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Evening journal., 1901-06-04
KENT TROLLEY RAPIDLY
NEARING COMPLETION
Special 10 The Evening Journal.

Dover, June 1.-The 'tTolleyites" are
pushing the work on lheir powerhouse
near Camden. fifty carts being employ
ed to haul away the dirt. Contractor
Murphy Is enthusiastic. and assures
the public that the road will be COM
pleted within the next few months.
The roadbed has been graded for a dis
lance OF about nine miles. and as soon
as enough rails arrive they will be inn
mediately laid About fifty ltalian la
borers remain. and are well satisfied
as to the working Of the company. as
they are getting steady work. More
men are expected within the next few
days, and Kents roads promise soon to
be buzzing with cars
Evening journal., 1901-06-04
pvnamItsrs Threaten Churches.

somervllle. Mass. June 1.-THE scx-
ton of the Third Univcrsalist church
In West Somerville yesterday found a
note on the froat door OF the church,
making a thrcet that by next Sunday
all Of the West someryille churches
win iuo destroyed by dynamite unless
next Saturday IS observed as holy
day The notice. written on note pa
per. with lead pencil. read as follows;
81. the Lord. live foreign This church
perhaps opened for the last time yes
terday An the churches in West SOM
oryille will he destroyed by dynamite
before next Sunday morning unless the
pastors hc!d services and observe next
Saturday as a holy day" Similar no.
tees were posted on the doors Of the
North Cambridge churches.
Evening journal., 1901-06-04
Probably Fatal Fire In Cumberland.

Probably Fatal Fire In Cumberland.
Cumberland, Md, June 4.-Thomas
Burger & Sons sash and door factory
together with their immense lumber
yards, were destroyed by fire last night.
The loss is about $4,000. partly COW
cred by insurance. Two dwellings ad-
Joining were partly destroyed, one OF
the occupants, Mrs. Jacob Gogley, an
aged woman, being overcome by smoke
and carried out for dead She will
hardly recover from the shock Jack
Hodel. volunteer fireman, was blown
from the building by exploding oil and
badly scalded.
Evening journal., 1901-06-04
MaehInists' Strike at Newport News.

MdSninists otFlke AT newport NEWS.
Newport News, Va. June 4.-The
machinists in the employ OF the New
port News Shipbuilding and Drydock
company. TO the number of eco which
virtually includes all the skilled me.
chanics in the machine department
went on strike yesterday, their de-
mand for a shorter working day having
been refused by superintendent Post
The yard will continue in operation
until the absence of the machinists in
terferes with the work In hand, an,
then there is a probability that the en-
tire plant will close down.
Evening journal., 1901-06-04
Philadelphla and Reading Railway
Wilmington Dlvislon.)

