Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 51, Plymouth, Marshall County, 23 September 1909 — Page 2

THE PLYMOUTH TRIBUNE

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L. Q.TN. M. 6th. VrVl4th 9 F. Q.F. M 22nd. ) 20th FEATURES OF INTEREST ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AND IS TO BE. All Side and Condition of Thine are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to make it Complete. Gulf Coast Stormswept. It is estimated that $10,000 to $50,00 property damage has been suffered at Biloxl, Miss., which was struck by the gulf storm. Seven hundred and fifty feet of the treck of the Gudf Coast Traction Company is washed away and another hundred feet is gone near the Soldiers' Home and to the eastward of Gulfport another hundred and fifty feet was washed away. All the bath houses and piers along the beach from Gulfport to the home cf United States Senator Money, a distance of four miles, have been swept out. Three hundred feet of th'i electric car line at Long Beach, Hiss., has been washed out. The driveway known as "the Beach road," alons the coast in front of Biloxl, is completely gone, entailing a loss of fifteen or twenty thousand dollars. One schooner has been wrecked and twenty-one shrimp boats are out in the storm. Wabash in a Big Merger. Control of the Wabash Railroad Company and its subsidiary lines, the Wabash Pittsburg Terminal Company and the Wheeling & Lake Erie, according to the New York Tribune, is likely soon to be lodged jointly with four large roads which under the arrangement wili obtain an entrance to Pittsburg. The roads interested, it is said, are the Lackawanna, Lake Shore, the Erie and the Rock Island. The arrangement Is understood to represent the perfection of a plan formed by the late E. H. Harriman. Steamer Burned at Sea. The P.ritish steamer Harlow, Captain Druce, from Newport News, June 14, for Port Natal and Manila, reports that on July 27, while ISO miles from Durban, she passed a steamer afire. The vessel In question, whose name it w,as impossible to make out, was shortly afterward destroyed by an explosion. It is supposed that this steamer was the missing British steamer Waratah, which, with 300 persons on board, has net been heard from since July 26. Bishop Ward Dies in Japan. P.ishop Seth Ward, of the Methodist Episcopal church south, is dead. The bishop arrived In Kobe, Japan, last month on his regular tour of inspection of the Methodist missions cf Japan and he was taken 111 shortly after his arrival. Bishop Ward came from Houston, Texas. He was 51 years old. He served as assistant missionary secretary of the Methodist Episcopal church south from 1902 to 1S06 and was elected bishop in the latter year. Harper's Weekly Editor Injured. Col. George B. M. Harvey, president of Harper & Brothers and editor of the North American Review and Harper's Weekly, was close to death in an automobile accident In Manahawken, N. J. With great good fortune, although pinned beneath an overturned two-ton car, he escaped with a broken collar bone and minor injuries, which probably are not serious enough to keep him indoors more than a few days. Lake Steamer Sinks. The steamer Lackawanna of Buffalo. N. Yvsank In twenty-four feet, of water in the St. Clair river, near the Canadian shore off Tort Huron, Mich, after a collision wi'ii the barge Chieftain, of Bay City, and the barge Hall, of Port Huron. The Chieftain sustained considerable damage. No one Was Injured In the collision. General Funston Injured. Brigadier General Frederick FunBton, commander of the army service schools at Ft. Leavenworth, Kas., suffered a severe fracture cf the right shoulder, when he stumbled and fell on an uneven concrete walk while returning to hi3 quarters. Steamer Lost in Hurricane. Advices received from the Isle ol Pines, off the southern coast of Cuba, tell of the loss of the steamer Nicholas Castina with twenty-seven members of its crew and two passengers during the recent hurricane in those waters. ' Bicyclist is Killed. A collision of bicycles at Bridgeport, Conn., killed Victor Yasenar and seriously hurt John Downey, of Brooklyn, shortstop of the Cincinnati National League baseball team. Downey will recover. Illinois Bank Robbed. ' The First National Bank of Stronghurst, 111., was robbed of $1,000 In money and other valuables. Thieves blew open the safety deposit vault. Lay Corner Stone of Monument. The corner stone of the Soldiers and Bailors monument at Casey, DI., was laid recently. The ceremony was In charge of the Monroe Post of the O. A. IL The monument, designed by Joel Weaver, will be '47 feet high and wiU cost $2,000. John N. A. Griswold Dead. John N. A. Griswold, formerly of New York, and at one time president of the Illinois Central railroad, died a his home in Newport, It. I., aged 83 jrears. Death was due to old age. Dreadnaught Contracts Awarded. William Cramps' Sons & Co. and the New York Shipbuilding Company have received the contracts for constructing one each of the new American Dread - naughts of 26,000 -tons, to be officially kac". as the Wyoming and Arkansas. Tiger Crtcj? Two Mv A dispatch from Port Limon, Cost Rica, says two naturalists, William Kohns, an American, and R. Geuterech a Swede, were killed and devoured by tigers in the mountains of Turrialbv A dead tiger laynearby.

