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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-07
STUCK TO ONE SUBJECT
Attempt to Embrace United States
Judges Is Sat Upon.

Attempt to Embrace United States
Judges Is sat Upon.
An attempt was made on the part of
Plat Hubbell, a delegate from Mis-
souri,, at the session of the resolutions
committee to get the committee to re-
port a resolution favoring the election
Of United States Judges by vote OF the
people also, but the committee voted
against the proposal.
The executive committee was in
structed to prepare an address to the
legislature Of each state that has not
| heretofore acted on the subject, re-
Questing the adoption of such resolu-
tons as may be presented from time
to time by this convention, and to urge
upon the states Of Colorado, Florida,
Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Mon
tana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hamp-
shire. North Carolina, North Dakota,
Ohio Oregon. Pennsylvania, South
! Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Washington,
and Wyoming, which have already
acted. to renew and continue their eff
/ forts to the end that the election of
United States senators by direct vote
Of the people may soon be an accom-
plished fact
THAT said executive committee shall
take such other steps as this conven-
ton may decide, or as 1t may deem
proper and advisable, to further the
cause represented by this convention
The delegations of the conference were
entirely harmonious and all of its fna
actions were practically unanimous
In all twelve states were represented
by thirty-three delegates.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-07
DOWN
THE STATE
Telegraph News by Direct
Wire from ALI Over
Indiana
ROLLING STONE GATHERS MOSS
One That a Preach err at Evansville Is
Moving Seems To Be Mon
ey Maker.

Evansville, Ind, Dec. REV. u. Q.
Canty, pastor of Oakdale chapel. has
started to roll the corner stone of his
new church through the principal
streets Of Evansville. When he be-
gan his task several hundred persons
gathered to see him. The pastor pushed
tho stone by means of a crowbar at
first, but growing tired secured a hand
cart and hauled the stone several
blocks. He stopped TO talk to crowds
at various street corners.
During the day several people Of
fercd to assist Canty in the work Of
rolling the corner stone across the
city, but he refused all offers, saying
he wanted to do the work himself as
he had announced he would. When
he rested at noon he said it was the
hardest work he had done for a long
time A number Of citizens told the
minister that after his hard first days
work they would donate to his church
and he expects to raise enough money
to build 1t at once.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-07
Blew His own Head OF.

Wabash, Ind, Dec. Z. - Closson
Wagner, son of f. T. Wagner near
this city, was shot and killed in curl
Gus manner. He was hunting with an
old musket as q weapon, and he came
to a ditch six feet In width. Procur-
ing a pole twelve feet in length he
placed the gun under his arm and at
tempted to vault across the ditch. The
gun was discharged as he vaulted, and
blew his head off.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-07

Washington, Dec. THE govern
ment has resumed the purchase Of sill
vcr. accepting bids for 1000 ounces
at 6s.669 cents per fine ounce. This
is more than $40 cents an ounce lower
than the offerings which were made at
the time purchases were suspended
nearly four weeks ago.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-07
Death Met nim in His Cab.

Madison. Ind, Dec. flames Wray,
OF North Madison, a veteran engineer
on the P, c. and st L. railway, was
seized of paralysis near Cling Station
while on duty. ana he died a few hours
later at Cambridge City.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-07
sort of Kecinrooitr Wanted.

New York, Dec. THE policy Of
reciprocal tariff concessions with the
countries of South America which
would avoid any radical or subversive
changes in our protective system is
urged in a committee report to the
New York Chamber Of Commerce.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-07
Hartman to Have His Own Cars.

Salt Lake City. Dec. Representa-
tives of the Hartman railway system,
which has hitherto been using the Ar
mour cars for the transportation Of
perishable freight, have Incorporated
the Pacific Fruit Express company in
this county The company IS capital
lied at S12.OOO.OOO in 500 shares.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-07
Loss Not So Heavy as Stated.

