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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-01-13

The program Tor the 4th annua
meeting of the North American Ils'
and Game Protective Association
which will be held in Portland. Janu
airy POL. is not yet fully made up, bu
some of these who will speak at tn
gathering, together with their topics
are determined upon. Dana }. tlan
ders of BOSTON. passenger agent OF thF
Boston & Maine Railroad, will speak
on The Transportation Problem.
Applied to Hunting Travel" Hon
Charles L. Oak. Bangor on 'Reiatio'
of the Wild Land owners TO Fish an
Game" Hon. John 7. SpraSue
Monson. on accidents in the Wood
in the Hunting Season." Col. Il. {
Harrington. Augusta, upon 'Cniformt
OF Fish and Game Laws" and Hon. a
Z. %ickerson OF Boothbay. upon ART
fetal propagation of Lobsters. Othe
sneakers will be Hon. F. T.. BOothb!
Portland: Hon. e. F. Chadbourne, Bic
deford. and Hon. l.. T. Carleton. presi
dent of the association. There will b
a number of Canadian speakers, blu
their names and subjects have not ye
been set to Mr.. Carleton.
AS the result of hearing held at TIL
Bangor House, Monday afternoon
Blunt's Pond. in the town of Lamolnf
will be closed TO fishing from OctObe'
l. TO May of each year, and in TIL
open time only Il fish shall be takel
by any person in one day.
A communication has been received
from A residents OF Wilton and Jay
expressing their dissatisfaction at the
action Of the last Legislature. whicF
repealed the law forbidding ice fishin,
in Pease Pond in Wilton. They urg,
the commissioners to forbid ice fishing
in this body of water. A hearing on
the matter will be held at the officers
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-01-13

Commissioner Carleton has come t.
the conclusion that there is nothing
new under the sum-" ut least in fish
and game matters. When the journa
representative called on him in hi
office, Tuesday morning, he was look
ing OYER some old reports Of the de-
,,artmnut. ard had just come upon the
interesting fact hitherto unknown t.
him. that as long ago as 1871. one o
hi, predecessors had urged the neces
sity of a license fee for nOn-residen
hunters. In his report, for that year
Hon. +. NJ. Stillwell, who was fish am
game commissioner for % consecHtiv,
years. dW"lt with considerable lengti
upon this matter. In speaking Of th'
fee charged for hunting in NeN
| Brunswick. which ut that time was s.
Mr.. StIllwell said "a law of the sam
| tenor will be required in Maine. or We
| shall be OvCrrun with sporting
Itrlm!,s" He Went on to urge that sue
| 4 license fee would he only just anC
| fair. and urged the governor to use hi
influence. to have Il license fee of 81
| established.
Five years later. in his report TO
1883. Nj. Stilwell again urged {:
license for nonresident hunters, an'
said that he did not consider $40 TO
large a zee to charge non-rcsidents 1ol
the privilege of hunting big game il!
j our state. He felt however. that /
was 1 matter beyond the jurisdictioi
| Of the State Legislature, and urge
that nur representative 1T WashnEtoj
get such legislation through Congress:
Not only was Mr.. StillW1ll an carnes
land persistent advocate Of non-reSiden
hunting license. but it seems that h
also .iGy1cated the licensing CT guides
an IN argument in favor Of this i
Ifount in his last report. which was IS
sued in 1892. 1t seems strange that
lduriry the prolonged and heated dis
crssion that preceded the enactment o
the laws licensing all guides, and OF a
nonresident hunters. nobody discover
cred that these measures had bee
urged by the commissioners man.
years before the present commissioner
lcamc into Office.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-01-13
STATE HOUSE.
The Annual Stipend for the
Agricultural Fairs.
Nor Resident Hunters Tax Advocated
Is Years Ago.
The States cash-FIsh and Game
Matters-Notes.

