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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-16
Russia's Debt to France.

1t is evident that France has the
strongest of selfish "clsons for desiring
Russian victory in the far East.
That country has become creditor of
the cars government to an extent
that makes the maintenance of Rus
sim credit Il matter o: very vital i'm :
portancr to the French people. Just
how much the Russian debt to France
amounts to at the present time is not
definitely known. At the beginning Of
tho year 1904 the Russian treasury ad-
mitted that it had reached the enor-
nous figure of 81 800. 900 600. Leading
financial authorities. however. are of
the opinion that the debt 10 France was
considerably larger than this at that
time and it is known to have increased
months. Close observers of financial
matters at the great money centers cx-
press the belief that Russia's debt to
France at the present time is fully 49,
OUO DOC, 900. This debt Is simply enormous,
and IL is not surprising that the people
of Frlncc-in view of the internal con-
ditions in Russia and the constant re-
verses sustained by the Cars forces in
the war with Japan-are beginning to
get nervous regarding the possibilities
for ever getting back their money. 1t
is known that when Russia recently un-
dertook to float new loan in France,
she found such a frosty atmosphere
about the money centers there, that she
very wisely decided not to press the
matter at that time. 1t is very evident
that. as a borrower, Russia has worked
France to the limit. Germany does not
want her bonds. and she knows better
than to offer them in England or Amer
lea. 1t looks now as if the impaired
credit of Russia might prove a power
full factor in forcing her to negotiate
terms of peace with Japan.
Meanwhile the people OF France are
wondering IL they will ever again be
permitted to see the color of the coin
they have poured into the Russian cof-
fers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-16
The Coming Immigrant.

J There is. unquestionably. genuine
cause for alarm in the character Of
much of the immigration that is COM
ing to this country at the present time.
Experience has shown that the people
who have come to us from England,
Ireland, Scotland, Germany and
France. have entered the most readily
into the spirit of our institutions. and
made us the best citizens of any of our
immigrants. Unfortunately this class
of immigrants appears to be falling
off, while another and far less desir-
able one is increasing enormously.
Today large part Of the foreigners
who seek our shores come from South
ern Europe-frOm Bohemia. Hungary.
Austria, Poland. Southern Italy. Greece
and Syria. These are people who
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-16
Personal Notes.

The John II. Hall Memorial Parish
House will he dedicated at Portland.
Conn. on June IA. 1t - the gift of Mrs.
Sarah G. Hall. of Hartford, as a
memorial t. her husband, former
member Of Trinity parish.
Rev. Earle Wiley. pastor of the
Christian Church. Crawfcrdsvill". Inl.,
is one of the most eloquent ministers in
The state. Up to within a few years
ago he was an actor and at one time
was a member of the 30 9TH and Barrett
company.
Minister Conger in what was prob
ably his last report from China. dated
March %. suggests to the state Depart
merit the ACCESSIBILITY of sending small
naval vessels to destroy the many float
ing mines which are endangcrinS COM
mcrce in the sea between Shanghai and
northern Chinese ports.
Lieutenant Edward Y. Miller, Penn
sylvanian. is now the practical agent of
the authority of the United States in
the province of Parasua, Philippines.
At the age of 80. and With only two as
sistants of his own race. he is main
tanning law and order in Il territory of
1850 square miles, embracing 20 islands.
Starr ]. Murphy for six years has
been charity manager for John y.
Rockefeller. drawing Il handsome salary
for work done as hea of the bureau Of
bcnclolencc. The Standard Oil mag
nate has only one rule in connection
with Mr.. Murphys posititn-cvcry dol
lar must he devoted % 4 charity which
will return good results.
When President Roosevelt visits
Georgia, in keeping With lis promise to
Senator Clay, he will be presented with
two receipts and bills Of sale for four
negro slaves. by Colonel George II.
Jones' Of Cobb County. These sales
were made by the Presidents grand
mother that She mlgn: obtain ready
money with which to purchase the
trousscau for the wedding of her
daughter. Martha Bullock, to Theodore
Roosevelt. ST., of New York, father OF
the President.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-16

