Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 43, Plymouth, Marshall County, 3 August 1905 — Page 2

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Z'Im Q.?s N. M."t F. Q.F. M Va -zj CCth y Tth. 14th. FEATURES OF INTEREST CONCERNING PEOPLE, PLACES AND DOINGS OF THE WORLD. Courts and Crimes, Accidents and Fires, Labor and Capital. Grain Stock aud Money Markets. Chicago C5cts New Terminal Station. A new terminal station in Chicago to cost from $1.500,1) to $2 OtXWM) and to cover the land extending from Clark street on the west si lev, of State stieev on the east and from Poll: street south to Taylor, is to be constructed by the Chicago and Western Indiana railroad, acting with other road. Negotiations for the purchase of the i:nd fronting on Clark street, Plymouth and Custom House courts, which have bem going cn for nearly two years, are alwut concluded. Five railroads are interested in tin. new terminal station. They are the Wabasn, the .Santa Fe, the Frio, the Grand Irunk and the Motion. Performer Fatally Hurt at Marion. At How ens park, Marion, Ind., in the presence of several hundred people. Prof. II. V: Curry in making a slide for life" fell to the ground, a distance of eighty feet, and was probably fatally injured. A wire was attached to the top of a hotel and stretched to the ground, the slide Iving made by means of a pulley and strap, the strap being placed about Curry's neck. Curry had barely started on the slide when the strap broke and his body dropped to the ground. Curry was not instantly I k i ueu, iiui ne was imrt. lniernauy ani i probably die. chest was crushed. ll'm Ice IIonxcs Hum. The four ice houses of the Marion lee and Cold Storage Company of Marion, located on the eat shore of the center lake in Warsaw, Ind.,werc totally destroy ei by fire, entailing a loss of Ji'O.noO, only partly coVered by insurance. The houses were the largest and best in that section of the country and were half tilled wit'-, ice at the time (. the tire. Seven thousand tons of ice were destroyed and the houses were burned to the ground. It is not known how the lire started but is thought that it was of ineendiarv origin. Traction Car Men Electrocuted. Motorman Searles of Rocky River, wa electrocuted and Conductor James Porte vi Cleveland, severely injured when a special newspaper car on the Lake Short? Electric railway jumped the track and was wrecked near Clifton park, Cleveland. The motorman w as caught in the front platform w lien the body of the car left the truck and slid off on one side and a short circuit was formed. He was instantly killed. Substitute for Kadium. The German scientific world is much interested in a discovery made by Herr Frfeurt, a chemist at Berlin, who has succeeded in transmitting the qualities of radium to a substance he calls radiopher. Eadiopher can be made cheaply. It is ol great use in medical practice for it can t injected under the skin and in other parts of the body. It is said to possess all the qualities of the original radium. Sued for $10,000 for Cruelty. On the allegation that they threw a farmhand, Lorenzo D. Pice, out of their house into the snow and allowed him to eraw into a stable and die while he was suffering from pneumonia and was almost unconscious with fever, Henry and Eli Kock, farmers of Elberfeld, Ind., are made defendants in a suit for $10,000 by the administrator of the dead man's estate. Santa Fe Express Train Ditched. The California express, cu the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, went into the ditch at Lemont, a village thirty miles southwest of Chicago. One man was taken J from the wreckage crushed beyond recognition, three otners were injured so severely that their lives are despaired of and about twenty others sustained slight injuries. Lightning Kills Five in New York. During a thunderstorm of terrific intensity which passed over New Y'ork, five persons were struck by lightning and killed and many were seriously injured at the Parkway baths. At the same time one man w as killed and three others were prostrated at Gravesend beach. Fatal Wreck in Kngland. A dispatch from Liverpool says: An electric express train on the Lancashire and Yorkshire road, bound from Liverpool to Southport, collided with an empty stationary engine", causing the death oi twenty-three persons and the injury oi many. Plot Against the Sultan. Advices from Bucharest, Roumania, say a plot has been discovered against the sultan's life. The reported conspiracy against the Turkish ruler is said to have been hatched at Kustemje. Chief Admiral of Chinese Navy Dead. A special from Shanghai says: Admiral Teh, of the Chinese navy, died suddenly at the