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Loup City Northwestern VOLUME XXVII LOUP CITY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY , DECEMBER 2, 1909 NUMBER 4~ 1-**> » > > > ■ ► ► ► < ► I-- ► "-Foreign. The Invilatio* from the United States for Great Britain to partici pate in an international comerence with a view to regulating the killing of seals in the international waters of North America has been referred through the colonial office in Canada. The Ixindon foreign office learned Indirectly that Germany had informed the state department of the United States that she had agreed to the terms by which the British, French and German groups of financiers were each to surrender a portion of their shares in the Chinese railway loan in order to enable the Americans to par ticipate. The more liberal section of the French episcopate, headed by Archbish op Turinase of Haney, are beginning to question the wtsdom of the militant section which began the formation of a league of Catholic voters in the com ing elections. Instead the former ad vocate a broader union, which shall include, with the Catholics, other con servative forces. An extraordinary attempt at whole sale poisoning among military officers in Vienna has caused a sensation. A large number of officers just pro moted to be captains in the general staff have received through the mails sample boxes of pills. These were accompanied by a circular recom mending them for nervous debility. One of the officers. Captain Mader, took some of the pills and died al most immediately. An autopsy re vealed tiie presence of cyanide of potassium and that death had been caused by this poison. General. The gunboat Princton was ordered by the navy department to sail for Corinto. Nicaragua, to join the gun boat Vicksburg, already at that port. Speaker Cannon, in a speech at Kansas City, defended the rules of the house. taken from Town Marshal Broadway A jury in the Henry county (Illin ois! circuit court set aside the will of John Looney, who left $50,000 to Charles and Harry Looney of Val paraiso. Ind., and James Looney of Kansas City* More harmony of action is expected as a result of the meeting at Wash ington.of railroad commissioners. A woman teacher in the Denver ' : {public school*, whose name is with held by the police, ■ became insane when teaching her class and began ** to disrobe in the presence of her pu pils. James Freeman Curtis of Boston, • * now United States district attorney '• and once intercollegiate golf champion of the United States, has been chosen assistant secretary of the U. S. treasury. Mve miles of the Panama canal have been opened' to navigation. This Includes the channel from a point in the Bay of Panama. Steamships ply ing between San Francisco and Pa nama and the west coast ports of South Amerlea rnd Panama are using this part of the canal daily. The Topeka Commercial club has received word from the governors of Arkansas. West Virginia and Ken tucky that they will be in Topeka to attend the good roads congress on December H-15. The club expects nearly all of the governor's west of the Alleghenies to be present. George Crocker, youngest son of the Ute California millionaire, Charles C. Crocker, is slowly dying at his home New York from a malady said to be a cancer. The Great plains reconnoissance party of the United States bureau of sails, is assembling at Victoria, Tex. During the winter work will be done along the Gulf coast north of Corpus Christl. Senator Borah called on the presi dent in the interest of western Irriga tion profliects. After hearing 8amuel Gompers speak at Cooper union 200 members of the Ladies' Waist makers union de cided to go on strike for shorter hours And higher wages. J. S. Clarkson will not be reappoint ed as the surveyor of the port of New York. BJoodhounds proved so far unsuc cessful in running down the assail ant of seventeen-year-old Myra Smith at Lima. Ohio, who was attacked in 'he streets, that there came near be ing a lynching of the wrong man. Customs frauds at New York are rot limited to the sugar cases. The British liberal government is sued an ultimatum to the peers. What appears to have been an at tempt upon the life of Baron Albert .. Hothschild of Vienna is reported from Schillersdorf, the Rothschild hunting ‘ t. teat in upper Silesia. Theodore Roosevelt, as a candidate • .for governor of New York in 1910, is the prediction of Congressman W. W. V Cocks of the Oyster Bay, N. Y., dis ' irict ;- j Mariners are to be sent south with Nicaragua the possible destination. Oslerization of army officers to a radical degree was recommended to .the war department by General Leon ard Wood, in command of the depart ment of the Bast. He wants an eli mination law enacted, bo that offices »Knv« the grade of contain will attain Mrs. Roosevelt and her daughter have returned from Europe. Lyman J. Gage, former secretary of the treasury, vu married at San Di ego to Mrs. Ada Ballou. Gage is 73, his wife IS. A nobleman defied the guards at the Cleveland mansion of John D. Rockefeller and entered the house be fore he was ejected. Power of