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Herbert Johnson and John Greenwood,
living at McPaul, while hunting
on a bar in the Mississippi River,
shot a horned rabbit.
The rabbit had the appearance of
an ordinary cottontail, but in the
middle of its head it had a horn five
inches in length. The horn was
? about as big around at its base as a
dime and tapered down to a sharp
point. In color and substance the
horn resembled the horn of a sheep.
?Sidney Correspondence St. Paul
Pioneer Press.
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The Local Paper.
The local village paper is a necessity.
Nothing ran take its place. It
advocates and stands as the exponent
of improved conditions as no other
paper can that receives only the incidental
happenings sent in by a
local correspondent. The city has
its own local affairs to attend to
1 and it seeks to give only enough
vicinity neVs to catch subscribers in
adjacent towns. The local paper,
your paper, stands as an advocate
I or your interests, uetause wucil in
your interest is the interest of the
paper. The business men, keenminded,
wide awake, understands
this, for in their advertising they use
the local paper, that which reaches
their constituency, and is kept and
read by them. What becomes of the
average daily paper? It is read or
carelessly looked through, and then
thrown away. What becomes of the
weekly paper, the home paper? It
is read and re-read, and then taken
home to the family, where it is perused
by its every member, and discussed
and, yes, criticised. Few
daily papers are given that distinction.
Get a daily paper for the telegraph
news, but get the best. In
these days of rapid communication
lortro /nHoc iccno tho hocf nflnATQ
because they can afford to do so,
and the better papers are as easily
obtainable as the smaller papers of
the small cities. Make the local paper
your paper. Send in all littie
matters of news you know, and remember
that it is your local paper
that seeks to be a member of the
large family in your community.
The average age of persons arfested
in New York City during 1906
was twenty-three years.
A FRIENDLY GROCER
Dropped a Valuable Hint about Coffee.
"For about eight years," writes a
Mich, woman, "I suffered from nervousness?part
of the time down in
bed with nervous prostration.
"Sometimes I would set numb and
it would be almost impossible for me
to speak for a spell. At others, I
would have severe bilious attacks,
and my heart would flutter painfully
when I would walk fast or sweep.
"I have taken enough medicine to
start a small drug store, without any
^ benefit. One evening our grocer was
asking Husband how I was and he
urged that I quit coffee and use Postum,
so he brought home a pkg. and
I made it according to directions and
we were both delighted with it.
"So we quit coffee altogether and
used only Postum. I began to get
better in a month's time and look like
another person, the color came back
to my cheeks, I began to sleep well,
oy appetite was good and I commenced
to take on flesh and become
interested in everything about the
house.
"Finally I was able to do all my
own work without the least sign of
my old trouble. I am so thankful for
the little book, 'The Road to Wellville.'
It has done me so much good.
I haven't taken medicine of any kind
for six months and don't need any.
"A friend of ours who did not like
Postum as she made it, liked mine,
and wnen sne learueu lu uun it mug
enough, l.er's was as good as mine.
It's easy if you follow directions."
N^je given by Postum Company,
Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little
book, "The Road to Wellville," in
pkgs. "There's a reason."
TJie Creditors Scored.
Judge?"You admit having taken
the prosecutor's pocketbook containing
the bank notes and unpaid bills?"
Prisoner?"Yes, but I took part of
the money and paid the bills."?
Stray Stories.
Still Behind the Times.
New York City transportation facilities
are as inadequate as they were
before the subways were built, although
these underground highways
carried 45,000,000 passengers in
1906.
MISS EMMA RUNTZLER
untry has received such unqualified
cures of female ills as has 3
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oy Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
annot express my gratitude for the
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g Invitation to Women
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Improvement of the Harbor of Havan
A Cuban newspaper states that the
announcement that an American syndicate
about to be formed would put
an end to the lighterage annoyances
in Havana by the construction of a
great pier for the landing of their
ships, has been hailed with the greatest
delight by all who are interested
in simplifying transportation facilities
in and out of -the harbor, and
that importers and exporters are
unanimous in the opinion that such
an improvement would do more for
the prosperity of Havana and the
whole island than any other improvement.