1t has learned something. SANFORD Is
neither so careless of public comment
nor free from social CONTROL. Mi.
Sanford is to be tried again soon at
Pennington on the m2nslaughter
charge. The sentence still hangs over
him i'm the cruelty charge.
AIyah Mallett of TOpsham has HOOK
of 100 hens that have the habit OF lay
ing big eggs. They are Plymouth ROCK
and Houdan breeds mixed, ami they
are handsome birds. Mr.. Maliett
picked on. a dozen large eggs last
eek and brought them into TIE
Brunswick Record Office. The smallest
egg in the lot was fully twice the size
of an ordinary one, and tne largest
measured IN it's circumference 6Es ana
S1s inches. The secret of success with
hens, says Mr.. Mallett. is in feeding
them well. He gives his hens mash
Cor breakfast, mixed whole grain for
dinner, whole corn for supper ana meat
SCRAPS three times week.
For days past numerous contractors
have been in Livermore Falls figuring
OIL tIl.t dCtS loi tic liz" iiiAii W ~
erected by the International Paper Co.
and other work which, naturally fol-
lows. Some 100000 to 100000 will be
expended in the improvements of the
water power. the building of the ne"
mill and other work, which Will call Tor
200 or more men. Also work VIII De-
gin soon on the new sulphite mill at
Chisholm, another big contract.
The Osler theory finds few adherents
in Belfast, the home of young old bust
ress men. Last week the Belfast jour
al cnronicled the goth birthday of NJ.
Augustus Perry, the active and ELL
cient money order clerk in the Belfast
postofiice. and now it notes the SUN
anniversary of Hon. VIM. Il. Swan
president of the City National Bank
and he'd of tie corporation of ire
Swan & Sibley Co., wholesale groceEs
and dealers in coal, etc. In this con-
Bcction it mentions Mr.. Frank Nj. Ian
caster, 81 years old last November, who
has been in the grocery business ut
his present stand, corner of Main anc
Washington streets, for 80 years. anc
who is well and active today, and has
required the services of physician
but once i'm his life. Another veteran
Belfast business man is the head of the
well known firm of A. A. HoWes & Co.,
who began his mercantile career as 4
clerk for his brother, Samuel A. Howcs
in 1917, becoming a partner IN 1888
and on the death of his brother, :"
years later succeeding to the manage
,,f ~ j., # which no IN, &
siuce been the head.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-16
R.dium as a Cure for Cancer.

The whole country appears to be
following with interest the progress
which is being made in treating Presi-
dent Harper of the Chicago University
for cancer by the use of radium.
It will be remembered that not long
ago DR.. Harper babe his family and
friends good-by before undergoing a
surgical operation. Expressing the
opinion that the decision to submit
himself to this ordeal was really his
death warrant. In this opinion, how
ever, he was in error. The eminent
surgeons who performed the opera
ton found, upon exploration, that DR..
Harper's disease was beyond the reach
of surgery. TO all appearances he
was doomed. Under these circum-
stances he resOrted to the X-ray and
radium treatment with apparently sur
prising results. AS DR.. Harper's cam
Ger is internal it cannot be reached
directly. He takes the X-ray treat
ment daily for about fifteen minutes
and wears vial of radium bromide on
his body for one to three hours at a
time at irregular intervals, governed
by the effect. The X-rays and the va
rious emanations from the radium
have power to burn all flesh, but at
tack the malignant germs in morbid
tissue more powerfully. The problem
II using them seems to be like that of
burning out wart with acid. to
destroy the unsound without attack
ing the sound flesh.
Already the physicians treating DIR.
Harper announce that the canccrous
area has been reduced more than one
half, and there seems to he good reason
to hope for a complete recovery.
People all over the country who are
afflicted with cancer, will take new
courage from the results which have
been attained by modern methods of
treatment in the case of DIR. Harper.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-16
Beware Of the Canoe.
portland Argus.)

The element of danger seems to D.,
no bar to the practice of canoeing ana
the fatalities coresrondinsly increase
as the number of caroeists grow. Last
weeks record was particularly impress
sive of the danger there is in this form
OF recreation. There were two drown
lnss In the eastern part of Name
three in the Connecticut river. two IN
CaEuga Lake. one in the Harlem river,
ana the sad record was finished off Fri
day by double drowning in the Con-
cord river near Lexington. Mass. the
Iunfortunates being d. Willard Greene,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-16
Fails to Face the Music.
Lewiston SUM

