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Yukon Valley news., 1905-03-08
financial slap.

financial slap.
 The N. C. Co. has no trading post in Cinema; but the outside management has an eye to business and has bought a block of good ground on the river front ill con- nection with the purchase of the Sharp & Kirkpatrick warehouse. The company's passenger and freight traffic 10 these points has been tremendous-a aside from the sales of machinery and merchan- disc in Fairbanks reaching one day in September last the enormous sum of S37,ooo. taking sixty men in and about stores and warehouses to handle the business and look after the affairs.
 A fine ruse they worked on the people when they installed the large electric plant and put coal oil to $2o per case-and, of course, a shortage at that. WiX the suffer- ing public ever yell, Take him off! I've got enough"'
 believe the company's entire income in the Panama country will exceed the output of gold in the camp for this season, although it is predicted by enthusiasts it will reach $6,ooo. 900. But what do you say if VIC cut this in two, The result will be more probable.
 There are five steamers below Cinema at various points that were either too heavily loaded or were impeded by drift ice. namely. the Independence. the Florence s. the J. P. Light. the Helen Bruce. and the Tyrrell. Those steamers win tering al Cbena are the Robe { Kerr. the Emma Nott. the Marga. ret. the Dusky Diamond. the Min. neapolis. the Monarch. the Los Angeles. the Isabel and the I.ouella
Yukon Valley news., 1905-03-08
TOPICS OF THE PANAMA
Conditions and Outlook in the Boom COuntr Around Cinema and FairbanI<s-- Business
 Men Scored for Grab-Au Policy.


 others are running about from one creek to another 10 see if theil neighbors' bacon and bans are holding out and incidentally to ge, a quiet tip by the way? I'm dig ding, as well as all army of others, would make the answer to the question obvious. l know no more about strike than I do about what we will have to pay for grub next winter.'
 These business men have their little quiet talks, with notebook in hand, looking askance and fndin. shortS, thereby putting the necessi- ties up to an exorbi,ant price. They are not three degrees removed from highwaymen. one way or the other, excepting the road man with the persuasive big gun ain't such bad looking fellow altogether. When he gets ones we'll filled purse the victim can console himself by ar guing that he ought to have gone around, or taken a gun (to make a standof), or gone the other trail. Bu, i'll the other case there must be no gun, and there is no other trail only the trail of imperative neces- sity that leads unto the counter: and one pays from 50 to 6s cents a pound for bacon, when it should only be 25 and not to exceed 30 cents.
 This was why the Miners Asso- citation was formed last summer and MT. K. A. Chisholm made general manager and sent to the outside for provisions. He landed in Cinema on Sept. 27 last with the steamer Seattle No. 5 with I6o tons of merchandise for the Miners As sociation. It was badly mixed mess. He did not prove an efficient man, and had brought lot of goods not ordered, ostensibly for private use. He also let the NoI tn ern Commercial company flch him on freight up the river from St. Michael to the tune of Ss5 per ton, after charging SIS per ton for light craze at St. Michael when the transportation from Seattle to the latter pla was secured for Sr2 per ton, a distance of 2,7oo miles. will not qualify these statements. but have them from most reliable source.
 That is the way the x. C. Co. dug it's tentacles into the Miners Association. A viciousness of in. dividual as we'll as corporate greed wrought the association into a bad plight; but |, is stated il is going to meet the conditions tn a more
Yukon Valley news., 1905-03-08

S To the Yukon Valley News.
 Thinking few notes from the boom Panama country would be of interest to a, feast a few readers, l beg leave to scribble few; so away she goes.
 Cinema. the camp of destiny, is quiet. Situated oil the right b Ink of the Tanana 225 miles from the mouth, nature clothed and laid out q townsite here; but the devil ran away with the plars. There are, however, not d few natural advan- tages to this town, and some busi- ness men predict that when the railroad is completed the wholesale district will ultimately be here, as the extra haul would incur an un- necessary expense to reship goods to Fairbanks and then back over the same spur and out to the creeks But Jet it be said of the energy of the people of the latter place: They put goods up the slough from Chena (the head of navigation) in polling boats, and nearly always under ad- verse conditions, and then sold at least $ per cent. of the merchanta- ble goods cheaper than was dore here in Cinema But the people of this town must consider, with the margin of profit maintained in both towns, that few extra miles haul will not impede the progress of the upper town ill the least; and until Cinema is infused with a few really alive business men men who would let the other man live. liav- ing, ill the meantime, little inter- est in the town and a spark of benignity for their neighbors and fellow townsmeu--not until then can the lower town hope to exclaim for the survival of the Attest.
 At any rate, if no strikes are made outside of what has already been found, those dreaming of vast
 