The journal adds that in
many cases it costs more to send and
receive freight to and from the ships
in Havana Bay than it does for the
sea freightage to and from New York.
?United States Consular Reports.
CURED OF GRAVEL.
Not a Single Stone Has Formed Since j
Using Doan's Kidney Pills.
J. D. Daughtrey, music publisher, |
of Suffolk, Va., says: "During two or i
three years that I had |
kidney trouble I 1
/ . $$[ Passed about 2%
pounds of gravel and I
sandy sediment In the
v passed a stone since
using Doan's Kidney
Pills, howevei;, and
l^^^l^^^that was three years
^^a^^^^^ago. I used to suffer
the most acute agony
during a gravel attack, and had the
other usual symptoms of kidney troubles
? lassitude, headache, pain ia
the back, urinary disorders, rheumatic
pain, etc. I have a box con
taming 14 gravel stones tnat i
passed, but that is not one-quarter of
the whole number. I consider Doan's
Kidney Pills a fine kidney tonic."
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Explicit.
"Expert legal testimony," says a
well known member of the New York
Bar, "can easily be made a twoedged
weapon in court.
"A clever and capable mining engineer
was obliged to take the stand
23 an expert in a suit in Nevada a
couple of years ago. The case involved
large issues.
' The examination was conducted
hv a vnime and smart attorney, wfao
patronized the expert with all the authority
of half a dozen years of practice.
"One of his questions related to
the form in which the ore was found,
a form generally known as 'kidney
lumps.'
" 'Now, sir,' said the attorney,
'how large are these lumps? You
say that they are oblong in shape.
Are they as long as my head?'
" 'Yes,' replied the expert, 'but not
nearly so thick.' "?Harper's Weekly.
A Fighting State.
Whenever you scratch Kansas history
you find a fight. No territory of
equal size has had so much war over
er> rrnanv* rlifForpnt railSPS. Her StOTV
in Indian fighting, gambler fighting,
outlaw fighting, town-site fighting
and political fighting is not approached
by any other portion of thte
West.?Outing Magazine.
Trade in the Transvaal.
A movement is said to be on foot
in Natal, South Africa, in favor of
complete union with the Transvaal,
by which Natal would secure the
Transvaal's trade and the Transvaal
its own harbor.
Wanted: Expert Stenographer.
There are 110 fewer than 208 different
characters in the Abyssinian
alphabet.?Indianapolis News.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S
VIEWS CM THE HEMPS
Says He Will Not Deviate From
Course He is Pursuing.
HAS NO PLAN FOR VALUATION
Statement From White House?Old
Stock is Safe?Future Overcapitalization
is Opposed, But Present
Water Not Squeezed Out.
Washington, D. C.?President
Roosevelt has at last made his long
expected statement in response to appeals
to speak "a reassuring word,"
: _ IVa : J. _:ii ~
m we uupc tucii- it win. put au eau
to the prevailing uncertainty in financial
and railway affairs which many
people declare to'be due to radical
legislation ena&ed and proposed by
the national Government and individual
States. In a measure the
statement is to the effect that the
President sees no necessity at this
time to make any public declaration
as to his future course for the reason
that he adheres to all that he has
said in the past and is "more firmly
:han ever convinced that these beliefs
are wise and that the policy I recommended
in my messages at the opening
of each of the last regular sessions
of Congress must be carried
DUt."
The statement, if it may properly
!>e called that, was in the form of a
letter which the President wrote and
mailed to the president of the Illinois
Manufacturers' Association, who
headed a delegation of that association
which called on Mr. Roosevelt
ind requested him to make a speech
.'n Springfield, 111., that would explain
his future attitude toward railroads
and other corporate interests.
The letter contained a declination of
the association's invitation to visit
Springfield, the reason given being
that the President could not make
any speech that would contain anything
new as to his policies. With
the letter the President sent copies
DC His speecne3 ana ms messages 10
Congress, the passages in these expressing
his well known views in regard
to Government supervision of
railways and interstate corporations
being marked. The passages so designated
are intended to convey that
the President adheres to what is contained
in them as strongly as he did
when these statements were written
or spoken.
