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The Breckenridge news., 1906-10-31
Supt. Pub. instruction

Lexington, Ky, September 80, 1906.
My Dear Friend:-As a school man my
interest in the coming Democratic
Primary centers in the nomination of a
State School Superintendent. | am in
terested in this for two reasons: AS a
Democrat l feel a pride in having my
party offer the best available man to
the voters of the Commonwealth. As
a school man whose heart and strength
have been given to the cause of edu-
cation, am doubly interested in hav-
ing a man elected to this Office who ID
honest, able, progressive, and whose
experience in school work fits him to
grapple intelligently with the burning
question of the day: "How may the
country people have as good education
al advantages as those of the cities2'
Feeling that these two ends may be
more nearly gained in the nomination
and election of Hon. E. A. Gullion
than in that of any of his opponents,
shall gladly vote for him. He is a man
and Democrat of whom no Kentuck-
ian need feel ashamed when it comes
to voting at the regular election. He
is true man and a lifelong Democrat.
Above all he is preeminently qualified,
both by training and experience for the
sacred Office to which he aspires.
He is not only well educated, but
his training that peculiarly fits him for
Superintendent of Public Instruction
has been in the rural school as teacher,
and Superintendent o County
Schools. His long experience as teacher
in the county schools places him in
close touch with the humblest rural
school in the State, and in sympathy
with poorly PAID, struggling teachers
Everywhere. His sixteen years expert
ence as county school superintendent
has made him familiar with the entire
school system. He knows the strong,
and the weak places, and he can intel
ligently direct its operations from his
first day in office, while one without
his wide experience would be at sea
dufing a great part of his administra-
ton.
Loving Kentucky as we do, we all
want to take from her the disgrace of
illiteracy. Before we can make much
The Breckenridge news., 1906-10-31
BACK FROM ARMY.
John Johnson Receives Honorable
Discharge as Soldier.

John Johnson, who left Breckenridge
county three years ago to lead a SOL
dier's life in Uncle Sans army has re-
turned home, having received an hon
orable discharge after serving the three
years time enlisted for.
Mr.. Johnson was stationed at Alaska
with the regular troops the greater
part of his service. His brother, who
is now in the army, will return-home
next month, when his time will have
expired,
The Breckenridge news., 1906-10-31

progress we must have a leader that is
tried and true. Such a man is Gullion.
His nomination means little opposition
at the regular election, because both
Democrats and Republicans recognize
his ability, worth and general fitness
for the office. His election will inaug-
urate a new era in education for rural
Kentucky, something which we ear
nestly desire.
Yours for better things educationally,
NJ. A. CASSIDY.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-10-31
Coming to Breckenridge County

J. E. Monrach, who is a prominent
member of the A. S. of E., has sold
his farm on Panther creek and will
move to Breckenridge county. Mr..
Monrach was one of the best known
farmers in the county and has many
friends who will regret to learn that
he has decided to move to Brecken-
ridge county.-Owensboro Messenger.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-10-31
ESTIMABLE WOMAN DIES.
Mrs. Martin Frank Succumbs to Par
aIysis at iter Home In Toblnsport.

Mrs. Martin Frank died at her home
in Tobinsport Sunday of paralysis, af-
ter an illness of three months. De-
ceased was sixty-three years of age
and leaves a husband and one daugh.
ter, Mrs. Blanche Shaw, of Louisville
The remains were buried Tuesday ir
Tobinsport.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-10-31
Moved to Town.

Mr. Chas Pate and family have
moved to Cloverport and are occupying
the residence Mr.. Pate recently pur-
chased of Mr. Marion Weatherholt, on
Elm street.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-10-31
DeBth of an Infant

The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Elijah Gibson, of this city, died Sunday
evening at s O'Clock, and was buried in
the city cemetry the following day.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-26
LOANING POLICY
UNDER FIRE TODAY
ATTEMPT TO SHOW DIscRIMINA-
TON BY N. w. MUTUAL LIFE.
Officers Explain Why More Of the Com
pany's Money Was Not Placed on
Wisconsin sLands-How Judges
/ Policy Was Reinstated.

