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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1907)
PROMINENT TE LITRES IN THE BATTLE OF BALLOTS. I A ' ' * - -AfcVt * - , r t $ Jtffa * $ $ Tp'iZs' 't&fss , ' , * ; . . ' . > . v $ . . ' ' ' ) Brand Whiilock , author and prison reformer , re-elected mayor of Toledo , Ohio. Theodore E. Burton , Roosevelt candidate for mayor of Cleveland , de- fer.ted by Tom Johnson. Curtis Guil d. re-elected governor of Massachusetts by an overwhelming Republican majority. I EUROPMANIA IS COSTLY. itl OOOOOOOO G e.s Abroad In Alli- xuiee.s witJi IVoliility. More than 400 American girls have quarried foreigners of noble families und siany of them have taken * big fortunes to itbcir European husbands. A French journal. Le Petit Parisien , declared the other day that American ! V girls who had married abroad , mostly for foreign titles , had carried with them to Europe the astonishing sum of $9WM.K)0- ) OGO. The Paris writer did not associate this statement with the reports of "tight money' ' in America , yet the fact .that liundreds of millions have gone out of the country with the title hunters may "well occasion a little financial as well as * social speculation. Ilenry Clews , the veteran financier , nvhcii asked for an opinion on this esti- uiate , said : - " 1 think the statement that $000.000.- ' - ' < KK ) of wealth has been taken out of this < otuitry. or at least that the ownership - of this vast amount of assets has boon transferred to aliens by the marriage of American girls with foreigners is conserv ative. Undoubtedly the withdrawal of Kpuch an enormous sum lias an appreciable -effect upon the money market. "The folly of Americans who have Eu- ropamania is extremely cosily to this countryOur tourists spend at least : S150.000,000 abroad every year , most of it foolishly. " A New York paper prints a list of " > 50 American girls who have married into -distinguished foreign families. Following is a list of twenty-two such heiresses who liave carried $100,000,000 out of the coun try : Carricvl awav. May Goelet $40.00o.miO > I'auIIne Astor 120.uoii.ooo Anna Gould 17,000.000 Mrs. Marshall 0. Itobcrts 32,000.000 -Sarah 1'helps Stokes 30.00ii.000 Consuclo Vanilorbllt . . 10.dOo.000 Mnrv Loiter . . . - . n.OOO.tmo ' Nancy loiter H.OOO.OOO Margaret Ixiitcr fi.OOO.i.'ttO 'Belle Wilson u.OOO.niM ) 4'arolinc Astor 5.000.001) , Marie Satterllold 4,000,000 S/iy ! Ilammersley : ! , oOt.otio Uurtrudo r. I'arker ; ! .0)0.0)0 ( ) ( ) JiHa r.ryant ( Mackay ) 2.0iOooi ( ) /illss Garner 2,00t.ot'i ; KJorence Gnrnor l',000.ni ; : ! ' 3airc lluntinston " 2.000.000 Mrs Wvinsstou ( nee Bumpson ) . 2.00i > .mm Minnie Steveis . 2.00ii.oor ) Beatrice Winans 2,000,000 Holcn Ximmermaa 2.iKiO.Oil ) This list alone foots up $100,000,000. TJndoubtedly upward .of $300.000.000 lias " "been paid Tor titles alone , for the dowries hnye by no means represented all that went with the brides. I'ure Food I.arr Defended. Dr. N. W. Wiley , chief chemist of the Agricultural Department , in an interview , defends the national pure-food law from tlie attacks of those who charge the in creased cost of living to its operation. Dr. "Wiley admits that pure foods are worth tniore , and should bring higher prices in the markets than debased foods , and says 'ihat any legitimate rise in the price on -this account is a benefit to the consumer rather than to the producer , and should c regarded as a bles iim and not as a -curse. lie calls attention to the fact that while pure foods have advanced in price the adulterated articles have declined. Nevertheless he points out that the great staple articles which form 00 per cent of the food supply , are not , and cannot bi\ -affected by this law. lie warns the pub lic that in no case does the government gjuarantee the purity of any article manu factured and sold , but merely aims to 'Jjavc the goods sold for whar they are. Several millions of "American capital . /ire invested in the copper fields of Central - * tral Chili the gold fields of the extreme -south and the nitrate fields of the north. The best of feeling prevails toward Amer icans and American goods. The floor space of St. Peter's , Kome. is ' 227,000 square feet , the greatest of any cathedral in the world. Three big life insurance companies of New York returned to the State $ ' 11,351 on account of illegal rebates WILL ASK AUTO MAIL CAR. Postal t.cnj ; . ' t" Press Its Plan