Terre Haute, Ind, Dec. THE total
loss by the fire at the Miller PARROT
bakery will not exceed $4,000, as sew
eral thousand barrels Of flour, at first
thought to be a total loss because Of
water, were not more than one-third
damaged
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-07

There IS more catarrh IN this section Of the
country than ali other diseases put together and
unit the last few years was supposed to Re IN
durable. For great many years doctors pro-
nounced it a local disease and prescribed local
remedies. and by constantly falling to cure with
local treatment, pronounced it incursble. Sci
ence has proven catarTh 70 Re constitutions al
disease and therefore requires constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by T. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo. Ohio. Is the only
constitutional cure on the market. II In taken
internally in doses from ten drops to teaspoon.
ful II ac1s directly on the blood and mucous
surfsces Of the system. They offer one hundred
dollars for any case It fails TO cpre. Send for
circulars and testimonials.
Address: F J. CHENEY Co, Toledo, Okla
Sold By DragEists 75c.
Take HAlIis Family PElls aa< c1astapaticn.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-07
Woman scboIar wins Honor.

Mrs. Agnes Lewis, of England. is
said to be the only woman who has
received the degree of D. D., which
has been conferred upon her in recog-
milton Of her labors in deciphering
some ancient manuscripts of the bible
which were discovered in a monastery
on Mount Sinai She is regarded as
the most famous woman bible scholar
in the world.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-07
University Centennial.

Vincennes. Ind, Dec. 7. = Vincennes
university celebrated the centennial an
niversary of its foundation. Governor
Hanly made anaddress, President Bry-
an, of Indiana university, was present.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-07
ADVERTISING HINTS.

The shrevvd merchant sees to 1T that
his newspaper announcements are
bright and attractive, that the copy
Is changed regularly and that the print
err has his display nds In time to give
them the attention they deserve.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-07
Temperature of 10 Below.

Fargo, \. D, Dec. "Wednesday
nights blizzard resulted in clear, crisp
weather, with a temperature of 10 be-
low.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-07
The CITIZENS GERMAN
NATIONAL BANK

of Hammond. A comparative state~
meat of deposits STAGE our opening days
May IL, 1905 ......s 14,0so.ox
june IL, 1905 .. 88,sI205
July IL, 1906, ............ 6S,97nIS
August IL, 1900 ...vs..oa xeS.S7s.7a
September 12, 1909 ... 1A7yASa.T2
October IL, 1eos ........ 1a2,1s5.8S
November IL, 1909. ....... 172,TSs.sA
No County, City or School Funds in-
cIuded in the above. We are the
youngest bank In Hammond. Our Grst
birthday Will be on May 8, 1907.
THREE PER CENT. PAID ON Saw
INGS AND TIME DEPOSITS.
Give us a trial and be convinced e
our fair treatment.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-07
Doesn't Like the "simplihed."

He then took a whack'" at Theo-
dore Roosevelt, declaring that TONNES
proposed commission would be a ''po-
litical commission" dominated by a
president who has tried to change the
language of the country by an execu-
tive order" and that he would be
better satisfied to leave it to a COM
mission composed of 100000 people
of the United States; that the desira-
bility was not for laws on the subject,
but somehow to keep laws off the stat
ute books interfering with the pres
ent system. He said all the agitation
came from a few scientists, and that
the bulk of the newspaper discussion
was based on an utter lack OF knowl-
edge as to whether they were writing
of a metric or a decimal system.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-07
That Is Why Those Favoring Pop
ular Election of Senators
Have Organized.
MOVE HAS BEEN GIVEN A START
Des Moines Conference Decides on a
Plan of Campaign.
Will Urge State Legislatures to De-
mand a National Constitutional
Convention to Change the
Government.

Des Moines, Ia, Dec. 7. - The in
terstate senatorial amendment confer
ence hasadjourned, but before adjourn
ing it arranged for the perpetuation
OF its work by completing a permanent
organization which will conduct a cam
Paign to secure from congress a call
for constitutional convention to con
slider the entire matter Thomas A.
Cheshire, of Des Moines, In, was
ramed chairman of an executive com
mittee Of five to take charge of the
movement. His associates are Thomas
J. Herman, OF Louisiana; Frank G.
Goudy, of Colorado; w. r. Ellis, of
Oregon. and G. NJ. Kimbrough, of In
diana.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-07
Nothing To Be Gained.

