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. - - - - tot agm-i - I . ' : : 1 I I RESTS III STATE Thousands at Utica Pay Trib ute to Dead Vice President. 25,000 PASS BY COFFIN Funeral to Be Today Storm Breaks Just After Cortege Reaches Court house, Where Lights Go Out as Procession Passes. UTICA. N. Y, Not. 1. Utlca paid tribute today to the memory of Vice President Sherman. For hours this afternoon and evening thousands of persons filed through the Oneida Coun ty Courthouse and gared on the face r it,. Vioo-Prosldent. whose body wu lying in state in the rotunda of the. building: ' The body, clothed in a cutaway suit of black, reposed In a atate casket of solid mahogany, covered with black broadcloth, with handles of antique silver. The Vice-President's face bore a look or serenity, but It was over spread with . a tinge of purple, the mark left by the malady that caused his death. In his right arm lay a bunch of violets, the gift of his grand children, and In one hand was a spray of red flowers from the Sherman gardens. Elks' Pla Only Insignia. An Elks' pin. an Insignia of one of the few orders to which Mr. Sherman belonged, gleamed from the lapel ol bis coat. .ma The coffin rested on a flag-draped catafalque over which was suspended a canopy of flags. A floral piece of white lilies had been laid upon the coffin while palms, ferns and flowers were arranges in proiumuu side. The exterior of the building was in mourning dress with festoons of flags on backgrounds of black and purple. , , , The body lay In state from 3 o clock this afternoon until 9 o'clock tonight and It was estimated that more than 25.000 persons passed through the building. , The procession which earlier in the day eseorted the coffin from the Sher man home to the Courthouse was Im posing. Veterans Pay Tribute. Lining the street as the body was borne from the house were hundreds of Mr. Sherman's friends, neighbors and business associates. As the bearers moved down the walk several gray haired veterans, lined up on either side, saluted. They were members of Bacon Post. No. 53. Grand Army of the Republic, and Mr. Sherman was the first associate member elected by the post. Two hundred Elks, members of the citizen's committee, the Chamber of Commerce. Boosters Club. Oneida Bar Association, directors of several banks and scores of cltisens. friends and - neighbors of the Vice-President were among those who followed the body to the courthouse. As the cortege moved through the business section the bells of the City Hall and various churches were tolled. The bearers had scarcely disappeared within the building when a storm broke. Mba Are Fwt Out. Many preferred a drenching to losing : their places, and there was no break in the lines that soon began to file through the building. While the storm was at Its height, the electric lights in ' the building went out and those who happened to be passing through the rotunda for the next few minutes could discern only a shadowy form as they peered through the darkness at the face of the oead. Gas lights were i soon flickering dimly and it was not long before the electric lights were restored. President Taft is scheduled to ar rive in Utica shortly after 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon and probably will call at the Sherman home before the funeral. The private services at the house for the family will be conducted by Dr. Holden. of the Dutch Reformed Church, of which Mr. Sherman was for many years an active supporter. The services at the First Presby terian Church will begin at 2 o'clock ' and will be in charge of the Rev. M. . w. Stryker, president of Hamilton Col lege. Mr. Sherman and Dr. Stryker were classmates at Hamilton College and members of the same fraternities. Mr. Sherman since boyhood had been a member of the college church at Clinton, of which Dr. Stryker was pastor, and although the Vice-President had attended the Dutch Reformed Church for years he never gave up. his membership in the college church. Dr. Stryker will be assisted by Dr. Holden. , TAFT APPEALS TO VOTERS Contlnux1 From Flrat Page.) at tlie polls we may expect as one of its first legislative acta the passage of a bill to admit sugar duty-free atjour ports o: entry.. Democratic oraiora may talk until their throats are hoarse of their Interest In the American farm er, bftt the fact remains that in March of this year the governing tariff body of the Democratic party, the Demo cratic members of the waya and means committee, by unanimous vote reported the bill to place sugar on the free list, and this bill was passed by a Demo cratic House. "Our present crop of beet sugar con stitutes 15 per cent of the entire con sumption of the United States. We have 71 beet sugar factories in 16 states. Colorado and Michigan leading with 17 factories each. Thousands of American