Commissioner Gilman is busy nov.
Strengthening out the matter of the
State stipend for the various agricul-
tural associations which held their
ANIMALS fairs last fail. There are 4s
such associations which have made an
plications for their proportionate part
Of tho money provided by the State.
but in the case of two or three of these
Il" stipend is likely to be withheld.
sitIce they have violated the laws bv
| allowing gambling and the sale Of
| liquor or the grounds. The evidence is
strong. in one or two OF these cases.
III fat, il seems that the fair officials
DELHI. ratcly ran wide open fairs, feel
ling that they would add much more
than enough money to their trea sury
thus way to make up for the stipend
which they would lose
Under the law, as it was until the
last session of the Legislature. the
state appropriated Il sum equal to one
cent for each inhabitant of the State
to be divided among these fairs. and in
tn" case Of several of the fairs special
appronr We're made. The new
| law. however, provides Il sum equal to
III, cents per inhabitant to be appor-
toned among the fairs. and all specia
appropriations are done away with
/ The t;gS fairs. hoWever.-LeWistor
land Bdngor-continue to have Spccia
appropriations. and do not come in for
any share of the State stipend. The
new law will give Commissioner Gil
man about IS. 100 to divide. among 10 OF
] IS associations, if they are founf
worthy. The division is made in pro
portion 70 the amount of money eX
pended ny til" associations for prcmi
ums and Gratuities, that is, the more
money any association puts into prize:
on live stock and all kinds OF genera
products Of the farm, the larger pro-
portion Of the State stipend Will be
given it. Money offered in prizes foi
trottiilg or other races is not rcckOnet
in.
Commissioner Gilman does rot hest
tate to EXPIRE IS his opinion with con
slider. bic emphasis that there alto
getncr too many fairs in the State
He feels that the agricultural part o
the exhibitions is sadly neglected i:
the attempts to amuse the people.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-12

through the embankment at Stark sid
ing under the ten. tracks, with 30
loot waterway. SO that in case of food
there would be capacity sufficient to
carray away the surplus water.
This work has progressed SO far that
the excavations have been made and
tina company is ABOUT ready to place
the stonework and steel girders of the
bridge. 1t will be erected at great ex-
pense. At the conference Tuesday
satisfactory settlement of all claims for
damage was reached. but the terms
were not made public by Judge Thay-
er.
II will be remembered that the
waters backed up and flooded the
plants Of the Carnahan wo ks and al
so of the United Steel company, and II
was claimed that the closing of one, of
the channels through the railway en-
barkment at Stark siding was respon-
sible for the backwater which cid the
damage. Not only did the property
owners in the flooded districts suffer,
but the railway embankment was dam
aged and the bridges threatened.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-12
SULLY'S OFFER
Has Been Accepted by
His Creditors.

New York, July 7,-Daniel ]. Sully,
the former Cotton king met his cred
itors this afternoon in the Cotton Ex-
change board room and offered 40 cents
on the dollar in cash and 10 cents on
ninety day notes in settlement of his
obligations.
All the principal creditors were pres
ent, and they voted unanimously to ac-
cept his offer. The few creators who
were absent are, it is understood, also
willing to accept these terms, but un-
til they file their consents, the settle
ment will not be regarded as official.
Some opposition developed and sharp
criticisms of the former king came
from a number of creditors, who think
that Sully ought to pay at least rs per
cent.
The suit against Hawley and Ray Is
to be vigorously pushed and Sully is to
do his best to help the trustee to es-
tabish a partnership between himself
and these two men in several cotton
transactions on JOINT account
Several of the creditors expressed
satisfaction with the result and it was
generally predicted that Sully will soon
again be seen in the role Of manipu-
lator, speculator, and plunger on the
floor of the exchange.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-12
Funeral Baked Meats.

William Waldorf Astor spoke recent
ly before the London Cabmens Benevo-
lent Society. His subject was kindness,
and at one point he .said
Kindness is virtue that stands
out brightest by contrast with some
signal piece of cruelty. I'll teach you
piece Of cruelty that was practiced,
my gardner informed me, on a certain
costermonger. ~
This costermonger lay dying AS
he neared his end his wife said to him:
&c Don't you think that you could eat
bit of something, John?'
" 4 might the man answered.
" Good said she. Now what can
| get for your B.,
Well said the costermonger, Il
seem to smell ham a-cookin' some
where's. | think I could eat a bit O.
that
4" oh, no, John DEAR said his wife,
You can't have. that. That's for the
funeral Exchange.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-12
TO THE DEATH
COMBAT BETWEEN BALD
EAGLE AND STURGEON
MONARCH OF THE BIRDS
Engages the King Of the
Finny Tribes.