Kiangnan arsenal Saturday morning, Another MaHsacre Reported. Kihinelf speciah An attack on the Jews in which soeral were killed and wounded, is reported to have occurred at Ruska Novska (New Russia,) probably a village near Kishineff. The number of fa talities has not been established. Two Killed ia Wreck. Fast train No. 5, southbound, on the S Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern railroad was wrecked at Diaz, Aik., by running into a misplaced switch. Two employes were killed and several persons sustained injuries. Indian of 106 Shot to Death. The dead body oi Doctor Jim, an In dian, azed 100 years, has been found un der the bridge on the Darrington branch of the Northern Pacific, three miles from Arlington, Wash., with' a bullet hole in the back of his head. It is evidant that he was murdered. Politician. Kills Himself, Benjamin Cook, a member of the State public school board, shot and killed himself in Owatonna, Mmn. His daughter found Mm sitting on a blanket corered wtffi blood, a revolver In his hand and a bullet hole through his head. No cacs

Eastern. The plant of the Sills-Eddy Mica Company at Newark, X. J., was burned. Loss $75.000. Richard Croker, although heir at law to the $50,000 estate of his late son, Frank, has relinquished his claim ia favor of his other children. Sophie Mayer, the mother of six children, has passed an examination ia New York for admission to the bar, standing at the head of a list of 1,000 candidates. Three track hands were killed and five others were seriously injured by being struck by a passenger train on the New York Central railroad at Tribes Hill, N. Y. Paul Morton has been elected to the full presidency of the Equitable Life Assurance Society and former President Alexander's resignation as director has beeu accepted. Fred Lindsay of P.rooklyn has obeyed the mandate of Magistrate Higgmbothani, kissed his wife once a day for a month and asked the di nissal of the suit for nun-support. Philadelphii capitalists are reported to. be the main backers of a $40,000.000 pottery trust just formed and controlling practically the entire talucwaro and china output of the country. A combine of independent oil men is said to have been practically completed at Pittsburg to light the Standard, based on a productive field in Kansas and a pipe lino to the Gulf of Mexico. Toadstools mixed with mushrooms and eaten at a birthday party have caused the death of four of the six members of the family of Joseph Franzor. a farmer, who resided near Landisville, N. J. After saving his mother and sister, who with a score of others for a time were iu great peril from tire, Nathan Newman, 10 years old, lost hi own life iu a burning Brooklyn tenement house. Action has ben brought in United States Court to have a receiver appointed for the Equitable Society, the stockholding company to be annulled and the $ 4-1.14 hum. K assets to be turned over to the ociety. Two years ago the Southern Textile Company of New York was organized, liie incorporation papers showed a capitalization of $14.000,000. Tuesday the property of the concern was sold at auction for $110.500. The annual report of Insurance Commissioner Cutting of Massachusetts denounces the methods of the big companies and declares them ruled by the present-

day mania for graft and gamble. Sweep- , ,f ins are demanded. After wandering for three days in the fields anil woods near Stony Creek, with nothing to eat except a few berries, Lena and Sophie Cohen, 7 and o years old, were found, and joy reigns in Carolina street, Baltimore, where they live. To forestall the action of the operators in the anthracite coal region in forcing a lockout the United Mine Workers of America may call a general strike in both the bituminous and anthracite fields, to begin within the next few months. James E. Foye, private secretary to Charles (. Gates, son of the Chicago financier, caused the arrest of his mother in front of the aldorf-Astoria, New York, because she stopped him and begged for money with which to buy food. WESTERN. Anthony Libhart. a 10-year-old boy of Marietta, Ohio, was killed in a playful seuMle with a companion for a gun. A Storni swept trie northern part of Racine county, Wisconsin, killing two men and damaging property and crops. The government may oust the holders of 27,000 acres of disputed land in O'Brien and adjacent counties of Iowa. Mattie and Grace Wigner, sisters, aged 14 and HI, respectively, of Lacyune, Kan., were drowned while attempting to ford a creek. The newspaper and job printijg plant of the Arkansas Democrat, at Little Rock, Ark., was burned. Loss $123,000, insurance $1)0,000. Mrs. Almira Kramer, who died at