farmers are engaged in the cultivation of the sugar beet and the factories which buy their product em ploy about 25.000 men. Adequate Prateetloa 1'rged. "The Republican party stands for ad equate protection for the beet sugar Industry of this country. Such protec tion Is In the interest of the United States Treasury. It contributes to the growth of our National policy of Irri gation and reclamation and It is the shield of the American Consumer against an Increased price for a house hold necessity. "Free augar cannot be defended from any angle. It la In conflict with the theory of a tariff for revenue only and its effect would be to make almost certain the monopolistic control of a great industry. It would dlminish the revenue of the Government 153,000,000 annually and by reducing the world's production by nearly 1,000.000 tona a year, raise the price of sugar to the consumer. Permanently lower prices Tor sugar In the United States and .free dom from European superlative mar- kets can only be secured by producing our sugar under the American flag.. Growth of Bnalaesa Rapid. "The American production of sugar, both cane and beet, has been made possible by the present tariff policy of the Republican party. Cane sugar production dates back to long before the war, but the beet sugar Industry is of recent growth. In 1897, when the Dlngley tariff law was enacted, there were only six beet sugar facto ries in the United States. Now there are 71. ' "The first Congress passed, on July 4, 1789, a general tariff act Included in which was a duty on sugar. From that time to the present sugar has always paid a duty, except during the opera tions of the McKinley law, which placed raw sugar on the free list and levied Vi cent per pound ,on refined sugar, but guarded the Interests of the domes tic producer by givlntf'a 2-cent-a-pound bounty on all sugar produced In the United States. - Ultimate Higher Prices Seen. "If the United States should abolish the duty on sugar it would stand alone among civilized nations as the only sugar-producing country with sugar on the free list. The production of beet sugar has had a tendency to keep down the price of sugar to the consumer. Free sugar would force the suspension of our beet sugar factories, for they would not only be forced to compete with cheap foreign factories, but they would be under the further handicap Imposed by a bounty of 72 cents per hundred pounds on sugar shipped to the United States from Russia, the second largest beet sugar country, In the world. I cannot believe that the in telligent voters of your state are wlll-1 Ing to put the growers of Colorado into competition with the producers of Rus sia on these terms. Intercuts of West Guarded. "Permit me to say a word also with re gard to another subject in which Colo rado and other neighboring states are interested. lour great Western coun try, needs development. It must have men and capital and it must be able to offer inducement to attract both. The Republican party does not believe in a conservation policy that would tie up our National resources and deny their use to the legitimate homesteader, miner and capitalist. "We are holding the part of the domain that has coal.' phosphate and oil until Congress shall make provision for it disposition by lease on prof itable terms to private capital with the retention of sufficient titla in the Government to control and prevent monopoly In ownership and consequent exorbitant charge to the public for these commodities. The problem which the Republican party is solving is how to save and how to utilize, how to con serve and still develop, for no sane person can contend that it is for the common good, and nature's blessings aro only for unborn generations. Muckraking Crusade Asaalled. "There is Just founaation for the complaint in the West that the laws have not been administered with a lib eral view to the accomplishment of their purpose, but rather in a spirit which has put as many obstructions as possible in the way of earning title Irom the Government. "This condition followed a crusade of muckraking which reached a point where there seemed to be real hos tility" to the acquisition of property by a man who had earned title to it under the land and mining laws of the United States by the performance of those conditions that In the statute were declared to be useful in the de velopment of the country. ' "As a result of attacks that ex tended to those who legitimately were seeking a share In the public domain by the exercise of the steps required by law, there was developed a timidity and delay on the part of bureaus, di visions and employes of the Interior Department In granting patents that had been earned. Individuals Xot Blamed. ' "This Is not the fault of anv in dividual in the Interior Department or of the head of it, but