We had been camped for few days
at point on the upper reaches of the
Pic river, waiting for a few of the
party who were running a side line.
A source of amusement was watching
the descent of a large bald-headed
eagle in the eddy back OF the point.
He would strike the water with
great force, coming down from an i'm
mense height. At times he would dive
under the surface to reappear mo-
ment or two later, generally with a
fish clutched in his claws; when he
would fly (freighted with his fish to
very high mountain, on the overhang
ing crest OF which the nest with his
mate and young was quite visible to
us with our field glass.
had noticed his success and jour
neys to the nest for two mornings.
On the third morning a shadow com,
ing across the suns rays caused me
to look up, and there was the great
bird at his usual hunt to supply the
young eagles with breakfast. With
his keen eye piercing the river depths
he poised over a particular spot for
a few moments, and then shot down
with the velocity of cannon ball.
The waters parted and the eagle
was lost to view. | watched and wait
ed to see him emerge with his prey,
but moments heightened into minutes,
and minutes into quarter of an hour,
but the surface of the water remained
undisturbed.
What could II mean? Even il he
had struck himself against some hid
den rock and been killed the body
would have floated to the surface. 1t
passed my reasoning powers to solve
the result of that plunge. Then far
down, fully a quarter of mile off, |
saw the great bird struggling, either
to carry off heavy burden or to free
himself from one. The waters were
lashed into FOAM and the bird again
disappeared, and all was still.
This lashing of the water and dis
appearing were repeated again and
again, each time further down stream
A bend in the river prevented my see'
ing the final result. Calling one of
barked in a canoe and started down
the river to view the strange proceed
ing closer When we had doubled the
point below, saw lodged against the
beach in a small bay something that
did not look natural to the place. We
padded down and found it was my
eagle fast fixed to sturgeon, fully six
feet long. Both were motionless. The
king OF the fish and the king Of birds
had met death.-The Gateway.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-12
HEFLOOD DAMAGES
AGAINST PENNA. 90.
Settled in Pittsburg Conference-Messrs.C Carnahan
Langenbach, Migan and Thayer There.

According to the Pittsburg Dispatch
of Tuesday, President j. e. Carnahan
OF the Carnahan Stamping and Enamel
ing company, Ed, A. Langenbach, di-
rector, OF the Carnahan Co., and gener-
al manager of the United Steel COM
parry, and Judge A. A. Thayer counsel
for both the companies, were in Pitts
burg in consultation with the general
superintendent, general counsel and
other officials of the Pennsylvania rail-
way company In reference to the suits
brought by the Canton companies to
recover damages done by the four
foods of last fall and this spring, when
the waters backed up into the works OF
the Carnahan and United Steel com
papies plants, interfering with their
operation and destroying materials.
Judge Thayer was called upon by a
Morning News representative and ask
ed as to the result of the Pittsburg
consultation. He stated that at pre-
vious conference an agreement had
been reached with the railway COM
pany that an opening should be made
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-12
= ~
Betrayed by Gas Bills.

The master of the house was look
ing over the family accounts.
"U'm," he muttered presently to at
tract the attention of his wife. Eliza
and that young man OF hers must be
rapidly reaching point where we
may expect an announcement from
them" .-4~y
Dear mel" exclaimed his spouse,
in an ecstatic tremolo, What makes
you think so?"
",Tust listen to these gas bills" he
replied February, $4.33; March,
$4.S7; April, $7.42; May, $685."
THAT is still Greek to me-" said
the wife.
"Nonsense!" said the man. Cant
you see that during the first two
months he was calling ON her gas
bills were normal. In the third month
there was a great rise, showing that
he was late in leaving, and this
month there has been decrease in
the expense, because they have reach
ed the point where they turn the light
low in the parlor whensver they sit
in the parlor."
And that very night the prophetic
acumen of the father was Justified
FIX.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-12
CIGARETTES
SMOKED IN WHlTEFIELD
CHURCH, LONDON
FORMER CANTON LADY
Writes Of the Scene in
Gods House.

