Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1907 — WORKOR STARVATION [ARTICLE]

WORKOR STARVATION

ALTERNATIVE IS SET BEFORE UTE INDIANS. ■cyort of Army Officer Blames . Agent and Calls Forth Warm Re-tort-Increase Is Made In Ocean Freight Rates. Ilarsh treatment on the part of Major Downs, Indian agent at the Thunder Butte station, S. I*., is responsible for the trouble with the Utes, according to a report received by the War Depaitment In Washington from Captain Carter P. Johnson, the officer in command of the troops sent to the scene. Commissioner Francis Leupp of the bureau of Indian affairs has accepted Captain Johnson's report as a reflection on that bureau. Citing the fact that the disaffected Utes have refused two offers to woidi for railroad companies, one ~nf~ wliirh i oeitcmplfUed paying them $2 a day for labor only fifteen miles from their present home, Mr. Leupp said: "Johnson proceeds on the theory that the way to handle troublesome Indians is to set them off and feed them. That is not the Indian office the ary. This office believes in applying the •arue rule to the Indians that is applied to poor and ignorant men of any race. We believe in finding work for them and then in permitting them to go hungry if they will not accept the opportunity to make a living.”

OCEAN FREIGHT RATES UP. Increase of 10 to 20 Ver Cent Mmle —Heavy Exportation of Wheat. Ocean freight rates To Europe are up from 10 to 20 per cent and may go higher before they roach their former low level, bat there is no fear of a scarcity of -room in spite of the increased exports to which shippers are looking forward this fall. It is estimated by shippers that 141,000,000 bushels of wheat are available for export to Europe this year. There will also be a heavy exportation of flour. This, in the opinion of steamship men. will be the largest factor in the freight situation, but there has been also an Increased export of copper. rrrrr~

Tlra I’nt In Path of Cipresa. Two attempts were made the other night to wreck rhe Buffalo express on the Pennsylvania railroad sixteen miles above Kittnnuing, l*a. Two piles of ties were placed on the tracks. M. F. Alberts, a panie warden, found both obstructions. He removed one, but was compelled to flag the train to prevent it from crashing into the second. Love anil Worry Canae Suicide. Mrs. Josic Smith, aged 29, wite ot 0. W. Smith, a special agent of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, committed sucide in Kansas City because, nf she said in a note, she was homesick to return to her parents in New Orleans ■mmf because she was despondent on account of her intense love for her husband, which she said made her jealous. Drowned by cloudburst. Sixteen persons were drowned ot washed to death, fifty houses washed away, small craft sunk in the harbor, and large vessels damaged by a cloudburst at San Jose del Cabo. Lower California, on Oct. 14. Word of the disastei was brought by Captain Paulson and passengers on the steamship Curacoa from Mazatan. Tries to Slay Himself. Russell Johnson, a teller in the State National Bank of Shawnee. Ok., attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a knife, lie eanuot live.' Ili.accounts are reported all right. Worry over financial conditions the last few days is believed to have caused temporary insanity.

Two Electrocuted at Mine. The burning of the breaker of th» Fern wood Colliery of the Erie Coal Cora of the death of two men. who Came ir pany at Scranton. Pa., was the cause contact with electric light wires. Tin dead are John ft. Williams, ttic superin tendent of the colliery, and Tammany Maguiello, an Italian mine worker. Aarec on No E»tr.t Session. A correspondent wires that President Roosevelt and his cabinet agree that tin present financial situation does not de mun.l the calling of an extra s-sshm ol Congress. Instead there wili be eon- 1 ' ferenees between Headers of both house* and financiers on remedial 1 gislation tc be secured at the regular session. Halloween Wound Is Fatal. 11. It. Bradfield died of a gunshot wouud received at Trent. S. lb. Hallow een night. Ilenry Hendrickson, a wealthy grain buyer of Trent, is alleged to havt fired the shot as the result of enmity be tween the two men over the liquor ques tion. He will be arrested, it is said.

C«mti Into tirnit Korlune. Kiss Gladys Vanderbilt, who soon it to wed a Hungarian count, has conic intc complete possession of her fortune oi more than $12,000,000, her mother twin* discharged in court as her guardian. , - Kebnuks Dank ('loses Doors. The Commercial State bank, with deposits of $380,000. closed in Grand Island, Neb. It had $50,000 in the First Rational bank of Chariton. lowa, whose cashier committed suicide. Klevea Hurt In Explosion. By the premature explosion of a heavy charge of dynamite in Butler,Fn., • term nr — were severely injured, me probably fatally. The men were working in a llme•tape miiy. | ttt- Eight Dollars I Kills Two Mrs. Because he lost $8 in a game of jwker with Philip Withers and Will Roberts, faro white men, at I><*w, I. T., Kara I tanks, a negro, shot the two dead in theii ahairs and then turned his revolver upon M negro onlooker, wounding him. Davis