Plymouth Tribune, Volume 7, Number 51, Plymouth, Marshall County, 24 September 1908 — Page 2

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ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. '-S-All Side and Conditions of Thins re Shown. Nothing Oyer looked to take it Complete,

Guide of Blind Man Killed. That many people and even an entire city can become greatly attached to a dumb brute Is shown la the death cf Rex, the fine Gordon setter owned by Miles Goodwin, of Newcastle, Ind., tor the arrest of whose slayer a reward of $15d will be paid. Rex was a victim of the dos poisoner, and his leath created universal sorrow in Newcastle, where the dog was a familiar figure. Many friends in Indiana cities will read of the death with regret Hl3 owner, Miles Goxlwln, for years a popular traveling salesman, is now blind, and it was the dnty of Rex to guide him when he left his home. Some unknown person administered poison to the harmless and unsuspecting dog, and a reward of $150 has been offered for his arrest and conviction. Plowing with Steam Power. For the first time in the history of Hamilton County, Indiana, farmers are plowing with steam. This has been made necessary on account of the long drought, the ground being so dry and hard that it is impossible to plow it with horres. - Traction engines are being used to disc harrows. The harrows are run over the ground several times, rendering it in fairly good condition for fall wheat sowing. The famous mineral spring near Noblesville, Ind., from which an inch stream of water has been flowing since the first white man settled in that locality, eightyseven years ago, is dry. Fears Insanity; Ends Life. . Alexander Starbuck, agt.d 83, former president of Cuvier Club of Cincinnati, Ohio, and widely known as an advocate of measures for the protection of game, shot himself fatally in the corridor of the government building. Although once wealthy he had lost all his money, w&s in poor health and in fear of insanity, these facts being given, as the Inciting causes for his suicide. Letters' left by him gavo these causes for hi3 action. Dynamite Outrage. Dynamite was exploded against the home of Joseph A. Ganster, a grocer, of Reading, Pa. Mr. Ganster had received an anonymous letter that his home would be blown up and he reported the matted to the authorities. There Is no clue to the perpetrators. The front of the building was wrecked, but no one was Injured. To Build a $600,000 City Hall. Definite plans for the early erection Of a new City Hall building in Inditnapolls, Ind., on the city's property at Ohio and Alabama streets, at a cost cf $600,000, were agreed upon at a conference in the Mayor's office between Mayor Bookwalter and the building committee of the City Council. World to End Soon, Says Preacher. The Rev. John J. Morton, an evangelist, in a recent address at EvansYille, Ind., predicted that the world come to an end on or before October tS. The present drought that prevails throughout the Ohio Valley Is a forewarning of the destruction of the earth by fire, tt& preacher declared. Wright Makes New Wo rief Record. Wilbur Wright, the American aeropi anlst, flew his machine at the Aurora field In Lemans, France, for one hour, thirty-one minutes and fifcycne seconds. This Is the world's reocrd. He covered nearly sixty-one miles. Oldfleld Breaks Indiana Record. In th? automobile speed contests at the Fair Grounds In Indianapolls, Ind., Darney Oldfleld broke the State record, going cne mile In :55 3-5. He was followed by Walter Christie, who made the still better time of :53 3-5. Divides $1,775,000 Among Children. The will of the late John V. Farve!!, merchant and philanthropist, of Chicago, has been filed for probate, disposing of an estate of $1,775,000 equally among his children. Beef for British Army. The British war office has placed With a Chicago firm another large contract for-American beef and the admiralty Is engaged at the " present time on negotiations for a contract for the nary. Death of "Baby Bliss' Edward Patty, known as the "Baby Bliss" of Mfcttoon, III.. Is dead. He weighed 450 pounds and was the heaviest man In Shelby County. Ohio Congressman Acquitted. Congressman J. F. Laning of Norwalk, Ohio, was found not guilty of the charge of embezzling bank stock by a jury. Attorneys, jurors and the presiding judge congratulated the Congressman, who cried like a child wben he heard the verdict. NegToes Hold Up Italians. Six negroe4 surrounded a freight car in the yards at Muncie, Kan., in which eight Italian railway lalorers were sleeping and robbed the foreigners of ?20. Samuel Chuckeare. one of the Italians, exchanged shots with the negro s and wasJ dangerously wounded. Georgia Abolishes Old System. Gov. Hoke Smith of Georgia has signed the convict lease bill, which hereafter prohibits the leasing of felons except by the consent of the Governor and prison commission. The bill was passed by the legislature after $.VW had been spent in an extra session and nearly a month used in discussing the legislation. Suitor Kills Woman and Self. George Mitchell, aged 22, shot and iaütantly killed Miss Georgia Tratt, aged O, in Eastiwrt, Me., and then blew out Lis trains. Jealousy is believed to hava been the cause.

GIVES $16,000,000 AWAY. W. H. Singer, Pittsburg Millionaire, Invites Children to Feast. As a slight token of regard the guests nt the golden wedding celebration of William II. Singer, the millionaire iron manufacturer of Pittsburg, received $4.KK).000 each in the form of "favors." As there were four guests, this item of the feast alone cost the princely sum of $10,000,OOO.OOO. The consolation enjoyed by the iron king at parting with so many of his millions lay in the fact that every recipient was a member of his family and that he avoided payment in the future of large sums in succession duties to the government. The story of the millionaire's gift became known through the fling In court of papers connected with the transfer of stocks and bonds representing the amounts of cash referred to. It developed that Mr. Singer invited his four children to the family abode, 034 Western avenue, Allegheny, on May 27, to assist in celebrating the golden wedding. None but the children was invited, and each found by his or her plate a small dinner favor and checks, bonds and deeds amounting to $4,000.000. Every effort has been made by aristocratic Singer connections to keep the matter quiet, and they succeeded until the filing of papers made it public. Mr. Singer made his fortune in iron as a member of Singer, Nimick & Co., and in real estate. WOMAN PUTS OUT FUSE OF BOMB.

