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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1905-01-05
Saturday., Dec. 81.

Colonel Leutwefn, former governor
OF German Southwest Africa, who re.
signed that post some time ago, has
arrived at Hamburg.
Theodore Thomas, the famous
musical director, is seriously i'll with
pneumonia. at Chicago and his pity
sicians admitted Friday night THAT
they were becoming alarmed.
W. j. Bryan has accepted an invita-
ton from the Grant Birthday %associa-
ton to make the annual address at
the observance:of General U. S. Grant S
birthday at GaIena, Ill, April e.. ts05.
It is, reported from Moscow that
some ladies In the highest society are
proposing to form a Russian-Japanese
league, with the cooperation Of ladies
at Toxic, to. agitate for a termination
of the. war.
D. Lloyd Jones, referee in bank.
ruptcy,. is dead at Milwaukee of heart
disease, aged sixty-four. Mr.. Jones
served through the Civil war i'm the
Eighteenth Wisconsin. He was; prom.
lnent in G. A. r. circles.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1905-01-05
NEWS CONVERSATIONS
"Wednesday, Dec. as.

Senator Charles w. Fairbanks was
initiated into the secrets OF Masonry
at Indianapolis Tuesday.
Hugh A. Jameson. n of the most
prominent business men OF Pennsyl-
vania, is dead at Warren. Pa.
At Chicago, Martin Lang, seventy
years Of age, was found In a ditch near
Belmont avenue, frozen to death.
Rev. Father T. F. Lillis OF Kansas
City has been conseorated bishop OF
the Roman Catholic diocese OF Leaven-
worth, Kan.
1t is said General Horace Porter
will retire as ambassador to France
and be succeeded by G. L. Myer, now
ambassador to Italy.
BY the burning of the house of Mr..
La Premiere near Calendar, Ont, his
four children persisted before assist
ance could reach them.
A proposal is now before the en-
peror of China to send the students OF
the navy college to the British adj
miral at Shanghai for a course OF IN
structlon.
Thursday, Dec. 20.
TOllCG Sulcl Sdh1AOu VI oAooAo
Russia, was killed on the main street
there Wednesday.
A new Greek cabinet has been
formed with Delyannis as premier
and minister of the interior.
The town council Of Tiits, Trans.
caucasta, has ordained, compulsory ed
ucation at the expense If the city.
In a FIRE at Villa Ridge, ILL.,, John
Mahoney, a farmer, was burned to
death. Property worth $4,000 was
destroyed.
Dr. Johann Jacob Eisenhut, 104
years; old. the Oldest PERSON in Colo
hospital in Denver.
It is: stated that Joseph FL. Choate,
ambassador to Great Britain, will ten
der his resignation to President Roose-
welt OOH after March 4, 1905.
Captain Thomas Wills, aged seventy
five, one Of the Oldest pioneer mining
men Of the Lake Superior copper dis
tFict, is dead at Calumet, Mich.
Friday, Dec. 80.
Hollis hMl,. the historic dormitory on
the old campus at Harvard university,
was damaged by fire Thursday and the
building narrowly escaped destruction.
Emperor william has ordered. that
more attentions be given hereafter in
the education Of naval officers to
teaching them how to maneuver tor
pedo boats.
Rev. Richard Lovitt, NJ. A., secrs-
tary Of the Religious Tract society
since 1899 and a we'll known writer
on religious subjects, died suddenly in
London of heart disease. He was born
in 1851.
BY direction of the president Cap
tain Robert IT,. HuWze, Sixth cavalry,
now stationed at Fort Keogh, Mont
has been appointed commandant of
cadets at the limited States military
academy.
S. A. Aexandrawsky, former Russian
commissioner general to the st. Louis
exposition, has resigned his position
as head Of the Red Cross in the field
on account; Of. criticism upon his adj
ministratiDn..
Saturdhsu nec a
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1905-01-05
Monday, JAM. e.


