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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1909)
OPENING OF THE NATIONAL GAME. - r BASEBALL SEASON OPENS. Great Crowds in Several Cities At tend the First Games. Immense crowds thronged the big league ball parks for the opening games of the baseball season Wednes- | day. The Cubs played to 16,000 people ple in Chicago and over 11,000 fans watched the Sox at Detroit. The Cubs won , . ' { to 1 , and the Sox lost , 0 to 2. ' , Pittsburg won from the Cincinnati "Reds and the Boston Doves trimmed Philadelphia. The only other Ameri can League game was at St. Louis , j where Cleveland won , 4 to 2. Baseball got a banner start on what seems io be its most prosperous year. i The largest crowd that ever wit nessed the inauguration of a baseball season in Cincinnati was out to see .the Cincinnati and Pittsburg teams play. The Pittsburgs secured a lead in the first inning and gradually in creased it through timely hitting and Fromme's wildness. Cincinnati had men on bases in nearly every inning , but was unable to got one of them home. The Pirates scored three runs. Before one of the largest crowds ever assembled in Washington Park , Indian apolis , champions of the American As sociation , defeated Toledo in the open ing game. Opening the season at St. Louis with Cleveland , before one of the largest crowds that has ever wit nessed a spring game , the St. Louis baseball team went down to defeat by a score of1 to 2. ? Kesalts of First Games. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Chicago , 3 ; St. Louis , 1. P ! Cincinnati. 0 ; Pittsburg , 3. , Boston , 9 ; Philadelphia , 5. New York-Brooklyn , rain. 5 . AMERICAN LEAGUE. Detroit , 2 ; Chicago , 0. St. Louis , 2 ; Cleveland , 4. Philadelphia-Boston , rain. Washington-New York , wet grounds. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Milwaukee , 9 ; St. Paul , 5. Kansas City , 0 ; Minneapolis , 2. Indianapolis , 4 ; Toledo , 2. Louisville , 6 ; Columbus , 1. $8,000,000 AS BIRTHDAY FAVORS. 3TiTe Heirs Get Fortune When the Votiufirc.st Becomes of Age. A birthday party , having as favors shares iu a $2,000,000 bequest , was held the other evening at 537 South Orange Grove , Panadena , Cal. , the home of Miss jElleu Elliot , in honor of her 18th birth day anniversary. When Mrs. Edward Elliott died several years ago it was gen erally understood that she left a large fortune in trust , to be distributed among her five children when the youngest be came of age. The five children equally fiharnjr the $2.000,000 estate are Miss Ellen Eliot , Mrs. Glover Noyes , Mrs. Niua Wotkyns , John Vischer Eliot and a second son , now residing in the East. Soyles Indicted in Cleveland. i An indictment , charging child stealing and harboring a stolen child , was reported at Cleveland , against James H. Boyle and MKS. JAMES BOYLE. Irs. Boyle , who are under arrest at Mer- ir a > on * ke charge of kidnaping Wil- Whitla of Sharon , Pa- ( \ J. A. PATTEN , SAID TO HAVE MADE FORTUNE IN WHEAT. James A.1 Patten , who is said to have gained a fortune out of the recent rise in May wheat , has been conspicuous for several years as a daring and successful Chicago board of trade operator in wheat and corn. He has been in the board of trade business since 1S7S and previously served four years as an employe of the State grain inspection department in vJlii- cago. Mr. Patten lives in Evanston. 111. , and was mayor of that city four years , besides serving two terms as alder man. He was born in Dekalb County , Illinois , in 1852. and as a boy worked in a country store and on a farm. BLACK HAND SLAYS MERCHANT. Italian of Tampa Shot Down by Two Hidden Assassins. The assassination of Giuseppe Fiear- etta , a wholesale grocery merchant , and one of the most prominent and wealthy members of the Italian colony in Tampa , Fla. , added the third to a series of mur ders which have been charged to the Black Hand there during the present year. Ficarotta was going to his home from his place of business at a late hour and was shot by. two men from ambush with shotguns loaded with heavy slugs. He was instantly killed and the assas sins , dropping their weapons , fled. Ficar- otta's two young children , a boy and a girl , were with him at the time but nei ther was hit. Ficarotta's relatives say they know no cause for the murder. He was a member of the city council of West Tampa and prominently connected with the leading social and fraternal or ganizations of his people. Battling Nelson lias been matched by Promoter Mclntosh to meet Jimmy Britt in Australia some time next fall. Directors of the California Jockey Club still seem to be Loping against hope that they can successfully combat the present law against betting on races. The death is announced at Berlin of Gen. Count Egbert Hoyer von Asseburg , who was president of the German com mittee of