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The Washington times., 1905-08-01
TAINT OF GRAFT
SPREADS THROUGH
FEDERAL OFFICES
Geological Survey, Fish Commission, and
Weather Bureau Now Under Suspicion
and Will Be Investigated
INFORMATION is WITHHELD
AND SOLD TO PERIODICALS
Scientists Contend That They Should Be
Permitted to Make Money on the
Side Without Criticism.
WHERE FINGER OF SUSPICION RESTS

Charges irregularities follow
ing departments
Agricultural Departments
formation o reports
Weather BurauLavsh expenditure Of appropriations for
of weekend parties
a
interested patent tag
discoveries, made at the
which officials stock
Alleged times for
belonging to the Government
magazines in
report.
he Bureau of Forestry-Dong
Printing ypesettng
chimes Irregular
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B0ttLeship Squadron
On It's Way TO Maine
First and Second Divisions of North Atlantic
Fleet Leave New York-Less Than Hun
dred Absentees at Roll CALL

NEW YORK. Aug. 1.-Therc was a
brave show or signal flags and creak-
ing Of Indrawing anchor chains in the
Nerth river this morning as the ETst
and second divisions OF the NorIh At
Iantic feet's batIleship squadron left
their moorings after u five days stay in
New York herbor and started for
Frenchmans Bay Maine. Weighing
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WOMEN ANXIOUS
TO SEE CARL TON
Call at Jail and Beg for
Interview.
ANOTHER SERIOUS CHARGE
Former Army Comrade Declares PIis-
oner Disappeared From Fort After
Man Had Been Killed.

NEW YORK, August Frederick E.
Carlton. she alleged bigamist, was held
in $l.Dt0 bail for q further hearing
August TO- after his arraignment to-
day
He looked pale and sick The Ray
n:oEd street Jail officers declare he has
lost IL pound y day since his confne-
ment two weeks ago,
Such a general object of interest has
Carlton become that women who have
! never known him are manifestlng u de-
sire Lo see him IN his Jail quarters.
SeN eral Of them, we'll dressed and
bearing every evidence of refinement
have called in the last few days at
Raymond street jail. ana have begged
for jus: q glimpse Of the man who is
suspected OF having killed his two
Brooklyn wives"
Three called yesterday and hlushingly
asked permission IL talk with the man
Of aliases. IN each case the request was
referred to Carlton, who sent q polite
I.'Ius;,l-
Admits Fiancee.
The only woman Carton permits 10
visit him Is Mrs Eleanor Vandeventer.
! his hancec, but she has rot called IN
Tree days.
Inspector Cross was amused Yesterday
''il leett i4tlS thht carton ndu confessed
to marrying WueJta Sherwood Bird. OF
Nestwood. y. J., ana Mrs Ella ktngrey
o. Gordon, Ala. besides admitting being
an army descFter.
He might just we'll admit il, said
the Inspector, for We have the facts 10
prove .lu this and more. Everything
stated of this man has been verified in
my investigation
Acknowledges Real Name.
The only marriage out OF the five
charged against him that he denies is
that of Mrs. Lulu Kettering at Roches-
ter Inspector Cross declares he will
have no trouble IN proving this.
District Attorney Clarke, OF Brooklyn.
/ said yesterday:
7 ann expecting. the chemists report
OH the analysis OF the organs OF 8Irs.
Mamie GorInun in 4 few days.
We have Carlton completely sur
wounded by charges and he is IN for
: long term. believe
INSPECTOR Cross has received an i'm
portant letter from soldier living in
St. Louis who was with Carlton, alias
MeCandiess, in the Sixth Infantry
Copies ns the letter. which throws
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STANDPATTERS
TALK Of GRAF 7
Plan to Keep Congress Busy
With Investigations.
THEIR LINE OF CAMPAIGN
Point to Treasury Deficit for Purpose
OF Preventing Tariff and Rail-
road Legislation.