Kalamazoo. Mich., provided in her will that $10,000 shall be set aside, the income to be used to feed tramps. XV. J. Parker, a mining engineer of Cleveland, was struck dead by lightning at Whitney, thirty miles from Salisbury. His horse also was killed. Snow Hurries lasting,- several minutes made Neenah, Wis., shiver at 9 o'clock Sunday night. The temperature fell from SG to 4G ia two hours and heavy coats and wraps were worn. Lightning struck the roof of the girls' building at the State reform school at Niles City. Mont., causing a fire that de stroyed the building. All the inmates escaped. Loss $00,000. Samuel Harper, father of President William R. Harper of the University of Chicago, died at the residence of his son in that city. Iiis death was caused by weakness from old age. Five military convicts have escaped from the guardhouse at Fort Wright near Spokane, Wash. All of them were men sent into the fort to serve sentences for desertion from other army posts. The Secretary of the Interior has or dered the withdrawal from enjry of 140,000 acres of land in the Los Angeles, Cal., district, and 100,000 acres in the Tucson, Ariz., district on account of irri gation projects. Trades union principles and methods hare been adopted by the farmers of Oklahoma and Indian Territory. A considerable number have agreed to use the union label on all their products and is sue working cards. An urgent call for harvest hands came from North Dakota, when a Des Moines employment firm was notified that 1,000 men were wanted in that State to harvest the wheat crop. The wages offered are $2 to $.'i per day. Former State Senator William E. Finck and wife were fatally burned by a natural gas explosion in their home in Somerset, Ohio. There is little or no hope, according to the doctors, that either of them will recover. The lumber yards at Preston, Minn., were destroyed by fire, with a loss .of 550,000. The yards, which were owned by the Colman Lumber Company of La Crosse, were protected by insurance. The cause cf the fire is unknown. Mac, a water spaniel, saved the lives of Frank Bridgeman, aged 7 years, and Oliver Pugh, aged 11, at Duluth. The children got over their depth in Chester creek. The boy 'clung to Mac's tail and the girl to one of the dog's hind legs. Walter J. Hill, son of James J. Hill of the Great Northern Railway Com pany, was kicked by a horse at Oakland, Neb., and seriously injured, lie is com pelled to give up his work and he will be 1 I ! 1. C. T n ill f rt fpa.f. lasen 10 nis uuuue w i. xuu ti nt ment. Buried in the wreckage of a collapsed house, three boys were crushed to death at Thirtr-second and Fox streets, cago. Five other persons were injured one of whom may die, and many more who had just left the structure had nar row escapes. Otto Bernhelmer. a member of .Bernheimer & Walter, cotton brokers, and re puted to bt wealthy, committed suicide

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New York. Bernheimcr was found lyin? in front of a full-length mirror, dying from a bullet wound in the temple. Johann Hoch, confessed bigamist and convicted wife slayer, was snatched from the gallows in Chicago Friday almost at the hour of his execution on a reprieve granted by Oov. Deneen on a showing that sufticient money had been raised tr carry the case to the Supreme Court. Fifty pounds of dynamite, three masks, fuse and Linterns were found secreted near the Northern Pacific railroad track, two miles east of Butte. Mont., in the mountains. Officers are convinced the explosive was placed there in preparation for another attempt at train robbery. A scheme is on foot at Ogden, Utah, to establish a labor controlling body for the purpose of supplying Greek labor to contractors in the West. It is said under this plan the newly arrived immigrant can be protected as well as securing a better class of labor to the employer. Frank W. Card, formerly a railroad conductor living at Como, Colo., shot and killed a woman named Beulah Craft, tired three bullets into his head in an effort at suicide and later tried to tear open his wounds at the citv hospital in St. I ouis. It became necessary to strap his hands to the cot. The tragedy took place in the woman's home. One thousand head of sheep, the property of Lux & Miller of San Francisco, were shot in the Oranite mining district of eastern (irant county, Oregon. Sheep owners had Leen warned to keep off certain mining property because of damage to the water supply and to the forage the miners wanted for their horses. The herders persisted and the miners destroyed a large part of the band. It is announced that a belt bne railroad to encircle Cleveland aud run from Fairport