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T BLEACH FLOUR FIGHT HEADS TO WEST. Kansas City Jury Says It Is Adu . terated and banded. Government Wins In Prosecution of Millers Price of Wheat Will be Reduced Greatly. the jury, adulters- KansasCity, Mo "We, find that the flour seized was ted." "We, the jury 'find that the flour seized was misbranded." These two verdicts were returned to the Federal court here by the jury that lor more than five weeks has listened to arguments for and against the charge by the government that the 625 sacks of flour, bleached and sold by the Lexington, Mill & Elevator company, of Lexington Neb., and seized by the government whlie in the possession of the purchaser, a grocer at Sable, Mo were adulterated and misbranded, ine verdict, returned after seven hours of deliberation, was acomplete victory for the government, which prosecuted the suit under the national pure food and drugs act. The government charged that the flour was adulterated in that it was bleached by the Alsop process, which makes ; use of nitrogen peroxide in bleaching flour. Misbranding was charged in that the flour seized was labeled fancy patent, which the'govern- ment contended it was not, because it was not made from a first grade hard winter wheat. Bruce Elliott, chief counsel for the millers, made the following statement after the jury had reported "This case was not one that should have been tried by a jury. I called personally upon President Taft and assured him all the millers desired was' a fair test "The president assured me the mil lers would not be harried and that a fair test should be had. Immediately thereafter, under instructions ef the attorney general, the seizures began in different parts of the country. We started out to defend the cases on the assumption that the government would permit them to be tried before a ref- ree. " president Kooseveit appointed a board of scientific men for just such purposes and the board has settled many cases that came , up under the pure food law, such, for instance, as the benzoate of soda case. But when this case to trial the attorney general refused to let this board act and lnsis- ted on a jury trial." Attorneys lor the millers will hie a motion for a new trial within 20 days. Arguments will be heard by Judge Mc Pherson about September 1. Millers By that the bleached flour decision will handicap the farmers of the Southwest to the extent of $15,000,000 to $18, 000,000 a year. They say the old differential of 6 cents a bushel in vogue in Chicago and! St. Louis mar kets, will soon reappear. Great Congressional Campaign Soon to Be Waged. Washington In waging their war rare lor the control of the next con gress, both the Republican and Demo cratic campaign committees will have headquarters here and in the West, where the work of directing and send ing out literature and spellbinders will be done. The Democrats will be active in three places Washington, Chicago and St. Louis under the direction of Rep resentative Lloyd, of 'Missouri, the chairman. The Far West and South west will be handled through the St. Louis office, while the interests of the Middle West and the Northwest will be looked after from Chicago. Representative McKinley, of Illinois, the Republican chairman, expects to open headquarters in Chicago and New York. The Republican commit tee will work with and through the League of Republican clubs organized during the last campaign by John Hays Hammond. The Democrats will work from New York and from the Democratic Federa tion, organized by Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, with headquarters in this city. Neither party appears to have very much caBh on hand, although appeals for money have been circulated CURTISS SAILS OVER SEA. Mishap on First Trial Nearly Dumps Aviator in Ocean. Atlantic City, N. J. Glenn H. Cur- tiss made an eight-minute flight direct ly over the ocean at 6 :23 Tuesday evening. The trip included a night along the entire front of the city, about a mile off shore, and 1,500 feet above the ocean. The successful flight was the second one attempted, the first resulting in a mishap that nearly sent Curtiss into the ocean. While he was making an attempt to turn from the beach to go to sea, an air eddy caught the plane and dropped it within ten feet of the water. Curtiss made a quick turn and drove his machine on the beach with Buch force that a wood standard along' side his seat was snapped. The drop in the air and the jar as he struck the beach unseated Curtiss, and might have thrown him out but for a new brace built across his shoulders and lashed to the machine. HFNFRA1 I J PUQ fIF MAW HJIPPPJIIJfiQ ULiiLiiriL iiLiiu ui iinnunnL nni i liiiiiuui COMBINE AGAINST U. S. Latin-American Nations Resent Knox Supervision of Affairs Washington That at least three and perhaps more of the Central and South American republics will make a con' certed protest of some kind at the com ing international conference of Amer ican states at Buenos Ayres against the Central American policy of the United States is a possibility being discussed in diplomatic circles here Rumors to this effect have been per sistent and some responsible Latin American representatives admitted their approximate truth, though none would permit himself to be quoted The rumors have led to lively eX' change of information among the Cen tral and South American diplomats here. Officials of the State depart ment are