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Loup City Northwestern
VOLUME XXVI
LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY", JUNE 24, 1909
NUMBER 33
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Foreign.
The American protest at Peking
against the conclusion by the Chinese
government of the toan agreement
with German. British and French
bankers for ST/,500,000 for the con
struction of the Hankow-Sze-Chuen
railroad without having given Ameri
can financiers an opportunity to par
ticipate. has made a stir in the diplo
matic circles in Berlin.
Cable advices to the state depart
ment are to the effect that the agents
of the European financial groups in
Peking interested in the $27,500,000
loan on the. Hankow-Sze-Cheun rail
way have advised their principals that
the New York bankers be alloted a
portion. The presumption is that the
American interests will be allowed
one-fourth of the $27,500,000, as it has
been on this theory that the represen
tations to China have been made by
this government.
At Rome Queen Helena received
Lloyd C. Griscom, the American am
bassador, in farewell audience. This
was an unusual mark of esteem.
Germany's newest and biggest ship
began her maiden vovage on Sunday.
The i 3 ‘27 . tot 3, is 722 f< <
ion so nty- ight le wide and tic
depth from the ■ »• .-cion deck is
iifty-four teet ant! from the awning
deck is eighty feet.
A dispatch from Astara says that
the Shakhsevan tribesmen are ravag
ing the Adabil district in Azerbiajan.
the most northwesterly province of
Persia. According to the dispatch
5,000 persons have been killed.
Prince Ito was formally installed as
president of the privy council of
Japan at Tokic. and Viscount gone as
resident general of Korea, succeeding
Prince Ito.
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General.
The senate has doubled the duty
on print paper, Senator Brown's vig
orous tight tfc the contrary notwith
standing.
The Omaha high school class this
year numbers 209 girls and boys.
Toasts exchanged between Empe
ror Nicholas and Emperor William at
the banquet on board the Russian
imperial yacht were cordial in their
expressions for good relations.
Rev. Ulysses Grant B. Pierce, D. D„
pastor of All Souls' Unitarian church
of Washington, has been designated
by a senate* resolution to act as chap
lain until otherwise ordered.
France has a deficit of $21,000,009.
To help wipe it out a tax will be
placed on dogs.
Senator Burkett announced that he
has inside information of the comple
tion of arrangements for building a
great beer sugar factory at or near
Scott's Bluff, Neb., in the immediate
future.
Japan refuses to interfere in the
strike of its countrymen at Honolulu.
Capt. John H. Poole, corps of en
gineers, has been relieved from duty
as superintendent of the state war
and na>y department of building and
as a military aide to the president.
The monument erected in Spring
Grove cemetery to the memory of
Henry Clay Work, author of “'March
ing Through Georgia,” was dedicated
at Hartford. Conn.
Threats of the Nebraska game war
den to prosecute offenders of the
game laws are disregarded by Mayor
McCarthy of Auburn in his crusade
against squirrels running at large.
The committee appointed by Gov.
Hughes of New York to investigate
speculation on board of trades finds
mast forms legitimate and necessary
to commerce.
With but six republican votes
against it, the Philippines were given
free trade with the United States in
the senate.
The Pennsylvania republican state
convention named machine candidates
and endorsed the Aldrich plan of tariff
revision.
Harvard, Columbia and New York
universities have been warned of lax
ity concerning standards at the insti
tutions which may violate the require
ments for participation in the benefits
of the Carnegie foundation for the ad
vancement of teaching. Official com
munications caling the institution's at
tention to the supposed laxity in stand
ards have been sent out by the founda
tion.
Witnesses in the Gould divorce case
told of the fondness of Mrs. Gould for
Intoxicating liquors.
President Taft believes that the pro
posed tax on corporations would prove
to be more than a mere revenue pro
ducer and that it would bring about
publicity in corporation affairs.
President Taft sent a special mes
sage to congress regarding income
tax amendment to the tariff bill.
Francis E. I.eupp has resigned as
commissioner of Indian affairs.
/ A dispatch from Juneau, Alaska,
says that Noel Ogilvie, head of the
Canadian survey party, has arrived
with news of the tragic death of Jas.
Y'ork. one of the members of the sur
veying party at Sumdum.
At South Omaha Sunday night W. R.
James, a stranger, threw himself in
front of a train and was killed.