Prompt Action Prevents Explosion Planned by "Black Hand." At the risk of her life Mrs. Camelia Lawzero of Eighth and Fitzwater streets, Philadelphia, extinguished a sputtering fuse just as the fire was nearing a huge bomb placed in the doorway of Nicholas Volarite's barber shop next door to her home. For several weeks Volarite has been receiving demands for $3,000, couched in threatening terms in letters signed "Black Hand," but has disregarded them. His neighbor saw the bomb as she was going to market with her baby in her arms and quickly placed the child on her doorstep and tore the burning fuse from the bomb. The police took charge of the fiendish thing, which was found to contain enough dynamite to destroy an entire block. SEVEN DIE IN FOREST FIRES. Settler and Six Indians Lose Lives in Attempt at Rescue. Grand Marais is girdled by roaring mountains of fire and smoke. It is believed that a man named Monker and six Indians have perished in the flames in an effort to save homesteaders at Nester, near Grand Marais. This is the news brought by Adjt. Gen. Wood and officers of the Minnesota naval militia, who arrived at Duluth on the Gopher from the north shore. The Gopher is in for coal and provisions and returned to Grand Marais at once. The officers say the danger is not yet over. Lutsen, a small settlement near Grand Marais, is in the greatest danger. It is surrounded by fire and everything there seems doomed, although it is not thought that any loss of life will occur. HOLLAND MILD -ON VENEZUELA. Speech from the Throne Makes Only Brief Reference to Difficulty. The "speech from the throne at the opening of the states general in The Hague was read by Premier Heemskerk in the absence of Queen Wilhelmina, who is convalescent after her recent illness. The speech makes but a brief reference to the differences between the Netherlands and the republic of Venezuela. "In our friendly relations with Venezuela," the government says in the speech, "an interruption occurred which our government is endeavoring to overcome peacefully." The only other mention of the subject U-that "the colony of Curacao is suffering a loss through the interruption of trade with the republic of Venezuela." Nebraska Anti-Pass Law Good. When the District Court of Platte county acquitted Dr. S. S. F. Martin of violating Nebraska's anti-pass law by accepting annual transportation from the Union Pacific, it erred, says the Supreme Court in a decision the- other day. Martin is surgeon for the railroad company. The court holds that he is not an employe and it sustains the anti-pass law. Football Players Killed. Thomas Conley, aged 13, and Clyde Stokes, aged 10, were killed and the other members of a football team narrowly escaped death when they became confused in crossing railroad tracks adjoining the gridiron in the old East Liberty stockyards, Tittsburg, Ta., where they played a practice game. Bear Attacks Girl Trainer. While giving a performance at a fair in Fort Plain, N. Y., with a troupe of six trained bears Miss Beatrice Woods was attacked by the largest of the animals and painfully injured before the brute could be driven away from her. The bear bit her in the shoulder and clawed her face. There was a panic among the spectators and several women fainted. Bede la Snowed Under. Congressman J. Adam Bede of the Eighth Minnesota District has been defeated for renomination. James A. Tawney in the First District, it was thought, had met a like fate in the Republican primaries, but later returns show that be pulled through. Both men made hard fights and were confident of re-election. Maine Cities Swept by Fire. Fire early Tuesday caused a property loss estimated at $3X),000 and destroyed more than fifteen acres of lumber yards, more than a score of tenement buildings, several factories and railroad property on both sides of the Saco river, in the cities of Saco and Biddeford, Me. Immigration Muoh Smaller. Immigration statistics for August show a very great decrease in the number of Immigrants coming to this country compared with the same month of 1007. The total immigration during August was 27,783, while, during August, 1007, the immigrants numbered 98,825. . Tunnel. Fire Kills Two. The first double fatality to be charged to the construction of the Michigan Central tunnel under the Detroit river occurred early Tuesday in shaft No. 4 of the Canadian approach. Two men were suffocated to death by smoke from burning timbers and tar poper in the shaft. Eccentric Man Killed by Train. Fred Schroeder, aged 03, a well-known character at Hastings, Minn., who was hard of hearing and always wore two or three suits of clothes, was killed by the Hastings and Dakota train at Vermillion while crossing the tracks. South Carolina Plan Hit. The United States Circuit Court of Appeals lias sustained the opinion of Judge Pritchard in the famous case of the Fleischmann Company and others against the South Carolina dispensary commission, holding in effect that a State cannot conduct liquor traffic, that being a private basiness. Cold Storage Plant Damaged. The fire in the packing plant of Swift & Co. in South St. Joseph, Mo., caused damage of $00,000 to the cold storage plant, but will not Interfere with Operation.

IOWA MULCT LAW ILLEGAL.