on the east to. Lorain on the west and to cost approximately $10.000.0K. has been financed and construction work will start as soon as the small remainder of the right of way is purchased. The project is the largest rver launched in Cleveland and will require about two years to complete. The new belt line is incorporated as the Cleveland Short Line Railway Company. While local capital is standing back of the project. New York bankers have been brought into the deal and are lending tlieir support to the plan. Already about $00.OO0 has been expended in surveying and making the preliminary plans. FOREIGN. Great Britain will send its channel naval fleet to maneuver iu the Baltic. Commissioner Sargent reports the Japanese are leaving Hawaii, causing a bad labor famine. By the explosion of a coal mine at Palermo. Sicily, twelve men were killed and many wounded. The Japs may demand neutralization of Vladivostok in return for the dismantling of Port Arthur. The seventh annual congress of Zionists opened in Basle, Switzerland, in the presence of 1.O00 delegates. The Japanese army of 40.1XK) men is steadily advancing along a forty-mile front, the main force being at Keuchen. Owing to the effects of the great heat ia Paris the Shah of Persia, acting under medical orders, is about to visit the United States and Mexico. His majesty is also suffering from melancholia. Dekastries. Siberia, is occupied by the Japanese. The town is 700 miles north of Siberia, and it is believed that an advance up the Amur river toward Harbin is planned. Rear Admiral Rojestvensky has undergone a successful operation in Tokio. A wound on his forehead was opened and a small piece of bone was removed. His condition is considered satisfactory. Secretary of War Taft and party received a demonstrative welcome to Japan, the principal buildings, streets and wharves of Yokohama and the ship:ing in toe narnor Oeing gayly decorated Following a spell of intense heat a severe tnuiiderstorin occurred ou tho eastern part of the island of Jamaica and did considerable damage to the banana plantations. The United Fruit Company suffered heavily. Miss Annette Kellerman, an Australan, attempted to swim the English hannel, starting from Dover. After be ing in the water five hours she was overonie by seasickness and was forced to abandon the attempt, after having gone about one-third of the distance. Following a recommendation favorine dissolution of the union with Norwav the Swedish cabinet resigned. The special committee appointed by the riksda to deal with the crisis Avhich created the revolution in Norway caused this action by its report favoring a peaceable set tlement. IN GENERAL. Business organizations of the country plan to urge Congress to provide for better inland waterways. A big coal combine, the second largest in the world, has been formed to take over $50,000,000 worth of property. The Department of Agriculture's re vised report on cotton shows a decrease in acreage planted of 14.9, as compared with last year. The Fresid'mt is likely to adopt the contract plan for the digging of the Pan ama canal instead of direct operation by the government. A new commercial treaty with Ger many is to be considered by the Senate at the next session of Congress, the pres ent one to be allowed to lapse Nov. 30, The Panama canal commission receiv ed a cablegram from Gov. Magocn re porting that John Conlan, an Irish em ploye at Colon, has been stricken with yellow fever. Rear Admiral Dunlap, commandant of the naval station at San Juan, cabled the Navy Department that Private William A. Ilurtt of the marines fell off the city -1 It - wan, crusnmg uis muu ana aied instant ly. Officials of the . national rivers and harbors congress and a committee of the national waterways convention met at Baltimore and adopted a resolution requesting the executive committee to call a meeting early in 100b. Former Statistician John Hyde eluded the government secret service men wIo bad been detailed to watch him and sailed t'T Europe. He had been on the octin twelve hours before it was known he had left the country. A torpedo boat flotilla some time within the next year will be sent to the Philippines, a distance of more than 19,000 miles never before traversed by a fleet of ships so small. The torpedo borrt Bagley, Barney, Biddle, Shubrick, Thornton aud Tingey, which will make the Toyage, displace only 105 tons each. They will carry only from fifty to eighty tons of coaL Their maximum steaming radius raries from 700 to 1,000 miles, a fact which will make it necessary that they b towed most of the way. The MlUtl fellows," as nary officers term the boats, are being made ready at Norfolk.