Tamma11y Hall has organized for
1905 by rejecting practically every
one of it's officers.
The high school building at Ann
Arbor, Mich, has been destroyed by
fire. The loss is $110, 0G0.
Chief Justice Albert Mason of the
Massachusetts, superior court died
early Monday morning of pneumonia
at Brookline, Mass.
William S. Bowles, a charter mem
Der OF the Memphis Cotton Exchange
and one of the best known cotton fac.
tors in the South, is dead, aged ninety
two years.
Mr.. Ojeda, the Spanish minister,
has signed with Secretary Hay an arbi.
tration treaty between Spain and the
United States similar to those already
signed with other nations.
Frank Jay Gould has decided to add
about $5,000,000 more to his already
heavy investments in Virginia. He
now controls the entire railway and
lighting properties in Richmond and
petersburg and the interurban line
between the cities.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-25

fusion lhai existed In the minds OF
pos,oltiee el.lks ana Others regarding
Las Vegas, ~ w., and Las Vegas Nev
As ne latter Town, Is Increasing IN
Importance The confusion Is becoming
greater \ railroad has Just been
opened Into he Nevada town and Il is
growing rapidly
II We take no action looking TO the
change OF the name of our sister tows,
u won't be long before. with Senator
Clagk's influence, It will be trying 70
shove as off the map. We urged thai
our people take M The matter IN earn
est, get M q generally signed petition
10 the p%ostofficc department.. write 70
Senator Clark, who practically owns
he Town, send strong resolutions to
the Nevada Las Vegas, and thus, II
possible secure The change OF name Of
that town. So far one man has
spoken TO us In favor OF the move.
ment. Nevertheless a, ought 10 W.
pushed. The Commercial Club should
take up the matter in earnest,
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-25
TRUST MAKING IN NEW JERSEY.

New Jerseys trust.making industry
the deliberate purpose she held and
carried ont of making the state a
wholesale charter factory, Is followed
from IL inception 10 rs present DO
cline by Lincoln Steflens Ia the May
McClure's, which contains the second
half OF his story OF "a Traitor State.
ne sei1cs upon The lncontroyertihle.
salient facts ana handles them with
Characteristic yirility and power, The
story takes from his brain a tingc of
his own broad Americanism, and pass
~ beyond merely local Significance, II
Is OF stirring interest TO every Ameri'
can.
Jerseys career of trust making Is
on the decline. The trusts have
abused her fraiIty. and discredited her
corporation laws. Such scandals al
the shipbuilding trust which failed
and the Franklin syndicate OF 520-per
cent.Miller fame. which ended in pris
on. and other unfortunate Jersey com
panies, brought a Jersey charter u
mean 10 many men nothing but dan
ger" Now New Jerseys governor Ii
urging legislation TO insure the faith
full administration OF the affairs o
business companies The truth Is
that Jersey Overreached In her greed
4 so did the trusts she licensed. and III,
abuse is bringing It's own cure.
"The feeling Of conservative bust
ness men, says Mr.. Steffens. c les
be indicated by the proposition two
Of them made to me. n was tn
president of one Of the Oldest ant
cleanest corporations In the country
the other a corporation lawyer OF ma
tional reputation. They said the,
would furnish the facts II woui'
write an article showing the method
by which some typical big corpora
tons were DelIH WI
were they willing TO tell? Because
they said, the financial licentiousnes
and the criminal corruption OF the +
n~ancial rings they had in mind, wer
n menace 10 corporate and all othe
business. Ana their examples wer
ALI taken from Jersey-made trusts, o
from the operations of men intereste
in the exploitation OF that state whicI
protected the wreckers.'
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-25
ABOUT TUBERCULOSIS SANTA.
RUNS.

The following Is from the Medical
Journal:
A tuberculosis hospital or sanitari-
um, in order TO do the most good,
city. II should preferably he situated
on porous soil where there Is as little
traffic as possible, and should have
protection from cold winds. Expert
once has taught us that the large pa
yilion system Is the most convenient
and hest way TO build a saniiarium
III institutions where many consump,
lives are kept are equipped and man
aged according to the modern concep-
iion of the prevention of tuberculosis,
there is no danger. In five German
sanatoria, which have been establish.
cd for fifty years, the mortality from
tuberculosis In the surrounding vii
lagos Is about one.third less than il
was before the establishment of these
institutions. The inhabitants around
the sanatoria almost mconsciol.sly
adopt the hygiene methods Of the pa.
lients In the sanatoria. II the patient
il under the care of q physician he
VIII be careful, but the danger comes
from the patient being up and about
without any supervision. It has been
said that appeal should be made 10
philanthropists. Or. Knopf has ap.
pealed to philanthropists and shall
continue to do II, II they should stop
building churches, monuments and IL
braries for a little while AMP devote
the money to the Improvement of the
condition Of the poor by better nous
ing, building of public parks and sana-
toria they would bestow a great bless
ing on their fellow men and will be
very helpful in solving the ~tuberculo.
sis problem.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-25