one of tie disappointing features on
this Shiloh hearing is the absence OF
Sanford himself. This Elijah the
Shiloh people look up to 50 worship
fully. why wasn't h in the front of the
fight? The natural answer is that ne
didn't dare to go into the court room
and subject himself to cross -eXamina-
ton on his ridiculous teachings ana
performances. He left his disciples to
defeat. He cannot be completely Eli
jah; Elijah dared to face the king.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-16

superintendent of the Lexington &
Boston street railway, and Herbert Nj.
Reed, a young man belonging ut Lex
ington. 1t would certainly seem as II
these repeated terrible warnings should
induce caution, bat there is no evidence
that such is the effect. The frlilty or
these boats was fOrcibly presented bS
an expert canoelst WHO said that n"
person should enter one unless ne
knows how to swim.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-16
MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Don't All Speak at Once.
tWatcrvillc Mail.)

Now that Arbor day is past let us
all own up to how we observed the
occasion. How many planted tree
or set out Il vine. and how many
went fishing and filled to even re-
move the brush from the backyard?
To how many of us was all the talk
mere mummery, and to
how many was it the forerunncr OF
actual deeds? Don't all speak at once.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-16

On several occasions. I'm this country
cars containing products of certain
states have been sent on lcng tours in :
wiling the inspection and investigation
of the exports. as means of advertising
that state. King Leopold of Belgium
has adopted this idea and elaborated It
into scheme to get up ship full of
industrial exhibits which will visit all
principal ports of the world, spreading
abroad information as to what Belgium
has to sell. The idea is novel one.
and doubtless will be of benefit to the
enterprising little kingdom. Leopold is
a shameless old reprobate. for whom
nobody has any respect. but he pos
sesses a hard-headed business ability
that would probably have made him
quite a captain of industry had not fat,
set him up in the king business. H.
has won a great private fortune from
the Congo trade, and has fostered the
industries Of Belgium Until the whole
country is running over with pros
perity.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-16
HELPED THE BABY.

Father Johns Medicine is doing my
baby a world of good. She was very
thin and had bronchial trouble. she Is
picking up nicely. l have also recon-
mendcd it to my ncighbors. (Signedp
Mrs. kelleher, 50 FRS; Ave, New YORK
City.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-16

The British government still refuses
to grant Mrs. Maybrick d full pardon.
1t evidently glories in the cruel injus-
tice with which it has treated this I'M
fortunate woman.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-16

EsTAeLisHED, 1925.

M nosies whatever will b taken OF
unsigned communications.
Tn. journal cannot be held rsspo"s'o'e
for the preservation or return VI
teSted communications.
Address all communications relating TO
.ubscriptions and advertisements to
RIIRLEIGH & FLYNT. Publishers,
Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-16
Maine Gossip
A Dream of June.

Blossoms bright on every hand
All the birds in tune:
Soon find Mister Rilcys land
.Encc-tleep in June.
Knec-decp in the vale and stream.
Rcadin every d;IiSyS dream:
Closer then to heaven we'll seem,
Swecthcarts with June.
Thinkin' of him. far away,
All my souls in tune.
Come. he says. let S spend Il day
Ence-dcep in June.
Every little path | know
TO the flowers were lovin' SO:
How these dew-drenchcd daiScS glow
SweethcartS of June
Give us al your skies of blue
Bright sum- wake us soon.
Roses, we've Il word for you,
Deep-dOwn in June!
Kissed of sunlight. trimmed with rain.
q Ioncy-dew for bees to drainD
We're aviSitinS again
Swecthearts with June!
Atlanta Constitution.
Bath renorts that 5000 brown tail
moth nests have been destroyed there,
this spring.
The work of organizing the lobster
fishermen into a trust continues along
the Maine coast.
Undauntcd by recent rebuffs and de-
creasing interest. the advocates of wo-
man suffrage are already preparing for
the campaign before the next Legisa-
ture.
Tho ArOcstook farmer. who has just
sold l. cows for $1,000 proves that it
pays to raise other things than pota-
toes in that section.
The Perobscot Central has reached
another crisis and will haul no NOR
freight until 1t can secure cheaper
power.
The Foul tn Of July will be celebrated
IN Fort Fairfield this season after all.
\ fine t.otting prOEram and other at
fractions aill be Fat on. Exc Irsiors
will be run from I'll points within
reach. and one of the best celebrations
ArooStOok ever saw will be had.
Aroostook county will hold Il special
election. June Il. to vote upon the fol-
lowing question, as Authorized by the
last Legislature: "Shall the county of
AroOstoOk purchase lands and open
them UP for settlement and for this
purpose issue bonds of the county to
an amount equal TO enc per cent. of
the valuation of the county,
The work has begun uDOn DOver'S
new reservoir. It's capacity will be
1,25O.000 gallons and its chief advan-
taac in comparison with the present
reservoir, IS that it will hold water.
In Lewiston they are debating;
whether the city will get more out of
it's fifteen hundred dollars spent for a
Fourth of July than it would for the
same amount put into additional man
nal training or domestic science in the
schools.
Fort Fairfield Review: To express
| mcanness we used TO say, MEAN
enough to steal the coppers off a dead
| mans eyes" Now. in Aroostook, we
say. Mean enough to steal potatoes.
Oh. the depth of human depravity that
| would make mar steal potatoes 4.
80 cents, or less. barrel.
This demand that Sanford be in
,estigated seems rather ludicrous in
| the light OF what has been DONE" say
a Lewiston men. "One would think
| that nothing had been done. Investi-
gated! Sanford has been arrested
indicted in six courts: tried once fer
| cruelty and twice for manslaughter
Snd convicted once for manslaIghter
| and once for cruelty. Every scrap o.
information that one of the ablest at
| tornevs in Maine could dig I'D was
produced. Shiloh is deterrent propo-
sition now from what it was during the
time when the cruelty acts occurred
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-16

