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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1901-11-27

South Peuopscot.
s. Brainard Condor and Arthur Gull
ford have returned from Aroostook, each
bringing a nice deer.
On Sunday evening, Nov. II, Percy w.
Perkins, OF this place, and Miss Lucy
Bryant, OF Hermon, were married by the
brides uncle, Rev, K. X. Drew. Mr. and
Mrs. Perkins left early Monday morning
for Bangor. They have the best wishes
OF host OF friends and acquaintance.
Nov. 81. CLIMAX
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-20
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 90, 1901.
DANGEROUS TEACHINGS.

The Birmingham Ledger asserts that shooting thieves is rather bad, but It is better than allowing them to escape" /" For a paper which is usually careful of it's language, The Ledger makes some singular breaks. The idea that man \ who is only suspected of crime may be shot by a policeman or other officer for attempting to escape Is held and acted on quite too frequently as it Is, without receiving the endorsement of a prominent newspaper. We do not know where the officers get their idea that they have the right to shoot and Kill a man for trying to outrun them. but they do not find such right from law. justice or good morals.
 Even if it Is known that man has committed a theft, or if he Is caught in the act and tries to escape, policeman of other officer has neither legal nor moral right to shoot him. If the theory of The Ledger is sound and is acted on, it fwill be much easier and safer for po- Iiceman to shoot a thief or burglar than to arrest him. The Ledger teaches a dangerous and untenable doctrine.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-20
INTERESTS OF GERMANY
MAY CAUSE INTERFERENCE IN
 CANALS CONSTRUCTION.
Claimed That the Digging oi Lsthmian Waterway wiii De- stroy the Nights of
 German Company.

New York, Dec. 1s.--A special to The Herald from Washington says:
 1t Is learned that Germany expects to have something to say about the Nicara- qua canal because of the interests or tserman corporation in a concession that will DC interrered with, and possibly des- troyed by It's construction. This interest has been obtained through the purchase of the Hamburg-Amertcan steamship Company of the Atlas Steamship Com pany. The former is German corpora tion, and the latter is British. The Ham, burg-American Company is subsidized by the German Government, and It's ships can be called upon for auxiliary cruisers of the German navy in time of war.
 Under the concessions from Nicaragua which the Hamburg-American line has acquired, it is asserted by foreign dip- lomats here that exclusive navigation rights of the San Juan River and of Lake Nicaragua are secured to tho German company.
 The history of the concession before it came into German hands dates from before 1877. A company organized un- der the name of the Nicaragua Mail Steam Navigation and Trading Company acquired the concession. Subsequently the Atlas Steamship Company, a British company running a line of steamers from New York to Greytown and other ports in the Caribbean sea, bought the steam CTS, plant and concession of the Ricara- qua company. and applied for an exten- sion and enlargement of the contract. This was granted by Nicaragua in June. 1sg7 and the contracts thus obtained were transferred to the Caribbean and Pa- cinc transit Company. an auxiliary or the Atlas Company.
 The contracts gave to the Atlas Steanl- ship Company the exclusive right or steam navigation in the Silaco lagoon for thirty years, dating from the approval of the contract on September 30. 1897. and the exclusive right for the same time or constructing tramways and railways along the line to avoid the obstacles in the lower part of the San Juan River, making the transit to San Juan Del Norte, or Greytown, more rapid during the dry season.
 The company obligated itself to con struct within three years a narrow guage railroad, about five miles long, from a point on the Silaco lagoon to point on the San Juan River. near the Colorado Junction, and suitable warehouses and wharves at the terminals for passenger. freight and other services. This road is now in operation.
 This concession, with all the property of the Atlas Steamship Company, was purchased recently by the Hamburg American line.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-20
THE OIL AGE.