Milwaukee, April 26.-Questions Of
the loan policy Of the Northwestern Mu-
tual Life Insurance company occupied
the attention of the Wisconsin legisla-
tive committee in it's investigation to-
day. P. r. Sanhorn, second vice presi-
dent, and George s. Markham, special
loan agent, were joint witnesses.
The committee, thru it's questions, en-
deavored to bring out information to
the effect that the company discrimin-
ated in its loans on Wisconsin farm
lands. It developed that the company
does not necognize farmers mutual fire
insurance policies.
Mr.. Sanborn said the fact that the
company was limited to so per cent of
the land valuation in, its loans pre-
vented more Wisconsin agricultural
loans from being secured from the COM
pany. f.. -. .....s. .s-. s--.
In the afternoon hearing yesterday a
letter from Clarence M. Smith, general
agent of the company in California,
urging the reinstatement of a policy
on the life of Justice William G.. Lori
gan of the California supreme court,
| which had been cancelled for non-pay-
| ment of interest on a loan, was intro
duced.
In the letter Mr.. Smith urged the
reinstatement on the ground that the
court had "rendered one or two de.
I do not think we can afford to be too
exaeting in this case" - - - -:
| Vice President Skinner, who was be,
| ing questioned when the letter was
presented, said that the policy of Jus;
| tiee Lorrigan was reinstated when he
paid his interest, and that the letter
had nothing to do with the case.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-26
WHO Wants to Be Defender


To the Editor Of The journal.
I desire to defend the American people
against the charges anr insinuations con-
tanned in the five or, six columns of
speech delivered by President Roosevelt
last Saturday. The speech aroused in my
own mind the same Indignation which I
felt, when In the second Mckinley cam
pafgn, Mr.. Roosevelt went about urging
the people not to be Jealous Of the rich.
Such talk was an insult to every self-re-
specting and honorable American citizen.
The American people are not jealous of
rich men, either good or bad, but the
honest and Intelligent among them are
filed with hatred and contempt for men
who are not willing to- play fair in com
mercial life, and for their sycophantic
apologists. In this latest speech of the
president there is nothing in the columns
Of platitudes especially worth saying,
which T e j o u n a / did not say much
better in a fourth Of column Of edi-
torial comment. The American people
are pa tient and long suffering and very
much disposed to accept reformers at
| their own estimate, but it may not prove
a+bad guess that they viii some time ge,
tired of reformers whose successful eff
forts are chiefly directed at the baser sor,
| of Offenders, and whose loudly trumpeted
charges upon the rich and powerful plum
derers of the publicly uniformly mis-
carry. A late writer speaks of "goo-goc
reformers,' and it would seem that ou1
| president would do well to take a Ia
In his thinking and get out of that class
! ". Edward J. Brown.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-26
The Hennepin Avenue ,Tangle.

Judge Holt, in his decision denying
the writ of mandamus by which GER
tain property owners sought to compel
the park commission to reinvest itself
with the management Of the Hennepin
avenue parkway, which it had attempt
ed to abandon, appears to agree with
the taxpayers in principle, that the
park board cannot abandon dominion
over property it holds in trust for that
public, but he does not see his way
clear to issue writ of mandamuS be-
cause the park laws are not sufficiently
specific as to what a court might do
to enforce it's orders. They do not de-
clare how parkway shall be kept, and
the court, while it might issue writ,
could not enforce obedience by punish
ment for contempt, since there is moth
ing in the law so fixing the duties of
the park board with reference to the
maintenance Of park roads that the
court could know whether or not its
orders had been complied with.
"A remedy at INV pelhg apparently
unavailable, the Hennepin avenue prob,
lem is remanded back to the realm of
! agreement and compromise between the
administrative bodies, the council and
the park commission. The taxpayers
along the street are probably not par
ticular about names. They do not care
whether Hennepin avenue is maintained
as a street or parkway SO long as il
is maintained. The complaint today il
| that. it is not maintained.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-26
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
Building to Resist earthquakes.