Judge McPherson Holds There Is No License System. According to a decision render! by j JudKe Smith McPherson of the United States Circuit Court in Davenport, the Iowa mulct law system, under which saloons are now operating, is illegal. Judge McPherson further declares the Iowa mulct law is no license system and that there has been no license system in Iowa for the last quarter of a century, and for that length of time there has never been a lawful sale of liquor as a beverage within the State of Iowa. He further holds that no ierson to-day under any circumstances can lawfully sell liquor as a beverage in Iowa. Thn decision was made in a suit of the United Breweries Company of Chicago versus the Civic Federation of Daveniort. The complainants charged the federation with a conspiracy and sought to enjoin them from abating property on which a saloon had been closed. Judge McPherson denied the application for a writ of injunction. Under the mulct law Iowa saloonkeepers have been paying $000 annually as a tax with the understanding that it legalized their sale of intoxicating liquors and gave them relief from the old prohibitory law, which is still on the statute books. The decision is the most sweeping ever made in Iowa affecting the liquor question. LARGE INCREASE IN REVENUE. Government Receipts STiow Marked Improvement Over Last Year. The government receipts paid into the treasury since Sept. 1 show a marked improvement, even exceeding the receipts for th corresponding period in September, 1507, which was some weeks before there were any indications of a money panic. The receipts for Sept. 17 aggregated $2,300,704, of which $1,373,040 came from customs. $703.232 from internal revenue and $233,320 from miscellaneous sources. The receipts for Sept. 17, 11)7, amounted to $1.322.733, which is a gain for the one day of $737,0!). For the seventeen days of the present month the receipts aggregate $27,043,101, of which $14,724.203 came from customs, $11,238.818 from internal revenue and $1,0H),017 from other sources, a gain over the corresponding days in September, 1007, of $01G,0X. STATES HONOR WAR VETERANS. Illinois Leads with $260,000 Appropriation for National Park. According to the annual report of the Vicksburg national military park commission, $707,000 has been appropriated up to this time by various State Legislatures for memorials, monuments and markers to persons and organizations. Of the State appropriations, Illinois leads with $200.01 N), Iowa has $130,000, Wisconsin $130,000, and other States various amounts down to $3,000. Union and Confederate memoria' both adorn the park. It has been proposed to erect a memorial In the park commemorative of the services of the Union navy in the operations of the Vicksburg campaign. For the construction an estimate for an appropriation of $200,000 is submitted. SLAIN IN MINERS' BATTLE. Affair Brought About by Dispute Over Cards Arouses Inhabitants. One man dead and two others so badly injured that they may die was the result of a pitched battle between Montenegrins in a boan'ing house at the McKinley mine location near Miwabik Minn. Some sixty shots were fired, five of the participants being so badly hurt they could not make their escape. It is said the affair occurred over cards. Feeling against the Montenegrins is so strong that a petition is being circulated asking the steel corporation to refuse employment to them. FINDS A $0,200 POT OF GOLD. Laborer Sells Coins and Will Start in Heal Estate Business. Having made a small rortune by luck, Charles E. Wells, a laborer of Graves county, Ky., is preparing to start a bank and engage in the real estate business at Mayfield. Several months ago he found a kettle of coins in Ballard county, containing $3,300 in gold and $300 in silver. The dates ranged from ISO! to 1S0. The other day he sold the collection with the exception of one hundred dollars in silver, to Charles F. Clark & Company of Cincinnati, coin collectors, for $0,200. The money is said to have been buried by a man named Keith, in Civil War times. Auto Crushed Between Cars. A $1,200 automobile belonging to Neff Bros., a real estate firm at Milford, Ind., was caught between two interurban cars in an angle of a "Y" and practically ruined. None of its passengers was injured. They were II. G. Carlson and A. I). Nelson of Taxton, 111.; II. M. Arnold of Sister Park, 111., and Will Patterson, chauffeur. Case Against Trickett Dismissed. Acting under instructions from Gov. Hoch, Attorney General Jackson appeared in the Circuit Court of Kansas City, Kan., and asked that the appealed case of malfeasance in office against Assistant Attorney General C. W. Trickett be dismissed. The court complied with the request. Trickett was recently convicted and fined $500 In the north city court. Heavy Fog Causes Wrecks. Death of at least two persons, injuries to scores of others, and widespread trouble in one way or another were caused by the heavy fog which enveloied Chicago during the early hours Thursday. At least four wrecks were rejwrted on rail lines within the city limits Two Gold Hunters Murdered. The bodies of John O'Leary and John Poc, American prospectors, have been found In the mountains thirty-five miles from Montezuma, Sonora, Mexico. Both liad been partly eaten by wild animals, but there were Indications that the men had been murdered and their camp looted. Sixty Die of Cholera. The plague showed an alarming increase in St. Petersburg the other day. For the twenty-four hours ending at noon that day there were reported 210 cases and sixty deaths from the Asiatic cholera. This is almost double the record of the previous day. Chanler to Oppose Hughes. Lewis Stnyvesmt Chanler, Lieutenant Governor of New York, was nominated for Governor by the Democratic State convention in Hochester. The nomination was by acclamation. Fawn, Pursued, Invades School. A wild Yawn, pursued by dogs, entered the heart of the city of Duluth, Minn., and h-aped through a basement window of the Washington school. Lights Fire with Kerosene; Dead. While lighting a fire with kerosene in the kitchen of her home in East Meadowstock, N. Y., Carrie Snyder, the 18-year-old daughter of David Snyder, a farmer, was so severely burned that she died. Her mother was burned, and is in a critical condition. . - Hanged for Murder in Ontario. William Paul of Pinewood, Ont., near the United Sfates boundary, who murdered his companion, Henry Schelling, a northern Minnesota homesteader, Dec. 0 of last year, was hanged at Kenora, Ont. Paul left a confession.

