergency, but if our Governor is
of that type he has not given evidence
of it in his record of "things done."—
Cannon Falls Beacon.
Daily Paper Free.
We will give a year's subscription
to a good daily paper, the Sioux
City Daily News, to any one who
«ends ns two new subscribers to the
Advance or pays up arrears and one
year in advance, and sends one new
•nbsariber. The other subscriber
can have the advantage of any of
ma
olobtfing
OIL TRIISTJIT HARD
Judge Landis Imposes Jines Ag­
gregating $29,240,IN.
MAXIMUM ON ALL COUNTS
Octopus Had Been Convicted of Ac­
cepting Rebates on Numerous
Shipments of Oil.
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the United States district court has
imposed a fine upon the Standard Oil
company of Indian^ of $29,240,000, the
maximum amount upon each one of
the 1,462 counts of the indictment on
which the company was recently con­
victed of rebating. The judge also
recommended that a call be issued
for a special grand juVy which is to
consider the other party to the rebat-
JUDGE K. M. LANDIS.
lng operations of which the Standard
Oil company was found guilty and it
is therefore probable that within a
Bhort time proceedings will be com­
menced against the Chicago and Al­
ton Railroad company for the alleged
commission of similar offenses.-
Court Reviews the Charges.
Judge Landis, in his decision, said
it was proven in the trial that the de­
fendant, a corporation of Indiana, op­
erates oil refinery at Whiting,
Ind. that the Chicago and Alton Rail­
way company, a corporation of Illi­
nois, operates a line of railroad from
Chicago to East St. Louis, 111. Prior
to the occurrences on which the prose­
cution was based the Chicago and Al­
ton company had filed with the inter­
state commerce commission showing
•the rates for the transportation of oil
in car lots from Whiting to East St.
Louis' to be 18 cents per 100 pounds.
The court says it appears at the hear­
ing that the defendant shipped Its
goods from Whiting to East St, Louis
for 6 cents and 7% cents to 8t. Louis.
The defense'argued that the Elklns
law authorised the prosecution for
hut one offense and maintained that
there could be a conviction on only
one count. The court held that the
law is violated every, time any prop­
erty Is. so transported, as the legal
rate was established by the railroad
company eh a'car lot basis. The an-:
lawful 6-cent rate was granted and
aceepted on that basis. As to the de­
fendant's claim that the representa­
tions by the Alton road had misled it
Into the sincere belief that the Alton
6-cent rate had been filed .with the
interstate commerce commission the
court held that as the law required the
carrier to keep the schedule at its
freight office for public Inspection it
was the defendants duty to ascertain
at the relli'oad's office whether the
rate was so fixed and it being for the
jury to determine whether testimony
exhibited the truth of the transaction.
The jury having found a verdict of
guilty it became the duty of the court
to fix the punishment.
APPEAL WILL BE TAKEN.
Standard Oil Company to Carry Case
to Highest Court.
New York, Aug. 3.—News of the
unprecedented fine Imposed upon the
Standard Oil company by Judge Lan­
dis in the United States court at Chi­
cago was received in New York with
excited interest. The general expec­
tation for some days has been that
the decisioh would be unfavorable to
the Standard Oil company, but ap­
parently no one looked for the impo­
sition of the maximum penalty on the
1,4C2 counts in the indictment, reach­
ing the enormous total of $29,240,000.
An official of the Standard Oil com­
pany said the amount of the fines
evidenced the injustice against the
company.
"The amount of Judge Landis'
fines," said the official authoritatively
for the company "is fifty times the
value of the oil carried under the in­
dictment. The total value of oil was
$650,000.
"For each car of oil valued at about
$450 we have been fined $20,000. An
appeal will be taken to the United
States circuit court of appeals, but
whether it will be entered at once or
whether the full time allowed by law
will be taken will be determined by
our counsel In Chicago."
The Standard Oil attorneys had
nothing to say farther than that an
appeal will be entered and oontlnued
to the last resort
Chicago. Aug. 3.—Judge Landis, in startling statement that during the
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MALE SEX IS DOOMED.
