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The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
GnncZ VIII Ia-ign.

Caracas. Venezuela, June Act
ing President Gomez. having refused
to accept Gen. Castro's proposition in
volying the continuance Of the former
in Office. the latter declined to meet
Senior Gomez at Los Toquos Wednes-
day. thus consummating the rupture
between the acting and former presi.
dent. Senior Gomez now announces
that he will call a special session OF
congress to consider his resignation.
There Is feyerlsh excitement here.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
TO FIGHT CHINA.
Japs Arc Said 10 BE Preparing Their
Army.

Victoria. a. c., June a. Accord
ing TO advices received by the steam
er Kanagawa yesterday. the Eastern
World. a German paper of Yokoha-
ma. published sensational leading
articla stating that Japan is getting
the army and navy in readiness with
a vi-w to forcing war with China two
or three years hence. The Eastern
World says another war with China
would offer promising prizes. and a
prctrxt could he soon found. The pa
per goes on to state that Japan's
hopeless Indebtedness to England Is
driving the country to plan an at
tack on China.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
Made Into Lard.

Revolving disclosures were made by
A. NJ. Smons. former chief of the
Chicago bureau Of charities. as to hui
man bodies rendered into lard in pack
ing plants without an effort at clean
ing the caldrons. The lard was later
consumed by the public. One partic-
ularly disgusting case was cited by
Mr.. Simons.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
FEDERAL TROOPS
KIY CROSS BORDER
Mexican Miners Slaughterilg
American Citizens.
Over Two Hundred Already Dead h
Town OF Cananca, Mexico, and
Battle RACES. q
CONSUL APPEALS FOR HELP.

Washington, June p The
United States government has
requested the Mexican govern
ment to authorize the use Of
American troops In queIling RI
OTIS at Cananea, Secretary Root
wired Ambassador Thompson,at
Mexico City Immediately to ac-
quaint the Mexican government
with the facts of the situation
at Cananea aud ask Mexico to
take effective measures for the
protection Of American citizens
there. Also to request from the
Mexican government an answer
suggesting what measures, IL
any, the United States may take
In affortiing protection TO Its cit
liens. automatically this re-
quest Is an appeal to Mexico to
grant authority for temporary
invasion Of her territory by Ann
erican troops. Unil Mexico's re-
ply is received no troops will be
sent.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
INTO DITCH
MISS LANDER FALLS AND DISLO-
Gates SHOULDER.
dee to Get Her Out--Dangerous
Place.

Failing into an excavation on. her
way to the drug store last night from
Mrs Morrow's boarding house on
Kentucky avenue, Miss Marian Ian
der dlslocated her shoulder and re-
ceiyed severe shaking up. The ditch
across the sidewalk is six feet deep
and narrow A plank about foot
wide was laid across 1t near the
fence. There was no light within a
hundred feet. 1t was necessary for
her rescuers to place ladder and de.
scend into the ditch before she could
be taken out. The street improve
ment men had been warned to place a
light there as II is only few feet from
the gate.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
End SEEMS NEAR
CONDITION OF DISTRICT ATTOR-
NEY HILL OMNIBUS.
Relatives Have Been Summoned to
His Bedside At Williamsburg
On Third Term.

The condition of Reuben ID. Hill.
United States district attorney for
the western district of Kentucky, has
taken a turn for the worse, and, ac-
cording to the latest information
from his bedside at Williamsburg,
Ky. the worst is expected at any mo-
ment. His friends and relatives have
been summoned and hope is practi-
cally abandoned.
Mr.. Hill is one of the best known
lawyers in the state, and has made
an exceptionally fine record as dis
trict attorney. He has held the Office
for two terms. and was recently APP
pointed to a third term.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
Has Started Troops.
request

Washington, June "A request
from Major Watts. at Bisbee, Ariz..
to confirm his action In starting
troops for the Mexican border. and
asking for further Instructions. was
received by the war department this
morning. Secretary Taft and Chief of
STAFF General Bell, are considering the
matter.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
BEATING HORSE
CAUSES EDWARD SCOTT TO he
FINED HEAVILY.
First Prosecution by Paducah Iiu-
name Society Terminates Quick
ly In Conviction.

Edward Scott, colored. was fined
$40 and costs in police court this
morning for numerically beating
and mlstreating a horss. This is the
first instance where fine has been
assessed after vigorous prosecu-
ton by the Humane society which
lately rcorganizcd and began active
work against cruel drivers. The case
sets a precedent and 1t will not be a
matter of don't do It next time
again Defendants will be prosecuted
to the fullest extent of the law.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
AGAINST YANKEE MEAT.

