Loup City Northwestern
VOLUME XXVI LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. l!K«l NUMBER 4«
SUMMARY
OF A
WEEK’S EVENTS
Latest News of Interest
Boiled Down for the
Busy Man.
Domestic.
District Judge Loyal E. Knappen,
presiding in the branch of the fed
eral court at Marquette, Mich., has
entered a decree in favor of the com
plaint in the case of Arctic Iron com
pany vs. the Cleveland Cliff Iron com
pany and William Mather, its presi
dent. More than one million dollars
is involved in the decision.
A campaign for a constitutional
amendment for prohibition in Ala
bama was launched at Birmingham at
a conference which was participated
in by several hundred prohibitionists,
anti-saloon league members and par
tisans from all over the state. An
official statement was made prior to
the beginning of the meeting that the
conference represented no political
faction or set of politicians
Right Rev. William George McClos
ky, bishop of Ixtuisville and the oldest
living Catholic prelate in the I'nited
States, is seriously ill at Louisville,
Kv. He is eighty-six years old.
Mrs. E. H. Harnman has been made
the sole beneficiary and administrator
of her husband's vast estate, which is
estimated to be valued at from $.">0,
000,000 to $200,000,000.
Four cadets at the Annapolis naval
academy have been dropped from the
rolls at the direction of President Taft
because of inaptitude, which was said
to have been demonstrated on the
practice cruise of the corps this sum
mer.
Judge Corey, of the probate court,
made an order distributing to Mrs.
Anna Spreckels, widow of the late
Spreckles, her share of the sugar
king’s estate, which is estimated to be
worth more than $3,000,000.
“Haley's” comet has been located by
Herbert D. Curtis and photographed
with the aid of reflecting telescope at
luck observatory. It will grow rapidly
brighter, according to a statement
made by D. W. W. Campbell of Lick
observatory.
That the railroads are confronted
with a shortage in the supply of tim
ber for ties is indicated by a warning
sounded by the roadmasters and main
tenance of way association of America,
which is holding its convention in
Washington. The convention declared
that stone ballast crushed and prop
erly screened, proved most valuable
for railroads carrying heavy traffic.
In order to insure the Hudson-Ful
ton celebration stamp being on salt at
all post offices desiring it on Septem
ber 25, the date of the opening of the
celebration of the centennial in New
York, the post office department has
decided to begin the shipment to the
various offices on September 20. The
edition is limited to 50,000,000, and,
therefore, may be in great demand by
stamp collectors. It is said to be one
of the most beautiful stamps ever is
sued by the department.
The strike of the flatteners and cut
ters of the American window glass
works at Jeanette, Pa., and Mononga
hela. Pa., is taking on a serious aspect.
Attempts to import workmen have
met with resistance, and clashes have
occurred.
William Cramps Sons & Co., formal
ly awarded the contracts for construct
ing one each of the new American
Dreadnoughts of 25,000 tons to be of
ficially known as the Wyoming and
the Arkansas.
John R. Early, the leper, so-called,
has been struck from the rolls of the
pension as he has been found to be
entirely free from any disease, having
recovered from the skin erruption
which was declared by eminent physi
cians to be leprosy. Early, at the
time his name was dropped from the
rolls, w'as receiving $72 a month on
account of total disability. He was
recently examined by a medical board
in New York. They found no skin
erruptions or any disability.
V. P. Von Erl it. a business man of
Seattle. Wash., shot and seriously
wounded himself in his room at a
Kansas City hotel. After the shoot
ing Von Erlit answered a long distance
telephone call. He talked business for
several minutes, but becoming weak
from the loss of blood, pleaded for a
physician. He will recover.
“C. B. Rogers, vice-president and
general manager of the Gulf Coast
line, has been elected president and
general manager, with office at Kings
ville, Tex.” The above paragraph
from the Railroad Age Gazette tells
how a Nebraska railroad man has
made good in the south. Mr. Rogers
John W. Eitcomb, for a number of
years connected with the United
States fish commission as assistant in
charge of the division of fish culture,
has resigned to engage in private busi
ness. R. S. Johnson, superintendent
of the Manchester, la., fish station,
has been selected to fill the vacancy!
