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police station. It was set to blow up
an hour later. : : =
You may be sure that the. chemists
of the municipal laboratory have to be
up to date. Within fvesminutes of
the arrival of the Hettinger valise at
the bomb farm they had it radio
graphed and opened TRANQUILITY. Be-
hands fixed for $3.50 pm, and it was
then only 2:4o pm. They discon-
neeted the wires and it was harmless.
Every newly discovered bomb is
photographed. And until its general
character is known, you may be sure no
one loafs uselessly in it's neighborhood.
+ And the photographs are taken behind
arnlorplate screens. But the second
room of each bomb farmhouse is still
more curious. The partitions are walls
of earth fifteen feet thick. In front
earth behind which the chemist and his
aids hide while the hydraulic press is
operating.
The hydraulic press gets blown to
smithereens several times a. week now
| adays. Then they repair it or put in
new one. Immediately bomb is
photographed, they put it in this press.
All quit the room except one practiced
man; and he, with one leg outside of
the door, shifts the fatal lever. The
press begins working and the bomb does
the rest.
Then why do they put the bomb in i.
somewhere. If it has to explode, il
had best explode in the press. Also
three times out of four, the press does
not explode even dangerous bomb
1t works slowly and gently. tho ir
resistibly. And several important
classes Of bombs can be thus gently pull
verized without exploding.
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In grain there is no future market,
and so, Of course, no speculative market.
Until recently the grain business Of
Amsterdam was largely done on Lon.
don Corn Trade association contracts.
But as the greater percentage of it was
for German account, Germany, ,. ever
jealous, had new system of contracts
adopted by the trade for the Black sea,
Azof and Danube trade. These are
called the Dutch Netherlands contracts.
An Amsterdam Elevator. .
AS cargoes Of grain are either dis
tributed as soon as unloaded or are
stored in barges or lighters, elevators
are not much required here. However,
there is one of fair size-700,O00 bush
els capacity. It is Of brick, with
, brick bins or silos, and corresponds to
an American terminal working house.
Unlike an American terminal elevator,
however, storage room is given to flour
and linseed cake. = ~.
| The elevator is owned and operated
by an incorporated company.
| The storage part Of the house con-
sists Of 100 brick bins of $50 tons ca
pacity each. They are about seventy
five feet in depth The system Of con-
veyor belts and machinery is practi-
cally the same as in use in America.
One striking dissimilarity, however, is
the dirty condition of the house. Dust
| to an alarming extent is everywhere.
An American insurance, Inspector would
Z never recover from the sight Of it. !
! told superintendent that. the build
ing will blow up some time; and it will
If fire should ever start in it. =
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IA NEW TRIUMPH FOR FOLK
Benefcent Result in Lexington. Ky, Of
His Stand for Law Emf orcement.
Washington Evening Sta

Washington Evening Star.
: Governor Folk has achieved a new triumph In
new field IA 1t probably came as surprise
to him. for he had not that particular thing III
view at all. 1t may not help his presidential
boom, for it associates him with movement
which is anything but political and is far re-
moved from old-fashioned democratic tenets But
1t is d good thing in itself, and for that rea-
son, If no other. he should be proud of 1t.
Invited to Lexington, KY, to address meet
ms for the advancement Of education Governor
Folk not only advocated that cause, but spoke
for other good causes. and urged particularly
the execution of all laws. He warmed up when
he reached that head of his discourse, and the
effect on the mayor of the town, who was pres
ent. was something extraordinary
1t seems that the Sunday CLOSING law in Lex
ington had virtually been set aside by the
saloonkeepers, and much Indignation among the
law abiding people of the town had resulted
Governor Folks address set the mayor to
thinking and forthwith he determined that that
law, with the others, should be executed. So
he secured some additional power from the town
council and announced to, the lawbreakers that
be was ready to meet them on their own ground
They did not tackle him, but on Sunday closed
duced In such quantities in that locality was
to be obtained for love or money from the men
who had been selling it openly on that day.
The town was as dry as a powderhorn, and
numbers of citizens thought that the day would
never pass.
In Lexington it is spoken of as Folk Sunday.
The Missouri governor is accredited with the
whole thing. Now, IL the movement spreads,
and other towns of the state and towns In other
states follow suit Governor Folk fame II going
to snread beyond tts Dresent Limit
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HOLLAND FLOUR TRADE.
: WORTH FIGHTING FOR
Exporting Mlers Of the World Are Battling for Pre-
eminence in that Market-High Prices and Short
Crops Have Reduced American Trade There of
Late Years.