He held that the only thing to be
gained from the metric system was
decimal notation, but this had already
been adopted in this country in manu-
features. and no change from grain,
inch or gallon was necessary. A pa
per on the same subject prepared by
S, f. Dale not only opposed any change
in the system Of weights and measures
but declared that the further discus
sion of it in congress would be value
less.
YalueleSs
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-07
AWAY WITH METRICS
Mechanical Engineers Want the
Discussion, Even, of Their
Adoption Abolished.
no ADVANTAGE IN THE CHANGE
Well-Nigh impossible to Make, Too,
They Say-One Hot One" for
President Roosevelt.

New York, Dec. THAT the system
of weights and measures now in use
in the United States and Great Britain
should not be supplanted by the metric
system IS the opinion Of a majority OF
the delegates who are now in this city
in attendance at the convention of the
American Society of Mechanical En-
gineers. The expression Of opinion
was made in the general discussion
which followed the reading of q paper
upon the subject weights and Meas
ures" by Henry P. Towne. of New
York, at the session Of the convention.
The discussion developed almost a
unanimous sentiment in favor of the
present system, possibly with slight
mobilization.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-07
Change weII-Nigh Impossible

1t was said that it would be we'll
nigh impossible to effect a change
even if the metric system were made
the legal system, and that it would
DISRUPT business and disturb the
title Of every foot of land between
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
TONNES paper was largely devoted to
discussion of the various measures
which have been introduced in CON
gress from time to time, and an argu-
ment in favor of a technical commits
sion to investigate and report to con-
gross, that there may be an end to
ceaseless agitation.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-12-07
Duty OF the Committee.


The work of this committee and
the new organization will be directed
towards securing from the thirty seven
state legislatures that meet this win
ter. demands upon congress for the
calling of a constitutional convention,
to which the conference unanimously
committed itself. The organization
chose for itself the name Of the I'm
terstate Senatorial Convention" and
Representative Strobe, of Nebraska, is
It's first president.
Would Avoid the Convention.
The conference prefers not to have
constitutional convention. If congress
acts and submits this specific amend
ment to the state then the convention
will be dissolved; If congress continues
to refuse to do this then the movement
to secure a constitutional convention
Will be prosecuted vigorously.
More Control by the People.
The preamble of the resolutions de-
clqring the object of the conference
say that 1T is the judgment of this
convention that the legislative branch
of the .ational government should be
placed more directly under the con-
troll OF the people of the several states, .
and that there exists, and has long
existed, a strong popular demand for
the election Of United States senators
by the direct vote of the people, and
said demand is. in the opinion of this
convention we'll founded"
Senate Is In the Way.
It declares that 1.-THE constitution Of
the United States provides only two
methods whereby the provision respect
ing the election of United States sena-
tors may be changed" that 1.-THE meth
cd ordinarily adopted of congress on
its own initiative submitting to the
several states a proposed amendment
has heretofore been ineffective, owing
to the refusal of the United States
senate to submit such proposed amend
ment to the several states" Therefore
there is only left the alternative of ap-
pealing to the states to demand that
such convention be called, and this
conference proposes to prosecute q
movement to secure that demand.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-03
The Wanderer Returns.

It. was Old Home Week, says
Youths Companion, and the return
sons and grandspns had been telli
with more or less pride of the chang
time had wrought for them. At u
Edward Jameson spoke:
Il went away from here 20 yed
ago a..poor, young man, with only d
solitary dollar in my pocket l wal
ed the four miles from my fathe||
farm to the station, and there
legged a ride to Boston ON a fred
car. Last night l. drove into town
hind a Spirited pair of horses, and l
purse-guess how much my pull
holds in money. today, besides q Ian
check,'' and Mr.. Jameson looked add
him with a brilliant smile.
Fifty dollars!"
"'seyenty-five!"
"a hundred" shouted the bo|
filled with admiration.
No. said Mr.. Jameson, drawing
large fiat purse from his pocket VII
the. c1amdr had subsidized, none
you have guessed right. When
paid the 5 cents to ozzy Boogs
my refreshing drive in the coach
had, besides my trunk check (wh|
retained for financial reasons), 4
actly 4 cents. l have come back,
friends, to stay. Any little jobs
saving and splitting will be gra|
fully received"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-03
Caught in passing.