The President has received a great
number of requests for a statement
by him or a speech to be made by
him in connection with the railway
situation. He has given these requests
the utmost weight and most
careful consideration. After fully
looking into the matter the President
informed his advisers that he had
come to the conclusion that there
was nothing which he had to say at
this moment on the railway situation;
that he did not deem it either
wise or proper to say anything with a
view to any immediate situation in
Wall Street, and that as he should
Dnly give expression to the definite
and settled policy to be carried out
wholly without regard to the exigencies
of the moment, and as his views
on the policy in question were already
a matter of record, it did not
seem necessary'at this time to repeat
them.
To the different men, friendly and
unfriendly, who have visited him or
written to him, he has answered verbally
or in writing that his words
and acts spoke for themselves and
needed no explanation,whatever and
that he should not in his future
course deviate one hand's breath
from the course he has pursued in
the past and is now pursuing.
The statement was made from an
authoritative source that "even a
most cursory examination of what
the President has repeatedly said in
speech and in message will show the
utter nonsense of supposing the Government
has the slightest intention
to take any action which would invalidate
the safety and stability of
the railway securities now issued,
the whole legislative programme of
the President having been proclaimed
again and,again as one to
insure the future against the mistakes
and delinquencies of the past.
The President holds that every executive
action taken under his administration,whether
by the Department
of Justice or by the Interstate Commerce
Commission, has furnished its
own ample justification."
It was pointed out in administrative
circles that the President has
made no references in his speeches
or messages to the question of the
physical valuation or uailroads. His
position on this question, it was said,
is that the roads themselves will
work out this Droblem as an item of
bookkeeping and reference was made
to the fact that two roads, the Northern
Pacific and the Great Northern,
already have submitted figures as to
their physical valuation..
It can be stated on authority that
the President again will ask Congrass,
at its next session, for power
to deal with the question of overcapitalization
of railroads. A siny
ilar request was made at the last session,
but favorable action wa3 not
taken upon it.
In his letter to Mr. Smith, the
President inclosed copies of the
speech he made at Raleigh, N. CM
October 19, 1905, and the one he delivered
before a delegation of railway
employes in this city on November
14, 1905, together with his last
Trust Head Pleads Guilty.
A. Holbrook, recently indicted b?
the Federal Grand Jury at Chicago
as the chief ftromotor of an unlawful
combination in school and church
furniture in restraint of trade, entered
a plea of guilty before Judge
Landis in the United States Court.
First White Child in Chicago.
Alexander Beaubien, said to be the
first white child born in Chicago,
died after a long illness. Beaubien
was born in Fort" Dearborn on January
2S, 1822.
Prominent People.
John D. Rockefeller is the latesi
convert to Federal regulation of railroads.
Sir Edward Elgar, the most noted
of English musicians, is again in this
country.
President Eliot, of Harvard, celehia
cpvpntv-third birthday or
shipboard, bound to Bermuda for ?
holiday.
The Prince of Monaco is agaii
afloat on science bent. This time h(
I has sailed to Spitzbergen, to prose
cute his investigations as to the cur
I rejjts of the upper air.
messages to Congress at the foej
ning of the first and second ssssi
of the last Congress. The Presid
cnnnliirtos liis lpifor to ??Tr. Smith
follows:
"You will see la the two speec
and the two messages that I h
said about all that I would say i
spoke now. As I said to your hi
the other day, I have already
pressed again and again my carefi
thought out beliefs. I am more fn
ly than ever convinced that these
liefs are wise and that the polic
recommended in my messages at
opening of each of the last regu
sessions of Congress must be carr
out. Just at the moment I do not
that I have much to add to wha
have already said, and I think t
what has occurred since I wrote
two messages in question merely
lustrates in striking fashion the
sirabillty of the course I therein c
lined."