knows the railroad business from "a
TO u. In 1887 | was telegraph agent
al Florence, Kansas, and Mr.. Hurley
was station agent. One day George
l.. Sands, then general superintendent
Of the Santa Fe, went to Florence on
An inspection trip.
lin Hurley hadn't shaved for sey.
eral days and his face vas covered
with a heavy growth of whiskers. The
general superintendent noticed this al
nee and said:
" Hurley, it strikes me that the
station agent at Florence ought tC
keep his face shaved and Hurley, who
was all ready with an answer, re
piled: Well, it strikes me that the
station agent of Florence hasn't time
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-25

bare and desolate into a tract as fair
as fertile, as beautiful as any In the
nation, lt viii meat an impetus 70
every Industry and trade and business
in the city and surrounding country
and more dollars Ia the pockets Of
every Las vegau Success % tho sun.
ltarium committee.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-25

Senator Elkins has invited about III
~ railway managers TO testify as TO
how they can best be restrained by
federal legislation.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-25

II Is characteristic OF the Japanese
that they are leaving The advance
stories Of the frightful carnage 10
come 10 the meeting Of Togo and Ro.
%iestvensky 70 the Russians.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-25

II NUS make the Gar green with
envy to read Of a chief executive who
can leave his secretary Of state In
charge and retire into the wilderness
for a genuine hear hunt. The Gar
knows now what the bear hunt is. but
he does non know the joys of being
the huntsnan.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-25
HURLEY GEN.
ERAL MANAGER
Continued from Page One.)

on the best Nudge and Hurley, Bid
die and iissel, Cain and Wells. Hib-
bard and Sweet are shining examples
of Santa f training. And other good
men are coming up. And the feeling
who are upon the lowest rounds OF
the ladder to those who have climbed
places sire open TO them as soon as
they have proves their worth and va
c~aiicics occur, is no unimportant in
fluence in determining every man 1
be loyal TO the system and to do his
best.
The optic joins the people in o
graduating both Mr., Hurley and the
Santa Re system upon The appoint
mem announced today.
J. &, Hurley a Great Worker.
Y. G. Davidson, manager of David
Harum' at the Grand this week, onc
worked as telegraph operator on the
Santa Fe, where J. +. Hurley. who is
now prominently mentioned as the
new general manager of the Santa Fe
system, was station agent.
Il see by the journal that Mr.
Nudge has resigned and that J. +.
Hurley will probably succeed him as
general manager said Mr.. Davidson
TO a Kansas City reporter, and | sin
cerely hope the report is true. for he
has worked LII from the start and
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-25

Senator Plat OF New York gravely
announces that this Is the foolish
season in politics. Recent reports
from New York would indicate that
the senator speaks from experience.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-25

The loudest howl about the employ
ment Of coolie labor on the Panama
canal comes from gentlemen who
could no, be hired 10 throw out a
| spadeful Of earth at any price.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-25
S
sina ~
MARkETJ
Isas5--

The following Nov York stock quotation,
we're received 0y Levy hrusr Membcrs Chit
cagn Bard Of Trade, rooms . and 3. Crockett
block. Colorado Phone 40. Lr Vega Phone
40. os,r thoir own private wires from New
York Chicago and Colorado springs; cores
spoudent ~ tho firms ~ Logan h iSryan New
Work and Chicago, members New York Staeli
Exchange and Chicago Board n Trade. and
VIM. a Otis SCoa bankers and Brokers Colo
rldo springs.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-25

At a momen when the fate of ma.
lions is depending on a titanic naval
struggle in another hemisphere we
are impressed with the loneliness of
peace and also with the power Of iron
clads. Let us not neglect the n or
the other.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-25
roo MANY LAS vEGAsES.

A couple of weeks ago, we called at.
tention 10 the large amount of con
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-28
The STANDARD OIL WAY.