Standpatters, according TO reports
which come to Washington through
visiting politicians, are oVerjoyed al the
exposures and lumors OF graft IN the
Government service. because they see
possibilities OF keeping Congress busy
next winter with graft Investigations,
thus preventing t8riIf and railroad lesis-
laJiou
The growing Treasury deficit IS point
ed 10 in this connection as possible
reinforcement for the standpatters IL
another direction. A few weeks
ago. before le graft inquiries started,
the deficit WAS feared by the opponents
OF tariff revision They were afraid il
would be used as an argument ii favor
0f reducing some Of Tie tariff schedules,
So as 70 get them down below the pro
hib.tiye point thus letting in some for
eigu goods This would serve the dou-
bic purpose OF adding 70 revenues and
forcing an eleclent OF rcguIative conpe-
C,ion upon he trusts
Situation Has Changed.
But now the situation is different.
The program as outlined Includes =
series or enthusiastic attacks on graft
IN all It's forms. visible or Invisible, OK
lstent or inld giaary; investigation of rEe
tlt LIitt.l+tf-E EA-lSiiitEdtlBl4 OF laws TO
restrict the possibilities along this lire
III future. When the deficit is talked
about the reply OF the standpattcrs win
be that if all the graft and waste could
be eliminated. the revenues would be
ample without seeking for new sources.
Thus there Is ample possibility of oc-
cup1ing the time OF 4 session without
infIcting any punishment ou the inter
ests that the standpatters are deter
mined TO protect There is even init
nation that the Panama canal may
come in for an Investigation BY u Con-
gressional committee or Two. There
have been rumoTs enough TO furnish am
pie excuse Tor sending y commas on,
and meanwhile holding UP appropria-
tionS for The canal until the commission
reports. Al appropriation of $40 coo csc
was placed in the hands OF the Presi-
dent for expenditure in prosecuting the
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Not Many Absentees.

Although over =.eO9 sailors had en-
1oyed shore leave during The stay Of
Admiral Evans great battleship fleet
here there were less than lGJ absentees
this morning at roll cali Nearly all OF
these men viii show up al the receiving
ship Hancock in the navy yard. sin
cereiy repentaat, in a few days. when
their money IS gone, and Very few OF
them are apt TO be entered Is deserters.
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anchor at 10 o'clock. the fleet headed
FOR the battery in single file.
The ships sailing today are the SIaine.
the Missouri. the Kentucky. the Kcar-
sarge, the Alabama, the Illinois. The
Iowa. and lie Mas...cluselL.
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Chesapeake Beach, the Family Resort

of Washington Good grabbing and fish
ing Sec r. r. schedule.-Adv
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MORE EVIDENCE
NOW NECESSARY
Grand Jury's Latest Move
i'll Cotton Case.
ADJ0URNS UNTIL THURSDAY
After That Day the Session VIII
Close Indehnitely-Proceedings
of Today.

The special grand jury investigating
the cotton crop report leaks adjourned
tooay Unti Thursday, after fru.tIess
EFFORTS To extract more useful teStl-
mony from the New York brokers ia
VOWED. District Attorney Beech said
that on Thursday another adjournment
would be taken Ior an indefinite time.
II is supposed that this means Ile
inquiry has been blocked. for the time
being - least by The absence Of the
witnesses most needed-McssTs. Hyde
and HCllres-and Che failure To secure
court rulings under which Peckham
and Haas, The New York men can be
forced IL tell salient facts
The district attorney Is very reiiceut
and nothing positive as 10 the reason
for the unexpected adjournment was to
&c learned officially, 1t is supposed.
however. by those most familiar with
the mater that no adequate testimony
can have been secured uD to tnig time
on which o base indictments with as-
surance OF conviction. This however
may be an Incorrect view.
II is certain that the grand jury has
before il considerable documentary e-Si-
dence III The form of letters tEat were
turned over 10 II by SECRETARY Wilson,
and this with what has been adduced
by the grand jury, may be sufficient 10
warrant indictments
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Both Promptly on Hand,

Mr. Haas and MIR. Peckham were on
hand this morning at II o clock when
the jury convened. and, were irnmedi-
ately summoned before that body 10
testify The latter was called first and
was questioned for nearly half an hour
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Everybody Buys in Carload Lots Now
through Libbey & Co. 9Th & n. Y.-Adv.
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-01


applied metal and other Inc
are the locals sci
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-13

in six years in order to preserve a
cause of action on demand note. and
in the absence of proof that payment
thereof has ever been demanded of the
bank the note is outlawed
A Hamilton county newspaper tells
a lady who had probably planned a
little surprise on her husband. but
which failed thru the clerk OF the
courts. The lady was from Brisby and
demanded that the clerk furnish her
With a divorce at once Mr.. Luna
asked the nature of her visit. To this
she replied:
II want to get a divorce from my
husband right away; SO if you have
time l would be pleased to have you
make out the necessary papers this
afternoon, SO l may take them home
with me-"
GladysI call it AN automobile en-
gagement.
Maude-What's an automobile en-
gagement?
Gradys--One that starts off all right.
but nobody's quite dead sure that it
will be able to keep on going.-Life.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-13
ORGANS AND ORGANS.

