Cottage Grove leader., June 26, 1908, Image 3

TA FT AN D SH ERM AN .
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S A V IN G T H E W A S T E .
W IL L R E S IG N IM M E D IA T E L Y .
S e c re t a r y
T a ft P la n t to L e a v e C a b i­ P a p e r
net J u ly I.
Washington, June 20. — Secretary
T a ft's resignation as a cabinet officer
will be received by President Roosevelt
today. It will take effect July 1. This
was learned last night following a con­
ference of several hours at the white
hours, at which Mr. Roosevelt, Secre­
tary Taft, Secretary Root and Assist­
ant Secretary of State Bacon were pres­
ent. After the conference Secretary
Taft was greeted by a dozen newspaper
correspondents who desired to learn of
his plans.
“ The president wants me to leave a
clean slate for my successor," said the
war secretary, “ and it will take me at
least ten days to settle all pending
matters in the war department. I have
no definite plans tonight as to when I
will leave W ashington."
Mr. Taft intimated that it would be
within a few days. He will attend the
thirtieth anniversary o f the Yale class
o f '78, with which he graduated. He
will be in New Haven Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday of the coming
week.
Asked as to his views on the vice-
presidential question, the nominee for
the presidency was non-committal. He
asked for the latest news from Chi­
cago as to who would be his probable
running mate. Upon being told that
there was a movement in favor of Fair-
bunks. he remarked:
“ Things seem to be in a chaotic state
in Chicago with regard to the vice­
presidency."
During the conference at the white
house several telegrams were sent to
Chicago and Mr. Taft intimated that
ho was expecting responses from
these which would materially affect his
plans for the immediate future.
P R O T E C T T IM B E R .
T im b e r O w n e r s and S tate W ill W o r k
T o g e th e r.
Olympia, Wash., June 19.— A r­
rangements have been made between
State Fire Warden J. R. W elty and
D. P. Page. Jr., chief fire warden for
the new W ashington Forest Fire as­
sociation, for co-operation in fighting
forest fires during the dry season this
year. Mr. Page will put 100 deputies
immediately into the field, w ho will
be paid by an assessment upon the
big timber companies com posing the
association. These deputies will be
appointed state fire wardens at large,
with power to make arrests and fur­
ther enforce the forest protection
laws. The state fire warden will is­
sue no permits to burn slashings
without sending duplicates to the
deputies above referred to, and these
deputies will have power to stop the
burnings if a personal inspection
convinces them that forest fires
might result.
The organizers o f the fire protec­
tion
association
control
2,500,000
acres o f timber land in western
W ashington and have been assessed
1 cent an acre for the season’s work.
A half-cent per acre has been col­
lected in advance. There is, there­
fore, a fund o f $2^,000, with $12,500
immediately available.
The state owns 65,000 acres o f tim­
ber land in western W ashington, and
a force o f about 25 deputies will soon
be put in the field and paid out of an
appropriation provided by the last
legislature.
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C h e n e y P la n s M a r k e t D ay.
Cheney.—Much interest is manifested
in Cheney's first market day, which
will be held by the commercial club
June 27. An auctioneer will be fur­
nished. The business men have offered
prizes to the ugliest man, the tallest
man, the prettiest girl, the prettiest
married woman, the person purchasing
the largest cash bill of groceries, the
man driving to town the best team of
roadsters, the one bringing to town the
largest number of people in one vehicle
and many others. No one living in
Cheney will be allowed to compete.
M a ke ra
L o o k in g f o r .C h e a p e r
M a te ria ls.
Washington, June 23.—The American
nation has the reputation for wasting
almost os much of its resources as it
uses. Facts are often advanced to show
that there is much truth in such a
statement. A practical paperuiaker re­
cently called attention to a few o f the
sources of
enormous waste when
speaking of the number of materials ii:
America's refuse heap which are worth
while considering as promising substi­
tutes for wood pulp.
The Northwest annually produces a
million and a half tons o f flax stilks
which are not now used for anything.
The amount of waste remains after the
twinemakers take all they want. It
makes excellent paper. The farmers in
the South burn or plow under 13,000.000
tons of cotton stalks every year That
which is plowed under is not wholly
lost, for it enriches the soil to some ex
tent, but not so with that which goes
up in smoke.
Five hundred thousand tons of fiber
have been adhering to cotton seed every
year. It ha» been fed to farm stock
along with the seed, and has done the
stock no good. Cattle and sheep do
not like the fiber, and the seed cake is
better without it. A machine has been
invented, which, it is claimed, will sep­
arate the lint from the seed. Paper-
makers think they can use it.
Nobody knows how many million
tons of cornstalks go to waste; but in
quality they are ahead of Cotton stalks,
and it is believed can be made into pa­
per, although it has not yet been done
on a commercial scale.