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THE PEOPLE President Starts from Boston on His i3,ooo-.MiIe Tour of the United States. STRENGTH IS GAINED BY REST With Central Bank as His Them, Executive Considers Plan of Financial Changes. On his fifty-second birthday President Taft entered on the first stage of h! 13,000-mile tour of the United States. His train formed the second section of the regular express from Boston to Albany on the Boston and Albany division of the New York Central Railroad. The first speech of the President's series of addresses to the people was made in Boston; the last is to be made at Richmond, Va., Nov. 10. The next day the President will be back at his work in Washington. When the President left Chicago he passed ovsr what Eastern people call the political borderland. Then his real work of enlisting strength for his policies as he outlines them seemed to begin. In addressing 3,000 persons at a banquet in Boston, on the eve of his trip across the continent. President Taft prophesied a great Increase in the commerce of the country. Leaving the discussion of the tariff, tf railroad control, and of the curbing of corporations to be explained in detail in later addresses, Mr. Taft spoke more fully of the changes needed in the monetary system of the country. The plan to establish a central bank a3 a safeguard against such financial panics as that of 1907 was one of the financial subjects considered by the President. There are two dangers which must be avoided in this plan, he said, both of which had been explained to the President by Senator Aldrich. Control of this institution, giving great power over the financial welfare of the nation, must be kept out of the hand3 of Wall street Inter- . FBESIDE.VT TAFT. ests, he asserted. The other danger which the President said must be prevented 13 that the central bank, if formed, should be manipulated for political purposes. Mr. Taft took occasion, 'in his brief reference to the tariff, to condemn the efforts of certain public men to stir up sectional strife in calling upon the West to organize against the East Hi3 address was marked by praise of Senator Aldrich. FIGHT FOB THE PENNANTS. Standing of Club In the Principal Base Ball League. ÄATIOXAJL LEAGUE. ' W. L. W. L. Pittsburg .99 36 Philadel'a .67 70 Chicago ...91 45 St. Louis ..47 83 New York. SO 52 Brooklyn ..47 87 Cincinnati .69 68 Boston ....39 96 . AUEBICAX LEAGUE. I ' W. L. W. L. Detroit ...89 50 Cleveland ..68 72 Philadel'a .86 52 New York.. 64 73 Boston ....80 59 St. Louis... 58 80 Chicago ...70 68 Wash'gton .38 100 AMEE1CAN ASSOCIATIOX. W. L. W. L so S3 84 88 Milw'kee ..86 Minn'polls .85 Louisville .85 St. Paul.... 77 72 Ind'polls ...79 72 Toledo 74 73 Columbus ..73 77 Kan. City. ..68 BALLINGER LETS L. H. GLAVIS GO Seattle Man Who Criticised Chief Loe Place In Consequence. L. H. Glavis, chief of the field division of the general land office with headquarters at Seattle, has been dismissed from the service by telegraph by Secretary Ballinger of the interior. A. Christensen, chief of the field division of the general land office at Portland, Ore., has been placed in temporary charge of the Seattle division. The summary removal of Mr. Glavis was in accordance with authority given Secretary Ballinger in a letter to him from President Taft, who, in directing the dismissal, vindicated Secretary Ballinger and other officials of the Interior department of the charges brought against them by Glavis in connection with the so-called Cunningham group of coal land cases in Alaska. BUILD 3-MILE TRAIN TUNNEL. Great Northern Cat-off to Cost Abont i 1,000,000. The Great Northern Railway Company announces that contracts for the cutoff on the line between Great Falls, Mont., and Belt have been awarded. About twenty-two miles of railway will be constructed. A tunnel 16,000 feet long will be included, and the cost will be in the neighborhood of $1,000,000. The change is made by the company to lower grades for through traffic from the Burlington system. DIE IN CAB CRASH. Tito Dead mm Result of Collision on Inter urban In Ohio. Bert Schartle and Harold Strome, both of Medway, Injured in the collision of cars on the Buckeye Lake Interurban line west of Reynoldsville, Ohio, died at the Grant Hospital in Columbus. Margaret Strome, 14, and Charles Strome, 18, are in a serious condition. Cardiff exports twelve million tons of coal yearly.

