Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 7, Plymouth, Marshall County, 21 November 1907 — Page 2

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2 .VL f Q-F. M. J L. Q. Vr 5th V 12 h. ?19th. Vj 27tti. PAST AND PEESENT AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL CORNERS OF THE EARTH. Telecraphlc Information Gathered by the Few far the Enlightenment of the Many. Kentucky's Governor Visits Indiana. Augustus E. Willson. Republican governor-elect of Kentucky, with Mrs. "Willson, who arc cn their way to Washington, D. C, stopped for a day with relatives in Indianapolis, Ind. In an interview Mr. Willson said that If William S. Taylor, former governor of Kentucky, and Charles Finley, former Secretary of State under indictment for complicity in the murder of "William Goebel, returned to their native State he intended to see to it that their lives are protected and that they get an absolutely fair and impartial trial. He declined to discuss the case of Caleb Fowers, but declared that he wants him also to have a fair and impartial trial. Mr. Willson denied the report that he had come to Indianapolis to see ex-Gcvernor Taylor. Seven Die in Train Wreck. Seven persons are reported killed in a wreck on the Canadian Pacific railroad at Chalk river, Canada. Express No. 8 is said to have crashed into a light engine which was running wild, derailing two cars and destroying both locomotives. Among the Injured are Thomas Ferrone, of New York, and Engineer Youngs, fireman. The latter will probably die. The mail car took fire and with Its contents was destroyed. Canadian Pacific officials refuse to discuss the wreck beyond giving out the above details. Remarkable Wreck on Wabash. Through passenger train No. 13, west-bound, on the Wabash railroad, -which ran off the track at Pine, Ind., Is stfll in the ditch, with all cars partly overturned, except the dining car, which was the last on the train. How all of 100 passengers and train crew escaped being dashed to death, or at least seriously injured, is a mystery. People who have viewed the wreck, as well as the train crew and passengers themselves, marveled at the fact that no one was killed and only eight persons severely hurt. Violence at Louisville. Two policemen, were fnjured by bricks, five men were arrested and a number of persons clubbed as the resuit of a riotous demonstration made by striking street car employes and their friends in Louisville, Ky. That the affair did not result more seriously was due to the prompt arrival of police reserves who broke up the crowd before it could be further inflamed. Caught a Bad Rural Carrier. Arnold Malonc, assistant rural route carrier at Lincoln City, Ind., was arrested for opening letters on his route. A decoy letter, which bulged with "stage" money was opened by him. The affidavit against Malone was filed with Postmaster Collier, of Lincoln City. Shoots Daughter; Then Suicides. Major Frank McLaughlin, prominent politician and capitalist, shot his daughter Agnes in the temple, the bullet coming out on the other side of her head. Soon after he committed suicide. The girl is alive, but unconscious. No hope Is entertained for her recovery. s Natural Gas Explodet. About twenty-five persons wer? injured, two fatally, and a dwelling was torn to pieces when an explosion of natural gas occurred in a house located at No. 103 Elm street, Pittsburg, Pa. In ths fire which followed two firemen were severely burned. Hunter and Trapper Takes His Life. Lewis Mocky, SO years old, respected fanner, hunter and trapper , well known in the South, committed suicide at Madison. Ind., by shooting himself through the head with his rifle. Ill health was the cause. Oklahoma Legislature to Assemble. Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma, has Issued a call for the Legislature of the new State to convene on Dec. 2. Serious and Costly Fire. The establishment of the Mills and Averill Tailoring Company, Broadway and Pine streets, St. Louis, Mo., was gutted by fire, the total loss beinj: estimated at $100,000. I Wreck on the Lake Shore. I A west-bound Lake Shore local passenger train ran Into an open switch at Hillsdale, Mich., and crashed into a freight engine. Eight people were injured. Bridal Couple Suffocated. With gas oozing from a jet near theit bed, Michael Cantlin and his bride wer found dead in the bridal chamber at a hotel in Wilkesbarre. Tbey were married the previous night, and evidently had blown out the gas. Bich. Man Killed for Money. Badly mutilated and bearing marka showing that he had been shot repeatedly and terribly beaten, the body f William Cline, a wealthy citizen of Bolivar, Paras found in a field a short distance from that town. The motive of the crime i thought to have been robbery. King May Surrender Throne. A newspaper of Liege declares upon the authority of a high official that Kin;. Leopold may possibly abdicate rathei ihan give in to the Belgian Parliament on the question of the Congo independen State. Seek Football Eecelpts. Safe blowers blew open the safe in th .accountant's office of the University o Minnesota. It was evident that the thought the $28,000 received from th Chicago-Minnesota game waa still in th moll, but the money had been sent to lank. The robbers got only $5.