watching closely. Some of the more Spanish-Americans are Latin-American alliance against the United States. It is generally con ceded, however, that formal action of this nature is unlikely. The most that can be regarded as probable is that the republics interest ed will give the United States to un derstand diplomatically that the prin ciples represented in the attitude of this government on the east coast of Nicargua will not be accepted willingly as a part of the international law of the Americas. It is hardly likely that this protest, if made, will become a part of the official proceedings of the conference. the situation radical of the said to favor a ARMOR PLATE DEFECTIVE. FIGHT FILMS MENACED. RUSSO-JAP PACT SIGNIFICANT Mikado's Manchurian Interests Safe guarded Against U. S. Tokio A British paper, published in Yokohama, says that the conclusion of the new Russo-Japanese agreement, on the "Glorious Fourth," was signifi cant in that it followed the failure of Secretary Knox's Manchurian neutral ization proposal. This plan, it alleges, was really the cause of a closer entente between Rus sia ana japan, it adds tnat the new understanding is apparently an answer to the Chinchow-Agun railway scheme. One of the native papers in Tokio says that, while at first Japan and Great Britain, together with America, appeared to be antagonistic to Russian arrogance in the Far East, later devel opments led Russians and Japanese to take concerted measures against the Far Eastern policy of the United States. Crops Wither Under Sun. Washington The grain crops in Montana and the Western portion of the Dakotas which are not receiving irrigation water are literally dried up and shrivelling in the fields, according to a statement issued by the reclama tion service. Continuous hot winds with the mercury near the 100 mark ae proving extremely disastrous, it is said. The engineers in charge of the reclamation projects reported that the settlers upon the irrigated lands were receiving a plentiful supply of water and their crops were in excellent shape. Too Much Theory Spoils, . Boston That the boy who wants to learn to dig a ditch, harness a horse, use a plow or milk a cow would go in vain to the colleges of agriculture in this country, Dick J. Crosby, of Wash ington, D. C, a specialist in agricul tural education, told the departmnet of rural and agricultural education of the National Educational association. There are 300 more secondary schools and colleges teaching agriculture than there were 18 months ago. Harriman in Danger? Goshen, N. F. A dynamite cart dridge, hanging from a tree at a height where a passing automobile would strike and 'explode it, was found above the road over which the Harri man automobiles traveL The 'late E. H. Harriman, his wife and daughters have always been popular in this vicin ity and there is no explanation for what appears an alarming piece of malice. Movement Starts in Boston to Put Ban on Pictures. Boston Declaring that Independ ence Day was dishonored by a brutal prizeght, that the moral sense of the nation was outraged, but that this harm is nothing compared to that which will be done by allowing chil dren and women to view the reproduc tion of the Jeffries-Johnson fight by moving pictures, William S. Shaw, general secretary of the United Soci ety of Christian Endeavor, in a formal statement, announced a campaign against the exhibition of these pict ures. Telegrams calling attention to the race riots that have followed the fight were dispatched to Theodore Roosevelt. Governor Hughes and Mayor Gaynor, or jNew lorn, asking their co-opera tion in suppressing the pictures. Mayor Fitzgerald, of Boston, will be asked to prevent the exhibition in Boston. Telegrams will be sent to the gover nors of all the states, making a similar request. London "Plays Up" Fight. Lionoon ine London newspapers gave more space to the Reno prizefight than they gave to the biggest battle of the Boer war. The rounds were de scribed in, detail, and the scenes at the ringside fully pictured. Opinions of the affair were quoted from both Bri tons and Americans and nearly every paper discussed the fight in long editorials. The sporting world is less surprised at the fact that the negro won than that the whites at the ringside permit ted him to win. Discovery on Battleships North Da' kota and Utah Causes Worry. Washington Defects discovered in armorplate in the battleships North Dakota and Utah, two of the most powerful craft in the navy, led to pro tracted conferences at the Navy de partment over the legal phases in volved. There were present representatives of the New York Shipbuilding com pany, the Midvale Steel company and government experts. fepans, a naking condition that im paired the armament's resistance effi ciency, was found on the plate and new plates were substituted. It was said that possibly the anneal ing work in affixing the plates may have caused some of the defects. Committee to Go West. Washington The western sub-committee of the judiciary committee, con sisting of Senators Borah, Brown and Stone, will go west in July to investi gate several Federal matters and it is possible they will take up the allega tion of Dr. E. B. Perrin that he was unjustly indicted and accorded improp per treatment by United States Dis trict Attorney. Devlin and Special Agent Burns at San Francisco. The committee will also investigate the charges of Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma, that "third degree" meth ods were used against him and his wit- ensses during the administration of President Roosevelt. PINCHOTISM IS MENACE. Taft Will Begin Campaign of Edu cation in Conservation. Tirui . .i . ... usningion Aiarmea at the ser luumieas wun wnicn rincnotism is re garded in some parts of the country and by certain classes of people, Pres ident Taft is considering the advisabil ity of conducting a campaign of educa tion in the hope of diverting the public mind from the alluring but impractical theories of the late forester and build ing up in its stead a healthy sentiment in favor of conservation that means proper use and development of natur al resources. During the closing days of con err ess the president discussed this subject with several senators, and to them he voiced the opinion that something must De done to check the present trend to wards Scialism, for Pinchotism is re garded as Socialism in one of its most dangerous forms. While he had not then formulated any definite plans, he showed that he is thoroughly awake to the siutation and realizes that his administration will find itself very much embarrassed before its close, un less drastic steps are taken to counter act the work of men like Pionchot and Garfield. SHOWS GROWTH OF POWER. Judge Wickersham Addresses Har vard Law School. Cambridge, Mass. Attorney Gener al Wickersham, discussing "The Re lation of Legal Education to Govern mental Problems," before the Harvard law school association, described the growth of federal power as exemplified in the Interstate commerce commis sion. Discussing the various phases of anti-trust legislation and prosecution, Wickersham expressed regret that the crippled condition of the United States supreme court prevented early decis ions in the tobacco and Standard Oil cases. I greatly desired that the cases be decided early," said the attorney gen- real, "principally desiring that the de cision be clear so that it would afford practicable standard which, while protecting us against the inevitable evils of monopolies and attempts to stride competition, would leave un trammeled the avenues of legitimate development of commerce." Wickersham expensed his approval of the railway legislation passed by congress, the extension of the power of the Interstate commerce commission and the establishment of a commecre court. Forest Fires Hem Town. Duluth, Minn. Cornucopia, Wis. on the south side of lake Superior, is entirely surrounded by forest fires on its land sides, and there is no way of getting out of the town, except by boat. The steamer Barker arrived at Bayfield having on board 35 women and children from the village. When the boat left the village, all roads out of the town were cut off and the flames were approaching, borne along by a strong wind. More Ships Are Built. ' Washington Shipbuilding in the United States during the fiscal year just ended shows a marked increase over that of the previous year. This year there were built, according to re ports of the bureau of navigation, 1,502 merchant vessels of 347,025 gross tons, as compared with 1,362 vessels of 232,816 gross tons the year before. Back to Cactus for 80 Hindus. San Francisco Eighty Hindu labor ers are slated for deportation on the Pacific Mail liner Siberia, which will sail for the Orient in a few days. The deportation was ordered by a special board of inquiry, following the ruling of Immigration Commissioner Hart H. North, that, under the present immi gration laws it would be impossible to exclude Hindus. In the past Commis sioner North has permitted nearly ev ery immigrant Hindu to land. Customs Receipts Bulge. Washington A statement prepared at the Treasury department by direc tion of Acting Secretary Hills shows that the customs receipts for the fiscal year 1910 amounted to $333,943,800. For the greater part of the year, the Payne-Aldrich tariff law was in force and Mr. Hills said the receipts were the largest of any year in the history of the government. The receipts for 1909 were $300,000,000. Navy Paymaster Retires. Washington Paymaster General Eustace B. Rogers, chief of the naval bureau of supply and accounts, will bs placed on the retired list, on his own application, under, the 30-year service clause of the retirement law. He was recently relieved from control of the naval supply bureau, although left nominally in charge by Secretary Mey er, with whom he differed on matters of administration. , His successor will be Pay Director Thomas J. Cowle. who for the last few weeks has been in charge of the affairs of the paymaste: general s omce. BEAR HTTJfT IX JAPAff. flattls with Brain Keaalted la the Death of a Hunter. It happened on the 18th ult, short ly before sunset, that some surveyors accompanied by laborM-s were still sur veying a field at Uyenal In Esashl-gun, Hokkaido. While engaged In this work, says the Hakkaido correspond ent of the Japan Advertiser, a bear made Its appearance from a cave near by, and, ambling threateningly toward the party, sprang upon one of the workmen who was In the act of run nlng away. The man escaped with lacerated arm and the bear was left victor, the field being cleared of its human occupants In a remarkably brief space of time. The Incident came to the knowledge of some local Nlmrods and some days later Bruin was tracked to his lair. One of the gallant hunters fired, hut there was something wrong with his gun. Un fortunately It went