To summarize the statement ma!
clear the following four points:
First?That the President intei
to adhere rigidly to his original pli
f/NT* flin r% f tli/i mUTIQ C^PTY! P711
railroads, regardless of the adve
criticism which his course has p
voked in some quarters.
Second?That he is not hostile
railroads, but, on the other ha
wishes to do all in his power to sa
guard the stability of the securil
now in the hands of investors J
give a square deal to all.
Third?That he has no idea of
forcing a physical valuation of
railroads, believing that the corpo
tions themselves will compile 1
figures.
Fourth?That he has not abi
doned his purpose to deal with i
matter of over-capitalization of ri
roads, and will take up that subj
again with the next session of G
gress.
HUGHES MAKES HIS APPEAI
Defends the Public Utilities Bill ii
Speech at Utica.
Utica, N. Y.?While his enemies
Albany are planning his defeat, G
ernor Hughes took an active hand
the fight by making a notable spe<
at Utica. In it he appealed to 1
people of the State to save the Put
Utilities bill from the amendme
suggested by the public service c
porations.
The speech was made before 1
Utica Chamber of Commerce at 1
annual banquet of that organizati
The Governor replied to the critics
the Utilities bill with a warning tl
the will of the people cannot be p
manently disregarded. He demai
ed a free hand for the proposed St
Public Service Commission in re]
lating the corporations of this Stat
Declaring that Federal regulat:
is not State regulation, and that F
eral powers and State powers are
(n <-1) fCar-on t- anhorpa Vlfi i
CI tlOCU ILX 1XIUVIVUV
jected to a general court review
the administrative acta of the p
posed Public Service Commission,
the ground that it is not in acco
ance with the theory of our Gove
ment that an attempt should be mj
to convert the Appellate Court 1;
an administrative board.
GALUSHA A. GROW DEAD,
Ex-Speaker of National House?-Mf
Years in Office.
Scranton, Pa.?Galusha A. Gr<
who was in his eighty-fourth ye
died of the diseases incident to
age at his home in Glenwood, S
quehanna County, Pa. He had bi
ailing for three years. One of
three nieces, who live in Binghs
ton, N. Y., was with him at the U
Mrs. W. P. Kellogg, another nie
lives in Syracuse, N. Y.
A bachelor, the people of Susq
hanna County held Mr. Grow in
fection almost filial. A man of
highest honor, Mr. Grow after 1<
years of public service, left an est
or oniy ?ou,vuu.
Galueha Aaron Grow was born
Connecticut. His widowed mot
took her six children to Susquehai
County when he was eleven years (
The greatest public service of ]
Grow was as the "father" of
Homestead act, through which me
ure many million acres of West
farm lands were opened up to set
ment by homesteaders, an act wh
has been credited with doing m
than any other one thing for the
velopment of the great West.
MAINE'S ICE CROP.
Nearly 800,000 Tons Harvested E
ing the Past Winter.
Gardiner, Me.?Although defii
figures of the Maine ice crop for
past winter have not been compil
careful estimates place the amouni
the harvest at between 700,000 i
800,000 tons. Of this amount 4(
000 was harvested on the Kenne
River, nearly 100,000 on the Pen
* ~ V> All OqH
SCOt 3.11(1 LUC Uttiauuc uuuouu
shipped from smaller streams i
ponds.
Contrary to the expectations at
opening of the season, the harvesi
ice in Maine was not a record bre
er, as the steady cold weather i
mitted the cutting of a bigger crop
the Hudson River than had b
looked for, and it was Dound unnei
sary to work the Maine ice fields
the greatest capacity. The larj
crop ever taken in Maine was
IS90, when the total harvest by
vafce individuals and compai
amounted to 2,991,300 tons.'
General's Daughter Convicted.
General Leontieff's daughter,
tiana, was sentenced to four ye
solitary confinement in a Swiss pri
for killing Charles Miller, a Frei
man, whom she mistooK at mtssi
en for Russia's former Foreign J
ister Durnovo.
Killed Saving a Girl.