lU'fore Cons'i'es.s. The next Congress will be asked to pro vide for an experiment in automobile pcst- O.TK-OS for rural delivery service. This sug gestion was made at a ine''ilng of the Po. < al Progress League recently by .Tames L : Cowles , the secretary and treasurer of the league. Mr. Cowles estimated that the present loss to the government on rural delivery service amounted to $172 for each route. With the adoption of automobiles and a change in the postal regulations to permit a local rural parcels delivery with a weight limit of eleven pounds. Mr. Cowles declared rural delivery would become a profit instead of a loss to the government. Following out this suggestion , the league will ask Congress for an appropria tion of $ l 0.000 to test- the plan. Mr. Cowle- > * calculations were made for a route of twelve miles covered twice a day. lie estimated that the cost of these trips , iuciudini : the carrier's salary , would amount to only S. > a day , which would be more than provided for if each of some 175 families along the route paid only 3 cents a day for parcels from the town. Frederick C. Beach , the president of the league , said that the National Grange , the association which obtained the passage of the free-alcohol bill , would back the Postal Progress League * in this and its other postal reforms. President Beach was empowered by the meeting to appoint a committee to draw up petitions to be presented to Congress this coming win ter. LIVES LOST IN EARTHQUAKE. Fissures Opened Ui at Terre In Itibora , S ] > : iiii. A violent earthquake has occurred at Terre la Kibera , in the province of Ilues- ca. Spain. The earth opened , leaving jjreat fissures , the disturbance being ac companied by subterranean rumblings , which caused a panic among the popu lation. Many houses were shaken down. An unknown number of lives have been lost. lost.The The province of Iluesca lies in the orthern portion of Aragon and is bound- :1 on the north by France and on the east by the province of Lerida. It has an area of 5.872 square miles , with a population of approximately 275,000. The , capital city of the province is Iluesca , with a population of over 10,000 people. The city is well built and of a pic turesque nature , but is in a decayed state. The principal -building of the town is its cathedral , which lias numerous statues and a magnificent altar piece. The city has fifteen convents and a foundling asy lum and the ancient palace of the kings of Aragon. TVTilJc C < mjres.s Honors Straus. # * he International Pure Milk Congress held at Brussels put itself on record as against the use of raw milk , advising all mothers to give their infants milk brought to the boiling point , pasteurized or steril ized. This action , following upon the address of Nathan Straus of New 'York telling of his efforts toward pasteuriza tion , was in the nature of an indorse ment. It was announced that Mr. Straus would give a complete pasteurizing plant to the city of Brussels. The Straus plan , which was first put into operation in New York City fifteen years ago. has now been adopted in nearly 400 cities in all parts of the world , and the United States gov ernment has indorsed pasteurization as the proper way to make milk safe and to stop the spread of tuberculosis. From Fur and Near. People of China are pleased by assur ances given them by Secretary Taft. Noble county , Indiana , has raised over half a million bushels of onions this year. European military engineers are work ing on a form of automobile to draw ar tillery. The newest Mills lintel has just been thrown open in New York. It cost $1- 500.000 , has 1.S75 rooms , the highest- priccd of which are 40 cents a day. and is equipped with all mo/ern improvements DTES'MAKE TitO UBLE SHIFTLESS TRIBE TAXES , UNCLE SAM'S PATIENCE. Government Said to Fear that the Sioux Will Aid 'Their- Guests s Troops Are Sent to Watch the OIi- wtrejieroiis lied Ttlcn. Eight companies of United States cavalry have been sent to Thunder Batte , S. D. , inthe fear that the Sioux Indians , are about * to rise in rebellion and take the warpath asa"llies of the Utes , who are ready to shed blood because - * ' \ cause o hardships imposed on them by the Indian agent. It was feared settlers may be mas sacred unless extraordinary haste was made in massing in the disaffected re gion a" su'dicicntly large number of troops to overawe both thcMJtes and the Sioux. Orders , .were received at army