Death Rat* Thirty Per Cent Grafter
Than Women.
Chicago, Aug. 5.—The strenuous life
Is killing the men of Chicago at a tre­
mendous rate, while the women of the
city are increasing their longevity by
the simple life.
In the official health bulletin' Just
Issued Health Commissioner Evans
declares that a few centuries will see
Chicago an Adamless Eden. Dr. Ev­
ans draws his conclusions from the
death rate in Chicago for twenty
years and particularly in the last
seven months, when three members of
the stronger sex died for every two
of the fairer. Dr. Evans makes the
.. first seven months of 1907 in Chicago
abfmt 12000 men succumbed
corn-
pared to 8,000 women.
He says that in the last year the
ratio of difference in the death rate
between men and women has been-30,
as against less than 10 per cent twenty
years ago.
VICTIM OF AN ASSASSIN.
General Karakozoff, ex-Governor of
Odessa, Shot and Killed.
Piatigorsk, Caucasus, Aug. 5.—Gen­
eral Karakozoff, ex-governor general
of Odessa, was shot and killed in the
center of the town. The assassin es­
caped.
General Karakozoff was commander
of the Lubna dragoons when, July 3,
1P05, he was apppinted governor gen­
eral of Odessa.' Early in August of
the same year he banished M. Yaros
chanko, mayor of Odessa, for having
represented Odessa at the Moscow
zemstvo congress and later he took
severe measures to repress disturb­
ances, instructing the vpolice to fire
directly into the mobs.
TURKS RAID PERSIAN TOWN
Seventy-eight People Killed, In­
cluding Many Christians.
Teheran, Persia, Aug. 5.—The in-,
oursions of Turkish troops across the
northwest frontier of Persia, which
for some time had been -in abeyance,
have again broken out. A serious raid
has occurred near Urumiah, 6,000
Turkish troops, with artillery, having
crossed the frontier and destroyed the
village of Mavaneh. Seventy-eight
persons, of whom sixty were women
and children, mostly Christians, were
killed. Subsequently the Turks jdrove
a small force of Persian troops ffom a
nearby camp and instituted them­
selves in it. According to an unoffi­
cial report a large body of Persian
cavalry subsequently joined the Turk­
ish invaders' and the combined force
is said to be threatening the town of
Urumiah, twelve miles west of Lfik®
Urumiah and sixty-four miles from
Tabriz. Urumiah, which has a pop­
ulation estimated between 30,000 and
50,000 persons, including many Chris­
tians, is noted as a center of mission­
ary activity and is the seat of the
Fluke seminary for girls, and of ftrur
mlah college. It is considered pfoh
able that Russia and Great Britain
will be appealed to and bring pressure
to hear upon'Turkey with the view of
stopping the raids.
THAW'S CHIEF C0UN8i|
Martin W. Uttleton Will tueeecA
tornsy Deimae.
New York, Aug. L—Martin W. iHt
tleton, former president of the
ough of Brooklyn and a lawyer ahd
orator of wide reputation, will be ohlef
counsel for Harry K. Thaw when thi
wealthy young Pittsburger again' Wees
a jury to answer the Charge of killing
Stanford White. Thaw announced
the selection of Mr. Littleton after a
conference with his mother and his
wife. ______ .,\
MARKET QUOTATIONS!
Minneapolis Wheat.
Minneapolis, Aug. 6.—Wheat—Sept.,
96%o Dec,, 97%c. On track—No. 1
hard, $1.01 No. 1 Northern, $1.00
No. 2 Northern, 96g)97c No. 3 North­
ern, 94@96c. 0
St. Paul Union Stock Yardt.^.
St. Paul, Aug. 6.—Cattle—Good to
choice steers, $5.50@6.25 fair to good,
$4.00@5
.00 good to choice cows, and
heifers, $3.50@5.00 veals, $4.50#5.25.
Hogs—$ 5.60 @6.10. Sheep—W ethers,
$6.00@5.50 spring lartibs, $6.50®7.00.
Duiuth Wheat and Flax.
Duluth, Aug. 6.—Wheat—To arrive
and on track—No. 1 hard, 99%c No.