Charles L. Stanley, a commer
traveler, was killed at St. Jos<
Mo., by Wesley Christopher. Ct
topher is alleged to have assaultf
young woman in an alley. W
Stanley heard the girl's screams
ran to her rescue and was shot in
heart. Christopher was arrested.
Bishop Granberry Dead.
Bishop John C. Granberry, of
Methodist Episcopal Church So
died suddenly at his home in j
land, Vz.
Major Salmon Convicted.
Major Harvey W. Salmon, on
[ the owners of the private ban!
Salmon & Salmon, of Warsaw,
which failed at Clinton on June
. 1905, with liabilities of $1,000,
was convicted and sentenced to t
years in the penitentiary for ret
" ing deposits when the bank was ii
1 vent.
i
Wealthy William Dunlap Marri
1 William Dunlap, of New York (
J the wealthy hat manufacturer,
- Miss Lavender Jane Byera, a foi
- manicure operator, were marrie
. Milwaukee.
t
5 DUES TO E, H. iii
as
hes President Says He Never Asked
a-v? Him tn Raise Fimri
if I ? ??
Ddy
exllly
Gives Out Letters in Which He Clrir m
acterized Statement as a "Delifcorate
and Wilful Untruth."
y I
the
New York City.?Precipitated by
see the publication of a stolen letter
,t I written by E. H. Harriman to Sidney
hat Webster, in which Mr. Harriman said
'k? President Roo3eveIt had invited him
de. to Washington and had asked him to
>ut- raise a large sum of money In the
campaign of 1904, a controversy was
kes begun between the President and the
railroad owner which bids fair to beads
come historic ancl has astounded the
ln? nation.
0 The financial centres of the counrse
try were shaken by the publication.
T0* Men of the highest position and
greatest affairs dared not express an
?? opinion of the probable result of the
Harriman confessions.
7T* In this letter Mr. Harriman said
? that in the campaign of 1904, at the
request, of Mr. Roosevelt, he raised
a fund of $200,000, which was used
to turn 50,000 votes to the Republican
party in New York State. Of
r^" this he gave $50,000. He raised the
fund, he declared, on the assurance
that Mr. Roosevelt would appoint
Chauncey M. Depew as Ambassador
..e to Paris, but afterward Mr. Roose"
velt refused to carry out the agreement,
and so Mr. Depew was again
0 sent to the Senate.
Mr. Roosevelt, in reply, immediate
ly gave out a letter which he wrote
i. last fall to Representative James S.
Sherman, Chairman of the Republii
a can Congressional Committee. Mr.
Sherman had sought a contribution
from Mr. Harriman, and Mr. Harriat
man had said he would not give it
ov- citing as his reasons the statements
in given in the letter to Mr. Webster<
Jch Mr. Roosevelt, in his letter, said:
the "Any such statement la a deliberate
>lic and willful untruth?by rights it
Qt3 should be characterized by an eveD
or" shorter and more ugly word."
Correspondence that passed bethe
tween Mr. Harriman and Mr. Roosethe
velt in 1904 was included in the leton
ter to Mr. Sherman. In one letter
?* Mr. Roosevelt admitted a conference
^at with Mr. Harriman before the 1904
er* election and said: "If you remember,
when you were down here you and I
ate were so much interested in certain
^u" of the New Yo?-k political develope
ments that I hardly, if at all, touched
l?n on governmental matters." In one
ea" of Mr. Harriman's letters he said
e*" that it would show "the attitude of
0l)" the organization."
or It was shown that Mr. Sherman
r0" reported to Mr. Roosevelt that Mr.
?n Harriman had said he was willing to
ra" let the Hearst men win the New York
election of 1906, as. they were
'crooks" and he could buy them. Mr.
Qt0 Harriman was also quoted as saying
that he could buy State Legislatures,
could buy Congress, and could buy
the courts if necessary.
Mr. Harriman in a statement said
lQy that Mr. Roosevelt had suppressed a
part of one of his letters, which
would have shown that he went to
vi' Washington at the request of the
President to talk over the situation
In New York.