A certain editor not more than
thousand miles away was sitting in
the office, alone, enjoying a quiet
smoke, when he had occasion to use
the telephone. He arose, laid the cigar
he was smoking on chair, and took
down the receiver. Just as he lifted
the receiver friend stepped into the
office and started to sit down ON the
chair. Not realizing that the operator
could hear what he was saying, and
just as she was about to say number
please" in her sweetest tones, the edi-
tor yelled, Look out, there; you'll
burn your pants!" Communication be-
tween him and central was cut off at
once. Now, central, you know how it
was SO be good.-Larimore Pioneer.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-03

all the animal kingdom, and uncle
Joe" is the most useful man in WASH
ington. He has saved the nation more
money, has punctured more frauds,
and in our judgment has been, and Is,
without exception, the most valuable
public servant in the service of the
nation He is of the Lincoln class
i"All Stock and no Style" He is d
little piggish as far as he and his con-
stituents are concerned, for he is hui
man, very human, but outside from
that natural attribute he is as broad
minded as the boundaries of the ma
ton. Nothing but his age prevents
him from being the successor of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, and even that may not
interfere, for owing to correct habits
he is younger than many a man twenty
years his junior.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-03
FRANK M. E.DDY'S REVIEW
OF Publ &c MEN
Sage Of Sank Centre Ekens Men Is Animals in
Their characteristics. "Uncle Joe His Favonte.

Frank NJ. Eddy In the Sank Center
Herald: It has been fancy of mine
from earliest childhood that has
grown with my growth, and intensified
with my years-to compare men 10
animals. never met a man, especially
q public man, whose name was on
everybody's lips, but he reminded me
of some prototype in the animal king
dom. $
President Cleveland always remind
ed me of bull dog; honest intention;
fearful of nothing; square jawed;
courageous; always ready to .fasten
his teeth on an opponent; just as liable
to set his fangs on the wrong man or
the wrong idea as the right one, and
when he once got his hold there was
no way of getting him loose unless one
pried him loose with hand spike.
President Mckinley always made
me think Of grey hound; clean Of
limb, clean of thought, and quick Of
action; arriving at conclusions by in
stinct quicker than the lightning's
flash.
Bryan was an eagle soaring in the
highest heavens of theory; loving the
storm; making as much show in
capturing "a mouse as he would in
carrying off full grown sheep.
Reed was grizzly bear; absolutely
Indifferent to the rest of the animal
kingdom; conscious of his own
strength; calmly pursuing his own
way; brushing aside all obstacles with
an air OF ennui.
Roosevelt is lion; daring great
things; doing great things; but whose
accomplishments never quite equals
the front he puts up.
Nelson is ground squirrel, as the
Chippewa Indians call him; always
burrowing, burrowing; accomplishing
what he goes after without appearing
on the surface or making any fuss;
digging for results, and always getting
them; mystifying his opponents by
the secrecy Of his actions, and always
standing next to men who dig and
men who work.
Clapp is an elk; magnificent; grand;
never doing very much, but doing what
he does do with an air that makes peo-
pie think he moves the world and the
powers of the world.
McCleary is weasel; insignificant
In appearance, but when he fastens
himself on an opponent, either of his
ambitions or his ideas, it is the OPP
ponent that always loses blood, and
not McCleary.
Tawney reminds one OF king bird,
not great or large but pestifeorusly
active; lone who by sheer energy, cour-
age and force of will can make the
larger birds and beasts hunt their
holes; a bird who never knows when
1t is whipped, and who crows as loudly
when driven into corner as when he
is cock OF the walk. ,'
It would take too long and weary
the reader too much IL I were to tell
of all the prominent men and what
they remind me of, but the subject Of
this sketch, Uncle Joe," always re-
minds me Of Chester White pig, and
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-03
Modes Of Travel in
Frozen Alaska
Government Signal Corps omcer
Tells Of Difficulties Attending
Transportation in Gold Fields.