PROHIBITION IS ISSUE

IN THE SOUTH. Wave of Reform Is Not Stayed as It Rushes Over Fair Dixie Land. CHANGE BENEFITS NEGROES. William E. Curtis Writes of the Remarkable Impetus of Crusade Against Drink. Prohibition Is the only political issue in the South, writes William E. Curtis in the Chicago Record-Herald. The entire population is now lined up on one side or the other. There is no distinct prohibition party, but both of the Did parties have put planks in their platforms advocating the abolition of the liquor traffic and at local elections the members of both are found voting for and against local option and prohibition. The strongest argument in favor of prohibition is the imperative necessity Df keeping whisky out of tlr: reach of the reckless, lawless colored element. That argument carried Georgia and Is proving equally strong In other States, because it is believed that nearly all the crimes, the assaults that lead to lynchings, are duo to whisky. Georgia has taken the lead in 'the movement. Great impetus was given to it by the race riots that occurred at Atlanta last spring and v. ere provoked by drunken negroes. Georgia has a general prohibition law, and the sale of liquor Is absolutely prohibited throughout that State. In Alabama a law has recently been passed authorizing each county to vote on the liquor question, and a large majority of the counaies have already voted for prohibition. It is predicted that the next Legislature will pass a general prohibition law. In Arkansas a similar law prevails, and sixty out of seventy-eight counties have adopted prohibition. In Florida thirty out of forty-five counties have suppressed all saloons, and the -Democratic party ha3 declared for prohibition. This means the adoption of a general prohibition law at the next session of the Legislature. In Kentucky mirabile dictu the sale of i-quor is prohibited in aU but four of the 110 counties of the State, and even in those every saloon Is closed on Sunday, In Louisiana feven-eighths of the counties are dry, and there is a lawprohibiting what are called "jug trains." Before this law was passed accommodation trains used to run from cities and towns where liquor was sold into the "dry counties" on Saturdays so that thirsty citizens could buy a supply for Sunday. Mississippi has had county local option for several years, and in sixtyeight out of seventy-five counties there are laws prohibiting not only .the sale of liquor, but it must not be, given away. A man may be sent to jail for Inviting a visitor to take a drink with him in his own house. This law. is habitually evaded by placing tho bottle and the glasses on the sideboard or the mantelpiece, where visitors can help themselves. South Carolina has recently repealed the dispensary law nd adopted county option instead, and it Is expected that a general prohibition law wili be passed tt the next session of the Legislature. , In Ncrth Carolina Gov. Glenn, who is leader of the Democratic party. Is also leader of the prohibition movement anl is stumping the State in support Of it. In Tennessee liquor is sold In but three counties. Its sale Is absolutely prohibited everywhere else, and the members of the next Legislature from other parts of the State will probably wipe out those wet spots at the next session. In Texas two-thirds of the counties have adopted absolute-prohibition and have made it unlawful to give away as well as to sell liquor, as in Mississippi. Prohibition is the principal Issue of the campaign now in progress. West Virginia has abolished the liquor traflic In thirty out of fifty-five counties, and prohibition is likely to be an issue in the next campaign. Oklahoma, like Georgia, nas passed a general prohibitory law. Prohibition has not made much headway in the State of Virginia so far, but the sentiment Is growing, and the epidemic Is likely to spread over the boundaries of the neighboring States without much delay. Saturday afternoon the streets of the cities of the South are always crowded with colored people from the country enjoying a holiday and spending their earnings for confectionery, ribbons, gilt jewelry and other useless objects which seein to fascinate them. But, owing to the prohibition law, the men usually go home sober. They consume vast quantities of "soft drinks," and occasionally get a little liquor from some city friend, but the police are vigilant aud it is very difficult for them to obtain firewater. An Amphibious Automobile. The old idea of a wheeled vehicle that should run both on the land and in the water has been realized in a recent invention by a Frenchman named Ravellier, according to an article translated for the Literary Digest. The body has the general form of a boat's hull of steel, with wheels on axles passing through watertight tubes. It is driven by a twenty horse-power motor, with a speed-changing axle so prolonged as to run a screw profiler when the machine enters the water, while a rudder is controlled by the steering gear. The boat will leave the water with its own power if the slope is not more than 15 per cent, but if greater than this, tackle attached to a tree or rock and operated by a windlass in the bow is relied upon to draw the carriage from the water. Employers Itednee Wo Ken. The New York Air Brake Company of Watertown, N. Y., has issued the following: "Until further notice the salary of all employes of the New York Air Brake Company from superintendent down, will be reduced 10 per cent." The company employs 3,000 men. Commercial Council Called. Secretary Straus of the Department of Commerce and Labor has invited representatives of all the chambers of commerce and labor to meet him at Washington to consider a plan for bringing about closer co-operation between them Ja times of stress.