revolutionists is gaining strength in Nicaragua. At this writing, November 27, Presi dent Taft has not done anything on his forthcoming message to congress. It may be many weeks before all bodies are removed from the Illinois mine, wherein they were killed by black damp. Morgan Chambers, a negro, was and Deputy Joe Camp at Meehan, Miss., by a rnob of 200 masked men and his body riddled with bullets. The comptroller of the currency is sued a certificate authorizing the First National bank of Linton, N. D., to be gin business, with a capital of $25,000. Civil service examinations will he held December 18 for rural carriers at Friend, O’Neill, Steele City and Winside, Neb. President Taft said he enjoyed his Thanksgiving dinner because n« speechmaking had to follow. Heavy loss of life is feared as the result of an explosion in a coal mine at Ououra, Eukoko province, Japan. Fifteen men are known to have per ished, while 228 miners are entombed in the workings. Announcement is made that Senator Guggenheim has donated $50,000 for a new building for the Colorado State Normal school. Serious rock and snowslides on the Canadian Pacific railway in the Rocky mountains have compelled the cancel lation of all trains. At St. Paul, Minn., Judge Walter H. Sanborn, in the United States circuit court of appeuls, handed down an op inion setting aside the verdict and ordering a new trial in the case of the United Stales against the Union Pa cific Coal company. Guiseppe Aaiello, a member of the "black hand” society which operated in Cincinnati, died in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kas. Washington. The forthcoming report of the spe cial naval board, of which Rear Ad miral Swift is chairman, it is de clared, will submit recommendations to the secretary of the navy that will revolutionize the operation of Ameri can navy yards. Officials refuse to give any Idea of what the report wijl be, but experts are of the opinion that concentration will be the burden of tne report. “I shall cheerfully aid you in your proposed temperance movement in the army,” promises General' Frederick Grant, in command of the Department of the Great Lakes, in a letter ad dressed to the Rev. Wilber F. Crafts of Washington, superintendent of the International Reform Bureau. Satasfactory progress in the con struction of the Panama canal is shown in the annual report of the Isthmian canal commission for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909, made public by the sedl^etary of war. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, outlining work mapped out for cer tain bureaus of the Department of Agriculture next year, said that a soil survey would be made of the western part of Nebraska and Kansas in the development of a plan comprehending the survey of the entire United States. The Interior department has with drawn from disposition, as containing water power possibilities, about 9,604 acres of land along the Smith river in Montana. This tract will be held in reserve pending action by congress, which is expected to enact legislation, governing the disposal of power sites on the public domain. A portion of the lands withdrawn are unsurveyed. Practically every small railroad in the country carries the United States mails at a dead loss, according to Ralph Peters, president of the Long Island Railroad company, who called upon President Taft to pay his re spects. The appropriations made by congress for carrying the mails, Mr. Peters declared, are utterly inade quate and he stated that he would take up the subject with that body this winter. Personal. It is thought that bodies of many men in the Illinois mine will never be recovered. Governor Charles N. Haskell and the other six defendants charged with conspiring to defraud the government in Muskogee town lots pleaded not guilty. Herbert John Gladstone, secretary of state for home affairs, has been appointed governor general of United South Africa. William M. Laffan, successor of the late Charles A. Dana in the manage ment of the New York Sun, died from an operation. Six summary dismissals were made at the New York customs house. The general counsel of the Stand ard Oil company sees the bright side of the court decision. Castro is accused of trying; to fo ment trouble In Venezuela. The Finnish diet has been dissolved for refusal to obey Russian orders. C. L. Wlnchell says he has not re signed the presidency of the Rock Is land road. A $17,000 robbery of the FI. M. F. Automobile company of Detroit was reported and a discharged paymaster is missing. Speaker Cannon sees enough room outside the republican party for all of the Insurgents. Andrew Carnegie turned down Omaha’s request for a donation of $300,000 to be used In the erection of a new public library building; POSTAL BANKS III LITTLE CHANCE AT PRESENT FOR LAW CREATING THEM. 0 WILL FOLLOW CURRNECY ACT President Taft Wants Them But Will, It is Said, Agree to a Postponement. Washington. — Recent conferences at the White House have pretty de finitely developed two facts in connec tion with the executive program of the administration at the coming ses sion of