Mrs. Margaret (WeddelD Henry,
who is visiting in London, wrote a
letter to the Journal and Messenger,
Baptist publication, portions of
which may he interesting to Can
tonians, as the writer is the daughter
of Rev. p. Weddell, who was pastor
of the Canton Baptist church from
1850 to 1857 The letter was submit
ted by John Danner, who knew the
reverend gentleman well when in this
city. Mrs. Henry attended the White
feld Memorial Congregational church
and was shocked at some things she
saw there. After listening to the SER
mon she was little surprised that the
orchestra struck up lively tune, but
says:
Il considered myself very "finicky"
to let such trihing thing CRATE up.
on my Puritan nature, for | was doom.
ed to be shocked in thorough style
by what | saw in the after service.
The room was soon filed with young
people, grouping themselves about
the tables, looking at magazines and
papers that were provided. Seeing
DR.. Brown at the other end of the
room, | started to meet him, but on
the way met young man with a Gig
arctic in his mouth. A more astonish-
cd mortal you ever saw than l. but
thought he had simply put 1t there
from force of habit, but as | looked
about found that they were smoking
everywhere.
Il saw the ushers and the young
men who had taken up the collection
also Shocking and putting the smoke
into the faces of the young women
with whom they were talking. | was
bewildered and could not believe my
self in Gods house. felt like running
away with my hands over my eyes,
crying 'unclean, unclean.' There must
have been more than one hundred
young people there and four out of
five of the young men were smoking.
Wreathes of smoke curled to the cell
ing and you could scarcely see across
the room. 1t was sight to make
angels weep-that is, American an
gels, so to speak,
"In the midst of the chatting and re-
freshments a young lady sang The
Star of Bethlehem, and the young
man who played the accompaniment
had a cigarette in his mouth. Each
table was provided with an ash tray
in addition to reading matter and re-
freshments."
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-12
CAPTAIN Kidism,

Washingtonville residents see vi
sions of buried treasure in the cellar
of an old farm house just out of the
village. Fortune tellers have recent.
ly been at work in the village and
have one and all made the same pre-
diction and citizens are now making
an investigation. The house was built
three-quarters of century ago and is
said to have been occupied at one tire
by a wealthy hermit who drove to
Cleveland before the days Of railroads
and never returned, and the story
goes that he was then supposed to
have had more money than was found
after his death. The property was
afterwards bought by Abraham Stout
fer and is now owned and occupied by
his son Frank.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-12
SHORT OF OFFICERS.
Competent Men and Sufficient Pay
Lacking In the British Army.

Competent Men and Sufficient Pay
Lacking in the British Army.
The Japanese have clearly solved the
very difficult problem of how to pro-
vide a great army with thoroughly
trained professional officers. says the
London Statist For the Japanese
have a great army, the war strength
being about 100000 men, Ia the South
African campaign our great defect was
in our officers. Their courage was all
that could be desired, but they were ut
terly wanting in technical knowledge,
Tho report of the commission on war
makes that perfectly clear And though
everybody admits as much, and every
body agrees that we require trained
body of professional officers, nothing
has been done to convince the. country
that we are in the way even yet of OBJ
tanning such a body.
The pay for our officers is still in
sufficient for professional man to live
upon. The cost of life in the army is
still extravagant. In short, the army
continues to be what it has long been
a mere plaything for the rich. AS long
as 1t remains so it is perfectly clear
that we never can have all efficient
army The officers will not make them
selves thoroughly acquainted with their
duties. A professional man who has to
look to his profession for success in
life must work hard, and must make
himself master of his profession. But
wealthy man who goes into the army
only to pass certain time, or to get
into society, or for some similar pur-
pose, need not work; indeed, with few
exceptions, will not work. II the life
is made too unpleasant for him, he will
simply throw up his commission. II
the officers will not make themselves
professional experts, they are unfit to
train their men, and when the test OF
war comes they will show themselves
incompetent, as they did in South Afri-
ca.
How, then, are we TO provide our
selves with real body of professional
officers. The need for such body j.
everywhere felt The duke OF Nor
folks commission recommends the sub
stitution of a conscript home army fol-
the militia, volunteers and yoemanry
1t adds that such home army would
be useless, unless it was officered By
military experts. We want, then
trained professional officers, not only
for the regular army, the In liam army
IA Egyptian army, and so on, but also
for the home army, whose auty It will
be to defend these islands in case O
war. How are we to find such officers
That the thing can be done is showr
clearly by japan. as 1t was shown
equally by Germany In 1870.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-12
SPIRIT FRUIT.
Beilhart Sends Out Another Sunday
Invitation.