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5rtriAi EMERGENCY CHECKS ARE AUTHORIZED BY BANKS. Clearing1 House Decides Issuance of Scrip "Will Help Local Financial Situation. At a meeting of the Chicago Clearing IIoue Association, which was attended by representatives of the nineteen member banks, it was decided, upon recommendation of the Clearing House committee, to issue checks of small denominations, to be used as a medium of exchange in lieu of currency until such time as local banks shall see fit to resume specie payments. The new checks will be in denominations of $1, $2, $."5 and $10, and will be issued by the Chicago Clearing House Association in paymeLt of clearing house certificates of large denominations, which have been previously issued to the banks. It was decided, for the convenience of handling them, that the checks will be drawn on only four member banks of the association. These banks are the First National, the Con. Exchange National, the Continental National and the Commercial National. When any bank iu the Clearing House Association desires a supply of the checks it must present to the manager of that organization clearing house certificates of the larger denominations for the amount of small checks It applies for. The checks of small denominations, which are guaranteed by the clearing house, will then be drawn, based on one of the banks designated, In payment of the clearing house certificates to the association, and the checks will be made payable to the bank which applied for them, or bearer, and will, therefore, be transferable from one holder to another without indorsement. Banks receiving the checks will pay them out to customers for pay roll purposes and they will pass into the bands of employes, from them into the hands of merchants and others, and from the latter back Into the banks, which will accept them as deposits. The United States mint in Philadelphia Tuesday delivered ?1,UOO,000 in gold double eagles to the subtreasury there. It is stated that within the next three months the mint will coin $02,000,000 In double eagles. This enormous amount of gold will be distributed among the subtreasuries and will be employed to relieve the money stringency. The movement of gold from the vaults of European banks to the United States, which has been In progress for several weeks, in which the unpre cedented total of nearly $00,000,000 has been engaged abroad for Import, still continues. Priest Ilepllew to Tope. In his reply to Pope Pius X., for which he has been virtually excommunicated by the head of the church, Father Tyrrell, the English Jesuit, refuses to accept the implications of the Pope document that he, as a Modernist, places himself outside the pale of the church. In severe term he arraigns the document for identifying true Catholicism with a "science theory and psychology that are as strange as astrology to the modern mind, and are practically unknown outside seminary walls, save to the historian of philosophy." He says the encyclical as an argument "falls dead for every one who regard.s its science theory as obsolete; for all who believe that truth has not been stagnating for centuries in theological seminaries, but has been steadily streaming on with evcr-incrccsing force and volume in the channels which liberty has opened to its 1 progress. He characterizes the document as "a clear and final demonstration of the futility of pouring new wine into old bottles; of the attempt to gather the experiences of the twentieth century under the categories of the thirteenth: of 'coming to terms' with, an ge that is dad and buried in a Word, of coquetting with the impossible." Hotel Rent Roof Tfrnta. Already the plan of the fashionable Bellevue-Stratford hotel, at Philadelphia, to establish an outdoor camp on its lofty roof has proved a success. Several wealthy travelers have taktü up quarters in this curious combination of city and country conditions. The camp consists of thirty-two tents. SI eat Price Advance. Despite the fact that there has recently been a materia) falling off in the price of bogs and beef cattle in the Texas markets the Fort Worth retailers pay that the packing houses have advanced the price of pork loins a half rent and other cuts Wt cents, and a still further advance is looked for. Gen. Boo 11 Returns Home. The venerable bead of the Salvation army. Gen. William Booth, mailed from New York for En eland Friday, havimr completed an extensile fare veil tour of this country.