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TAFT LAUDS BALLINGER. f Denies Charge Against Cabinet Officer in Alaskan Coal Lands Case. President Taft upholds .Richard A. Ballinger, Secretary of the Interior, on all points involved in the BallingerPinchot controversy In regard to the conservation of the natural resources. The President's support of his cabinet adviser is set forth at length in a letter written by the President to Secretary Ballinger and given out by Mr. Taft on h!s special train Wednesday afternoon. The letter contains no direct reference to Gilford Pinchot, head of the bureau of forestry. Mr. Taft, so his friends say, would regret much to lose Pinchot. but he felt that the time had come for him to take a decided stand in the controversy. Mr. Taft himself denies that there has been any backsliding from the declared policy of tha Roosevelt administration in favor of a conservatipn of natural resources. Without bringing any direct contrast, he makes it plain that several things done by the Roosevelt administration along the lines of the ; conservation wero without authority of law, but that the present administration Intends to keep absolutely within the statutes. That ha3 been Secretary Balllnger's answer all along to the contentions of Pinchot and his friends that he is out of sympathy with the Roosevelt policy and in favor of corporate and Individual control. The President sets thU standard for the conservation policy of the future: "In my judgment he is the best friend of the policy of conservation of natural resources who Insists that every step taken In that direction should be within the law, and buttressed by legal authority. Insistence on this 13 not Inconsistent with a whole hearted and bona fide Interest, and enthusiasm in favor of the conservation policy." The President orders Secretary Ballinger to dismiss L. R. Glavis of the field division of the general land office from office. It was Glavis who cnade the formal charge against Ballinger, and the President orders his dismissal on the ground that he has been disloyal to his superior officer without any substantial evidence to sustain his conduct. Glavis Ylsited Beverly in August and went over his charges against Ballinger. or The world's record to pole by pacers was broken by the brother and sister, Lady Maud C. and Hedgewood Boy. They paced the mile in 2:024. The Thoenlx Driving Club held exciting races at Phoenixville, Pa., during which splendid records were made and intensely interesting sport supplied. At Erie, Pa., Barney Oldfield, with Kattling Xelson as a passenger, established a new record for a half-mile track by taking his car a mile In 1:12 1-S. His previous record was 1:14 3-5. James R. Keene's Sweep won the twenty-second running of the Futurity at Sheepshead Bay. The winner received $27,000 out of the $31,000 purse. The time was 1:11 4-5. About 15,000 people witnessed the race. C. K. G. Billings has returned from his European tour, together with his string of racing horses, which have been exhibited before royalty. Among the steeds is the champion trotting mare, Lou Dillon, 1:58. At Saratoga, N. Y Grasmere easily won the United States Hotel stake, defeating Waldo, the champion 2-year-old. This is Waldo's first defeat after six straight victories. Ivor Lawson broke his own record in the two-mile Western- championship open for professional race on the bicycle track at Salt Lako City. His time was 3:40 2-5. Old record, 3:43. At a bout at Cheyenne, "Young Corbett" (William Rothwell), of Denver, knocked out Muggy Shoo!, of Cheyenne, in the fifteenth round, Corbett showing much of th cleverness he displajed when he took the championship from Terry McGovern. Hidalgo, while leading Beau Ashton in a matinee race at Horse Show Park, Wilmington, fell In the second heat of the fourth evert, bleeding at the mouth. At Cleveland, Ohio, Hamburg Belle defeated Uhlan In a trotting race and set the new world mark of 2:014 for the mile, the former record having been 2:031i. held by Cresceus. Fifteen months of Olympic running and American victories and defeats has made Dorando Pietri, the fleet-Hooted Italian, a "big man" in Italy and supplied him with $25,000. lie is in business In his own country at present and haa recently married.