 possibilities in the advance of prop erty rates in either town had better unload while they can command soms price. By reason of no strikes being made up to the present-or since the stampede rightly started last spring-some business men who have large holdings are getting shaky. One of them asked me lately ii thought there would be any more strikes made in the camp. told him that is the reason l am poor man. said:
 "You know am digging. don't | you' You know there are three or four hundred men out looking for a paystreak! That by reason of ex- orbisant prices, a good many are
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-13
SAYS ATHLETICS RUIN MEN.
President James of Illinois Denounces
College Spo It's.

Urbana, ILL.,, June 13.-President
E. j. James, of the University of Illi-
nois, after five years careful investiga-
ton, says that the severe strain un-
dergone by college athletes largely un-
fits them for business or professional
life, leaving them unable to play
mans part in affairs, because of ply
sical weakness induced by overexer-
ton.
Nearly all football players, baseball
men and lawn tennis experts, he de-
clares, have weak hearts, and are more
liable to other forms of diseases than
men who take a more rational inter-
est in college sports.
For years President James has felt
that college athletics We're being car
ried to dangerous extremes. He has
always opposed the excessive training
necessary to competition in college
games. With the idea of ascertaining
the actual effect of the long training
and the terrible effort necessary to the
contest, he began collecting statistics
regarding the health of famous ath-
letes and their accomplishments in the
affairs of life.
Heart Disease Prevails.
These statistics will not be ready for
official publication before next Octo-
ber. but President James says they
will undoubtedly cause surprise to the
men who declare the college athlete
develops into the vigorous man who
does things.
The lives Of English and American
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-13
CLEVELAND ON EQUITABLE.
Former President Writes concernin!

Former President Writes Concerning
the Insurance Controversy.
New York, June 1S.-Former Presi-
dent Cleveland has written letter to
Thomas F. Ryan concerning the trus-
teeship of the stock of the Equitable,
which he accepts. The letter was
made public yesterday and is as fol-
lows:
"Princeton, June 10. 1e05-Thomas
F. Ryan, Esq.-Dear Sir: I have this
morning received your letter asking
me to act as one of three trustees to
hold the stock of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society," which has lately
been acquired by you and certain as
sociates and to use the voting power
of such stock in the selection of direc-
tors of said society.
After little reflection l have de-
termined I ought to accept this SER
vice / assume the duties upon the ex-
pressed condition that, so far as the
trustees are to be vested with discre-
ton in the selection of directors, they
are to be absolutely free and undis-
turbei in the exercise of their judg-
ment. and that, SO far as they are to
act formally in voting for the direc-
tors conceded to be policy holders a
fair and undoubted expression OF poll
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-13
PROTESTS TO ROOSEVELT.
Asiatic Association Fears Peril to Our
Export Trade.