From the Cedar Rapids Republican
we learn that:
There is a column and a half in a
Marshalltown paper almost every day
which has to do with the movements
of One Man in Des Moines. just as
the movements of kings are chronicled,
and that is why we have used the
phrase. the organ of the perpetual
alteration Of the saints that are in
Iowa, as applied to that paper. 1t is
evidently trying to undo the work of
the Des Moires Capital"
That's a good guess. 1t has never
clear to the T.-R why republican
newspaper at the capital of the state
should use its columns to malign and
misrepresert the republican governor
who has given the state and the party
the cleanest, the ablest and most
courageous administration the state
has ever had. We only wish the
Cedar Rapids paper would join with
the Register and Leader and the Mar
shalltown paper and try little to
undo the work of the Des Moines
Capital" But could the Cedar Rapids
paper do it if it wanted to?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-13
gt1rs Republican, slarsalltn1u1 ana;, 5ap Is 1905

but is usually quiescent in that denom-
| nation. The rural ministers alleged
| that there was favoritism in the con-
| ference. The fat metropolitan appoint
ments went always invariably. they
said, to privileged friends of the 'capi-
net" (made up of the bishop and pre-
siding elders) or were dictated Ny
wealthy layrnen who contributed large
ly to church enterprises. A special
committee decided that there was some
ground for The charges, but. the effort
to secure ministerial representation IN
the "cabines" was dropped for the
time. probably in the interest OF mar
mony. We need not discuss the Wis
dom of the Methodist appointive sys-
tenn. The point to be made is simply
that the salaries of country pastors
are so low that they cannot be blamed
for desiring to better their material
condition. The conference attempted
a concession by providing hereafter
that no effe married pastor should
be assigned to a church which paid
less than $500 salary. For a man of
culture, a married man. man of col
lege equipment-s600 Is 1t any Won
der that mere young men do not enter
the ministry?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-13

stranger. l am capable of making my
own living.
The man l would marry must have
manly appearance. good moral char
acter and be u Protestant in religion.
If YOU wish to form my acquaintance
write quickly.
There is much more than amusement
to be cleaned from these letters, writ
ten by good women, whose instinct to-
ward a home and protector leads them
to reply to the unknown advertiser
Perhaps they illustrate II tendency OF
women past their youth to make a
business proposition of matrimony.
Women of experience are inclined 10
do Well when they marry. At any
rate the correspondence uncovers the
heart hunger and loneliness of minated
women and may furnish a happy conf
parison to overworked and half dissat-
isfied wives and mothers and a warn :
ing to bachelor girls All may study
the psychology of the correspondence
But 1t shows that not all who answer
those who advertise for wives are UNI
worthy and ii might be proper to say in
passing thae matrimonial advertise
ments offer little opportunity of happy
marriage and that the honest women
and giddy girls, who answer them, run
chances of entanglements that are far
more likely to bring misery than hap
piness. Men who are worth marrying
usually find wives without the aid of
publicity. The woman who answers
a matrimonial adj in earnestness or
fun has done foolish thing and a
wrong to her womanhood.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-13
{ LOOKER.ON IN IOWA

