Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1909 — Page 5

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Jasper (Bounty Democrat.

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;SENATE ECONOMISTS QUIT

Hemenway and Littlepage Believe Ex. penditure Accounts Are In Shape. Washington, Dec. 14.—Former Senator James A. Hemenway and Thomas P. Littlepage, both of Indiana, have resigned their positions as special employes of the senate committee on publie expenditures. The resignation of Hemenway will take effect Jan. 1 and that of Littlepage immediately. They have had charge of research work connected with the executive departments, and it was largely through their efforts that the estimates of funds needed for the coming year were reduced. Hemenway says he feels that his work in that connection is about done, but the impression here is that he intends to remain active in politics in Indiana, and if the Republicans carry the legislature that he may again be a candidate for tke senate to succeed Senator Beveridge.

BREWERS AS REFORMERS

Attempt Being Made to Put Objectionable Places Out of Business. Evansville, Ind., Dec. 14.—The local breweries are trying to put bad saloons out of business. Following a conference between Charles Cook and Charles Hartmetz, brewers, orders have been Issued not to sell to the county line and base line saloons, which a week ago were the scenes of brawls, one ot which terminated in a riot on an interurban car. The saloons in question are located in Scott and Center townships, only a short distance on this side of the Gibson county line, and people there objected to the opening of the places.

FOUR SAVED BY TELEPHONE

Man Calls Physician Before Becoming Unconscious from Gas. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 14. —A telephone saved four lives In a house filled with gas from a defective jet. Samuel Spesshardt, 547 North Temple avenue, found his son unconscious in an upper room. He rushed down stairs, telephoned for a physician, and saw his wife lying on the floor. Then he himself was overcome. His broth-er-in-law, Henry Bartel, tried to get to a door, but he also toppled over. When the physician entered the house he found the four persons near death.

THREE CONVICTS SCALE WALL

Reward For Capture of Trio That Escaped From Indiana Reformatory. Louisville, Ky., Dec. 14.—Scaling a high wall, three men escaped from the Indiana reformatory at Jeffersonville. The convicts, for whom rewards have been offered, are Edward Shan, non, Harry Bowser and Charles Td« .Wards.

Osler Theory Believer Takes Acid.

Laporte. Ind., Dec. 14.—Believing In the so-called Osler theory, William Argebright, a tinner, fifty-nine years old, drank carbolic acid and died.

Dr. John McDowell Leavitt Dead.

Annapolis, Md.» Dec. 14.—Dr. John McDowell Leavitt, an educator and writer of note, and a former president of Lehigh university at Bethlehem. Pa., and of St. Joseph college, Ellicott City, died here.

TAFT TO VISIT INDIANA

Will Be In Hoosier State to Attend Conservation Convention. Washington, Dec. I” President Taft accepted an invitation to attend the conservation convention at Indianapolis in February The date for the cenvention will be arranged to suit his convenience. The Invitation was extended by Henry Reisenberg of Indianapolis. When the president goes to the Indiana city he will make brief visits to Louisville, Cincinnati and Nashville.

One Dead, Another Mining in Fire.

Youngstown, 0., Dec. K.—One man was killed, another Is missing and four others seriously injured in a Are which destroyed an Italian boarding house here. <'

Sticks to His Craft and Drowns.

Atlantic City, Dec. 14.—Caught in a gale, a barfee loaded with stone and in charge of Captain Martin Cooper turned turtle and sank, carrying its skipper to death. Others leaped from the craft and saved their lives.

Six Negroes Entombed In Mine.

Lexington, Ky., Dec. 14.—Professor C. J. Norwood, state mine inspector, has gone to Clay, Webster county, to take charge of the rescue work at the Baker mine where six negroes are entombed.

Some eminently sinless people are

the cause of a long list of frailties, peccadillos and crimes In the lives of others. ▲ man doesn't admire a clever woman for the same reason that he does not admire a clever man. He is a little afraid of each of them. The really heroic things that we do, like eating a bad dinner and saying It is good, never get Into the medal class.

via**. 117 Th» Democrat for Job wore.