To the Editor of The journal.
In connection with the report printed
In Il he ournal from the New York
Herald In regard to Theodore Starrett
OF the Thompson Starrett firm Of con-
tractors being 'the designer Of the new
Chronicle building in San Francisco"
would like to say that the entire state
ment Is erroneous, with the exception
that Theodore .Starrett was craftsman
In the employ of Burnham & Root OF
Chicago. the architects Of the new Chron-
1cle for Colonel Young, at the time the
building was designed John Meigs Even
now head Of the general contracting firm
OF ~. NJ. Even &, Co, was engineer for
the firm at the time the Chronicle build
ing was designed and the steel work was
drawn sunderrthi direction, but the
scheme for resisting earthquakes adopted
and Which IS reported to have been very
successful, was. that Of John w. Root
who designed the building. .s
AS Mr.. Root explained to the writer al
the time, it was simply to lay in the
brick work at every story, band Of fla
iron Of about five inches by one-fourth O.
an inch, In, sections, clear around the
walls OF the building, and bedded in ma
sorry work. This iron was fastened a
the ends so that 1t made one continuous
ring, and acted very much like wha
builders call a hog chain or barrel hoop
The idea was to keep the building from
breaking up laterally, and seems to hav
been effectual :, g.. o., 49,.
Mr.. Even is one Of the most capabl
building engineers In the country, and hi
advice at this time was, probably consid
cred, but John Root was in the: habit o
designing his own work, and the, credi
Is due him, THO in this construction, a
well as In the other steel building
erected in those early days Of steel frame
his engineer, Mr.. Even, as we'll as Theo
dore starrett, Jim. Dunwiddie and other
IN the engineering department of the firm
were able assistants in the evolution o
cago famous, New York great and seem
to have left some salvage, from the earth
quake in San Francisco.
| Robert Craik Mclean,
Editor Western Architect
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-26
AVALANCHE RIDE
TAKEN BY FOUR
American Climber and His Wife
Survive Narrowing Noun
tain Adventure.
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special service.
Geneva, April 26.-An American
named Kendrick and his wife. accom-
panied by two guides, after an ascent
Of Point d'Orny, dangerous climb at
this time of year, had an exciting ex
perience. AS they began to descend
they suddenly slid downward at an
alarming speed. They had started an
avalanche.
The guides. to whom the Hendricks
were attached by a rope, shouted to
them to Keep their feet and. not VI sit
down. Their ~~ momentum ~, increased,
however, until they were going at ex-
press train speed. Hendricks says:
81 thought every moment we would
be dashed to pieces, as [ knew huge
preeipices flank the mountain. I was
in front. Then came guide. then my
wife, then another guide. Suddenly /
was brought up with jerk which
shook the breath out of me. We had
stopped on a ledge, three yards from
the brink Of a fathomless chasm, into
which the avalanche rolled wi tn roar.
r turned and saw my wife lying sense
| less. The guide was rubbing her face
| with snow.
awe owe our lives to the guide Du-
praz, who had dexterously clasped q
projecting rock and chung to it, there
| by bringing us up with a tremendous
| jerk on the rope. which. fortunately
did not break. When the avalanche
had passed and my wife had recov.
cred we clambered down to safety. Old
| Dupraz did not seem to be moved by
the adventure, but he was pleased when
nv wife kissed him gratefully.'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-26
ARRESTED FOR A THIEF
ST. PAUL MAN HAD DIFFICULTY
IN CONVINCING WINNIPEG Po-
LICE THAT HE WAS INNOCENT.

Special TO The Journal. so.
Winnipeg, Man., April 26.-Anthony
Restivo of 213 East Thirteenth street,
st. Paul, Mimi, obtained an unpleas-
ant impression of Winnipeg police yes
terday afternoon, for when he slipped
from Northern Pacific train he was
arrested, and when he asked the mean-
ing for it, was not enlightened, but un-
tremendously hustled to police sta
- Resti1o's account of himself was
laughed at, his identity doubted and his
suitcases searched. When it was pro-
posed to extend the search to his per-
son, the outraged traveller told his cap
tors they had better draw the line
there, and they desisted.
Permission to use a telephone to com.
municate with his friends was denied
him. The inquisitors saw the futility
of trying to get from him information
of which he was not possessed and let
him 60 He gathered from questions
put that there had been a theft on the
train and that the police, having, sus-
pected him, refused to accept evidence
to the contrary.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-26
Flies for Food.