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PRESIDENT TAFT ON NATIONAL PROBLEMS. Our banking and monetary system is a patched up affair which satisfies notody. There are two indispensable requirements in any plan to be adopted involving a central bank of issue: First, thit control of the monetary system shall be kept free from Wall street; second, that it shall not be manipulated for political purposes. I hope for a satisfactory money system before the end of this administration. We must -mend our roof before the storm shall show us again ! its leaky and utterly inadequate character. 0 We are, unless all signs fall, upon the eve of another great business expansion and era of prosperity. Throughout this country there is free trade of the freest character, and due to this, the prosperity of the West, especially in agriculture, is even more pronounced than that of the East We are all in the same 1 uslness boat. Prosperity of one section adds to the prosperity of the other. DIE CROSSING DEATH VALLEY. DodltN of Tvfo Miners Found and Tlilrtl 31 mi Ir!nlly Is t . The bodies of Emery Bodge and Tom Flanz, two miners who perished of thirst, while attempting to cross Death Valley, were found Saturday four miles west of Skidoo, Cal., by members of the searching party scouring the desert for a brother of President Eldredge of the National Sewing Machine Company, who has been lost for three weeks. The men whose bodies were found left Rhyolite late in August and started across Death Valley, where the thermometer reaches 130 degrees in the shade during the summer months. They carried two canteens of water each, but this supply must have been exhausted before they had gone half way. Crazed by thirst they wandered about until they were overcome by the heat and lay down to die. Young Eldredge was attempting to reach Rhyolite, Nev., from his mining claims in the Panaminil range. He left his companions three weeks ago. Men from all the desert camps have searched the desert. The burro which he took with him when he started across the valley was found a few days ago, but there was no other trace of the man. BULLET IN HIS BRAIN; RECOVERS Washington, D. C, Man Carrie Memento of Ills Attempt at Suicide. With a 22-caliber bullet imbedded In the center of his brain, fired there with suicidal intent more than two weeks ago, Frank Blaine left the Casualty Hospital in Washington, D. C, Monday, discharged as cured. He said he suffered no discomfort other than pains in the head and neck and he talked rationally at all times. The surgeons at the hospital who have been observing Blaine closely, said they detected no ill effects from the bullet in hi3 brain and it is their belief that he will not suffer from it In future years. An X-ray photograph of the young man's head. showed the bullet imbedded in the center of his brain. Gor. Johnson Under the Knife. (Governor John A. Johnson underwent an operation at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minn., for adhesions In the abdomen and slight hernia, caused by a previous operation for appendicitis. Infantile 1'aralysl Sareads. Seven new cases of Infantile paralysis and two deaths were reported to the health department of St. Paul. The health department -records show a total of 170 cases reported, with thirtysix deaths. ClKorette Ilnrred In Will. The whl of W. H. G. Grevel gives his grandson. Grevel V E. Acker, of Atlantic Highlands, K. J., an estate valued at $23.000, provided he does not smoke a cigarette until he is 25 years old. The child is 3 years old. Held Between Kocks Amid Fire. While fighting a brush fire at Dehesa, Cal., Samuel J. Sloane was fatally burned. His foot was caught between rocks and the flames swept over him before he could . extricate himself. He was 46 years old. Knight Im Found Poisoned. Sir Ralph Denham Rayment Moor was found dead In bed in London of poison, and it is believed that he took Ms own life. He wa3 commissioner and consul general of the Niger coast protectorate. 1S96-1900.