From seventy-five to 100 dead and 100
Injured is estimated casualties as the
result of the earthquake which devas
tated several towns and villages in
the southermost part of France.
Senator Lafollette got after Senator
Aldrich with language so severe that
he had to be called to order.
The federal grand jury at Omaha
found indictments against four men
for robbing the Union Pacific mail
train. The indictments charge felon
ious and murderous attempt so that
conviction will mean life sentences.
Captain John B. Raymond, com
manding officer of Troop B, Second
i cavalry. Des Moines, la., was shot,
perhaps fatally, by Corporal Crabtree,
who became offended because of rep
rimand by the superior officer. Ray
mond is paralyzed from the shot and
will probably die.
The senate committee on finance
will in all probability recommend that
a duty be imposed upon crude and re
fined petroleum and the products of
i petroleum.
In a speech to British clergymen
emperor will emphasize the good feel
ing of Germany to Great Britain.
Revenue cutters are keeping watch
on two boats suposed to have Venez
uela liibuster intentions.
Raymond Nelson, serving a life
sentence in the Nebraska penitentiary
has applied for a pardon or a com
mutation of the sentence.
It is said that opponents of an in
come tax are counting on the assist
ance of President Taft to help de
feat it.
The German government has sub
mitted to the bundesrath a supple
mentary tax bill designed to yield $35,
•>00,000 in taxes on inheritances, etc.
Governor Deneen of Illinois ap
proved the Busse bond bills, which
changes the entire Illinois system of
taxation.
Dr. Alfonso Moreira Penna, presi
dent of Brazil, died on the 14th.
The village of Hillman, Me., was de
stroyed bv forest fire.
It is said President Taft is if fa
vorable to the '■ 'ome tax amt-r. aeni 1
to the tariff bill.
Miss Jane Adda ms of Hull House,
Chicago, is the president of the na
tional conference of charities and cor
rections for 1910.
Patrick Crowley, marshal of the vil
lage of Gary. 111., a quarry town near
Chicago, was shot and killed while ar
resting Modest Lenzi. formerly
mayor of the village and for years
known as the ‘ king of Gary.”
Omaha bakers will not follow the
lead of Chicago in raising the price
of cakes, rolls, doughnuts, etc.
The publishers ot the Cosmopolitan
Magazine pleaded not guilty to an in
dictment found by the federal grand
jury for the violation of the law which
prohibits the printing or circulation of
any imitation of United States money.
An indictment against Sanford Ro
binson. formerly vice president of the
United Copper company, was found
by the federal grand jury in New
York.
Six men were killed and fourteen
badly injured bv an explosion in steel
works at Wheeling, W. Va.
Washington.
The resignation or Francis .T. Leupp
as commissioner of Indian affairs,
which has been pending since March
4. was accepted by President Taft, and
Robert G. Valentine, assistant com
missioner, was named to succeed him.
The amendment of Senator Burkett
regarding the admission free of breed
ing animals has beeD adopted by the
senate.
Senator Bacon has introduced
amendments to the tariff bill placing
material for cotton bagging and agri
cultural implements on the free list.
Secretary of State Philander C
Knox, was given the honorary degree
of doctor of laws at the sixty-sixth an
nual commencement exercises of the
Roman Catholic college at Villa Nova.
Pa
A committee representing the Na
tional Retail Hardware association
was introduced to the president by
Senator Dolllver of Iowa and Repre
sentative Tawney of Minnesota. The
committee recorded its protest against
the parcels post.
Robert Bacon, who is to succeed
Henry White as ambassador to
France, was born in Massachusetts
forty-nine years ago and was graduat
ed from Harvard in the same class
with Theodore Roosevelt.,
Secretary Ballinger has modified
the regulations for the opening to
settlement, and entry of surplus lands
on the former Lemhi Indian reserva
tion, Idaho, so as not to recognize any
settlement right. The lands in
question aggregate about 5,000 and
will become subject to entry on July
15 and 'to both settlement and entry
on August 1(1.
General James Allen, chief signal
officer, was designated by Secretary
of Was Dickinson to present the
medals authorized by congress to the
Wright brothers at the celebration in
their honor at Dayton.
Personal.
Former President Roosevelt is tt.e
author of a vigorous article bearing
on control of corporations.
President Taft will present the
Wright brothers with gold medals.
