Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, April 22, 1909, Image 3

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    OPENING OF THE NATIONAL GAME.
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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- (
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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. \
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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
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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