There was an age of stone, an age of bronze and an age of iron, but this ap- pears to be the age of steam, electricity Is causing more excitement of late days than anything else connected with the industries of the country. That section of the Union which has no oil excitement is very much behind the procession and must feel lonely. The recent discoveries in Texas have started the fever through out the South, and in many parts of Ala bama experiments are in progress with the hope of turning loose some gushers of our own.
 One of the sections of the State in which the geological formations are such as to indicate mineral or other oil is that portion of West Alabama of which the County of Clarke comprises the larger part. Recently the editor of The Jackson South Alabamian had an interview with we'll posted, and who has been spending some months in Clarke County studying it's possibilities as an oil field. He was apparently led to this course by reading the reports of pr. Eugene A. Smith, State Geologist, and who, by the way, is one of the most expert geologists in the United Stats. From that interview with Mir. Hobsor, we take this extract:
 ''Yes, sir, I am no prophet, nor the son of one. but l am going to venture the prediction that three separate and dis tinct fields will be developed, which shall call the upper, the middle and the lower. each of them of considerable size, and the middle one the largest continu- ous producing oil field in the world And since nothing is cheaper than predictions. l will go further and predict that most or the product will be oil of a good quality, parafine base, and high in illuminants. This seems rather bold prediction. know. but I venture 1t as a result of in- tensely close observation of two occur l ences of the actual oil that I have found | and certain associate phenomena of vege- | tation.
 MT. Hobson Is not only very enthusias' tic. but is very much in earnest; so much so that he is buying up and otherwise ob' taining control of large tracts of land ir Clarke for the purpose of testing the matter fully and satisfactorily. It is moi ! beyond the bounds of possibility that Alabama may develop another Beaumont in connection with our many and vari- ous other rich resources. Then we will have another feather in our cap, for we have almost everything else, natural or artificial, that is required in the making of a great State
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-20
The Charleston Post well says that Con

The Charleston Post well says that Con- gressman Moody of Massachusetts should call on Congress "to investigate the dis elimination recently made by the hotel keepers of his State against Booker Washington on account of his color. |" The Post should bear in mind that Moody belongs to that class of statesmen who can see "a long ways off, but can't see anything that transpires under their noses. They are long-range statesmen when it comes to looking at, or speaking of. Southern affairs
 The paltry sum of $l.5O ought not to deter any man b, tween the ages of A and 45 from making himself eligible as a voter. The money collected from this source goes to the support of the public schools and that fact ought to make men glad to make the contribution. There will be no one to blame except the man him self who fails to pay this poll tax be- fore the lst day of next February, if he is cut off from participation in Party pri- maries and from voting at regular cleo lions. We want good government in Ala bama and every good man should qualify as a voter No white man should bear the stigma of disqualifying himself.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-20
WOULDAPPEALTO
IRELAND NOT STRONG ENOUGH
 TO FIGHT, HOWEVER.
Instead of Drawing the Sword, Irish men are Urged to Reorganize
 the old Land League.
 Committees Address.

New York, Dec. 19.-The Provisional Executive Committee of the United Arisn League of America formed by the Irish envoys, Redmond, McHugh and CDonneil before leaving for Ireland, held it's first meeting today at the Hoffman house. John F. Finerty of Chicago, president of the League, presided and most Of the twenty-one original members of the executive committee were in attendance. A constitution and bylaws based on the laws of those of the old land league were adopted The executive committee drafted an address saying in part:
 "The grievances under which Ireland, after the lapse of generations, still labors, would justify an appeal to arms were her military resources and oppor- tunity to equal her wrongs and her re- sentiment Were she in 8 position to draw the sword. or use the rifle, with even a reasonable conclusion of success, we
 would prefer that method of obtaining her rights and averaging the insults heap ed upon her by a remorseless govern ment. But we know that she is not,
 