London, June p The Brit
ish press is devoting much space
to the revelations Of the Amcri-
can meat packers. Appeals are
made TO support home indus
tries and discourage the sale Of
American canned goods. Already
orders for large consignmcnts Of
canned meats from America are
cancelled or greatly reduced.
The London Times this morning
made u terrific attack ON the
yankee Meat BOSSES"
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
SAFE TOUCHED.
Somebody Extracted $500 From II
without Using Force.

Detective T. J. Moore. employed
privately. is working on one OF the
biggest robberies reported in the city
in some time. A safe was touched
for $500. $40 of It being in silver.
This much information was given out
at tho city hall but names are with
held. II is said that the safe was OPP
oned. not by force but by skill, and
the money taken last night. The de-
tectivc was seen this afternoon but
refused to give out any information.
lie stated that he has pretty good
clue and might st his man by
night,
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
INVITES INVESTIGATION.

Chicago. ILL.,, June 2.--Mayor
Dunno telcgraphs Secretary Of
Agriculture Wilson this morning
suggesting the appointment Of "a
committee Of Psychologists, scicDt-
lists and others To visit the stock
yards aud investigate conditions
and make such recommendations
rs they may think necessary.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
President Of Company.

Bisbee, Arts. june At is report
ed that Col. Greene. president of the
Cananea Copper company, was killed
by Mexicans at Cananea last night.
Governor Ysabel. of Sonora. is on the
scene with troops. Shooting con-
tinues by both sides II is believed
60 Americans already are killed and
several times that number Of Mexi-
cans
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
PATTERSON
NOMINATED FOR GOVERNOR BY
TENNESSEE DEMOCRATS.
Only Name Presented Before Com
vcntion, Cox Not Being Mem
toned.

Convention Hail. Nashville. Tenn,
June q One of the warmest and, in
some respects. the bitterest political
campaigns that the Democracy of
Tennessee has ever fought within its
own household and under its own
roof ended tonight shortly after 10
o'clock, when Hon. NJ. II. Patterson,
of Shelby county was nominated as
the candidate for governor. The re-
suit was in doubt up to the meeting
of the convention this morning.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
No Trial for Year.

1t was definitely decided by the at
torneys for the defense in the Meyer
Haywood cases at Boise.
Idaho, that pending the United States
supreme court decision, they will take
no further steps. The cases will not
come to trial before the end of the
year.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
Asks for Help.

Washington, June 2.-United States
Consul Galbaith. at Cananea. Mexico.
sent the following dispatches to the
state department: Send assistance
Immediately to Cananea, American
citizens are being murdered and their
property dynamitei. Must have help.
Imperative that immediate assistance
be received for American citizens at
Cananea, Sonora, Mexico"
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02

Madrid. June a. Four more
deaths occurred today of victims Of
the bomb outrage. and thirty addi-
tional injured persons were reported
10 authorities. Two more horses
which were drawing the royal coach
have died.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02

Edward NJ. Grout. who declined
ID longer serve as comptroller of the
City of New York, since his return
to his law business has become in
terested in a number of suits OF large
importanc each one or which will
pay him more in year than did his
Office during his entire term.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02

Gen. ]. c. Jamison, a Mlssourian
of the old school, is probably the
greatest bird lover in Oklahoma. his
present home. and is advocating that
the state adopt, as a part of the cur
rIculum. the study of birds and their
protection in the public schools.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
His Vest Stolen.

Tom Collier an employee of the Pa
ducah street department, is minus a
vest and gold watch. He laid his vest
down this morning near Fifteenth and
Madison streets where a crew OF city
laborers were working, and when he
went after it at noon found that somc
one had taken II.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02

Henry Broadhurst, the senior mem
Der for Leicester,wh is retiring from
parliament on account of ill-health,
was the first worlOlngman to become
a member of British ministry. He
was under secretary of the Home De-
partment in the Liberaf government
of 1856.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02

In the mythology of Europe horses
have always sbesn considered bearers
of such, and there was a superstition
which once was current that the pres
ence of horses hoof under the bed
would cure certain complaints.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
Asa pokluge has been chosen cine

Asa Dekluge has been chosen chief
of the Apache Indians to succeed
Geronimo who is rapidly falling in
health. Chief Asa is a graduate of
the Indian school at Carlisle. Pa,
and has great influence with his
tribe. Next August the Apaches will
have been prisoners of war in Okla
homa for twenty years. There the
257 in the tribe.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
Armed Americans Go.

lNaco. Ariz.. June 2.-Governor Ysa-
bel. of state Sonora. arrived this
morning and Immediately gave orders
permitting armed Americans to ac-
company him to Cananae. They left
with the governor on a special train.
there were $50 men in the party.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
Need Federal Troop.