Thousauds of acres o f wild hemp
grow in the southwestern part of the
country, particularly along the Colorado
river. Its only use now is to soelter
jackrabbits and coyotes, but it has
splendid fiber, and tests on a small scale
show that excellent paper can be made
from it. Papermaking from straw is
a well-established industry. Bookbind­
ers use thousands of tons of straw-
board. The straw which goes to waste
in Western fields would bring fortunes
if made into paper.
Lists o f fibrous or woody plauts suit­
able for paper are without limit, but
only a few may be had in quantity suf­
ficiently large to be worth considering.
The time has not yet come when it is
absolutely necessary that substitutes
for pulp wood be found, but it is com­
ing. The forests are still able to fur­
nish materials for paper, but they can­
not continue to do so for a great many
years to come, at the present rate of
cutting and growth. Makers of paper
anticipate a scarcity of pulp wood, and
it is this which prompts the active
search now going on for substitutes.
SAVES MUCH
LAND.
In te rio r D e p a rtm e n t E x p e c t s to R e ­
c o v e r $ 1 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 W o rth .
W ashington, June 25.— In a state­
ment issued today ir. regard to the
land conspiracy cases which resulted
yesterday in the conviction of Fred­
erick A. H yde and Joost H. Schneider
and the acquittal o f Tohn A. Benson
and Henry P. O im ond, Assistant A t­
torney General A. B. Pugh declares
that while the trial of these four men
has cost the government $48,360, the
beneficial results to the land depart­
ment in the future administration of
public land laws are beyond calcula­
tion. The net results, he says, will be
the restoration to the government of
more than 100.000 acres o f public
lands, valued at $ 1 , 000 , 000 .
B lu e O u tlo o k in A la sk a .
Seattle.— Michael Davis, the repre­
sentative in Seattle of the miners’
union at Fairbanks, today received a
cablegram from R. Burns, secretary of
the Tanana Mineworkers’ Union, in
which it is stated that the optimistic
conditions which reports have indicated
prevail at Fairbanks have been exag­
gerated.
“ Operators are bankrupt," says the
message, “ and $150,000 in time checks
are unpaid. Dumps are mortgaged be­
fore taken out. The pay system is
rotten and. corrupt. Men are brought
in here and beat out o f their wages.
W a r s h ip s at A sto ria .
Many are leaving the country is dis­
Astoria, Or., June 24.—The torpedo- gust. The output will be small this
boat Rowan and the destroyer Goldsbor- summer, unless our demands are m et."
ough arrived in this afternoon from
Puget Sound to await the Fox and
Davis, now at Portland, and proceed to
Humboldt Bay, California, where they
will remain for the Fourth o f July.
Later the four vessels will join the tor-
oedo flotilla in southern waters and will
sail in August for the Samoan islands.
G e o rg ia to M a k e S p e e d T r ia l
Navy Yard, Puget Sound, Wash..
Tune 19.— The battleship Georgia will
sail for San Francisco Thursday
morning, and incidentally will at­
tempt to break all battleship speed
records en route. The Georgia is the
acknowledged speed queen o f the
Atlantic fleet, but her officers are de­
sirous o f establishing a record. Sus­
tained runs under both natural and
forced draughts will be made, and all
records are expected to be smashed
A la s k a T im b e r B u rn in g .
Dawson, Y. T., June 19.— Forest
fires are raging near Minto and along
Lake Lebarge. Fifteen miles o f Can­
adian telegraph wires have already
been destroyed near Minto. and for
five miles along the lake.
Hundreds o f square miles o f valu­
able timber have been destroyed. The
fires were set by travelers en route
dow n the river in small boats. There
have been over 800 arrivals here to
date.
N o T r o u b le at Pa n am a.
M a r in e s to Pa n a m a .
T e s t O il fo r N avy.
H y d e -B e n so n C a s e to J u r y .
Washington. Jnne 20.— Counsel for
both sides have made their elosing ar-
~~ ments in the Hyde Benson-Dimond-
hneider land eonspiraer trial. Jus­
tice Stafford will charge the jury today.
Chicago, June 20.—Taft and Sher­
man. This is the ticket of the Re­
publican party, completed yesterday
as the Republican national conven­
tion concluded with the nomination
of James S. Sherman, of New York,
for vice-president, amid a final roar
of tumultuous demonstration. Again
the vast assembly was swept with
wave on wave of wild, exultant
clamor, as the multitude, realizing
that at last the work was done and the
record made upon which the Repub
lican party goes before the country,
united in one last, mighty outburst
of tatbeiiu tk tribute to the men
who will bear forward the standard
in the struggle now at hand.
Another inspiring picture was pre­
sented yesterday as the convention
named its candidate for vice-presi­
dent. The enormous throngs had
waited through an hour o f oratory,
sweltering in the heat-laden atmos
phere, packed, as before, into solid
masses of humanity, with only here
and there a few vacant spots in the re­
mote gallery— the delegates in the
broad arena below, the bright-hued
lines of femininity in the circling gal­
leries, and over all the enveloping
folds of Old Glo^y.