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2 - 'o lOLUBfiES From Maine and Missouri come complaints of low. wages paid to teachers in the public schools. A committee of the Maine Teachers' Association has Investigated conditions in that State, and reports tbat the average monthly salary of men teachers is $11.01 .below the average for the nation, and $21.27 below the average for New England. For women teachers the average mouthly salary is $12.91 lower than that for the entire country, and $11.00 below the New England average. The majority of woaion teachers in the State work for from six to nine dollars a week. About one-eighth ire paid more than tea dollars. Over 1,'HX) elementary and high school teachers board at home, aud this explains how t is possible for many teachers' to susain themselves on their small salaries Maine has good teachers, and 1,870 of hem have taken partial or complete nornal training courses. The committe inds that 0,500 women working in the Jaine cotton inills'get an average weekly wage of $."5.09, while the average pay of women school teachers is $G.IX) a week. The average weekly pay of men in the cotton mills is $8.01, according to this report, nd the men teachers receive $1MS. The committee says that the only other occupation in Maine for which figures are available is that included in the v.oolen industrj, where the annual wages run from $327 to $500. The average pay of school teachers, including principals and superintendents, is $121. Japan is to have a unique revenge for any real or fancied slights it may have received at the hands of American school authorities if President Otto C. Schneider of the Chicago school board has his way. President Schneider wants to adopt the Japanese imperial rescript on education as the standard of ethical and moral teaching in the Chicago public schools. The rescript, which is a sort of educational creed, was issued some thirty years ago by the Emperor of Japan and has been used since that time as a formula for ethical teaching in the Japanese schools. In part it reads: "Be filial to your parents, affectionate to your brothers and sisters; as husbands and wives be harmonious, as friends, true ; bear yourselves in modesty and moderation ; extend your benevolence to all; pursue learning and cultivate arts, and thereby develop intellectual faculties and perfect moral powers ; furthermore, advance public good and promote common interests; always respect the constitution and preserve the laws; should emergency arise, offer yourselves courageously to the State ; and thus guard al maintain the prosperity of our imperial throne, coeval with heaven and earth." In an address before the National Educational Association at Los Angeles recently, President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of California criticised the prevailing custom of prescribing a college education for all mental ills and condemning when the potion failed to cure. He said the public school must be made and kept the school for all, without recognition of classes or conditions, and that it must .shape its work and plan so as to close no door, but rather open the freest opportunity for the best achievement and the highest advance. He thought, hovrever, that the present rigid system of the grades, whose chief excuse has been economic necessity, must yield to permit the more rapid advance of gifted and diligent pupils, and that it should be borne in mind that the school exists for the child and not for, the grade. President Schneider of the. Chicago School Bard is advocating the Japanese imperial rescript on education as the standard of ethical and moral teaching in the Chicago public schools. A copy of this rescript, which recently has been translated, shows it to be a sort of educational creed, issued some thirty years ago by the Emperor of Japan. It includes such injunctions as devotion to parents and family, modesty, moderation, benevolence, pursuit of learning, cultivation of arts advancement of the public good, respect for law and loyalty to the State. Supt. Maxwell of New York has urged principals to give the group system of teaching and grading a trial. The general principle is to so arrange the progress of pupils that each may have individual attention. Classes are separated into divisions and definite times are fixed for study. This allows bright pupils to do more advanced work by going from one division to another as fust as they are able. It now appears that Lord Curzon, who recently was appointed chancellor of the University of Oxford, is to take up residence there and de-ote much of his time to injecting new life into the old institution. From this vantage ground he will push his public appeo) for funds and carry out e scheme far modernizing the course o study. The New York Board of Education has decided to restrict the use of feather dusters and to introduce the vacuum-cleaning process in one of the new school bouses as a tri I. Asparagus is the oldest known plant um4 for food,