it is the result of a. very vicious period of muckrak ing, in which those who were likely to be the object of slanderous attack preferred the easier course of making no decision and unjustly delaying the granting of rights to persons entitled to them. "Secretary Fisher has struggled to overcame- this and to hasten, the de cision of cases as rapidly. as possible. nut tnere still remains much to he ac complished in this direction. We are adoring as hard as we can to over come the evil and Injustice which these delays nave entailed, and believe that with proper congressional appropria tion and continued effort on the part of the Secretary of the Interior and his subordinates the tendency will dis appear." fl'S LETTERS READ PAY PROMISED "MISSIOXAKfES" WHILE IX JAIL. Government Contends All of 4 5 Men Now on Trial Are Implicated by Disclosures. INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 1. Going back to the calling of a strike by the Iron Workers' Union against bridge con structors In 1905. the Government at the "dynamite' conspiracy" trial today read letters purporting to show that violence was the beginning of the "campaign of explosions" later carried on by the McXamaras. All the 45 men now on trial, the Government charges, are implicated by the letters. The first exhibit was a letter writ ten by Frank Buchanan, then president of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, to J. J. McNamara, saying: "If a major ity of the executive board approves, a strike should be ordered." A strike was ordered against a bridge company which had sublet a contract to a Bos ton constructor who employed non union men. In connection with this it was pointed out that an explosion oc curred at Millers Falls, Mass., in De cember, 1905. Mr. Buchanan's letters were devoted to the union's business in directing the strike. A letter from McNamara to Frank M. Ryan, who succeeded Bu chanan, as read, referred to conditions in Toledo. McNamara said Buchanan had authorized a member named Mc Cleary to do some missionary work In Toledo "and that 1150 was appropriated for that purpose." McNamara said Mc Cleary employed four men. of whom two were arrested for assault, and add ed that an attorney said if the men pleaded guilty they would be paroled, but that after the men were convicted the Central Labor Union of Ohio adopt ed resolutions against members of the Board of Public Service and a parole could not be had. McNamara said he had promised the men pay for the time they were In Jail. A letter was read from John T. But ler, of Buffalo, Vice-president of the union, to McNamara. about a "sugges tion I would not care to put In writ ing." The Government alleges the sug gestion referred to violence. Don't forget to visit the warerooms of Kohler at Chase before selecting your piano. 375 Washington street at West Park. HARVESTER PROFIT T Witness Says McCormick Company Made Twenty-Five . Millions in Five Years. DEERING NEARLY AS BIG Story of Acquisition of Ohio Prop erty for Trust, atKeceiver's Sale, After Opera Hon. as. "Inde pendent' Is Told. CHICAGO, Nov. 1. How the property of the Aultman & Miller Company of Akron, O., was acquired by the Inter national Harvester Company in No vember. 1905. was related today by William A. Vincent, an attorney in the Government's dissolution suit against the alleged combination. The witness said he bought the prop erty at a receiver'sjBale In July, 1903, for 3640,000, and after operating it, os tensibly as an Independent concern, for more than two years, formally trans ferred it to the alleged combination In November, 1905. He said that the name of the plant was changed to the Aultman & Miller Buckeye Company. Obligation Felt to Trust. Mr. Vincent said he undertook to purchase the property as the agent of Cyrus H. McCormick and James H. Deering, but that his proposition was refused .by the company. Later, the witness said, he bought the property on his own account, although he felt all along that he was morally bound to let the International Harvester Com pany eventually have it. "Where did you get the money to buy the property?" Inquired Attorney Edwin H. Grosvenor. "I borrowed It from the First Na tional Bank of New York," replied the witness. " "Did you confer with anybody when you were managing the company?" "Yes, I frequently talked with Mr. Cyrus H. McCormick and Mr. James H. Deering." Profits 1000 Per Cent. The witness said that Ira G. Miller, a member of the company, first asked him to negotiate with the International Harvester Company for the sale of the property. William N. Racy; comptroller of the International Harvester Company, was recalled to the stand to submit reports of the appraisals made of the property of the Consolidated Companies before the merger. The physical value of the plants as , reported by the appraisers follows: McCormick Harvesting Machine Com pany, 339,668.157; Deering Harvester Company, 327,237.197; Warder, Bush nell & Glessner, 34,637,493; Piano Com pany, 33. 