Time-tabie In eifect March 30, 1901.
Trains leave Wilmington CFrench Street
Station) ior Eismere ,,,oIe,i JoneI,on' Mont
ogue, Cossart, Chadd's Ford Junction.
Pocopson, West Chester, Embreeville,
Nortonville, Coatesville and intermediate
stetions daily except Sunday at is5 a.
M. daily 2.l5 and 45O p. m. sunday only,
O6 a. ~.
and intermediate stations, daily exceps
Sunday, at 735 a. m; daily BIS anS 450
p. IN. Sunday only at sos a. m.
For Joanna, Birdsboro, Reading and IN
ermediate stations, daily, except Sunday,
at 7.25 a. m. and 2l5 p m. Sunday only
at SOC a. m. and 2l5 y. m.
ATLANTIC CITY DIVISION.
Leave Philadelphia, Chestnut Street
Wharf and South Street Wharf for Allan
| tic City
Week days-Express. 900. 1O45 a. m.
saturdays only, 1.0O). 200 800, 400, 800,
$40, us p. m. Accommodation, 500 a.
m, s. 90, 6.3O p. m, Sundays, express, 500,
| 300, 1000 a. m; 1l5 p. m. Accommoda-
Leave cave At ATLANTIC y III SO0 CITY Il Y DEPor-weelS
days-Express. 200, 745, sis, 500 lOl5 a.
M $50. $50. 500 p. m. Accemmodatlon'
30, 7.CS % a. m, 4o5 p m, M SUNDAYS 6n ssS- s
press-l0.l5 a. m. 4.3O $50, 500 2. m Ac-
commodation-7l IS a. m; 4.O5 p m.
Parlor cars on all express trains.
LEAVE PHILADELPHIA
| For CAPE MAY-NVeek days-S.30. s As n.
m. Saturdays only 1.40). ti10. $40 r. m.
Sundays-S45 9l5 n. m. 500 y. m.
For OCEAN CITY-WeelS days-S.i5 a. m.
Saturdays only, lad, ago, $40 p. m
Sundays-S45 915 a. m. 800 p. m.
For SEA ISLE CITY-Week days-S45 a.
M Saturdays only. 1.40. 420. $40 p. m.
| Sundays, S45 a. m. 500 p. m. fSouth ST.,
400 p. m. South St. AIS p. m. South ST.,
$50 p. M, South ST., l.3O D. m.
VIEW YORK AND ATLANTIC CITY EX-
PRESS.
Leaves NEW YORK CI.iberty Street, $40
| D. m.
Leave ATLANTIC CITY. $50 a. m.
Il Detailed time tables at ticket offices.
/ W. c. BESLER EDISON J. WEnSk7.
| Gen'l Suut. Cent Pass'r Agt
Evening journal., 1901-06-04
worklng for nawkIns, rardon

Special to the Evening Journal.
Dover June 4-The friends of For
mer Secretary of State John d. Haw-
kins are working hard to obtain his
pardon Hawkins has been incarcer-
ated IN Dover jail for nearly eight
mondhs. and IN view of his failing
health. it is thought that the Board OF
Pardons will show him some considera-
tiOn.
Evening journal., 1901-06-04
A 4Trusty" Breaks For Liberty.

Wilmington. Del. June 4.-Daniel
Miller colored, serving a life term in
the New Castle Jail for murder. was
sent on an errand TO a store yesterday
and failed tu return. he was e
'trusty." lie had served eight wears.
George HUT and James Johnson. his
convicted aecompiices. were pardoned
last month.
Evening journal., 1901-06-04
Funeral OF samuel short
Special 70 tho Evening Journal.

Spcclhl 70 lhe bNehihb Jouihdi'
Dover. June 4-The funeral of Sam
uel Short, the Dover merchant
WHO died suddenly Saturday morning,
was held yesterday. In life Mr.. Short
was exceedingly popular. and an un-
usually large assemblage gathered to
pay their last respects 10 the dead
man.
Interment was made in Barratts
Chapel graveyard.
Evening journal., 1901-06-04
Nvnrl ~. ~. ,op.l, ~

William Harris. colorcd. q years ola.
employed by the B. q o. railroad. was
struck in the neck and Lex b. rail Uhiie
unloading rails at the East Junction. AMI
was severely injured. He was taken 10
the Delaware avenue station and after
warl removed to the Delaware Hospital
by the Phoenix ambulance
Evening journal., 1901-06-04
pELAwARE DIVISION.

For New Castle, SIG a. m, 3.03, 402 and
6.5s p. m, weekdays.
For Lewes and Rehoboth, S.13 a. M, 4.O2
D m, weekdays.
For Dover, Harrington, and Delmar,
SIS, lO5S q. m, 4.02, 65S and 1211 p. m.
Sundays, 12.11 p. m.
For Wyoming and way stations. 1903 p.
~, week-da. ..
Express FOR Cape Charles, Old Point
Comfort and Norfolk, 1O5S a. m, week.
days and 12.1i night daily.
Evening journal., 1901-06-04

-Hrrbcrs % smyth Post. O A. r.. are
41a cful 20 9. H. Foulk liveryman FOR his
assistance on Memorial Day
Evening journal., 1901-06-04
JOHN A KELLEY
PENSION AGENT,
No. 6l9 Shipley Street,
WILMINGTON. DEL

