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The Elbert County tribune., 1906-06-07
SUICIDE OF CONGRESSMAN.
Robert Adams, Jr., Of Pennsylvania,
Shoots Himself.

washington. - Representative Rob-
ert Adams of the Second congressional
district of Pennsylvania died at Emerg-
ency hospital in this city as the result
OF a pistol shot fired through his
mouth into his head, with suicidal in
tent
The act was committed at the club
chambers of the Metropolitan Club.
where Mr.. Adams had resided for sew
eral years, some time between and Z
O'Clock Friday morning. IL was not
until 8 O'Clock, however. that he was
found by Horace Clark. one of the ne
gro bellmen.
Robert Adams was one of the most
popular representatives in Congress
and he has been identified with many
matters of worldwide importance. His
position as ranking member of the ma
1ority after the chairman on the House
committee on foreign affairs has, ow-
ing to the i'll health of Mr.. Hit, made
II necessary for him to largely direct
the business of that important com
mittee, and he was thus brought into
close contact with President Roosevelt
and Secretaries Hay, Root and Taft.
The height before his death Mr..
Adams write the following letter to
Speaker Cannon:
my Dear Mr.. Speaker-The fact
that my personal obligations exceed
my Resources is my only excuse for
abandoning the responsible position
occupy in the House. 1 am willing to
be buried at its expense, but l ask that
no committee be appointed or memo
rial services held, as have never been
in sympathy with the latter custom
In view of the request contained in
the letter written to the speaker by
Mr.. Adams. no congressional commit
tee will accompany his body to Phila
delphia. An officer of the House will
go. however, and 1t is understood that
informally several members of the
House viii also act as an escort.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-06-07
PIXIES PEAK MEDAL.
Design Adopted by Pixies Peak Memo
rial Association.

Washington, d. C.-Representative
Brooks, who has been taking active
steps to have the Pixies peak celebra-
tion a success, makes the following an
nouncement:
"The design for the medal which the
eovernment has authorized to be
struck OFF for the Zebulon Pike Memo
rial Association. to be disposed of In
connection with the celebration next
October, has been completed and ap-
proved. by the association. Three
classes of medals will be put on sale
in jewelry shops and curio stores in
leading towns of Colorado very shortly
They will be of bronze, silver and gilt.
The bust of Lieutenant Pike is dis
played on one side of the medal and
a perfect reproduction of Pixies peak
itself on the reverse side. A number of
the medals will be furnished with bars
and pins. An order has been given the
mint authorities for 1000 of these med
ais for the first sale, which will begin
probably early in July. The prices Will
range from 81 to SO. save for the first
twenty-six of each class. which will be
numbered and put up at auction. 1t is
predicted that medal number 1 of each
class will easily bring large sum-"
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-06-07
WOULD ExPEL sMooT.
Decision of Committee is Against Utah
Senator.

Washington. = That Mr.. Smoot is
not entitled to his seat in the United
States Senate as senator from Utah
was the decision of the Senate COM
mittee on privileges and elections, de-
clared by a vote of to 5.
The decision was on Senator Dubois
resolution offered at the meeting two
weeks ago, which WAS carried by Sena-
tors Burrows, Dolliver, Pettus. Over
man, Bailey, Dubois and Frazier vot-
ing in the affirmative, and Senators
Foraker, Dillingham;, Hopkins, Bever-
idge and Knox in the negative. The
vote of Senator Depew was not cast.
Votes we're had on the constitutional
questions of expulsion and exclusion,
after which the members of the COM
mittee expressed themselves in favor
of a vote in the Senate at the present
session Of Congress.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-06-07
Miscellaneous.