Not long ago a cargo of flies was
unloaded at the London docks, con-
signed to large firm of grain mer::
chants. These flies came from Brazil
and are used in the manufacture of
stock food. They are caught. on the
River Amazon by Brazilians who travel
up the river in fat -bottomed boats and
who are provided with nets with which
they capture these insects by the mil
lions. Some time ago the Brazilian
governments, fearing that the fish in thu
Amazon river would be starved, for
babe the expectation of flies, hence the
price which had been y cents per
pound, Immediately went up to about
SO cents. The best nerve builder and
the purest food for the brain is golden
grain belt beer. Try it and see.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-26
Regulating Chauffe urs.

The arraignment Of, twenty-five auto
mobile drivers in the police court, yes
terday, charged with fast driving, was
significant of an earnest intention on
the, part of the police to protect life and
limb in this city from the furious ways
Of some of our automobile owners. The
action of the judge in continuing the
cases indicates also that what the court
desires is not fine money, but COM
pliance with the ordinance. The men
brought into court are all presumably
of high grade Of intelligence. They
know what speed is and they know that
their duty is in case Of doubt to give
the walking public the benefit of it
instead Of taking the extreme limit
| allowed them by law, , .s>-.@@-->l Z
This early spring. warning, if taken
in good part by the drivers, will tend
to make matters more pleasant for
everybody thru the summer.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-26
The Earthquake's "Voice. -

Does an earthquake have noise of
its own making, that is separate and
distinct from any sounds occasioned by
the crashing of houses9
On this point the testimony Of per-
sons who went thru the San Francisco
horror varies. Mr.. G. A. Smith Of
this city, who was thru it all, says: $50
far as I know the earthquake made no
sound of it's own The sound I heard
I attributed solely to the grinding Of
the steel and masonry under the strain
put upon them. Whether there would
have been sound in the open country
I cannot say
Mr. J. W. Howe, who is described as
veteran miner, and who has been thru
war and heard all the varied and terri
flying sounds of battle, appears to hold
that the earthquake has noises of its
own. He is reported as saying: "The
most awful thing: to me, the thing |
cannot forget, is the noises of the earth
quake. I have heard the roar Of can
mons, the noises Of big explosions, of
severe storms at sea, but for terrify-
ing onglomeration Of sounds commend
me to the earthquake s voice in great
city. 1t was unlike anything ever
heard or could have imagined. It was
as one might imagine the screaming of
some wounded animal of titanic size.'
This testimony would seem to point
to an independent voice of the earth
quake. The falling of houses could
not have been unlike anything man
who had been about in the world coul6
imagine.
Yet there does not appear to be any
reason why an earthquake should make
noise. The earthquake itself is fa1
under the surface, how deep the scien
tifc observers can tell, but undoubtedly
so far that distinct earthquake noise
would be very unlikely to be heard.
If the scientific explanation of thu
earthquake is correct that it is a slip
ping of the rocks forming the earth =
crust, the noise occasioned would no
be. a voice anyway. 1t would be yer,
much like the roar of the falling O.
walls, only much more muffed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-26
EIGHT INDICTMENTS
ARE FOUND VOID
Minnesotans Involved in Alleged
Land Frauds Escape
Prosecution.
Special to The journal.