to moderate crops and increasing home
consumption, America will soon raise
no exportable surplus. That" time has
not yet arrived, however, and with
average weather conditions in the states
it is not likely to for several years to
come, if at all. Meanwhile, there will
be a surplus to export, either as wheat
or flour.
Wheat VS.. Flour Importers.
Excepting the United Kingdom and
Holland, all the European nations adj
nit wheat at a rela lively lower duty
than flour. The result is shown in the
imports, -four as against wheat. Bel
GUM and Holland, however, are receiv-
ing and distributing points for Ger
many. and large part of the wheat i'm
ported into those countries is exported
at the other side. Yet the imports
as showing. the effect of the duty -
In 1905 Belgium imported but $4,000
barrels Of -four. In the same year Ger
many imported 100000 barrels of flour
and 100000 bushels Of wheat. France
imported 100000 barrels of flour and
39,0O0,000 bushels Of wheat. Italy i'm
ported 1900 barrels Of -four and 3d..
100000 bushels of wheat. Yet the lit
tie country Of Holland imported $780,,
OOO DaIIelS u uOuT, OF more, excepting
the United Kingdom, than all other
European countries combined, includ.
ing Denmark and the other northwest
ern countries. Thus are the milling
interests of European countries pro
tected. - -
1t is hardly necessary to say that
the Dutch millers have not prospereL
Yet there are enough commercial mil
lers in Holland to maintain ar asso
citation. They have at times endeavoret
to have an import duty placed on -four
but as yet have not succeeded. British
millers have also made the same at
tempt, but with the same lack Of sue
cess. - 81 .-. >!. -. ;. d
Thus it appears that in all countrie
the tendency is toward, low duties O,
the raw material and high duties on tn
manufactured product. This carriet
out generally in wheat and fou
(Which does not seem impossible), tn
result would be to reduce the milling
capacity of all countries to home re
| quirements--reduce them by strue
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BY Rollln E. Smith.
Copyright. 1906.

q MSTERDAM.- only to
"a the United Kingdom as an i'm
o. ~ porter Of -four, and. being one
of the few remaining countries free
from impossible import duties, Holland
is center Of interest for the export
ing millers of the world. The Ameri-
can millers have long enjoyed pros
certain grades Of -four, were the, ia
vored shippers. But now, since other
millers have begun to grow great, and
following the short crops of 1903 and
1904 in the United States, the. export
ers of Belgium, Germany, England and
the far-away Argentine have turned
their very aggressive attention this
way. It is now the task Of American
millers not to attempt to increase their
regain their trade Of four Or five years
ago.
A few figures will show the falling
off Of the imports of American -four,
due to short crops and high prices in
America.
During the calendar year Of 1900
the United States sent to Holland
, 100000 barrels of flour; in 1901,
100000; 1902, 1,l75,000; 1903, 1915
900; 1904, 10000, and in 1905, 100000
| barrels.
In the crop year of 1902, which ends
Aug. 81 Holland imported 100000
! 100000, and in 1905, 1,340,OO0 barrels
While comparisons between crop years
and calendar years are by no means
| satisfactory, the relative proportion OF
! American flour is shown. While Hol
/ lands imports have increased some
what, the exports of American flour tt
Holland have fallen off one-half
! It is Of the utmost Importance tc
! American millers that they regain this
trade If possible, for all foreign mar
mark, Norway, Sw eden and Finland are
taking some American -four and doubt
less will continue to do so, but the
life of the export trade is centered il
Holland and the United Kingdom.
"a, 1t has frequently been said, during
the late short-crop years, that, owing
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TYPES OF REVERSIBLE BOMBS.