It was declared upon good authorjfia
'ty that the $200,000 fund which Mr.
m_ Harriman raised for the 1904 camiat"
paign was contributed by three indi"
viduals besides himself. The names
' as given are J. P. Morgan, H. McK.
ue_ Twombly, William K. Vanderbilt, Sr.,
and E. H. Harriman, $50,000 each.
tll0 Senator Dep^w said he had heard
>ne about the fund.
at| Alton B. Parker, who, as the
Democratic candidate for President
in in 1904, had charged that big contriver
butions had been made by financial
ina interests to elect Mr. Roosevelt, dejld.
manded an investigation of the whole
Mr. subject. He said it would show the
the reason for the campaign against
>as- States' rights.
em "I feel particularly fortunate that
tie- I have been attacked within the past
ich few days by both ex-Senator Burton,
ore of Kansas, and Mr. E. H. Harriman,"
de- said Mr. Roosevelt when he directed
that copies of his letters to Mr. Sherman
be given to the press, and he
^ i 1 /\ oe V> a
smiiea a leetn suumug
said it. Mr. Burton has just been re!ur.
leased from a term in prison.
lt MAHONINGTOWN BANK FAILS.
the ???
le(j Inconvertible Securities Explain Its
t of Inability to Withstand a Run.
Newcastle, Pa.?The Mahoningj??~
town Bank, Limited, failed to open
1)?c its doors after trying in vain to seot>"
cure funds to relieve the demands of
?!| depositors which have extended over
ancl the past two months. The immediate
cause of the failure was inconvertible
ta? paper and securities.
c ?? About ?5000 was withdrawn by deaK"
positora, and the directors of the
)er" bank applied to the other Newcastle
1 on banks for aid.
r na nn-rifl nf th/3 (iirPCtOTS
" 1 lid dill u^ix 0.0 ouui ^ Vi. , ?
t' refuse to pledge their private fort
tunes as security for money advanced.
' . the Newcastle banks felt unable tc
, assi3t them. The deposits amount
aios t0 5^3,000, the assets less than
$100,000. There is no charge of defalcation
or crookedness.
Montana Prohibits All Gambling
Ts..
The Griffin gambling law, which
: prohibits all games of chance, went
jCb_ into effect in Montana, and for the
lak- flrst time s^nce 1S63 faro, roulette,
,jin" poker, dice, card games of all kinds,
and even slot machines, are forbidden
in Montana.
One Thousand Men Lyr.cn Negro.
*nh* "Jim'' Williams, a negro, charged
JP, ' with attacking Lillie Mizener, white
sH near Colbert I. T., was lynched al
? - ?~u f lAArt nonnlp
hpn Durant Dy a muu ui -lvw
h Williams was hanged to an oil derrick
and his body riddled with bullets.
' The girl positively identified
Williams.
Mayor Weaver's Term Ended.
John Weaver's term as Mayor ol
3 1 Philadelphia ended, the local ma
lsn" chine coming into control of the citj
again.
e 0? General Humphrey Reappointed.
c of Announcement was made at thi
Mo.f War Department, Washington, D. C.
21, that the President had reappointed
000, Brigadier-General Charles F. Humph
hree rey as quartermaster-general of th<
:eiv- army to succeed himself on the ex
isol- piration of his present term.
rk?n;<,ic h? Olpmonceau.
3
ed. f Premier Clemenceau sent a Ion:
Sity, letter to the Figaro in reply to state
and ments made in documents seized a
mer the Nunciature and printed. He bit
d In terly attacked M. Piou, president o
the Liberal League.
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' WEALTH OF THIS NATION.
Astonishing Increase Shown by a Late
Census Report.
Washington, D. C.?The total estimate
of the valuation of the national
wealth in 1904 was $107,104,192,410,
according to a special report
issued by the Census Bureau on
wealth, debt and taxation which represents
an increase in the four-year
period from 1900 to 1904 of $18,586,885,635.
This advance in national
wealth has no parallel in the
history of the United States except
the decade from 1850 to 1860. In
1850, when the first estimates of the
national v/ealth were made the figures
were only $7,135,780,228.