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The principal envoys who will discuss and arrange the terms upon which Japan and Russia shall cease hostilities are grouped in the illustration, in which also is shown the building in the Portsmouth (X. II.) navy yard in which the plenipotentiaries will meet. Baron Joturo Koniura is the minister of foreign affairs of Japan. He was educated nt Harvard University, has served as special envoy to PoKln, and also has been minister to Korea. More recently he was minister oi' the Mikado at Washington and St. Petersburg. Sergius .Tuliewitch Witte has been president of the Russian committee of ministers since 1U00, and at tho head of the railway department, and in li-4)2 was minister or means of communication. He was opposed to the war, and

HOCH GETS REPRIEVE. Bigamist and Convicted "Wifc-Slaycr Saved by Money. Six hundred dollars in cash loosened the hangman's noose from the neclc ci Johann Hoch in Chicago Friday and saved the life of the arch bigamist and convicted wife poisoner. Hoch, denouncing law as a fake and cursin justice was I preparing for the 1 march to the gallows. Within a stone's throw of the death chamber .t man. hitherto a stranger in the cele JOIIANX llOClt. brated case, held a check for 500 to the gaze of State's Attorney Healy. Hoch had 100 of his own. The wires that carry messages ot joy and sorrow with the lightnings speei lid the rest. Over the telepuone to Spiingueld. into the listening ear ol tue Goverm r of the State, went tue t;ui. that Johann Hoch, convicted murderer, had been provided with tlic means to pay for an appeal of his caf to the Supreme Court. Back over the wires came a reprieve from Gov. Deneen. Hangman s day lor Johann Hoch was set ahead to another Frj.lav Aug. 20. Hoch, alter all, wa to have the chance of running the legal gamut which he had declared was open onlv to the man with money. "That's the stuff: get money and buy justice." was the cynical comment of the condemned man as his lawyer wavea tue life-giving treasury notes the check had brought before his beady eyes. To the crowd the morbm. the senti mentally hysterical, and the j:iil gmrds and attaches of various emotions the swift whirl of events that robbed the waiting gallows of its victim was thrillindv dramatic. The heroic, melodra matic features even appealed to the coldblooded portion A the crowd that had begged tickets to the hanging simply from desire to see a human being strangled. Hoch was superlatively happy. He went wild when the news of it was shouted to him. His heavy frame gave way to convulsions of joy. Every molecule of his body sent forth waves of infinite exultation. lie burst into a flood of tears: and. after the intangible dumbness of tie escape had given way to intelligent comprehension of his fortune, he fell upon his knees and prayed fervently. This is I loch's second respite, and the alleged Bluebeard asserts that he is not guilty of murder and that he will never die on the gallows. ASK A RECEIVER. Folicy-llolders Apply for Adjudication of the Equitable. Alleging that the Equitable Life Assurance Society is wholly unable to pay to its policy holders the sums to which they are entitled, Col. J. Wilcox Brown of Baltimore, Md., who has for the past thirty-seven years been dropping cash into the treasury, declares that the company is insolvent aud asks the appointment of a receiver for the gross assets of $113,000,000 and that the right of the company to continue writing life insurance be stopped. Through his attorneys, Dos Passos Brothers, Mr. Brown filed complaint in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York. In this complaint he casts doubt on the bona fide nature of the sale of the Hyde stock tt Ryan. The complaint recites that juggling with funds, extravagance, misap propriation and other evils took place under the Alexander-Hyde management. In view of the facts recYted the court is asked to compel the society to produce all its books, papers and records an'i place them at the disposal of the court; to compel it to render an accounting for its management and expenditure of all funds since its organization; that a trust be created to conserve such funds as are at present to the credit of the society that all policy holders and all former policy holders and their representatives who may be entitled thereto be credited with a full, proper and equitable share in the surplus and assurance funds, a shall be ascertained from an accounting, and that the same be paid forthwith; and that the society, its officers, directors ami agents, pending this suit and lorever thereafter, be enjoined from retaining or controlling or expending in any way tn fund received from policy holders and annuitants and the accretions thereof, or with im fund's and investmenia.-TIre-senting the original capital of the so ciety. Odds and Ends. Eight hundred cutters in a big clothing factory in Philadelphia struck because they got no ice water. fortin Onillizan and John Under, ein ployes of the Girard Iron Company. Youngstown, Ohio, were killed by being caught by the cage. n it. Tallmadge of Chicago was gir en a preliminary hearing in the govern-1-T,, frui case at Roswell, N. M. One case was dismissed, and a change of Tenue was granted In the second.