Washington, June 13.-President
Roosevelt held conference last night
with about thirty members of the
Asiatic association representing the
cotton and the iron and steel trade Of
the United States. The delegation
entered formal protest against such
an enforcement of the Chinese exclu-
sion laws as might imperil the export
trade of this country with China. 1t
was pointed out that the commercial
organizations Of China We're threaten
ing to boycott American made goods,
especially cotton and steel products
unless arrangements were made
whereby Chinese merchants. literary
men and travellers could enter the
United States without the serious diff
ficulty which they now encouter The
Chinese urge that members of the
classes which under our exclusion laws
are permitted to enter the United
States are subjected to inconvenience
and humiliation by the emigration Of
ficers and they insist upon more lib
eral treatment of the exempt classes
of their countrymen. The delegation
was headed by John Ford, of New
York, secretary of the American
Asiatic association
Mr.. Ford made an address, during
the course of which he proteste.!
against the exclusion of Chinese as at
present, and enumerated the reasons
why his association believes this gov
ernment should modify it's restriction
against this race of people.
President Roosevelt responded COR
daily. He took exception to the int
nation that the immigration officers
were too insistent in the enforcement
Of the law, but in other respects agreed
with the delegation that it would be
proper for the government to encour-
age friendly relations with China. He
proposed to do all in his power to pro-
mote United States trade with China
and to promote generally the export
trade of American producers, farmers,
as well as manufacturers. He prcmis-
ed to take up the subject with Secra-
tary Metcalf of the department of
commerce and labor and other officials
and do all in his power to remedy the
difficulty
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-13
PEST SCARE IN GRAND RAPIDS.
Seventy five Cases of Small Pox Re-
ported and City Is Alarmed.

seventy -uve Vases OF 0HdU TUX nSs
ported and City Is Alarmed.
Grand Rapids Mich, June 13.-Sev-
enty-five cases of small pox and a
thousand rumors have combined to
give this city great scare, with the
result that the schools are all closed,
an embargo has been placed upon
church going, theatres are dark and
street cars are disinfected upon being
run in at night.
The trouble began about two months
ago, when several cases were reported
on the west side. The disease was
thought to have been stamped out, but
last week several cases were reported
in the residence districts in the east
and south ends, and these have caused
something like a panic.
The health officers ordererd the sus-
pension of all schools in the affected
districts, and today this order was ex-
tended to all the schools of the city.
The churches in the threatened district
also were ordered closed, and when
one refused to obey yesterday officers
dispersed the congregation.
There were four new cases yester-
day and one today, but the authorities
insist that the situation is we'll In hand
and that there is no serious danger.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-13

athletes have been investigated. In
England it has been easy to follow the
stars after they left school as the
alumni of the big universities are kept
track of carefully. Here the task has
been more difficult, because many OF
the cracks have disappeared. Besides
the strenuous ira nipg o. American
athletes is Of comparative recent de-
velopment.
Football, as it is played today, was
not developed until the middle '7Os,
and basketball before that time was a
simple kind of sport. Tennis players
runners, oarsmen, ETC., present better
chances for investigation. and fur
nished President James valuable sta
tistics.
Regarding the crack tennis players
he said: There IS scarcely one OF
the top notchers but who has suffered
from heart disease, many of them in
sey.~e form. Many died Of heart dis
.a... between the ages of 40 and 45,
when they should have been at their
best, physically"
Football Irrational, He Says.
"You must not think that l am op-
posed to athletics, for am not. The
rational sports of college life have no
stronger supporter than l. I believe
that every girl and boy should take
part in healthy outdoor sports.
81 am opposed to the present meth
DDS whereby at the University of IL
linois, out of $500 students, sixty men
appear to train for the football team
and after untold hardships eleven are
picked to represent the college. The
only exercise majority of the $500
students get is in the roofing.
"rhis condition is wrong and should
not be permitted to exist. Fortunately
things have gone to such an extreme
that a reaction is bound to set in, and
sports will be conducted on more ra-
tional lines, so as to include more stu
dents and to eliminate the great strain
on the leading athletes"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-13
GETS 100000 IN FRAUD.
s,windlers In Indiana and Ohio Forge
Paper Of Standard Oil.