GOVERNOR'S TO THE

o Twc of the most important subject ronsldered by Governor Hanly in his tnessago to the Indiana Legislature, mnvened in special session, were those Sealing with the Night Uhlers and bounty Local Option. The Governor ."poiicd his message with ail explanation., of the entanglements caused by :be appropriation law and closed by idvocntiii:,' county local option as against township option, which he says the brewers want. Concerning the Night Riders, the (Jovernor says: In the early spring numerous raids were made in the part of the State bordering upon the Ohio Klvcr ly so-called "Night lei Jrs" upon the property of persons engaged in the jrrowiuir vt tobacco, resulting in the destruction of a number of tobacco beds where young plants were being fgrown preparatory to transplanting in the nld-. Many threatening letter were written warning the growers not to plant a tolacco crop for this year, and threatening per sonal violence and the destruction of propeiy if the crop were planted. I have done what I could tinder the limited authority conferred upon the cloveruor by law and with the meager funds la my bauds to apprehend these persons and protect the persons and property ot citizens in that section of the State. - In a few weeks the tobacco crop will be cut and housed in sheds and barns. Many threatening letters are again being received by the tobacco growers, warning them not to cut their crops at peril of the destruction of crops and barns by lire. For a year past one-third of the nelshloring state of Kentucky has been, and now is, lu a state of anarchy ; neither life nor property is secure, l'ropcrty has been destroyed and s number of persons murdered. Depredations have been committed In Ohio necessitating jyiecial legislation and the conferring of special authority ujon oflicers in that State to preserve the property and Uve9 of her citizens. The protection of proierty and Its peaceful enjoyment, and the preservation of the lives of its people, are among the primal reasons for tlx maintenance of any government. I cannot consent that the government of this Commonwealth shall fail in this behalf. Under the present law I lave neither authority nor money with which to prevent It. I therefore recommend the enactment of a statute for the protection of tobacco growers, making the destruction of, or Injury to, tobacco either in the field or after the same shall be severed from the soil, a criminal offense, and rtxlng a severe penalty therefor. I also recommend legislation authorizing and directing the (lovernor te appoint such nuuiler of peroons as lie may deem necessary, to act as secret service officers, to detect or apprehend any person or persons engaged In the malicious destruction of tobacco plants or other property of persons engaged in the growing, curing and marketing of tobacco: giving to such oflicers the power of a sheriff o" other police officer to arrest and detain until a legal warrant can be obtained, any person or persons found violating any of the laws of this State enacted to prevent the destruction or Injury of toltaceo, and giving to the Governor authority to fix the compensation of such eflicers, in addition to their actual and necessary expanses, and the making of an appropriation of $15,000 for the payment and compensation of uch oflicers and their necessary expenses. The enactment of such legislation will of itself have a deterring effect upon those engaged in the unlawful practices to which I have adverted, and will enable the executive to meet with greater efficiency the conditions, that are likely to arise. County Loon! Option. On the subject of Local Option Governor Manly says : The welfare of the State, viewed from either a moral or an economical standpoint, requires the enactment of a law giving to the qualified voters of fhe respective counties of the State the right to vote upja the question of the exclusion of the liquor traffic from any such county. In my judgment it is lioth expedient and right that this legislation be enacted now. The traffic in Intoxicating liquors-is ownetl and controlled to-day by a few tnen. It h closely and compactly organized, both for defense and aggression. Its conduct ha liecome such a to challenge the thoughtful consideration of the people of every State In the I'nion. in this Commonwealth this is esjieclally true. The independent retail dealer, owner of his place of business and responsible to the community where he does business and in which lie lives, is fat becoming a memory. He lias almost ceased to lie. More than 35 per cent of the places whcr liquors are fold at retail, to be drunk on the premises where sold, are owned or controlled by brewery corjtorations. whose directors and officers live out of the vkinity where the business is carried on. and who have no interest or Identity with the copIe of such communities. Many of them live in palatial residences in fashionable quarters in the larger cities of the State, fsr removed from the v(renes of the barrooms they maintain. These men, acting through the legal Action called a coriora t Ion. buy or rent the buildings where the business Is conducted. They own the fixtures. They furnish the liquors. They pay the license fee. Where taxes are paid, they pay them. The law inhibits the Issuing of a license to a corporatlon. To. evade this, llceuse is taken In the name of some irresponsible person who owns no property and has no concern and no mis.slon except to sell intoxicants to anybody, at any hour, on any day. In order that hü master, the brewer, may gather his dally measure of profit. The brewery corporation, the brewer himself, or some paid agent, executes the bond required of the licensee, and he Is given to, understand that he must conduct the place turned over to hfin at a profit to his master, and that he may evade the law without substantial risk. If he Is prosecuted, he is defended. If he is fined, his fine is paid. Ills, place Is a rendezvous for the idle, the vicious and the criminal a hotbed for the breeding of vice and crime. x In time of civic excitement or social disorder, arson and murder is,sue from It like beasts from a lair. This is the experience and this the testimony of every city that has become the victim of the mob or whose laws have been defied by riot. Those in control of these places are con cerned about nothing but profits and increased revenue. To obtain these they multiply saloons, plant them in residential districts and establish them In communities where saloons otherwise would not go. The aggression and the Intolerance of the traffic, coupled with Its, utter disregard of law, led the Sixty-fourth General Assembly to enact a law giving to the majority of the legal voters of any township or city ward the power, by remonstrance, filed with the Hoard of County Commissioners, to exclude for a period of two years. Under the provisions of this law the traffic has been excluded, in three and onehalf years, from 830 of the 1,010 townships In the State, from many city wards, from a number of cit !, and from twenty-live entire counties. More than l.tioo.ooo people now live In territory where there Is no licensed saloon. Itut this territory Is conIt All Depends. "Do you believe lu bleeding patients?" queried the young physician. "Depends on the size of their bank account," replied be old doctor. Well Named. gne Do you notice that Lord De Uroke ealls Miss Milyuns, to whom he's c;!t?agf.'tl. "My Subby?" He ys; I suppose he means "subtreasury." One MnlcT Wlidom. "Darling," pleaded the Infatuated youth, "I would willingly die for you." "Nothing doing." replied the practical Maid. "What I want Is a man who is willing to live and earn a living for Dramatic. Bings Why d'ye suppose that new play writer ordered all thce big jackscrews? Pangs Why, haven't you heard? He's going to elevate the stage. Toledo P. lade. Mlanntlerntood. She (Indignantly) Why did you fail to keep your appointment with me yesterday: He I'm awfully sorry, but I was compelled to wait In a restaurant until it was too late. She (Icily) Pardon me, but I thought you had a position In a bank. I wasn't aware that you were a waiter. They talk of blushing brides. Their faces are red, not from blushing, but from wiping on new towels.

