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About The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1909)
r w V. ’ * U. • *"*r*^*«w _l. t*»7- , *e w» 9 i -. hw . nauseating story of Evelyn Nesbit The plea of Pittsburg's money lader. paranoiac wi.l not be heard MUST REMAIN AT MATTEAWAN For the present, at least. Thaw rttt>»t a'ay in the madhouse prison, aa one suffering from the insanity which he himself claimed caused him to kill White at Madison Square garden. Ujl.i States Snprme Coal F.e^sej to Thaw's application waa presented tu Pp' lfg th1 P'itP DCUCW ,UL io.1* t,‘<’ eourt some time ago. but waa not mudr public, ami It was rot general!' ' known that such a step had l«een taken until the adverse ruling waa annootMcl TH .W S LAST CHANCE EIHADSTED TELEGRAPHIC SUNNY SOUTH NEWSIN BRIEF LIKE PORTLAND <ew$î Items Gallerei Fro Parts cf lie Wirli New Orient ani Oreion't lelnpolis Hare Sane Tcamtare PREPARED FOR BUSY READER! INTENSE FBI0IDI1T PREVAILS I ooliah Story About Ingersoll, Washington. Dec.. 20. The door of the supreme court of the United Stat« a wu closed today against Harry Ken dall Thaw. At the aame time the door of the asylum for the criminal insane at Mat- ti-awan closed more tightly than ever before uoon him. Justice McKenna handed duwn a ruing in which the nation's highest tribunal refused to review hie case. Thia w as the close of one of the most stubborn of all the efYorta of the slayer of Stanford White to gain hi» freedom. The case, which has run the gamut of the courts of New York and probably has received more publicity than any other criminal case of thia generation, ia nearing the limit of legal recourse. The august judges of the supreme court will rot review the pitiabie ami 01 The foolish story that Colonel Bober’ Inga-rnoll "recanted" at some tims oi other ami "did not believe the ductrim ‘ he preached” han been revived, it ; aserna. by an evangelist at Silverton Il used to be fashionable in < rthmfo» circles tu repeat such tictiona almut Voltaire. Ihemaa Payne. Gibbon an«' everybody e'ae who did not accept th» fashionable theology of the r day, but • growing regard for morality ha« limn ed tlie practice to the ignorant ar < unscrupuloua. Intelligent preacher» understand that their faith has nolhu > to gain by propogating falsehood. Colonel Ingersoii | res« bed r.o doc- trine wh eh needed recantation, Hi* criticism U|a>n the Bible were tnt» among German scholar« when he mad« them. To recant them would be tu th in the face of history ami philology The common report that he waa ai atheist ia untrue. A glance at hi lectures will show that hi« faith n Providence was profound It ia a pitv that any evangelist should deem H necessary to nlandrr the dead in vrdei to advance the kingdom of the l.«jr«l ol Love Oregonian. IOJ i I A Merry Xmas We wish you all V And Happy New Year ! I WESELY I Q» o; .o: & CAI ;o: Merry Christmas Happy New Year » F i N| ■■*-< J 3 5 5 3 3 3 3 3 J. F. WESELY, Grocer 5 TiiiUiiiiUiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiUiiBiiiiUUiiii^ '.»ss litytrtiM hl IN I ks INtMt Mik W mî fafftrt. hip!» Sbm, Umili k Ffftiü -Cluni litt iMits FisM F ih ” ii >| s in Tb i ul Frta il*.*», tbfl Clkr Stilts Oregon City la reported to have 50 Chicago, Dee. *>. Portland. Ciregot •aaes of typhoid fev«r. and New Orleans, l-a., enjoyed precisely the tame temperature Sutxiay a mm - The firtune of the late King Leopold, mum of 3M and a maximum of 4» de of Belgium, in fflD.OuO.OOO. green. Montgomery, Ala , waa only Portland ia holding a fancy poultry four degrees warmer than Port lam'. <how, thin week. More than 1000 bird» Memphis, Tenn., was 16 degrees colder ire on exhibition. El Paso. Texas, where the |>ruapectur Amis brimstone ami other evaleocea of Chicago's expense» for the v«ar 1910 hades by digging down two foot, was will lie 9o&(M)0.0U0, which is 93.000.00ii 14 degrees colder than Portland, ('in- n exc.aa of any year prior to thia date. ■ rinnatl waa 20 «legreen colder. San ExSenator Harns, of Kansan, died Antumo, Texas, onMnanly «me of the it the home of a relative, in Chicago, hot teat spots in the Union, was eight >n Tuesday. Mr Hsrrin waa senator degree» under Portland. rom IW7 to 1903. »Haar com uknkral Detective Joe Day. who struck a lot Everywhere the mtenar cold nrevail», ■ hum he waa arresting, several blows «•hlerty accompanied by high wimia and i i the face, wan placed on trial for ar- hard sn«iw. In Canada there ut grave suit on a minor, on W«-vines lay. Otar tor the wheat crop as the winds Walla Walla. Waah., on Monday, have swept the anow from the field» .