off. In a rather ir regular way, the gun being rusty and the powder damp. All these things, however, only served to enrage Bruin, which attacked his enemies. The other hunters ' took the ODoortiinlty when the bear's attention was centered upon his companion and fired his gun. but this weapon, too, was useless. The bear apparently now had both men at his mercy and In a short time they were lying seemingly lifeless and man gled on the ground. A passing mall car carried the vanquished hunters to the nearest village where one of the men seems to be on the way to re covery, under treatment, but the other died of his wounds. SOLE StTRVTVOB Off A CIVIL WAR SHIP TRAGEDY. i. n tor A v', J 1 ( ! f i, f I -1 'broekett V Wheat Advances in New York. New York The local wheat pit was much excited over the absence of rain in spring wheat states during the holi days, and prices advanced 3 bc per bushel. September reached $1.071, December sold at $1.08?,'. Com was quiet and not much affected by the wheat advance. Government Will Kill Seals. Washington The United States gov ernment is preparing to kill 8,000 male seals on the Pribilof islands. Commis sioner of Fisheries George M. Bowers will direct the work and the furs will be sold by the department of commerce and labor. Only 1,000 bull seals will be left in the herds. By an act of con gress last April the slaying of the seals by private contract was stopped. China Urged to Ratify Loan. Washington The ratification by China of the $30,000,000 Hankow rail road loan is sought by the State de partment Instructions were sent to American Minister Calhoun at Pekin to join with representatives of the oth er three governments in urging China to bring the matter to a speedy con clusion. Big Irrigation Project. Honolulu The Hamakua ditch, the great irrigation project of the Hawaii an Irrigation company at Hamkua, has been formally opened. The system has a capacity of 100,000,000 cations day snd is the most elaborate of its kind on the islands. Amateurs Will Sail Sea. TIT . . . T . ..... vv asmngton wavai militiamen are to be taught something of actual sea iuauanip mis summer, nans are now being made by the Navy department to carry out naval maneuvers. The Mar blehead will take a portion of the Cal ifornia naval militia on a cruise from San Francisco to Seattle and return July 1 to 17. The Buffalo, with three divisions of the California militia, will cruise from Santa Barbara to San Diego July 23 to 31. Beverly Meeting Place. Washington Such meetings of the board of trustees of the postal savings bank as are held during the summer will take place at Beverly. This has been agreed upon by the three mem bers. Postmaster General Hitchcock, Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh and Attorney General Wickersham. It is not believed the first of the postal banks will be opened this year. Statistics Show Islands are Healthful Washington In a statement just is sued by the bureau of inulsar affairs, it is shown that the death rate among the 8,000 government employes in the Philippine islands is only 6.9 per 1,000 per annum. Of the number of em ployes 3,700 are Americans and the conclusion is drawn that the Philip pines are not unhealthy for the Ameri cans. Disordera of the Stomach. The stomach, like all the other or gans of the body, Is subject not only to various forms of organic trouble, but also to many kinds of functional disorder, or neurosis. In these nervous disturbances of the stomach pain may be Just as severe and the list of symptoms just as long and as trying as In true organic dis ease, and it Is often impossible to con vince the victim that he Is not suffer ing from some terrible local disorder calling for Immediate operation. The stomach Is usually a somewhat abused organ. It works hard, general- overtime, and often at tasks ex tremely distasteful to It, Small won der, then, that it sometimes goes on strike. , When It decides to do this, the weap ons It controls with which to boycott and intimidate the reBt of the sys tem are most efficient In times of normal health we are no more con' olous of the tremendous commotion and toll going on in the stomach than the passengers on a sunny deck are conscious of the trials of the engine room below them; but when the stom ach has stood all It Is going to for the present. It telephones the brain to that effect, with the immediate result that the whole consciousness Is flooded with the misery resulting from Its rebellion. The visible signs of this rebellion are myriad. Among the most usual of them may be mentioned nausea and vomiting, eructations that are some times so acid that the very throat Is scalded, disagreeable sensations after eating, that range from discomfort to agony; and naturally in time a gen eral "run-down condition" of the sys tem. When It can be proved that this state of affairs is traceable to abuse of the stomach, the treatment becomes a comparatively simple matter; but in many cases of so-called "nervous dys pepsia" the trouble will be found to be a fault of the nervous system, the stomach itself showing no sign of dis ease, but simply Buffering rrom rauuy nervous control, just as any other or gan of the body may. This diagnosis, however, will be of little comfort to the patient so long as his stomach is made the vicarious culprit for the guilty nervous system. When the trouble arises from causes that can be easily controlled, such as Improper food, hasty eating, Irregular