The most potent cause for the increase
in the nation's wealth from
1900 to 1904, it is stated, was the
reaction from the low priccs of the
period of depression from 1S93 to
1896. The annual increase of wealth
per family from 1890 to 1904 was
$182.
The various forms into which the
nation's wealth is divided, with their .
valuations are as follows:
Real property and improvements
taxed $55,510,228,057
Real property and improve
ments exempt 6,831,244,570
Live stock 4,073,791.736
Farm implements and machinery
.. 844,989,863
Manufacturing machinery,
tools and implements 3,297.75i,lS0
Gold and silver coin and
bullion 1.093,603.303
Railroads and their equipment
11.244,752,000
Street railways 2.219,986.000
Telegraph systems 227,400,000
Telephone systems .tso,o-hj,wu
Pullman and private cars.... 123,000.000
Shipping and canals 846.489,804
Privately owned water works 275.000,000
Privately owned central electric
light and power stations
562,851,105
Agricultural products 1,899.379.6,52
Manufactured products 7,409,291.668
Imported merchandise 495,543.6S5
Mining products 408.086,787
Clothing and personal adornments
2,500,000.000
Furniture, carriages and kindred
property 5,750,000,000
The total public indebtedness of
the continental United States in 1902
was $2,789,990,120, and the total
per capita indebtedness was $35.50.
The total indebtedness of the National
Government for the same year
was $925,011,637, and the per capita
indebtedness was $11.27. The
indebtedness of the United States
Government is its gross indebtedness
less cash in the treasury. The total
indebtedness of continental United
States in 1890 was $1,989,112,S42;
that of the National Government was
$851,912,752 and the per capitas
were $31.76 and $13.60 respectiverly.
In 1902 the annual interest
charge on the public debt of continental
United States is shown to be
approximately ?>xio,iuo,ooo, ur an
annual payment of $1.46 for each individual.
In Great Britain the per capita indebtedness
of all classes, national
and local, was 3.93 times that of the
United States; in France, 4.86, and
in Italy, 2.25.
The assessed valuation of^ property
subject to ad valorum taxation
has increased from 1850 to the present
time, but it has not kept pace
with the increase in the actual national
wealth. The total assessed
valuation of property in 1902 was
$35,338,316,833, while in 1890 it
was only $25,473,173,418. The estimated
true value of all property in
1902 was $97,810,749,590, against
$65,037,091,197 in 1890. The total
levies of ad valorem taxes was in
1902 $724,736,539, and the tax rate
per $100 of estimated true value
$0.74.
The net indebtedness of the country
was slightly less at the close than
at the beginning of the year. In the
case of the National Government,
States and Territories, and counties,
the receipts exceeded the payments,
and at the close of the year these
governments had smaller net indebtedness
than at the beginning. In
the case of minor civil divisions, and
luc lai^c cities, mc aii.uation
was reversed and the payments
for expenditures exceeded the revenue
receipts, causing an increase in
net indebtedness.
REFERENDUM IN CLEVELAND.
Council Will Sunibit the Traction
Problem to the People.
Cleveland. Ohio.?With only one
dissenting vote, the City Council
adopted the report of the spccial
Street Railway Committee which has
in charge Cleveland's traction problem.
This report recommended that the
, matter of franchises, low fare, and
other issues involved be submitted
' to popular vote.
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No;vsy Paragraphs.
Work on the Hawaiian defenses
has been started.
; Some of the Philadelphia police
' men get only $i.7u a day.
3 Lord Curzon advocates a system of
. life peerage for Great Britain.
The savings banks of the country
have $3,000,000,000 of deposits.
King Alfonso dissolved parliament
5 and ordered the election of a new
! body.
t To promote ambidexterity Canon
- Lyttleton, master of Eton College,
f England, prescribes writing with the
left hand for students' offenses.
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The United States Increased Nearlj 1
8,000,000 in Six Years.
Washington, D. C.?There are now
nearly 8,000,000 more people in the
Continental United States than there .
were six years ago, according to an'
estimate based upon the figures compiled
by the Census Bureau in a special
report issued recently. According
to its estimates the population of
the Continental United States in
1906 was 83,941,510, an increase
over 1900 of 7,946,935. v .