congress. The first of these is that there is no probability of the monetary commis sion report being presented or con sidered. The second is that legisla tion looking toward the establishing of a system of postal savings banks will have to wait until the monetary commission report is made and a new currency law enacted. Representative Weeks of Massachu setts, chairman of the house commit tee on postoflices and post roads, and Senator Lodge of Massachusetts called on the president and when he left the White House Mr. Weeks said it prac tically had been determined that postal savings banks would not be considered at the coming session. This does not mean that President Taft will not recommend such a sys tem of banks in his message, but it is said the chances are that he will agree to a postponement of the con sideration until next year. One of the arguments which the president has used in connection with the establishment of postal savings banks is that the money secured through these agencies as deposits could very well be used in taking up the 2 per cent government bonds, which are a drug on the market and which the president thinks should never have been issued at a low rate of interest. economy, says nayne. Representative Sereno E. Payne of New York, father of the new tariff bill and floor leader of the republican majority in the house, said that the legislative program of the coming ses sion of congress would have to wait until the president's message was re ceived. Amendments to the interstate com merce law and to the anti-trust law and the consideration of the ship sub sidy bill, he said, would be the prin cipal subjects before congress. Postal savings banks, he thought, might come in for a share of the preliminary consideration. Conference on Oil Case. A protracted conference over the recent decision in the Standard Oil case at St. Paul when the dissolution of that organization was ordered was held at the Department of Justice be tween Attorney General Wlckersham and Frank B. Kellogg. President Taft had further confer ences on the subject of that portion of his message which will deal with amendments to the Sherman anti trust and Interstate commerce laws. COOK STILL IN NEW YORK. Brother Issues Statement, but Does Not Give Whereabouts. New York.—Dr. Frederick A. Cook was found Sunday night, that is, an authoratitative statement was issued by his brother, W. L. Cook, saying that the explorer, who mysteriously dropped from public view Saturday, was still in the vicinity of New York recuperating. He was on the verge of a nervous breakdown and his re tirement was absolutely necessary. Advance Lumber Prices. Winnipeg, Man.—Rough lumber ad vanced $1 per 1,000 all over western Canada Saturday. The mills are call ing in traveling salesmen owing to a rush of orders. Trouble Brews Among Cubans. Havana.—Not since the downfall of the administration of President Palma some years ago has the political at mosphere of Cuba been more obscure and more laden with suggestions of trouble than it is ?t the present time. The re-established republic is scarce ly nine months old and already ru mors have become persistent that some way is being sought to secure the retirement of President Gomez either by persuasion or Compulsion, and place Vice President Zayas at the head of the nation. Reformers to Beseige Congress. Washington.—Congress is to be as sailed by reform organizations within a day or so after it convenes, for the officials of various organizations an nounce that a ‘ reformers' conclave” is to be held here between December 12 and 17. President Taft, Andrew Carnegie and General Frederick D. Grant are among those who have been invited to speak. Delegates will at tend the sessions of congress and urge the necessity for changes and better ment in the laws governing the traffic in liquor, drugs and other matters. Westerner Makes Big Gift. New York. — Announcement was made from the pulpit of St. George's church Sunday by the pastor, the Rev. Dr. J. J. Wilans, that a gift of $50,000 had been received toward the $5,000,' 000 fund that is being raised to pen sion Episcopal clergymen at the age of 64 years, or sooner if they are dis abled. The name of the donor was not made Itnown, but he is a man liv ing in the middle wesL Thus far $300,000 has been collected for the fund, which hat\ Its origin at the con ference in Richmond two years ago. BUSY. NAVY TO BE REORGANIZED BEST SYSTEM IN THE WORLD IS PLANNED. Swift Board Appointed Months Ago Is About to Submit Its Report. Washington.