Pensions obtained for soldiers. sailors
and widows on account OF civil or Spanish
wars. All pension business entrusted 20
my care win be executed with care and
dispatch
Particular attention viii also be given 10
renting and sale OF properties and collec-
ltions, insurance. etc.
Evening journal., 1901-06-04

Tn itio English people usrd ! pound 2
ounces Of tea a head This has grown 10
8 pounds "A ounces.
Evening journal., 1901-06-04
FOR THE sOr1TH

Southern Railway.-Express GAG p. m.
daily, sleepers to Port Tampa, Augusta,
Memphis and New Orleans. 736 o. m
daily, sleepers to New Orleans. Macon
Memphis, Nashville, via Asheville and
Hot Springs
daily, sleepers to Charleston, Macon and
Port Tampa; LOS a. m. daily, sleepers 10
Richmond and Jacksonville.
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway 811 q. m.
daily dining car and sleepers to Gin
cinnau.
Seaboard Air Line Railway Express
4.35 a. m, daily, sleepers to New Orleans
and Jacksonville. FLORIDA and Metropoll-
tan Limited 409 p. m. daily, sleepers to
Jacksonville and Atlanta.
Evening journal., 1901-06-04

% Congressional Limited Express. All
Vcstibulc Parlor Cars and Dining Car. No
charge.
(s) Limited Express. Vestibule ParlOr
Cars, Vestibule Passenger Coaches, and
Dining Car. No extra fare.
The Wilmington Transfer Company Will
call for and check baggage from hotels
and residences.
For further informaticr, Passengers
are referred to the ticket agent at the
station.
j. b. HUTCHINSON, j. X. WOOD,
General Manager. General Pass Agent.
Evening journal., 1901-06-04
TRAINS LEAVE BROAD STREET
STATION, PHILADELPHIA,
TOTl TsTTT1 WIZ.

FOR THE WEST.
$40 a. m, daily. Pittsburg, Chicago. Gin
cinnati, Louisville and ST. Louis. (Din-
ing Carr
1925 a. m, daily for Pittsburg and Chi
cago (NO coaches TO Pittsburg) Limit4
ed to two Buffet Parlor Cars.
1920 p. m, daily, Limited" Pittsburg,
Chicago. Cleveland, Toledo. Cincinnati
Louisville, and St. Louis. Dining Carl
70. .25 D. m, daily, Ptttsburg and Cleveland.
A3O D. m, daily, Pittsburg, Chicago,
Nashville, (via CincinnatD, Indian-
apohs, and st. Louis Dining Carr
SIS D. m, daily. Pittshurg. Columbus In
dianapolis, Louisville, and st. Louis.
$50 p. m, daily, Pittsburg and Chicago
for Toledo, except Saturday.
1.05 p. m, daily, Pittsburg, Cincinnati
and Cleveland.
1.2O p. m, daily. Plttsburg and Chicago,
daily for Knoxville, via Shenandoah
Valley Route; for Cleveland, except Sat
urday.
Evening journal., 1901-06-04
TTAVr pHTTADTIpIUA.

The George E. King Press. Printing
Evening journal., 1901-06-04
FOR BUFFALO.

via Emporium Junction. $50, a. m. and
S25 .. m, daily.
Via Canandaigua, $50 a. m. weekdays,
$50 p. m. except Saturday, and 1l.20 p.
H.. daily.
Evening journal., 1901-06-04