The population of tfie United
States, inclusive of Alaska and the insular
possessions, in 1906 was 93,182,240.
The growth in population ,
in the Continental United States from
1905 to 1906 was 1,367,315.
Computed on the basis of the esti- mate
the density of population of the
Continental United States in 1906
was twenty-eight persons per square
mile, as compared with twenty-six in
1900.
The five leading cities and their
estimated population in 1906 are as
follows:
New York ..4,113,043
Chicago 2,049,185vtfKj
Philadelphia 1,441,735
St. Louis ; 649,320
Boston 602.278
The report presents the population
returns for 1905 of the fourteen
States making an inter decennial enumeration,
together with the esti
mated population of these States for
1904 and 1906 and of the remaining.
States and Territories for 1904, 1905
and 1906. '
The States which took a census in
1905 are Florida, Iowa, Kansas,
Moocor?HTieaHc T\T f n noont o .Mow Tar.
sey, New York, North Dakota, Oregon,
Rhode Island, South Dakota,
Wisconsin and Wyoming. In Michigan
the census is taken in the years
ending with a "4." The population
returned for these States was 26,263,877,
an increase since 1900 of
1,901,572 or 7.8 per cent. For the ,
remaining States r.nd Territories the
population for 1905, as determined
by the method of estimating adopted
by the bureau, was 56,283,053, an increase
orer 1900 of 4,374,040, or 8.4
per cent. The population of the fourteen
States making an enumeration,
if estimated in the same manner/
would be 26,204,762, a difference of
only 0.2 per cent, from the actual re- ;
turns. \
The rapid growth of urban popula- 'v~
tion is noteworthy. The total estimated
population of incorporated
places having 8000 or more inhabitants,
exclusive of San-Francisco and
Los Angeles, is 2S,466,624 for 1906,
an increase over 1900 of 3,912,188,
or 15.9 per cent., while the estimated
population of the United States exclusive
of these cities showed an increase
of 4,480,008, or only 8.8 per
V,CilL. j
The eiglity-eight cities with an estimated
population of 50,000 or more
in 1906 had a total estimated population
of 19,771,167, an increase of
2,766,863, or 16.3 per cent, over that
reported at the Twelfth Census.
HEW TRUSTS IN GERMANY.. '
Glue, Braid, X-Ray, Canned Goods and
Other Combinations Formed.
Washington, D. C.?The American
Consuls in Germany announce the
formation of the following trusts:
Glue trust, with a central bureau
in Berlin for the sale of all glue
made in Germany.
Braid, trimmings and woolen gooda
trust, to regulate prices.
X-ray manufacturers, organized i
for a ten per cent, increase.
Canned goods' combine, in order to '
compensate for the steadily rising
cost of the raw materials which they
use.
Artificial silk manufacturers keej.
up with the procession.
"Scarcely a day passes but the
German newspapers report a new
trust, syndicate or fusion of some i
line of manufacturing in Germany,"
reports Consul-General RichardGuenther,
of Frankfort, Germany.
CARNEGIE LIBRARY REFUSED.
Detroit Decides Against Acceptance
?Republicans Carry Michigan.
Detroit, Mich.?The count of votes
cast in this city shows that the proposition
to accept $750,000 from Andrew
Carnegie for a library was defeated
by fewer than 100 votes.
The majority of the Republican
State ticket is large. The proposition
to amend the Constitution so as
to permit the teaching of mechanical
trades to convicts in the State prisons
carried by a small majority.
The Field of Labor.
The strike of building trades at '<
Seattle has ended.
The Miners' Union at Butte. Mont., j
hace accepted the proffered wage }
scale.
In England, France, Belgium and ,
Austria 942,000 miners are organ- t
ized.
Street cars are running again at j
Butte. Mont., the company having I
advaifted wages. 1
More men stopped work in the St. ^
Louis brewery strike, bringing the i
number of strikers up to 2700.
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