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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-09
GREENSBORO HAS A DULL DAY.
But That Something's is Always Stir
ring There IS Shown by This
Letter.
Especial to News and Observer


Greensboro, N. c., July 8.-The
many friends of Dr. Charles ID. Nc
Iver here are greatly pleased over the
excellent showing he made in the
race for the presidency of the Nation
al Educational Association at Asbury
Park, n. j., this week. The success
full candidate was Rev. DIR. Nathan
c. Schaeffer, superintendent of public
instruction of the state of Pennsyl-
yania- The nominating committee
gave DR.. Mc.Iver II and the other
candidate % votes. 1t was stated by
many teachers in the convention that
if the question had come up for a vote
in the convention, DR.. McIver would
have been elected by handsome ma
jority.
The Southern Railway Company
has issued a handsome circular (No.
IBID stating that the company VIII
on or about the first OF July open its
new uptown ticket office at Green's
boro with Mr. X. II. DeButts In
charge, he having been appointed pas
senger ticket agent at Greensboro
with office at No 213 South Elm street
in charge of the passenger traffic local
ly in Greensboro and vicinity. Mr.. De-
Butts will be assisted In the work by
Messrs w. III. McGlammery and z.
G.. Vernon.
A large number Of the members OF
the Greensboro lodge Of Elks left last
night for Buffalo, n. Y. 10 attend the
annual convention of the National As
ISOLATION, which conYenes there next
Tuesday Among those who went
were Messrs G.. j. Lambe, h. A. Stone,
r. u. Gold, Julian Price and l.. j.
Brandtand, Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
Clapp.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-09
NJ KELLY WAY SUES
FOUR NEWSPAP ERS
And Editor Caldwell of
Charlotte Personally.
FOR HEAVY DAMAGES
The Charlotte Observer, The Charlotte
Chronicle, The Raleigh Times, The
Greenville S. c. News, All for
Publication of Alleged Libel.
IouS Matter.
Ious Matter.

In yesterday mornings News and
Observer, a telegram WAS printed un-
der the Charlotte date line telling that
Editor A J. McKelway, of the Pres.
tyterian Standard, had filed a suit
against the Charlotte Observer and
Editor Caldwell of that paper, for al
legged libellous statements recently APP
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-09
THE BODY AT CHERBOURG.
Today the Remains of John Paul Jones
Will be Placed on the Brooklyn
(By the Associated Press

(By the Associated Press)
Cherbourg. July THE funeral
train bearing the body of Admiral
Paul Jones and five hundred Ameri-
can sailors and marines arrived here
from Paris today. An enormous
crowd gathered at the railroad train
and witnessed the arrival of the body
at a mortuary chapel erected on the
Wklau,f df the American Steamship
line. The townspeople then defiled
before the coffin, respectfully uncOv-
ering.
The ceremony of transferring the
body of the admiral on board the
Brooklyn will take place at noon to-
morrow and the squadron will sail at
5 o'clock in the evening for the United
States.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-09
PRICE OF A woMAN's VIRTUE.
In this Compromise Case Her Family
are Said to Receive from Moore
$3.50.
Especial to News and Observer

Especial TO News and Observer
Greensboro, n. c., July 8.--chief OF
Police Medley this morning received a
telegram from Washington, stating
that w. +. Moore, who is wanted on
the charge of seduction under prom
Use Of marriage TO Lena Vow. had been
arrested at the nations capital and
would be held until adyices We're re-
ceiyed. Chief Neeley started officer
Rhea to Washington. but just as the
train was about 10 pull out the officer
was advised by relatives OF Moore's
that the case had been compromised.
II is learned that relatives of Moore
offered the family 500 but they held
out for $3.50, which was paid. Moore
is well known here. being for some
time manager OF the Singer Manufac-
turing cOmpany's office In this city.
The case has attracted much notice
here. owing 10 the prominence OF the
parties concerned.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-09
PETERSON FOUND GUILTY.
He Is Sentenced TO TNenty-nine Years
in the Penitentiary.