Juukin. murderer of the chorus girl
at Ottumwa. Ia.. has been sentenced
to death.
At Greenville, Tenn., tribute was
paid to the memory of Andrew* John
son.
Mrs. Howard Gould's divorce suit
has brought out the fact that she was
often in her cups.
Medals from the national govern
ment were awarded to the Wright
brothers at Dayton, O.
Senator Brown led the fight in the
senate against higher paper duties
An inheritance tax of $183,844.43,
the largest in the history of Illinois,
comes from the estate left by the late
Nelson Morris, one of the pioneers in
the meat packing business.
Senators Burkett and Brown took
opposite sides on some tariff sched
ules.
THE TARIFF DELAYED
NO PREDICTION AS TO WHEN
VOTE WILL BE TAKEN.
HIDES QUESTION THIS WEEK
Then Conies Wood Pulp, After Which
Senate Will Probably Take Up
Corporation Earnings' Tax.
Washington—Although considerable
progress was made during the last
week by the senate in the considera
tion of the tariff bill, the date at
which a final vote on the measure can
be looked for is as indefinite now as
it was a week ago. A large number
of paragraphs covering duties on im
portant articles remain to be disposed
of, in addition to the special revenue
features and the administrative sec
tions of the bill.
However, as there is less disposition
to discuss the theoretical problems ol
(he tariff, it may be expected that
the various matters will be dispatched
with greater rapidity and fewer
speeches. While few members will
venture a prediction as to the date
of the vote on the bill by the senate,
the possibility of sending the bill back
to the house by the first of July is
now generally considered as extremely
remote.
The discussion of the question of a
duty on hides will occupy the atten
tion of the senate for possibly a day
or two before a vote is reached. The
wood pulp amendment offered by the
finance < immittee, which practically
d pu If ihe y c i wood pu.p com
ing from chantries w’ .on prohibit the
exportation of wood pulp, will be the
nexfi matter taken up for considera
tion. After these two schedules shall
have been disposed of it is understood
that the tax on corporations, proposed
by President Taft, will occupy the at
tention of the senate for several days.
It will provoke much debate.
The disposition of the lumber
schedule and the determination cf a
proper duty on pig and scrap iron, as
well as wire nails, must be made by
the senate. The questions of free cot
ton bagging, ties and binding twine
are certain to result in an interest
ing discussion between the western
and southern senators. The bouse
bill's provision for the free entry of
petroleum and its products will occupy
considerable time, as will the discus
sion of the duties on wrapper and fil
ler tobacco, pineapples, shoes and
leather, and bituminous coal. The
senate will continue to meet from 10
o'clock in the morning until 7 in the
evening.
While no serious effort will be made
to insure the presence of a quorum at
the sessions of the house on Monday
and Tuesday, if possible. Representa
tive Crumpacker (Indiana), chairman
of the census committee, will endeavor
to have the house consider the con
ference report on the census bill. AS
senate leaders have indicated to the
members of the house that they
would prefer to have no legislation
sent to the senate while the tariff bill
is being considered there, the house
will not take up any measures which
might conflict with this request.
CARS IN COLLISION.
ten People Meet Death in an Inter
urban Impact.
South Bend. Ind.—Ten persons
were killed and forty injured in a
wreck on the Chicago, Lake Shore &
South Bend railroad in Porter coun
ty. Indiana. Saturday night, two of
tlie big electric cars colliding head-on.
According to General Manager H. U.
Wallace, the wreck was due to dis
obedience of orders by Motornian
George A. Reed, of the east-bound
car. who was killed.
Reed received instructions at Gary
to wait at Wilson, a short distance
west of Baileytown, the point where
the disaster occurred, for west-bound
car to pass. The impact of the cars
was so great that they were reduced
to a mass of wreckage.
Train Kills Indian Chief.
Boston.—Chief Plenty Horse, a
Sioux Indian. 30 years old. connected
with a wild west show, was killed by
a train at the South station. He was
from the Pine Ridge agency and mar
ried.
Prominent Man Dies Abroad.
St. Petersburg.—Frederick DeMar
tens, late professor of' international
law in the University of St. Peters
burg, died Sunday. He was taken ill
while on his way to his estate in Li
vonia and died in the railroad station
at Valk.
U. P. Train Robber Suspect.
Twin Falls, Idaho. — Instructions
have been received from United States
Marshal Hodgeson at Boise to hold
Marvin, alias Mathews, arrested In
connection with the Overland mail
robbery near Omaha.