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accomplished scholar VEIL Of DEATH DRAWN OVER SCOURGED CITY OF NEW ORLEANS. The yellow fever situation in NewOrleans grows worse. The number of new eases is not large, they are scattered over a much larger section of the city, and the danger is correspondingly increased. Never before in the history of New Orleans have its citizens been so thoroughly aroused. Prominent UUJ'"l' men can ue mtu . mi, vut. ineir own gutters. ine people are screening their cisterns from one end of the city to another. The entire light is being carried on by the people of New Orleans. New Orleans is shut off, so far as all practical purposes are concerned, to the outside world. Friday night the State Board of Health quarantined the entire State of Louisiana against the City of New Orleans. Governor Yardaman has called out the militia of Mississippi to act as guards along the State line to keep out people from the infected districts of Louisiana. Practically everything but the through mail trains have been taken off by the railroads. Many towns will not allow the transmission of mone-y by express. In the face of the strictest regulations many are still fleeing from their homes in the poor districts, only to be driven back by bayonets and shotguns when they reach State lines. The postollice department, acting on the mosquito theory, will not fumigate the mails sent from the city. The fruit in- j el us try is rapidly Hearing paralysis, as Chicago, St. Louis, and other points are cutting tlown orders. They fear that the scourge may be carried North on the fruit trains. I liver commerce is at a standstill anel ocean shipping is greatly checked by quarantine regula tions against the port of New Orleans. Banana ships from Honduras are not venturing to make port. A sensation was sprung in quarantine circles by the warlike action of Governor Yardanian of Mississippi, whose severe criticisms of the New Orleans health authorities threaten to involve him in a personal controversy with the Governor of Louisiana. Governor Vardaman ordered Colonel Wyatt, inspector general of the Mississippi National Guard, to mobilize the State troops on the Louisiana lines p.? quarantine guards. The State of Mississippi has refused to allc-.v passenger and baggage communication from New Orleans. The people in the yellow fever zone are to be congratulated upon the fortitude and hopefulness with which they have encountered the plague peril. Not even inveterate optimism, however, can ignore the fact that the situation at New Orleans is by no means encouraging. Facts have to be faced. The most serious feature of the situation is the admitted spread of the disease beyond the circumscribeel locality to which it was at first confined. So long as no cases developed outside of the Italian quarter there was reason to accept the assurances of the medical and sanitary experts that the fever would be isolated and stamped out. The development of new foci of infection tremendously increases the difficulties of the problem. It also weakens the public morale, which Is as powerful a factor as the merely medical phase of the matter. Nor is the uneasiness confineel to the city of New Orleans. The expressed suspicion that the infection has been carried up the river and perhaps over to Mississippi sound is calculated to excite apprehension in the minds of people all over the yellowfever zone, and these apprehensions are finding expression in the establishment of quarantines. Yet if experience at Havana counts for anything yellow fever can be met and conquered. ' For three centuries the Cuban capital was a breeding place for the infection. Our Gulf States were constantly quarantining against that port. The fever was epidemic there. United States army sanitary experts went to work and so altereel the aspect of affairs that Instead of American ports quarantining againt Havana that city Is now- quarantining against American ports. What was done in Havana ought to be feasible in New Orleans. There is, at any rate, a complete cooperation between the city, State and T- - i 1 111. f rcuerai neauu agencies vms.cn are fighting the fever at New (Weans. The best scientific ability of this or any J other country Is engaged in the fight.