Robert S. Lovett has been elected to
succeed E. H. Harriman as the head
of the executive department of the
Union Pacific
John W. Castle, president of the
Union Trust Co., of New York, com
mitted suicide by cutting his throat
with a razor.
George W. Fishback. formerly Amer
ican secretary of legation at Buenos
Ayres, has been appointed a special
commissioner by the directorate of the
Argentine agricultural exposition to
enlist interest in that enterprise. An
effort is to be made to secure an ap
propriation of $25,000 by congress to
transport the agricultural exhibit now
at Seattle to Buenos Ayres.
Wiliam Davis, a farmer of Benton,
j Kan., was robbed of $3,000 at the Mis
j souri Pacific depot at Wichita by two
men who jostled him in a crowd. He
carried the money in a large pocket
book in his inside coat pocket.
The threatened speed war among
; the Chicago-Denver-California railroad
systems is on. In anticipation of the
cutting of schedules by the Burling
j ton and other Hill lines the Chicago
& Northwestern announced a reduc
tion of two hours in running time
between Chicago and Denver.
Missouri Pacific through train No. 3,
from St. Louis to Pueblo, was derailed
at Swope Park, ten miles south of
Kansas City. One man was slightly
injured. The entire train, consisting
of a baggage car, an express car, two
| coaches, and two sleepers, left the
! track and ran for three hundred
: yards on the ties.
Judge Martin F. Morris, former chief
justice of the court of appeals of the
District of Columbia, and one of the
oldest and most prominent members
I of the bar at Washington, died at his
home in Washington, aged seventy
four years. Judge Morris defended
| John H. Surratt, one of the alleged
conspirators against President Lln
i coin.
Postmaster General Hitchcock iu
preparing to institute an inquiry to
determine whether the approximately
$50,000,000 which the government an
nually pays the railroads for carrying
the mails is loo much or too little for
the service performed.
Presenting a total membership of
200.000 in all parts of the world, the
national board of the Ancient Order
of Hibernians has unanimously en
dorsed the home-going to Ireland in
1910 originated by Francis J. Kilkenny
and members of the order are urged
to avail themselves of the opportunity
afforded them to visit the Emerald
Isle.
Alice Webb Duke, divorced wife of
Brodie L. Duke, thd tobacco magnate,
was committed to the asylum for the
insane at Kankakee. 111. The once
brilliant «and wealthy bride of Mr.
Duke appeared a complete mental and
physical wreck and but ten minutes
were required to impress the jury with
the need of restraint of, and treatment
for her.
Count Hermann Oshelm, former
heir presumptive to the grand duchy
of Saxe-Weimer, who renounced his
right to the succession, was married
in London before the registrar. The
bride signed her name as Wanda
Paola Lottero, and gave her age as
twenty-five years.
Announcement has been made of the
approaching marriage, on October 5.
of Richard U. Sherman, son of Vice
President James S. Sherman, to Miss
Eleanor Millar.
In a collision on the Burlington near
Lincoln, Nebr., two persons were
killed and several seriously injured.
Fifty thouasnd acres of land situ
ated in the Goose Creek valley in
: southern Idaho were opened to settle
! ment. The lands are controlled by
the Twin Falls l4Bd and Water com
pany, which has commenced the con
struction of an irrigation system to be
completed in eighteen months, at a
cost of approximately $2,000,000.
Foreign.
Word has been received that the
condition of Bishop Thomas Hendricks
of Cebu, Philippine islands, who or
Saturday was reported to be danger
ously ill, shows slight improvement
Bishop Hednrick is suffering from in
digestion of the kidneys.
King Manuel will leave Portugal for
England, where he is to visit King Ed
ward November 20. He will stop foui
days in Madrid, to return the visit
of King Alfonso. It is generally un
derstood that King Manuel’s be
throthal to the daughter of the duke
of Fife will be announced from Wind
sor castle and that King Edward will
confer the order of the garter upon
King Manuel in honor of the enga.ge
ment.
Mrs. Morris, widow of the late Nel
son Morris of Chicago, died in France
from injuries received in a motor cat
accident which occurred Septembei
10th.