Flag at North Pole.
Washington.—Friends in this city of
Commander Robert Edwin Peary.
United States navy, the explorer whc
left the United States last July for
the frozen north, say they believe
Peary by this time has reached the
goal of his ambition and has success
fully planted the stars and stripes at
the north pole. No news has been re
ceived from Peary since he left Etah.
North "Greenland. August 17, 1908, in
the staunch ship Roosevelt, for a dash
far Into the icebound seas of the
frozen north.
BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE.
KILLS ILLINOIS PRIMARY Lit*
SUPREME COURT DECLARES THE
ACT IS INVALID.
Registration Feature Chief Cause for
Adverse Decision by State's
! he 'rii jr. I.
Springfield, 111. — The new pri
mary election law of Illinois is un
constitutional according to an opinion
of the supreme court. The decision is
made in the case of the People on the
relation of Phillips against Sheriff
Strassheim of Cook county, in which
Phillips was indicted on the charge
of making false affidavits at a pri
mary election and obtains a writ of
habeas corpus in the state's highest
tribunal.
The Supreme court holds that the
primary law is unconstitutional be
cause it requires in section 44 that no
person except persons registered at
the last previous election can vote at
a primary election, yet makes no pro
vision for the registration of voters,
and because section 11 provides that
the senatorial committees may by
resolution decide how many candi
dates each party may nominate for the
legislature and that only that num
her of candidates may be voted |
for thus depriving ihe* voters of their
constitutional right under the elec- I
tion law to vote for as many candi
dates as there are offices to be filled
and to cumulate their votes. For
these reasons the entire act is de
clared unconstitutional.
In the case of Peabody 'against ,
Treasurer Thompson of Cook county, i
in which case the lower court sustained
the demurrer to the petition of Pea
body for a mandamus to restrain
Thompson from paying the officers of
the primary election, the Supreme
court reverses the judgment of the
Circuit court of Cook county and re
mands the case.
STRANGE CULT IN KANSAS.
Band of Fanatics Subject Themselves
to Bites of Snakes as Re
ligious Test.
Hitchinson, Kan.—Practicing rites,
more weird than those of the most
fanatical Moslem sects, and cruelty
more revolting than the most savage
of the rujigious tests of the early In
dians, a cult has sprung up near
Hutchinson that is being closely
watched by the authorities.
The law is powerless to interfere
until some member of the sect dies a
victim to its barbaric practices. It
has been found out that just as the
ancient Indians plunged their arms
into buckets of boiling pitch to ascer
tain whether they were immune to
pain so it is claimed that Snake Wor
shipers subject themselves to the
bites of poisonous reptiles as a su
preme test of grace.
MEAT PROBE IS BEGUN.
Government Board Sifts Former In
spector’s Charges Against East
St. Louis Packing Houses.
East St. Louis.—Secretary of Agri
culture Wilson's board of inquiry ap
pointed to investigate the charges,of
J. F. Harms, a former inspector, that
the government’s Inspection system
in the packing houses here is faulty,
held a closed session Thursday.
Harms, after being denied an open in
vestigation. withdrew from the room.
The board is composed of Dr. A. B.
Melvin, chief of the bureau of animal
industry; George P. McCabe, solicitor
for the department of agriculture;
Dr. E. A. Behnke, an assistant inspec
tor of the bureau; Dr. R. P Stedden,
chief of the inspection division of the
bureau, and George Ditwig, traveling
inspector.
Illinois Convict on Way Back.
San Francisco—Joseph Wright,
who escaped almost a year *go from
the Southern Illinois penitentiary at
Chester, where he was serving a 14
year sentence for murder, was sent
east in the custody of a deputy ward
en of that institution.
Fight Ends in Killing.
Mount Vernon, 111.—As a result of a
fight, William Armstrong died after
being shot by .John Imboden, who es
caped The shooting occurred at
Rend City, a coal mining village.
GIRL SLAIN BY CHINESE.
Granddaughter of Gen. Franz Sigel
Probable Victim in New York
Murder Mystery.
New York.—Elizabeth Sigel. daugh
ter of Paul Sigel of this city and
granddaughter of the illustrious Franz
Sigel. I he German warrior, who en
listed his services with the union
army during the civil war, is. accord
ing to all indication the victim of one
of the most sordid murders in the his
tory of New York.