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is noted as a student of finance and economy. Kogoio Talc ahira has been Japanese minister at Washington since 1000. Prior to that time he had been attache of the legation and consul general at New York. lie entered the diplomat ie service in lS7k and was minister to Italy and the Netherlands and ambassador at Vienna. Baron Roman Romano-; vitch Rosen was recently appointed Russian ambassador' to tho United States in succession to Count Cassini. He; was minister at Tokio when the war broke out. and was , consul general at New York from 1SS2 until ISOi. He;

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and musician. SCOTTY, OF DEATH VALLEY. Tlie Mucli-Talkc-d-Aboiit Miner Who Made a Sensational Kuu. Whether he is a simple and ingenuous Funeral mountain miner, with a g dd property wortl ms njioii millions, or merely a spectacular vertismg a g e n t alter Scott has S'.I' i i e'l 'il in making ' himself one of the: talke of the 1-about ' year. wnicii has ai yielded 1 um 1 ome results ! and that if he gets! back to work and! WALTEIt SCUTI. takes care of it lie will some day be a mineral king, but if he keeps up the pace! he lias tollowed during the past im.utli there will be little left of the property when he gets through and the fate of ,.,.. ..-: a. many another got-ricu-uuick prospector will be his. Some, however, hold to the belief that he is merely acting as advertising agent for a raiiroad or for mining speculators in Death Valley. Scott himself says he is 27 years oil and that he used to be a owboy with Buffalo Bill's outfit, lie claims to have struck a mine in Death Valley which is inexhaustible. He tirst flashed upon the newspaper horizon a few weeks ago. when he began spending money with a free hand in the southwestern cities and picked up a mongrel dog iu the streets about whose neek he tied a S.'oo bill. He also tied $100 v his tail. He say he did that to show his sympathy for the unfortunate creature. His most sensational feat was to hire a train to bring him from Los Angeles. Cal., to Chicago in 44 hours. 5o minutes a rec ord-breaking run. remained there several days, but made MRS. SCOTT. no phenomenal money exhibition, and then went to New York, where he was received with open arms by representa tives of the sensational press, but made no great impression in sporting circles. His wife joined him there and they remained long enough to see the sights of the metropolis ami to permit Scott to transact business with his wealthy backers in New York. He was Hooded with requests for money, aggregating close to $24.000.000. Despite the effort of New Y'ork papers to make him out as ex traordinary, Scott appeared to be no dif ferent from hundreds of other lucky westerners who have struck the big city. His wife is a New York woman. MUCH MONEY SUNK In Maintaining Baseball as the National Sport. Over $2.577,000 is paid out ia salaries to the professional baseball players of the Lmited States each year. Over ?2,500,000 is paid in other salaries and in ex penses of maintaining the grounds of the professional clubs, about $800,000 in railroad fares, about $100,000 in sleeping car fares, about $125,000 in training expenses, and perhaps $5W,000 in additional expenses. And this is only count ing the expenses of the organized baseball leagues of the United States, registered and recorded under the national agreement. The total expense of operating baseball in the United States as an organized sport, therefore, is in the neighborhood of $7,000,000, according to the estimates of those best posted, which means that approximately 23,000.000 paid admissions must be received before the team owners can break even on their investments, not counting interest. The fact remains that nearly one half of the baseball club owners of the United States lose money everj- year. The teams that are beaten iu the playing, even in the great leagues, are lucky to escape heavy financial losses, and, in minor leagues, not over half the clubs, and in many cases only the two leaders, break even on the season. When the Wheat Is Ripening. The great wheat fields of the West aro pretty sights in late June and July. Hills and valleys are covered with tlie golden yellow grain. For miles in places the grain stretches as level as a granary floor. Fences 'are rare and roads seem but pathways through the fields. Whole counties in western Kansas and southwestern Nebraska are one vast wheat field. Down near Hill City, where Wheat King Rice has his dominion, one can see fifty harvesting machines marching through the wheat, and the hum of the header and the clicking rächet of the binder fill the summer air with pleasing sound. Rice has 110 quarter sections in Graham county and 10,000 acres of them ia in wheat.