MESSAGE LEGISLATURE

stantly Invaded by the traffic and a constant warfare against it is necessary for its exclusion. Tills, statute was eneactd without submission to the vote of the peopie. but its effects hare been so benenicent and the good acconrplished under it has been so great the pople of the State are unwilling to see it repealed, modified or weakened. So strong Is, the sentiment In its l.ehalf that both the great parties in the State are pledged to maintain it inviolate. And the desire of the people for the further restriction of the traffic is so sincere, so manifest and Insistent that both parties have promised additional and supplemental legislation. Two methods are suggested. One. a township and ward election, where the people of the township or ward may vote for or against the traffic. The other, a county election, where iha people of each county may vote for or against it. Between these two propositions both the temperance people and the liquor interests of the State have made quick and decisive choice. The first method would add nothing to the present statute. The unit would be precisely the same as that covered bv the prent remonstrance law. It would not be a step for the fuher restriction of the traffic, but a step toward the weakening of the present restraint. In practice. It would greatly Impair If not effectually destroy the remonstrance law. Operating over the same territorial unit, conflict would ensue and the remonstrance law would Ik? supplanted. The township or ward covers too small a territory to be an effective unit. No township or city ward can single-handed protect itself from the ravages and evils of the traffic so long as it Is permitted in the townships and wards surrounding it. A great majority of the citizens, of a county or a city may be opposed to the traffic, but while a single township or city ward favors It. though by a majority of but one legal voter, the county or the city must tolerate It. must suffer In silence without redress, denied a voice or even a hearing concern! ag it. Thus the will of the people is made ineffectual,-their purpose Impotent. A city ward or township Is not a substantial governmental unit They have no ofLoers qualified or empowered to enforce the laws of the State relating to the traffic. The expense of criminal prosecutions for crimes committed In the township or ward Is not borne by such township or ward alone, but by the county as a whole. The evil effects of the traffic cannot le confined to their boundaries, but reach all the people of the county. Township or ward local option by election is a kind of home rule but little better than that which would follow if the unit were a precinct, a city block, a single Hat in a city, or the house of a single family. Carried to its last analysis, it localizes the option to the Individual conscience of each citizen, and takes away all right of society, as represented In the majority, to have a voice in the matter. It Is not government by majoilty, but government by the minority." It Is not the rule of the people, but the rule of the few. The county Is a welt recognized and longe.etabllshed unit of government. It has officers and courts and the machinery by which the law of the State can be enforced. The people of this unit all share the coat of criminal prosecutions for crimes committed within It. The traffic's evil effects can more nearly be confined to its borders. The difference between the two methods is emphasized and accentuated by the character of those who s,upport them. Hood men may be back of the township and ward unit, but back of it are also the allied liquor interests of the State, organized as a single unit. Every brewer, every distiller, every saloon-keeper, the keeper of every brothel and of every unlawful resort, and every allied interest tUat can be reached, individual or corporate, are supporting It, and they are not half-hearted in their support of it as against county opthn. They are desperately In earnest. They are here and will be here throughout this session, active, dominant, arrogant, lntl nldatlng and corruutlng, prcqarcd to defeat county option at any cost or by any mears within their power. They seek, through jou, to take over unto themselves the enactment of law. They are reaching for the reins of government, everywhere and In every department, that they may administer it in their own ln-balf. ()u the other side Is the great body of our people, the many, the masses, unorganized, without celerity of movement or corrupting power. They, are not for county local option. They plead their cause in the open. The ministry of the State of all denominations, teachers, lawyers, doctors, manufacturers, farmers; the moral fores of the Commonwealth, represented by the Christian church and religious societies: the great rank and file; the multitude whose government this Is. whose commissions you hold, whose representatives you are. Thousands of them are here and will be here to urge mnr ciann upon .von. The hrewcry. the distillery, the salson. the brotiiel. on one side The church, the school, the home on the other County option Is lu harmony with the spirit of our Institutions. It Is In accord with the balc principle of American gov ernment. It meets the requirement or tne great declaration, that governments hhall derive their Just powers from the consent of the governed. How can a man who enjoys the blessings of free popular government anl who professes to believe in democratic institutions where the people themselves, br majority, exercise the right to rule, consistently deny to the people of the several counties of this Commonwealth the right to exclud this traffic from their midst If they so desire? How can a man who values political freedom for himself deny to the three millions of people in Indiana who desir? to be heard upon this question the exercise of a right so fundamental How can a nun who lelieves in the right of the majority to decide qr.estlcns of tariff schedules and monetary ratios refuse to submit this question to the forum of a free people, or withhold from hU fellow citizens a freeman's right to vole uim it? I reiterate my belief that It Is loth expedient and right to enact this legislation now. If It Is right to enact it next January, It Is right to enact it In Septemler. Therefore I recommend to you and urge upon your favorable consideration the enactment of a local option law with the county as a unit, giving to the people the right to vote by counties upon the question, and so drawn as to preserve the present remonstrance law. In this I voice the thought and express the conscience and the purpose of the people, whose servants we are. If your enactment shall voice their thought and express their purpose, you may Justly claim their approval. You will thereby place the State where the Intelligence, the conscience and the character of Its citizens entitle It to stand. If you fail, you will have to account to them, for soon or late they will have their way upon this great question. In this neither the majority nor the minority can escape responsibility. As, Individuals and as representatives of the people, your responsibility Is the same, whether you are of the majority or of the minority, "tight is right, and he who opposes It cannot long find safe refuge behind the barricades of party. The fieneral Assembly Is now in session. You constitute It. You have the power to legislate. The people know you have the power. They will not be satisfied with postponement or delay. They expect yoa to act upon this question before you adjourn. ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS. The truth Is regarded by most people as an insult It is always a hard job to Jar a man loose from his money. Almost every man is a better man than he Is a husband. Was there ever a lecturer who did not come well recommended? Nearly every boy determines to whip his school teacher, when he grows up. Iletter keep out of trouble; nil your friends will do to help you Is to say, "It's too bad!" You can generaly go Into a new store and tell whether It will succeed by the way things look. A boy never learns to sing until after ho has fallen in love. A boy who lias never been smitten, thinks it "soft" to sing. . Our Ideji of a very mean man Is one wh finds fault with his wife's breakfast the morning after they are married. Some women can take a $10 bill, and buy clothes that look better than clothes other women pay $00 for. We have seen lots of school teachers, but have yet to see one who was not looking for another Job. After a woman ha3 been married three weeks, she doesn't like to have her husband around the house lu the daytime. There probaby never was a man who could keep the astonished look out of his face when his wife tells white lies to company.