If she is not the victim, the police
are confronted with a remarkable
series of coincidental facts. Taken
from a trunk in a room of a Chinaman
above a chop suey restaurant in the
Tenderloin, the body, in a state of de
composition, which makes identifica
tion difficult, lies in the morgue while
detectives are collecting the threads
of a tangled story involving the girl
and her associations with Chinese. An
envelope addressed to the girl found
in the room where the body lay. a
locket bearing her initials, her disap
pearance on June 10 and a note found
in the room, signed “Elsie" all seem
to indicate that Franz Sigel's grand
daughter was murdered. The body
was partially stripped of its clothing,
tied with ropes, wrapped in a faded
blue blanket and crammed into a di
lapidated old trunk.
HOG TUBERCULOSIS GROWS.
Two Per Cent, of Those Slaughtered
Have the Disease Say Govern
ment Reports.
Washington. — Tuberculosis among
hogs is on the increase and is
causing heavier loss to raisers and
packers than any other disease, say
reports gathered from the various
meat packing centers of the country
by the department of agriculture.
A year ago there were more than
56,000.000 hogs in this country, valued
at more than $339,000,000. Federal in
spection of the abattoirs show two
per cent, of the hogs slaughtered to
be affected with tuberculosis, while re
ports from Europe show a far more
widespread infection, running as high
as 5.5 to 7.5 per cent.
It has been found that hogs con
tract the disease principally through
feeding. Samples of raw skimmed
milk fed to hogs from creameries in
one of the leading dairy states were
injected into guinea pigs and in one
instance virulent bacilli were recov
ered Hogs from Arkansas. Oklahoma
and Texas are remarkably free from
tuberculosis, due to he fact that they
are fed from birth ti maturity on al
falfa, oats, corn, rape and peanuts.
INSTITUTE OF HOMEOPATHY
National Organization Is Holding Its
Sixty-Fifth Annual Meeting
in Detroit.
Detroit. Mich.—The sixty-fifth an
nual meeting of the American insti
tute of Homeopathy opened here Mon
day evening with a great general ses
sion that was full of interest. The
big Y. M. C. A. auditorium was
thronged with medical men from
every state in the union when Dr.
1). A. Macljachlan, chairman of the
local committee of arrangements,
rapped for order. Music and prayer
were followed by addresses of wel
come by Gov. Fred M. Warner. Mayor
P. H. Breitmeyer and Dr. MacLach
lan, to which response was made by
Second Vice-President Joseph Hens
ley. M. D. Dr. William Davis Foster
of Kansas City, the president, then
delivered his annual address.
In the afternoon much preliminary
work was disposed of and memorial
exercises for deceased members were
held.
Indian Lad Killed Four Relatives.
Salt Lake City.—Dan Tzo Ac, a 17
year-old Navajo Indian, pleaded guilty
in the United States district court to
the charge of murdering four of his
relatives several months ago at
Aneath, in a remote part of the state
He was sentenced by Judge Marshall
to serve a term of ten year3 in the
federal asylum prison at Leavenworth,
Kan., and pay a fine of $100 The boy
killed his aunt, uncle, sister and a
cousin in resentment of a threat of
the uncle to punish him for refusal to
work
HEAD GOULD VALE!
MAN WHO WAS HER PRIVATE
SERVANT TELLS OF
DRINKING.
CALLS CHAUFFEUR ‘‘DEARIE”
Mistakes Auto Driver for Dustin Far
num and Then Apologizes—Wit
nesses Say the Actor Was Often
with the Millionaire's Wife.
New York. — That Mrs. How
ard Gould was often with Dustin
New York, June 19.—That Mrs.
Howard Gould was often with Dustin
Farnum, an actor, despite her testi
mony to the contrary, was shown by
witnesses for the defense in the suit
for separation and $250,000 alimony
of the millionaire’s wife.
There was also iteration by servants
and personal attendants that Mrs.
Gould was repeatedly seen under the
influence of liquor by them, and that
when she had been drinking, as they
alleged on the stand, she changed
from a charming, affable woman to a
woman of whims and caprices, ill
tempered, not nice in her choice of lan
guage, overbearing and quarrelsome.
Her “Valst” on Stand.