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ROBBERS DYNAMITE CAE DOOR. Attempt to Rob Express Train in Colorado Proves Fruitless. A daring attempt by three bandits to rob the second section of the Denver & Rio Grande No. 5 passenger train, was made about 11 o'clock Thursday night four miles west of Malta, a small station near Leadville, Col. The express car was dynamited. According to the trainmen no booty was secured. It i3 believed the robbers crawled on the two engines of the train at Malta. The train had proceeded only abhört distance when two men crawled over the tenders and compelled the engineers and firemen to march back to the express car. Engineer Smith of the first engine was told to hammer on the door and order the express messenger to open it. The latter refused, and a charga of dynamite was placed under the car and the door was blown open. Two of the robbers rushed In, covering the exprcis messenger with revolvers. Several charges of dynamite were placed under the safe, but without result. After firing a volley the robbers fled in the darkness. A trainman in the meantime had reached Malta and Sheriff Campbell with a posse at once started in pursuit. It 13 said the safe contained a large sum of money. . SERVES LONG FOR $9 HOLD-UP. Pardon Conies to Illinois Cowboy After 24 Years In Prison. A story of an Illinois boy going west, becoming a cowboy and making a single-handed hold-up of a stage coach with six passengers, figures in a pardon granted by President Taft the other day in the case of L. A. Potter. Fotter, who is 53, lived at Salem, 111., acd when convicted of holding up the stage in Texas was sentenced May 20, 18S3, to life imprisonment. He has served almost twenty-four years, partly at Chester, 111., and at the Leavenworth penitentiary. Mrs. J. W. White, wife of the president of the German National Bank of Mason, Texas, both of whom were passengers, urged the pardon on the ground that the sentence was excessive, and that the prisoner took only $9 and a watch from the passengers. The watch was later returned. Rumors are rife in Washington that President Taft will name former Vice President Fairbanks as successor to Ambassador Whitelaw Reld at London. Speaker Cannon declares emphatically that he will pay no attention whatever to the recent charges made against him by Representative Fowler, of New Jersey. Queen Liluokalanl, deposed ruler of Hawaii, is reported to be interesting herself in politics again. She is endeavoring to secure a Hawaiian to succeed Prince Kalanianaole as delegate to Congress. Upon the occasion df a homecoming reception in his honor by the people of Clarinda, Iowa, Col. W. P. Hepburn announced that he would never again be a candidate for nor would he accept any political office. President Taft's selection of Representative TownBend, of Michigan, to champion the administration's revision of the corporation and interstate commerce laws has attracted a great deal of attention. Townsend will Introduce the President's bill and will get , the credit for the authorship of the measure, to the study of which he hxs given his congressional career. Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island, is strongly in favor of the central bank idea. ' It is understood that he desires to impress the President with the desirability of the central bank. The direct primary law was defended and indorsed in Chicago when the New York legislative committee which has been touring the country in search of information on the subject consulted Illinois authorities. J. Pierpont Morgan will be asked to accept a fusion nomination for mayor of New York on a business reconstruction pls.tfo.-.n. Politicians cialm that Morgan is the only person who can save the city from financial ruin. What the President's attitude toward the oncoming wave of woman suffrage advocates is has been made known to newspaper men. lie is said to believe in the principle of the thing, and that when the ti ne comes that the women of the United States are agreed that they want the suffrage the time will then be ripe for them to have it. He hopes that they will then get it, but he believes that a great many able women are not yet convinced that they desire the right to vote. Jacob Fawcett, of Omaha, Neb., won the third Republican Judgeship nomination over F. G. Hamer, of Kearney, In the recent primaries.

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President Declares Aldrich-Payns Bill Best Which Ever Was Passed by Congress. ADMITS IT HAS A FEW FAULTS Claims Revision Was Downward and Says Act Fulfilled Party Pledge Favors Postal Banks. In his speech at Winona, Minn., President Taft stamped the Payne bill j "the best tariff law the Republican j party ever passed." In a 7,000-word i speech he made a detailed defense of the entire measure, vigorously upholding the action of Representative Tawney of Winona, who supported the hill, and declaring that had the bill been defeated or had he, Taft, vetoed it, th6 Republican party would have been demoralized, tde tariff agitation would have continued, business would have been stalled and prosperity halted and the other pledges of the ' Republican party, to carry out the policies of Roosevelt, would have been impossible of redemption. "All I have to say," declared the President,' "is in respect to