the Olympic games. He was G3 years old. David Bruce Brown , a New York boy , covered himse-t with glory by lowering the world's amateur record for the mile to 33 seconds flat in the automobile race on the Daytona Beach. John A. Elliott , president of the Min nesota-Wisconsin League , will inaugu rate a movement among the minor league presidents and managers to eliminate the "farming out" of players by the larger leagues. The Lincolnshire ( England ) handicap of 1,500 sovereigns for 3-year-olds and upwards , the first big race of the season , was won by A. C. Madaras' Duke of Sparta. Sol Joel's Arranmore was second end and F. Stern's Longcroft third. James F. Callaway , the tobacco brok er of Louisville , will have a large racing stable this year on the trotting turf , but they will not be confined to one stable , for his operations in light harness horses extend from Kansas City to Pennsyl vania. The St. Louis Aero Club has leased land for v-e largest aeronautic ascension grounds in the world , and will equip the park at once. The famous balloon field of France will be surpassed in both size and facilities by the. new field. Stations for twelve balloons will be prepared. CASTRO IS EXPELLED. Ignominiously Ousted from Island of Martinique by French Governor. Protesting to the last that he was seriously ill , and hissing curses upon the French and United States govern ments , Cipriano Castro , once dictator of Venezuela , was carried , half clad , -on a stretcher through the streets from his hotel in Fort de France , Martin ique , to the steamship Versailles , a distance of more than a mile , Satur day evening and thrown aboard the steamer , which immediately pulled away from the dock and will not touch land until she ties up at St. Nazaire , France. Official notice was served on Castro Saturday morning of the decision of the French government that he must leave the island within nine hours from the receipt of such notice and that the commissary of police at Fort de France had been charged with the execution of the order. The ex-President was furi ous. Calming himself , he declared to the chief of police that the state of his health was such as to make it impossi ble for him to leave his bed. The government thereupon called in Dr. Bouvier , who examined him for one hour , from 11:15 to 12:15. The doctor was accompanied by the commissary of police. The doctor declared that the former President of Venezuela was suf ficiently strong to travel , and that he could take the. French steamship Ver sailles , due there the same afternoon. Castro protested. He declared that he suffered from intolerable pains in the abdomen and the kidneys ; that he was without funds to meet his travel ing expenses from Fort de France , his money being deposited elsewhere than in Martinique , and that he could not embark on the Versailles. Castro de manded sufficient delay in order to make it possible for him to leave for Santa Cruz de Teneriffe , in the Canary Islands. The Canaries are Spanish ter ritory. All of his protests were ignored , and he strove all day to find some excuse for remaining which would satisfy the colonial 'government DEATH TAKES HITCHCOCK. Former Secretary of the Interior Expires in Capital. Former Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock died at his home in Washington early Friday. Mr. Hitchcock had been ill for some time , and his death had been expected for several days. Ethan Allen Hitchcock was born in Mobile , Ala. , Sept. 19 , 1825. He attend ed private schools in Nashville , Tenn. , and then entered a military academy hi New Haven , Conn. , graduating in 1855. He moved to St. Louis , Mo.- and en gaged in mercantile business until 18GO , when he went to China to enter the commission house of Olyphant & Co. , of which firm he became a partner in 1806. * He retired from business in 1872 and spent two years in Europe. He re turned to the United States hi 1874 and was president of several mining and railroad companies. In 1897-8 he was Minister to Russia and was made the first Ambassador to that country in 1898-9. He was appointed Secretary ETHAN A. HITCHCOCK. of the Interior by President McKinley Dec. 21 , 1S9S , and reappointed May 5 , 1901 , and remained by request of Pres ident Roosevelt and was reappointed by him March G , 1905. He resigned March 4 , 1907. Spain to Rebuild Its JFleet. The Spanish cabinet has decided defin itely that the Spanish fleet shall be re constructed. The work will be .intrusted to British firms. TUFT III IMff PLEA President , in Message , Asks Con * gress to Revise Philippine Revenue System. / PAYNE7 BILL EOHCES CHANGE Recommendations of Secretary Dick inson and Gen. Edwards Are Transmitted with Act. The -President sent to Congress a special message in relation to the Philippine tariff. The message trans mits recommendations by the Secre tary of War for a revision of the