The ninety-ninth anniversary of the
beginning of Mexico's independence
was celebrated as a general holidaj
Thursday through the republic. It
the capital the observance was partic
ularly enthusiastic. The decoration?
were on a more elaborate scale tbar
ever before, and the entire populact
devoted the day to festivities and
merrymaking.
A dispatch from Teheran, Peisia
says the pretender to the Persian
throne, Abdul Hussein, has appeared
at Duristan and proclaimed himself
shah. He is receiving the support 01
the local population. The government
has sent a detachment of troops with
artillery to suppress him.
Gen. Bernerdaro Reyes in an open
letter says that he has never been a
candidate for the vice presidentia,
nomination and confirms his letter 01
July 25 He claims that as he is noi
in sympathy with the policies of Pres
ident Diaz, his nomination would bt
the cause of trouble.
D. E. Thompson, United States am
bassador to Mexico, has secured con
trol of the Pan-American railway, hav
ing secured by purchase $9,600,004
worth of stock.
The international Esperanto con
gress closed Monday. The next con
guess will be held in Washington.
THERE’S ROOM ENOUGH FOR TV/O
FLAGS AT POLE HE SAYS.
A FURTHER REPLY TU PEARY
Cook Says His Claim Has Been Ac
cepted by Polar Bureau of
Research at Brussels.
On Board Oscar II.—The steamer
Oscar II., with Dr. Frederick A. Cook
aboard, will not arrive at New York
until Tuesday morning. This is at
the urgent request of the reception
committee which is to meet Dr. Cook
The steamer eould have reached
Sandy Hook Monday afternoon, but a
message from the reception committee
asking that the arrival be delayed ow
ing to the fact that it was impossible
to change the committee’s arrange
ments was received Sunday evening by
wireless, and the captain consented
to comply with the request. The
Oscar II. is therefore under decreased
speed and will reach Quarantine at
about 7:30 Tuesday morning.
Dr. Cook appears to exercise great
self-restraint, but can hardly repress
a natural annoyance at impeachment
of his veracity without proofs. He
requested the Associated Press to
make public the following:
“Commander Peary has as yet given
to the world no proofs of his own case.
My claim has been fully recognized
by Denmark and by the king of Swed
en; the president of the United States
j of America has wired me his confld
I ence; my claim has'been accepted
by the International Bureau for Polar
Research at Brussels; most of the
geographical societies of Europe have
sent me congratulations which mean
faith and acceptance for the present,
and almost every explorer of note has
come forward with warm and friendly
approval.
“A specific record of my Journey is
accessible to all and everyone who
reads can decide for himself. When
Peary publishes a similar report, then
our cases are parallel. Why should
Peary be allowed to make himself a
self-appointed dictator of my affiairs?
In justice to myself, in justice to the
world, and to guard the honor of na
tional prestige, he should be com
pelled to prove his own cases; ho
should publish at once a preliminary
narrative, to be compared with mine
and let fair ponded people ponder
over the matter while the final records
by which my case may eventually be
proven are being prepared.
“I know Peary the explorer. As
such he is a hero in Arctic annals
and deserves the credit of a long and
hard record. To Peary the explorer
I am still willing to tip my hat. but
Peary's unfounded accusations have
disclosed another side of his char
acter which will never be forgotten
“When Peary added that he had
nailed the stars and stripes to the
pole I immediately sen? congratula
tions. I then believed, as I do now,
that his work over a new route far
east of my line of travel was a new
conciuest of great importance and of
course that his position at the pole
would supplement my work with
valuable data. There is room enough
and honor enough for two American
flags at the pole.”
TALK OF DIVISION.
_
Some of People of California Want
State Divided.
Washington.—The recent threat of
a body of citizens in California to es
tablish another state within California
borders because of dissatisfaction
with taxation methods, has attracted
the attention of officials here. The
United States constitution in section
3 of article iv, provides that “no new
state shall be formed or erected with
in the jurisdiction of any other state;
nor any state be formed by the junc
tion of two or more states, or parts
of states without the consent of the
legislature of the states concerned, as
well as congress.”
Taxation was a great problem in
California during the '40s and 50's. It
was claimed that the southern part of
the state from Montery downward was
sadly neglected in early state legisla
tion.
