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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-02-02
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actual and positive. If it is SO 80, 1t
is half-and half, with doubrs as to
which half. If it is in our promise, it
is good, and if the National says it is
so, It is 50, and there is no so 50 about
it. seth year, doing business in Al
states.
The national Life Insurance Company
of Vermont (AIutuaD. Organized in
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b. Ballard, Local Agent, Rooms 2 and
8, Miles Block, Barre, VT.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-02-02
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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-02-02
GRAND UNION HOTEL
OPPOSITE GRAND CENTRAL STATION
hfw YORK
BAGGAGE To AND From STElON FREE.
ROOMS FROM 'Ieo PER DAY Up
CENTRAL VERMONT RAILWAY
COMP ANY.
Corrected 10 January /, 1905.
senger Trains leave Barre as follows

Passenger Trains leave Barre as follows:
t2.01 Midnight Daily Boston, Springfield
ana New York night express, Sleeping
cars Montpelier Junction to Boston and
Springfield. Saturday night train has no
connection for New York; Connects at
Montpelier with train leaving at 260 a. M.
for Montreal and the West.
a.s5 =. Week days only Connects at Mont
pelier junction with mail train for Bos-
ton Springfield and New York, also with
local train n0rtbhound for Burlington
Rutland RichfOrd and Montreal
ii .55 !. ~. Week days only Boston, Spring
field New York and New London fast ex-
press Buffet parlor ear Montpelier juno
lion to hoston. Parlor car Montpelier
Junction 70 Springfield.
t.sO p m.--week days only. For Williams
town.
e.fn m.-Week days only. Mail train for
burlington, St. Aihans, Cambridge juno
tion, 0gdensburg, Richford and Montreal
x.ss o. m.-Week days only. For Williams
town.
ma o. mn .-wee& days only. Montreal and
chicago fat express Connecta az Bur.
liuMten wlth loeA train for Rutland
reisneeta 81 Mentpsher function with
local w1in Rerthb0uMa for White River
Junction and intermediate stations.
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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-02-02

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is what determines your handwriting
For any stlye, from the broadcast Stub
to the finest Ladies' Pen, we advise you
to come here, for among the almost
infinite variety Of styles we carry in
stock you will surely find
YOUR FAv0RrTE.
While here you might as well take a
look at out other Stationery. It's as
good as the Pens, and that's saying
considerable.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-02-02

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Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-01-19
INCREASING
Scheme to Allow Entrymen to
Take and Hold GAO AcreS---
Bill introduced by Con-
9reSSman Dixon.

Washington, January 5.-Represen-
tative Dixon, of Montana, has intro
duced bill in congress ''to amend the
homestead laws as to certain unappro-
priated and unreserved lands in Mon
tana.'' The bill is in line with the
Nebraska bill passed at the close of
last session, and of the bills introduced
for Dakota and Colorado for this ses-
sion.
The bill provides:
''That entrymen under the home
stead laws of the United States resid-
ing in The territory above described
who now own and occupy lands within
said territory and whose previous
homestead entries were situated west
of the one hundredth meridian of longi-
tutle west of Greenwich and east of
the crest of the Cascade mountains
may, under the provisions of this act
and subject to it's conditions, enter
other lands contiguous to their present
| holdings, which shall not, with the
| land so already entered, exceed in the
aggregate six hundred and forty acres
and residence upon the original hom =
steads shall be accepted as equivalent
to residence upon the additional land
so entered, but final entry shall not be
allowed of such additional land until
five years after first entering the same:
Provided, That persons owning lands
within the area embraced by this act
who may be eligible to make home
stead entry by authority hereof shall
have preference right to enter any
lands contiguous to their holdings for
thirty days from and after the approval
hereof.
THAT all lands included within the
oper ations of this act shall be subject
to the provisions of the national irriga-
ton law, so called, and the secretary
of the interior shall have power to
withdraw such lands from entry from
time to time, as in said national irri-
cation law provided.
THAT a former homestead entry
shall not be bar to the entry under
the provisions of this act of tract
which, together with the former entry,
shall not exceed six hundred and forty
acres"
The bill provides that lands in the
, Crow and Flathead reservations, to be
opened, shall not be subject to the pro.
visions of this act.
Guy f. Mitchell, press agent of the
National Irrigation society, writes
very fully concerning the scheme for
64O-acre homesteads. Among other
things he says:
, "The bills above mentioned are mod
5 eled after the Kinkaid law. which ap
plies the 640-acre unit to Western Ne
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-01-19