A strike of street car employees al
Detroit, Mich, has been avoided by
the railway company increasing theiI
pay to 25 cents per hour.
Fighting between the forces of the
sultan of Morocco and the pretendeI
has been renewed. The pretender has
driven back the sultan's troops, in
fiicting considerable losses, and also
have devastated the territory of the
Loyal Riff tribe
The governments of Sweden ant
Norway have negotiated loan of SIS.
100000 with Swedish, German, French
and Belgian banks.
The federal grand jury at Las Vegas
N. NJ, has returned indictments against
the Santa Fe railroad company and
the Colorado Fuel & Iron company
for granting and receiving rebates on
coal shipments.
The National bank of Mexico has
realized net profit the past year OF
s5,6S5,325 and have declared dividend
of IS per cent.
Two bombs were recently thrown
into a party of Cossacks escorting
Gen. Alikhanoff at Borjon, Transcau-
casia. The general and several mem
bers of the escort were seriously in
jured The CossacSs fired indiscrim-
inately into the crowd killing many
persons.
The Missouri supreme court has
affirmed the sentence of death in the
case of Lord" Darlington, convicted
of murder at st. Louis. He will be
hung on July 26.
Memorial day ceremonies at Arling-
ton cemetery at Washington were on
an elaborate scale. Representative
Birdsall, of Iowa, delivered an address.
The orator of the day was Rev. D. j.
Stafford, of the Roman Catholic
church.
In an address to Atlanta, Ca, bus
iness men recently Chairman Shonts,
of the Panama canal commission,
took strong grounds in advocacy of
the lock canal system.
The warden of the city prison at st.
Petersburg was shot and mortally
wounded by an 1S-year-old youth.
The first permanent leper colony in
the Philippines has been established
on Culion island and 200 lepers have
been removed there from Cebu.
Armour & Co.'S elevator "a" IN
Chicago was recently destroyed by
fire causing loss of 100000.
The indictments recently found
against the officials of Oklahoma City,
Ok, have been annulled by the district
court.
A jeweled decoration worn by King
Alfonso was shattered by splinter of
the bomb which killed 20 persons and
wounded 60 others on his Ssdding day.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-06-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
1nterestinE Items Gathered from All
parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for tho
Benefit of Our Readers.
Personal.

DR.. Mary K. Benedict, formerly con-
nected with the Warrensburg, Mo-,
state normal. has been appointed pres
ident of the new women's college at
Amherst, Va, at a salary of $4,000 a
year.
Gov. Hoch of Kansas will deliver
an address before the National Editor
ial association at Indianapolis. Ind.
1t is reported General Nogi has wired
asking Russia if it is true that Gen.
Stoessel. who commanded Port Arthur
has been sentenced to death for sur
rendering the fortress adding that in
his opinion the capitulation was JUS
tifiable.
President Roosevelt delivered the
Decoration day address before the
Army and Navy union at Portsmouth.
Va.
A rumor gained currency in Pana-
ma that Chairman Shonts of the canal
commission was 20 resign. Mr..
Shonts, who is now in this country,
has registered an emphatic denial OF
the report.
Michael Davitt, the noted Irish par
liamentary leader, died recently in a
Dublin hospital of blood poisoning.
Secretary Wilson. of the agricultural
department, after a conference at the
White house, announced in positive
tefNhs that the president would not
sanction amendments radically chang
ing the meat inspection bill, nor
would he tolerate a new measure.
In telegram to the Associated
press A. j. Cassatt denies that he in
tends resigning as president of the
Pennsylvania railroad company.
George w. Skies. manager of the
Butte, Mont, Miner, formerly of the
st. Paul Globe, is dead at his home
in Butte.
Services in memory of the late Carl
Schurz was held in Chicago, before
an audience which filled the Auditor
ium, William Woke of Berlin presid-
ed and letter was read from Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-06-07
Congregational.

The senate has passed the resolution
providing for the purchase of supplies
for the Panama canal in the United
States, unless the president deems the
price unreasonable or extortionate.
The statehood conferees have agreed
to fix the capital of the new state of
Oklahoma at Guthrie until 1915.
Both houses of congress adjourned
over Decoration day.
The senate committee on privileges
and elections has declared by vote
of seven to five that Reed Smoot is not
entitled to his seat in the United States
senate as a senator from Utah. The
senate as a whole will vote. on the
question before the close of the pres
ent session.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-06-07