| will speak to those who care to
hear me, next Sunday, July 10th, at
2:S0 p. m, at my home at Lisbon.
Some of the questions to be discussed
will be-
"The Emancipation of Woman from
Sex Slavery"
Conscience of the Individual Ver-
sus Public Opinion"
Facts of More Value than Senti-
ment'
THE Sacredness of the Home"
These and other questions will be
freely discussed. Opportunity will be
given to ask questions or express opin-
ions on these subjects.
While all are welcomed, we only de-
sire those to attend who are able to
think and study all subjects unpreju-
dicedly and with pure mind free
from vulgarity.
Those who do not believe that "un-
TO the pure all things are pure" shouIa
not attend this meeting: Seats will
be provided. Rigs will be allowed on
the lawn. JACOB BEILHART.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-12
STATE OF SIEGE.
Waged Throughout Rus
sian Poland.

Vienna. July S.-Uindon Times)-
A report received here through diplo-
matte channels from Warsaw states
that the governor of that city has no
titled the czar that if an outbreak
against the Russian government is to
be prevented state of siege should
be at once proclaimed throughout Rus
sian Poland. He declares that he has
airy leaders are about ready to start
an uprising and recommends that ad-
ditional troops be placed at his dis
posal to keep the people under con-
troll
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-12
Deserter Caught.

Lawrence e. Fisher was arrested
here Friday by officer Ellis and placed
in the city lookup on charge Of de-
sertion from the regular army. Fisher
enlisted at Canton on the 18th of last
December for three years and was
stationed at Fort Brady, Mich. He de-
serted the army on April % and Off,
Ger Ellis was notified to look out for
him, and this afternoon while sitting
in the bowling parlor saw him pass
by and arrested him. The young
man is 22 years of age.-Lisbon Pstri-
OF.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-12
HOOKER CASE
ADJOURNED TO JULY 25 IN
ROCHESTER
ADVERSE TESTIM 0NY
Against Judge and For
mer Congressman.

Fredonia, n. Y, July THE COM
mittee investigating the charges
against Justice Warren b. Hooker ad-
journed this afternoon to meet in Ro-
chester on July 25.
They took all the evidence they
could get. Briefs viii be submitted
by the counsel on both sides after
which the committee will prepare a
report and submit this with the evi-
dence to the grievance committee of
the State Bar association of twenty
four members. This committee in
turn will transfer the report to the
association at the annual meeting in
January.
Frank p Ball, Dunkirk ticket brok-
er was the first witness today before
the committee. and it is said that his
testimony was against Hooker.
Maurice Hooker, nephew of the ac-
cused judge was also before the COM
mittCe. He was on the payroll of the
postofice and drew 5000 for which he
is said to have rendered little service.
His defense is that he hired substi.
tute to do the work but the Bristow
report declares that he paid only S1.50.
Albert ~ Colburn told the com
mittee that Justice Hooker's former
coachman, named John O'Neil was ap-
pointed rural mail carrier without
the required civil service examina-
tion, although 20 others had qualified
he said by taking examinations.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-12
NEW WIRELESS
System Soon to Be in
Operation.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, July Father JOS
eph Murgas of this city, announced to-
day that his newly invented system Of
wireless telegraphy will soon oe oper-
ated between this city and Philadel-
phia A station will be erected there
so soon as the stations in this city and
Scranton are completed. They are now
under way. The invention is the sub
stitution Of musical tones to represent
the dot and dash of the Morse alpha
bet These tones are to be developed
to represent each letter of the alpha
bet
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-12
) MRS, POTTER
Loses $4,000 Worth Of
Jewelry.

Cooperstown, n. Y, July THE
safe in the Office of the Clark estate
near this village was broken open by
some persons who left behind them no
clue to ther identity and jewelry val
ued at $4,000, the property of Mrs.
Henry c. Potter, wife of Bishop Pot
ter of New York, was stolen.
The robbery was not discovered un-
til tonight and the thieves have sever
al hours start of the police. A reward
of 81, 1000 is offered by Mrs. Potter for
the arrest of the thieves.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-07-12
Japanese and Russians

Some Japanese naval officers were
sent to England to watch the build
ing of Japanese ship there and
bring her home A Russian ship had
just been completed there, Russian
officers had been stationed at the
yard for months to study the construc-
tion of their ship. They were big,
splendid. careless chaps, and the time
they devoted to the dockyard depend
ed OH their other engagements, They
took some experts with them to show
them the ropes when their ship sailed
away.
Then came Kaminura and his fell