<>t»-d on the temperan<-e quest ion and »'«I it is altogether likely that the crop 'he "weta" carried by a majority of Will be frutrn. as it has no protectior . Rrnorta of disaster to th«- orange ami . The election wan warmly cor.- other cro|* in the Gulf t os at country «-»taxi. came to eummlaalon merchants tmlav Judge Lurturi of Tenn., waaratinrnnsu The cokl wave has spread over all the an Just re of the United Statoa Supreme- South with the exception <>f ths extreme tiurt on Monday. He waa app>inte«l lower |n»rtions «»f Florida. The valley by Proaxlent Taft, tu aurcred Jlpi t iee region uf Ixiuistana is suffering in a P««ckh»m, deceased. l«a»er tb-gree liecause of the Mississippi F. II Overman, editor of theShsnico which lern|wrs the effect of the cold Star, wan arrvatevl at Antelope, Moo- wave. ay, a« u««d uf '»suing an allcgeil Minnir. wkst swntitw worthless check. Overman la wanted tn the Mnldl«- W«-st intense suffering n S|»»kane. is reported among the people ami live The State Railroad Comm salon has stock la perishing. There ia not much -eceived a petit-on asking that »regular fear for crops throughout the Middle passenger train be put on the C. A E Western wheat belt, as the ground ia railroad, from Albany east, The heavily blanket««! with »< m > w . from pet.lion was filed by E. S. Payne, a Minnesota to the low«-r tier sf Texas counties. Tennessee and Northern merchant of Gates. Alabama have two inches of snow, an Secretary Ballinger, of the Interior almoet unprecexb-nUxi COtxlltion. department, will insist that congress In all the large cities from iJenuer to investigate all phaa<-a of the Ballinger- New York chantable aecieties are Pinchot eontroveray and the truth rushed to the limit to care fur the needy ascertained concerning the Alaska coal who were unprepared for the hard lands. siege. Fires are numerous everywhere. Next Monday the Brotlierhood of Eleven families in thia city were driven Railway Trainmen will nsrve notice u, ■ to the atreeta in their night clothing on 75 railway* raat of the Mississippi early thia morning. Trains from every river, of a demand for an increase of direction are stalled or badly delayed wages, from 5 to 40 per cent. About and all freight business of the North 75,000 of the Brotherhood are employed west is lieing abandon«^, in the supreme effort to get pasaengrr and mail trama on the road* affected. through Iteporta of death by freezing The present frosty weather, snow came from Ave atatea, including seven ami ideet, which now exists over the jieraona tonight. No word has yet l»een major portion of the South, ia looked had of aeveral huminxi sailors on Lake upon as a boor. as frost will destroy St. Clair, and it is feared all have the Cotton boll weevil, the greatest peat perished. the cotton planter has to contend with 350 Walla Walla people contributed port ions of their cuticle to save the life of a popular electric lineman, who had l>een badly burmd by coming in contact with a live wire. The akin waa used for grafting on the burned portiona of the lineman's body. He will, probably, now recover. THESE DAYS l>» UPPOKfUMfY. These should be great days for young men. We aay that if any one boy is heir to a fortune and another has but his hand« and brain for capital, the two l»oye start on an entirely different foot ing. The one has to carve out all that he may hope to |s«aea«, the othcu ia Judge Joshua J Walton, of Eugens, encouraged by the confidence and a|>- Was found dead at hia borne in that plauae of all around him. ami e nd I ess city, last Momlay morning, Hr had opportunities are open to him. Thia is One has a attended church twice on ths pr<-vious true In a Ananeial sense. day. When hia wife went to call him fortune ft* a basis, what the other is to breakfast, waa the first intimation to obtain must be by the facullic» But thia refers that he had panned away, an he appear which he |>un»«-»se» ed to be in excellent health when he re only to the power tn obtain wealth, tired the evening l<efore. Heart trouble materia) wealth, money, lamia, securi ties and the opportunities to gain more in annigned an the cauae. wealth. In all other things the poor boy may For Saie at On«.» t»e the richer of the two and may be [»welling house, 4 room» and nearly equipjted to enter special realms of one block of ground. 