Washington. June 1.-The state de-
partment received dispatch from
United States Consul Calbraith. at
Cananea, Mexico, stating that the sit
uation is serious and federal help from
the United States is essential.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02

u. II. Hartman sent his $4,000
automobile to a repair shop in New
York City in January, and when he
got a bill for $1.797 refused to pay
1t. Tho owner of tho repair shop re-
fused TO surrender the vehicle. and
Mr.. Hartman proceeded to recover
II by a writ of replevin.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
MICHAEL DAVITT
Laid 10 Rest at His birthplace Ia
County Mayo.

Dublin, June 1.-THE funeral OF
Michael Davitt was held today. The
burial took place at Straide, county
Mayo. the birthplace of the great
Irish leader. Thousands witnessed the
funeral ceremony and followed the cas-
ket to the station.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
District Appropriation.

The senate committee On appro-
priations reported the District of
Columbia appropriation bill. 1t car
rf,s s10,1S1.206. an increase of
s1,29S,033 over the bill as passed
by the house.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02

Claud Kemper. whose father is a
Nice-Admiral of the British navy, has
enlisted In the United States Marine
Corps. and is now stationed at the
Norfolk Navy Yard. Mr.. Kemper
is 25 years old and has saw hard ser
vice.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02

c. J. Kopf. OF the West Kentucky
Coal company. went to the mines at
Caseyville with the steam shovel to
raise a sunken barge Of coal The
Henrietta took tow of empty barges
10 tho mine.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
Teachers Institute.

The county teachers institute Will
meet at Lone Oak june 20. The
county school commencement viii be
held on the night OF June 2s at Lone
Oak, and an elaborate program is be
ing arranged.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
Sorry He Gave II.

Attorneys for John Alexander Do
vie yesterday started proceedings in
the Muskegon. Mich. courts to re-
woke the power OF attorney given 10
W. G.. Voliva during Dowie's absence
In the south.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
Cotton Acreage Increase.

The Southern Cotton association
bulletin shows the acreage this sea-
son to be 27.634.7ls, against ?6,-
1894 last year, an increase Of
635,227 acres or 2.29 per cent.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02

Myrtle w Phillips this morning
was appointed ADMINISTRATIVE OF the
estate of her husband, the late Geo.
u. Phillips. Messrs. j. G. Utterback,
Muscoe Burnett and James Rudy
were appointed appraisers.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
IRON WORKERS
STRIKE FOR SINTY-FIVE CENTS
AN HOUR FOR EIGHT HOURS.
Thousands Of Men In 81. Louis VIII
Re Idle Umil Trouble Is Finally
Settled.

st. Louis, Mo-. June AS the re-
suit of the refusal of employers to
grant their demands for an increase
10 G5 cents an hour. eight hour day,
The structural iron and steel workers
declared a strike. Thousands of men
in the building trades will be made
lido
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
NERVOUS TENSION
OF THE POPULACE
Not Relieved by the Apparent
Unconcern Of Monarch.
All the brightness Of Planned Celc-
bration Fails 10 pispcI Gloom
Of Country.
FUNERALS OF THE VICTIMS

London, June o. The Ma
diid correspondent of the Cen
trail News wires that Robert
Hamilton, the Engiishman, AR
rested yesterday ON suspicion
that he was the accomplish Of
the anarchist who threw the
bomb at King Alfonso, was re-
leased this morning. Hamilton
proved he was n tourist. The
assassin j. still free.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
THE WEATHER.

Fair tonight and probably
Sunday, Is the forecast. The
highest temperature reached
yesterday was 80, and the low
est reached this morning was
SO.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
Roentgcn Ray Expert.

Dr. Louis A. Weigel. OF Rochester,
n. Y, first American authority on the
Roentgen ray, died as a direct result
of his many experiments with it.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
wounded At Celebration.

Twelve persons were wounded In
Cienfugos, Cuba, by the premature
explosion of fireworks at celebra-
ton in honor of King Alfonso's we'd
ding.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
Licensed to Wed.

Edward Tate, age S2 and Bessie
Burgess. age 22. of Franklin county,
H., we're licensed to wed yesterday.
II will be the second marriage OF both.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
Acquitted of the Murder.

New York, June Josephine
Torranova yesterday was acquitted OF
the murder OF her aunt, Concetta
Reggie.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
Bank Statement.


A telegram received from DR.. A.
p. Morgan Vance. of Louisville, who
today performed an operation In that
city on Mrs. MILFORD Rogers. stated
that she stood the operation nicely
and Is resting well. The operation
was performed at 9 o'clock this
morning.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02

Queen Alexandra possesses a tea
service OF sixty pieces, each piece be-
ing decorated with different pho
tograph which she took herself in
Scotland.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
thoafe l. Ill.

Joseph II. Choate. former ambassa-
dor to England, is i'll at his home in
New York. Members of his house
hold say that the illness is not seri-
Gus
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02
McCurly Men Conspicuous.