Here in the home country where
every one is now and then whirled
along in q luxurious modern railroad
train and, arriving this destination,
:a besieged by hacks and cabs and
baggage wagons of infinite variety and
humber with street cars passing by
and broad level streets stretching
before him, tbs quite impossible to
any one who has not been there to
realize the conditions under which
transportation ia accomplished in far
off Alaska where from the middle of
October to late in May the country
Is frozen solid," writes Captain George
S. Gibbs of the Signal Corps, United
States Army, in the National Geo.
graphical Magazine for the current
month.
For the Signal Corps is given the
pioneer work of stringing telegraph
lines and of keeping the gold country
of the far north in communication
with the outside world. Uncle Sans
men go forward with the first parties
of prospestors, explore the trails and
when a new town is started they are
at the front long enough before the
Eext Government f"-ce, the mail car
riers, arrives. Paid only the wages
or the army, these men brave all the
l,ardships of the north with no hope
of making a strike in the mines.
Imagine if you can country which
has none of the hundreds of seeming
Df ;c{o
few of the thousands Of accessories to
industry-a country having a valua-
tle output of products, almost all of
which are useless to that country and
are of value only when carried to far
distant lands.
"Such is Alaska" says Colonel
Gibbs-"dependent on transportation
for its very existence as a habitation
and equally dependent upon trans
portation to give value to it's furs
and ores. The Alaskan pioneer
speaks of his country as INSIDE"
every place else as outside" The
implied barrier is significant, and it
exists in fact, for the country is walled
in for eight months fthe year and
not too easily accessible the rest of
the year. OF course, the ports of Ju-
neau, Skaguay, Valdes and others on
I the southwest coast are open the year
round, but neither freight nor pas
sengers are carried to and from the
interior during the long winter. A
small amount of mail is carried by
means of dog teams in relays and at
the cost Of the greatest hardships to
both men and beasts, and each year a
few adventurous and hardy travellers
beat the season few weeks by maxi
ing the trip on foot with the lightest
| possible packs.
No Wheeled Vehicles.
so great is the transformation from
an ice-bound, snow-covered, wind
swept, wilderness to a land covered
with luxurious vegetation and travers-
ed by streams of navigable water that
the two streams, summer and winter,
suggest convenient division of the
methods of transportation. There are
few railroads; with one exception
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-03
swItzerland's State Bank.

AS a result of the failure to obtain
10000 signatures to a demand for a
general vote against the establishment
OF a national bank of issue in Switzer-
land, that country will now enter the
list of European states having nation
I'll banks. The opposition to the crea-
ton of such an institution came near
succeeding, for there were only 1000
signatures wanting to obtain a refer
endum.
The law providing for the creation
of the bank was passed in October,
1905, by the federal assembly of the
Swiss confederation, and by it the
privileges and obligations of the ma
tional bank were carefully defined, the
name selected for the Institution be-
ing the Schweizerische National bank.
!. The bank is to be capitalized at prac-
tically $l0,O00,0OO having 100000
shares of the par value of 500 each.
1t is to be administered under the sur
1eyance of the confederation and with
the help of the confederation, with it's
administrative seat at Berne and its
general direction at Zurich, both of
which cities are to provide the neces-
sary property for the conduct of the
banks business. Provision is made
for branches or agencies in the diff
ferent Swiss cantons and in cities and
villages.
Like other great European state
banks, the Swiss bank is permitted to
carry on the issue of notes and the
discounting of bills of exchange, as
we'll as their purchase and sale, and
also to carry on the chase and sale
also to carry on the ordinary trans
actions in gold and silver. The notes
to be issued by the bank are to be in
amount $40, $40, 500 and 5000, and
under extraordinary conditions 81, it
being provided that the total circula-
ton of notes shall be represented by
legal tender or ingots or by bills of
exchange, while the metallic reserve
must at all times be equal to 40 per
cent of the notes in circulation with
percentage that 40 per cent is also
the traditional dead line" of the Eng
lish bank. The bank must be pre-
Jared to accept its notes at par, pay
ing for them legal tender at it's head
quarters at Berne. or at any of the
agencies. The federal and capital
treasures must also accept the notes
Of the bank in payment at par, and the
bank Is to serve without expense as
treasury for the confederation SO far
as this is demanded of it..
At the end of each civil year the
accounts Of the bank are to be sub.
mitted for the approval of the federal
council, and Of the net profits of the
bank there are to be turned in 10
per cent to a reserve fund until this
shall amount to 30 per cent of the