The Omaha Street Car Strike.
Omaha.—Sunday was a feverish day
in the street ear strike, marred with
some acts of riot and involving the
forcing back of the crowd by the
police, to permit the cars to operate
during an exciting hour on Farnam
street late in the afternoon. One con
ductor was savagely assaulted on a
Council Bluffs street car. but not se- 1
riously hurt. Five arrests were made,
none of whom were strikers.
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Land Office Receipts.
Washington—Total cash receipts of
the general land office for the year
ended June 30 were $11,627,688, a de- ■
crease of about $1,000,000.
Colonel Harvey Badly Hurt.
New York—Colonel George B. M.
Harvey, president of Harper & Bros., |
publishers, was found Sunday to have
suffered a triple fracture of the left
collar bone when his automobile |
turned turtle and fell upon him near ,
Barnegat, N. J., Saturday. Colonel
Harvey was examined by X-rays at
Deal Beach, N. J. His chest was
found to have been crushed consider- i
ably, rendering is difficult for him to i
breath. His physicians say there if I
no serious danger, but that he faces a !
period of suffering.
MAY DAY AT THE POLE
Program for the Explorers’ Picnic Next Summer in the Far North.
MRS. HARRIMAN GETS ILL
RAIL KING’S WILL MAKES WIDOW
RICHEST WOMAN.
Last Testament One of Briefest Ever
Drawn to Bequeath Such Large
Fortune.
New York.—Each of the 100 words
in the will of Edward E. Harriman is
estimated to be worth $1,000,000 to
bis widow, Mary W. Harriman, and
probably makes her the wealthiest
woman in the world.
It is perhaps the briefest will on
record for the disposal of an estate of
such magnitude. All his property is
left to Mrs. Harriman.
Wall street estimates that Mrs. Har
riman will inherit in realty and per
sonal property between $75,000,000
and $100,000,000.
Mr. Harriman's private fortune is
supposed to have been greater than
this by many millions, but there is
reason to believe that his unmarried
laughters, Mary and Carol, his mar
ried daughters. Mrs. Robert Living
stone Gerry, and his two sons, William
\verell, and Roland, a boy of 14, to
gether with his surviving sister, Mrs.
3imons, and other relatives, have all
seen substantially provided for in
?ifts out of hand and trust funds set
tside by Mr. Harriman during his life
:ime.
lhe will is witnessed by Charles A.
Peabody, president of the Mutual Life
nsurance Company, who drew it, and
P. C. Tegethoff. Mr. Peabody was Mr.
darriman's close personal friend and
vas frequently a caller at Arden
louse during his last illness. He re
inquished a law practice commonly
‘stimated as worth $100,000 a year to
issume at a smaller salary the execu
ive direction of a company in which
Hr. Harrlman was heavily interested,
dr. Tegethoff was Mr. Harriman’s per
ional secretary.
On Mrs. Harriman's shoulders will
low rest the management of the 43,
100 acres of woodland, pasture land
ind fertile black bottoms in the Ra
napo valley and on the steep sides of
rower hill; the completion of the
treat house on which its master had
ilready lavished $2,600,000 without
iving to see it finished, and those
dans of public benefaction—parks and
Orest reservations—which it is known
hat Mr. Hai'riman cherished, though
le makes no mention of them in his
vill.
Conference on Taxation.
Louisville, Ky.—The third interna
:ional conference on state and local
taxation, under the auspices of the
nternational Tax association, opened
ruesday afternoon in the auditorium
)f the Seelbach hotel. Forty-three
states and five Canadian provinces are
•epresented, and many governors and
several premiers are in attendance,
n addition there were present numer
ous state and municipal officials and
lelegates from universities and col
eges.
Eight Qie in Train Wreck.
Nashville, Tenn.—As the result of
i bead-on collision between passenger
rain No. 4 and fast freight No. 51
>n the Nashville, Chattanooga & St.
Louis railway one mile west of Pe
;ram Station, Tenn., eight men were
tilled, one seriously injured and a
lumber of others reported more or
ess hurt. No passengers were killed,
rhe cars caught fire and several of
:he victims were cremated.