head quarters in Omaha to dispatch the re maining two squadrons of the Second United States Cavalry , composed of eight companies , to Thunder Butte at the earliest possible moment. In addi tion to the cavalry , Company M , Six teenth Infantry , under Capt. Harry F. Daltou , left Fort Crook for Gettys burg , S. D. , to take charge of the base of supplies which has been established there for the operations ; against the Ute Indians should they start trouble. It was not known a ariny headquar ters m Omaha why additional troops have been sent to the Cheyenne river reservation , but it was thought the idea was to prevent any portion of the Sioux tribe from making common cause with the Utes in their revolt against authori ty. The Utes , it is pointed : out , are in a sense the guests of the Sioux , and the Indian idea of hospitality might induce some of the younger Sioux braves to offer aid in resisting any forcible meas ures adopted for the subjugation of the disaffected Utes. The Ute Indians , who have recently re belled against government restraint on the Cheyenne river agency in youth Da kota , are believed to have taxej the patience - ; tience of their good-natured Uncle Sam too much. Officials of the Indian oiiice nnd the Interior Department will not dis cuss the probable action of the govern ment in relation to the Utes , but it is in- limated that if damage to property or violence lence to settlers or government officers or soldiers has been or is committed the unruly Utes will face punishment such j as would be given to any other law vie lators. The altitude of the Indian office to ward the uneasy T7t9s has been decidedly a fatherly one ever ( since they first gave evidence o a desire to getaway from their own reservation. In the summer of 1OG ! ) the Utes ibcided that civilization and citizenship were things which they didn't care for , and they announced their determination of leaving the Uintah reser vation in Utah and striking off into the "Indian country" in South Dakota. Nearly 300 of them went on the pil grimage and the government followed in the capacity of friendly adviser , urging them to return to their own reservation nnd keeping an eye on them as they work- j ed their way eastward. It was expected the Utes would return to their reservation in the winter , but they remained in the Wyoming country for some ti.ne and ap parently had no intention of providing for their own comfort and maintenance during the cold weather. As a consequence they were finally "ar rested" last fall and taken to Fort Meade , South Dakota , where provision was made for their temporary quartering. Arrange ments were then made with the Sioux In dians pn the Cheyenne river agency in South Dakota whereby four townships of land were leased for the Utes and thev were established upon these lands , near Thunder Butte , at the upper end'of the Cheyenne river agency. The Utes have shown no inclination to return to their own lauds in Utah. The : money for their support in South Da kota is drawn from the funds which j j would otherwise go to the general support of the Uintah and Ouray agencies in Utah , but this docs not worry them. They seem willing to get along with the least possible amount of work ; but resent any effort on the part of the government to restrain their liberty , or force them to take an active part in the advancing of civilization. The Indian office has been lenient with them in every particular. They created no great disturbance a year ago and did no damage , and as a consequence the In dian office officials did not attempt to punish them , but turned its attention to "advising and persuading" them to ac cept the provisions made for them and to return to their own country. Efforts have been made to put them to work , but the braves have persistently and effectively wriggled out of anything that looked like manual labor and have thrown themselves upon their "White Father" for support , although refusing to obey the instructions of the government's Indian officials. The commissary , has faithfully followed them around and tak en care of them until some officials of the Interior Department declare that it' is time they were made to understand that if they will ilot work and will not stay at home they must expect punish ment if they commit depredations. A oVevr Diamond Maker. 