32{ifTEo Or +HEvEHoi5EEf2H OM 90 q.
liquids arranged in tubes to flow and
meet each other only in that case: S
The laboratory g so-called% bomb van
is a heavy (voiture lourde) double.
phaeton 12.horsepower automobile, re-
fitted from the regular tourist trade:
with pneumatic spring device for
gentle running and 20-millimeters
tires. The bomb box is placed just
over the rear springs, opening by let
down from behind. It is filled with
shredded wood fiber, and into this, as
into go nest, Clement deposited the
packed and braced, the door was shut,
ind the auto bomb van started off
swiftly. H.
It went swiftly, I tell you, to one of
the queerest "farms" of any city sub
urb.
There are four of these farms
s'bomb farms lin the suburbs on
each of the four sides Of Paris. The
van went to this one swiftly, az it al
ways does, because the vast majority Of
these propaganda bombs, unlike the
bombs Of war, explode not by shock,
but by the passing of time when it. is
not by change of position. Their
original position being safeguarded,
time becomes the vital element. 49,.
Bomb in a Valise.
A nasty clockwork internal machine
was nevertheless delivered BY a duly
licensed "commissionaire' (messenge1
boy Of 40 years. to NJ. Hettin.
ger s dwelling-M. Hettinger was chair
man of the Russian loan committee
The thing was in the form of rich and
handsome valise. The clock ticking
was not audible. Only general suspicion
self for investigation-to the nearby
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Outlook for American Flour.

Outlook for American Flour.
Some Of the large importers Of Amer
lean flour at Amsterdam are by no
means, discouraged. At the, present
time the markets are dull, due to heavy
stocks received the early part Of the
year. Importers believe, however, chat
with good crop in tho United States
this year. prices will seek an interna
tienal level, when good business in
American -four can be done. !; Ii :.
Holland has always been a market
for clear -four instead of patent.
But the tendency Of the trade is now
two years the German mills have been
supplying flour somewhat better than
American "clears,' and, also, there
is now more patent -four used than
formerly. -s:. ~ = ~.
It is important that American millers
should follow the changing conditions
in these markets closely. The German
mlllers are dangerous competitors, as
they always IVA tt take psreqa pains to
the other hand, have the reputation Of
going out Of their way to displease their
customers. Hence the latter are not
building up an export trade while the
Germans are.
A serious handicap for the Americans
is the length Of time, even when there
is no delay, required between shipment
and receipt. Delays in transit, like the
awful delays Of last fall and winter,
will absolutely spoil oil prospects of re-
gaining the Dutch trade. It is i'm
portant, nay, absolutely necessary, that
millers exert themselves to the utmost
| in getting shipments thru in reason
| able length Of time.
Given fair prices and no unreason-
able delay in transit, and American
-four may long hold a place in Holland
The Ports of Holland.
! Attic Amsterdam is the chief com
mercial center of Holland, and one of
the important cities Of Europe, Rotter-
dam is the principal port Many car
goes intended for Amsterdam are un-
loaded on barges at Rotterdam and
! brought over via canal. Amsterdam
by means of locks, has shut out the sea-
| Vessels cannot come to the docks with
out passing thru the locks.
From both Rotterdam and Amster.
dam, flour and grain are distributed by
barge on the canals thruout the cities
| and the country. Grain is sent inland
the large importing houses are at Am
sterdam, but they have branches at
Rotterdam. Z.
Amsterdam, like all important Euro.
pean cities, has bourse. The building
is owned by the city, and anyone may
i trade there on payment Of a small an
nual fee. The: bourse is divided into
4 several departments or exchanges fo1
/ the various branches of trade. The Stool
i exchange occupies one, and the grain
exchange another.
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PARIS HAS A SPECIAL FORCE, ORGANIZED LIKE A FIRE
DEPARTMENT, TO FIGHT ITS NEWEST EPIDEMIC
Something---A Graphic Pen Picture of the