—The United States navy is to be reorganized from the newest leviathan of the "Dreadnought” type to the armored cruisers and aux iliaries. Misfits, such as the Connecticut, the armor belt of which is said to be al most entirely below the water line, will henceforth be impossible. The fleets of the world power of the western hemisphere are to become ac tually the nation’s asset of pride on the seas instead of on the blue prints of bureaucratic qxperts, many of whom have never had the sting of salt winds in their nostrils. In short, politics is to be removed from the management of naval bu reaus and shipyards and fighting ships are to be bui!'v under the supervision of the’ then who fight them instead of along the plans of civilians and politi cians. The Swift board, named months ago to go to the bottom of the naval situ ation in the United States and bring out every fault, is about to make its report. The navy department has not yet learned that it is due for recon struction. Not since the Spanish war revealed the weakness of the American military establishment and the subsequent drastic reorganization which Elihu Root, then secretary of war, succeed ed in bringing about, has there ap peared a more general upheaval of the organization of the fighting forces of a world power than is foreshadowed in the Swift board report. The board has reached its verdict that the navy de partment must be reconstructed, after studying the systems of control in the admiralties of all the great nations. The advisory board idea, for in stance, is borrowed from the British admiralty and the plan to put young men in control and have the fighters decide what kind of ships to build is taken from the German system. In cluded in the report is a demand for a thorough reorganization of the navy yard administration. UUNSIAdLx oAVhU hKUM MUb Quarrel Over Children Playing To gether Leads to Killing at Quincy— Lynching Party Foiled. Quincy, 111.—Constable James H. Dobbs narrowly escaped lynching, at Columbus after he had shot and killed William Thompson, his neighbor. The killing was the result of a quar rel over the children of the men. Dobbs knocked Thompson down and then shot him to death. When word was brought here that a mob was forming to lynch Dobbs a number of officers hurried to Columbus in an au tomobile and brought Dobbs to this city, where he was lodged in jail. Des Moines Lad Hangs Self. Des Moines, la.—Harold Perkins, aged 16, who hanged himself to his bedroom door because he had been refused permission to attend the Drake-Ames football game, it is be lieved, expected his aunt to discover him and cut him down before he died. Two German Aviators Killed. Berin,—Dr. Brenckmsnn and Hugo Fran eke, the two most daring mem bers of the Aero club of Berlin, lost their lives through the col lapse of their balloon Kolmar. Their bodies were found near Flume, Aus tria-Hungary. May Surround Riff Tribesmen. Mellila, Morocco.—Gen. Marina Fri day left at the head of a consider able force of SpaniBh troops with the intention of surrounding Mount Venl—Bufflur and isolating the Riff tribesmen, who are still intrenched there. Eggs Are Brought from Shanghai. Victoria, B. C.—The steamer Em press of China, from the orient, brought liS barrels of eggs from Shanghai. This is the first shipment of the kind to America. I STEAMERS FIGHT BIG SEAS l One Reaches Port After Hard Strug gle, Other at Anchor In Dis abled Condition. SL Joseph, Mich.—Two of the finest passenger steamers of the Graham & Morton Transportation line, operating between Chicago, Holland and St. Joseph, suffered a narrow es cape from foundering off this port. The City of Benton Harbor lies at her docks here, having reached port after thrilling fight of five hours with a 60-mile gale of wind and snow, while the steamer Puritan, a staunch boat of steel, rudderless and to more or less extent at the mercy of the seas, lies off New Buffalo, some 18 miles south of here. Tugs from South Chi cago are fighting their way across the lake to succor the disabled craft Offi cials of the Graham & Morton Com pany here say the Puritan is In no danger, though her wireless is wrecked and communication with her is impossible. A few hours out of Chicago the Puritan lost her rudder, and from then on until her anchors were dropped as a last resort she drifted helplessly at the mercy of wave and wind. Blown far from her course she was steadily making shoreward when anchors were dropped, which followed a thrilling attempt on the part of the Benton Harbor to put a line aboard the helpless boat In the heavy gale, however, this was impossible. Before a line could be securely fastened it parted and an instant later the Ben ton Harbor’s stern struck the Puri tan’s bow. PRESIDENT EATS REAL FOOD Taft ‘Expresses Pleasure at Being Able to Partake of Dinner With out Making an Address. Washington.—Satiated with pos sum dinners and elaborate banquets, he was forced to face in his recent trip from coast to coasa. President Taft sat down Thursday to a family Thansgiving dinner. The piece de resistance was a mastodonic turkey, that had been raised on a Rhode Is land farm, and looked almost moun tainous in its proportions. “Thank goodness,” the president sighed happily, as dessert was served, “I’ve had a dinner at which I haven’t been compelled to make speeches, and where no reception committees lurked , in the background. I’ve en joyed food—real food—and I haven’t had to work to get it.” The president did not have any guests at dinner. Only the members of the Taft family were present, in cluding Mrs. Laughlin, sister of Mrs. Taft. LYMAN J. GAGE IS MARRIED Former Secretary of Treasury Weds Woman Whom He Induced to Join Theosophy Cult. San Diego, Cal.