braska and was slipped through con-
gress in the tail end of last session.
Yet it was not thirty days before it
was charged that under this law the
Nebraska cattlemen had secured about
all they wanted in Nebraska.
SIN Nebraska the cattlemen are al
legged to have entered through their
employees, their choice of the lands. so
that as soon as the law passed, they
simply had to apply in each case for
the continuous 48O acres. 1t takes but
few such entries-they can be made
half mile wide and two miles long
to control vast territory of country.
"Apparent safeguards are provided
in these bills, authorizing the secretary
of the interior to withdraw any such
lands as he may deem fit for irrigation
under the national irrigation law.
Active as the geological survey has
been in its western Investigations, it is
more criminal than absurd to assume
that the government is in possession of
sufficient accurate information regard
ing the billion or so acres composing
the entire western half of the United
States which would enable it to INTEL
ligently withdraw what may later
prove to be irrigable lands. With the
utmost activity and the most energetic
surveys it must be ten if not fifteen
years before the government can pos
sibly know what are all its irrigable
lands.
''In the meantime, under the pro-
posed plan every acre will have been
taken up in these 640-acre tracts, and
as provided in the Brooks bill for Colo
RADIO, commuted, after the farce of
fourteen months residence has been
gone through with, and then trans
ferred to syndicates or corporations
in single tracts as large and monopo-
listic as desired.
''As applied to even 100 acres, the
communication clause has been an out
rage. Utilizing it for 64O-acre filings
would more than quadruple its evil
| for it would cast off practically all re-
| straint from those interests which are
every day rapidly acquiring enormous
land holdings, running up into the
hundreds of thousands of acres. Ne
braska was foolish enough to blight
the future of the western half of the
state by allowing the passage of the
Kinkaid law.
"The move is an insidious one and
is shrewd game on the part OF the
big land men to get piecemeal legisla-
tion which they realize they cannot Sc.
cure as d whole. Land dealers and
spectators are warmly enthusiastic
in their praise of the Nebraska law.
1t will be more interesting to note how
the real prosperity of the state is af-
fected in the next two Or three years,
how many homes will be built under
the Kinkaid law, how much the popu-
lation of the section affected will be in
creased and how much real farming
will be done. Daily Independent.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-01-19
"Ole Bull" tonight at opera hous,

Mr.. VIM. S. Crane of California,
Md, suffered for years from rheuma-
tism and lumbago. He was finally
advised to try Chamberlain Pain
Balm, which he did and it effected a
complete cure. This liniment is for
sale by all druggists.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-01-19

Unless the taxes delinquent aforesaid
the
Given this January
LONGLEY, County Treasure
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-01-19
Fred Ramsey.

A. P. Shermon. .
Chas. Schultz. q.
Thos. Salverson. .
M. H. Sprague. =.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-01-19

AOl -, OAh IT,. -.
Lot IA, blk 63. :. -.
VIZ SEA sw4 ne4 seq
nw4, sec 18, twp 6,
range 43; 100 acres. :.
NJ sw4 sw4 nw4 lot
3, sec IA, twp 6, range
A.; 100 acres. Lot 6,
sec II, twp 6, range a.;
16 acres.
EH ne IA sec IA, twp 6,
range "A; 80 acres.
Lots 6, 10, IL, II, 13, sec
IA, twp /, range a.; 156
acres.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-10-04