4 A report from Paris tells of a discov cry in the direction 'of artificial diamond making which is a distinct advance upon Moisson crystal carbon making. The new method is credited by the Academy of Science to Aristide Clmrette , a chemist , hitherto unknown. He says he has form ed minute diamonds by passing a feeble electric current through a tube contain ing sulphuret of carbon and metals like iron. The academy has undertaken to confirm this. ,1290 , Jews expelled from England. , ISOO Columbus arrived a prisoner at Cadiz , Spain. 1589 Paris attacked by Henry IV. 1G05 The Gunpowder plot discovered. 1G74 New York city evacuated by the Dutch. 1GS1 Algiers bombarded by the French. 1GS5 La Salle and his followers left the Lavaca river on the Guif coast in search of the Mississippi. 1GS7 Gov. Andros of New York arrived at Hartford and demanded the sur render of Connecticut's liberal char- * ter. V1GSS Landing of William III. at Tor- bay. 1701 City of Philadelphia chartered by * William Penn. 1715 Treaty signed by which the Low Countries were ceded to Emperor Charles VI. 173G Earthquake destroyed' "Lima and , the port of Calico. 1755 Nearly 00,000 persons perished in earthquake at Lisbon. 17G5 Stamp act came into force Governors of all the Colonies except Rhode Island took oath to execute the Stamp act. 1772 First town meeting held in Boston. 1775 St. John , N. B. , captured by Amer ican force under. Gen. Montgomery. 1775 Washington defeated by Gen. Howe at battle of White Plains , N. Y. 17S3 Washington issued his farewell ad dress to the army. 17S5 Last session of the old Continental Congress opened in New York. " 1789 Lettres de Cachet abolished by the French National assembly. 1790 Gen. St. Glair routed by the In dians on the Wabash river. 1S03 Frigate Philadelphia ran on a reef and officers and crew made prisoners by the Moors. 1SOG Revolutionary outbreak in San Domingo. 1810 France removed its restrictions against American trade. 181-1 American force started on expedi tion to take Montreal. IS25 First boat reached Now York City from Buffalo by way of the Erie canal Opening.of the Erie canal celebrated at Albany. 1841 'Sir ' Alexander Burnes and twenty- three others murdered at Cabul. 1844r The Royal Exchange , London , opened by Queen Victoria. 1852 Franklin Pierce elected President of the United States. 1854 Russians attacked the British at Inkennan. 1855 Dr. Livingstone discovered the great cataract , which he named Victoria - ' toria Falls. 1881 Gen. George B. McClellan appoint ed commander-in-chief of the United States army. "SG2 Gen. Grant began his advance or Vicksburg. 1864 Nevada admitted to the Union as the thirty-sixth State. 1SG7 John Morrissey , pugilist , elected to Congress from 'New York. 1873 Second trial'of "Boss" Tweed be gan in Now York. 1873 Richard P. Bland of Missouri in troduced free silver bill in the House. 1S7G Many thousands of people killed by a cyclone in Bengal. t 1880 United States and China conc.ud- ed an emigration treaty. 1SS1 Denver became the permanent cap ital of Colorado. 1885 Canadian Pacific railway opened between Montreal and Winnipeg. 1889 North and South Dakota admitted to the Union. ' .892 Monument to the Chicago anarch ists who were executed for the Hay- market outrage dedicated in Wald- heim cemetery , Chicago 1893 Bill repealing the Sherman silver purchasing act passed by Congress and sigucd by President Cleveland. Transmutation IVovr a Fact. Prof. Otto N. Wict of the Technical high school at Charlottenburg , Germany , an authority on radium experiments , now asserts that the latest experiments of Prof. Ramsay show that under the influ ence of the energy-contained in radium emanations well-known elements like cop per can now be converted into others just as well known. This proves that the an cient alchemists were .on the right track. Four years ago Ramsay discovered that radium emanations changed to helium and later that this is the source of all the inactive elements. Latterly Prof. Boltwood of Yale has shown that a new element exists in the uranium minerals , where radium is found , and which 5s the parent of radium. This new clement gives off both alpha and beta radiations , produces no emanations and resembles tlieorium. Ionium is the name proposed for this substance. A commission agent in the Paris fruit markets recently shipped a basket con taining G3 selected peaches to London. The price for the lot was $540 , or about 59 each. SIEGE OF ViCKSBURG. THIRTY-SEVENTH REUNION OF ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE. "Gibraltar