Phil ippine tariff so as to permit as much customs revenue as possible for the islands and at the same time to extend to the islands the principle of a protective - tective tariff for its industries. Under the conditious which will arise from the enactment of the tariff bill pending in Congress , which pro vides under certain conditions for free trade between the Philippines and the United States , the revenues of th isl and will be considerably affected , and numerous protests have been received here on this account. The proposed amendments to the bill are to interfere as little as possible with these free- trade conditions and at the same time permit collection of ample revenue. The message and accompanying letters of recommendation from Secretary Dickinson and General Clarence R. Ed wards , chief of the insular bureau of the War Department , ! with a copy of the proposed act , were submitted to both houses of Congress shortly after they convened. General speaking , the bill submitted by the President makes a slight in crease in the rates of duty now pro vided in the Philippine tariff , but its framers say its tendency is to insure , as far as practicable , the benefit of the Philippines market for American man ufactures and products. The bill makes some additions to the free list. There will be an increase in internal- revenue duties , by which it is hoped to make up the loss which the Philip pine Islands will sustain by the opera tions of the free-trade provisions in the pending Payne traiff bill. The in ternal-revenue laws for. the Philippines are enacted by the Philippine assem bly. President Tali's Message. "To the Senate and House of Repre sentatives : I transmit herewith a com munication from the Secretary of War inclosing one from the chief of the bu reau of insular affairs , in which is trans mitted a proposed tariff-revision law for the Philippine Islands. "This measure revises the present Phil ippine tariff , simplifies it and makes it conform as nearly as possible to the regu lations of the customs laws of the Uni ted States , especially with respect to packing and packages. The present Phil ippine regulations have been cumber some and difficult for American merchants and exporters to comply with. Its pur pose is to meet the new conditions that will arise under the section of the pend ing United States tariff bill , which pro vides , with certain limitations , for free trade between the United States and the islands , ft is drawn with a view to pre serving to the islands as much customs revenue as possible and to protect in a reasonable measure those industries which aow exist in the islands. "The bill now transmitted has been drawn by a board of tariff experts , of which the insular collector of customs , Col. George R. Col ton , was the president. The board held a great many open meet ings in Manila and conferred fully with representatives of all business interests in the Philippine Islands. It is of great importance to the welfare of the islands that the bill should be passed at the same time with the pending Payne bill , with special reference to the provisions of which it was prepared. "I respectfully recommend that this bill be enacted at the present session of Congress as one incidental to and re quired by the passage of the Payne bill. . "WILLIAM H. TAFT. " ACCEPTS THE INCOMPLETE DOG. Ifoung Woman Relents and Pays Ex press on Animal Maimed on Way. About 100 persons went to the offic of au express company in Wooster , Ohio , the other day , ready to purchase a three- legged dog advertised to be soid at public aucton by the company to secure 25 cents charges. The buyers were disappointed , as the agent of the company announced that the animal would not be sold. The company had settled with the shipper and the young woman consignee had paid the charges. The dog when shipped was sound , but made its escape , and when re captured had lost one of its hind legs. When the young woman to whom it was shipped saw that it was minus a leg she refused to accept the puppy. Then the company , to secure its charges , adver tised the dog for sale at public auction , EEBOR , MAY COST § 50,000. Adopted Daughter of Man Who Died Intestate Likely to Lose. Because of an error in her adoption papers , Gladys Wallace , 11-year-old fos ter daughter of William Wallace , a Waterbury - terbury , Conn. , merchant who committed suicide recently , may lose all rights in his $50,000 estate. If the error can be rectified , Wallace's property will go to the child. He was a widower and died intestate. Gladys , the daughter of Frank E. Strong , was adopted in 1899 in the Probate Court. Judge Lowe neglected to have the papers signed by the girl's mother , although the Connecticut law re quires the signature of both parents. Now two sisters and other blood relatives of Wallace claim the child has no standing as an heir. \ \r-f \ CHICAGO. The usual indexes of commercial ac tivity continue to mark progress , al though some branches are yet burdened with a surplus of idle capacity. It is highly encouraging to note the sustain ed rise in payments reported through the banks , together with the absence of heavy defaults in the failure record. While erratic weather has prevailed Easter trade exhibits a gratifying ag gregate in the leading retail lines , the absorption being exceptionally good in apparel , millinery , footwear , novelties and household wares. High prices for some necessaries have not obstructed the increasing pur chasing power , and stocks of seasonable merchandise undergo the normal reduc tion here and at interior points. Demands entered by the wholesale branches make a fair showing , reorders being frequent for light weight textiles , clothing and fancy goods , and the for ward bookings disclose .gain over this time last year for autumn and winter staples , selections being more extended against tariff contingencies. Near-by visiting buyers again appear ed in the markets in large numbers for sorting up needs to be promptly shipped. Road salesmen send in cheer ing advices from the West , the outlook being regarded quite hopeful. Mercantile collections are prompt on country bills , and less complaint is heard as to city settlements. Money is yet favorable in cost to borrowers , and this creates more disposition among buyers to secure the best discounts for cash purchases. Further investment of capital Is seen In improvements for business purposes , while the market for real estate and permits for construction denote extend ing enterprise here and at various places within the Chicago trade terri tory. tory.Bank Bank clearings , , $254,340,884 , exceed those of corresponding week in 1908 by 18 per cent , and compare with $236- 080,138 in 1907. Failures reported in the Chicago dis trict number twenty-one , against twen ty-one last week , twenty-nine in 1903 and eleven in 1907. Dun's Weekly Re view of Trade. NEW YORE : . Trade , crop and industrial report ! are still very irregular , but the under lying tone of business generally is slightly more optimistic. All presenter or future favorable occurrences , how ever , cannot disguise the fact that some lines of industry are still very much depressed ; that the first crop report of the year that made by the government of winter wheat is a poor one , indi cating a short crop ; that buying is still hampered in some sections by unfavor able weather or by the reduced pur chasing power of the public , and cau tion and conservatism still govern com mercial operations to a large degree. Easter trade , at retail is classed as fair to good in most parts of the West , fair at the East , but below expectations at the South , and rather poor in Texas , where drought conditions hold back buying demand. Some slight expansion is noted in filling in orders by jobbers , but trade in this line is distinctively of a between-seasons character. In whole sale lines there are indications of more confidence in buying for fall. Business failures in the United States for the Aveek ending with April 8 were 227 , against 204 last week , 254 in the like week of 1908 , 194 in 1907 , 161 in 1906 and 196 in 1905. Canadian failures number 38 , which compares vith 23 last week and 28 in the lik week of 1908. Bradstreet's. Chicago Cattle , common to prime , $4.00 to $7.15 ; hogs , prime''heavy , $4.50 to $7.37 ; sheep , fair to choice , $3.00 to $6.60 ; wheat , No. 2 , $1.34 to $1.36 ; corn , No. 2 , 64c to 66c ; oats , standard , 51c to 53c ; rye , No. 2 , 79c to 81c ; hay , timothy , $8.00 to $13.50 ; prairie , $8.00 to $12.00 ; butter , choice creamery , 25c to 2Sc ; eggs , fresh , 15c to 20c ; potatoes , per bushel , 95c to $1.04. Indianapolis Cattle , shipping , $3.00 to $7.40 ; hogs , good to choice heavy , $3.50 to $7.45 ; sheep , good to choice , $2.50 to $6.15 ; wheat , No. 2 , $1.35 to $1.36 ; corn , No. 2 white , 65c to 66c ; oats , No. 2 white , 51c to 52c. St. Louis Cattle , $4.00 to $6.85 ; hogs , $4.00 to $7.35 ; sheep , $3.00 to $6.25 ; wheat , No. 2 , $1.41 to $1.43 ; corn , No. 2 , 65c to 66c ; oats , No. 2 , 52c to 53c ; rye , No. 2 , 79c to SOc. Cincinnati Cattle , $4.00 to $6.10 ; hogs , $4.00 to $7.50 ; sheep , $3.00 to $5.75 ; wheat , No. 2 , $1.37 to $1.38 ; com , Xo. 2 mixed , 6Sc to 69c ; oats , No. 2 mixed , 54c to 55c ; rye , No. 2 , 82c to 84c. Buffalo Cattle , choice shipping steers , $4.00 to $7.35 ; hogs , fair to choice , $4.00 to $7.55 ; sheep , common to good mixed , $4.00 to $4.75 ; lambs , fair to choice , $5.00 to $8.15. New York Cattle. $4.00 to $6.65 ; hogs , $3.50 to $7.20 ; sheep , $3.00 to $4.75 ; wheat , No. 2 red , $1.33 to $1.34 ; corn , No. 2 , 74c to 75c ; oats , natural white , 58c to 60c ; butter , creamery , 25e to 28ceggs ; , western , 17c to 21c. Toledo Wheat , No. 2 mixed , $1.31 to $1.33 ; corn , No. 2 mixed , 66c to 68c ; oats , No. 2 mixed , 55c to 56c ; rye , No 2 , We to 8Cc ; clover seed , $5.60. House Refuses to Listen to Protest of Women on Increase on Gloves and Hosiery. LUMBER TAEEET TTNDISTTJEBED 01 ? , However , Is Placed on Free List Vote of 217 to 101 Passes Measure. The Payne tariff bill , almost \vithoul a scratch , was accepted by the' Ilousa of Representatives in Washington , with a vote of 217 to 101 Friday night It was almost a pure party vote , Con gressmen Broussard. Estopinal. Puja and Wickliffe , Democrats , of Louisiana , who have been with the Republican leaders on almost everything , voted frith the Republicans on the final roll call. Justin of Tennessee was the only Republican to go into the Democratic camp on the final vote. The final days work on the Payni bill proved a series of victories for the Payne Ways and Means Committee. Every feature of the document that wag finally accepted had the approval of the committee. Much of this , however , was due to the efforts of the committee to avoid threatening defeats. This was particularly the case In the rates on oil , barley and barley malt. ' Committee S'ubmitM to Free Oil. The committee had fought bitterly against putting oil on the free list , but gave up the fight Friday , and it was on Chairman Payne's motion that all du ties on oil and oH products were strick en off. On barley and barley malt the com mittee had fought against an increase , and in its first fight triumphed. But the votes of the barley men were needed - ' ed to save the committee's stand on lumber and hides , and the barley and malt rates were increased. No changes were made in the hosiery and gloves schedule , although the Dem ocrats included this in their motion for a recommitment. It was burled there , however , with a long list of other Dem ocratic demands , including an income tax. tax.The The other changes in the bill , which were made during the last four days by the committee of the whole , were ac cepted by a viva voce vote. This in cluded putting tea and coffee on the free list. House Packed. The House and the galleries wera packed for the last day of the fight , and during most of the voting the buzz of conversation almost drowned out the call of the roll. When the subject un der vote was particularly uninterest ing and no one seemed to pay any at tention , tl House seemed like a cross between a boiler factory and a session of the D. A. R. Time and again Speak er Cannon almost splintered a gavel in getting the members to listen to the roll calls. It was a good natured battle , al though at the outset there was a storm of parliamentary debate over the meth ods of procedure. When it got under way , however , things moved more smoothly. There were ten roll calls in all , four on the lumber schedules , one on barley malt , two on hides , one on oil , one on recommitment and one on the final vote. With the exception of the last two , the party vote was badly split. Illinoisanti for Free Lumber. The first question which was voted on was a motion to put lumber on the free list Fifty-four Republicans went over to the Democrats on this , and thirty-five Democrats reciprocated. This brought the result to 184 for free lum ber to 198 against. Three other free lumber propositions containing minor changes went down to defeat in turn , by votes of ISO to 200 , 133 to 244 and 153 to 228. Then came the barley and barley malt issue , in which the increased rates already approved by the committee were put into the bill. Here again party lines were broken. Then came the vote on free hides ; eight Republicans join ing the Democrats for free hides. On the oil vote , two Illinoisans , both Re publicans , voted against free oil. TABLE GOES ON RAMPAGES. Family Heirloom a Mystery to It Owner's Friends. A table of ancient vintage , walking around a room and cutting up capers like a jumping-jack , is one of the curi- csities of the twentieth century that is well calculated to drive the cold chills up and down one's spinal column on a midsummer day or to bring the perspiration * tion to the surface in the teeth of a rag ing blizzard. The table is the property oE Mrs. William S. Williams of Allen , Wi- comico County , Maryland , who declares that on a number of occasions , espe cially after there had been a death in the family , she has seen 'the heirloom jump around like a man who has drop ped a brick on his toe. There is not a neighbor of Mrs. Williams who doubts her veracity for a moment , and , if they did , she says that she can call in wit nesses to substantiate her claims for her pet. < She hopes that the table will stay in the family for many generations to come , and probably it will , for there are very few persons in this world who would care to take the responsibility of looking after a table that periodically goes on a rampage