—Former Secretary of the Treasury Lyman Judson Gage and Mrs. Frances Ada Ballou were married at the Coronado home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ballou. The marriage license gives the bride's age as 25 and the groom's as 73. The wedding was private, only the parents of the bride and the at tendants, Miss Helene Richards and Mr. Gage’s brother-in-law. Col. Wesley Brainerd, witnessing the ceremony, which was performed by Rev. Wil lard B. Thorpe, pastor of the First Congregational church of San Diego. After a wedding supper Mr. and Mrs. Gage started for Denver, Col. The courtship began with Mr. Gage’s attempts to convert Mrs. Ballou to the tfaeosophlc faith. Banker Accidentally Kills Seif. Webster City, la.—F. A. Edwards, president of the Webster City Sav ings bank, accidentally shot himself in the abdomen Tuesday and was com pelled to throw a shoe through the big plate glass front window to at tract aid. He died later at Mercy hospital. He was dusting the counter when his duster struck the cashier’s revolver, exploding it Mr. Edwards had been three times mayor of this city, postmaster under Cleveland, and was one of the best-known shorthorn cattle breeders In the west DPPOSIIION FLOWN FRIENDS OF SHIP SUBSIDY BILL NO LONGER FEAR FOES. MEASURE WILL BE ADOPTED Opponents Will No Longer Be Able to Influence Congressmen Against the Extension of Bounties to All American Ships. Washington. — Congress will pass the ship subsidy bill at the coming session of congress and that, too, without much opposition. The measure, say its friends has passed the house in one form or an other several times during the past few decades, but has been blocked in the senate as many times. This time there will be little opposition in the upper house, and the lower branch taking advantage of the situation probably will increase the sums to be granted to all American ships engaged in commerce between home and for eign ports. The measure as it now stand 3, and as it will be presented to the house, provides subsidies only to South American and Asiatic ports, and these are so meager that their effect in building up an American merchant marine representative of the richest nation in the world would not be very great. These bounties, it is under stood, will be increased to some ex tent and there will be a provision for extending the bounties to vessels ply ing to European ports. Friends of the measure assert that this provision has heretofore been left out to avoid opposition from the pow erful syndicate operating Atlantic liners. They now hold that the op position of these interests will no longer be able to influence congress men in the face of a sentiment that has become sweeping. ARREST-CUSTOM WEIGHER Is Charged with Conspiracy—Collector Loeb Discharges Ten More Employes. New York.—Federal prosecutors added another important chapter to the extensive investigation of alleged frauds in the customs service. While new evidence was being pre sented to the federal grand jury with the purpose of obtaining more indict ments Friday, Thomas C. Giddings, as assistant customs weigher, was ar rested on a charge of conspiracy in connection with the importation of figs. Shortly before this Collector Loeb announced that he had removed ten more assistant weighers making a total of 83 men who had been dropped from the customs here since March 9. Mr. Loeb said these remov als would complete the "house clean ing" which he has been carrying on since he assumed office. IS VICTIM* OF BUCK HAND Unknown Men Shatter Italian's Store with Dynamite—Five Eiuild Ings Wrecked. Danville, III.—A charge of dynamite weighing perhaps 25 pounds was ex ploded under the fruit and wine house of Joseph Mascari, 11 College street, Tuesday, utterly demolishing five buildings and causing $50,000 damage. Buildings both to the north and to the south of the Mascari place were completely wrecked, and plate glass windows in every building for three squares were demolished. Mascari charged members of the “Black Hand" society with the crime, but he declined to say whether he had re ceived threatening letters from any source. ASTOR SAFE, SAYS SKIPPER Captain Confirms Report That Yacht Nourmahal Was in San Juan Harbor November - New York.—Col. John Jacob Astor and son, Vincent, with their guests and crew, are safe on board the yacht Nourmahal somewhere in West In dian waters. The yacht arrived at San Juan on November 14, and was still there on the evening of Novem ber 17, when all peril from the ter rific hurricane had gone. Since then the Nourmahal has probably sailed for Ponce. This Information was brought by the Insular line steamship Harry Luckenbach which reached New York Tuesday from San Juan, P. R. 228 JAP MINERS ENTOMBED Fifteen Are Reported Killed in Explo sion in a Coal Mine—Fate of Others Doubtful. Tokyo—Heavy loss of life is feared as the result of an explosion in a coal mine at Onoura, Fukuoka provtnce. Fifteen men are known to have per ished, while* 228 miners are entombed in the workings. Every attempt is being made to rescue them, but their fate is as yet in doubt Gridiron Deaths Are Twenty-Nine. New York.