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According; to a careful estimate made by the Lopartnicnt of Agriculture, a loss of .S7oo,.mjo,ix is caused to American farmers every year by insects. The losses en plant products of the soil, both in their growing and In their stored state, exceed the entire expenditures of the national government, including the pension roll and the maintenance of the army aiel navy. After giving a long list of tstructive pests the department says; "Wheat suffers most from insect depredations. The Hessian My. the chin-n bug and the grain plant Ioiim- wmk annual havoc amounting to per cent of the crop. The Hessian t'y is distinctly a wheat pest, intlictir.g a damage in Indiana and Illinois alone hist year of 82 1 . h m. k k i. Twenty per ci-nt of the planted area of Michigan was abandoned because of it and the hs: in the United States during a sitmio season has been estimated at SI ,' : - There is brewing the biggest kind of a scandal that will perhaps insinuate itself into the navy, v.-;tr and interior departments because of the way persons are committed to the- St. Eliz abeth Home as insane without having boon so adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction, n lias neon tlie iy -m tno VVAV nn,i NayV I partments to commit persons tlvre who were supposed to bo inau Thi was done on the certificate 'f the army and navy surgeons, r.ono of whom has qualified as an expert on mental diseases. Thousands, it was asserted, have thus been committed i:i like manner from the soldiers' home throughout the union. In the latter case it is alleged that the institution collects tho pensions averaging $20 per month per person and collected betMns fmm tlir. .mrnmtti.int Srt nur rw-r. sari for the korp of the inmates.

probability ii, Representatives of the State Dep.utSeott really j mCnt. the Department of Justice, and a promising tj,e immigration Bureau, whom the

I President annointed to recommend l . . . . .1. i . . . i , . ........ ciiai::;e5 m me iaus rciaiixc m juiiu.alization, are reported to have dc-nlel to recommend several most important amendments of tho law. Thenwill propose, it is said, that naturalization j h(l granteil bv the higher courts un'.w j instcaJ of bvanv c,,urt l)f r(.Cnrd: that . , . , , ,. , . the requirements for applicants for requirements lor applicants tor citizenship shall be uniform t out the country; and that the cert i 5cates shall be also uniform and printed on distinctive paper. Other changes, designed to give greater publicity to applications for naturalization, to give longer notice before an application is acted upon, to allow- the government to be represented, to prohibit naturalization just before an election, and ! similar safeguards of citizenship are under consideration. Dr. .Theodore S. Palmer of the government's biological survey i- tlnguariliaa of all the game of the UnitI eI States, lie knows every niail cov ert in the country; lie can number th? herds of elk in the Western mountains, and he knows every runway of the eleer of the Adirondack's. This physician-naturalist provides for the protection of the game ia Uaole Sam. preserves, and sees to it that the poacher shall not escape punishment. The doctrine of states' rights bars government action in the matter of lawmaking for any sections of the country save territories, the national parks and the forest reserves, but this fact does not prevent Dr. Palmer from being the adviser in chief of nearly every body of legislators in the' land when the game laws stand in need of revision. John Hyde, chief of the bureau of statistics In the Department of Agriculture, resigned, declaring that the cotton growers had organized to force him out of the department and that his health was too poor to enable him to continue the struggle. Secretary Wilson said that Mr. Hyde has not been implicated in any manner in the irregularities that resulted in the dismissal of Edwin S. Holmes, the associate statistician, charged 'with being guilty of giving to brokers advance figures of cotton crop statistics. Hyde's letter of resignation was almost sensational. The War Department has Invited bids for the building of more than twelve hundred miles of railroads in the Philippine Islands. The bidders must be citizens or corporations of the United States or the Philippines. Eight hundred and thirty-three miles of the railroads will be iu the Island of Luzon. Tlie right to operate telegraph lines along the routes will be reserved by the government. President Roosevelt has directed a milder and more discriminating enforcement of the Chinese exclusion act, to the end that Chinese who are not of the prohibited classes may receive as courteous treatment, as the citizens of other nations. Resentment in China against the United States because of this act and the methods of its enforcement is taking the form of an organized boycott In Chinese cities against American goods. About 100 years more will be required to complete the work of making a topographical map of the country, which was begun by the United States government in '1SS2. The work is being carried on in co-operation with the States, NeT York, for example, having appropriated annually $20,003 to $25,000 as its share. There "never has been a topographical map of the United States published other than rough sketches. For that reason the government work will be one of.th; largest ever made. "

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