BALLINGER PUT IN ‘NEW QUAGMIRES’

Senator Heyburn Brought Into Alaska Goal Lands Case

ADMINISTRATION IS INVOLVED

Collier's Charges That Open Letter to Secretary of the Interior Shows That ‘ the President Was Cruelly Imposed Upon, and He In Turn Unwittingly Deceived the Public”—"Are thu 3r.n e influences That Kept Garf.c:d Cit Keeping Ballinger In?” Isa C-.a’i t’.c Weekly Asks. Dec. 14- This week's ’ : . . t ..■ r’s contains the followIr. -■■.l y i y the better understand l;t>v. ;i c-. t for the purpose of being sat ui j?, v. c sha.l first summarize a little of the preceding history of Alaska, Bhov.ing hew those who revealed the rci.ber barons at work were

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squelched then, even as now. Besides, it connects with the present grabs in various Interesting respects. The Alaska Gold Mining company, organized by Washington politicians, exploited Alaska with so high a hand that even Washington gasped at the brazenness. Then the spoil was gold —now it is copper and coal. The wheels of justice at Washington were mysteriously clogged. The scheme, as originally planned and for a long time successfully carried out, was to seize and operate, in the interest of the Alaska Gold Mining company, the rich Nome placer mines owned by the unlettered but law-respecting prospectors.

Found Guilty and Sentenced.

After all preparations had been perfected at the Washington end spurious suits were brought in Alaska against the owners of most of the rich placers of Nome. Alex. McKenzie was appointed receiver of these claims by Arthur H. Noyes, his judge, and under protection of the United States troops proceeded to gut the mines under the eyes of the owners. He carried off the gold to his own vaults. When the facts became known, it was found that the stock of the Alaska Gold Mining company was distributed generously throughout official circles in Washington. Judge Noyes denied appeals to the defeated litigants whose properties had been confiscated. Certified copies of the court record were filed with United States Attorney General Griggs. Griggs refused to take action. Subsequently, In certain legal proceedings growing out of these outrages, Noyes, McKenzie and others were found guilty by the San Fran-, cisco court of appeals, and sentenced to Imprisonment. McKenzie served only part of his sentence. Whitewash has always been cheap. Senator McCumber of North Dakota said he had known McKenzie for twenty years. “I know him,” he said, “to be a noble-hearted, generous, impulsive, sympathetic Individual.” Senator Hansbrough of the same state, in the senate, referred to McKenzie as "a reputable man, an honest man, a man who in point of Integrity is the peer of any man in this body." When Senator Stewart of Nevada afterward exposed the whole crooked plot, tracing Its trail from Washington to Nome and back, involving United States senators and government officials, entire sections of his speech, exposing these same officials were expunged by "senstorlal courtesy” from the Congressional record.

Another Conspiracy?

Is there another Alaska conspiracy. ♦hl° time to control the copper and coalT ’ «-i It is common knowledge throughout Alaska and the west generally that the Morgan interests are allied with the Guggenheim mining Interests, and that the same financial forces are allied with the Hill railroad Interests. When Ballinger was elected mayor of Seattle, he was put forward by the Hill political managers, ostensibly to put down certain local evils, but really to put the

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

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Hill forces in control of local politics. Ballinger supported Levi Ankeny, the railroad candidate who notoriously bought his seat in the United States senate. An important detail of Ballinger’s record to remember is his grant, as secretary of the Interior, of the railroad right of way along the Des Chutes river in Oregon. Ballinger himself was an incorporator of •he original Des Chutes railroad and was its vice president and counsel. He is said to have disposed of his interest in this road to his partner at the time of his recent appointment as secretary of the interior.

Urged Cale Bill’s Passage.

As far back as Aug. 13, 1907, Special Agent Horace T Jones reported to Richard A. Ballinger, commissioner of the general land office: “From the talk of different attorneys and individuals Interested' in the Alaska coal lands, I feel that the disposal of the lands all tends toward one direction, and that is: the Guggenheim companies. The papers here in Portland, Ore., are full of the news that the Guggenheims are constructing railroads near Katalla, Alaska, for the purpose of taking out the oil, minerals, etc., and there is an advertisement in the said papers for the employment of 2,000 men to go to Katalla, Alaska, and work for the Guggenheims.” Katalla is the location of the Cunningham claims.