1 Northern, 98%c No. 2 Northern
96%c Sept., 98%c Dec., 98c. iflax—
To arrive, on track and Sept., $1.15%
Oct., $1.14 Nov., $1.13% Dec., $1.*
11*.
Chicago Grain and Provisions.
Chicago, Aug. 6—Wheat—Sept.,
90y3@90%c Dec., 94%@94%c. Corn
—Sept., 55%c Dec., 57%c. Oats
Sept., 43c: Dec., 42c. Pork—Sept.,
$16.42%. Butter—Creameries, #2M0,
24c dairies, 18%@22c. Eggsr^-14@
16c. Poultry—Turkeys and chickens,
12c springs, 15c,
Chicago Union Stock Yards.
Chicago, Aug. 6.—Cattle—Beeves,
$4.50@7.60 cows, $1.40®5.20 heifers,
$2.40$?)5.50 calves, $5.50@7.25 good
to
prime steers,. $5.80® 7.60 poor to.
medium, $4.50(3)5.50 stocker% and,
feeders, $2.70®5.00. Hogs—Ugh^.K
©6.40: mixed, $5.85® 6.35 heavy,
$5.40®6.20 rough, $5.40®7.75 pigs,
S5.6O06.2O. Sheep. $S.75®5.90 latnhe
S&.KQ97.86.
BOOK PLATES.
Thsy Came Within Fifty Years After
the Invention of Printing.
It was within half a century from
the Invention of printing that book
plates were introduced as identifying
marks to indicate the ownership of the
volume.
Germany, the fatherland of printing
from movable type and of wood cut­
ting for making impressions in ink on
paper, Is likewise the home land of
the/book plate.
The earliest dated woodcut of ac­
cepted authenticity Is the well known
"St. Christopher of 1423," which was
discovered in the Carthusian momuh
tery of Buxbeim, in Suabia.
It was to insure the right of owner­
ship in a book that the owner had it
marked with the coat of arms of the
family or some other heraldic device.
Libraries were kept intact and passed
from generation to generation, bearing
the emblem of the family.
The first book plate in France is dat­
ed 1574: in Sweden, 1575 Switzerland,
IG07, and Italy, 1623. The earliest Eng­
lish book plate is found in a folio vol­
ume once the property of Cardinal Wol
sey and afterward belonging to his
royal master.
The earliest mention of the book
plate in English literature is by Pepys,
July 16, 1688. The first "known book
plate ifl' America belonged to Goyernor
Dudley. Paul Revere, the patriot, was
one of the first American engravers of
book plates and a designer of great
ability.—Journal of American History.
THE FLYING FOX.
Curious Inhabitant of the Forests In
Eastern Australia.
The. flying fox is a very curious in­
habitant of the forest near Moreton
bay, in east .Australia. It lives in
flocks and moves generally toward the
dusk of the evening, and the noise pro­
duced by the heavy flapping of the so
called wings is very singular. The
flocks like quiet places, where there
are large araucarian pine trees, with
an underwood of scrub and creepers
The foxes hang in vast numbers from
horizontal branches of the pine trees.
When there is a clear space among
the trees an enormous number of the
animals may be seen, and their noise
can be heard, for directly they see any­
thing unusual they utter a short bark,
something like the sound made by
young rooks. Often every branch is
crowded, and the young foxes are seen
either flapping their wings and holding
on with their hinrl feet and with their
heads downward or snarling and fight­
ing for places.
Suddenly the whole take to flight and
flap their furry, winglike sides and
wheel around like heavy birds. .Many
fly with their young holding on to
them.
The creature is not a true fox, and
there Is a fold of skin which reaches
from the fore to the hind legs. This is
called the wing, and it enables the
pteropus, as the animal is called, to
float and turn in the air.
Obsolete Cures.
It was formerly believed that epi­
lepsy could be cured by wearing a
silver ring made from a coffin nail.