of the South" Undergoes Another Sieprt Coinsneinoratinp : the One IVIiIch AVax Amoiifc the Jlot Ilemarkable in military History. The Society of the Array of the Ten nessee , composed of otlicersvho served in the great army of the West umkT Grant and Shennau , recently held its annual reunion at Vicksburg , Miss. There , where frowned during th. first two'3'ears of the Civil War tilt impregnable 1'ortilieations of the Confederacy - federacy , choking the trade of the great river and cutting the southern .half of the republic in t\vo , there , where the great siege was fought out bitterly and bravely on each side , but with vic tory to Grant , the commander whenever never led to ultimate defeat , the rem nant of the society which , formed in the field in 1805 and im-hided all oi the officers of the Army of the Tennes see , met in its thirty-seventh session. With it foregathered some of the surviving Confederate oflieers who were among the besieged in the fated city , with Gen. Pcmberton. from May 10 , 1SG3 , when the ring of assault was finally closed around' V'icksburg , until the 4th day of July , when the suffering garrison stacked their arms and 27,000 troops surrendered to the forces of the Union. The siege of Vicksburg is considered one of the most remarkable in all mili tary history. The difficulties to be overcome were tremendous. Again and again were the naval forces on the riv er and the army on land repelled from "the Gibraltar of the South , " but the whole nation knew that the struggle must never end Until Vicksburg was in the hands of the Union forces. The ' United States government has , in commemoration of the great siege , purchased the fighting groind around the city , 1.283 acres , and is making a m M & &i MM 1LU2JOIS MOXUMEXT AT VI < great military park which is to be at once a beautiful pleasure ground and a lesson in the history of the memorable siege. The grounds are laid out in broad , paved avenues , with fine bridges , and with a wealth of monuments and tablets to show the position of the va rious commands of both armies. Solemnly impressive is the other gov ernment reservation at Vicksburg , the national cemetery , where rest the ashes of 1G.S22 Union soldiers who lost their lives in and around the citi * dur ing the war. Something of the condi tions under which these lives were lost may be imagined from the fact that the graves of 12,719 are marked "Un known. " Fourteen States Alabama , Illinois , Indiana , Iowa , Massachusetts. Michi gan , Minnesota , Mississippi , New Hampshire , New York. Ohio. Pennsyl vania , Rhode Island and Wisconsin have appropriated large sums of money for the Vicksburg national park , and each of these States has erected suit able monuments and memorials of its sons who fought upon this ground. Illinois , appropriating $2GO,000 for the purpose , has striven to show , ade quately , the feeling of a loyal State toward those who fought among the trenches and hills and wild ravines around Vicksburg. Along the line of the Union works , nine miles in extent , the State has erected monuments and markers show ing the position of the seventy-nine Illinois organizations which took part in the campaign. The State memorial is a white marble temple lighted from its open roof , and upon the walls of it appear , in bronze-lettered tablets , the names of the 3G.OOO officers and sol diers from Illinois who served in the campaign. A scroll of marble runs around the interior , like a frieze , and upon this is inscribed the names of the commanders from Illinois , beginning with Lincoln , the commander-in-chief of all the ar mies , continuing with that of Grant , the commander of the Army of the Tennessee , and naming all of the Illi nois generals of that army that parti cipated in the Vicksburg campaign. The "lead" of a very cheap pencil is often nothing but coke CHICAGQ. The effort to strengthen credit In this center makes satisfactory headJ way and with less difficulty than was feared. Protective measures enforce4- by the banks have won public cooperation tion , and it is clear that unprecedented gold importations pointed this way an4 substantial additions Co circulation t > 3f most of the local national institution must materially assist in relieving thj stringency in money and permit ai < early resumption of norm : ; } conditional' Considering the disadvantages whicJ | trade has experienced , it is not surprla Ing to find recessions in new demand