468.667.- The figures showed that the profits of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company for the five years prior to the consolidation aggregated 325.000. 000, or 1000 per cent on a capitaliza tion of 32,500,000. The profits of the Deering Harvester Company were shown to be nearly as large. Farmers IlcaJvy Customers. The Government offered evidence that of the 3355 spent annually for machinery on a typical Minnesota farm of 177 acres more than half went for implements and binder twine, of which the trust furnished nine-tenths. A mass of figures was submitted by Professor John Lee Coulter, of the Federal Bureau of Census at Washing ton, showing that there were about 6,363,000 farms In the country contain ing some 478,452,000 acres of tilled land. From 1899 to 1909 the sale of agri cultural implements in this country in creased 44.6 per cent, he said. In that time, he added, there was a decrease in the wheat acreage of 16 per cent. Barley and oats in the same period in creased 19 and 72 per cent respectively. Professor Coulton said that in 1900 he was employed as an expert mech anician by the McCormick Harvester Company in Minnesota. He said there was keen competition among the Har vester manufacturers in those days and prices varied to meet competition. SUFFRAGISTS CRY FRAUD Governor Urged to Suppress Misrep resentation In Literature. MADISON. V?is., Nov. 1. Governor McGovern was asked today to take steps officially to suppress literature opposed to woman suffrage, which it is charged by Mrs. Crystal Benedict, of Milwaukee, is being circulated In viola tion of the corrupt practices law. It is charged that the literature con tains misrepresentations of the results of woman suffrage In Colorado and elsewhere. The Goveflnor gave as surance that evidence of .violation would meet with prompt prosecution. SIX BORN INJ3 MONTHS Mother of Second Set of Triplets Has Borne 15 in 12 Years. FRANKLIN. Pa., Nov. 1. Six children In a little over 13 months' is the re markable birth record in the family of Stephen Nagotte, of French town. Mrs. Nagotte has borne 15 children in 12 years and 13 of them are living. On September 10, 1911, she gave birth to triplets, two girls and a boy, and this week three sturdy boys arrived. 13 months and three weeks after the other trio. BLONDE TRIBES VERIFIED (-Continued From First Page.) and Coronation Bay was our course, the last 75 miles over the Ice.jbefore we found the strange people. , First we came on a deserted snow village and finally an inhabited village with a population of 40 persons. "Many of the men had light mous taches and beards and had light hair. The eyebrows of these men were light and their eyes were light. Some of the women not all had fair skin and rosy cheeks; but their hair was. dark, oily and tangled. "There were none of. the flat-nosed Eskimos of the true" Mongolian type among 'these people. Their features bore the traces of the Caucasian race. They do not know where they came from, and no one else knows., "They have no records, no history, no legends and their language, a peculiar tribal dialect, was extremely hard to understand. As to their origin, there can be only a guess. - They may be survivors of the expedition of Sir John Franklin lost to the east of their pres ent locality In 1840 or thereabouts, or they may be descendants of the inhabi tants of an early Icelandic colony of Greenlanders. People Are Without Ideals. "Among the people there Is no hope, no thought worth registering, no HOUSAND PERCENT .1. T,T-tfiilne nurnnse In life. They simply exist on the ice of the frozen sea for six montns ana live in snow houses, eating hair seal meat for this season. In the-Summer they move to the mainland and subsist on caribou meat. They have no religion and no marriage ceremony, aitnougn mere it (IJ.1I.it na n trlhel fh a r Ant ArlstiC. Through other Eskimos they do some trading, but precious little. "Steffansson had seen about 250 more of these people in his Summer trip. He found the conditions about the same as those I observed. The 1 w- jiannv.,. nm etremelv yCUlfID TO U, v . v ... w - primitive, having no modern imple ments of any kind and having no mod ern weapons. They hunt with a crude Knw a , A o-inv nnri thpv K DPH T fish through the holes in the ice. They cook their food. In Kinaiing a lire they strike two crystallized stones to gether, catching the spark on tinder." Specimens to Be Divided. Tha Ct.fr.nEBnn Ai-ntlr tPYTted i ti Oil ... i.i.i.t....'-JJ.. . . - ...... - r fnr.i v.w VnrV nn Anrll 15. 