| Jockey Club of st. Louis, ordering the
corporation dissolved and its affairs
wound up. A fine of $1,000 was also
| imposed. This is victory for the
state against the st. Louis race track
gamblers.
Representative Robert Adams, of the
Second Pennsylvania district COM
mitted suicide by shooting in his
apartments at the Metropolitan club
at Washington. 1t was Mr. Adams
who drafted. introduced, reported and
passed through the house of represent
tatives in one hour the declaration of
war against Spain.
The steamer Erin was run into and
cut in two by the steamer Cowle re-
Gently in the St Clair river and fiyo
members of the Erin's crew were
| drowned. Collision occurred in a fog.
Nine men were burned, two of them
seriously, in gas explosion in a mina
at Monongahela. Pa.
The United States circuit court 70,
the eastern district of Wisconsin has
handed down decision against th.
Milwaukee Refrigerator company and
six railroads. The defendants were
convicted of giving and receiving re.
bates on shipments of beer.
The South McAlester, I. T. Daily
Capital has been sold to corpora
tion Of 20 influential citizens.
In a baseball game at Kansas City.
Howard Newton, II years old, one of
the players, was struck over the heart
by pitched ball and died almost in
stantly.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-13
MONDAY, EVENING. AUGUST IS, 1906.

to the western portions which have to
some extent been considered arid or
at least semi-arid.
The day previous to the opening a
line began forming in front OF the
government land Office at $3.50 in the
afternoon, and the head of the process
sion held their places through the
night and until the opening of the
Office for business the next morning.
Special police prevented disorder at
the windows and desks of the officials
else there would have been a minor
reproduction of the Oklahoma open
ing. When the Office closed in the even
ing one hundred nineteen filings had
been made and not more than one third
the homeseekers had been accom-
modated.
The line of struggling contestants
contained a vast majority of men who
know the value of land because they
were farmers. Many of them were
perfectly conversant with conditions
in the western portion of the state
and knew they were fighting for a
valuable farm. They recognized the
fact that to convert a quarter section
of raw prairie into farm and to wait
for the coming of the railroad to make
it profitable to grow grain meant years
of toll and self denial. 1t meant living
away from the conveniences of modern
life and the surroundings which make
life worth living.
But they had measured all this and
against it had set the value of farm
and home. The worth OF that home
when secured was the reward they
would have for the sacrifices made.
In the face of this they fought for
place so that they might have an early
choice.
me TuSl llldue lOT the ldQuS mas
proven that the western part of the
state is destined to become as great
an agricultural section as the eastern
or middle. The men who have tested
the value of the lands and have con-
sidered the danger from drouth are
willing to risk considerable in order
to secure a quarter of the land. No
stronger proof of the value of the land
could have been given.
1t is certain that the western part
of the state is destined at no distant
day to become great field of waving
grain richly repaying the tillers of
the soil who have had the hardihood
and foresight to push into that region
which for SO many years was regarded
as too dry to produce anything in the
form of cultivated crops.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-13

whether or not mental disease Is SER
iously on the increase. On December
81, 1908, there were 32S public and
private hospitals for the insane in the
United States, with 150,151 inmates,
while in 1890 there were 1872 hospitals.
with 74.02s inmates. Ten years be-
fore. in 1880, there were only 40,942
insane persons in hospitals. This
shows an increase of patients in hos
pitfalls from SIG per 100000 of the
population in 1880 to 1882 in 1890 and
1862 in 1903. ..-
This would seem to indicate a rapid
increase of insanity, but it must be
remembered that hospital treatment
of insanity is also on the increase
and that it is upon the number of
patients so treated that the statistics
furnished by the government are
largely based. The old prejudice
against putting lunatics in the insane
asylums has been decreasing as the
humane treatment of the patients has
specialized treatment is better under
stood by the masses. The fact whether
or not insanity is on the increase can
only be determined by comparison of
the ratio of insane to the population.
In 1908 the insane in hospitals num-
bered 1862 per 100000 of the popula-
ton, while in 1850 the total number
of insane reported was only 1898 per
100000.
Then too it must be remembered
that it is only within the last decade
that the mentally diseased who do not
show signs of violence were consider
ed insane. 1t is easy even for the
middle aged to remember the village
fools who lived at home and partly
earned living and voted at elections.
nouncemfw yfwy mfwy fwpyETAOI
The alienist would certainly pro-
nounce them insane were he to
examine them today. The experts
have been in the last fey years es-
pecially at will breaking times, sift-
ing out the minds which were not
ideally normal and CHASING them as
insane. With these are scientifically
classed the epileptics. though Napol-
con and Pope TX. and many other
great men were afflicted with this
malady.
On the whole it would seem that in.
stead of insanity being on the increase
it is when compared with similar
conditions the past on the decrease
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-13
THE BOOMERS.