From the outset it was distinctly a
Sherman crowd, with galleries al­
ready trained into choruses of Sher­
man songs and an invading host of
Sherman
marchers
starting
the
echoes ringing with a huge portrait
of the New York candidate. Am ong
the early arrivals on the floor was
Speaker Cannon, only yesterday a
candidate for president, but today
here and a pillar of strength in the
Sherman movement. The widespread
affection for the old warhorse o f the
party was also shown by the crowds
of delegates purging about him to
grasp his hand and bid him welcome.
The preliminaries were brief, and
at 10:30 the nominating speeches for
vice-president began, with a limit of
ten minutes to each speaker. On the
call of states, Delaware yielded to
New York, and ex-Lieutenant G ov­
ernor Tim othy L. W oodruff mounted
the platform for a glow ing speech
placing in nomination Sherman as
New Y ork ’s choice for the vice-presi­
dency. Now came a surprise, as the
venerable Cannon, with his Lincoln-
like visage and shaggy beard, emerged
from the Illinois delegation, and,
stepping to the platform, was yielded
unanimous consent to second the
nomination o f Sherman.
Such a picture o f sturdy, homely,
plain American citizenship as Cannon
appeared as he advanced before the
throng, which rose to do him hom­
age, has seldom been seen before a
national convention. His face was
beaded with sweat, his collar had
melted to a rag. which hung limp
about his neck. His vest was thrown
wide open, exposing a crumpled shirt,
and the sleeves o f his black alpaca
coat curled up about his dangling
cuffs to his elbow s as his waving
arms emphasized his ringing words
for his colleague and friend, James
S. Sherman, o f New York.
From thè outbursts of enthusiasm
which greeted every mention o f Sher
man’s name it was plain that the mind
of the convention had been made up
and that the decision was only to be
recorded.
N ow began the vote, taken amid
confusion at first, which increased as
the totals climbed upward to the
nominating point The result was
never in doubt, as the totals of states
were heaped one upon another. There
were scattering votes, but the great
body of delegates swelled the total
of Sherman until it touched 816. With
keen appreciation o f the effect o f cli­
max. Chairman L odge announced the
result, reserving Sherman’s huge total
until the last:
“ Vice-President Fairbanks gets one
vote; Governor Sheldon, o f Nebraska,
10 votes; G overnor Curtis Guild, of
Massachusetts, 75; G overnor Murphy,
o f New Jersey. 77 votes, and James S.
Sherman, of New* York, 816 votes.”
A fter this the floodgates o f wild en­
thusiasm were let loose, as floor and
gallery joined in a pandemonium of
demonstration for the nominee.
" T a f t Is A m e ric a n D a u p h in .”
London, June 20.— Most o f the
morning newspapers and the weeklies
which came out today printed edi­
torials on President Roosevelt’ s tri­
umph in securing the nomination of
Secretary o f W ar Taft for the presi­
dency. The Daily Chronicle says:
“ T o save the life o f his policies, he
loses his life as president. It is an
interesting phenom enon.” The Daily
Graphic describes Mr. Taft as an
“ American dauphin,” adding: “ There
is something Napoleonic about this
creation of new dynastic legitimacy
under the Stars and Stripes.”
New York, June 24.—The new battle­
ship New Hampshire sailed from the
Brooklyn navy yard this afternoon with
400 marines for Panama, where, if neces­
sary, they will maintain order during
the approaching election. The marines
are c mmanded by Lieutenant Colonel
E. R. Cole. Six field pieces also were
“ R o o s e v e lt's R ig h t A rm .”
taken to Panama on the battleship.
Paris, June 20.—The Journal des
The marines are sent by order o f Pres­ Debats regards the nomination o f Mr.
ident Roosevelt, and will join 800 others
already on the way or sailing from Phil­ Taft as an evidence o f the imperial­
adelphia on the battleship Idaho.
istic tendency and the recognition of
the United States that it must assume
W ill P ro te c t M is s io n a rie s .
its share o f the “ responsibility for the
W ashington, June 25.— William F. world.” The paper thinks both pres-
Doty, American consul at Tabriz, has etn parties are now committed to the
telegraphed the state department that intervention of the federal pow er for
the missionaries at Urumiah are anx­ the control o f the trusts. The Jour­
ious to have him com e to the latter nal characterizes Mr. Taft as Presi­
place. Mr. D oty has been directed dent Roosevelt’ s ‘’ right arm.” and
to consult with the officials of the says he is committed to a continuance
American legation at Constantinople o f the oresident’s policies.
regarding the matter, and if he can
be of any* particular service to the
K a is e r A p p ro v e s C h o ic e .
missionaries, there will be no ob je c­
tion to his going.