 out formidable allies as her people are, in a position to cope with the land and sea forces of England which occupy her Actresses, command her seaports and can be heavily reinforced, within few hours, from the military depots and naval re- serves of her oppressor.
 We neither denounce nor renounce the principal of an appeal to physical force, under favorable conditions. but we are &..r1. IIzA Is@A NfN~a sNFa tRta force for the obtaining of rights of Ire land does not seem practicable. We have already stated why"
 The address then endorses what Mr. Redmond and his associates said as to the important part which emigration Is playing in keeping Ireland down, and continued:
 The great task. then. of this. our own generation, is to strive and root the Irish people in their soil, the work so glori- ously begun by Parnell, and now so ably prosecuted by Redmond, Davitt, O'Bierne. Dillon and their assistants. The young rural people of Ireland must be given a living interest in the lanc that gave them
 birth. In order that they may cleave unto the soil they must be made, like the Frenchman, the Hollander and the Boer. farmer proprietors All the people who own the soil they till have illustrated their patriotism by magnificent resistance to tyrants.
 This allied to the underlying cause of Irish national inde ps ndence is the noble
 mission of the United Irish League of Ireland"
 The address calls upon Irish-Americans to form branches of the Irish League of America to cooperate with thcir Irish brethren in the cause of national liberty and agrarian reform. It further suggests that the league can be modelled after the l old land league.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-20
SNOW STORM BLOCKS TRAVEL
Wyoming and Nebraska are Tied
 Up in Immense Drifts.

Cheyenne, Wyo., Dec. 19.-The Union Pacific, the Colorado and Southern north and the Burlington east are practically at a standstill as result of the storm in Wyoming and Nebraska. All trains on the Union Pacific arc compelled to spend hours in snow drifts waiting for the snow blows to make openings so that they can pass through. and to make mat ters worse. a Union Pacific rotary blow pushed by two big compound engines, slashed it's way to the rear of train of dead-head tourist sleepers near Sher- man. The wreckage caught fire and a caboose and nine tourist cars were com pletely destroyed. The work of clearing the track is slow, and the blockade may last for an indefinite period. A blockade at Ramsey, forty miles east of Rawlins. has stopped the passage of trains into Laramie from the West and the one at sherman blocks traffic westbound
 On the Colorado and Southern, twenty one miles north of Cheyenne, passen- ger train was derailed. The accident has completely tied up traffic on that branch
 No trains have come in over the Bur lington branch or Holdridge for two days drift derailed an engine about one hundred miles east of Cheyenne. and the wreckers have not succeeded in getting it back upon the rails. In addition, the branch Is snowbound for a stretch of more than fifty miles.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-20

at all. Some of them make no pretence of original editorial matter and others i'll up their editorial columns, as The Times inAmstes, with matter prepared for them by some syndicate. and which they put into their columns as if it were editorial matter. We. frequently find in the editorial column of State paper items which we would like to clip but when we find the same article in half-a- dozen papers simultaneously, we let 1t pass as deserving no credit to any of them.
 All this The Advertiser says ''more in sorrow than in anger" We are interest ed in the State press and want to be proud of 1t throughout. We want 1t to stand at the head of the Journalistic pro- fession, mechanically and editorially. Men who have neither mechanical nor other qualification for the business ought not to go into it. No sensible man would think of setting up as lawyer or a doc tor when he has neither knowledge nor natural aptitude for. the profession, and the newspaper business is as noble and important as either of them. It ought to be so managed and conducted as to be both a credit and necessity to the State and to the people. and those who so into 1t wholly unqualified for it's ex- actions and demands do themselves and the profession an injustice. We would be proud to see the Alabama weeklies at the very head of the profession. but there will have to be vital changes and im- provements in some quarters before this will be the case.
 And, to wind up, we beg that some of our weekly contemporaries will break themselves of their habit of taking ar- ticles from the editorial columns of other papers and crediting them to "Ex." That Is neither fair nor just, and if contem- porary is not considered entitled to the courtesy of having its editorials correct Iy credited, quit copying them. So endeth the first lesson.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-20
NOTED CASE ENDED.
Railroad Wreck Kills W. R. Gaines,
 Celebrated Criminal.