Seven drops of blood from the tall of
a cat and blood from a recently execut­
ed criminal were said" to he valuable
remedies for epilepsy. To cure a
felon or run around hold the finger In
a cat's ear for half an hour. For tooth­
ache trim your finger nails on Friday
or eat bread that a mouse has nibbled
or carry in your pocket a tooth from
a soldier killed in battle. For ranula
of the tongue spit oh a frog. For al­
coholism drown sin eel In brandy and
make the drunkard drink the brandy.
To cure warts rah the wart with a po­
tato and feed the potato to a pig.
Glued Clothes.
"In Korea," said a tailor, "needle
and thread are unknown to tailoring.
Their place is taken by glue."
"Glue?"
"Glue—a peculiarly fine glue made
of fish. Making Korean clothes, the
tailor does not bring two edges of
cloth together and then slowly and
painfully unite them with fine stitches
of the needle. No he overlaps the
edges slightly, brushes on a little glue,
presses the seam together and sets the
garment away to dry.
"I wore glued clothes in Korea and
fonnd that they lasted almost as well
as sewed ones."—Xew Orleans Times
Democrat.
Reading A^jud.
Surely the sum of human happiness
might be indefinitely increased if the
people learned to take a real delight in
the simple, quiet and inexpensive pleas­
ure of reading. Reading aloud in the
family circle Is an excellent way of
bringing the members together. They
have thoughts in common and subjects
of conversation. How much better
and how much happier is this way of
spending an evening than the inane,
driveling games x^hich so frequently
take its place I—Reader Magazine.
Where'He Played.
"My husband," said the conceited
lady, "is a Shakespearean actor."
"Indeed! Does he play in 'Hamlet?'"
asked her friend.
"No," said the actor's wife "he only
plays in the larger cities." London
Tatler.
Pride and Pripd.
"Bliffers gets his new car out several
times a day. Matter of pride, I sup­
pose."
"Yep. Pried It put of a mndhole
three times last
Plain Dealer.
Monday."—Cleveland
An old man hath the almanac In hto
body.—Italian Frererfc. W-
Highest Rents on Earth.
A single roofn in Cornhill. London,
recently rented for about $13,000 a
year Cornhill has the highest rents
on earth.
MAY DAY
S. T.
Agent
G. W. PATTERSON
President A
1% inch Harness
$24.50
to
Rickets.
Simply the visible sign that baby's tiny bones
are not forming rapidly enough.
Lack of nourishment is the cause.
Scoffs Emulsion
S35.ee
Sweat Pads,
Lap Dusters
35c
to
$2.50
Leather Neto
$2.25
to
$4.23
1} Breaci Scraps
50c 65c 70c
Mash Fly Nets
65c
to
$3.00
Single Harness
$8.95
to
nourishes baby's
entire system. Stimulates and makes bone.
Exactly what baby needs.
ALL DRUGGISTS 80c. AND SIM
Harness Store
$35.00
$10.95for HDf^rap'$10.95
Other Shops would not hesitate to ask $15.00 for the same harness
Australian Gold.
Since gold was first found in Aus­
tralia the amount which has been pro*
duced is said to exceed la value
$8,189,000,000.
ALL SAINTS SCHOOL
SIOUX FALLS, SO. DAKOTA
Boarding school for girls happy refined home college
preparation music art health a specialty gymnastics
out-of-door sports. Write for Catalogue.
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5 Albinson-Boberg Lumber Company
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BUILDING MATERIAL
AND FUEL
A Good Assortment of Pine Coast Lumber and f?
"Oak always on band
3 'Phone Orders Given Prompt Attention S
We have all kinds of Build
Material for sale.
Prices right.
C. L. COLMAN LUMBER CO
CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK.
Capital, $25,000.00 Surplus, $10,000.00
Eqohange Bought and Bold. 'Real Estate Loans. General 'Banking
Business Done.
ADVANCE
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Minnesota
S. M. STEWART
Cashier
l^iochBarneA
$27.00
to
25c 35c 50c 60c 65c 75c
$50.00
Halters
25c
to
$1.25
Horse Covers
50c
to
$4.25
lj Pole Straps
50c 65c 70c
Cord Nets
A $1.00
to
$2.50
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Double Buggy Harness
sia50toS45.ee
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