Mrs. Gould’s one-time personal
“valet,” Harry J. Veiteh of Des
Moines, la., swore that at one time he
served his mistress with two quarts
of Manhattan cocktails in as many
days, besides the wines and liquors
which he said she drank at table. On
cross-examining these witnesses. Clar
ence f. She 'or M s. Go ild, tri ve
always to r *e either mat *■ ■ had
a personal grudge against i, or that
they were under obligation to Mr.
Gould. Endearing epithets twice
marked the testimony.
John H. Kimball, an oil and paint
dealer, who said he had known Mr.
Gould for IS years, testified that he
went to a performance of “The Vir
ginian” in August, 1906, with Mr. and
Mrs. Elijah Sells and the Goulds, at
the Academy of Music in this city,
and that Dustin Farnum, the star in
the piay. joined the party outside the
playhouse after the performance and
spoke to Mrs. Gould. She smiled, the
witness testified, and said to the wit
ness: “This is my new beau.”
John Flynn, who said he was em
ployed by Mrs. Gould as a chauffeur,
and that he often drove her to meet
Farnum after the play, testified that
once when Mrs Gould was waiting in
the automobile for Farnum at the
Hotel Somerset, two men turned to
the actor as he came out at the hotel
door and asked him whose automobile
was waiting.
“Oh," said Farnum. laughing. Flynn
testified, “that is my new one.”
Called Chauffeur “Dearie.”
Another time, Fiynn swore, when he
rapped on Mrs. Gould’s chamber door
at the St. Regis, she called out: “All
right, dearie,” and then. when she
saw who it was, excused herself with:
‘‘I thought it was Mr. Farnum."
Mary Elizabeth Harrison, a fresh
cheeked, good looking girl, who said
she was a floor clerk in the Bellevue
Stratford hotel in Philadelphia, pre
faced her testimony with the explana
tion that it was her first appearance
in court. She had been impelled by
her conscience, she said, to tell what
she saw at the hotel. Finally she
wrote a letter to Mr. Gould.
“I said in the letter,” she testified,
“ ‘In obedience to the Golden Rule, I
write to you to help you if you are in
trouble,’ or something like that.”
Mrs. Gould occupied apartments on
the floor where she was stationed in
September. 1906, the witness went on,
and one morning about 7:30 o'clock
she said, she saw a man come out of
Mrs. Gould's rooms and take the ele
vator. She noticed that he was the
only passenger in the car. and that
the dial registered fourteenth floor
when the car stopped. She described
the man as tall, with dark, bushy hair
and wearing a soft hat and a long
coat.
The defense contends that Dustin
Farnum was staying on the fourteenth
floor of the hotel at that time.
mg lurnresi a? omcinnaii.
Cincinnati.—Some 5,000 Turners
from all parts of the country went
into camp here Saturday for the an
nual turnfest of their national organi
zation, which will last ten days. The
Turners must live and sleep In tents
while here and the people of Cincin
nati have erected a large tent city
that accords with the rules and regu
lations of the United States army. It
includes 50 shower baths and ample
kitchen accommodations.
Faft Favors Trust Tax.
Washington.—If the recommenda
tions embodied in a message sent to
congress Wednesday by President
Taft are carried out a tax of two per
cent, on the undistributed net earn
ings of trusts and other corporations
will be provided for in an amendment
to the tariff bill and the income tax
question will be left to the states for
settlement. It Is believed the senate
will adopt the president's plan.
Omits Bible and Shakespeare.
New York.—The failure of Dr.
Charles W. Eliot, recently president
of the Harvard university, to include
the Bible and Shakespeare in his list
of 25 books for the liberal education
of any man, is causing much com
ment in literary and religious cir
cles.
Flood at Salina, Kan.
Salina. Kan.—The Smoky Hill river
here has reached the flood stage am
50 residences in the lower part o
Salina are surrounded by water.
ROOSEVELT HITS TRUST POWER
EX-PRESIDENT CONDEMNS ALL
FORMS OF TYRANNY.
Compares the Rule of the Corpora
tions with That of a Blood
thirsty Mob.
New York. — Former President
Roosevelt in an article in the Out
look, of which he is an associate
editor, discusses political problems
which confront the United States
through the development of power by
the great corporations.