For Philadelphia (eNpress), 157 3O2,
40, 935 9.55, 1852 Ills a. M, l256 l37, s 90,
ASS COZ, $50, III 9.O6, and 916 p. IN.
Accommodation, 10, $40, S55 a. m.,
l2l4, zoo, 400, 5.25, TBS, and 1913 p. m.
For Chester (express), 1.57, 420, SIS,
n.45 a. m. 1.37, 800, ass, sO7 and g.O6 D. m.
Accommodation, no, $40. S55 a. H., 1914,
200, 400, SIS, 72S and 1043 p. m.
For New York (through express), 1.57,
BOZ 9.35, 955 Dining carr, 1852 l1.45 a. m,
1886, l37 dining CaD, 300, 607 &c 20 dim
Ing Carl, III 916 p. m, connecting via
Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, 42O.
90, $40 9.35, 9-55, ll.45 a. m, 1856, 1871
3.vp. ASS, 6.O5, 620 III, g16 and 1913 p. m
For Boston, without change, 7l7 D. M.
Baltimore and Washington, ASS. 500.
lois a. m, 1905 1913, 1.50, 3.51, 4O9, 525,
'6O3 6.46, l.36, S11 p. m, and LOS night.
Baltimore and intermediate stations
6l3 p. m, 12.1S night
Leave Philadelphia, Broad Street, for
Wilmington (eApres.), $50, 7.2O, 11.23 IL 80
a. m, l.l3 3l3, 3.29. 4iG 5.O7. 5.25 Cos, G55,
L3l, S.55. ll.26. ll.2S p. m, and 1920 night
Accommodation. 1856, 912, 1O35 a. M,
1928, 2.S2, 6.lS, S.SS, and 1922 p. m.
Evening journal., 1901-06-04
RAILROADs
PENNsYLvANIA RAILRoAn
Schedule in effect May 20. 1901
Trains leave WilminetOn as follows:

'Nntbuit III tnttl MAY 81 4iVls
Trains leave Wilmington as follows:
For Philadelphia (express), l57, 3.O2.
40, $50, i.i2, 100 $50, S55, 800 5.55. lOl1
1852 li.25, l132, l1.45 a. m, 10, 1856, l5l
200, S.ll. ass, 507, 607, 63O 70l, III, 9O6
ana y.lJ d. m
Accommodation, 6.1O, 7lO. so. 11OO a
m, l2.Sg, zS2 400, 5.25 6.S5, and 1913 ?. m.
Tor Chester (express). 15l, 40, 6.SO, ~
t.oV NlVi 500, S.55 lO11 ll.25, 1i.j2, ll45 a.
M, l5b 300, 4.5S 6.07, 7Ol, and 9.06 D. IN.
accommodation, 6lO, Nv 1l00 a. m.
lzS0, <S2, 400, SIS. G.35. aud 1O4S D. m.
tor New York (throdgh expres0, l57,
J.u-' J59 dining Carr 955, 1852, 1l.l5 a.
m, 'lzl6 Dining Carr 1256,
lSl Dining Carr 3ll. 6.O7, $50 Dining
Sar), III and 9l6 p. m, connecting wa
Broad Street Station, Philadelphia 42O,
55O 10, $50 9.35, 9.55 101l, 1852, ll45 a.
m. l256, l31, 300, 3.1l, ASS, 5.O7, 6.G, GO,
1l7, 916 and l043 d. M
For Boston without change, 1902 a. M,
and III p. m.
For Newark Center and intermediates
staupns l33 a. m, and 635 d. m
baltimore and Washington, ABS, 500,
.9lO, lO.lo and llOl a. m, l2O5, 1913. stl. 10,
laO, 55l 4u9 5.25, t603, 6l6, 703 1856 Sli
p. M, and los night
Baltimore and intermediate stations.
300, Al, 6lS D. m, 12.1S night.
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thout change. 1902 a. M,
SUNDAY TRAINS.

Accommodation. 625, 7SO, 9.l2, 1885 a. m..
LIB, 3.25, 4Oi 449 G.27, S.3S, lO22 and H. ls
The Conservative, 1901-04-04
Tbe Conservative.
SENATOR CARTER EXPOSED.