Mr. Tawney's action and my own in signing the bill. I believed that the interests of the couniry, the interests of the party, required me to sacrifice the accomplishment of certain things In the revision of the tariff which I had hoped in order to maintain party solidarity which I believe to be much more important than the reduction of rates in one or more schedules of the tariff." The one thing in the Payne law with which the President is not wholly pleased Is the wool schedule, but he declares that further revision of the tariff by the present Congress cannot be thought of. He suggests that the bill be given a thorough .trial for a couple of years to the end that Republicans may agree upon what is desirable. He extols the creation of the tariff commission, of which he announces an intention to make the broadest use. He congratulates the country on the passage of the corporation tax. It was the most important speech of hi3 present trip and came? directly in the wake of a speech delivered at Milwaukee during the afternoon in support of postal savings banks and after several references had been made by the President during the day to the limitations of the powers of the chief executive, and his great dependency upon the House and Senate. Speaking in Milwaukee on postal savings banks, he said: "I uphold the doctrine of postal savings 'banks, because I believe they will fill in this country a long-felt want." From carefully compiled statistics which the President had culled from the financial records of other nations, he showed that' the United States U the sole civilized nation on earth that has neglected to provide the people with this means of laying aside their humble savings, lie showed that In thirty-two States of the Union the savings bank Institutions are inadequate to meet the need,s of the people; he declared that, far from being a disadvantage to our financial system, the postal savings banks would serve a useful purpose, namely, to enable the government to buy up, with the funds that will thus come to hand, tho $700,000,000 of 2 per cent bonds that are just now distressing the treasury department. The President pleaded for postal savings banks as an inducement to poor people to save. EUROPE REPORTS HEAVY CROPS. Corn Is Damaged by Drought In Russia and Roumania. Condition of the crops in foreign countries, as reported to the Department of Agriculture In Washington, indicate that the European harvest has generally surpassed expectations. The drought in Russia and Roumania has caused a considerable decline in the prospects for corn. The hop crop of England is seriously endangered by blight and one of the lowest yields on record is predicted. Estimates of the world's probable crop published during the month by two English trade papers show gains of from 1S5,000.000 to 270,000,000 bushels of wheat; 26r-,000,000 bushels of corn, 334,000.000 bushels of barley, 857,000,000 bushels of oats, and 24,000,000 bushels of rye. From Argentina comes the official announcement that the reduction of the wheat acreage on account of the long drought was less than anticipated. Reports from Iidia continue quite encouraging, while from all parts of Australia glowing statements of crop progress are received. Germany Seeks Tariff Pact. Count von Berstorff, German ambassador to the United States, explained the situation created by the new American tariff the other day In Berlin as it relates to Germany. Representatives of all government departments interested In the subject were present at the conference. The German government i3 planning for a new tariff agreement with the United States. t MB . One Dead, Two M!!nff In Crash. Two men are still missing as a resylt of the falling of the walls of the burned storage house, which demolished the Hotel Cella in Pittsburg. Oae man was killed outright and a score were injured. Granntiopitern Attack City. Millions of grasshoppers are swarming in San Bernardino, Cal. Attracted by the lights, the insects carpeted tho streets In the business section in the night. There is no report of damage to vegetation. Admits Stealing Thousands. Jared C. Weed, former cashier In the county treasurer's office in Buffalo, withdrew his plea of not guilty to an indictment charging him with grand larceny in the second degree and admitted his guilt. The total amount involved is said to be about $76,000. Treat Quits as Treasurer. Chas. II. Treat, United States treasurer, has resigned from that office, to take effect in October. No successor has' yet beep, chosen, so far as U known.

CHICAGO HOST TO TAFT.