while my father got tired of it. He
turned to my mother and said;
IF you don't quit quarrelin' I'm
going to hurt you'-just that very
way.
81 was lying on the bed wide awake.
l had heard the quarrelin', but had
got kinder used to it, and wasn't say
ing anything. When my father said
what he did about hurtin ma she did
not answer a word-no, sir, not a
word.
"She ran to where shotgun was
standing against the wall, right by
the bed I was lynn on. | could have
snatched it up if | had known what
was going to happen.
"Ma snatched up the gun and just
as quick as [ can tell it she shot my
father, and he fell dead. jumped off
the bed and snatched the gun and
threw it on the bed.
'Then she commenced to beg me to
tell that [ had shot my father while
was asleep. I loved my father and
mother both. didn't know no differ
ence between them, and it was because
[ loved my mother that told her
would do what she asked.
81 ran for some of the negroes on
the place. | told them, | think that [
had killed pa while [ was asleep. l
made up my mind to do all | could for
ma because | loved her.
"Then they brought me here to New
ton and put me in Jail. | played crazy
the best knew how, maxim out [ was
having fits and all that sort of thing.
But [ couldn't keep it up; it was
more of a strain than [ could bear. II
was awful. l stood it just to the last
minute, and then I sent for some gen.
tlemen here in town and told them the
straight of it all. | told the truth and
Pm tellin' it now. I'm going to stick
to it if [ die. | love my mother yet,
and l would help her if [ could. l
tried. Now I've told the straight of
it, and she will have to stand for it.. "
SENTIMENT AGAINST THE WOMAN
L uUllC SGubllu6lb III Jll6 COuHIy oCCIlIo
to be strongly against the woman.
Practically every person who ex-
presses himself declares confidence in
the truthfulness of the boys state
ment. Perhaps Mrs. Miners past has
something to do with this. Perhaps
it is her nervous, jerky, uncertain
manner-the constant rowing of her
restless eyes and the twitching of her
hands. Her manner is quite different
from that of the boy, who talks with
out restraint.
Strange case it is, certainly.
When it comes up for trial during |
the first week of November the mother |
will swear that her only boy slew her
husband and his father. The boy will |
swear that his mother is the slayer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-10-04

Not more'n month ago he had a
spell and jumped on me. If his pa
hadn't been there he would have
choked me to death.
THAT night I'm tellin' you about
Quentan jumped up in one OF them
spells. There was little dOuble-bar-
rel shotgun leanin' against the wall
right by the bed, and the boy grabbed
it as soon as his feet hit the floor.
screamed and ran to him. His pa
jumped up, too, but quick as lightnin'
Quentan threw up the gun an shot.
His pa fell dead, with a whole load in
his chest.
"The shot never woke the boy up. [
grabbed the gun and we fought all
over the room. He opened it, pulled
ut the shell an tried to put in an
other one. We KEEP on strugglin' an
after a while l got out on the front
porch. Then all of a sudden Quentan
woke up an dropped the gun.
"'My God, ma" he said, what have
Ldone?'
" Son, you've killed your pa: I
told him.
81 made him run to some of the ne
gro houses on the place for help, and
in little while he was back.
That's the Gods truth, if anybody
ever told it,.
In reply to a question Mrs. Miner
denied that she and her husband had
had trouble and that angry words had
passed between them prior to the kill
ing. She asserted that, on the con-
trary, they were on the very best of
terms.
WHAT YOUNG MILNER SAYS
Quentan Miner looks older than II
years, but this he says is his age. He
has a rather attractive face, which
wears an expression of intelligence.
His whole appearance is that of more
than ordinarily bright country boy,
says it has been his ambition to go to
Columbus to attend school, and his
father had promised him that he might
leave this fall to begin his studies.
"I'll tell you anything you want to
know" said the young man. cts
mighty bad case, l know, but l have
told the truth and am going to stick
to it.
THAT night my father was killed, "
the young man resumed after a slight
pause, "he had been away most of the
day and got back home somewhere
about or 10 o'clock. He brought a
young dog that he had got somewhere
or other several days before. My
mother had objected to the dog and
when she saw it she began quarreling.
She always has hated dogs and neeer
wanted any about the place. She
ouarreled a heap with my father, any
how, though l hate to say it now.
"She kept on fussin' about another
dog to feed, and such, and after a
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-10-04