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ivfe&i V -7 WALSH TRIAL OPENS. Chicago Millionaire Charged with Defalcation of a Large Sum. John 11. Walsh, the Chicago railroad magnate and millionaire, intimate friend of Senators, Congressmen and kins of finance, faced the .federal court Tuesday to answer cnarges of defalcation of $15.000,000. Because of former associations with tlie banker, Judge Land is, of Standard Oil fame, refused to hear the case, ?md Judge Anderson of Indianapolis presided In his stead. Walsh has an array of counsel, whose fees are said to eggrcgatc $250,000. John S. Miller, "the $100,000 Standard Oil lawyer;" Attorney Ilynes and other legal stars are among them. Among the witnesses ordered to apIcHr for the government are the directors and officers of the defunct Chicago National bank. Home Savings bank and Equitable Tru Co i;pany, three institutions wrecked by Walsh methods; National Bank Examiner Moxey, Etta McLean, the federal attorney's former stenographer, who was arrested for the tlieft of papers from his otlice, and the "dummy" signers of notes. Miss McLean was released later. Walsh is under two indictments of more than 150 couuts for tho alleged looting of the banks. The funds were used in 11)05, it is charged, for building his railroads in southern Indiana. Walsh began business life as a newsboy. Walsh was considered the financial king of Chicago. COST OF THANKSGIVING DINNER. Comparison Shows vt Least 40 Per Cent Advance in Ten Years. Thanksgiving Is a heritage from our Puritan forefathers, and those Americans who are true to their traditions always do their best, of course. But this year the American father will find himself ajyalnst a proposition which differs a little from that of his progenitors who provided the feast of thankfulness for the hungry youngsters of a century or two ago. Then tLe head of the household would shoulder his rille and go out to knock over a couple of wild turkeys while his good wife was busy getting out from the cellar the vegetables aud fruits to complete the feast Nowadays father will have to hand out an unusual sum if the good wife if. to feed everybody turkey with cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, and other Thanksgiving fixings wnich have come to be necessary to the celebration of the day. It costs much more now to feed a family than it did at Thanksgiving time ten years ago. Here are the figures for 1007 and 1807; 1007. 1807. Turkeys, per pound $ 25 $ IS Chickens, per pound HO , 15 Geese, per pound 15 11 Ducks, per pound 20 15 Cranberries, quart ....... 12V1 07 Sweet potatoes, per pound.. 05 05 Butter, per pound 35 2S Celery, bunch TK) DO Pumpkins, each 20 15 Apples, peck CO .r0 Eggs, dozen 2t ( 20 Oysters, quart 40 ; 25 I'nlvemnllats Adopt Resolution. The Universalists at their general convention recently held in Philadelphia, placed themselves on record as favoring: All movements tending to universal peace; precaution by ministers in performing marriage ceremonies, and a uniform divorce law throughout the United States; belter legislation and enforcement of child labor laws; enactment ar.d rigid euforcctnent of such laws as will exterminate intemperance. The convention opposed woman's suffrage and capital punishment. Volcano Ietry Penk. News reached Tacoma, Wash., Nov. 5 that a volcanic eruption in September destroyed the new McCullough and Perry peaks, which had appeared in the Aleutian Islands. The news was Drought by the officers of a United States revnu cutter, which had left the islands about three weeks before. Dark Spell I I'lttlurK. Within the period of five minutes Pittsburg was plunged into semi-darkncKs fro:.' bright morning sunlight shortly after V o'clock Wednesday, due to the overspreading of a heavy cloud laden with particles of dust. With China's rich agricultural son. which can grow any known vegetable an 3 fruit, it would seem tö be only a question of time when the Chinese will pnxecv their own sugar from home-raised bee: roots. While Mrs. Russell Sage is doing a no'ib work with her money, it !s n'u iy th'.se close to her personally that m dvtt mined that in her giving she shall do so upon her own initiative. S'ic will seldom take a suggestion. At Morristowa, N. J., thieves discovered by telephone that A. It. Whitney was away from hone and robbed his bouae.

WILLIAM J. BRYAN IS WILLING TO RUN,

Declares in The Commoner He Is Ready to Accept Honor if Requested. WILL NOT SEEK THE PLACE. Prepared to Lend His Support to Any Other Candidate that the Democrats May Select. William Jennings Bryan in the current issue of the Commoner, the paper owned and edited by him, announces his willingness to be the candidate of the Democratic party again, should be called upon. However, he declares he will not seek the nomination. If the Democrats should decide that somelody else suits them better than he, he will be neither "disappointed nor disgruntled," he says. He insists that the WILLIAM JENNINGS ERVAN. question of his availability be left to the rank and file of the people, rather than to a few so-called leaders. He has received honors enough from the part, he says. He has been aniplyf repaid by it for all he has done In Its behalf. He will checrfuly serve in the ranks if another leader- is chosen to make the fight. But should the party's choice fall on him his address is Lincoln, Neb., the dog Is tied and his doorbell is in good working order. GOTHAM BANKER A SUICIDE. Deposed President of the Knickerbocker Concern Shoots Himself. Charles Tracy Barney deposed president of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, millionaire promoter, social