1 good couch. 4 knowlolge which the other's wealth chair», 1 table. I ataml. 1 No. H rtok may never be able to buy an admission stove and I airtight stove, 2 bed stead» ticket tn. ami apeinir» ami I good 96.50 mat trice. It is in thia last sense that we say Will aell cheap. Inquire of O. W. these should be great days for young Compton. men. for, when it comes to capital, al1 the wealth of the wisdom of the centur Moreover, The N ew » will be glad to aupply a r* is at their die;ioaai. luring the past half-century, the akill copy of the paper free, regularly, to of inventions and mechanics, has mmle any one who will auoply item» of new» all the euridition of the past obtainable weekly frotn anv and all of the aur- at a price which a hundred years ago Then, rounding neighborhonda. Rome one in would have been impossible too, in the past half century the spirit evarv ne’ghborhood »houbl be wilbng to of investigation has not only opened a take up thia work for the intereata of thouaaml new AeLls. but it has made themselvrs and ncighbora. (clear that a world of thing» which men I NO. 27 REPORTS ARE INDEFF1NITE accept an problems solved, has as yet hardly i»ren so much as investigated. Ihe moat familiar of these may l«e seen ia changes which have come in the tilling of th«« soil. Fur ages men have plowed their land, planted their seed ami gathered their harvests, but that what they were doing ought to be re duce«! to an exact science, no more crossed their minds than it did the patient beasts that plowed their held» But the science of chemistry grew apace, and st last one umpired man analyied the soils. then found the cum lament factors in what the soil pro duced. and su by alow- degrees waa able to tell what any certain suit would best produce From the »oil the inveatlga lis Reporìi Disctmry ol Itu Nertk M lion went to the water an«l its relation* is Clothed it I Oenstf to the soil w> re studied; what the cf .n't of a lack of moisture or excesaiv« U hr Ev«r moisture had uj«»n lands. Then cli mat«-» ha«i to lie studied. w hat woul> dounsh la st where th«- growing season Copenhagen, lire., .Xi That tl»e was three or Ave or »«-ven months «h ration. Then when the rainfall w»» 'ommlttes investigating the polar data ight and irrigation im| ussible, w hai •f Dr. Freder< A. Cook will return a eport neither favorable nor ad verse to condition of the soil would longest re is claims, were th« prediction today of tain the moisture of the winter an« spring. 1 h< ti the • tuniiea of plane i numl«er of the faculty of th«« Univer came up fur inv> »ligation ami how the) sity uf C openhagen who are cognisant >f the deliberation» of the committee. cuul«l be baltlled. became a problem The savants of the Danish university A few year» ago from the south ol France then- went up to Paris a cry v’b.o ar<- >• rv it g <>n lh<- --unmitt«« are that a |>araaite waa destroying the vine «aid to be deeply embarrass«-«! by th«-ir yard» on which the people by thouaamli ormer chami»ion»hiu of Dr. Cook, de|a»mied for bread. Pasteur in hl» oupled with their inability to Ami any laboratory invest igatmi, found th« thing approaching acceptable proof in enemy atxi how to aulslue it, and th« .his reports, ami tu be casting about for vlneyanln were saved That was |«>ani i way to retire gracefully from the tie at the time, fifty yearn prior then •ontrovsrsy. Rumors have leaked from the c«»m- would have been no remetly. Thn-< thousand years ago. when the quest lot nit tee room that the data submitted by waa how to get bread for the thousand» 'ook is »<• incomplete that Cook's *. I' in-Babylon and Nlnevah, by « ■ traencr before the committee wouhl mt aid the work, and that he would nut accident it was discovered that by irrl gation the product of the great valleys is ask««! t<> ajipear. north ami west of those cities, could lie doubles). But that lesson was so lift 1« cherish«<1. that lens uf thiainamla of farmers in our country have seen their croi» )>eriah through drought, thougl great streams of water ran througl IIPIOMIIIC NOMIMIIONS IRE SENT II their farms CONGRESS That ia. the experience ami the in- vestigalions uf the pant Aftern year* have shown, that through the ages, th« work