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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-29
The Wiser Policy.

1t has never been argued that In all
things the tariff would result In cheap
ening prices at home. II we desired to
put our workingmen, wage earners, on
the same basis as those with whom
they come in competition in foreign
countries this difference In prices
might easily be overcome, but the
country has repeatedly decided that 1t
is best to keep the wage earners pros
porous, that It is wiser to make it
necessary that they pay higher prices
than those for which foreigners might
furnish the goods, If thereby they
were given opportunity to earn the
money with which to buy. There is
no profit in having the necessities of
life for sale at low figure IL business
is slack and men cannot get the price.
Portland Me.) Express.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-29
T0K|LL MINERS UNION
Coal Operators Are About to Make
One Gigantic Effort.
CALL SENT OUT TO LEADERS
Rltuminous and Anthracite Firms
VIII Join Forces In Effort to Reduce
Wage Scale of Miners. -. CountrJ
Faces Another Long Coal Famine.

Pittsburg, Sept. 26.-On April l..
1906, every coal mine in Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia
and part of Kentucky will close dowd
for an indefinite period. A meeting OF
the coal operators of all these states
has been called to take place Nov. %
at Chicago, when plans will be COM
pleted for the greatest lockout in the
history of the world.
Will Try to Crush Union.
It is proposed to shut down the
mines and to crush the United Mine
workers of America as an organiza-
ton or else to force them to accept a
reduction of from 10 to Is cents ton
on the present mining rate. This Is
the program which is to be carried out
if the eastern contingent OF the an
thracite operators favor advancing the
price of coal, closing down the mines
to limit the output.
Herman JUST, commissioner for the
Illinois Coal Operators association,
sent out the call. This will be the
first time the anthracite coal oper.
ators will have entered into an agree
ment with the bituminous coal oper-
ators. The object Of this Is to stifie
the increasing growth Of unionism Ia
the eastern coal mines.
There exists an agreement among
the western Pennsylvania, Ohio. Indi-
ana and Illinois coal Operators known
as the Interstate agreement, whereby
the operators annually meet the unit
ed mineworkers Of the various dis
tricts and settle on mining rate for
the year.
Ignore the Unions.
The anthracite coal operators are
unwilling to deal with the miners
union and have about 10000 miners
employed in eastern Pennsylvania I'M
der individual contracts To kill the
miners union the anthracite employ
ers must have the assistance Of the
soft coal operators of The west.
All the wage scales In the states
named expire April In fact, nearly
all the mining scales Of the country
expire on that date. 1t is to meet this
crisis that the meeting has been called
in Chicago in November. The coal
miners are getting better wages than
ever in the history OF the industry,
taking working facilities into consid-
Grafton. The interstate price is based
on IS cents per ton cor coal mined
and run over an inch and one-quarter
screen. Some of the western coal OPP
orators want this reduced to 70 cents
a ton and the coal miners will be met
with this proposition next January az
the wage conference.
The eastern coal operators will not
be represented at this gathering. OF
course, the coal miners representa-
tives will refuse to accept the reduc-
ton and the mines will be closed
down until either side is starved out.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-29
POLICY OF PROTECTION.
Has Proved Absolutely SatisfactOry
and Is Not to He Changed.

We are the only nation in the world
that can face proposition of absolute
commercial exclusion without a
tremor. We do not wish 1t to come to
that but we depend on the rest of the
world for almost nothing that is es-
sential, while we are certain of having
abundant food for generations. This
makes our position strong. We can
fight those who fight us, and we have
the longer sword.
Surely we must be just to ourselves
first and then as generous as the situa-
ton allows. Secretary Shaw has laid
down principle which Is to be main
tanned, and that simply means, in 4
few words, that the United States IN
tends to use its natural advantages,
its great wealth, its increasing popula-
ton and intellectual superiority to
maintain for its own people the high
est standard of living This policy is
selfish, but 1t is enlightened. 1t has
proved absolutely satisfactory and it
Is not to be changed. We stand pat
except to fight more powerfully
against those who want to start
little war against us. Perhaps we can
st9N1 contest as well as those who
are inviting it-Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-29
GENERAL MARKETS.
Wednesday, Sept. 27.