If Santos Dumont wants to accom-
plish something worth while with his
airShip he might go north with Lieu
tenant Peary, and assist him in discov-
ering the North pole.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-16
Have You Rheumatisn2

IF so. apply Chambar,ain's Pain Balm
1t has cured others and there is no rca
son why it should not cure you. One
Application relieves the pain. For ale
by John Coughlin, Augusta, = Il
Beane Gardiner.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-16

Cndauntcd by recent rebuffS and de-
Crtasing interest, the advocates of wO-
man suffrage are already preparing for
the campaign before the next Lesisla
turp.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-16

Bath reports that 5000 browntail
this spring.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-16

The work of organizing the lobster
the Maine coast.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-16

The PerObScot Central has reached
another crisis and will haul no NOR,
freight until 1t can secure cheaper
power.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-16

Tho ArOcstook farmer, who has just
sold l. cows for $1,000 proves that it
pays to raise other things than pota-
toes in that section.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-25
KILLS TWO MEN AND
ENDS HIS OWN LIFE
orego Man Accused of Attempted
Poisoning Commits Dou-
BILE Crime
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
DRAIN, Ore, March 24.-Herman
Shocks today shot and killed E. v.
Cooper, who had accused him of at
tempting to poison him, and also shot
and killed Paul Howes, who was in
Cooper's house, the scene of the trag-
edy He then shot himself, dying al
most instantly.
Last week Cooper took a dose of
medicine and was Immediately seized
with convulsions and showed signs of
having been poisoned with strychnine.
Cooper suspected Shocks of having
sought his life and accused him of
the attempt today. Shocks called
Cooper a liar and seizing a gun shot
Cooper. He then turned the weapon
on Howe. who was in the room, kill
ing him instantly. He then packed
his valise as if intending to quit the
premises, but had hardly stepped out
of the door before he killed himself
The scene of the tragedy is nine miles
west of this place.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-25
LOOMS VISITS MARE
ISLAND NAVY YARD
Assistant Secretary of State Goes on
Tour of Inspection of the
Harbor

By Associated Press.
VALLEJO, Cal, March 24.-Francis
B. Looms, assistant secretary of state,
paid a visit to the Mare Island navy
yard today, coming from San Fran
cisco on the naval tug Golden Gate.
Upon arriving at Mare island the
assistant secretary was recorded the
full honors to which his rank entities
him. A salute of fifteen guns was fired
from the independence as the tug
came up the channel.
The Mare island station band and a
full battalion of marines under COM
mand of Major James E. Mahoney,
commander of the marine corps at the
yard, was drawn up at the quay wall,
where the visitor was met by Rear
Admiral McCalla as he stepped ashore.
He was Immediately escorted to the
commandments house, where he was the
guest of honor at a luncheon, after
which he inspected the harbor, also
visiting the Russian vessel Lena,
which is held here by the govern
ment.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-25
BERKELEY SHOWS SYMPATHY
Services Are Held by Students of the
State University