SLNA1On YAK L EN LAfOSED.
The San Francisco Call declines to
credit Senator Carter with patriotic and
unselfish motives in talking the river
and harbor bill to death. Senator Car
ter, it seems, did not oppose the bill be-
not steal enough. He made strenuous
fight to couple with it an appropriation
of many millions to irrigate arid western
lands, and failing in this determined to
defeat the bill. The Montana senator
believes the government should not only
give the people land upon which to build
homes but should see that the land is
properly watered and fertilized.
The Call thus points out the inconsis-
tency of the senator's position and the
injustice of his policy to eastern farmers:
"The taxpayers would be glad to see
the objects of expenditure decrease
rather than increase, and will by their
representatives soon open more active
campaign for the limitation of taxation.
We are not ambitious to hold the ribbon
permanently as the costliest government
on earth, though we do not insist that
the cheapest is necessarily the best. But
a billion dollars is a lot of small change,
and the expenditure of that sum per
year is already in sight unless congress
puts on the brakes.
"It is well for the whole country to ex-
anime the policy for which Senator
Carter spoke thirteen hours without
stopping. 1t is proposed to ask federal
appropriations to build irrigation works
in the arid region, in order that soil now
barren for lack of moisture may be made
fertile.
Leaving out of the question the erratic
nature of such appropriations, their
wasteful expenditure, and forgetting
such experiences as the venerable propo-
sition to make harbor in Oakland, a
western man may well put himself in
the place of the eastern farmer and tax
payer. That distant but good fellow
citizen of ours has had no help from the
government. He has planted and reaped
and gathered into barns, while the gov
ernment has been Indifferent to his rain
fall or the fertility of his fields. Out
side the public land states that taxpayer
had to put up high price for his land,
and acquired it by no such cheap and
easy method as the presumption or home
The Conservative, 1901-04-04

can examination of the above shows
that the public domain remaining in
federal ownership rises with aridity and
falls with moisture. The states and
territories most needful of irrigation,
therefore, have the greatest amount of
public domain to rent for provision of
the means of irrigation. California,
needing the least, would get it.
Putting the total revenue from the
leasing of the public ranges at $40, ,0O0,-
The Conservative, 1901-04-04

burden wears upon him. He gets tired
and rests one leg while he stands on the
other. Senator Carter desires to tax
him to aid farmers in the west who
under the homestead law can get land
for nothing, provided the government
will water it for them, at the expense of
the unaided eastern farmer, for whom
the government does nothing Is it any
wonder that heads are shaken and dis
content is voiced in those eastern farm
houses?
tAgain, the eastern farmer is citizen
of the republic and part-owner Of the
public domain. He used to keep sheep
on his farm, under fence, and found
them profitable farm stock. That part
of his business is broken up. On his
property, the public domain, out west,
sheep are grazed without paying him
anything for what they eat. To raise
them costs nothing in comparison with
the expense of raising them on his in
closed farm. He cannot compete. He
has parted with one valuable means of
diversifying his industry and turning an
easier penny, and he sees his rival
getting rich rapidly on pasture that does
not cost mill. So these two western
visions disquiet him. The property of
which he is part owner is used without
rental, and it's use is destroying it's sole
value, and he is called on to pay taxes
to water another mans land. Honor
bright, is such a situation just to our
hard-handed fellow citizen, and is it
creditable to American craftsmanship?
"What would an individual business
man do under such circumstances? He
would solve both problems at ouce. He
would make the stock grazer pay rent
for the public property he pastures and
would devote the proceeds to irrigation
works
''The arid ranges, under leasehold con-
troll, would yield nearly $10,000,000 a
year.
can idea of the proportion in which
such fund would be earned in and al
lotted to the states and territories may
be obtained from the amount of public
domain remaining in each. Of their
total area the following percentage is
public land:
California ........... 5S per cent
Arizona ..................7 76 per cent
Montana. .......... 78 per cent
Utah Observation-Disclosures. 80 per cent
Nevada ............. 95 per cent
Wyoming ............. SO per cent
Idaho. 80 per cent
The Conservative, 1901-04-04

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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-01-03
VII.
The Dinner Party.