Testifying before Special Commits
sioner Anthony at the inquiry into the
methods Of the Standard Oil and Wal
ters-Pierce companies in Missouri, Mr..
William A. Morgan, former manager
for Standard Oil at. sedalia, made some
sensational statements Mr. Morgan
appears to have been an especially sue
cessful sub-manager. According to
lbs testimony the Standard controlled
SO per cent OF the business In his ter
ritory when he was assigned there.
Inside OF short period he had taken
the business away from competitors,
and the Standard, before he severed
his connection with it in 1901, con-
trolled 80 per cent of the trade in the
Sedalia territory. He was told to go
into the field and destroy competitors;
was ordered to sell all goods possible
to cut prices wherever necessary. Tie
Pierce company sold within
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-28
VOLTS LATEST HOWL.
[Alton Democrat1


ITO Adelaide and Alice and the Rest:
Dear Children: In New York City
recently the society women gave a dog
dinner that cost $1,000. They didn't
gorge themselves on roast dog nor fried
dog nor stewed dog nor cold dog fric-
assoc nor anything like that - but
swelldom simply got it's dogs together
and fed them at a banquet table with
flunkies in dress suits to serve them
choice viands on costly china. 1t was
interrupted once or twice by starving
people from the slums asking to eat
with the dogs. but otherwise it was
a bowling success
I'm view Of woman's increasing in
terest in dogs and politics and such
things now believe the raising of
children should be turned over to the
orphan asylums. The child should be
taken from its parents at the age of
three weeks and named and taught to
eat breakfast food and drink out of a
bottle. This would be big boon to the
feed mills and bottle factories and the
dairy interests and would help to solve
the labor problem by providing employ
rnent for the idle. 1t would also allev-
late the sufferings of some of our is
land possessions by creating a create.
demand for one of their chief produc
tions-rubber-for teething rings an5
other necessities. Our agricultural
colleges should begin experimenting at
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-28
Iowa Newspapers
SOME HUsKING RECORDS.
rSac Sun1

Mrs. Albert Fyfe. of Douglas town.
ship, has been assisting her husband In
the corn field this fall That she Is a
valuable assistant and that she can do
more work than most men is shown by
a recent record she made-a record
that probably has not been excelled by
any woman in Iowa. Last Friday she
went to the field and In just three
hours and forty minutes gathered 'tair-
ty-six bushels of cleanly husked corn.
If any woman has made better record
in this line the Sun will be glad to
learn the particulars.
& Last Thursday Arnie Kelso husked
and cribbed 1877 bushels of corn in one
day on the farm of ]. A. Means. south
west Of Sac City. Doubtless he went
into the field soon after daylight, but
Mr.. Means reports that the young man
had the corn unloaded and the team in
the barn by half past five o'clock Mr..
Means measured the corn and there Is
mo reason to suppose that he over-esh-
mated the quantity husked. Conse-
quently this must stand as the best
husking record made in Sac county
until a better one is reported.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-28

Legislation and have a very decided
opinion that it was bill when de-
ciphered, and / use the word declpn-
cred understandingly, because 1t was
vague, complex and impracticable, was
of no use and in the main was so IN
tended President Roosevelt says, IN
short, give the Interstate commerce
commission power to substitute
reasonable rate for an unreasonable
rate and put it into effect at once"
All other makeshifts and subter-
fuges will never go down. Congress
and the senate may not sustain the
president this winter, but il they do
not have an abiding faith that pre-
cisely what he advocates will be sus-
tanned some other winter by some 9TH
er congress and senate composed OF
some other men.
l find no more fault with Congress
man Cousins because happen to live
in the district he represents than l 90
with any other congressman who fails
to give an unequivocal hearty support
to wholesome measure so earnestly
desired by the large majority of the
whole people.
Marshalltown, Nov. %.
MERRITT GREENE
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-28
wALk,NG The GANG PLANK.