New Bern, y. c., July S.-John Pc
terson. n negro charged with the muir
der of his wife. was found guilty of
the crime i'm the second degree in the
Superior court today. The judge SEN
fenced the prisoner to twenty-nine
years in the penitentiary at hard labor.
The crime for which Peterson was SEN
fenced was setting fire to the bed on
which his wife was lying. She died
twenty-four hours after the deed of the
injuries received.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-09
GOLD OF BROKERS
BUYS BETRAYAL
Edwin S. Holmes Kicked Out of the Bureau of
Statistics for Furnishing Advance Inform
alton to New York Cotton Spectators.

ton from time to time, for several
months, in advance of the publication
of the official figures, and that the in
formation furnished by Holmes cor
responded exactly with the figures af-
forwards published as the official crop
reports. Van Ripper stated that Mr..
Haas, of New York, acted as go-be-
tween for Holmes and himself, and he
was given to understand that Haas
was securing information for ~Theo-
dore Price, a cotton broker of New
York. The witness said he met Haas
at the Hotel Waldorf, and was told
by him that the report for June, 1905,
would be rs per cent. on condition,
and IL 1-2 or 3 per cent. on acreage.
which was as bearish as they could
make it; and that he was going to see
Price with whom he would have an
interview and wanted to see Van
Ripper after he saw Price; that in
about an hour Haas called on him
and said that at the request of Price
he was going to Washington to see If
they could not get the percentage
little higher and the acreage a little
smaller to make the report more
parish Van Ripper testified that the
official report was more bearish than
the figures previously given him. and
that he took this 40 mean that the eff
fort TO influence the report had sue
ceeded.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-09
ENGINEER CHANDLER KILLED.
Caught Between Bumpers While Re.
pairing an Air Pipe
Especial to News and Observer

Especial to News and Observer
Asheville, n. c., July S.-Engineer
Chandler was injured at Black Noun
tain this morning and died about l As
this afternoon at the Asheville Hos
pital. Mr.. Chandler was between two
cars repairing an air pipe when he
was caught between the bumpers.
There was no one present at the time,
and when the engineer was found he
was unconscious. The remains We're
taken in charge by the lodge of
Knights of Pythias of which the de-
ceased was a member.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-09
THE STORY IN DETAIL
Election of Officers and Other Events
of the Final Session.

Lake TOxaway, n. c., July 8.-The
convention of the State Bar Associa-
ton for 1905 Is a thing of the past,
the last session having been held here
yesterday morning, during which Off
GERS for the ensuing year were elected
and other final business of the asso-
ication carried through in a most pleas
ant manner To satisfactory conclus-
ion.
The question of changing the method
of examining applicants for license
was referred TO a committee with lit
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-09

According to Secretary Wilson's Re-
port L. C. Van Ripper and Theodore
Price We're Among the Men Profit
ing Throughthe TreacherY ofROlmes,
a Man Named Haas Acting as a Go
Between. Steps Have Been Taken
by Secretary Wilson to Prevent
Further Leakage, and an Entire Re-
ORGANIZATION OF the Bureau Has
Been Outlined.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-09
The Letters i'm the Case.

The letters produced by Van Ripper,
which he alleged were written by
Holmes, We're all signed with the inl-
tial III" Most of these letters were
for the purpose of making appoint
ments with Van Ripper, but the fol-
lowing note, dated August 20, 1904.
shows the relationship between
Holmes an Van Ripper:
IF you have bought any of that
stuff sell it out at once, and sell as
much as you can in addition. We
are going TO show very slight de-
cline. and as this is totally unexpected
it will send things down like fury.
Other parties will close out tomorrow
and sell on Thursday. Where
is p? Tear this up. 1t
may go up little before Friday
but probably not. This letter was
signed with the initial H. Van Rip
er testified that all of the letters sur
rendered were from Holmes and that
the contents had reference to the
state of the cotton report. A large
number of letters and kilograms
signed with the initial F. We're sent
from New York to Van Ripper. Nearly
all of theae lcontaIned Lnforn4 ltlon
concerning the cotton report togeth-
er with instructions TO sell or buy on
the market according to the informa-
aidn furnished and allow them to
destroy the letter.
The Secreat service agents learned
that "P" referred to i'm Holmes letter
was f. A Peckham of New York and
that the letters signed the initial F.
were written by F. A. Peckham.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-09
Pecl1ham is Interviewed.