No more remarkable case has be-
pme a part of the criminal annals of
Georgia within the last twenty years
Ban that of the Miners of Baker
Punty, says a special from Newton
! the Macon Telegraph.
Raleigh Miner, the husband and
Ether, is in his grave, sent there by
Be hand Of either wife or son.
Both the latter are prisoners in Ba-
p county jail at Newton, where they
III probably be held until superior
spurt Convenes in November.
The wife and mother raises her
finkled hand impressively and swears
lth dramatic emphasis that her hus-
Pnd was slain by his son-and hers.
The boy, his voice a little husky,
~ his gray eyes meeting his question
Is unainchingly, says Mother
fled my father. It's the truth, and
4 die by it,"
A STRANGE CRIME.
The killing of Raleigh Miner on
g night of September Is was out of
e common run of hOmicides. The
#mily home is in one of the most
RarSely settled districts of Baker
|Punty, being fourteen or fifteen miles
NeSt CT Newton, in the direction OF Ar
fgton. The day following the COM
lSSlon of the crime Quentan Miner,
years old, was arrested and brought
q Newton, where he has since re-
ained in jail.
Young Miner feigned insanity when
crested, He glared at the officers
n they took him in charge and
gud answer none of the questions
RAed him. When he entered the jail
nrSt act was to kick over a bucket
water which stood on the floor near
II door. A moment later he attacked
i laller and his assistant, making
Eat appeared to be frantic efforts to
ore both. A little later he fell up
The floor and writhed cOnvulsively,
lace cOntorted and limbs culver
/ SpaSmOdically.
Dr. !. p. Sharp, a local physician,
IS called in, and after a critical ex-
|lInation of Miner expressed the
|D'iction that the young man was
gning. There were no evidences OF
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-10-04

which seemed, at best, but clumsy dls-
sembling.
BREAKDOWN CAME SOON.
But the strain of constant deception
was more than young Miner could
stand for any considerable length of
an unbalanced mental condition other
than the actions of the prisoner,
time. In just six days he gave way
under the strain. Youth and ineXperi-
ence were unequal to a task which
would have taxed the most hardened
criminal.
Calling jailer Minter to his cell Mil
ner asked that several prominent citi-
zens of Newton be called in to hear a
statement which he wished to Make
The request was granted. The bur
den of his statement was an admission
that he had been shamming, and a
declaration that his mother, Mrs. Cor
nelia Miner, had killed his father.
The impression made upon his lit
tie audience by young Miner was that
he was telling the truth. Immediately
officers were dispatched for Mrs. Mil
ner, who was arrested at the family
home. She was brought to Newton,
and that night slept in a cell adjoin-
ing the one occupied by her son.
MRS. CORDELIA MILNER.
Mrs. Miner is to all appearances 81
or SO years of age. She occupies the
first cell to the right of the front en-
trance to the jail, and as the CORE
spondent approached she arose from
the cot on which she had been reclin-
ing. She is slender, almost gaunt
woman. Her features are sharp, and
there is something eagle-like about the
rather long nose.
THE WOMAN'S STORY.
eyes, I'll tell it. There's been lies
enough told about it, the Lord knows,
for me to want the truth told.
''Who killed my husband? QUEEN
tan done it. But Quentan was not in
his right senses, and wasn't to blame.
SIT all happened like this: My hus-
band had been gone all day-you
want me to tell the whole thing? All
right. Well, as 1 was saying, when
he come back it was between 9 and 10
O'Clock at night. As soon as he got
in the house he went to the dinin' room
where I had put up his supreme
and Quentan havin' ct ours. He was
sittin' there eatin', and Quentan was
lyin' on the bed sleep. He had been
sleep an hour, 1 reckon.
During the last year the boy has
been havin' strange spells. He has
'em when he's sleep. He jumps up,
crazy like, and will do most anything.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-10-04
NOTHER AND SON ARRESTED FOR MURDER
orange Miners in Baker County Boy Feigned In
sanity Six Days ShOuIdered Crime of 1urderng Father

which seemed, at best, but clumsy dis
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-08-31
Requisites Of Successful
Standardization

By ROBERT CRAWFORD,
PREFER dealing with broa(princpos apart possible from
the hurry bury of the gt instances that
@ concerned in the question Of the public ownership of munic
ipa services and utilities of the opinion that very
big impending in the United States the question
OF PRINCIPLE, and always very clearly and
very intensely this subject wd like strike America the
rising of the and do my besto send tphanty forward
have the most absolute condene in the power of the American
people to realize" themselves AND TO RISE TO GREAT
EFFORT they thing ought be taken in hand
o.
ardent believer ase Socialism called municipal
aon and have always been neey interested the
development of the capacity and desire people community
combine AND ORGANIZE THEMSELVES FOR COMMUNAL
ENDS see no limit to the possible good be done in this provided
that good honest capable men are found with civic patriotism enough
serve Their fellows without fee o1ewd carrying these public
services AS PART OF THEIR DUTY the community in which
they live.
90 long as the aim of civic government is cean the high the
ideal lofty and the object foster and create better conditions
life FOR EVERY CITIZEN high or low rich or Door apart
from all sectional political interests then and then only hold the
control and extension of municipal of all kinds is blessing
tAND WILL BE ALWAYS SUCCESSFUL
TOWARD CIVIC REEoRMERs IN THE UNITED STATES
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-08-31