Berlin, June 20.— The nomination
o f Secretary of War Taft for the
B a ttle sh ip s at H o n o lu lu .
presidency is published in brief form
Honolulu. June 20__ The special serv­
ice squadron, consisting o f the battle­ in the Berlin papers this morning.
ships Maine and Alabama, which sailed The news came too late, however for
from San Francisco June 8 in advance editorial comment. Emperor William
o f the Atlantic fleet, has arrived here, has been fully informed through the
one day ahead of schedule time. Sec­ German embassy it W ashington of
retary of the Interior Garfield, who was Mr. Taft’ s personality and the likeli
a passenger on the Alabama, was re­ hood of his nomination. The news
ceiver by Governor Frear and other was commented m pleasantly in o f ­
ficial quarters this morning.
territorial and federal officials.
Washington. June 23.— Reassuring
advices have been received by the a I
ministration regarding conditions in
Panama. Dispatches have come from
W ill N o t C a ll in B o n d s.
t hief Engineer Goethals. Commissioner
W ashington, June 25.— Secretary
Blackburn and General Counsel Rogers,
o f the isthmian canal commission, indi­ Cortelyou stated today that he had
cating the improbability of trouble at no intention o f taking any immediate
action whatever as to the 3 per cent
the coming elections.
Spanish war bonds o f 1908-1918.
W ashington. June 25.— Oil burning
furnaces are to be installed on the
ten torpedo boat destroyers author­
ized by the last naval appropriation
bill This will be the first test o f oil
burning boilers in the army and navy.
Y o r k C o n g r e s s m a n N o m in a te d
f o r V ic e P re sid e n t.
H e a r st G a n s 109 M o r e .
New York. Ju«e 17.— In the exam­
ination of 155 t«llot boxes yesterday
William R. Hearft made a gain o f 10*9
votes in the reioniit of the disputed
mayoralty returis o f 1905, now going
on before Justici Lambert, ¿tine hun
dred and th irty «* boxes have been ex­
Se a ttle to V a n c o u v e r, $1.
Seattle.— The Canadian Pacific rail­ amined so far and Hearst has gained
327 votes. There are 1,012 ballot boxes
road has cut the Seattle-Vancouver rate yet to be exanined.
to $1 to meet the cut o f the Puget
Sound Navigation company and a new
2 , 0 0 # o n Full T im e .
feature has been brought to the front
Omaha, Jnn* 17.— Two thousand shop
in that the Great Northern railroad has employes o f tl« Union Pacific Railroad
been involved in the fight. The latter were yesterdiy placed on full time,
will cut its rates from Seattle to Van­ after working short time since Janu­
couver unless satisfactory assurances ary 1. At Talon Pacific headquarters
that the two lines o f steamships will it was state! that other department«
adjust their differences are given in which were mt down a few months ago
the near future.
will be a aguented about July h
CLEVELAND IS DEAD RACE WAR RAGING
Ex-President Dies Suddenly of Nine Negroes Lynched In Sabine
Heart Failure.
County, Texas.
WAS ONLY LIVING EX-PRESIDENT REVENGE FOR DEATH OF WHITES
Long
Illn e ss
Becom es
S e r io u s
Day
B e f o r e D e a th — Fu n e ra l Private
T w o O t h e r * H u r rie d A w a y f o r S a fe ty
— B o th S id e * A rm e d
and E x ­
— G re a t L o t a to Princeton.
p e cting M o r e T ro u b le .
Princeton, N. J., June 24.— Grover
Cleveland, twice president o f the
United States, died at 8:40 o ’clock this
morning at his home, Westland, in
this quiet college town, where he had
lived since his retirement as the na­
tion’ s chief executive, almost 12 years
ago
W hen death came, which was sud­
den, there were in the death chamber
on the second floor o f the Cleveland
residence, Mrs. Cleveland, Dr. Joseph
D. Bryant, o f New York, Mrs. Cleve­
land’s family physician and personal
friend; Dr. George R. Lockwood, also
o f New York, and Dr. John M. Car-
nochan, o f Princeton.
An official statement, given out and
signed by the three physicians, gave
heart trouble, superinduced by stom ­
ach and kidney ailments o f long
standing, as the cause o f death.
While Mr. Cleveland had been in
poor health for the last two years,
and had lost 100 pounds in weight,
his death came unexpectedly. Some
three weeks ago he was brought home
from Lakewood, where his condition
for a time was such that the hotel at
which he was staying was kept open
after its regular season because he
was too ill to be moved. But when
Mr. Cleveland was brought back to
Princeton, he showed signs of im­
provement, and actually gained five
pounds in weight.
Although confined to his room con ­
tinuously after his return to Prince­
ton, rt was not until yesterday that
Mr. Cleveland’s condition aroused un­
easiness on the part of Mrs. Cleve­
land. Undoubtedly affected by the
heat, Mr. Cleveland showed signs of
failure, and Mrs. Cleveland tele­
phoned to Dr. Bryant, who came oyer
from New Y ork on the train arriving
here at 4:24 P. M.