Why have not the bombs done more
harns First, wait! They are liable :
to do harm yet. And then, for the
rest, everything is against the poor ter
rorist. Ravachel started out with a
valise containing dynamite, sebastin<
and illuminate. He took the omnibus
for the fatal spot; and arriving at the
Rue de Clichy, discovered that the stuff
had dangerously shifted; He tried to
around. The whole valise had become
terribly dangerous. His hurry was
great. He therefore chose bad place
for it and blew out only few walls
and wounded only five persons.
Take the admissions of Bouchard,
secretary Of the Carpenters union and
his pals, the Habert brothers, orators
Of the General Confederation of Labor.
They could not work at Bouchard's
apartment because Of the presence of
his wife Working with makeshift
tools and scrap material in the Haberts'
wretched rooms, they forgot single
detail and blew up the shop. But can
you not see them tearing out the
smooth stone mantelpiece for chemical
mixing stone7
-, Terrifying Apprenticeship.
! The unhappy Katz-Stryga made his
bombs in a miserable hotel bedroom
for which he was paying 81 week.
He worked with washbasin, broken
bottles, slugs and scraps of iron.
Every moment thru the day he was
hiding stuff or listening. At night
his sleep was rare and feverish. The
apprenticeship Of terrorism is itself
terrifying!
The watching of ones chance to
place a time bomb is horribly risky,
which explains the vast majority of
reversible bombs, and also their being
discovered before an accident-or q
very silly person nowadays
them
Even when they are time bombs, fixed
to explode only after several hours. how
can the bombplacer count on walking
pocket and find an immediate oppor--
tunity to place it at the desired spoti
Suppose he find servants standing
, around?
Constantly in Danger.
, It is at once comic and horrible, the
picture of a militant workingman anc
| amateur terrorist walking about Paris
{ with bomb in his pocket that must
, explode at set hour! He is prevented
5 from placing it here, and he dare not
place it there! An hour has elapsed
l Time pressed. He must place it some
t where! Where9 >,
/ Even when it is a reversible bomb, il
is not nice thing to take home ani
sleep with: Suppose he should forge
J.. and turn it over7 Suppose it shoult
: be in his pocket and he should stoop tx
t tie his shoestring9 Drop it-quick-
; in any old place! There is the ex
PLANTATION.
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The little crowd of Neuillyites in
creased; but [ found plenty of room in
the reserved place-in the shut down
faetory's entrance court, by an inner
way-reserved not by the police,
but by the enlightened self-interest Of
The chemist, Clement, directed
Ramez, the chauffeur, to bring the bomb
van inside, close to the spot. Then he
knelt down beside the mysterious en-
CINE, looked at = without touching it.,
then gently lifted it vertically.
His chief care, obviously, was to con-
tinue holding the bomb vertically, not
to let it slant, much less turn it hori-
zontally; because it is the nature Of the
explode only when their position is
changed, and this by the uniting Of two
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Danqer Appreni ship Of Terrorism.
BY Sterling Heilie.
of Iha journal.

Special Correspondence Of The Journal.
TARIS, May 19.-By the time these
- lines are printed an important
- Paris bank may be blown up.
or a big factory. Or two banks and
two factories. Or it may be buildings
in course of construction, OF, palatial
Paris homes of foreign aristocrats, or
hotels wherein stop foreign function
aries, or the moderate apartments OF
some contractors foreman or scab-
employing overseer.
~ Of one thing only you may be certain
tho blown up by bombs, it will not be
the work of anarchists. This is the
grave characteristic OF the new bomp
epidemic in Paris.
The Argenteuil railway bridge was
blown up by militant workingmen,
practitioners Of the new ''direct
action,' to prevent troop trains from
reaching Paris for the labor agitations
of May /.
Benjamin Katz (called stryga), who
accidentally blew himself up while
but disappointed Russian revolution
isist and member Of the Boevaya Drou-
lima Of Geneva. To him had fallen the
lot to revenge the aborted revolution
5on the French banks that, floating the
Enew Russian loan, had reafmed the hand
I Of absolutism.
! The unknown person who placed the
most powerful bomb yet discovered in
the carriage vestibule of M. Bam-
sberger's palatial home in the Champs
+ Elysees, worked for the same definite
Isrevenge NJ. Bamberger is the head
|. Of the Banque de Paris,%o of the Rus
sian loan underwriters. ~. -:.:s & E.
Joseph Lafont, the Lyons carpenter,
,who injured himself 50 severely while
k1naking bombs, is a prominent labor
lagitator. and ardent svndicalist'
+ And the Habert brothers who, with
E5Alfred Bouchard, accidentally blew up
{fheir own bomb factory here in the Rue
5des Plantes, were well-known speakers
I,of the General Labor confederation,
while Bouchard was assistant secretary
Of the Carpenters union.
New Bombs Every Day.
Every day rev bombs are discovered.
The cable tells you only Of those that
explode Even the Paris papers, not
ito give desired advertising to bomb
placing labor agitators, pass over in
Esilence tWo-thirds of the engines picked
Enp before they have been able to do
damage; but at the Municipal labora-
stantly telephoned:
Gallo! allol A bomb in the Tenor
squared! The service does not get
ratified. It has seen plenty of prae-
tical-ioke bombs; but it has also multi
fed so many deadly ones in the past
fifteen days that their explosion would
otherwise have temporarily ruined the
already bad reputation of Paris as a
safe tourist town during the present
springtime. Therefore it Immediately
investigates every call.
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cad
anofs benefit " you
thar many syi
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Gallo! allo! A bomb at the per-
fumery works, Rue DIES Huissiers, Neu-
illylV -.
It is like fire call Instantly M.
Girard jumps into his sixteen horse
power automobile. He does not wait
for the automobile bomb van, which,
like the fire engine, arrives few min
utes after the chief is on the spot. -
The first person to touch bomb is
always one Of the six chemists of the
laboratory, in shifts Of one week each
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recover nerve. Indeed, the work is
considered so heroic that the policeman,
'Geoffrend, is to be both promoted and
decorated for taking the second bomb
from Katz-Stryga g pocket after the
fatal explosion in the Vincennes park.
I saw them take the bomb from the
Neuilly perfumery works. A little
crowd outside on the pavement was
talking bombs: in an awed whisper. Up
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-09-14