Denison, Tex. Dec 19.-W. R. Gaines. a fireman on the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railroad, was killed this morning at Chicotah l. T.. in a. wreck, and a celebrated criminal case is ended. Gaines death. Before Koch was killed he and his wife inherited a large sum of money, Gaines being already well-to-do. Gaines was convicted for the murder of Koch secured and Gaines was again given a life sentence. but secured third trial. The third trial resulted in hung jury. and the fourth was to have taken place and his wifes has gone toward fight ng the case, and he had to go to railroad ing to earn a livelihood.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-20
HEADLEss BODY FOUND.
Believed to Be That of Cleburne
 County School Teacher.

Carrollton. Ga., Dec. l9.-The headless body of a man supposed to be that of Professor Chandler. a school teacher who lived in Polk County. Ga. was found to- day beneath a mass of rock at Oak Lev" el Cleburne County. Ala. It was in last October that Professor Chandler disap- peared. He lived in Lime Branch. Polk County. Ga. and taught school just over the Alabama line in Cleburne County.
 He was seen one day with SIPS and the next day disappeared. The entire com- munity was stirred over his disappear anne. believing he had been foully dealt with and robbed The country was search ed but no clew to the missing mans whereabouts could be brought to light un- til today when the body was found and identified by gold watch which Chand- Ter always wore. A farmer by the name of Knighton has been arrested on sus- picIon and committed to jail.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-20
Trial of Guns of the Illinois.

Washington. Dec. 19.-The Navy De- parIment has received from Captain battleship Illinois, a report of the test of that vessels batteries off New Or leans. CapIain Converse says that each gun of the main and secondary batteries was fired with most satisfactory results. The damage to the ships fitting. he says, was remarkably slight and the few mis- haps were directly attributable to lack of proper precautions in securing the ,utIv recently and auvantage was Iaken of the opportunity afforded while the vessel was lying off New Orleans await ing the time to take her place in the new dry dock there to try her guns Captain Converse pronounced the trials satisfactory in every respect.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-20
snMr rrMF1Y cR1TrCTsMs.
Speaking of the country papers. IT ChattanooEa Times says:

Chattanooga Times BAybs
 We know that the country editor en- counters grave and serious difficulties, but we know that he could overcome them all easily if he would. He might do what he does well. even if he only prints a column of home-set matter. If he hasn't got a press that will make a paper that can be read. he ought to get one or 20 out of the printing business; for the same reason he ought not to use nails for type. Moreover, he ought to try at least to tell his patrons what is happening of interest to them; and If he conducts an editorial department, he ought to prepare it himself. and not let some "bureau" fellow up in Washington fill his columns with a lot of rot in which his readers are not interested and which furnishes them neither informa- tion nor instruction.
 Some of the country papers may be in- clined to kick at such plain statement of facts, but they have no right to do 80, for every word is true. We have quite a number of weeklies on our exchange list which are an honor to the pr fes ion They are not only creditable from a me- chanical standpoint. but are full of fresh and interesting matter. both local and general More than that, they have edi- torial opinions and are not afraid to ex- press them.
 On the other hand. there are some of the State weeklies which are an actual dscredit to the newspaper profession. They are so badly printed that it is prac- tically impossible to read them, and their panaraI nnaI.e.up is m better And tn crown all. they have no editorial opinions
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-20
Governor Sees Prisoner.

Benton McMillin of Tennessee was among the callers at the Knox County jail today to see Harvey Logan, tn celebrated Montana train robbsr. who IS now con fined there. Governor McMillin had a long talk with the desperado entertain ing him with a recital of how George Parkey, another member of the gang escaped the Nashville police some weeks ago bv starting his trip in an ice wagon After Governor McMiAin had gone, To gan expressed admiration for him. While the Governor was talking to Logan, the latter laughed for the first time since his confinement.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-20
eovernor Davis in st. Louis.

St. Louis, Dee 19.--Governor Davis Of Arkansas and the members of his staff arrived in St. Louis today to participate in the ceremonies attending the breaking of ground at the Worlds Fair site to- morrow. The Arkansas delegation was complimented by the Fair management upon it's great efforts in behalf of the Exposition.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-20
PLAYING TO THE GALLERIES.