of the farmer has not produced Washington, Dec. — Pr. »ident half what it should have <k>ne, ami this Taft sent to tlie senat«- t«»-«lay the f»|. la so iialpalde that cotift«lenl prr-lictions lowing nominations of Arnbaanmlora are made that in the coming Afty years ami Minister»: the increase of th«- foul product on Robrrt Bacon, of New York, Ami aa- latMla alreaily cullivagatcd will mor« <ador to France. than kwp |>a<-e with the increaae of Richard (' Keren», of Miaaouri, Am- |«»pulation. Ami thia ia only one Arid. baaaador to Auatria Hungary. The progress has been quite as great Henry Lane Wilson, of Washington, along all the imluatrial tinea. Thia i* Ambassador U» Mexicn, what maki-n us aaj that the««- slxtuld be < harte« Page Bryan, of llltr <• gr«-at days for young men. for not only- Minister to Belgiiim. are new Avkia being o|»en«««i constantly, William James Calhoun, of Illinois, but increased intelligence makes dear Minister to china that the old field« are, na yet, nut half Henry P Fiet« her, of l*ennay|vania. explored, but are waiting the conquest Minister to Chile. of the imluatrioua. the enthusiastic ami Henry T. Gage, of California, Minis ami the brave ai-eker. Goodwin's ter to Portugal. Weekly, Salt luike t'ity. It. B. Reynolds llitt, of Illinois, Min- istar to Panama. John B Jackson, of New Jersey, Shelburn Siftings. Minister to Cuba Mr. amt Mrs. Blatchfortl, of Plain Fenton It. McCreery, of Michigan. view, have been visiting their eons, th« Minister to Homiuras. Blatchfortl Bros., successors to G. W. Mwin V. Morgan, of New York, Mattson. Minister to Paraguay. Mrs. (»«■orge Gibbons went to Albany I.auritx S 8wenaon. of Minnesota. Saturday, for an over Sunday visit with Minister to Switx« rlami. her'laughters. Mm J, W. Miller and ('harks W. Russell, of Washington, Mias Agnes Gibbons. D. ('. Minister t<, Persia. Walter Churchill and non l.luyd, of Horace K. Knowh-a, of Delaware. Wren station, are visiting with W. E. Minister to Santo Domingo (transfer Churchill and family. red from Nicaragua. J Mr. anti Mm. A. P Rusnell were in Albany Thursday visiting with their (Koch Gleanings. •on Rufus, who ia employe«! an steno Fre«l Gooch was in Albany on a busi- grapher in the county clerk's office. n«-ss trip, last Friday, returning Satur- Dennis Trexler returned Momlay lay morning. from a several months stay in Wash A number of the young folks am ington. He will return to hia work talking of attemiing the maMpirrade after a short visit with hom«- folks. ball at Lyons Xmas eve. Mm. W. II. Rolx-rts ami non Edward Mrs. II. Phillips has eighteen regular came home Thursday after attending boarders to cook for. several daya visiting in Albany. Mr. Munroe, of Lyons, who for aonm Mm. George Vermin who haa l»een months has been in Fred (hmch'a em- very sick ia rapislly improving. oloy, fell hnd broke hia arm between Richard Struckmeir, of Thomas, the wrist anti elbow. loaded a car of Wnml at thia place, last 1 Fred Goo-h is doing Ane work with Wedneatiay. bin donkey engine. Frank Gooch ia l.aat Sabbath was the election of of- the engineer. Gooch in booming with thirty work. Acem for the Sunday school for the fol- lowing year. The officers elected were: Ing men. Mr Fred Marilla, of this city, ia Sup’t, Stanley Taylor; Sec., Nona Miller. Treasurer, Anna Stridel; <l<>ing blacksmith Imaineaa in Mill City Li bar«an, Theron Russell; Organist, going and coming on horse l»ack morn Mm. Taylor; Chorister, Mr. Taylor, ing ami night. Mrs. II Phillipa waa in Scio Montluy Janitor, Homer Runaell, returning Tuesday, banging home h. r Ira S. Trexler left Sunday for a few daughter. Ilasel. who has been »taying «lays «Uy i« Portland.' with her sister. Mra. C. G. Gough, ami A petition to the Manon ami Linn going to school. county courts in being circulated, Mr. ami Mr». 8. C. Dilley leave for a pr aying for a steel brxlge to lie built at t.» her folks In Wash)-1 thia place. The people in general are Wednesday, expecting to be gone for a very anxious to put their signature to week or ten days. same. Mrs, EfAe Miller, nf Stayton was in A. Osborn and non are improving the Gooch on Itusineas .Saturday, leaving look« of their town property by the ad f«»r Stayton Sunday morning. dition of a new si«ie walk. R C. S now Cap. Danish Cùmnntîec Vili Not Connut Itself iS D». F. A. COOK A FALSIFIES’ TAFT PICKS POSTS fl »V-• •< - - '9