leader, clubman and one of the best known men in New York City, shot himself in his mansion at 3Sth street and Park avenue. It is largely to Inability to endure the blot upon his business reputation which he feared would result from the suspension of the Knickerbocker Trust Company that Mr. Barney's closest friends attribute his act. He had been at the head of the trust company for many years and had seen it grow from a comparatively obscure concern to one of the leading financial institutions of the cjty. Then, almost without warning, came the crash. The resignation of Mr. Barney as president of the Knickerbocker was accepted by the directors and the next day the great trust company, with obligations to Its depositors amounting to nearly $70,000,000, was forced to suspend payment. In the run, which lasted less than a dayhe cnorraous total of $S,000,000 was paid across the counters. Not since the murder of Stanford White by Harry Thaw on the roof of Madison Square Garden has there been a greater sensation than that caused by tho self-destruction of Mr. Barney. In business, social, club and hotel circles the suicide was the one absorbing topic of conversation. Strike Ulocker Xow In Demand. Now it is the "strike blocker" that is taking the place ofUhe strike breaker in a secret campaign of the employers against the labor unions, according to the article by Allen Sangree in American Industries, organ of the National Manufacturers' Association. The newcomer is the man who, when an industrial crisis approaches in any line, joins a union, and by conferring with the eraployr and then the memVrs of the union, lea.-ns the exact caus of the trouble. "To do this," says Sangree, "he must have the . confidence of each, and to unionists, of course, his Identity must not be revealed. He is the "ounce of prevention." Sangree goes on to say that within the last year strikeblockid concerns have been established in every industrial center of the country. The ojerative3 number thousands, and already more than a dozen big strikes have been averted by 'them. Their effort are directed by men who combine the abilities of detective and labor leader. The iJirase of the professional blocker is "rcp.scn rather than force." Thomas J. Fareil ol New York is credited with being the leader of the strike blockers. He savs he believes in unions, but seeks luerely to eliminate the opportunities for graft. Told in a Few Line. A monument to Bunsen is 'o be erected ft Heidelberg. Trench mints coined $S04,000 of Swiss corns during '100G. The Persians have a different name for every day in the month. Street car men of Yonkers are called thieves; all strike and tie up the whole system. Grapes arc still trodden with the bare feet in many of the vineyards of Spain and Italy. Developments in Yashington again proved assertions that Pacific cruise has no war meaning. y Editor Harden, who exposed vice in the imperial court at Berlin, cheered as he leaves court. It will require $31,041,323 to run the public schools of New York City for the year just beginning. . Helen Yarick Boswell has been selected to start a string of women's clubs on tho Isthmus of Panama.! William R. Hearst sued for criminal libel because of nrticle connecting Chanler and Hitchcock with scandal. A blight of the tea plants caused by the bite of mosquitoes is causing much alarm among the planters in India. , Netherland ports are to be benefited by the widening and deepening of the North Sea cargf. so that large vessels will be able to raove at all stages of the tide. For night traffic the canal is to be lighted by electricity. William E. Curtis writes from New York of an interview with George F. Kunz, an authority on precious stones, who says that the diamonds recently found in Arkansas are genuine and in surroundings similar to those of the Kimberlej mines.

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OKLAHOIIA, FORTY-SIXTH STATE, ENTERS UNION.

Is the Richest, Host Populous and Most Promising of AJ1 Her Predecessors. With the proclamation of President Roosevelt Saturday, notifying the world that a new State had been born, Oklahoma took her place in the sisterhood of Uncle Sam. The new State s the richest and most promising ever admitted to the American Union. She has half as many people as all the thirteen original States combined when they achieved their independence. By actual count of noses J-he has six times the population of any other State ever leceived at the time of admission into the Union. She has fifty times the Jimount of wealth that could be claimed hy any of her predecessors at the beginning of their State life, and has, what not one of them could show, nil the arts and sciences, the improvements aad progress that go to make a highly Ivilized commonwealth, from wireless telegraphy to the skyscraper, from the telephone to chemical farming. More than a million and ä half arsons claim the new State as theirs, and it will not be long after the census is taken in 1010 before the 2.C00,COO-m::rk will be passed. All the old States have seat f their best blood into Oklahoma to give it cosmopolitan life, and, no matter where jou are from, if you travel within its borders you will find jour own people. The farmer from New England is there raising cotton side by side with his northern crops; the Louisiana