Mr.. Peckham was interviewed i'm
New York city and stated that the
only explanation he had to give con-
corning the letters was that he was
trying to make some money in the
cotton market. declining to hay any
thing of his relations with Holmes,
Haas or Van Ripper. Shortly after he
was interviewed it was learned that
Peckham came to Washington and
held a conversation with Holmes over
the telephone in which he inquired
whether Holmes intended to resign
his position, or whether he expected
to be dismissed from the government
service. Peckham was seen again by
government agents but would not dis
cuss his relations with Holmes.
Holmes was interviewed by secret
service agents and considerable space
in the report is given TO his explana-
ton. The first question asked him
were as to his relations with Peckham
and Van Ripper. Holmes said that
they all had been on very intimate
terms socially and that when he had
occasion to visit New York which was
frequently. his hotel bill had been
paid by Van Ripe ror Peckham.
Holmes admitted that Peckham. Haas
and himself We're for a long time as
Sociated in a business.
an interest equal to the sum of $6,-
600. which he was to receive as a gift
from the other members of the firm.
subsequently Haas transferred his ~
terest in this firm to l.. c.. Van Ripper,
and Van Ripper stated that the COM
pany was organized for the purpose of
handling cotton. Holmes testified that
this was true. but that he was not
aware of the nature of the organiZa-
ton at the time he was given an in
terest i'm it, and that what he learned
the object of the company was TO
handle cotton. he withdrew from ii.
The Betrayer Fattens.
Under further examination Holmes
stated that he had sold TO Van Ripper,
about Feb. 19, 1905 three-fourths
interest in some mining property in
Idaho for $4,000. this amount hav-
ing been paid to him by Van Ripper
in two installments in currency. In
this connection Van Ripper stated that
contract had been made between
Holmes and himself whereby Van
ripper was supposed TO have acquired
ing property, but that he had never
seen the property nor had he any idea
as TO its exact location. Van Ripper
said that Holmes wished to have a
contract signed which would show
that Van Ripper had paid to Holmes
a large sum of money for the mining
property, in order that Holmes might
be able TO account for the possession
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-09-08
IDAHO FORESTRY SETTLED.

Boise, Idaho, Sept. CAS- the result
Of q conference between Governor
Gooding and Clifford Pinchot, chief of
the forestry service, a perfect under
standing between the state and national
government has been reached on the
subject of forest reserves in this state.
The government and forestry service
will cooperate hereafter to the fullest
extent on all matters pertaining to the
protection of forest and water sheds.
An important feature of the under
standing is in relation to the state
school sections embraced in the re-
serves. After Governor Gooding had
set forth the condition in which these
school sections are left, an agreement
was reached that the state should be
given a solid body of timber land in g
change for such school lands, this land
to be maintained as state reserve, pro.
ceeds of timber gales from it going to
the public schools fund.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-09-08
REVIVE ARMY CANTEENS.
Brigadier General Whit Urges This
Policy.

Brigadier General Whit Urges This
Policy.
The var department has received
the annual report of Brigadier General
Theodore j. Whit, U. S. A." upon the
military affairs of the northern di-
vision.
The general in this report repeats
the complaints about the many sa-
looms always to be found around the
posts, over which the military author
tiles have no control whatever, and
it is stated that a saloon in connection
with the canteen or post exchange run
by some responsible person under
fixed rules would be a great advant-
age.
The annual inspection of the ma.
tional guard noted a general improve.
ment, and it is noted that there is an
honest effort On the part of the state
officials to improve matters. The re.
port also advises that several of the
small posts, especially Fort Washable,
Wyo., be abandoned, as they are very
expensive and of no practical use.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-09-08
and JAPAN
THEY MAY FORM LEAGUE TO
DOMINATE over ASIA.
Hold SIav Down-England Strength
ems Position Against an Invasion
Island Empires May Be Sufficiently
Strong to Protect Asiatic Dominions