DETROIT.-Wheat: No white
82Ac; Nc. red, SIC; De-. S6kc,
May, $500. Corn-No. mixed, 55c;
No. 8 yellow, 58hc. Oats--No. 8
white, 30hc. Rye-No. 2, 691fc. Beans
Sept, $1.52; Oct. $1.69. C.over-Spo..
$7.05; Dec, $500.
CHICAGO.-Wheat: S,ot., 84hc;
Dec, 85Mc; May, S7Mc. Cor--Sept
$3.50; May, 46Mc. Oats-Sepi 27%;
Dec, 2SAc. Pork-Oct, slH; Jan
1892. Lard--Oct., 1882: Jel $6.77.
Ribs-Oct., $3.50; Jan, $6 At. Flax
seed-Cash NV, 9skc.
Live Stock Markets.
DETROIT.-Cattle: Choice steers,
$45OQ5; light to good butcher steers
and heifers, 700 to 900 ID. s393.75,
mixed butchers fat cows, $2.5003.50;
common bulls, s2@2.50; good shir-
pers' bulls, $S@3.50. Veal calves.
quiet; milch cows and springers, SIS
"a 45 each. Best lambs, $6.50@676:
fair to good lambs, s5.5006.25; fair 20
good butcher sheep. $2.50@450; cults
and common, 5000. Hogs-Iight 20
good butchers, $5.25@5.40; pigs, $50
B.O5; light Workers., $b.2o@5.SO.
CHICAGO.-Cattle: Beeves. $40
@6.3o; cows and heifers, $1.250460;
atockers and feeders, $2.25@440.
Hogs-Mixed and butchers. $3.50
SIS; light, $5.15@5.65; pigs, s4.sO@
$50. Sheep, $3.5004.S5; lambs, $4.25
@7.60.
EAST BUFFALO.-Cattle: Best ex-
port steers, $5.50@5.s5; best shipping
$4.S505.26; best fat cows, S3.7503.60;
best fat heifers, $3.6004.25. Hogs
Slow; pigs. $5.2005.30; medium and
heavy, $5.7005.s0. Best lambs, SITS;
fair to good. s70750; best sheep,
$4.7565; fair to good, t4@A5o. Calves,
steady; best. 9s.b0@s.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-29

Secretary Shaw refuses to worry over
the alleged prospective deficit Of In
come. 1--WE are not in bad way"
said the secretary in recent interview
in st. Louis. 'The country is in good
shape, and few dollars expended
more than the estimated receipts will
not materially affect our credit or i'm
pair, our financial standing We are
growing fast, and the estimates for
the fiscal year do not keep up perhaps
with the expenditures, but the country
is In no immediate danger Of bank
ruptcy. "-Burlington Hawkeye.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-29

Those who believe that the tariff ques-
Non is one which is exciting little inter
tst I'm Great Britain today should care
fully read the account Of the disorder
which broke out I'm the house of COM
mons at the Introduction Of the subject
recently. 1t was q demonstration
against protection, 1t is true, but when
the mere mention Of the subject can
produce such a scene In such an as
sembly II is evidence Of the attention
which it is now COMMUNICATIVE
York Press.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-29

GOOD ROADS MAKE PLEASANT TRAVELLING.
built from Maysville to the Tennessee
line by state, county and local. cooper
alton. Owing to increase in valuation
Of property In the counties, the state
has been paid back many times the
amount A study Of the last auditors
report shows that there is difference
Of 81 per acre in lands of the counties
south of Louisville, through which this
great road was built, such as Barren,
Warren and Simpson, and those on
either side. such as Edmonson. Todd
and Logan on one side, and Taylor,
Adair and Allen on the other. The most
fertile county in Kentucky Is without
good roads, and its taxable rating Is
about 500 per acre, while Woodford
and Bourbon, with nearly all their
roads good, are taxed upon forty-nine
dollar rating. Spencer, a hill county,
with poor rail and no river ransporta
ton, with her 200 miles of hard road,
pays more than double as much tax
as Livingston county, with her 100
miles of river front. With bad roads
you find yourselves as a county help
less to build good ones. 1t takes all
the tax the constitution allows to pay
your other expenses. You then have
recourse to the law which allows you
to call out the laborers of the county
six days each year. They have no
sufficient tools; they are unskilled;
most Of them have no horse-no use
for the road. The men who do use the
road seldom work II, or when they do
they get pay, for their teams at high
rate, considering service rendered.
This system, full of injustice and hard
ship to the poor, never has got-never
will get-good roads. Discard 1t.
What next2 Do what you can by
taxation. Issue bonds. Posterity Is
Interested; let posterity pay some. But
you must do something more, and I
suggest that you do that something
here and now. Mr.. Chairman, / sug-
gest that you appoint a committee to
raise money to buy road machine
and work some road this fall IL It Is
only enough for an object lesson. Let
the men who are so fortunate as to
own some of this fertile land on the
river build out toward those less for
tunate, who live higher up. You will
find that in helping others you will
yourself be enriched.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-29
Americans Smoke the Mott.