Special to The journal.
Sioux Falls, April 26.-Eight men
who were under Indictment in the
United States court in connection with
land frauds can again breathe EASY az
the result of the action of Judge Car
land today in sustaining remurrers to
several indictments.
The decision of Judge Garland was
in cases of Frank s. Schwalen, Hans
han, Henry Groth, PearleygtR. Stiles
| and J ohm A. Hilgendorf, all of Triumph,
| MINI. The demurrer also applied to
the case of J. c.. Dodge, banker Of
Triumph, who had not. yet been ar
| rested.
The eight defendants were charged
in the indictments returned ?, against
them with perjury, alleged to have
been committed in making their final
proofs on homesteads in the Chamber
lain district. They made final proof
before John D. Arnold, clerk of courts
of Stanley county, at Fort Pierre, in
the Pierre land district.
The point was raisedzby the attorneys
| for eight that Arnold did not have au-
| thority to administer oaths in cases
where the land involved was in the
Chamberlain land district.
Judge Garland sustained this view,
thus making the indictments void and
clearing the defendants. Clerks Of
| courts under this decision, therefore,
| when acting in land cases, have author
| ity to administer oaths only where the
| land involved is in the land district in
which they reside and hold office.
Two Plead Not Guilty. .--
John Mcclure and Howard A. Bin
ford pleaded not guilty to an indict-
ment charging them with engaging in
conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment out Of tracts of public land in
| western South Dakota.
Mcclure and Binford were Jointly
indicted with Thomas H. Ayers, John
I. Newell and Carl Petan. Petan
pleaded guilty last Saturday and was
sentenced to imprisonment for period
of one year in the Hughes county jail
at Pierre and was fined 81, 900. Il
The cases against Mcclure, Binford,
Ayers and Newell have been continued
until the October term.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-26
FOUR STRANGERS MEET;
TWO WEDDINGS FOLLOW

Nashua, N. H.. April ga double
wedding was celebrated at the home of
Rev. Joseph E. Gross last evening, none
Blanc and Joseph Broulliard and jose
phine Lacomb and Henry Malenfant,
having met until the day before. The
brides came here from Manchester early
in the afternoon and at the store of
Paul Gendron, a@bicycle, dealer, met the
future bridegrooms and were intro
duced.
Both the young men were known to
Mr.. Gendron, altho neither had met
before. He invited the whole party to
90 for spin in his automobile. After
that, the couples went to dance, where
Joseph Broulliard proposed and was
blushingly accepted. Meanwhile, Jose
phine and Henry had reached the stage
of saying pleasant things to each other,
which soon led to proposal and &C;
ceptance Malenfant then proposed an
immediate wedding and double one.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-26
Chinatown Abolished by Fire.

One of the purely benefcent results
Of the San Francisco disaster was the
total destruction Of Chinatown. Not
one stick or stone remains to show
where Chinatown existed. Hundreds
of it's miserable inhabitants have per-
ished in the living grave, in which for
years they had burrowed.
Chinatown, according to the news
from San Francisco, will never be per-
mitted to- be re-established. The Chi
nese who remain will be housed in an
other part Of the city. It will be well
if the city authorities take care that
: the conditions of another Chinatown
are not created The one recently de-
stroyed was made out of buildings
which were originally fitted for the
habitation of Caucasians. But the
Chinese gradually converted brick and
frame dwellings, into beehive-like struc
lures, full of winding passages, under
ground rooms and dark holes where
human beings lived and died without
seeing the light Of day. Here were the
pestilent opium smoking dens which
touristswe shown, and here the misera
bly, poor Of; the Chinese quarter. dragged
out an existence'whichw would make hell ;
relief Whatever Chinese remain il
San Francisco. should be compelled t,
live above ground. Possibly WI Ting
fang and some Of his fellow officia
fakirs of the Chinese empire, might fin,
in this another assault upon China b,
the American government. But the dis
tress of that worthy coolie could b
borne in the interest Of the health an
| morality of the new San Francisco.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-26

Mark Twain, who was present and as
sisting at the San Francisco earthquake
of 1868, reports that it was an unpleas-
ant occasion when number Of the best
citizens, who were supposed to be totally
opposed to the Sunday saloon, were seen
rushing out Of barrooms with billiard
cues in their hands. This shows the nys-
FERROUS power of earthquakes, a power
that enables them to throw a leading
citizen out Of his bed, hurl him thru the
wall of billiard room and cast him
forth thru the opposite wall, grasping a
billiard cue. But it is not a power pecu-
liar to earthquakes. Cyclones have been
known to do very similar things in Min
nesOta.