Mr. Cleveland became worse during
the night, and Mrs. Cleveland was
called to his bedside. The distin­
guished patient sank into unconscious­
ness, from which he recovered at
times, only to suffer a relapse. This
continued throughout the night and
early morning. The last time he b e ­
came unconscious was about two
hours before he died. Death was
peaceful. Just before he died Mr.
Cleveland sought to say something,
but his words were inaudible.
Houetoa, Tex., June 23.— Nine ne­
groes met death Inst night nt the hands
of n mob in the vicinity of Hemphill, in
Sabine county. Today beth races se­
cured arms and the tension is nueh to­
night that a race clash appears immi­
nent.
The ’ vnehings followed the killing
of two white men by negroes. Two
weeks ago Hugh Dean and several
other white men visited a negro church
and schoolhouse, where a dance was in
progress, presumably iu quest of
liquor, it being the custom of some of
the negroes to sell whisky during the
progress of such affairs. During the
evening Dean was killed and six ne­
groes were held for the killing.
At the preliminary examination evi­
dence tending to show that the plot
was planned at the dance to kill Dean
was produced. Saturday last Aaron
Johnson, a prominent farmer, was as
sassinated while seated at the dining
table with his wife and child, the bul­
let being fired through a window. For
this crime Perry Price, a negro, was
arrested, and, it is stated, confessed,
implicating Robert Wright, a relative
of one of the negroes held for Dean’ s
murder. Price declared he was offered
$5 to kill Johnson.
Then followed the forming o f a mob
last night, the overpowering o f the
jailer at Hemphill, and the lynching of
the six negroes held for the murder of
Dean. Five were hanged to the same
tree, while another attempted to escape
and was shot to death.
Later in the night William McCoy,
another negro, was shot and killed
while standing at the gate o f the John­
son home, and this morning the bodies
o f two more negroes were found in the
creek bottom. Wright, the negro who
confessed to the killing o f Johnson, and
the* man implicated were taken to Beau­
mont for safekeeping under guard of
the military company o f St. Augustine.
Sabine county is situated in the most
remote part o f the eastern section of
the state, with sparse railroad and tele­
phone facilities.
S T E A M E R ON RO CKS.
N e a rly 10 0 P e r is h in W re c k on C o a s t
o f S p a in .
Paris, June 25.— A special dispatch
received here from Corunna, Spain,
says that the Spanish steamer La
Roche went on the rocks in a fog
near Muros, where the cruiser Cardi­
nal Cisneros was wrecked in 1905.
The La Roche sank rapidly, and a
panic followed. There were 97 pas­
sengers and 98 of a crew aboard
These took to the boats, but up to the
filing of the dispatch only 47 had
landed.
D efective
communications
made it impossible to obtain complete
details, but the latest reports state
that 17 women were drowned. It is
known that 47 survivors were landed
at* Muros, but that two o f them have
since died. Fifteen others landed at
Lon.
A ccordin g to the official reports the
La Roche carried 98 crew, including
stewards, waiters, etc., and 97 pas­
sengers.
The La Roche came from Cadiz,
where she had landed some o f her
passengers. She was on her way to
Muros when, on account o f the fog.
she headed for Corunna. Suddenly
she ran upon the rock, but the captain
who knew the coast well, got his ves­
sel off. Alm ost immediately she ran
on another rock, which was uncharted.
A ccording to a survivor o f the crew
the steamer sank within a few min­
utes. The heavy sea which was run­
ning at the time destroyed tw o of the
lifeboats. ______ ___________
P r o v is io n P ric e s S o a r in g .
Chicago. June 25.— Flour now has
joined other commodities in a sky­
rocket course. With ice up to 40
cents a hundred pounds, and meats
and vegetables still climbing, flour has
jumped from $6 to $6.25 a barrel. The
increase may be greater within a
week, and grocers today looked for
the price to advance to $6.75 and pos­
sibly higher. The advance is attrib­
uted indirectly to the high prices
maintained by meats. This has caused
an incrased demand for flour, the
thrifty housewife seeking thus to cir­
cumvent the butcher.
P r o f e s s o r Inhe rits F o rtu n e .
South Bend. Ind.. June 25.— Falling
heir to an estate estimated to he
worth from $500.000 to $2.000,000,
Professor A. B. Reynolds, o f this city,
form erly professor o f Latin at Notre
Dame University, has given up teach­
ing. The exact value o f the property
cannot be ascertained at this time,
for the reason that most o f it is in
mines
Much o f the property, h ow ­
ever, has been developed sufficiently
to rem ove all doubt of Reynolds being
»ne o f the richest men o f the Pacific
Northwest. Most o f the property is
in mines in Southern Idaho.
J . P. M o r g a n G e ts D e g re e .
New Haven. Conn.. June 25.— Yale
University conferred honorary de­
grees today as follow s: Master of
arts, William Kent. Yale, 1887. o f Chi­
cago, donor o f California redwood
trees to the United States govern­
ment; doctor o f laws, John Pierpont
Morgan, a direct descendant of Rev.