Greets President with Review, Receptions, Mass-Meeting and BalL President William Howard Taft spent Thursday as the guest of the people of Chicago, and was vastly pleased at his reception. The popular tone of it was what appealed to him first, and most. Aside from that wa3 Its infinite variety. Every class and condition of people had a hare in iL And the President hadn't a dull minute. Consider how the pendulum swung back and forth: Welcomed formally by Chicago's leading citizens; welcomed informally, enthusastically and whole-heartedly by two hundred thousand school children who formed a solid wall of waving color along twenty miles of streets, and gave voice tc one longjoyous shout of greeting; received next in the splendid Gold Room of the Congress Hotel, and dined by the wealth, brains and industry of the Empire City of the West at the Commercial Club luncheon; another swing of the pendulum and he was delving into art and interesting himself in the problems of the Chicago Beautiful; still another swing and, with silk hat deffed for the more comfortable derby, he is seated in the midst of thirty thousand baseball devotees the greatest "fan" of them all munching peanuts, clasping the hand of the mighty Chance and not even neglecting the humLle umpire; "stretching" with the crowd at the opening of the "lucky Feventh," sitting through the game till the last man was retired; and then yet another swing, and he is back among the elect again at the Hamilton Club dinner; then labor's turn, and he ha3 striking words of approval and hope for organized labor. Finally he is received in society's waiting arms for a few minutes at the banker's ball, and then the farewell and Godspeed. Chicago set a pace which it will be difficult for. the forty other cities that the President is to visit to keep up with. President Taft swung the red signal of danger In the evening and warned the nation that to head off a revival of old abuses it must stick to the Roosevelt policies. Then he pledged messages to Congress calling for action to eradicate the evils and held out promises of the needed reforms. Before an enthusiastic audience that filled Orchestra Hall he dwelt on the danger of being blinded by prosperity and of falling back into the old ruts and returning to old evils and abuses Jn the management of corporations and . in business methods in general. The warning followed a prophecy a note of joyous optimism In which the President declared that, with the tariff bill out of the way, confidence had returned to business and commerce and that a period of expansion, of development, of tremendous growth, was ahead of the country. The utterance was followed by an enthusiastic demonstration, men . and women on the main floor and in the galleries getting to their feet and waving their handkerchiefs while they shouted and cried their approval. After the ovation had died down the distinguished speaker stated that later in his 13,000-miIe tour he would discuss at much greater length the questions on which he had touched and that at some stage In his Journey he also intended .to give full consideration to the character of the tariff bill, "which ha3 been adopted and which has been subjected to criticism." The reference to the Roosevelt policies was almost the closing sentence In the President's address, coming as a climax to a stinging criticism of the courts, in which Mr. Taft brought his hearers to their feet in another tumult of acclamation by declaring: "The administration of criminal law in this country Is a disgrace to our civilization." He suggested remedies, chief of which was the idea of a commission to be provided for by Congress to look into the cause of the delays in the federal courts and to devise a system that would secure rapid and inexpensive justice to litigants In the federal courts and that would serve as a model to the States In reforming their judiciary systems. It was a short speech, but filled with pith. In point of duration it was only thirty-one minutes long, but every sentence contained an Idea. EIG FAIR DRAWING TO A CLOSE. Paid Admissions to Date Are Heeonled on Tnrnatlles as 2,011,507. Friday saw the Alaska-Yukon-Pa-cific exposition in Seattle enter upon the home stretch of Its life. One month hence and the world's fair will have passed Into history. With the closing of the turnstiles Thursday night admissions numbering 2,911,507 had been registered. Exposition 01Hcials believe that with tha final closing of the gates on Oct. 16 this number will have been Increased to between 3.500.000 and 4.000,000. The rumor that the exposition would be prolonged is emphatically denied by the exposition authorities. CAUGHT HOLDING UP 7 WAGONS. Highwayman Captured N'ei-.r Scene of Another Iteeent Crime, Within a few miles of the scene of the hold-up of the Pittsburg express train at Lewistown Narrows, ra several weeks ago by a lone bandit, two Harrisburg policemen captured a highwayman in the act of holding up a string of seven wagons. The wagons contained farmers and their families who were returning from the Port Royal fair. The highwayman had blocked the road with one team and lined the others up back of it as they appeared. Sweden Wipes Ont Mobility. A dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph from Copenhagen says that a sensation has been caused In Sweden by the decision of the cabinet to present a bill to parliament to abolish all orders of rank and grades of precedence except among the officers of the army and navy. 200 Killed ! EtploitioB. A dispatch from Tangier says that 200 men were killed by the explosion cf a powder magazine Thursday near Mosndor. University liar an Ex-Cadet. Richard Hocker of Kansas City, who was dismissed from West Point recently, was denied admittance to the University of Kansas. The reason given was that he was an expelled student from West Point. Ohio Giant ro Shot. "Big Tom" Ferguson, a giant negro, was shot by Andrew Bokay, an Italian, near Castralia, Ohio. Ferguson is dying. Bokay escaped. Fellow countrymen of Bokay say Ferguson attacked Bokay'8 wife.