Washington, Sept 26.-The Unite +.
States leads all nations in the con
sumption of tobacco. acccrcp g to n
bulletin Just issued by the department
of commerce and labor. A comparison
shows that the United States con
sumes 440,000,000 pounds Of tobacco
a year, or an average Of SAC pounds
for every man, woman and child in tn >
country. Russia comes next in the
list with POI, 7s3, 900 pounds. er cap
tia average of 3.4 pounds.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-29
Found Dead In Bath Room.

Philadelphia, Sept. 21.-William H.
Kirkpatrick, Philadelphia agent of the
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Co., Of Milwaukee, wos found deaa
Tuesday in the bathroom Of his apart
ments with bullet wound in his head.
He had shot himself during the night.
Kirkpatrick was about 55 years old
He had been nill-health for some
time, and 1t is ben I'D he committed
suicide because Of men Gholia.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-29
BIuebeard Carlton Sent Up.

New York, Sept. 26.-Freccrick e.
Carlton, known as the brooklyn
Bluebeard." who is said to have had
forty wives and who was SUSPECTED OF
having poisoned several OF them with
lockjaw virus from pet cat Mondav
was found guilty of bigamy He is
known to have had four wives, 1t no.
having been conclusively prc- cd that
the other thirty-six women we've mar
ried to him. His marriages we're for
the purpose Of collecting the women S
life insurance.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-29
COMMERCE WITH CANADA.
Continues to Expand without Aid of
Reciprocity.

ftec1prOcfty.
The rapid development of the United
States as an exporting nation has hope
lessly discredited the theory of the
Cobdenites that no country can find
market abroad If it persists in main
tanning a high protective tariff. We
years under the highest protective tar
If in our history, yet in that period we
have increased our annual sales abroad
from $685., 100000 to S1,460, 100000, and
all indications point to continued
expansion Of our export trade.
Nothing could illustrate more strik
ingly the failure of the Cobdenite con-
tention that we have handicapped our
selves by our tariff policy than the ex-
traordinary growth, for instance, Of
our trade with Canada, Il growth
which, according to Cobdenite opinion,
we have failed to encourage and which
Canada itself has actually tried to pre-
only raised our general tariff rates, but
Canada has imposed tariff directly
discriminating against us and admit
ting British imports at a reduction
first Of 1914, then of % and finally of
1914 per cent.
Yet in the face of this discrimination
our exports to Canada are constantly
increasing in volume. Since the Ding
ley law and the Canadian system of
rebates ON British goods have been In
force-that is, between 1897 and 1904
our sales to Canada have more than
doubled
Neither our own tariff rates nor the
discriminating Canadian duties have
had the effect Of checking the growth
of American-Canadian commerce, nor
have we suffered apparently from our
failure to renew our earlier reciprocity
arrangements with the Dominion. Dur
ing the reciprocity period, from 1855
to 1866, our exports to Canada actually
shrank in volume, while since the hos
tile imperial zollverein has been in
force they have shown enormous gains
The United States can find no ground
for complaint in the present trade
status. Any change in that status
must come through Canada's initiative
and when Canada asks for q change
the United States may find 1t expedient
to grant It. But with conditions as
they are we can, on the whole, well
afford to rest content.-New York Trib.
me
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-29
Newspaper Interest.

Showing the increased interest which
the newspapers take In reporting the
proceedings of state oranges and also
of subordinate oranges, J, o. Wing,
past master of the Washington state
grange, writes as folloYs;.' when l
was elected master of.tfie state grange
the press Of our state paid no attention
to us whatever, and it was hard to in
duce them to publish anything. but at
the last session of our state grange
two of the leading daily papers of the
state paid for telegraphing 500 words
per day on the proceedings Lengthy
reports were carried In the local city
papers Also"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-29
POLICY HOLDERS HIT.
Their Claims Wiped Out Through
Company ManipUi atoms.

Chicago, Sept. ADMINISTRATION Of
the affairs of the Western Life Indem-
nifty Co. by state examiner Tuesday
brought to light facts tending to show
that claims of perhap. thousands OF
policy holders In assessment compa'
MES have been practically wiped out
through company manipulation. Ex-
aminer Lucius Frouts discovered that
twenty-eight small insurance compa-
MES have merged into the Western
Life indemnity.
A new complication was added yes
terday to the legal ENHANCEMENT OF
the Western Life Indemnity co. Fed.
eral Judge G. G. Kohlsaat granted per.
mission to Attorney Clark Varnum 10
file an intervening petition for ap-
pointment of receiver for the COM
pany. s.,aaiJ
haz1AaIsl
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-29
Baron Kaneko Recalled.