James Pierpont, the most prominent
o f the founders o f Yale. The degree
is awarded with special reference to
Mr. M organ’s public service to the
nation in mitigating the panic
T o r n a d o R ip s U p F a r m s .
Mountain Lake. Minn., June 25 —
A tornado passed about five miles
northwest o f here last evening, de­
molishing at least a dozen farm
buildings, killing one child
and
wounding scores of persons, some of
whom may die.
D Y IN G F R O M
HEAT.
E ig h t D e a d In C h ic a g o In O n e D a y —
Po lice K ill U n m u z z le d D o g e .
Chicago, June 23— The hottest day
of the year, with the mercury standing
at 94 degrees, brought doath and suf­
fering to Chicago. Eight deaths were
reported to the coroner’s office, and
beat prostrations were numerous.
In addition, a mad-dog scare spread
through the city, and the chief of po­
lice ordered his men to shoot all un­
muzzled dogs. A similar order issued
at Morton’s Park, a suburb, resulted in
the killing of 40 dogs in a few hours.
The death list today follows:
Frank Caas, 35, overcome while work
ing in his garden at LaGrange, a
suburb.
Samuel Douglas. 25, a negro, made
dizzy, by heat and fell off a yacht into
Jackson Park lagoon, drowning before
aid could reach him.
John Golden, drowned in Desplaines
river while seeking relief from heat.
William Dettling, 55 years old, negro,
crazed by the heat and committed sui­
cide by drinking Paris green.
William
Hobson, 55 years
old,
dropped dead of heart failure superin­
duced by heat.
Babv Gunther, two weeks old, died
at county hospital of heat prostration.
Sarah Oskmua, 9 years old, died at
Presbyterian hospital, after heat pros­
tration.
B artne tt F o u n d Guilty.
■ o n
W O R D C U R IO « I T U * .
U s e tk r ■ • « l a m
Which the On
iia a r y H u l w I c U n Meets.
HoDcrlflcabllltudlnltatlbue 1* a rath­
er long word. You cannot find It In
the dictionary, but you will find It uaed
in Shakapear* and some of the other
early writers. The word la maantng-
laaa; the only Intonating point about
It la It* length. Twenty-seven letter*
in a breath la quit* a few. But our
dictionary gives some almost a* long;
for lnatanoe, th* following two, of 24
letters each:
trsnsu baton tiatlonalleta.
In oath ropo morph inability.
Hen a n some of th* other boa coo-
aerlcton:
Twenty-three letten:
dlepraportlooableaeasee.
Twenty-two:
IntercommualcablHtles.
Twenty-on*:
lnterconrertlbllltias.
Twenty:
hlebc morphologically.
Interdlfferentlation.
eupersensitlvati eases,
nyperaenaltirenesee*.
It 1* safe to say that the ordinary
nader would not run onto one of these
lu n hundred yeara— and If be did be
would run the other wny.
It Is Interesting to know that the en­
tire alphabet can be arranged In one
Intolllglble sentence without the repe­
tition of a single letter. Juit 2d letten
In the following sentence, and no two
■like:
“J. Q. Vandx struck my big fox
whelp ”
That simple sentence Is the hardest
possible one to write on the typewriter;
so many of the letten In the alphabet
are used so seldom that even a good
typist has to study out the combina­
tion before finding some of them. This
•eutence in the only one known that
contains every letter In th* alphabet
bat once and makes sense.
Another Interesting word group, In
which the entire alphabet !• put Into
seven words, and only 32 letten a n
need, la: “bunt, fed, jingle, quip, vim,
buck, xyxomma.” Tbla la the smalleat
number of word* that the alphabet can
be Included In.
Two Intelligible sentence*, however,
of eight worda and tblrty-two letten
apUco have been found. They are:
“Quick brown fox Jump* ovar th*
lasy dog.”
“ Pack my box with five doaen liquor
/uga.”
Th* first sentence la often uaed In
taatlng th* types on typewriter, on ac­
count of the shortness and th* fact
that It Includes every latter and ha*
th* advantage of making sense.
Hen la a list of th* longest mono­
syllables In English:
Seven letters, through; eight letters,
strength, thoughts, starched, thrilled,
•tralght, equalled, schnapps; nine let­
ters, strengths, squelched, stretched,
splotched, stretched.
Probably the moat Interesting word-
curloelty Is the one made np of th*
greatest number of other word* In the
regular sequence. That word la In-
llecrlmlnatlon.
In-dlnc-rlm-ln-at-l-on
contains seven words end Is only lfi
letten long; that Is allowing a frac­
tion more than two letten to each
word, end only on* word Is npeated.
Hen a n two tbat have six separate
words within the one:
ees-ass-ln-et-i-on
assassination
lnfin-lt-e.t-1-on
in-fln-Jt-at-l-on
There do not seem to be any that
can be split up Into five sensible parte,
but here a n severnl quads i
in-eat-l-at*
insatiate.