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CHICAGO. ' Dun's weekly, review of Chicago iride says: Trade activities blended well w;ith the elaborate functions attending this week's entertainment of President Taft and the numerous representatives of the banking interests and grain merchants of the country assembled in annual conventions. Seasonable weather provided a stiiiiulus to operations in production and distribution, and transportation returns Indicate that the Chicago steam roads steadily gain In gross earnings. Important contracts for large vessels on the lakes were closed, and strengthen the shipbuilding industry. Farm advices testify to improvement in corn growth from the rainfall and favorable temperatures. Marketings of grain exhibit large increases over both last week and a year ago. those of corn being exceptionally heavy, and there Is also sustained rise In shipments. Similar improvement appears la flour, and that commodity recovers slightly from the recent fall in prices. A moderate increase is noted tn packing, although this does not affect quotations for live stock and provisions, these again showing further advance In average cost. Freight offerings of the large producers run above the tonnages recently reported, and traffic managers give closer attention to immediate equipment needs. The effort to provide necessary facilities leads to numerous commitments for rails, cars and motive power. Pig iron outputs exceed those during last month, with prices much firmer and inquiries increasing for next year deliveries. Steel mills in this district employ additional hands and capacity Is now pressed to the limit. Increasing demands cause more drawing upon forge and foundry work, and the electric, heavy hardware, machinery and implement factories report satisfactory gain in forward bookings. The absorption is unabated of building material and planing mill outputs. Failures reported in the Chicago dis? trlct number 25, against 21 last week, 34 in 190S and 17 in 1907. Those with liabilities over $5,000 number 7, against 5 last week, nine In 1903, and 5 In 1907. NEW YORK. A distinctly stronger undertone ia displayed In this week's telegraph trade reports. Improvement in wholesale and jobbing demand, enlargement of industrial output and perceptible gains in collections are the central facts this week. Satisfactory progress, too, appears to be making in agricultural matters, with the exception of cotton. Retail trade as a whole and some branches of jobbing trade catering to heavy-weight demands report warm weather a bar to fullest activity. Export trade In leading agricultural products Is at a low ebb, and, while collections, helped by large spring wheat and cotton movement, are better, there Is Btill claimed to be much room for improvement in this respect. Business falluios In the United States for the week ending Sept. 15 were 198. agalast 191 last week. 266 in the like week of 1908, 179 in 1907, 171 in 1906, and 173 In 1905. Failures in Canada for the week number 39, which compares 'with 25 last week and 25 In the same week of 1908. Bradstreefs. Chicago Cattle, common to nrime, 14.00 to $8.50; hogs, prime heavy, $4.50 to $8.55; sheep,-fair to choice, $1.25 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2, $1.07 to $1.00; corn. No. 2, C7c to G9c; oats, standard. 39c to 40c; rye, No. 2, 7Cc to 72c; lu.y, timothy, $8.00 to $14.50; prairie, $8.00 to $11.00; butter, choice creamery, 25c to 29c; egg3, fresh, 18c to' 23c; potatoes, per bushel. 50c to 63c. Indianapolis Cattle, chipping, $3.09 Xo $6.00; hogs, good to choice heavy, $3.50 to $8.50; sheep, good to choice, $2.50 to 4.75; wheat. No. 2, $1.12 to $1.15; corn, No. 2 white, 71c to 73c; oats. No. 2 white, SSc to 39c. St. Louis Cattle, $4 00 to $7.73; hogs, $4.00 to $S 50; sheep. S3. 00 to $4.80; wheat. No. 2, $1.15 to $1.16; corn, No. 2, 67c to C9c; oats. No. 2, 41c to 12c; rye. No. 2, 75c to 7fc. Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.30: hogs. $4.00 to $8.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.09 to $1.10; corn. No. 2 yellow, 71c to 72c; oats,' standard. 39c to 41c; rye. No. 1, 6Sc to 7öc. Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to '$6.50; hogs, $4.00 to $8.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, Xo. 2, $1.12 to $1.14; corn. No. 2 mixed. 71c to 72c; oats. No. 2 mixed. 37c to S9c; rye, No. 2, 71c to 73c. New York Cattle. J4.0U to $7.00; hogs, $4.00 to $8,60; sheep, $2.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red. $1.07 to $1.10; corn. No. 2, 77c to 79c; oats, natural white, 42c to 45c; butter, creacnery, 27c to 31c; eggs, western, 22c to 24c. Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 northern, $1.02 to $1.05; corn, No. 3, 59c to !0c; oats, standard, 40c to 41c; rye, No! 1. 70c to 71c; barley, standard, 66c to C7c; pork, mess, $23.75. Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers, $4.00 to $6.75; hogs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $8.85; sheep, common to good mixed. $4.00 to $5.50; lambs, fair to choice, $4.00 to $7.73. Toledo Wheat, No. 2 mixed. $1.10 to $1.12; corn. No. 2 mixed, 69c to 71c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 28c to 40c; J.rye. No. 2, CSc to 70c; clover seed. $8.20. v Only three small children out of an enrollment of 200 were present at the opening of the Pittston, Pa., school, near the Pressed Steel Car Company district, and on a post opposite was the sign. "We Are All on a Strike." Gov. Haßley, In an address at Uis annual picnic of the Missouri Republican Club at Kansas City, declared Missouri cities must be cleaned up or he ! would remove the police commissioners. England's longest railway tunnel 1 the Severn tunnel.