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Indiana General Assembly Convenes Under Call from Governor Hanly. LOCAL OPTION IS MAIN ISSUE. "Dry" Bill Indorsed by Churches and Temperance Organizations Also After "Night Riders." Indianapolis correspondence: A sieeial session of the sixty-fifth general assembly of Indiana was opened under a call from Governor J. Frank" Hanly to consider four subjects: A rouuty local option bill, a bill giving the governor additional authority to prevent destruction of property by "night riders" iu southern Indiana, a bill to repeal a grant of $120,000 to Vinceunes University by the last legislature and a bill to correct an error in a bill passed by the last legislature, under which unexpended funds of State Institutions would revert to the general fund Sept. 30. The subject of absorbing interest Is the county option bill, which has been Indorsed by church conferences, ministerial associations, the Anti-saloon League and other temperance organizations. Opposing Interests have been just as active. The Senate contains thirty-six Republicans and fourteen Democrats, and the House fifty-three Republicans and forty-seven Democrats. The six special elections held to fill vacancies did not change the political line-up. County local option was started on its legislative journey at Saturday's session. Though the way looked dark" and ror.gb and was known to be beset with many dangers, friends of the reform were confident that the journey would be made with safety and dispatch. Difficulty was encountered at the very outset inasmuch as two kinds of county option appeared and each claimed the right of way. One was started by the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, and was supposed to bear the administrative stamp. The other was started by Senator Mattingly of Washington, author of the high-license bill two years ago. champion of the "blind tiger" bill, and one of the stanchfst temperance workers in the State. Iloth bills named the county as the unit for the proposed legislation, but they differed in details. The conflict was notable in at least one phase; This conflict was such as to make the leaders decide that the bills should follow regular courses. The better one, leaders say, will live; in other words, it" will be a survival of the fittest. PRISONER SPIRITED AWAY. Hamlet Dillon Illes from Wound Innieted by HI Hrot her-iii-L.aY. Hamlet Dillon, aged 32, trustee of Elmore township, Daviess county, who was shot five times upon Main street, Washington, by H. Ii. Hale, a federal revenue agent of Xieholasville, Ky., is dead. Sheriff Colbert spirited Hale to Vincennes, fearing he would be lynched at Washington. Hale and Dillon had married sisters and the killing was a result of family trouble. Hale went to Washington Friday morhing, and, meeting Dillon on Main street, fired five shots into him without exchanging a word, it is charged. At a conference between Hale and Judge James Denton of Somerset, Ky., it was decided that Insanity shall be Hale's defense. ENORMOUS SNAKE "SEEN. Rig llonud as n Stovepipe, of Great Lenfftb, anil If a Flat Head. Much excitement prevails among farmers northwest of Morocco over the appearance in that vicinity of what is said to be the largest snake ever seen outside of a menagerie. The snake, which has been seen three or four times by farmers and their sons, is said to be as big around as a stovepipe and of enormous length. Owjng to the haste shown by snake seers in getting away from the snakeship, those who saw it, though generally agreeing to its enormous size, are unable to furnish further particulars, beyond the fact that it possessed a large flat head of remarkable ugliness. An effort is being made to organize a party to capture the snake. WOMAN DIES FROM BURNS. Flame from Open Grate Set Clothing on Fire. Mrs. H. Tobin, who was severely burned when her clothing caught fire from an open grate, died at the Gary hospital. The funeral was held at Harvey, 111. Mrs. Tobin lived on a farm near Glen Park for many years. She is survived by three daughters. She was GS years old. Girl Kill Brother at 1'lar. Six-year-old Walter Ilankins of Rush-, ville was shot and instantly killed by his 10-yeär-old sister, Jessie Ilankins, while playing with a revolver whidu they found at the home of Albert Umbenour, in, Anderson, where they we,re visiting. Plowed t'i Den of Spreading Addera. While working on a farm near New IIarn;ony, George Curtis'plowed up a den of snakes. All were spreading adders. Curtis killed ninety-two and captured twenty-two alive. Some of the snakes measured two feet in length. So They All Think. Stella Congratulate me, dear, I'm engaged. Mabel Huh! I wouldn't marry the best man on earth. Stella Of course you couldn't. I'm going to marry him myseif. Yea, Indeed. Crass I've just written a play, and I tell you It will raise your hair. Kilson Yes? I'll recommend It to all my bald-headed friends. Correct. When Theodore Roosevelt was police commissioner in New York, he asked an applicant for n positions on the force : "If you were ordered to disperse a mob what would you do'r" "Pass around the hat, sir," was the reply. Catholic News. Not What He Meant. Customer I came pretty near going without paying. Store Keeier (desiring to be extra polite) That's natural. So Itoniantlc. "Say!" "Well?" "It must be like living in the pages of a novel to be able to lean out of the carriage window and say, 'Home, James. " Handicapped. Gyer Huggins is charged with having three wives. Slyer So? What does he say? Gyer Say! What chance would a man with three wives have to say anything?