nnd some decline in prices in primary1 markets. That business is yet at at high level is evidenced by payments through the banks in excess of those in the same week last year , although un der the total last week. Iron and steel contracts keep tha furnaces and mills busy , and heavy deliveries liveries continue of ftrrnace productj rails , structural shapes and factory out puts. AL'tivity is well sustained la forge and foundry work , lit-avy hard- wear , machinery , furniture and foot wear , and the absorption of rUw rnate rial generally is unabated , except lum ber , which feels effect of lessened building demand. Failures reported in the Chicago dis trict number 27 , against 2S last weelc and 22 a year ago. Dun's Review of Trade. U- , _ . . > ' _ ' ' > NEW YOSK. The country at large has this felt the after effects of last -week'a financial disturbances at New YortC nnd other eastern cities. Naturally there has been some dislocation of the country's 'business ' , notably in the item of the domestic'exchanges hag reacted on the collecting and forward ing forces by for a time stopping the buying of wheat in the Northwest and of cotton at the laouth , and there baa also been a sensible quieting down of Jobbing trade activities , some reduction of forces in railroad improvement worlc and in other industries , and some effect also upon retail trade , which , however , aided by fine fall weather , has given a good account of itself this week. la the dry goods tralle there is a greater disposition to concede that a lower level of values for several lines of cotton goods is likely. Business failures for the week ending Oct. 31 number 225 , against 220 last week. 1G3 in the lika week of 190G , 1GO in 1005 , 200 in 1904 and 21G in 1903. Canadian failures for the week number 25 , as against 39 week and 21 in this week a year ago. Bradstreet's Commercial Report. Chicago Cattlo. common to prima p-i.OO to $7.05 ; hogs , prime heavy , $4.00 to $6.30 ; sheep , fair to choice , $3.0O to $5.50 ; wheat , No. 2 , 91c to t)4c ) ; corn , No. 2 , 59c to GOc ; oats , standard , 46c to 4Sc ; rye , No. 2 , 77c to 78c ; hay , timothy , $12.00 to $18.50 ; yrairie , $9.00 to $15.00 ; butter , choice creamery , 22a to 24c ; eggs , fresh , 19c to 24c ; potatoes , per bushel , 54c to GOc. Indianapolis Cattle , shipping , $3.00 to $6.75 ; hogs , good to choice heavy , . 55.00 to $0.30 ; sheep , common to prime , $3.00 to $4.75 ; wheat , No. 2 , 95c to D6c ; corn , No. 2 white , 5Sc to 59c ; oats , No. 2 white , 45c to 4Gc. St. Louis Cattle , $4.50 to $6.75 ; hogs , $4.00 to $0.35 ; sheep , $3.00 to 5.00 ; wheat , No. 2. OUc to 97c ; corn No. 2 , 5Gc to 57c ; oats , No. 2 , 43c to 45c ; rye , No. 2 , 75c to 79c. Cincinnati Cattle , $4.00 to $5.50 ; hogs , $4.00 to $ ( J.40 ; sheep , $3.00 to- 55.00 ; wheat , No. 2 , $1.02 to $1.03 ; corn , No. 2 mixed , G2c to G3c ; oats , No. 2 mixed , 49c to 50c ; rye , No. 2 , 87c to 89c. Detroit Cattle. $4.dO to $5.50 ; hogs , ? 4.00 to $ G.OO ; sheep , $2.50 to $5.00 ? wheat , No. 2. 97c to 98c ; corn , No. 3 yellow , G4c to ( > - c : oa * < ? , No. 3 white , 50c to 51 c ; rye , No. 2 , 79c to 80c. Milwaukee Wheat , No. 2 northern * 51.00 to 51.03 ; corn , No. 3 , 59c to GOc ; oats , standard , 50c to 51c ; rye , No. 1 , 74c to 75c ; barley , standard , 99c to 51.01 ; pork , mess. $15.50. Buffalo Cattle , choice shipping steers , - ? 4.00 to $0.25 ; hogs , fair to choice , $4.00 * to $0.75 : sheep , common to good mixed , < $4-00 to $5.25 ; lambs , fair to choice , . $5.00 to $7.25. New York Cattle , $4.00 to $ G.40f hops. $4.00 to $ O.G5 ; sheep , $3.00 toi 4.75 ; wheat. No. 2 red , $1.03 to $1.05.3 corn. No. 2. GHc to 70c ; oats , naturafi white. 54c to 5Gc : butter , creamery , 23o to 25c ; eggs , western , 22c to 2Gc. Toledo Wheat , No. 2 mixed , 99c to * Sf.OO : t-oru. No. 2 raised , Glc to G2c Dats. No. 2 mixed. 5Gc to 51c ; rye , No * 1. S-ic to S5c : clover sed , prime , $10.00. . Told in n Few Lines. Strict enforcement of contract labon /aw / will be more serious blow to South. dian at first supposed. Speaker Cannon , addressing the Illinois- Hankers * Association a ) . Moline , opposed State ownership of railroads. An average of SCO persons are killed- in the United States each year by light- aing. This meanb one hi every 100,000. Steel box cars have been built recently s.-hich will weigh abo'Jt 3,000 pounds lisa. than wooden cara of the s"ama size acdi rapacity. ' .