1908, to make archaeological, ethnolog ical, zoological ana geological biuuico In the Far North. Dr. Anderson brings back hundreds of specimens of mam mals, birds, fishes and minerals, which will be divided Detween tne uominiuu t nitnwn Canada. and the American Museum of Natural History In New York. Me nas so speci mens of caribou. Tl. . .-nm mAn WlntAfArt In 1911-12 at Langton Bay, Steffansson leaving Bail ey Island by sled lor r-oini .narrow on March 31 and taking the revenue cut- -D.aw t. Tuna tnv fiAflttln Tkr An- derson Joined the whaler Belvedere at Bailey Island on July ze. 1 GARDEN SPEECH DECLARED TO BE "COXTESSION." Speaker Says Democratic Candidate In "Boastful Moment" Betrayed AVall Street's Attitude. BUFFALO, N. Y., Nov. 1. That "while in a baastful mood" Governor Wilson, speaking last night in Madison Square Garden, made a "confession" which clarified the positions of him self and the Wall street Interests in the present campaign, was the asser tion of Governor Johnson in a speech tonight In convention hall. "This fight is between common hu manity on the one hand and those who wish to exploit common humanity on the other," he declared. "Last night the Democratic candidate for President was in a rather boastful mood and he made a statement In Madison Square Garden to which I wish to advert for a moment. "I will read his remarks as reported in the press. He spoke as follows: 'The trentlemen in Wall street don't bet 6 to 1 on their destruction and they don't go to their business smiling and complacent when they expect a deluge next week.' "This he said In respect to his own attitude in the campaign and what he believed. He is absolutely correct. Wall street does not go to its Business smil ing and complacent when it expects a deluge. "When Mr. Wilson made that confes sion he relieved us from the necessity of making Inferences and drawing con clusions, because be told just where he stood, and what is more. Just where Wall street stands in this contest. "And so, my friends, you have the position of Wall street from the very Hps of Mr. Wilson In the contemplation of his boasted success. Wall street Is smiling and complacent." Governor Johnson today covered a schedule laid out for Colonel Roose velt. All the crowds we're large and they frequently Interrupted the Gov ernor with applause. The Governor's New York campaign will close tomor row MONTE CRISTO UNDER FIRE Dominican Rebels Shell Town on Xorth Coast of Republic. WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. Monte Cristo, a town of 500 in the Dominican Repub lic, on the north coast, 70 miles from Porto Plata, has been under fire by the rebels since Sunday, according to State Department advices. Very few Amerl cans are there. The cruiser Baltimore, which received hurry orders a few days ago to prepare for sea. left the Philadelphia Kiavy Yard today for Santo Domingo to look after American interests. Mother Convicted of Killing Son. BALTIMORE, Nov. 1. Albert J. Pat terson and Mrs. Emma Bamberger were found guilty today of the mur der of James Bamberger, the woman's 23-year-old son, who was stabbed to death by Patterson at the Bamberger home, here last July. The penalty is death or life Imprisonment. The slain man objected to Patterson's attention to his mother. Mrs. R. P. Finney Burled in East. HOOD RIVER, Nov. 1. (Special.) LAST DAY of , Monte Cristo GLOBE THEATER Washington, Bet. 10th and 11th Most wonderful of all dramatic films three reels. Any Seat, 10 Cents. The Pure Product of Nature's Springs. You will feel better and do better f or vuing irtMn NATURAL LAXATIVE Glass on Arising for CONSTIPATION JKIaaEsiyadlii JB lit1 ifellfiE Auto Coats in Coonskin $115 to $200 ; Other Furs from s $20 up sjLigft.iisjfcu The funeral of Mrs. R. P. Finney, who died suddenly at her nome, the Winne bago Orchard, on the Tucker road here, was held at the residence, Rector Ed mund Trew Simpson, of St. Mark's Epia- DRY FUEL of Famous Indian Holman Fuel Co. Snceemon to B.WFIELD-VEYSEY FUEL CO. Main 353, A 3353. Commercial Club Bids. Up to You If it were up to you to stimulate or retard the industrial growth of this section by ex tending or withholding your patronage, ,or in the frequent expression of a good word for the principle of home pat ronage, what would you do t Commence now and boost for home in dustries in general, and yourself as a taxpayer in particular, by talk ing and working for Portland Glazed Ce ment Sewer Pipe. Bllllll Elephant, Donkey, Bull Moose TTTHICH are you riding? npt tiat we cae" Just to malce conversation. This coat isn't any one of them- it's coon off a real coon's back. , Warm and good looking as can be. We sell every other kind ' of fur, too. And sell it under its real name. That's the foundation prin ciple of the ' GORDON Pure Fur Law If you want to know what furs really are spend a penny for the Gordon Book Put your name and address on a ic. postal. Gordon & Ferguson St. Paul. 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