New York, Sept 26.-Baron Kane
ko, who has been in this country as
the confidential agent of the emperor
Of Japan, has been recalled. He will
return to Japan with Baron Komura,
bne of the peace ENJOYS, the party
starting on Wednesday and going by
way of Montreal to Vancouver, and
sailing for the Orient on the Empress
OF India Oct. 2.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-29
duchess Under SURGEONS Knife.

New York, Sept. 26.-The Duchess
of Marlborough, who was Miss Consul
clio Vanderbilt, was operated on Mon
day for an affection OF the throat by
DR.. H. Holbrook Curtis at private
hospital. The duchess withstood the
operation In most satisfactory man.
per and DR.. Curtis believes that 1t
will prove successful.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-29
DISEASE SPREADS RAPIDLY.
Yellow Fever Situation at Pensacola,
Fla, Very Alarming.


Pensacola, Fla, Sept. 26.-Twenty-
five new cases of yellow fever were re-
ported by physicians to the state
health officer for the twenty-four
hours ending at o'clock last night.
This makes thirty-four cases for Sun
day and Monday. One death was re-
ported Monday. The situation Is rath
er discouraging, as the cases are scat
tered all over the city, and all hope
of checking the disease before the ap-
pearance Of frost has been practically
abandoned.
Jackson, Miss, Sept. s8.-The yell
low fever infection al Hamburg is
spreading rapidly, nine new cases,
four suspicious cases and one death
being reported Monday.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-29
BIG LIBEL s6lT.
Patent Medicine Man After the Ladies'
Home journal.

Chicago Sept. 27.-Suit was begun
in the superior cour. Tuesday Cor
$250,000 damages against the Curtis
Publishing Co., publishers of the La
dies Home Journal.
Samuel B. Hartman, of Columbus,
proprietor of the Peruna Medicine Co :,
Is the plaintiff, a testimonial from
Congressman George H. White, IF
North Carolina, which the Journal
claimed was bogus, b ling the basis OF
the suit
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-29
Bryan still Talking.

Colonel Bryan is Just as busy as
ever Offering his advice to people who
are too busy to care anything about 1t.
Philadelphia Press.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-29
When Greek Meets Greek.

Soon after Congressman Robert G..
Cousins advent at Washington he was
invited to function of very stately
formality. Everything was new to him
then, even to the evening dress.
AS he left the hotel to enter a wait
ing carriage he was spied by Thomas
b. Reed, who took him in at a glance.
Hello, Bob" drawled the irrepres-
sible Reed. What ails you?"
II feel like an ass in a lions skim"
said Mr.. Cousins
"You look as though you had bee
in your BONNET"
'Wal," said Mr.. Cousins, who also
has peculiarly resonant drawl, 1T
isn't presidential bee"
And for once Mr.. Reed was at
loss for a reply.-Harper's Weekly.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-29

Deputy J. S. Brigham recently or
ganized grange at Rawson, o., with
ia charter members.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-29
Stuck in His Mind.

Johnny's father had taken him to
two lectures on animal magnetism.
The boy had listened each time to
the opening sentences and then gone
blissfully to sleep.
Johnny" said his father, few
mornings afterward, "how does it hap
pen that you come downstairs earlier
now, when call you, than you used to
do?"
II guess it's because your voice car
ries a greater magnetic insistence on
self-suggestion than il used to- an
swered Johnny, rubbing his eyes,
Chicago Tribune.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-29
Jumping on 1t with Both Feet.

DR.. Thomas M. Ballet, dean of the
school of pedagogy, said in his in
augural address: "a boy who would
cheat unhesitatingly in an examination
would not cheat in a game" DR.. Bal
liet doubtless knowsmuch Of pedagogy.
but not the football branch of it. To
cheat in football is so common as to
be reckoned part of the game. Any
thing goes in football that the umpire
does not see.-Life.
Anti-Clericalisism has gone so far I'm
France that it is proposed to revive the
declericalized calender of the revolu-
ton.
Former President Steyn, who is now
in Paris, is still paralyzed in the hands
and can not keep his eyes open long
without pain.
The daily sentinel., 1905-09-28
NOTED MORMON DEAD.