On two or three occasions the President has taken occasion to announce that all appointments must be made for merit alone, and has with more than necessary postiveness let it be known that there are to be no private audiences with ap- plicants or their friends. He speaks out so that all can hear when he has occasion to assent to or refuse an application. There is entirely too much of the grand stand business in this position of the President. It looks too much as if he were telling the people: Look at me! There's to be no behind-the-door business fin this administration"
 We can understand how an honest and conscientious Judge would refuse to pri- vately discuss matters which were to come before him in judicial capacity, but that delicacy does not and should not apply to President or other appointing power. There is no tenable reason why A President may not hear applicants for office or their friends and discuss their
 fitness or unfitness without taking the public into his confidence. Honest men and men of fixed convictions do not al" ways want all the world to know whom they are endorsing for an appointment or why such endorsement is given, nor do such men care to make personal enemies by prociaiming to the public their reason for considering such men unfitted for the positions they seek. The style adopt ed by the President partakes too much of the grand-stand, and he will find that good men will refuse to give him the benefit of their advice if they have got to give that advice to the public as well as to the President
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-20
ORDERED TO PANAMA.

The Cruiser Philadelphia Will Go
 to the Isthmus.
 San Francisco, Dec. 19.-The Bulletin says:
 Rush orders have been received from Washington directing that the cruiser Philadelphia sail from here with all speed for Panama. Affairs on the isthmus are approaching crisis; Venezuela and Ger many are arguing a point or two of diplomacy, and there are other interest ing matters of international interest on the southern coast.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-20
RAILROAD Y. M. c. A.
Helen Gould Unable to Be Present
 at the Meeting.

St. Louis, Dec. 19.-One hundred and forty men. representing the twenty-five branches of Railroad Young Men Chris tian Association in the Southwest, are In attendance a at the special conference for the discussion of the departmental work now being held here. His Helen Gould. at whose suggestion the conference was called. was unable to be present Letters from her and George Gould. President of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, expressing sympathy with the movement. have been received. ..
 Five new buildings are under construc- ton in Southwestern territory, at Sapul- pa, 1. T.; Parsons. kas.; Peru Ind; pig springs, Tex, and stamps, Ark. on the Louisiana and Arkansas, rep esenung an expenditure last year of $lUV,VVV. of which S4lVVVJ is from the railroad companies and $50,0O0 from the men, forming d membership of lU.UVO.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-20
COAL FAMINE THREATENED.
Much Suffering May Be the Result
 in Chicago.

Chicago, Dec 19.--Chicago Is staring a coal famine in the face and fifteen de- grees below zero Is predicted by the Weather Bureau within twenty-four hours. The severe weather and the floods throughout the coal mining districts have tied up railroads to such an eXten; th,-t shipment is almost impossible and railroad companies are confiscating coal as fast as it arrives here.
 At midnight a number of coal dealers, who had been canvasslng the situation in the city reported that there was not above thirty hours coal supply in the city, If relief does not come before that time, there will be much suffering and many manufacturing plants will be forced to close.
 The prediction of the Weather Bureau was for a new record in low tempera- ture for Chicago in the month of De cember
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-20

Hats off to Miss May Palmer, Senator Depew's fance. She declares she wouldn't give her prospective American husband for all the titles in France. That's the kind of Americanism We like.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-20
St. Louis Faces shortage.

St. Louis. Dec 1s;-st. Louis faces g shortage of coal, which not only fore bodes suffering for those whose supply is small but which may result in general tie up of the transit companies numer- ous street car lines. Unexpected zero weather, slippery p4vements that make hauling exceedingly difficult, ice floes and low water that have tied up the ferries, combined with other difficulties of trans DOT tation, have brought the supply of coal far below the urgent demands of the market
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-20

publican Mayor four successive times is fully offset by Republican New Bedford's 8 election of a Democratic Mayor six suc- cessive times" notes The Springfield Re- publican undl. This speaks well for in dependnce in municipal voting in Massa. chusetts."