Commissioner Ballinger appeared before the house committee on public lands and urged the passage of the Cale bill, which, had it passed, would have made the Cunningham claims legal. With Ballinger there appeared one Donald R. McKenzie. Found among the papers In the possession of former Special Agent H. K. Love, on whose favorable report Ballinger sought to have the Cunningham claims patented, was the following statement In an un signed letter, dated Juneau, Alaska, March 10,1908, and addressed to Oscar Foote of Seattle; "I have Just received a copy of Mr. Cale’s coal bill. It seems all that Katalla interests could possibly wish. In fact, I think It was drafted by Judge McKenzie, who, with associates, have acquired large holdings there. It seems to open the whole proposition for corporate holding.” McKenzie, like his namesake and prototype In the placer story, is a well known Washington lobbyist and an old time political supporter of Senator Piles of Washington, Ballinger’s friend. He is one of the beneficiaries of a townsite of 2,000 acres on Cordova bay, Alaska, the terminus of the Guggenheim railroad. This town site was granted, through the efforts of Senator Piles of Washington, by the Sixtieth congress, to McKenzie and two others, one of whom is ex-Gover-nor John H. McGraw of Washington, former political manager for Senator Piles, and one of the committee of the Seattle chamber of commerce which recently, in answer to Glavis’ article in Collier’s, gave Ballinger a glowing certificate of character and spoke of him as “a scrupulously honest man.”

Campaign Funds Discussed.

In October, 1908, in Portland, Ore.after Ballinger had ceased all connection with the land office, and while the presidential campaign was on—Ballinger spoke to Special Agent Glavis of the difficulty of raising campaign funds. He told Glavis that some of the Cunningham claimants had contributed freely in previous campaigns, but were jinwilling to do sc at that time on account of the investigation of their claims, and urged Glavis not to prosecute his investigations further until after election.

In his written report to President Taft at Beverly, Glavis stated that a number of the Alaska coal claimants “are men prominent in the state of Washington and many of them are personal friends of Mr. Ballinger.” In Cunningham’s books, under date of September, 1903, nine months after Senator Heyburn’s election there is an entry which reads as fol lows: “Have agreed with W. B. Heyburn, in consideration for his services as attorney, to carry him for one claim of one hundred and sixty acres in the coal, free of cost to him, and he agrees to do all our legal work in procuring titles, etc., free of expense to us.” Later Heyburn wrote that he “does not desire to participate in, or be inter ested in any manner, directly or indirectly, in acquiring public lands.” Out of over a possible thousand lawyers in Seattle, Ballinger seems to have had a monopoly of syndicated Alaska coal clients. And who shall say that these clients were altogether lacking In sagacity?

“Shreds of Suspicion.”

Immediately after the statement In the president's letter that Ballinger did only a little work for one claimant is this further statement: "The evidence in respect to which you were consulted professionally was not secured by Mr. Glavis until after your resignation as commissioner of the general land office.” There is not even a "shred of suspicion*' upon which to base this statement The president was cruelly imposed upon, and he in turn unwittingly deceived the public. On June 2«, 1909. Donald R. McKensle, Ballinger's intimate associate and client, told Special Agents Jones and Glavis in Seattle that Secretary Garfield’s attitude toward the Alaska coal claims. In which he and his friends were lnter< ted. was sv.ch “that they

HENEATH THE MISTLETOE

brought pressure to bear on senators and representatives to prevent his remaining in the cabinet under President Taft.” Are the same influences that kept Garfield out keeping Ballinger In* Will the president consider these facts in weighing the arguments now being pressed upon him by members of his cabinet? Or are the above circumstantially narrated events also nothing but “shreds of suspicion?”

Auto Goggles For Naval Men.

Washington, Dec. 14.—Officers on the torpedo boat destroyer Flusher have been supplied with a fur helmet with automobile goggles to protect them from wind and spray and from smoke and spark*. y As usual we are headquarters for Christmas Candies, all kinds of fancy Nuts, Oranges, Apples, Bananas, and Grapes for the holidaysJOHN EGER.

CHRISTMAS TREES.

There will be on sale at A. F. Long’s store one of the finest assortments of Christmas trees ever brought to Rensselaer, just the size for your home or school or church.

We will help you to please your men with Xmas gifts, so before buying look over our line of clothes, furnishings and hats, C. EARL DUVALL. A box social will be held at the Union school house, one mile east of Surrey, Thursday evening, Dec. 23. Ladies please bring boxes. The proceeds will be used to buy an organ for the school. CLARE JESSEN, Teacher. See the leather collar bags, combination sets, initial handkerchiefs, linen handkerchiefs, travelers’ sets, silk hose, silk neckware, silk suspenders, pin and tie to match. Everything useful for - Christmas. C. EARL DUVALL. It will pay you to look at the Christmas candles at The G. E? Murray Co. Store. Your father or hueband will appreciate a good leather traveling bag or suit case, silk muffler, silk suspenders, fancy vest, fancy shirts, wool hose, and underwear. Call h'nd sco these lines. C. EARL DUVALL.

CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE ARMY.

CHRISTMAS In the various forts garrisoned by United States troops never passes without a cut and dried celebration. Preparation for the event is made long in advance. Every soldier knows that something extra is going to be hia portion for that day. The Christmas dinner, with savory extras in the way of food, is not the only special provision for the soldier’s celebration. There Is a relaxation of the rigor of military discipline^which to many enlisted men is even more welcome than the turkey and cranberries. On Christmas day the man in the barracks may do pretty much as he pleases.

But “pigs is pigs,” and soldiering is Soldiering, so it follows that a few of the men are shut out of the general hilarity of the holiday because they must perform a soldier’s duty as on other days. The guard mount Is for Christmas as well as for all other days, and military regulations cannot forego this requirement, no matter how much the victims may growl under their blouses. Even the extra dinner In the barracks, while it is a rare treat to most of the men. makes work for some of them which is regarded tn the army as about the most calamitous detail in the business.

Guard duty and kitchen work are things studiously to be avoided by the enlisted men. It Is not pleasant for a soldier to be kept on guard, walking a beat or pacing up and down in front of headquarters when the rest of the fellows are inside the barracks singing songs, telling stories, eating tur key or out on the parade ground playing baseball or doing skylarking stunts. Accordingly the experienced soldier makes It a point to escape Christmas guard duty If possible. There are several ways of doing this. The first sergeant of the company sometimes. It Is hinted, helps the veterans out by a passive co-operation, which throws the burden of the day upon young recruits who are passing their first Christmas in the service. He permits the old timers to swap dates for guard duty with the recruits so that the latter will find themselves detailed.

Santa Claus also comes to the soldier. This is true literally and figuratively. He comes through the malls or the express companies In the shape of botes or packages from the home folks. On bls $lB a month the soldier

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By ERSKINE DEFOE.

[Copyright, 1909, by American Press Association.] fBLITHSSOKE maid, divinely fair, Stepped, thoughtless, ’neath the mistletoe Hung high above the car* pet square, While out of door fell fleecy snow, Heighho! Heighho! Surprised beneath the mistletoe! «• . did not know she was so near The kiss provoking mis, tietoe. The bough upon the chan* delier k Was deftly fixed, but not too low. Oh, no! Oh, no! In ambush was the mistletoe. NCE in the mesh and fairly caught, lZgs|j showed no sudden vWyJ haste to go. Two victims with a single thought Are brave beneath the mistletoe. Just so! Just sol The courage-giving mistletoe! Wfe ITH cheeks suffused a rosy red That shamed the holly’s livid glow, 'mp She held aloft her charm* ing head, The lawful kiss did not forego, And, lo! And, lor That kiss beneath the mistletoe!

does not have much of a surplus to' spend in buying presents to send home, but this fact does not militate against his receiving mementos from the old hearthstone. It is always an event in camp or barracks when some man receives a hefty package **jes’ ’fore Christmas.” As a rule, the contents are shared with the soldier’s cronies If they happen to be of the edible variety and any of the cronies fall to receive similar remembrances.

The Good Old Way. It may be that the doctor Can sooner turn the trick And with his modern powders At once relieve the sick, But 1 would much prefer it When giving pains the chase To have some ancient auntie Come fooling round the case. She may not with her lotions. Her herbs and catnip tea Be very long on science. But she looks good to me. The sympathetic fussing Some magic can supply That does not quite accompany The doctor's chilly eye. Of course for special cases. Like breaking of a limb Or having an appendix That one with skill must trim, The doctor comes in handy. For milder cases, though. I’d rather call in grandma And let her have a show. Too much like mathematics 1 find the doctor's line— Two drops of this at mealtime And three of that at nine. I’d rather have a woman Around my bed to croon And coddle me and tuck me And not get well so soon.

According to His Opportunity. “Are you acquainted with the brilliant and beautiful Mrs. Sidestep?” asked the perfect stranger of an unobtrusive little man as that queenly woman dashed through tbe room. “Slightly,” admitted tbe little man. “You ought to know her better.” “I had hoped to once.” “Never had the opportunity?” “I am afraid not” “Why not?” "Well, you see, 1 married her.”

FRUIT CAKE FOR CHRISTMAS.

We have several orders now in for fruit cakes for Christmas, and request that all others desiring this kind of bakery goods leave their order at an early date, as .they should “season” some time before being usedLEAVEL’S BAKERY. Subscribe for The Democrat