Anguish had come upon the scene like
some good angel. just in time to give
us the benefit of his great experience.
and prevent US making the mistakes
n which our youthful ardor might
easily have led us.
] had written to him since I came to
England. and given him my address,
and he had been forcibly reminded Of
me by a case hat had Just happened
in Ireland. A Roman Catholic priest
had been attacked, and, though he had
escaped with his life, ne was very badly
wounded, and Anguish--who had been
sent for found, in the course of his in
vestigations the two small cards,
marked in the same way as those I
had shown him, and he was now come
TO let me know what had SO recently
happened, since otherwise. 7 should
hear nothing about Il, as the affair had
been hushed up.
"You will understand. presently, why
/ have come in this Disguise said
Anguish, as we three stood together in
the dining room, and you'll excuse me
II 7 suggest that you and your friend
should sit down to dinner. You have
just come off a Journey"
'I'm too knocked over to eat" I said,
"and I'm afraid that my trouble has
made me forget my If you'll
make yourself comfortable, I'll see TO
your luggage. Where is it? As you
are my uncle. you will be staying a
few days, at the very least"
I've only a portmanteau." he said,
sand j left it in the hall. The front
door was open. SO I walked in just as
your man was going TO shut it. When
you've finished dinner we can have a
smoke and a chat over the fire, and you
can give me some particulars in regard
TO your friend Mcguire.
The dinner was a farce, so far rs
Hugh and myself were concerned; but
the Rev. Tremayne did ample justice
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-01-03

The wise teacher never attempts to
teach more than he knows.
The times., 1901-06-29
RUMoRED BROOKLYN TRANSFER
National League Wants N Permit to
Improve the Old Grounds.

Interest in the rumored transfer of the
Brooklyn National League Baseball Club
to Washington was revived yesterday
when an application was made by n. f.
Young to the District Commissioners for
permission to improve the National
League park. 1t is estimated that the
cost of the repairs TO the fences, grand
stand. and bleachers will be about SS,GOG.
Many persons who follow the national
game argue that the league officials would
not be willing to spend this amount if
they did not intend to transfer some team
to this city and as Brooklyn is the only
possibility, Washington may soon have Ma
tiouaI and American League games. Onthe
contrary, II is said that the application
means nothing more than the league
wants to put the old grounds in order so
that a revenue may be secured from rem
tails In the present condition OF the
grandstand and fences, 1t is an impossible
ity to rent the park for amateur games
or other purposes. The league has re-
newed the lease for the grounds, the old
lease expiring next year.
When Manager Manning announced his
intention of putting team representing
Washington in the American League, 1t
is claimed that persons interested in the
old organization put every possible OBJ
StdcIe In MS way, even BplllS 50 LdA ~
induce residents in the vicinity of the
grounds he wanted to appear before the
Commissioners and protest against the
erection of the necessary accommoda tons.
Now 1t Is understood that having OBJ
tanned firm foothold in the Capital the
people at the head of the American
League will do all that lies in their power
TO keep the National League from re-
building their stands and fences by adopt
ing the same tactics that were used
against them in the winter.
When President Young was asked last
night If the Brooklyn club was to be
transferred to Washington he replied very
bandly that he did not know of any such
move. Mr.. Young explained his applica-
tion for a permit to repair the grounds by
saying that he had received a telegram
from a gentleman whose name he did not
deem it wise to divulge to ascertain how
much it would cost to put the park in
good condition, and the amount of time
that such work might consume. This,
added Mr.. Young, lis all l know of the
| matter really. really
| Manager Manning. of the American
| League team, when queried concerning
| the story pleaded ignorance as to any
| moves that might be made by the Ma
! tional League officials.
! Anyway, the National League wants tc
| put the grounds in playing condition
| Brooklyn is not drawing paying crowds tC
| its home games and there is no doubt bu
/ that the club will be shifted to some Other
/ city. and-well. Washington has always
| been favorably looked upon by the Ma
| tional League people.