SWindIerS In Indiana and Ohio for9e
Paper Of Standard Oil.
Marion. Ind, June IA swindle by
means of forged checks Of the Stand
ard Oil Company, which may involve
the loss of more than 100000 to mer-
chants and banks in many states, was
disclosed here today.
f. S. Davis of the Standard Oil Com
pany, arrived here yesterday from Oil
City, Pa, and with President Reason
er, or the First National bank examin-
ed several checks .cashed by the First
National for local merchants. Checks
calling for $1,000 and ranging in the
amount from $50 upward were found.
Similar paper in other banks as well
as checks in transit, will no doubt,
bring the amount up to several thous-
and dollars in the local field.
safety" Paper Is Used.
The blank checks are said to have
been procured from a safety paper
company. and are reproductions of
the Standard Oil checks. The sigma
ture of the local treasurer of the COM
pany is well initiated. SO hat bankers
familiar with the sgnatu :e were un-
able to detect the forgery, and the
swindle was not discovered until the
checks began to reach the New York
office, and Mr.: Davis was sent to the
different oil fields to protect the bank
ers and merchants.
1t is said that the checks are coming
into New York from the Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky oil fields,
and it is impossible to tell yet the ex-
act amount obtained by the swindlers
Local merchants have always cashed
the checks without hesitation, and
several of them will be losers in the
transaction.
Pass National City Bank.
The checks passed thru the Nation
al City Bank of New York, and, there
fore were not discovered until the
May pay roll was checked up at Oil
City, Pa. The checks were printed
on peculiar paper, Of which only three
firms have the secret, and the bear all
the usual signatures of Standard Oil
officers. The printing and pen work
is perfect to the naked eye, even to
bank experts.
Banks at Marion, Montpelier, Uu-
land, Bluffton and Fairmount, Ind, it
is reported, have handled the paper.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-13
cy holding choice will be forthcom

ICY noldlng cholce Will pe loitneoAii7
ing.
"The general anxiety aroused by the
recent unhappy dissensions In the
management of the Equitable society
furnishes proof of the near relat1on-
ship of our people to life insurance.
These dissensions have not only in
jured the fair fame of the company
Immediately affected, but have inn
paired popular faith and confidence in
the security of life insurance itself, as
a provision for those who in thousands
of cases would be otherwise help
less against the affective visitations OF
fate.
"The character of this business is
such that those who manage and di-
rect it are charged with grave trust
for those who, necessarily, must rely
upon their fidelity. In these circum-
stances they have no right to regard
the places they hold as ornamental
but rather as positions of work and
duty and watchfulness. Above all
things they have no right to deal with
the interests entrusted to them in such
a way as to observe or become cons
fused or complicated with their per-
sonal transactions or ventures.
"While the hope that l might aid in
Improving the plight of the Equitable
society has led me to accept the trus-
teeship you tender, I cannot rid myself
Of the belief that what has overtaken
this company is liable to happen to
other insurance companies and fidu-
ciary organizations as long as lax
ideas of responsibility in places oil
trust are tolerated by our people. The
high pressure of speculation, the mad
ness of inordinate business schemine
and the chances taken in new and un-
certain enterprises are constantly pres
ent temptations, too often successful
in leading managers and directors
away from scrupulous loyalty and fl
deity to the interests Of others con-
t1ded to their care.
I'VE can better afford to sIacken our
pace than to abandon our old. simple
American standards Of honesty; and
we shall be safer if we regain our old
habit of looking at the appropriation
to personal uses Of property and inter-
ests held in trust. in the same light as
other forms Of stealing. Yours very
truly,
GROVER CLEVELAND"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-13
ESPECIAL TRAIN ON
SOUTHERN WRECKED
Excursion Carrying Confeder-
ate Veterans to the Reunion
at Louisville
FIVE REPORTED KILLED
Accident Occurred Near Golden Gats,
illinois, and the Particulars Have
Not Been Received-New York Court
Of Appeals Refuses to Interfere ia
Patrick Case.
REPORTED

Louisville. KY, June ia special
train carrying confederate veterans to
the reunion at Louisville is reported
derailed Near Golden Gate. Ill, on the
Southern Railway.
A telephone message to Albion, says
five people are known to have been
killed. Albion is eleven miles from
Golden Gate.
st. Louis, June 13.-The local ofice
Of the Southern Railway has received
report that one person was killed,
and five injured in the wreck at Coll
den Gate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-13
POSTAL ORDER ON LOTTERIES.