Otdtc university
BY Associated Press
BERKELEY, March 24.-Services ir1
the nature of memorial to the late
Mrs. Stanford We're conducted today by
the students of the state university
The exercises were simple, consisting
of single address on Mrs. Stanford by
Prof. Thomas r. Bacon, head of the
history department.
In the absence of President Wheeler
who left for Palo Alto early this morn
ing, Prof Adolph C. Miller presided
Prof Charles Rieber, formerly of STAN
ford university, who was a close friend
of Mrs. Stanford was to have spoken
but was prevented by illness.
Prof. Bacon said in part:
Mrs. Stanford's life was begun under
humble circumstances, fraught with
desolating sorrows, but was one that
has become synonymous with kindness,
generosity and helpfulness. How great
her services to higher education have
been is inestimable. The founders of
Stanford university did more for the
University of California than if all of
their millions had been bestowed on this
institution.
"The competition made us great. It
has given stimulus for scientific re-
search and higher ideals. Had it not
been for the founders of the rival in
stitution the University of California
would have remained the same obscure
institution it was twenty years ago"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-25

avenue connecting the university and
Palo Alto, about half a mile from the
buildings of the quadrangle.
Designed in the purest type of Gre
clan architecture, the mausoleum is a
small Greek temple in form, construct
ed of white marble and polished granite
of a darker color. Ionic pillars, set
close to the walls, ornament the front,
rear and sides, while four sphinxes in
white marble crouch on bases at each
corner of the ROOM Over the heavy
bronze door which closes the front of
the mausoleum is tablet on which are
carved in raised letters the names of
the three members of the family.
Through the upper panels of the door,
which are interlaced with bronze fill
gree work. a view of the interior can
be obtained. Here are three great
marble sarcophagi. The one on the
right contains the remains of the son
and the simple inscriptions; Leland
Stanford Junior - Born to Mortality
May IA, 1S6S-Passed to Immortality
March 1S, 1884" On the left is the
tomb of Senator Stanford, bearing an
inscription similar to that of his SON.
1t is in the central sarcohpagus that
the body of Mrs. Stanford was placed.
Sons Former Tomb
For some years after the death of
Leland Stanford, jr., his body was kept
in a marble tomb just west of the Stan
ford residence. With the idea of pro-
viding a more suitable resting place
and that should contain the three men,
bers of the family the great mausoleum
was constructed. But before the body
of the son could be moved and while
the finishing touches were being put
on the tomb, the death of Senator
Stanford came. After the simple fun
eral services the remains of the late
senator were placed in the mausoleum.
Shortly after this the body of the son
was placed beside that of the father.
On the heavy marble slab which is
to cover the tomb of Mrs. Stanford the
following scroll has already been en-
graved:
JANE l.. STANFORD,
Born in Mortality
August 20, 1928;
Passed to Immortality
February 49, 1906"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-25
DIGGING INTO
RATE DETAILS
BEEF TRUST INVESTIGATION
HUNTING FACTS
District Attorney Reported as Paying
Much Attention to the Quess
ton of Rebates and
Discrimination
By Associated Press,

By Associated Press,
CHICAGO. March 24-Specific infor-
nation regarding shipping, marketing
and prices of cattle was sought today
by the special grand jury which is in
vestigating the alleged combination of
packers. Michael Murphy, general man
ager of the Cudahy Packing company
at South Omaha, Sioux City and Kansas
City, was before the inquisitors and
shed some light upon the subjects
under consideration.
"They asked me first about the pack
ing business in general Mr.. Murphy
said "Then they took up the subject
of marketing and asked all the details
of it. They inquired into the shipping G
of cattle and beef. Their questions did
not point to an investigation relative tc
railroads. Then they went into the sub
ject of prices"
After Mr.. Murphy and Mr.. Wilkins
had testified in the morning Thomas
B. Ruddy, head of Ruddy Brothers
Packing company of Kansas City, was
called to the stand. Mr.. Ruddy was
subjected to a close examination, and,
with the exception of the noon adjourn
ment, was on the witness stand from
1870 in the morning until the adjourn
ment at o'clock in the evening. When
he left the jury room it was plainly
seen that he had been affected by the