■ss-as-ain-ate
assassinate
ln-veet-l-gat*
Investigate
In-lt-l-ate
initiate.
—New York Press.
I k s s l d H a v e B een "P la e h e d .”
David Kyler, a fanner, went fox
auntlng with a shotgun recently. In
th* course of the aearoh he encoun­
tered a hear, which without waiting for
the call of time, boxed Mr. Kyler oa
th* ear, bit hla arm, kicked him when
be had him down, and otherwise gave
evidence of an unfriendly disposition.
Mr. Kyler at the first opportunity
fired two loads of shot Into the bear's
face and then, seining a gnarled dub,
emote hla adversary with such violence
that the bear curled up and died.
At that Juncture Game Warden Flu-
negan appeared. “Don't you know that
thle la the dosed sea sou for bears 7“
be asked of the victor.
“Yes; and lt’e the closed season for
men. too, by heck.” ererred Mr. Kyler,
panting from hla recent exertion.
“That bear ought to be locked up.”—
New York Tribune.
San Francisco, June 23.— Walter J.
Bartnett, ex-vice-president of the sus­
pended California Safe Deposit & Trust
company, and administrator o f the es­
tate of Mrs. Ellen M. Colton, this after­
noon was found guilty of embezzling
securities and bonds owned by the es­
tate to the value of $.11,700. The jury
was out less than 50 minutes, and
reached a verdict on the first ballot.
Bartnett was recommended to the
T h e C i M k la th e Plate.
mercy o f the court, and Judge Conley
There was company to dinner at
fixed 10 A. M. June 30 as the time for
Nellie's bouse In South Broad street,
pronouncing sentence.
and tba diners wera enjoying the first
course, which constated of oyster soup.
T h e o d o r e J r . G e ts a J o b .
Estelle E. Ely, 13 days old, died at Nellie made sway with here for some
time In alienee, until she bad nearly
county hospital of heat prostration.
New York, June 23.— The Tribune to­ daaned the plate, when she suddenly
morrow will say: Theodore Roosevelt, paused, and. looking at her mother
across th* table, said In a stag* whis­
Jr., a Harvard junior, will have his
per :
first experience of work this summer,
“ Mamma, what you fink? Dere's a
and will get that experience as an em­
ploye in the United Steel Corporation. hair In th* aoupT"
“ Hush. Nellie," said mamma, frown
John C. Greenway, who was in the
Rough Rider regiment in the Spanish mg. “ It’s nothing but a crack In the
war, and for whom the president holds plate.”
a hearty friendship, is superintendent
Nellie moved th* bowl of her spoon
of the Western Mesahn department of back and forth over the supposed crack
the Steel Corporation’s ore property,
and then exclaimed triumphantly:
“Kin a crack move?"— St. Louis Re­
S piritue liet F a k e r Sen te n ce d .
Denver, June 23. Mrs. Leonora public.
Penree, convicted o f having obtained n
valuable diamond ring from Mrs. Har­
riet Crowe, an aged blind widow, by
palming herself off as a spiritualist
rapablc o f restoring sight, was sen
teneed today to serve three to four
years in the state penitentiary. Mrs.
Pearee’s attorney gave notice of an
application to the supreme court for a
supersedeas. It is rhsrged that, in ad
dition to the ring. Mrs Penree secured
from Mrs. Crowe • 16,300.
A a l n e a t la
L a k sr L w l m ,
An unexpected use has been found
for the talking machines In the Pacific
Inlands The natives have shown a
reluctance to engnge themselves for
the Australian labor market Home of
those already employed there hare been
Induced to apeak Into a recorder about
the high wages they earn and tba other
attractions of life on th* plantations
These records have been reproduced tq
wondering crowd* of Islanders with
highly encceeeful results
Taft’ * B r o t h e r C o m in g to C o a s t .
St. Paul, June 23.— Henry W. Taft,
brother of William H. Taft, secretary
The man who glvea a grant deal ot
of war and nominee for president, ac­ pity, la usually conspicuous for giving
companied by Mrs. Taft. Mist Louise llttl* else.
Taft and William H. Taft, Jr., le ft to­
Th* older the man, the lean be trie*
night for Yellowiton* Park, Portland
lo show off.
and Seattle.
S A T OT O A M E T .K M OOTA.
**•»
A r e M ew l a k a e a g t e A S e a lt
T h a t T h e y P l a r P oker.
Gambling was the pastime of rich
and poor for centuries condemned only
by th# fanatic and Puritan. The great­
est names In English history are la
the betting books of Brooke's and
White’s the dubs where fortunes aed
estates changed hands at cards end
dloe each night la this country no
man lost esteem by reason of high
play until the coming of the present
generation.