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CHICAGO. Business activity reflects further re. covery, although the failure record is dis torted by one unusually heavy default. Steadier conditions are seen in production and distribution and the outlook is gradually clearing, notwithstanding that new demands in the eading industries include none of special influence. Melters of pig iron bought more freely against future needs, prices being mack inviting, and there is increasing work at foundries, forger and steel car shops. Building operations make seasonable progress, while the new permits indicate that an unusual quantity of materials is to be consumed. More hands find employment in 'quarrying, and prices for stone, bricfc and cement become firmer. Seasonable weather stimulated the construction and outdoor activities. Retail trade opens up encouragingly in the principal lines. Visiting merchants have increased in numbers from the Northwest, and there is much buyiDg of general merchandise throughout the wholesale district. Staple goods are sold to an extent comparing favorably with this time last year, and the absorption is yet notable in the textiles,' millinery and footwear. The markets for grain, provisions aud live stock denote improving consumption, notwithstanding the average cost again is high and wheat around $1 a bushel. Rank clearings, $234,49G,S0S, make the best showing in eight weeks, and exceed those of the corresponding week of KM)7, which included only fire business days, by 10 per cent,Failures reported in the Chicago district number 34, against 21 last week and 17 a year ago. Those with liabilities over $.",000 number 9, against G last week and 3 in RX)7. Dun's Review of Trade. NEW YORK. Business in general has experienced a further moderate improvement in jobbing as well as in wholesale lines. Fall trade has reached the maiiraum at some cities, and most out-of-town merchants have left the large centers for home, though Stata fairs and fall carnivals are attracting visiters to various sections, thus enlarging the volume of trade. On the whole, purchases have been confined chiefly to staples, and no more than actual needs have been filled; therefore sales have been considerably below those of last j-ear at this season. ' This conservatism, for which approaching elections and the diminished purchasing iwer of the public, outside of the agricultural regions, are responsible, is looked uion with some degree of satisfaction, if being felt that, inasmuch as retailers' stocks are not burdensome, a constantly good filling-in order trade should le experienced throughout the fall and winter. Relatively, best reports come from the larger cities of the West and Southwest, but southern and Pacific northwestern cities also contribute good returns. . Business failures in the United Spates for the week ending Sept. 17 uomber 2X, against 101 last week, 171) in the like week of 1JK)7, 171 in 1000, 173 in 1003 and 203 in 1001. In Canada business failures this week number 23, compared with 31 last week and 40 in the corre sponding week of 1007. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattle, common to prime, $4.00 to $7.43; hogs, prime heavy, $4.00 to $7.40; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.23; wheat, No. 2, Wc to $1.00; corn, No. 2, 77c to 7Sc; oat, standard, 47c to 48c; rye, No. 2, 73c to 70c; lray, timothy, $8.00 to $12.30; prairie, $8.00 to $11.00; butter, choice creamery, 10c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 10c to 22c; potatoes, per bushel, GSc to 73c. Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.30 to $7.30; sheep, common to prime, $2.30 to $3.75; wheat. No. 2, 08c to 90e; corn. No. 2 white, 71k to 80c; oats. No. 2 white, 47c to 48c. St.. Louis Cattle, $1.30 to $7.23; hogs, $1.00 to $7.30; sheep. $3.00 to $4.13; whear, No. 2, $1.03 to $1.01; corn. No. 2, 7c to 77c: oats. No. 2, 4Sc to 40c; rye, No. 2, 77c to 78c. Cincinnati Cattle. $4.00 to $3.23; hogs, $1.0) to $7-3; sheep, $3.00 to $3.U"; wheat. No. 2, $1.01 to $1.03; corn. No. 2 mixed, 82c to 83c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 31c to 32c ; rye, No. 2, 7Sc to 70c. Detroit-Cattle, $4.00 to $4.30; hogs, $4.00 to $0.70; sheep, $2.30 to $3.83; wheat, No. 2, 07c to OSc; corn. No. 3 yellow, 82c to 83c;, oats. No. 3 white, COe to 31c; rye. No. 2, 73c to 73c. Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern, $1.03 to $1.08; corn, No. 3, 77c to 78c; oats, standard, 40c to 30e; rye, No. 1, 73c to 70c; barley, No. 1, C3c to COc; pork, mess, $14.03. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $0.30; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $7.73; sheep, common to good mixed, $4.00 to $4.73; lambs, fair to choice, $3.00 to $0.30. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed, OSc to $1.00; corn, No. 2 mixed, 70c to fOc; oats, No. 2 mixed, 40c to 51c; rye, No. 2, 73c. to 77c; clover seed, October, $3.43. New York Cuttle, $4.00 to $0.23; hogs, $3.30 to $7.30; sheep. $3.00 to $4.tO; wheat. No. 2. red, $1.U7 to $1.08; corn, .No. 2, 87c to 88c; oats, natural white, 33c to 33c; butter, creamery, 20c to 24c; eggs, Avestern, 10c to 23e. ; SPARKS FROM THE WIRES. The negro population of New York City is estimated at N,000, one-tenth of the number being West Indians. The German Emperor has given $24,Ü0O to the Ro!ert Kooh foundation for resisting the spread of tuberculosis. Trank II. Kleinhaus, a well-known mechanical engineer, was killed at Pittsburg when his buggy was struck by an electric tar. . ' A middle-aged woman appeared at Oy Fter Bay with Mhe object of seeing the Presi lent, claiming that the President, J. P. Morgan and Ieslie M. Shaw, former Secretary of the Treasury, owed her $in,Ko,ooo. More than 300 of the 000 organizations atiiliated with the federation of Jewish organizations in New York City met and' discussed ways and means to improve the condition of juvenile Jewish criminals and delinquents. A vroinan who attempted suicide in Taris the other clay has been identified as the daughter of Judge William W. Wiltbank. of the common pleas court of Philadelphia. She is the wife of Jamei W. Colfelt, son of the Rev. Dr. Colfelt. pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Philadelphia. Some time ago she married Gustave Heckscher, but there was & divorce, and she later lecame the wife of Colfelt. .Tudson M. Thompson, frugal millionaire of St. Louis, is dead at Old Orchard. It was hia custom to buy cheat clothing and make it last as long as pos aible.