meals, insufficient mastication, the cure lies largely in me nanas oi ine patient himself. The small boy who heard his father pronounce a eulogy on a statesman said: "Father says Mr. Blank has In telligence, tact and honesty, and also abdominal courage." This Is a form of valor far too prevalent, and this is the kind that should be tempered with discretion. Youth's Companion. Cowie Is Paymaster-General. Washington-Announcement is made of the appointment of Pay Director Thomas Cowie as paymaster general and chief of the bureau of supplies and accounts of the navy. Roosevelt's Aid is Expected. Washington Ex-President Roose velt's support of the income tax amendment pending before the New xork legislature is expected by advo cates of such a tax. The action of Col onel Kooseveit in expressing his ap proval of the Cobb direct primary bill at the request of Governor Hughes in spired Representative Hull, of Ten nessee, to send telegram to him ask ing aid. Michael S. Brockett of Enfield, 111., .s believed to be the last survivor of the little group of men who escaped from the steamer General Lyon when It was burned off the coast of North Carolina, March 31, 1865, going down with 480 passengers. The disaster, ' now almost forgotten, was one of the most appalling of the closing days of the Civil War. Brockett Is living in retirement on a farm. He was disabled for life by Injuries received when rescued from the wreck of the burning steamer, and was allowed a pension of $8 per month for twenty-nine years, and ten years ago, by a special act of Congress, this was increased to $30 a month. The wreck followed four years of service with the Fifty-sixth Illinois Infantry, Brockett and his brother going home on a furlough to recuperate from sick ness. THEIR FINAL QUARREL. 188,008,668 Coins Made. Wsshingtoh At the mints during the fiscal year closed June 30, the gov ernment made 188.006,668 coins, val ued at $54,215,419. There were also 7,754,458 pieces of Philippine coin issued, including 5,726,559 pesos and l,&oo,ooo one cents vos. Aa Afrtcaa Task Storr. A certain man had a most beautiful daughter who was beset by many suit ors. Hut as soon as tney were tola that the sole condition on which they could obtain her was to bale out a brook with a groundnut shell (about half the size of a walnut shell) they always walked away In disappoint ment. However, at last one took heart of grace and began the task. He ob tained the beauty, for the father said, "He who undertakes what he says will do It" Burton's "Negro Wit and Wisdom." She Said It Waa Irrevocable, but He Knew Better. It was all oft They had quarreled, finally and irrevocably. It doesn't mat ter now what It was about The chances are that in their anger neither remembered anything except that he had disappointed her in some awful, unforgivable way and 'she had seized the diamond engagement ring from a dainty, slender figure and thrust It upon him with a gesture of Infinite scorn. For an Instant he held the circlet la his hand ruefully. For another in stant he paced the porch, hands In his pockets, head low, his voice quivering with emotion as he pleaded. Sudden ly he stopped in front of her. "That's final, is It?" he inquired. "Final?" she replied, icily. "Noma with a spark of " "All right!" he snapped. "This thing's no use to me, then." His right arm shot out like the arm of a ball pitcher, and a second later the tlnkle-tlnkle of metal on the con crete walk half a block away told her he had thrown the ring away. Oh!" she cried, and there was sud den anguish In her heart, "I didn't mean it! We must find it at once." "I don't care for it," he said, stub bornly. "Life has mighty little now to make " "Silly!" she cried. "Help me im mediately." He couldn't let her go alone, with night coming on, so, after proper re luctance, he followed. In the eager ness of searching all her anger melted. II took a long time, but finally be stooped quickly, and, exclaiming, "Here it is!" held up the diamond ring. What happened in the next hour Is nobody's business except their own. The human, masculine part of the story was disclosed to his bosom friend late that night In the quiet of their room. "Had it In my pocket all the time," he said. "Threw a quarter down the street. And, dad bllng It, I didn't find it, either!" But it did the work. Kansas City Times. A Bitter Toaa-ae. He This article says, my dear, that men's heads grow until they are 65. I wonder what affect that has? She Merely Increases the vacuum, I suppose. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Boasting of what you hare done I doesn't knock dews the tteraluuoe&a. Thonitht It a Langoaie. "The self-made .man is splendid," said Andrew Carnegie at a dinner In Washington, "If he makes himself a mental and spiritual, no less than a financial, success. Too many self-made men neglect the 'jitellectual side. This sometimes at commencements, for example puts them at a disadvantage. "I know a self-made man who said at a commencement to his nephew: 'Well, Tommy, my son, what do they teach you here?" "'Latin and Greek,' the boy replied, 'and German and algebra' " 'Dear me!" cried the self-made man. 4nd what's the algebra for turnip? Not I'm hee.lt hr. Teast Do you think high heeled; shoes unhealthy? Crlmsonbeak Oh. no. Our goat got away with a pair last week and he seems to be getting along all right! Tonkers Statesman. The Touring Club of France apeat $4,000,000 oa public roads.