London, Sept. 4.-Great Britain and
Japan are in league for the lord
ship of Asia. Lord Landsdowne and
Baron Hayashi have scored again in
the opinion of officialdom and two
great facts stand conspicuous in the
policy of Great Britain now that the
mists have rolled away from the Ports
mouth conference. One is the en-
larged alliance with Japan and the
other is a new program in India. Per-
haps the two should be considered as
one, since each is distinctively anti
Russian in origin and tendency. By
the alliance, in it's new form, the COL
tracing powers hold Russia is the ma
ton whose aggressions they have
most to fear. The Japanese and Brit
ons are convinced she will take the
earliest opportunity to recoup herself
for the loss of Manchuria.
By the new Indian program it is
sought to strengthen Great Britain's
position on the northwestern frontier
against a Russian invasion via Afgha-
nistan. London has little confidence
in the present ameer of Afghanistan
and the buffer state is no longer re-
garded as likely to help check the
Russians, should they try to descend
upon the fertile plains of India.
Lord Kitchener's mandate that a
complete reorganization of the Anglo
Indian army is imperative is univer-
sally approved in Great Britain be-
cause it dovetails with the extended
alliance under which the two island
empires are in agreement to prevent
Russia from interfering on any point
with the Asiatic dominions of each
other.
The outcome of such vast changes
of policy is almost inconceivable, &C
cording to high authority.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-09-08

ritories, and the country will keep fll.
ing with people for years to come, for
the lands still ~Gnoccupied are almost
boundless. As yet the newcomers
have hardly more than touched the
outskirts of the wheat lands.
Manitoba is only o%ne-fourth as large
as the old territories of Assiniboia,
Saskatchewan and Alberta, but she
had we 100000 acres in wheat last
year, while the territories gathered a
wheat crop from only 575,697 acres.
This acreage in the territories was a
mere bagatelle compared with their
enormous area of fine farm lands.
The government, after careful inves.
legations, has reached the conclusion
that the amount Of desirable farm
lands still Incorporated in Assiniboia
is 100000 acres; in Saskatchewan,
17,0O0,O00, and In Alberta, 100000 OO
acres.
It will take hundreds Of thousands
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-09-08
The Cradle of Politeness.

Resolve that home ever shall be the
brightest, m%erriest, happiest spot on
earth, and, each keeping the resolution,
1t will be 30. OF all places, the father
should be the politest seated in his
OWE home. No mother makes a grand
er mistake than when she forgets the
most delicate etiquette in the presence
of the little ones who learn to read her
thoughts before utterance. If you see
a boy thoughtful and gentle of speech
to his sister, set it down that he has
heard those very intonations from his
fathers lips addressing that boys
mother.
Hear that daughter ~snarling out
some pettish response, and you may
set it down as the echo Of the mothers
words. No doubt children inherit bod
lily disease and mental qualities, bui
these more often are made a misery Of
a blessing ty the impressions receive,
from superiors, while in childhood.
child cannot always be easily traine,
to be polite from principle, and yet
Is a grand accomplishment. There |
a way of saying, Il thank you,' 'Yo
are very kind" "Allow me to ASST.
you," that makes one feel he is in ii
presence of refinement. We never wi
ness the rosy, healthy miss arise ar
ask the old gray-headed man, totteriI
upon his cane, to take her comfortab
seat, without mentally taking off o
hat and bowling reverently to L
mother at home who trained that ID
Boys and girls who, from princip
are trained to politeness are walk
libraries and educate more and bet
! than Is known.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-09-08
CARE FOR WHEAT.
New Plan Started to Save Expense in
Storing Crop.

New Plan Started to Save Expense in
Storing Crop.
H. w. Richardson, one of the most
extensive wheat growers in Columbia
county, Washington, has ~inaugurated
an original feature to effect a saving
of nearly 6 cents per bushel in secur.
ing and storing his crop. He conceiv-
ed the idea Of constructing wooden
tanks at convenient points about his
fields to store grain until convenient
to haul to the railroads or warehouse
of the purchaser.
The tanks are constructed of 2x6
pieces standing upright and held in
position by iron bands or hoops. Each
tank is 10 feet deep and will hold $500
bushels. They are built above the
surface to enable a team to drive I'M
derneath to remove the grain. The
bottom is fitted with a spout and slide,
through which the grain can easily be
drawn into the wagon box, doing
away entirely with the lifting incident
to loading sacked grain.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-09-08
Ek 4
Ap
S2sl1ventiOn