Chinese Minister on Way.
Peking.—Chang-Yin-Tang, the new
y appointed Chinese minister to the
Jnited States in succession to Wu
Ping-Fang, has left Peking for his
lost. He expects to reach Washington
iome time in November.
Bank Robbed of $1,000.
Burlington, la.—The First National
>ank of Stronghurst, 111., was robbed
if $1,000 in money and other valua
>les, the thieves blowing open the
lafety deposit vault. The bank safe
vas not entered.
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GOOD ROADS CONVENTION
Men Interested in Improvement or
Highways Meet in Cleveland
for Three Days' Session.
Cleveland, O.—The second annual
national good roads convention began
in Chamber of Commerce hall Tues
day, under the auspices of the Ameri
can Automobile association, the Na
tional Grange, the United States
office of public roads, several associa
tions of automobile manufacturers and
other national bodies interested in
highway improvement. About 500 ac
credited delegates and many other
persons are in attendance. Of fhese a
large number came In motor cars.
Features of the convention, which will
last three days, are practical demon
strations of good road making and
an exhibition of road making ma
chinery.
President L. R. Speare of the Ameri
can Automobile association started
off the first session with an opening
address, after which the delegates
were welcomed by Gov. Harmon and
Mayor Johnson. George C. Diehl of
Buffalo was the presiding officer.
James C. Wonders, state highway com
missioner. spoke on "Good Roads in
Ohio, and Congressman R. P. Hobson
of Alabama on "National Aid and Post
Roads.” Other speakers were ex-Gov.
N. J. Bachelder of New Hampshire,
George S. Ladd and James H. McDon
ald of Connecticut.
TAFT UPHOLDS BALLINGER
Takes Sidesx Against Pinchot and
Orders the Discharge of
L. H. Glavis.
Albany, N. Y.—President Taft has
upheld the secretary of the in
terior in his controversy with Gif
ford Pinchot of the reclamation serv
ice, and in the upholding has criticised
the methods of Mr. Pinchot to such an
extent that it is expected that Mr.
Pinchot will leave the government
service.
In addition, the president orders the
discharge of L. H. Glavis, chief of field
division of the general land office. Mr.
Glavis made the formal charges
against Mr. Ballinger that Mr. Pinchot
has talked of in his speeches on the
Pacific coast. He is discharged for
filing a statement unjustly impeaching
the official integrity of his superior of
ficers.
The president specifically exoner
ates Secretary Ballinger from the
charge of having used his office for
personal ends. The president says
conservation must be carried on with
in the law, indicating clearly that in
his opinion Mr. Pinchot has been
going beyond the law.
NEW APPEAL BY PATRICK;
Again Sets Up Claim That Governor
Had No Right to Save
His Life.
Albany, N. Y.—Albert T. Patrick,
who is serving a life sentence in Sing
Sing for the murder of William Marsh
Rice in New York in 1900. has filed
notice of an appeal from a decision
rendered by the appellate division dis
missing the writ of habeas corpus
granted him by Justice Wifliam J.
Gaynor last February.
Patrick again claims he is confined
illegally and that Gov. Higgins had
no right to commute his sentence
from death to life imprisonment.
Sherman and Brewer Guests.
Plattsburg, N. Y.—Vice-President
James S. Sherman and Justice David
Brewer of the United States supreme
court, were the guests of honor at the
annual banquet of the Vermont Fish
and Game league at the Hotel Cham
plain. ,
El Roghi Put to Death.
Fez.—El Roghi, the rebellious sub
ject of the sultan of Morocco, who re
cently was brought here in an iron
cage, was put to death in the presence
of the imperial harem.
HITS AT COOK AGAIN
—
PEARY INSISTS HIS RIVAL
HANDED THE WORLD A
“GOLD BRICK.”
STANDS PAT ON CHARGES
Gives New Facts About His Discovery j
of the Pole—Says He Will Leave j
the Controversy to a Competent :
T ribunal.