planter has taken a homestead and ig growing alfalfa and wheat, and the Pennsylvania!! and Ohioau are digsins coal or boring for oil, while the Californian and Texan are gaining wealth from mills or railroads or electric plants. There are thrift and push ana energy everywhere. If Oklahoma has any lazy residents, they manage to conceal themselves, for the whole population seems on the move continually. Spots - that were grassy prairies are bustling towns to-day; yesterday's towns are cities now ; the liotcls cannot build additions fast enough to accommodate the traveling public, and the railroads, strive as they may to add tracks and rolling stock to their equipment, are simply unable to keep up with the constantly growing volume of freight and passenger tratlie. Up-to-dateness seems to be the watchword of Oklahoma's ieoplc In the rural districts as well as la the populous cities. Every farmer has his windmill, gasolene engine or mechanic! vater IKjwer for supplying his house and outbuildings, and many own automobiles. Telephones bring them into close communication with the towns, and the rural free delivery bears dally mail to their doors. Oklahoma can raise anything which grows between the Cana dian border and Florida and Texas. The cotton yield to the acre is greater than that in any other State or Terri tory in the Union. After the proclamation declaring Ok lahoma a full-fledged State the only thing remaining to Ik? done to signify its being made a complete member of the Union will be the setting of its star In the llag. Under the law this can not bo accomplished until the Fourth of July, 1008. ' Only three of the territories now remain, Alaska, Arizona and New Mexico. The probability" is that one or both of these last-named will soon be admitted to the United States, and then every section of the country except Alaska, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines will be represented in the Senate. Chadwick' Secret Oat. The Supreme Court at Pittsburg has made public the deposition of the late Castle L. Chadwick, made while she was in prison, and which had been ordered sealed by a lower court. The opening of this paper was in connection with the suitof the administrator of the. estate of W. C. Jutte, the Pittsburg coal operator, who committed suicid3 List year, against James W. Friend, as president of the Pressed Steel Car Company, for an accounting. Mrs. Chadwick said she had borrowed small amounts from Friend for a long time, simply on her story of Lie vast wealth that Andrew Carnegie h.i put in trust for her as his relative. Then Friend had asked her to sign an agreement promising to turn over bond valued at $0,000,000, which she said were held by Ira Reynolds on a certain date, in consideration for which Friea.l let her have $87,000 more. Mrs. Chadwick sail that she had obtained altogether $7J.V0O from Friend, and from Frank N. Hoffstot. the vice president of the Pressed Steel Car Company. ChrlMlanltr and National Life In a contribution to the Contemporary Review of London, Sir W. M. Ramsay makes the contention that a nation cannot live without some real and profound hold on the supernatural, illustrating his argument by reference to the Pauline theology and the Roman Emplrel He reasons that, while the Christianity of Paul was crushed for the time being by the decrees of the Roman emperors, this policy of repression and massacre proved the destruction of the empire, while the religious principles which had been so bitterly antagonized became important factors in the political life as soon as freedom of thought and action began to spread over Europe. ) Are Voting Machine Lenralf The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has recently decided that tli3 us of voting machines is not permissible under the constitution of the commonwealth. This decision has aroused no littb comment, and has led to the assertion that if the machines are unconstitutional in Massachusetts they must be abo iu No York, and perhaps other States. It is pointed out, on the other hand, however, that this does not necessarily follow, as the fundamental law of Massachusetts is peculiar in its reference to the methed in which the votes shall be cast. One In 300 Innane. According to the report of the New York State Commission on Lunacy, the total number of persons confined in institutions for the insane in that State is 20,307. This is a proportion of about one to every S00 of the population. The indications are that insanity has been steadily on the increase since 1SD7. While the percentage of foreign born to the population is 20, the percentage of foreign-born insane is 40. Insane patients of Irish and German nativity are on the decrease, while those of Russia, AustriaHungary and Italy are increasing. White Slaves In rnnama. Rose Johnson, a missionary, who has spent several years at Colon, stated to the National Purity Congress, in session at Battle Creek. Mich., that gn'ls are be ing systematically stolen from American homes and sent to Panama as recruits for the white slave market there main tained with official collusion. It is said President Roosevelt has intimated an intention, if Taft o- another progressive leader is chosen to leirveed him, of seeking Piatt's place ij the Sen ate, with the idea of lending the support of administration policies.