Next week the biggest and the most
enthusiastic crowd OF boomers will
visit the towns of the Great Northern
in this state, that ever went forth to
make a reputation for a city. The
enthusiasm which is being manifested
in the preparation of the work and the
willingness of the business men to
take few days off to assist in PROV
ing that Grand Forks is by far the best
city in the state and in fact in the en-
tire northwest is positive proof of the
importance of the project as consider
ed by the most progressive citizens
of the city.
No better time could have been
selected for the trip. The crowd can
only meet the business men and the
citizens of the towns. They can not
as matter of course meet the farmers.
They must reach them through the
business people. And just now is the
most convenient time for the business
people to take few hours of to get
acquainted with their friends. The
farmers are too busy harvesting to
attempt to transact business, and the
merchants are to some extent enjoy
ing respite from their exacting bust
ness.
At every town visited new friends
for Grand Forks will be made and the
old friends so cemented to It that
nothing can break the bonds. The
people of the city will learn of the
development of the northern part of
the state which is so great as almost
to be incomprehensible. They will
learn how the interests of this CITY
and of the other cities in the territory
contributOry to it can be mutually
advanced. They will be able to un-
derstand the relation between the
metropolis Of the state and the other
towns better than thousands of
columns of print could describe.
When the excursion returns to this
city there will be no question but that
Grand Forks will be the most advertis-
ed city in the northwest. That is what
the business men are going out to do,
and they never fail. But in this adj
Vertisment will also be a reciprocal
amount of advertising for the cities
which will be visited They will be
better known than ever before and
they will be shown to the country IN
the prominent light their progress and
prosperity deserves.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-13
A Good Old World.

It's pretty good world after all, my
=. It's pretty good world after all.
spring: summer, winter and fall, my
>. It's pretty good world after all.
suppose the skies are a trifle gray;
suppose that night is longer than day;
suppose that things don't come your
way
It's a pretty good world after all.
It's pretty good world after all, my
friend;
=. It's a pretty good world after all.
Sing 10! for the jolly old ball. my
It's a pretty good world after all.
There's less Of the false than of the
What Is the use Of feeling blue?
Fortune is going to smile on you
It's pretty good world after all.
It's pretty good world after all. my
If you've read this you may recall. my
friend,
It's a pretty GOOD world after all.
! guess I've said 1t about enough,
But they say that the people like that
And when magazines buy that line of
It's a pretty good world after all.
Judge.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-13
THE NEWSPAPER.

Like the magnet, it must have at
tracdve powers. 1t should possess
the reputation for greatness, fearless
ness and fairness and must be read by
the people representative of the best
in the masses and the classes. The
newspaper whose subscription list ex-
tends to the people who can discern
what is the pest newspaper in Grand
Forks is the newspaper that furnishes
readers of advertisements who can
judge merit, reputation and quality. II
you have, anything to sell worth buy
ing, II you have reasonable argu-
ment why your store should be patron
lied rather than the stores of your
competitors, IL you have anything to
sell that will appeal to thinking. in
telligent public THE EVENING TINES
is the best medium to carry your an
nouncement.
There is not a single reader Of the
Evening Times who Is not competent
to Judge Of the quality Of your goods
or the common sense OF your advertise.
ment. II you succeed In convincing
him " her you will find to your profif
that he or she has the price to buy.
Evening Times readers will patronize
you as they patronize The Evening
Times because they prefer to patronize
the best always.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-13
STATE TwINE PLANT.