Quicker than anyone had dared to
hope comes the forced retirement OF
Richard A. McCurdy from the presi-
dency of the Mutual Life followed by
the same swift and forced retirement
of the son and the SON law from fat
jobs which have enabled them to APP
propriate fabulous sums from the com.
pany's funds under the guise of sal
aries and commissions.
When Lawson began his frenzied
finance year ago little did we think
OF what he could do with the bludgeon
Of publicity. The IIydes and the Alex
anders have been driven from the
Equitable, the McCurdys now stink out
the rear exit from the Mutual Life and
the Mccall family must remove them
selves from the New York Life within
q very short time or. Lawson's orox-
les will expedite the change.
Following the retirement of the lead
ers in $4,000 salary steals and syn
dictate commissions there will come a
reorganization of these great cornpan-
les Then a reorganization of snsur-
ance laws and insurance management
The legislative inquiry under the mas
terful direction Of Attorney Hughes Is
furnishing the whip just now. but let
us not forget that 1t was Lawson who
strobe bravely and alone into the dens
and stirred up the animals. Whatever
be his motive he came boldly into prin,
with the charge that these great men
were thieves and liars and instead Of
prosecuting him for criminal libel they
are now walking the gang plank from
their ships and will consider Them
selves lucky if they escape the peniten-
tiary. Let us hope that as after Law
son came Hughes. after Hughes will
come Jerome.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-28

eighteen miles Of Sedalia, and he was
not allowed to go into their territory.
How does Standard Oil destroy COM
petitors? BY cut prices where these will
succeed, by plain scoundrelism where
they fail. Mr.. Morgan testified that
the company furnished him with a
number Of counterfeit barrel gauges,
so constructed as to register full bar
rel of oil several gallons short of the
quantity actually contained. These
were to be used only when other means
of driving out competitor failed. He
had orders from his chief where other
arguments were unavailing to induce
the merchant to buy of the Standard to
use these fraudulent measures that In
dicated four to five gallons shortage
when applied to the barrel Of a Compel
itor. This Mr. Morgan says he refus-
ed to do for personal reasons. He
thought these gauges We're being USED
with fraudulent intent"
Others will shore Mr.. Morgan's
suspicious. It is difficult to under
stand why fraudulent measure should
be forged for any but fraudulent pur-
poses. Miss Tarbell has given us the
wholesale side of Standard Oil villainy.
Mr.. Morgan, if his testimony Is to be
credited, gets down to the pettier de-
tails Of a business conspiracy so versa
tile that while it is pirating empires
can still find time and give attention
to the manufacturing Of false measures
wherewith to destroy honest reputa-
tons and bear false witness against a
competitor for five barrel order. One
can not forego admiration of an organ
ization so perfectly adapted to it's pur-
pose, but 1t is the admiration accorded
to the mechanical genius Of safe rob-
Der or the dexterity of q pickpocket.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-28
WHAT THE BOYCOTT AIMED At.

Exports from the United States to
China in the ten months ending with
October, 1906, are more than twice as
great as in the corresponding period
| of any preceding year in the history of
our commerce, and in the month of
October, 1905, for which the depart
| ment of Commerce, through it's bureau
OF statistics has just announced the
figures, the total was larger than il,
any preceding October with the single
exception of October, 1904. The total
value Of merchandise exported from
the United States to China in the ten
months ending with October, 1905, was
| $5O,1O4,767, against $20,557,184 in the
corresponding ten months Of 1904,
which up to that time was the high
China In the single month Of Octo-
her, 1905, the very latest measure Of
our trade with China, the value of our
total exports to that country was
s3,138,645, against s3,S46.sO3 in Octo-
Der. 1904; $1,324,535 in October, 1903;
s1,634,864 in October. 1902; $1,399,607
in October, 1901; and $579,o05 in oc-
tober, 1900. Thus the October, 1906,
exports to China from the United
States are larger than in any October
except that Of 1904, and more than
twice as large as the average Octo-
Der since 1900.
In cotton cloths, which form more
tain one-half the total value Of our
the quantity exported in October, 1906,
was $29,82s,023 yards. larger total
than in any preceding October in the
history Of our trade with China, with
the single exception Of October, 1904,
when the total was 43,343,533 yards.
During the ten-month period ending
with October the quantity Of cotton
cloths exported from the United States
to China in 1905 by far exceeds that
of the corresponding months Of any
preceding year. The total quantity of
cotton cloth exported to China in the
ten months ending win October, 1905.
was 451 million yards, against Ill
millions in the corresponding period of
1904, 1T millions In the corresponding
months Of 1903, and 2s9 millions in the
same months of 1902, which was the
high-record figure prior to the present
year The total value Of exports to
China from the United States in the
ten months ending with October is
more than twice as great as in the
corresponding months Of any earlier
year. and four times as great as the
average Of that period during the last
decade.