the a <.3+4 -~3o California, Oregon, Washington
~oadsrip, ioIz st and limits, liberal stop over
st.-ls>ga2,
hs rats ra@ Il. III. basis of fare for the round
> o. cou53 gas wish to visit bct6 California and Oregon
Washington. :ao -: IS =:;gla:]y more.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-08-31

for from onehrd to onea OF the people of the city within the
years. but WILL opinion prove emuneraive as to pay fer
its construction inside of ten years.
The of municipal ownership Chicago instead of agcno
dropping by the waye Is beng furhered vigorously AND
STEADFASTLY The demand Of the people being responded
The fight between vested and the people is we'll under way
and backed by public sentiment righteousness of
cause, have no fear for the ultimate result
That will have litigation and every other sort of obstacle
thrown by he private companies captaistic sd
Gates OF New York and Chicago be expected but the
public sentiment in favor of the owphp of these utilities sweep
ing headong the land 1t first manifested itself in great
city by the inland but it sweeping steadily and irresty
OVER THE WHOLE COUNTRY
EARNEST AND WHEN SHE SAYS 81 WILL y
TO-DAY SHE WILL SAY a HAVE DONE" TOMORROW
That tomorrow my opinion Will be but few months away
1t may be longer but the rese ce of public sentiment CAN
NOT BE WITHSTOOD
confidently predict from what know of the people of Ccac
that within short time it will have the proud distinction
beng the first city IN the United Stats be in actual ownership
municipal street car system, and en that great city has
proved that manipulation streaar plants is an assured success
it will mean that HUNDREDS OFOTHER AMERICAN CITIES
WILL FOLLOW in her and ACCOMPLISH an economic evo
ton to the great advantage the citizens of this country
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-08-31
Patriarch rlilitants and Sovereign
Grand Lodge, Philadelphia, Pa,
Sept. 16-23-Very Low Rates B.
& o. r. r.

Excursion tickets will be sold from
points within a radius of so miles of
Philadelphia at rate of one fare plus
90 cents for the round trip; and from
points so to 100 miles from Philadel-
phia the rate will be one fare plus 81
for the round trip.
Tickets on sale September 16, II
and Is, good returning to Septem Der
% inclusive.
From points more than 100 miles
from Philadelphia the rate will be one
fare plus $1'for the round trip. Tick
cts on sale September 10, 16 and II,
good returning to September %, in
elusive. except that upon payment of
81 to Joint Agent extension of return
limit may be obtained to October 5,
1905.
Get full particulars from ticket
agents. tisp19.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-08-31

Everything in the grocery line may
be found at James Treacy's, Ravens
croft building.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-08-31

upon adverse to most of their rights in the supreme
court of the state within the next six months.
The transportation committee of the city council
has called upon the present roads to name a price
for their property, and they have refused to come
down to definite figures and we are proceeding Wig
orously to map out A MUNICIPAL LINE running
through the heart Of Chicago which, if built, will
not only furnish adan1ate TRANSFORMATION faci;tins
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-08-31
Growth of the Idea
Of Municipal Ownership
BY Mayor EDWARD F. DUNNE of ca.e.ro

By
HE cause Of municipal ownership ardenty cspoused by
today it has been for several wears past and am -
confident Of its ULTIMATE consummaio, as have ever
been a any time in my life
Since been indicted into Office we have by the vor
action law department. succeeded in dissovn an Injunction
which prevented taking possession Of any portion of the lines
present company whose franchises have expired We
have instituted quo proceedings the name of the people,
under which the traction companies will be compelled TO DISCLOSE
ALL THEIR RIGHTS and which in my Judgment will be passed