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CHICAGO. Steady improvement appears iu financial conditions, further gold importations, increasing note circulation and larger use of checks in place of specie making it easier to view the outlook with contidence. The pressure for currency is gradually finding relief, and with the liquidation and readjustments in process a return to normal conditions Is closer at hand. Pay roll needs are now more easily provided for, and the new medium of exchange conserves moneys at the banks and is re.i.lily accepted in ordinary transactions. Savings banks depositors have virtually ceased giving withdrawal notices, and there is more activity in New York exchange. Foreign buying of products Is yet in excess of a year ago, and a continuation of this favorable factor seems likelj' and will provide the means for additional purchases of gold abroad to strengthen local bank resources. Mercantile collections are no worse than exiected, and, while there are more calls for ex tensions he record of failures makes a better exhibit than for both last week and a year ago. Distributive trade is favored by seasonable weather, and advices- as to both local and Interior activity In the necessaries remain satisfactory. It Is fortunate that stocks of fall and winter goods are not excessive.'. Most buyers bought conservatively In advance, and those now in the market limit selections to ascertained needs. Dealings in the principal jobbing branches thus far this year make' new high rocorc.s, and the present curtailed buying is not regarded as more than temporary. Tue movement of holiday goods shows satisfactory proportion. Receipts of raw materials for factory consumption fall below those at this time last year, an Indication that there is no unhealthy pressure upon forwarders, and the prices for finished products have undergone no especial change. More closing down of plants for repairs and reduction in hands and working hours appear to lie' ma inly for the purpose of bridging over the difficulty in obtaining funds. The lnck of curency throughout the agricultural sections ' accounts for decreased marketings of crops, but it is also evident that there are large withholdings for higher prices. Failures reported In Chicago district number 20, against 37last week and 27 a year ago, Those with liabilities-over $5,000 number 7, against 10 last week and 11 in 1900. Dun's Rcvicvr of Trade. ' ITEW YORK. Trade as a whole Is quieter anl industrial operations are being curtailed In accord with the readjustment process forced by the prevailing monetary stringency aud the spread of, the acute currency scarcity to the country at large. Evidences of this are found in the restriction of wholesale buying for future delivery. In the confinement of jobbing trade to purely filling-In proportions, and In the curtailment of retall buying by the necessary employment of credit Instruments. In manufacturing lines there is apparently a determination to fill orders only as they are received and an Indisposition to accumulate stocks, the result here being a slowing down of operations pending the settlement of affairs upon a substantial basis. This industrial quieting is also in no small degree due to the fact that manufacturers unable or unwilling to ask their employes to take pay In credit instruments chose rather to reduce production to a point where operations can be conducted free from dispute as to the methods of payment employed. Rradsrreet'g Commercial Report . Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $1.00 to $G.55; hogs, prime heavy, $-1.00 to $3.ri0; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2, 01c to 05c; corn. No. 2. 57c to 50c; oats, undard, 44c to 45c ; rye, No. 2, 7D to S0c ; hay, timothy, $11.00 to $10.50; prairie. $'J.00 to $14.50; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 27c ; eggs, fresh, 10c to 2 Jc ; potatoes, per bushel, 55c to C2c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $0.75; hogs, good to choice 'heavy, $1.50 to $3.00; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to' $1.75; wheat. No. 2, SUc to 91c; corn. No. 2 white, 55c to CGc; oats. No. 2 white, 40c to 47c. St. Louis Cattle. $1.50 to $G.00; hogs. $4.00 to $5.(U); tdiecp, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat. No. 2, 00c to USc; corn, No. 2,- 50c to 5Sc; oats. No. 2, 44c to 45c; rye. No. 2, 75c to 70c. Iluffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $0.25; hogs, fair to choice, $1.00 to $5.S5; sheep, common to ood mixed, $1.00 to $5.50; lambs, fair to choice, $5.00 to $70. " J New York Cattle, $1.00 to $G35 ; hogs, $1.00 to $5.80; shv-ep, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2 rel, $1.00 to $1X2; corn, No. 2, G5c to GGc; oats, natural white, 52c to 54c; butter, creamery, 25c to 2Sc; eggs, western, 25c to 30c Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 05c to OGc; corn. No. 2 mixed, COc to Glc; oats. No. 2 mixed, 40c to 50c; rye. No. 2, 7Cc to 77c ; clover seed, prime, $3.35. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $5.50; hogs, $4.00 to $3.(ki; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2, 04c to 05c; corn. No. 2 mixed, C2c to G3c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 4Sc to 49c; rye, No. 2, 81c to 83c. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.20; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2, OGc to 07c; corn. No. 3 yellow, C2c to C3c; oats. No. 3 white, 51c to 52c; rye, No. 2, 79c to 80c Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.01 to $1.07; corn, No. 3, 59c to 00c; oats, standard, 4 Sc to 49c; rye. No. 1, 80c to 82c; barley, standard, 91c to 95c; pork, mess, $12.95. Half a million sportsmen in Germany kill annually 40,000 bead of red and fallow deer, 200,000 roebuck. 4,000,000, hares, 4,000,000 partridges and 400,000 wild duck; In all, some 23,000,000 marks, or $5,000,000, forming neariy I per cent of the. total meat supply of Germany. The fish population of the Nile Is said to present a greater variety than tbat of any other body of water. Afl expedition sent from iLe British Museum not long ago secured 0,000 specimens.