appeals by Mrc. Hatch, who went to
Washington 10 present her sons case
to the president
II was only year or two after his
release frcm prison, however, until
Mattox showed up again in Okla
homa and in 1900, while under the
inilIence Of liquor killed another man
at Newkirk. He was again tried and
convicted in the distri2t court of Kay
county, and sent to the penitentiary
in 1900 for a twelve years term. He
has been a model prisoner during his
confinement in the pentitentiary and
Mrs. Hatch bases her hopes for elem
ency quite largely on that fact. He
has become an expert in photography
being now the Official prison photog-
rapher, and has also developed great
skin in wood carving
Mrs. Hatch confidently expected to
secure her sons release last year as
a result Of Judge Phillips decision in
the circuit court of appeals at st
Louis declaring the Oklahoma juries
Illegal
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IRE OKLAHOMA SIAIE BANK
AGAIN SEEKS PARDON
Mother .of Clyde MattoX Re
news Clemency Plea
for Son.
GUTHRIE, OKLA
.. q. Levy, President,
@. I. Gilbert. Cashier.

An-ther application tor pardon
for Clyde Mattox. one OF tne most
notorious of Oklahoma conyicts, has
been made to Governor Frantz by Mrs
Hatch. the aged mother OF Mattox
who has already applied for elem
ency without success to Governors
Barnes. Jenkins and Ferguson.
Although yet young man. Clyde
Mattox has two Oklahoma murders
40 his credit The first was commit
ted IN the early days of the terri
tory. when the federal court at Wich-
ita still had jurisdiction over Okla
homa. Mattox made a sensational
escape while in jail at Wichita, but
was captured by steve Hayden, a
Missouri Pacific conductor, who died
at Wichita last winter. He was tried
and convicted in the federal court
but was later pardoned by President
Mckinley. as the result Of personal
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three months OF evidence is already
abundant that the show win be the
greatest OF its kind ever held IN this
country The exhibition will be the
seventh Of its kind to be held In
Chicago. Like those Of past years the
exposition will be held entirely I'm
buildings constructed especially fcr
the purpose These include the great
amphitheatre. which is the largest
structure I'm the world devoted to such
purposes The show viii open De
cember l and continue one week.
The usual large number of pure bred
live stock associations will hold their
annual meetings in the city during the
exposition period stock breeders
and dealers will be on hand from all
parts Of America and from England
France and Australia.
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ADMIRATION SOCIETY.
o. Supreme Court Judges Engages In
somo Tits.

So far as could be cen irom the ont
side the greatest harmony did not
prevail among the Justices OF the SUI
prgme court during the session Of the
court here last week There was quite
passage at arms n open court be
tween chief Justice Burford and AS
ociate Justice Irwin al one time IN
open court When Justice CARRIER
read the opinion in the case Of the
Enid q Anadarko Railway company
ys. Kephart Affirming the decision Of
the lower court Justice Burford ana
Burwell disseuted
Justice Burwen arose and briefly
stated his reasons for dissenting
Judge Burford then added hat the
reasons given by Judge Burwell were
very satisfactory to him Judge Irwin
replied that It was hardly necessary
for him O. state that the reason Civ
en- IN the opinion were very satisfac
tory to the rest of the court
Bunord arose again and remarke,
that the oniy reason that the cas'
was not reversed was because Their
was not votes enough, and again n
win added that it was hardly neces
sary to say that that was the reasol
why The case was affirmed instead O
reversed.