Salt Lake. Sept .2S.-Mrs. Gather
inc Phillips Smith. who claimed to
have been the plural wife of the pat
riarch Hyrum Smith, brother of the
so-called Mormon Prophet, Joseph
Smith, died here today. To disprove
the allegation of the Josephites, or
the reorganized church, that the so
called Prophet Joseph had never
countenanced the polygamous prac-
tees of the Utah Mormons, Mrs,
Smith. two years ago made affadavit
before a notarary public that she was
not only the plural wife of Hirum
Smith but that the sealing was per
formed by the prophet (Joseph
Smith himself"
The daily sentinel., 1905-09-28
SECRET UNDERTAKING

London, Sept Europe. whose
diplomacy has never consented to
take Scandinavian imbroglo ser
iously. turns II searching eve upon the
accumulating testimony of secret
understandings between Berlin and
ST. Petersherg. behind the back of
Parih. but, with this exception. the
leading theme OF International dis
cussioH at the moment is the prob
able dearing of the Oyster Bay con
ference upon America S policy in the
old world. Especial interest attaches
TO your commercial projects
Washington's judicious course dur
ing the early stages OF the Chinese
trade boycott Is meeting its reward,
thinks a well-informem London oh
server. in the relaxation OF Pekin's s
eNclusiveness at Manchurian ports
and the sober second thought of the
southern Chinese merchants will re-
bound not alone to the credit of Mr..
Taft, but to the advantage of Ameri-
can exporters, whose goods the great
tea country is discovering It must
have"
The daily sentinel., 1905-09-28
Cause OF InsomanIa.

Indigestion nearly always disturbs
~ sleep more or less and is often
ile cause of insomania Many cases
lave ~, been permanently cured by
nam herlain's Stomach and Liver
N"olets For sale by all druggists.
The daily sentinel., 1905-09-28
CONTRACT AWARDED.

Denver, Sept. 2S.-E.-A. Warneke
has been awarded the contract by the
Moffat road for the building OF a
line from Utah junction to the Momar
depot. This is the first actual con
struction work done by the Moffat
road in the city limits of Denver.
and will give that road its own
rails into Denver and its own ter
minals. 1t has been using the Bur
lington rails to get into the city. The
new line will be finished by Novemb-
er tenth and includes bridge over
the Platte river.
The daily sentinel., 1905-09-28
INTERN1EM TAET.

San Francisco. Sept. Secre-
tary of War Taft, home from his tour
of inspection in the insular pos
sessions in the orient gave out to-
day an interview, which in part is
as follows:
THE project to establish an eX-
hibit of American goods at Shanghi
is one that commands my hearty com
mendatlon. If it shall be put
through. II will be, as far as my in
formation goes, the first intelligent
efforts of American merchants to go
after the business of the Orient.
Americans are not sending the right
kind of goods over there and what
they do send is now put up in at
traetive packages"
Senator Patterson of Colorado
said;
THE Philippines,-the more you
know of them, the more serious APP
pears the problem. | am convinced
that in this government We are get
ting farther and farther away from
Secretary Taft's human policy-the
Philippines for Filipinos and ulti-
mate independence. The gulf be-
tween the American and the native
is widening / fear the Philippines
are a smouldering volcano. My Wis
It to China has convinced me more
than ever of the wisdom and neces-
sity OF Chinese exclusion. | believe
that the boycott will soon be over. but
IN any event, American methods and
civilization are of greater moment
than Chinese business.
The daily sentinel., 1905-09-28
MIDNIGHT MURDER.

Gallup. n NJ, Sept. 2S.-Intense
excitement exists here over the mid
night assassination of Andrew Casno.
wealthy coal mine owner and opera
tor, the perhaps fatal woundlng of
his beautiful young Wife.
The motive for the crime has not
yet developed but the theory is that
IL was the purpose of robbery. Cas-
no being known to always have a
large sum Of money with him at all
times.
lynching would undoubtedly follow.
The Sasnos live Gallup and their
mousse today resembles shambles
Sasno gave fight He was brutally
beaten and then shot death His
wife who was awakened by the ter
rife struggle, was shot when she call
ed for help.
The daily sentinel., 1905-09-28
WILLIAMSON CONVICTED.

Portland. Oregon, Sept. 2S.=The
Jury in the case OF the United States
against Congressman ]. n. William
SON DR.. Van Gessner. his partner and
Marion R. Biggs, a Pineville Oregon
lawyer, at 1l:05 last night returned
a verdict conyicting the defendants of
subordination of perjury by induc-
ing persons to fraudulently locate
on government land. The penalty
is from $4,000 to $4,000 fine and
imprisonment not exceeding two
wears.