The city of Hartford, Connecticut,
has the distinction Of being the first to
use an electric street-sprinkler. The
water-tank resembles that of an ordin-
airy horse-draWn street-sprinkler, but
the vehicle 3 driven by a storage bat
terry, and is able to cover in a day twice
the ground covered by a sprinkler
drawn by a team of horses.
A sea-perch nearly Z IL feet long
and weighing AGO pounds was caught
last winter in the River Hooghly, In
dia. The condition of its scales indi-
Gated that the fish was very old. The
largest Indian sea-perch previously
captured, as far as the records show,
was taken in 1856. 1t was Z feet in
length, and weighed about 300 pounds.
Not many years ago a few pairs of
English starlings were imported into
Australia as allies to the farmers in
the war on destructive insects. Now
the birds have increased to millions,
and have become lemselves a pest.
Other useful birds, such as kingfishers,
diamond-birds, tree-swallows and tree
creepers, are driven from their nests
by swarms Of starlings, which devour
farmers declare that they will be COM
PEELED to abandon fruit-growing unless
the starlings can be destroyed. The
Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria
and other similar associations are unit
ing in a request to the government to
abate the nuisance.
Attention Is called by the Scientific
American to experiments at Harvard
University which seem to demonstrate
that engineers usually underestimate
the maximum loading caused by dense
crowds on bridges, floors and plat
forms. Forty men, averaging 1853
pounds in weight, placed in a box six
feet square, caused an average pres
sure of 1S1 pounds per square foot on
the floor. An engineer has estimated
. the weight per square foot Of floor of
the densest crowds on the New York
elevated railways at only 45 pounds,
but since the Harvard experiments the
opinion has been expressed that the
maximum loading on the elevated cars
and platforms may be nearer 1S1 than
45 pounds. This applies to other close
packed crowds.
The recent experiments with high
/, speed electric motor-cars on the spec
} tally prepared Berlin-Zossen line may
result in the building of a railway be-
tween Berlin and Hamburg, on which
; trains will run regularly at a speed Of
100, or wen 125, miles an hour. rs
Inmates have been obtained from two
important electric construction com.
panies, which seem to indicate at least
the possibility Of making such a rail-
road a commercial success. The chief
requirements are a straight track, q
level grade, and heavy cars with spec
tally constructed running gear. The
Germans, having been the first to dem
onstrate the practicability of running
trains at such speeds, are naturally
ambitious to crown the work by con-
structing the first modern h~igh-speed
railway. The estimated cost for u
double-track line 1856 miles long varies.
according to the degree of speed re-
quired, from between $16,000,000 and
ST., 100000 to more than $35, 100000.
The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1905-09-08

Of farmers to cut up all this land into
homesteads, but the process Is going
on, and when these lands are all par
celed out settlers will begin to move
into Athabasca, whose agricultural ca
liabilities have just been investigated
in a comparatively thorough manner,
and, 1t is said, with astonishingly IA
vorable results.
The government of Canada is to pay
to each province the sum of $4,000 a
year for the support Of Its government
and legislature. The Dominion lands
will continue to be vested in the
crown, but the Canadian government
will compensate the provinces for
them by a series of annual payments.
The present estimated value of the
public lands is $1.50 an acre.
The map shows that the two prov
inces take in all the territory Of the
four territories excepting a little Of the
eastern parts Of Athabasca and Sas-
katchewan.
The time will probably come when II
will be deemed best to divide these
provinces again into smaller ones
Each Of them is about four times as
large as New York State, and their
total territory Is about as large az
Central Europe.
This is a great region, which, with
Manitoba, is estimated by the Deputy
Minister Of Agriculture to be destined
within ten years to produce annually
$50. 100000 bushels Of wheat, 2OO,O 900,
600 bushels Of oats, and b0,OOO,OO(
bushels Of barley. and this without
cropping more than about one-third o.
the tillable area.
The two provinces divide the vas
area nearly equally. Regina will b,
the capital Of Saskatchewan; the CAPT
tai Of Alberta will be temporarily a
Edmonton until the Legislature Of tina
province decides upon its permanent
Observation-Disclosures Post.