| Irwin, May 1.-TWO or three times
| the writer has commenced an article
| for this column on Our Early Spring.
| True it is that in this vicinity, on the
| first of April, we were three or four
weeks ahead" of ordinary spring
| weather, and the grass was seen Oh
the lawns and in the pastures, to be
! equal to some years on the first OF
! May. AS usual, the local weather
prophets are indulging in wise advice,
but there is so much difference in their
representations that every farmer is
using his own judgment regardless of
local prophets or Hicks.
Along in last fall the following was
clipped from an Iowa weather bureau
report:
"A valued correspondent inclosed
the following clipping from Mime
sofa paper, requesting the opinion of
the editor of this publication as to
the reliability of the muskrat as a
true prophet of the character of the
coming winter. The writer said: i
know from personal experience that
the muskrat builds larger houses some
years than others, but I had attribu-
ted it to the abundance or lack of ma
terial.'
Following is the clipping referred
to:
Bermidii, Minn December 2. - The
muskrat as a weather prophet never
misses. The little animals have about
completed their winter building now
and their houses are flimsy affairs. a
sure sign of an open winter The In
dams and old settlers have more con-
| fidence in the little furry creatures
than in human weather prognostica-
tors. They say muskrats can tell
| months ahead what the weather will
be and in northern Minnesota they
have shown their foresight by building
! thin walls to their winter homes.
Reply.
| Dear Sir-I am in receipt of your
letter of the 3rd inst. and the clip
ping relative to the muskrat as a
| long-range weather prophet. Res
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-13
For Sunday Reading:
All Sorts Of Opinions.
Observation-Disclosures
Joe Jefferson's Poem.

Joe Jefferson'S Poem.
Joseph Jefferson wrote a poem on
Immortality last summer and his
friend E. G.. Benedict, gives it to the
world with the following note of ex-
PLANTATION:
"One day last summer when Joseph
Jefferson and Grover Cleveland were
taking luncheon on board the Oneida
in Buzzard's Bay, the conversation
drifted to the subject of future life.
Mr.. Jefferson expressed himself as
grateful for having had more than his
share of the joys of this life and as be-
ing prepared to meet, at any moment,
the common fate of all. He said he
had lately been scribbling some dog
gerel on the subject, and he said he
did not possess a copy, but promised
to send me one. In February remind
ed him of his promise and received a
signed copy of the verses, which he
entitled Immortality 1t seems as
tho these lines construct a beautiful
bridge between faith and reason,
The poem is as follows:
Two caterpillars crawling on a leaf
BY some strange accident in contact
came;
Their conversation, passing all belief,
Was the same argument, the very
same,
That has been "proed and coned" from
man to man.
Yea, ever since this wondrous world
began.
The ugly creatures,
Deaf, dumb and blind,
Devoid of features
yrhat adlorn mankind,
Were vain enough, in dull and wordy
strife.
To speculate upon future life.
The first was optimistic; full of hope;
The second quite dyspeptic; seemed
Said Number One: I'm sure of our
salvation
Said Number Two: I'm sure of our
damnation;
Our ugly forms alone would seal our
fate.
And bar our entrance thru the Golden
Gates.
Suppose that death should take us I'M
awares,
How could we climb the golden stairs?
If maidens shun us as they pass by,
Would angels bid us welcome in the
sky?
wonder what great crimes we have
committed,
That leave us so forlorn and SO nu-
pitied?
Perhaps, we've been ungrateful, un-
forgiving;
IT'S plain to me that life's not worth
the living"
"come, cheer up" the jovial worm
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-13
WHY, WAS ir7

The speech C,,mmins made in Chi
cago for the reciprocity of Blaine, NC
Ktnley and Kasson has aroused the
same chorus of criticism from the
standpat or anti Cummins papers that
was sung with success last summer.
Because Cummins argued for a seal
ing down of tariff duties in return for
increased markets abroad he is attack
ed for presenting a democratic doc
trine. The Cedar Rapids Republican
refers with good deal Of gloating to
the delegate convention of last year
saying that Cumlnins was taken to
Chicago only thru courtesy. that:
.He and the few who were with him
then carried the fight into the delega-
ton caucuses at Chicago and was
again overwhelmingly beaten. He and
the few who were with him then car
ried the fight before the committee on
resolutions and were again overwhelm-
ingly defeated"
1.-THE expression of the party in this
state and the expression of the party
nationally was emphatically opposed
to everything that the governor had
proposed
Now if that were SO will the Repub-
lican please explain how it happened
that Blythe, who beat Cummins
in the delegation caucus, was found
on the resolutions committee voting
against the tariff plank in a hopeless
minority with such company as the
railroad ring ridden states of Penn
sylvania, California and Wyoming. 1t
was very clear then that Cummins was
beaten by Blythe in the delegate eau
Gus but it has never been explained
why Blythe WAS beaten by the rest OF
the republican states when the tariff
plank was adopted, except that LATE
Young came out frankly at the time
and said that he was not
satisfied with the tariff plank
OF the national platform and
that standpatters ought to admit it.
Cummins, on the other hand, seemed to
be pretty we'll pleased. However, Cum
minis is democrat you know, when
he talks reciprocity.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-13