FOREST FE RAVAGES BRING HUE LF.SS0H

May Be Instrumental in Merginj Efforts Toward More Adequate Protection of Timber. GBEATEST LOSS SINCE 1871. Work of Investigating Damage - Begun by Federal Government Agent R, W. Pullman. The recent disastrous forest fires, probably the most serious in a quarter of a century, may be instrument in concentrating national, state and private forces to provide niore adequate protection ngalust flames which exat an average annual toll of $23,000,000. Not since the Penhtigo fire of 1871, when between 1.200 mid 1 .V perished and niauy millions of dollars of property was wiiod out in a few hours, has the devastation of the flames been so great as this year, when from coast to coast the great forest areas of the North have been the constant arena of the struggle against this dreaded enemy of the forest frontier. Accurate returns of the proierty loss has not yet been received in Washington, but the work of Investigation has been begun. R. W. Pullman, upecial agent of 'the United States forest service, lu passing through Chicago on his way to the burnt regions of Minnesota, told of the prolonged and Thus far losing fight which is being waged to prevent the wholesale destruction which yearly imiwverishes whole regions. Lob Now 31 ore Conaplcaoas. "Now that the timber of the country is being reduced by lumbering, said Mr. Pullman, "and people have awakened to the fact that the forests do not represent an inexhaustible supply, the loss that is sustained in these fires becomes the more conspicuous.- It is not alone the lumber owner that pays the price. The loss of stumpage value is but a small part of the damage to a neighborhood. The wages that would have been earned by laborers in the lumber camps and the produce that would have been purchased to supply those camps, the taxes that would have been devoted to die construction of roads and other Im provements, and the fertility of the soil that is destroyed, all bring the ultimate cost of these fires to sums that cannot be calculated. "From reports thus far received, the fires of this summer have been the most destructive since those of 1871. The Peshtlgo fire of Octolier of that year covered an area of 2,000 square uriles In Wisconsin, entailing heavy loss of life and property. Other fires in Michigan that year consumed $10,000.000 in standing timber. "One of the earliest was the great MJramlchl fire of 1823, starting sixty mile above Newcastle, N. B on the MIramlchi River, shortly after noon. Before 10 o'clock at night it was twenty miles lelow Newcastle, in nine hours destroying a belt eighty miles Jong and twenty-five miles wide. In an am of 2,500,000 acres every living thing was dest roved. "One of the most serious fires of re cent years was that which started near Hinckley, Minn., iu September, 1W4. While the area covered was less than iu some others, the loss of life was heavy. Six towns were destroyed, 300 people perished and 2.000 were left destitute. It was said that this destruction was wholly unnecessary. For many days before a high wind came and drove It Into uncontrollable fury It had beeu burning slowly close to Hinckley ami eoull have leen put out "The Initial cause of suc h widespread cies, the railroad and the campers. Both are cureless. In many timber countries the roads are required to fit their locomotives with spark arresters. If this law were more fully oleyed the danger from this source would be reduced. The earner's culpability is more direct. A few buckets of water poured over the- remains of a camp fire will effectively prevent trouble. Foren! Hanffer an Economy. "The economy of employing forest rangers to keep constant watch, to prevent fires by the influence of their presence on those who frequent the woods and to report blazes as son as they start, when they can easily be extinguished, 1? becomjng understood generally. "It Is not unlikely that there will be more extensive co-operntion letween all the parties interested, the owners of the property and the State and national governments, as a result of the serious conflagrations of this year. The results of supervision in the national forests has leen demonstrated, where losses, in spite of the dry season, have been exceedingly small' TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES Mrs. Harry Pcanon. aged 21, according to her statement before she died, was lured io a lonely spot in Oklahoma City, Okla., by Harry Parker, aged 2S, a grain Inspector from lola, Kan., who shot her and escaped. , The twelfth annual meeting of the Interstate Association of Live Stock Sanil tary Boards, meeting in Washington, voted to ask Secretary Wilson to lift the quarantine regulation for preventing f.he spread of Texas or "tick" fever among cattle in several Southern State. Not realizing their danger, ninety insane perrons in the Ixng Island home at Amityville, L. I., fought against being removed from the burning building, but all were finally rescued. The War Department has given permission for United States troops to participate in the fall carnival df the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben at Omaha. Neb., for the first time since the order was fouuded fourteen years ago. A resolution condemning the sale of liquor in drug stores, except for medicisal purposes, was passed by. the American Pharmaceutical Association in session at Hot Springs, Atk. At Niagara Palls the Old Time Telegraphers' Association and the United Slates Military Telegraph Corps held their annual meetings. E. B. Saylor of Pittsburg being elected president of the first organization and CoL W. B. Wilson of Philadelphia heading the second. Rev. Father Sierputowski, who created a sensation at Duluth a year ago by loading a revolt from the Roman Catholic church and forming an independent congregation, has written to Bishop McGolrick from Cleveland begging forgiveness and stating that both he and Bishop Ticty will make submission to the bishop of Cleveland.