Rattle Harbor, Labrador.— (Via |
Marconi wireless telegraphy to
Cape Ray. N. F.)—Commander Rob
ert E. Peary consented to talk fur
ther concerning his successful cash
to the north poie. He dwelt particu
larly upon the observations taken at
the apex of the world and the move
ments of Harry Whitney, the sports
man of New Haven. Conn., who has
been described as the bearer of rec
ords substantiating Dr. Frederick A.
Cook’s claim to have reached the pole
April 21. 190S.
“We took five observations prior to
reaching the pole." Commander Peary
said. “Two of them were made and j
worked out by the late Prof. Ross
Marvin, who prepared duplicate rec
ords in each case, and duly signed the
duplicate certificates. To guard against
accident I took one set of these pa
pers and Prof. Marvin took the other.
Took Observations at Pole.
“When a distance of 125 miles from
the pole, the third observation was
made by Capt. Bartlett, who also
signed the records and certificates in
duplicate, he retaining one set and I
the other. The fourth and fifth, ob
servations were made by myself the
last being taken five miles from the
pole proper.”
“Was there more than one observa
tion taken at the pole, and by whom?"
the explorer was asked.
“There ware several observations.”
be replied. “You must understand that
the pole is a theoretical point, without
length, breadth or thickness. Its ac
tual location depends on the accuracy
of the instruments employed and the
conditions under which the observa
tions are taken.”
“You have stated, Commander
Peary, that a copy of your records
and polar observations was wra.pped
in a piece of a silk American flag and
deposited in an ice cavity at the
pole; did any person witness this
act?”
To this question Commander Peary
declined to make any answer at pres
ent.
Continuing. Peary said that Dr.
Cook was expected by the world to
submit to an impartial tribunal or
board of arbitration a revised and au
thentic signed statement of his al
leged discovery of the pole. Dr. Cook
soon would reach the United States,
Commander Peary said, and he was
glad at the prospect of the matter be
ing submitted for consideration at an
early date.
uave world "Gold Brick.”
Continuing, the explorer said that
he had stated in a private message to
a friend that Dr. Cook had given the
world a “gold brick." This message
had been allowed to leak out, and
while he would have preferred a more
elegant expression, he was willing
now to let these words stand because
they were at least emphatic. The ex
plorer said also that he would turn
over to a competent tribunal and the
public certified copies of his own ob
servations made on his trip to the
pole, with all other information bear
ing thereon. Peary does not care to
exhibit these records at the present
time for the reason that the informa
tion contained therein, if divulged in
advance of the placing on file of Dr.
Cook’s authentic and definite state
ment, might be of advantage to the
Cook partisans.
Cook Brings Proof.
On Board the Steamship Oscar II.,
at Sea—(Via Marconi wireless tele
graph to Cape Race, N. F.).—Dr. Fred
erick A. Cook requested that the fol
lowing message be sent to the Amer
ican people as he neared New York
Friday on the steamer Oscar II:
“Tell the people of America to
have the fullest confidence in my
conquest of the pole. I have rec
ords of observations made by me
which will prove my claim. I shall
be glad to again set my foot on
American soil.”
Dr. Cook discussed freely the asser
tions of Commander Peary that he
had never reached the north pole and
spoke of the causes that brought
dissensions between the explorers.
In conversation with the passengers
Dr. Cook has thrown some light on
his experiences during the long jour
ney to the pole and return. He has
explained to them how the clothing of
the members of the party wore down
to rags and the Eskimos were obliged
to devote their time to the making of
fresh garments. The explorer and
his companions possessed no thread
with which to sew skins together and
therefore unraveled their stockings
and used the wool for thread.
Gets Penal Servitude.
London.—James Egan, who. accord
ing to the evidence of the police, once
served a long term of imprisonment in
New York, was sentenced at the Old
Bailey Friday to three yearn’ penal
servitude, after having been found
guilty of a series of frauds upon wo
men.
Powder Explosion Kills 200.
Paris.—A special dispatch from
Tangier says 200 men were killed by
the explosion of a powder magazine
near Mogador.
FOR SAVINGS BANKS.
President Taft Strongly Declares For
Them.
Milwaukee.—President Taft devoted
his principal address in Milwaukee at
the State fair to the subject of postal
savings banks, which he strongly en
dorsed before a large and enthusias
tic gathering that overflowed the
grandstand.