—With the close of the football season, statistics show that 29 players l«-st their lives through the game in different parts of the country this fall, according to a list made pub lic here I#iday. Talk of Successor to Bryce. London.-- A Madrid dispatch to the Morning Telegraph says It is report ed there ti nt Sir M&'irice de Bunsen, British ambassador at Madrid, soon will rapfaK* Ambassador Bryce at Washington, t ANOTHER WARSHIP IS SEW TAFT ORDERS PRINCETON TO’ SAIL FOR CORINTO. Zelaya to Be Brought to Terms WKh □ out Delay—Will Recognize the Rebels. Washington.—The gunboat Prince ton was ordered by the navy de partment to sail for Corinto, Nicara gua, to join the gunboat Vicksburg, already at that port. The Princeton' is now at the Bremerton navy yard. Washington, undergoing repairs. The United States government is anxious to know whether the time i« ripe for the recognition of the pro visional or revolutionary government in Nicaragua. Unofficial advices say that the advance of the insurgent forces has been so rapid that tho crisis cannot be far off. Prompt action by the United States in formally recognizing the Estrada government would mean the success of the battle to oust Zelaya. Delay might prove serious if the strength of Zelaya’s army has been under-esti mated. Heport of Deaths Coming. A lull in the proceedings against President Zelaya was caused by the reception of an official notification from the Nicaraguan charge d’affaires that the full record of the trial of the two Americans shot by order of the court-martial would arrive on the next steamer. Before the message was received Secretary Knox had had an interview with John Barrett, director of the bu reau of American republics, and it is understood that in view of the re markable successes of the revolu tionary forces it was decided to wait until Monday to see if Estrada would be successful in occupying Managua, in which case the recognition of the revolutionists would follow as a mat ter of course, and all need for Ameri can intervention would cease. United States Has Gone Limit. It is recognized by the representa tives of foreign governments here that the United States has gone to a limit in this matter which It could not do safely in dealing with a more power ful adversary without a declaration of war following. No diplomatic criti cism of the course of the state depart ment has been discovered. Momentarily expecting the over throw of the Zelaya dynasty, the slate department has flashed a long and confidential telegram to United States Minister Merry at Costa Rica, and other telegrams to the naval station at Colon and to the commander of the Des Moines in Greytown harbor. What important information they contained is being guarded with great secrecy by the state officials. POSSE KILLS'TWO WOMEN Mother ar.d Daughter Shot to Death While Helping Father and Son tc Escape. Williamson, W. Va.—Firing from the doorway of their home on a sheriffs posse to give the father and brother of the girl time to escape, Mrs. Charles Daniels and her 16-year rold daughter were shot to death near Devon, Mingo county, by the officer* The shooting of Mrs. Daniels and her daughter grew out of a family feud be tween the Christians and the Dan ielses on the border of Kentucky and West Virginia. The Christians lived in Mingo county. West Virginia, and the Daniels in Pike county, Kentucky About three weeks ago George Christian ventured to the Kentucky side and was - slain by Jim Daniel* Christian and Daniels were brothers in-law and had formerly been allies. moxley'goes'to'congress Regular Republican Candidate in Sixth Illinois District Is Elected to Succeed Senator Lorimer. Chicago.—William J. Mosley, the regular Republican candidate for con gressman for the Sixth Illinois con gressional district, was elected Tues day to succeed William Lorimer, wb* resigned when elected to the United States senate, by a plurality of 6,277 votes. The vote resulted as follows: W. J. Moxley (Rep.), 14,494; Carl L. Barnes (Ind), 8,317; Frank S. Ryan (Dem.), 6,277. The campaign in this election wa* most bitterly contested and was par ticipated in by many Republicans of national and state fame. Including Speaker Cannon and Gov. Deneen. Message Still Unwritten. Washington.—Although he has only a week’s leeway. President Taft has not written his message to congress nor any part of it and the cabinet was in session Friday .for more than two hours dicsussing various fea tures which the president proposes to submit. Funeral of De Armond. Butler, Mo.—The funeral of Con gressman D. A. De Armond and grand son who were burned to death took place here Friday. A successor to the congressman will be named in a few days. Dies on Way to a Feast. New York.—While on his way to the Salvation Army headquarters to get a Thanksgiving dinner Joha Devery, homeless and friendless, colt lapsed and a few hours later died fro os starvation. Gold Yield in 1908 $94,560,000. Washington.—The gold mines to the United States produced $94, 560,000 worth of the preclos* metal in 1908, according to the re ports by the United States geological survey.