Taking for his subject “ The Thral
dom of Names,” Mr. Roosevelt says it
behooves our people never to be mis
led by designing people, who appeal
to the reverence for or antipathy to
ward a given name in order to achieve
some alien purpose. The rule of a
mob, he declares, may be as tyran
nical and oppressive as the rule of
a single individual, and the rule of
an oligarchy, whether this oligarchy
is a piutocracy or a bureaucracy, may
be as sordid and bloodthirsty as that
of a mob, but the mob leaders usu
ally state that all that they are doing
is necessary in order to advance the
cause of “Liberty,” while the dictator
and oligarchy are usually defended
upon the ground that the course they
follow is absolutely necessary so as
to secure “order."
“Many excellent people are taken in
by the use of the word ‘liberty’ at the
one time," says the ex-president, “and
the use of the word ‘order’ at the
other and ignore the simple fact that
despotism is despotism, tyranny ty
ranny, oppression oppression, whether
committed by one individual or by
many individuals, by a state or by a
private • orporation. All fc. a
tyranny id ciuelty nt; a.ike be
roil lemned by honest men.
“We in this country have been very
fortunate. Thanks to the teaching
md the practice of the men whom
we most revere as leaders, of the
men like Washington and Lincoln, we
nave hitherto escaped the twin gulfs
of despotism and mob rule, and we
lave never been in any danger from
the worst forms of religious bitter
ness. But we should therefore be ail
trie more careful, as we deal with our
ndustrial and social problems, not to
fall .nto mistakes similar to those
which have brought lasting disaster
on less fortunately situated peoples.
IEALOUSY CAUSES TRAGEDY.
'I'oung Actor Shoots Three Men at
Fairfield, III., Killing One of
Them,
Fairfield, 111.—Jealousy led to the
slaying of Charles F. Leininger, vet
erinary surgeon and secretary of the
Wayne County Fair association, and
the shooting of two other young men,
:>ne of whom may die, in this city.
Frank M. “Bender" McCullough is
dying at his home with a bullet
through his stomach, the ball passing
entirely through him
Richard Sloan is shot through the
thigh and may be crippled for life.
The triple tragedy is the outgrowth
of a feud between several of the
young men of the town and members
of a traveling show'—the Harrington
theater company — who have been
here since June 7.
Jealous of the attentions the show
men have paid certain girls of Fair
field, one of their number, Herbert
Orrin Pinnick, was assaulted a few
nights ago after accompanying a
young woman home from the show.
He w'as waylaid by some unidentified
person and severely beaten.
Wednesday night about 11 o'clock
another young actor was accompany
ing a girl home and Pinnick, known
as "Zeke,” walked along not far dis
tant to help protect his chum. Three
young men attacked Pinnick in a
shaded part of West Main street, al
most on the doorsteps of the county
coroner's home, and beat him.
Three shots were fired and Pinnick.
bruised and bleeding, ran into a pri
vate residence, where he hid until
Sheriff Bozarth came for him, giving
himself up. He is in jail.
Ex-Judge Prison Librarian
Joliet, 111.—Abner Smith, wrecker
of the Bank of America, now known
as convict No. 1920, was appointed
penitentiary librarian to succeed New
ton C. Dougherty of Peoria.
Dougherty, at one time the super
intendent of schools of Peoria and the
custodian of school funds, who was
convicted of fraudulent banking, was
given the place as prison librarian
shortly after his incarceration two
years ago. Smith, who gave his ago
as 06 years, and whose health is poor,
was given the office position by
Warden E. J. Murphy.
unio veterans Parade.
Newark. O.—The feature of the
closing day of the G. A. R. encamp
ment of Ohio was the parade of vet
erans.
The parade was reviewed by Gov.
Harmon and staff Charles H. New
ton of Marietta was elected depart
ment commander and O. D. Hunt of
Newark was chosen senior vice-com
mander Xenia was selected as the
place for holding the next encamp
ment.
Wants America to Hold Off.
London.—Great Britain has asked
America not to press her claim for
participation in the Hankow-Sze
Chuen railroad loan of $27,500,000.
which British, German and French
bankers stand ready to take up
Mrs. Kaufmann Escapes with Fire.
Flandreau. S. D.—Mrs. Emma Kauf
ir.ann, accused ol' the murder of Agnes
Polreis, a domestic, was found guilty
of battery and sentenced to pay a fine
of $100 or to servo 50 .lays in jail.
The tine was paid.