by their works We shall know
them" How many of the kicking
politicians of the state are willing to
credit the so called machine" with
that honesty and wisdom that belongs
to them in connection with the policy
of establishing a state Irvine plant at
the penitentiary? When the republi-
can state leaders a few years ago.
acting upon broad business principles,
wholly apart from selfishness, advo-
Gated the establishment of a Irvine
plant, the kickers of that decade who
are the insurgent leaders of today
were opposed to it, not because it was
wrong but simply because it was pro-
posed by "the machine" leaders.
This year the Irvine plant has turn
ed out nearly four million pounds of
Irvine and sold it at from three to five
cents less than the price which the
trust twine is selling. For instance.
trust Irvine at Mandan is selling at
1871 cents; at the penitentiary plant
it is sold at 91z.
This year the Irvine plant will clear
about $4,000 which will go into the
state treasury, but the greater benefit
lies in the saving to those who are
obliged to buy Irvine. Moreover a con-
siderable number of men whose un-
lawful acts got them into trouble will
from time to time quit the penitentiary
after having acquired a knowledge of
a useful trade, and will go forth into
the world with a different view in life.
Some of "the machine" leaders who
made the fight to establish this Irvine
plant put their individual money into
it to get it going; "the machine"
leaders and followers favored it on
business principles. All the kickers
opposed ton narrow, factional
political grounds.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-13
Stories Of the Hour
She Was.


West End avenue, man undertook
to meet his unknown girl cousin at
the station on Tuesday. This is how
he did it. He approached a young
woman in blue and asked:
Are you Miss Baker
No." said the young woman, II am
not"
81 hope you'll excuse me-" explain
ed. II am here to meet Miss Blake.
She is my cousin. have never seen
her. My sister Kate is the only men,
Der of our family who knows her, and
she couldn't come. She told me /
would know Jennie because she is
SO pretty. Just pick out the prettiest
girl in the station and you'll be sure
to strike Jennie she said"
The young woman blushed, the
young man sighed.
Il don't know who to ask next" he
said. There doesn't seem to be any
body else in the whole shooting match
that comes up to the description.
guess Jennie didn't come"
A tall girl in brown sat beside the
girl in blue. Sc got up and glared
at the young man. "She did," said
the girl in brown.
"Oh. Lord" said he, "are you"
Il am" said the girl in brown.
And of course nobody could expect
girl to be friends with man after
that.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-13
FOR GOOD ROADS.

In a number of the towns of this
state the business men have contribut-
ed large sums OF money for the pur-
pose OF Improving the roads leading
into the towns. There was never a
stronger argument in favor of better
roads.
No man in this commercial day
contributes his money for public pur
poses without some expectation of re-
turn. Neither do the business men OF
the cities and villages which are in
terested in good roads leading into
them contribute their money to make
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-13
BEWARE OF THE JONESES.
The time has gone by when it is

The time has gone by when it is
necessary, if it ever was necessary,
to exagerate the crop conditions of
North Dakota. In years past there
was some difficulty in making out
siders believe the truth about the pos
sibilities of this state, and our enthusi-
astic residents, who knew personally
of the facts, were prone to indulge in
exageration in order to convince
skeptical strangers of our extraordin-
airy agricultural advantages.
Every true North Dakotan is proud
of our great commonwealth and We
are vain enough to listen with salts
faction to the fiattering things that
people everywhere are saying about
us. 1t is easy for us therefore to swell
with pride when Mr.. Jones-or even
Mr.. smith-says that North Dakota
will harvest one hundred million
bushels of wheat this year. Many of
us do not stop to inquire about Mr..
Jones' motive. His story pleases our
fancy; 1T tickles our vanity. We like
to be ticlIled and Jones knows it. But
Jones may have a selfish purpose in
over doing the business.
If should transpire that he was
twenty''or even ten million bushels
high in his estimate of our wheat crop
our producers, would not discover the
fact until after they had sold their
grain at prices fixed by his hundred
million estimate. 1t would be too late
then to swear effectively at Jones.
The Evening Times does not believe
that the wheat crop of the state will
exceed eighty million bushels this
year. 1t may not reach that figure,
and we earnestly advise our producers
not to let go of their wheat at the
prices that Jones and the twin city
papers are now trying to fix. for it.
II North Dakota has one hundred
million bushels this year, and the
Joneses can establish the fact before
a single bushel has been threshed,
the farm price of the new crop will be
from five to eight cents lower than
If we had but eighty million bushels
and were selling on an eighty million
bushel yield. This would be of great
advantage to the Joneses and the
jollying twin city journals. The diff
ference would go into their pockets.
and our producers would be the ones
holding the bag.
1t is altogether too big price to
pay for soft soap.