President Taft said that the postal
savings bank plank in the republican
platform bound everybody who calls
himself a republican.
“Or if they do not like the platform
itself they cease to be republicans or
they are republicans with an excep
tion, and that indicates a free and en
lightened and discriminating people.
“But i am here to uphold the doct
rine of the postal savings banks (ap
plause), because I believe that they
will fill in this country a longfelt
want. In the first place, it is said the
postal savings bank is a very paternal
institution; that it has a leaning to
wards socialism, state socialism, and
that it proposes to take the banking
business out of the hands of private
persons and put it into the govern
ment. No. I am not a parternalist,
and I am not a socialist, and 1 am not
in favor of having the government do.
anything the citizens can do as well
or better, but there are conditions.
“We have passed beyond the tide of
what they call the laise faire school,
which believed the government ought
to do nothing but run the police force,
and we do rec ognize the necessity for
the interference of the government
because it has great capital and great
resources behind it and because
sometimes it can stand the lack of an
immediate return on capita) to help
out. We did it in our Pacific roads.
We have done it in a great many dif
ferent ways and this particular postal
savings bank business the government
is especially fitted to do what no sys
tem of private bankers can do (great
applause.)
“The great usefulness of the postal
savings bank is the great encourage
ment to thrift on the part of those
who are just wavering in the balance
whether they shall have the money or
use it. because they do not know
where they can put it safely.” (Ap
plause.)
The president said he did not want
to antagonize the bankers, but he did
not believe their opposition to postal
banks was well founded. In some
parts of the country, especially in New
England, where for every two citizens
there is one savings bank account, Mr.
Taft said the need of postal banks
was not felt. In other sections where
the savings accounts amounted to only
one in 157 citizens, the need of an
encouragement to thrift was acute.
Postal banks, paying only 2 per
cent interest would not attract de
positors from'public banks who were
paying 3 to 4 per cent, but they would
attract the accounts of those people
who were wavering in the balance as
to whether or not they should spend
their money for the want of knowl
edge of a safe place to put it.
The president dwelt at length upon
the fact that the deposits of the alien
population now sent back to govern
ment banks would be held in this
country if there were postal banks
with the government behind them to
reassure the timid and panicky de
positors of foreign birth and affilia
tion.
Troops Going to El Paso.
El Paso, Tex.—General Albert L.
Meyer, commanding the department
of Texas at San Antonio, ordered
3,000 troops at Port Sam Houston to
en train October 12 for El Paso to
be present for the meeting between
President Taft and President Diaz of
Mexico on October 16.
Roosevelt Kills Elephant.
Nairobi, British East Africa.—
News has come in here that Theodore
Roosevelt, hunting in the Mweru dis
trict, has killed a bull elephant with
good tusks. Kermit Roosevelt has
been hunting independently at Guaso
Nyiro, and has been successful, bag
ging five lions and three buffalo. He
has now started out elephant hunt
ing.
Edward Felicitates Taft.
London.—The birthday of President
Taft was remembered by King Ed
ward. who sent the honorable Arthur
Walsh his master of ceremonies, to
the American embassy with the re
quest that his majesty's sincere con
gratulations be conveyed to the presi
dent.
Suit to Stop Merger.
Newark, N. J.—By two orders
signed by Chancellor Pitney, the
United States Leather company and
the Central Leather company are di
rected to show cause on October 4.
why an amendment should not be is
sued restraining the third attempt to
merge the two companies.
Big Grain Firm Fails.
Little Rock, Ark.—The T. H. Bunch
company, one of the largest grain
concerns in the United States, filed
a petition in bankruptcy. It is re
ported that local banking institutions
are involved to the extent of $300,000.
Dirigible Making Good.
Montlucon, France.—The fall man
euvers of the French army in which
60,000 men are engaged are attract
ing attention on account of the work
of the dirigible balloon Republique, at
tached to the army of defense. Al
though the field of operation is hilly
and wooded the Republique ascer
tained and disclosed to the defenders
the plan of the enemy’s campaign and
prevented the former from falling into
a skillfully contrived trap. One army
is using successfully automobiles for
supplies.