New instructions Sent Out to All Off
ces by Postmaster General.
Washington, June IA thorough
enforcement of the anti-lottery law is
urged on postmasters and all other
postal employees in a general order
promulgated yesterday by Postmaster
General Cortelyou. IT calls on all em-
ployes to examine mail matter. espec-
tally publications, with the greatest
care consistent with prompt trans
mission and delivery, and to with
draw or exclude all such relating to
lotteries and like enterprises, such as
guessing contests endless chain
schemes and gift concerns.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-13
r,oTH SIDES AGREED.
Formal Replies Do Not Differ Mater.
tally From Informal Statements.

Z
Washington, June 13.-It is an
nounceti today that the formal reply
OF the Russian government to Presi-
dent Rooseyelt's Identical note of last
Thursday is in the hands of the Ameri-
can government The response was
handed to Ambassador Meyer at ST
Petersburg by Count Lamsdorff and
transmitted by the ambassador to the
president. It can be said that it is in
perfect consonance with the oral as
surance given the president yesterday
by Russian Ambassador Cassini. The
president has decided not to make pub
lie the replies of Russia and Japan to
his appeal for cessation of hostilities.
This determination was arrived at by
the suggestion of both belligerents that
publication of the responses at this
juncture might not be desirable. Off
cial assurance is given, however, that
the informal statements of the con-
tents of the replies are not only accur-
ate, but practically complete as to the
information contained in them.
Neither of the formal responses Of
Russia and Japan contain suggestions
as to the place of meeting of the peace
conference or names of plenipotenti-
aries. Following important confer
ences of yesterday and last night, there
was a lull in negotiations today.
Discussion of the time and place of
meeting of the peace conference is
proceeding between the representatives
of Russia and Japan. a. this capital and
their home governments 1t is inti-
mated officially today that Paris was
the choice of the Russian government
ard London of Japan. 1t can be said
neither government expected that it's
choice would be satisfactory to the
other. 1t was ascertained today that,
in exchanges between the Russian en-
bassy and Japanese legation with their
respective governments, The Hague is
being considered as particularly de-
siratle location of the conference, ard
It is regarded as not unlikely The
Hague may be agreed upon by the bel
ligerents. 1t is pointed out that for
NAL armistice between the two great
armies facing each other on the plains
of Nianchuria hardly will be arranged
until the conference shall take definite
form.
The suggestion is made, however.
that. in view of pending negotiations,
neither the Russian nor japanese gov
ernment would permit another general
engagement to occur. The subject of
I,ending negotiations was considered
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-13

stationed at one of the forts in =
northern part of the state. He tolf>.
assisting in the killing of four or.
buffalo at one time which were =. j
in a herd. Later single buffalo as
discovered near the fort and was
killed.
Des Moines is hanging on the rag
ged edge beteween being city of the
first or only the second class. If the
people here number more than $4,000
the city in the postal regulations will
be q city of tie first class, the salary
of the postmaster will be advanced
and there will be other advantages.
The assessors report shows 74,17S,
but Secretary Dawson, of the execu-
tive council, has found over $4,000 and
the business men are CORRESPONDENCE
interested.
Ole Roe, of the insurance department
of the auditors office will go to Pitts
burg, Pa, tomorrow, to act as a state
delegate to the national synod of the
Evangelical Lutheran church. He will
be gone about ten days.
A decision on the two cases under
the. new drainage law can be expected
at the next period Of the supreme court
which will be the first of the Septem-
Der term. The two drainage law
cases, one from Wright county and
the other from Buena Vista county
were each advanced on the docket yes
terday and submitted to the supreme
court which makes possible a decision
next term. The biennial election law
case on a petition for rehearing be-
fore the supreme court was also ad-
yanced and submitted yesterday.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-13
An cdd Epitnph.

The following epitaph is to be read
on u tombstone at Saragossa. Spain:
Here lies John Quebecca, precentor to
my lord the king. When he is admit
ted to the choir of angels, whose So
ciety he will embellish and where he
will distinguish himself by his powers
cf song. God shall say to his angels.
"Cease, ye calves. and let Ne hear
John Quebecca. the precentor to my
lord the king"