McCurdy men are conspicuous on
the new committees on management
named hy the trustees OF the Mutual
Life Insurance company.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02

Fortunately but few men say what
they really mean-otherwise blackei
eyes would be more common.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02

Some people boast of taking time
by the forolock. but. most of us are
lucky II we catch It by the back hair.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-06-02

Some boys that go to college can't
even learn to play golf.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-25

often to his death. The element of
gambling is in it too, for no man may
saw on receiving scrap of Odontoglossum, whether
it will turn out to be worth seventy-fve cents or
a thousand dollars. But long as a Rothschild
or a Chamberlain is willing to put down fabulous
sums for an odd bloom, the Orchid-hunters will
risk their lives in the wilds of New-Gunea or
Borneo or reeking Amazon swamps.
1t does not require much research inquiry to
trace this fascinating scientific hobby of the
rich to the quaint old cathedral city of Saint Adams,
not far from London 1t is here that one will find
Frederick Sander, who maintains large staff of
collectors in some of the widest regions of the
world, including Madagascar, the lower slopes of
the Hima1ayas, Ecuador, Central Brazil and the
interior of Assam Here too one finds a vast estab-
lshment under glass where ship-oads of these most
curious plants are received, reared and interbred
or hybridized with results that almost inCredi-
bic. In one house by some beautiful little lakes
in which goldfish darted furtively the thermometer
ran up to eighty and ninety. You must
imagine you are in Borneo now, Sander said;
whereas in the next house you will find the tenn
perature only fty-fve degrees, because the orchids
there come from the highlands of Mexico and the
passes of the Andes"
And indeed these delicate and fantastic exotics
being catered for in every particular of their
eXigent needs If they needed moss from almost
untrodden norasses of Sumatra and Java, here
it If they fed only upon the air and threw out
feeling roots upward instead of downward, that
air was impregnated with the fumes of tobacco in
order to reproduce other conditions. Generally
speaking orchids epiphytic-that is to say they
live the air alone while only few of them
terrestrial and grow in soil.
In some of the widest and remote regions of the
earth Sander maintains fifteen twenty travellers,
many of whom have been graduated from the great
Horticultural Laboratory at Kew Gardens. Their
richest fields Mexico, Venezuela, Guatemala,
Honduras, Nicaragua, Colombia, Brazil Burma,
Assam and the Himalayas generally, Peru, Borneo,
New-Guinea and the Dutch Indies On the business
side the work is purely speculative. A successful
Orchid-hunter may cost his employer fifteen thou
sand year, and there is absolutely check upon
his work. minimum number of plants which he
may send home. is not blamed if he does
not send home single orchid in the twelve months.
Last season." remarked Sander to me, q lest
sixty-hve hundred dollars on man and four
thousand on another"
The orchid-hunters work from certain base.
man about to collect the lower Himalayan
spurs will go direct to Calcutta where he will cash
his draft, purchase his outfit engage servants and
porters, etc. When he reaches the prmeval jungle
he puts up huts and builds kind of rude bungalow
for himself with broad veranda in front where
his orchids may be laid out, dried and prepared for
the journey.
For difficult as it is to find rare orchids at all,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-25

A S old as the law of supply and demand
- itself is the motive that forces the
orchid-hunter into almost impene-
trab1e tropical forests where these gor-
geous floral parasites make the tree-tops
blaze and lure the hunter-scientist too
often to his death. The element of
gambling is in it too, for no man may
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-25

almost beyond price, but an enthusiastic
collector voyaging up the malarial and
deadly Fly River in British New-Guinea
suddenly came upon glorious masses of it in
a sacred cemetery of the canniba1 Papuans,
where the huge crimson floral moths crept
and curled strangely amid the bones and
skulls. The natives threatened the orchid
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-13
REID TAPN.

Red tape is always one of the req sons assigned for the slowness and ex- pensiveness of Government work. So there could not be more apt illustra- ton of the waste in public purchases than the newly discovered fact that the state department pays $2.25 for a doz- en rolls of the same red tape which the war department buys for $142. Of course, it is one of the least impor- tant discrepancies which could be men, tioned, aside from it's symbolical value, The project for a centralized purchas- ing bureau for all Government supplies. so that every department might get the benefit of the bargain prices whih some are now paying, has not yet been put into effect. But the chances of the plan are thought so strong that cities are already putting forward their re- spective claims to be chosen for the central depot They are quarreling over a plum-if plum 1t may be consid- ered-that is not yet on the tree We have never heard of cities clamoring to be made the headquarters of the civil service commission. State, or na- tional, but this reform is exactly in line with that of the civil service. It means simply that we are to secure ta- bles and chairs, coal, and writing pa per by the same methods by which we now secure clerks, stenorgraphers. and York Evening Post.