Commenting on DR.. Gladden's af-
firmation that Adam could not have
become millionaire, the Scranton
Journal eXclaims: Nonsense! Adam
had the greatest menagerie ever con-
trolled by man, and aside from his
wife, had no competition"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-13
topics Of the Times

Mr.. Cleveland is probably confirmed
in his view that club women and the
prushy end of the broomstick do not
belong together.
The Allalnakee Journal apologies
last week for advance publication OF
an obituary notice. The corpse who did
MT keep the date with the doctor and
the editor is still getting along nicely.
I'm not going to tell another Eng
lishman a joke"
"Whys not?"
Its too dangerous. The last one
experimental with was a boisterous
laugher but he didn't see the point
until two days later"
THAT was all right, wasn't it?"
NO. He saw it as a funeral" =
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A noticeable popularity of the
STUFF furnished by the railroad press
bureau; consisting mainly of the EEK
pressions of public men on the rate
uestion is that the utterances Of the
president furnish no copy. A Roosa-
welt interview would be welcome
Secretary Wilson leading a party of
grain gospellers thru the south teach
ing the natives how to grow grain
successfully furnishes an interesting.
Illustration of change in forty years
when Sherman led party into the
same section distributing a very diff
ferent gospel.
Southern strawberry shippers are
complaining that their crop is going to
waste thru lack of proper and adequate
shipping facilities.
OF the good many Iowa papers that
circulate among the people there is no
other from a standpoint of news serv-
ice, that in the estimation of the read
err, comes nearer to absolute satisfa.c-
ton Of his wants than the MARSHALL
town Times Republican. 1t is a real
newspaper, made to serve the people
of the state in general, and those of
central Iowa in particular.-Grundy
County Democrat.
The ladies' of the U. L. church at
Thompson advertise for dinner next
Wednesday such dishes as "sodtsuppe,
ludfisk, fiatbrod, lefse, est, kringle, po-
tetekage, terte, bakkelse and gomrne.
Naturally the guests would expect to
get little CONNIE at the end of such
menu.
Mae" Wood still insists that secre-
tary Loeb blocked her game.
AS the result of the flying of the
junior colors from the flag pole at the
top of the high school building, eight
of the junior class have been sus-
pended and tried by the school beard
of Creston. The suspended students
circulated cards inviting the public to
the trial.
A Minnesota justice of peace recently
rendered a decision that a certain ma
tional bank not was outlawed Sucn
a bill cannot constitute a good tender
for debt, after six years from its
date. The opinion of the learned JUS
tice states that the law is to the eff
feet that demand must be made with
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-13
Cleared for Action,

When the body is cleared for actor
by DR.. Kings New Life Pills. you cali
tell it by the bloom of health on tila
cheeks; the brightness of the eyes;
the tirmness of the flesh and muscles;
the buoyancy of the mind. Try them
At Mcdonald & Mahood's drug store
25 cents.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-13
replied,

replied,
Lets take look upon the other side
Suppose we cannot fly like moths OF
millers,
Are we to blams for being caterpllars:
Will that same God that doomed us tc
crawl the earth
A prey to every bird that's given
birth,
Forgive our captor as he eats and
sings,
And damn poor us because we have
not wings.
If we can't skim the air like owl or
bat,
a worm will turn for a that"
They argued thru the summer autumn
nigh,
The ugly things composed themselves
to die;
And So to make their funeral quite
complete,
Each wrapped him in his little wind
ing sheet.
The tangled web encompassed them
full soon.
Each for his coffin made him cocoon
All thru the winters chilling blast
they lay
Dead to the world, aye, dead as hui
man clay.
Lo. spring comes forth with all her
warmth and love:
She brings sweet justice from the
realms above;
She brings the chrysalis, she resur-
reefs the. dead:
Two butterflies ascend encircling her
head.
And so this emblem shall forever be
y sign of immortality.