That era has ended. Th* law. sup­
ported by public sentiment, caused the
“gambling king” of America to offer
hla 1800,000 hell at Saratoga. A bouse
that cost him almost aa much to build
and decorate In New York baa been
unoccupied and unvlalted for two years
Richard Canfield is a man of educa­
tion ; an appreciative lover of art; an
agreeable companion of men of equal
wealth and mental gifts But bia mil­
lions cannot buy the possession of the
pooreet laborer— th* right to enter the
home of a fellow man as a nelfrespect-
Ing equal. He la an outcast. The
gambler's day la done.
A century ago lotteries were ap­
proved In every community. The lust
one baa been crushed by the national
government, though It was Intrenched
In the constitution of a State. The
policy vendor, forced to sell bis chances
In secret, la looked upon as a meaner
criminal than the petty thief.
No people love the tboroughbred
horse more than Americans. But rac­
ing now Is permitted In only four
States, and In those Is tsxed and re­
stricted. Because It has been Impos­
sible to divest the sport of Its gambling
accompaniment, cities like Chicago and
St. Louis have forced the abandonment
of tracks In which millions were In­
vested. Tennessee, one of the greatest
breeding Statee, has put the ban upon
all betting, and the persistent efforts
of the past to legalize pool-selling In
other 8tates, Ilk* Pennsylvania and
New Jersey, have proved more and
more hopeless every year.
The same class of men who sought
their amusement openly In tile gam­
bling hells, free to all comers, half a
century ago, would be aehamed to ad­
mit to-day that they were in the habit
of playing poker In private games.
Gambling was regarded, at worst, as
an excusable weakness generations af­
ter It was recognised as a moral and
economic evil, it was condoned aa
piracy, smuggling, moonshlnlng each In
Its heyday was condoned. And Ilka
those wrongs, gambling In turn has bo-
come disreputable.
Public gambling la dead by action or
the law In every community wbera
there Is no alliance between crime and
political corruption. Private gambling
cannot bo obliterated wholly by any
law. But what the law cannot do pub­
lic sentiment la fast doing.— Boston
Globa.
Money la being raised In Japan to
restore the monument of Will Adams,
the first English resident of that coun­
try and the founder of the JapanoHe
fleet. No fiction of adventure Is rnnra
romantic and seemingly improbable
than la tbe story of this Kentish pilot
of the seventeenth century. Ijifcmllo
Hearn, In one of bis books on Japan,
tells the tale of the young English­
man's rise to fortune.
In 1000 Will Adams arrived In Japan
In command of a Dutch ship. Adams
had partaken of many a sea adventure,'
and bad probably been brought lu con­
tact with Hawkins, Drake, Sir Rich­
ard Grenville and the other celebrated
voyagers of that day. He Bays himself.
In bis account of hla life, tbat be “serv­
ed for Master and Ptlott In her Pa
Jestle's ships.”
On landing In Japan Adams was tak­
en prisoner and sent to Osaka to tha
great Emperor lyeayasu.
“Aa soon aa I came before him he de­
manded of me of what countrey w*
were,” says Adams. “ So I answered
him on all points. He asked whether
our CO untrey bad warrea. I answers!
him yea. He asked as to the way we
came to tbe countrey. Having a chart
of the whole world, I showed hint
through tbe Straight of Magelnn.
lie
viewed me well and seemed to be won­
derful favorable.”
Tbe em;>eror attached Ada ms to Ida
iwrsonal service, and later we read of
tbe late pilot teaching his royal manta.*
“Jeometry and understanding of tbe art
of matbematlcka.’’
Adams was well provided for. and
commanded to build ship* for dee|>-aea
sailing. Before long he wan created
Samurai, and an estate was given him.
Surely no romance of that roinautla
age waa stranger than the rise of thla
plain English pilot, with only his slut-
pis honesty and common sense to belp
him. He was In such extraordinary
favor with the greatest and shrewdest
of Japanese rulers that we read In a
contemporary account: ‘The Kin|ieror
eetaemeth hym much, and he may so«
In and epenke to hym at all times when
Kyngea and Princes are kept out.”
Adams' only cause fra- regret In hla
elevation to fortune was the fact tbat
he was never allowed to visit Ids na­
tive land. Ills services were regarded
aa too precious to be iqiared. The em­
peror never refused him anything hut
this one privilege, and Adam* did not
dare urge the matter too hnnl. for, ns
he writes, “When I asked one too many
times the Child Emperonr wss silent.’“
I 'n l n r o r p o n U f S ,
“Boy.” called out the driver of tba
eight-horse team, reining up with a
flourish In front of the country road­
house, “com* out end bold my horses
s minute, will you7”
“Hold ’em yourself,” answered tbs
boy on the porch. “I ain’t no octopus.”
—Kansas City Poet
T im e
S ave«.
“Does your husband spend as much
time ea formerly at the racetrack?”
“Not nearly as much.” answered
young Mrs Tor kina. "He has a new
system and nearly always g o o * hrokw
on th* first or second paca."— Washing
M b Ita *