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Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-28

AS greedy as the Passaic trust is,
1t does not appear to equal the local
combine for prices to the u
In Passaic coal is retailed at $3.50
a ton in the summer. Here the COM
bine keeps the price up to Sc. 90.
In Passaic, during the winter, coal
sells for Sc per ton. Here the COM
bine raises the price to $3.50.
Out In Ohio a number of ice dealers
have. been sent to Jail on the charge
of conspiracy, because they combined
to fix prices. What is the difference
between ice dealers combining to fix
prices and coal dealers combining to
fix prices?
Coal is a necessity for every house
hold. This matter hits the taxpayers
in two ways. BY fixing the retail
price each man is hit individually. By
keeping up the wholesale price for
public utilities, the city is hit and
the money the city spends comes
from the peoples pockets.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-28

II the machine is really afraid to
us the name jackson Club" for the
organizations which are to be formed
throughout the county, why not call
the one in New Brunswick the Chico
dore Strong Association" and the
one to be formed here might be nam
ed the George ]. Haney Associa-
ton" All followers of the machine
should be proud to wear a label bear
ing the name of Strong, Haney, or
Jackson. This trio represents the
rings leader in New Brunswick, the
leader in Perth Amboy, and the can
didate of these leaders through whom
they control the patronage.
Then, again, the organization
might be called the "Strong-Haney-
Jackson Association"
Doubtless hundreds of liberty-lov-
ing citizens would be proud to rally
under the banner of such a trio.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-28
THURSDAY, JUNE %.
A SEVERE SHOCK.

The shock given Boss Strong in the
iatest appeal to the people made by
Col Fordyce, the Independent re-
publican candidate for state senator,
must have been a severe one. The
boss has refused to answer the ques-
lions he asked, hiding behind the
statement that he has been misrep-
resented.
Just how the boss has been mis-
represented he does not say. But the
statement that he was lobbying at
Trenton In behalf of a corporation
while drawing a salary of $4,000 a
year as state senator must be accept
ed as the boss does not deny it.
This is something for the people
to think about. Here is a man who
is supposed to be no more than any
other citizen, yet he goes to Trenton
and, according to the charges made,
endeavors ito badger, coerce and
bulldoze" the men whom they have
elected to serve them, into serving a
corporation which is trying to rob
the public.
If you are determined that such a
state of affairs, must end, go to the
primaries this fall and send men to
the county convention who will nom
mate men Independent of the county
boss. II is all up to the people. Will
yor, or won't you?
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-28
THE RARITAN CANAL.


The following editorial from the
Newark Advertiser on the future use
of the Delaware and Raritan canal is
of much interest:
"Of hardly secondary national i'm
portance to the construction of al
isthmian canal is the great project of
connecting the artificial and natural
interior waterways of the Atlantic
seaboard to make a ship canal from
New York bay to the Gulf of Mexico.
1.-The house of representatives pass
ed a resolution authorizing the pres
ident to appoint a commission to eX-
anime and report on a ship canal
route connecting Chesapeake and Del
aware bays, and 1t has been favorably
reported in the senate. The present
canal connecting the two bays has
existed since 1929, and the proposed
canal will reduce the water communi-
cation between Philadelphia and Bal
timore from 425 miles to los, and
reduce the time of the trip to almost
o~ne-fourth. Small steamers now fol-
low this route by means of the pres
ent canal, which has a depth of ten
feet of water.
This canal stretch is one link in
the chain. The Delaware river to
Bordentown, in this state, is a natu-
raj waterway. From BOrdentown to
the head of Raritan bay stretches the
Delaware and Raritan canal, forty
three miles. Raritan bay opens into
New York bay. By converting the
Delaware and Raritan canal into a
ship canal, there win be a waterway
for vessels of deep draught all the
way from New York to Chesapeake
bay.
From thence, by utilizing natural
waterways and canals, and making
connections. the ship canal can be
extended to the gulf, and vessels OF
the navy and ocean steamers can pass
from New York city, and finally even
from Portland, Me-, to the harbors
on the Gulf of Mexico without going
outside.
IF our coast should be beset by
hostile navies the advantage of q
ship canal to parallel the coast would
be immense. Our ships of war could
be quickly and safely transferred
from bay to bay, as required, and
our coastwise trade could be carried
on without interruption. The key Il
a ship canal system would be the Del
aware and Raritan canal, now profit
ably operated as a part of the Penn
s~ylvania railroad system.
when that canal Is ~deepened ant
widened for ocean-going vessels, a
eventually 1t will be, New Brunswick
and Bordentown will be converted
into important cities, and the stat
will receive a large accession o
wealth and population"
This picture is all very true, eS
cepting for one thing, the Pennsylva
MIA railroad. which owns the cana
has built a permanent stone bridg
at New brunswick which has no dra'
and thus prevents any vessel wit
masta or with high amoke stael
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-28
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

A child is born in the neighbor-
hood; the attending physician gets
$25. The editor gives the loud-lung-
ed youngster and the happy parents
a send-off and gets so. When it is
christened the minister gets $40 and
the editor gets 500. 1t grows up and
marries. The editor publishes anoth-
err long-winded, flowery article, and
tells a dozen lies about the beautiful
and accomplished bride. The minis
ter gets $40 and the editor gets 5000.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-28

P. n. 20 3 p n.
Boys Wash Suits with BloOmer PAM
Folding Go-CdrtS.. ..............
Sheer White Lawn Waists. .......
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-28
NEW YORK HERALD WEATHER
FORECAST.

: In the Middle States and New Eng
land today, partly overcast to fair
and slightly cooler weather will pre-
vail, with light northwesterly and
northerly winds and probably local
rains In the southern districts. On
Friday, partly cloudy weather Will
prevail, with slight temperature
changes and light, variable winds,
followed by local rains in the western
districts, and on Saturday overcast
weather, with slowly rising tempera-
ture, followed by local rains.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-28
A A
(From the Elizabeth Times

(From the Elizabeth Times.)
Your average reactionary and your
ultra-conservative is invariably most
proficient in the use of epithets. 1t
was so from the beginning of the
world; it is just so today. Fol- him
who would change the existing order
of things, no matter what the mean
suggested, the "let-well-enough-
alone" exponent has nothing but
Characterization of ignorance, inca
pacity, base motives and vileness.
The political reformer is hit hardest
of all, for the result of his ~endeavors,
If successful, means injury to the
business of the stand-patters. Since
there is nothing theoretical in a re-
form movement vigorously forward
ed, the leaders of the old order, find
ing it necessary to protect their in
terests at whatsoever cost, and I'M
usually unable to do so fairly, seek
to make capital out of calling their
opponents names, certainly a most
undignified occupation, but generally
practiced nevertheless, and at no
time, in this country, o widely
than is the case today.
Some of the men who are thus
being maltreated by the interests are
Roosevelt, Bryan, LaFollette, Cum
mings, Folk johnson and, here in our
own state, Colby, Record and Pagan.
They are called anarchists and Soc
~ialists, political mountebacks and up
starts, bags of wind and acrobatic
performers, villifers of good men and
destroyers of first-class regulations,
mere offlce-seekers and graspers of
pelf, whose motives are selfish and
/ nnthinn r1Orn ond uyh0Cn nlaffnnnae
are but blinds for the susceptible
and unwary. They can do nothing,
they can say nothing, but that there
is discharged from the citadels of
privilege volley after volley of vulgar
billingsgate and coarse vituperation.
Va wonder whether the Ameri-
cans of the next century will read
these seurrilous attacks with the
same feeling which we, and even ed
ueated Englishmen, experience now
when glancing over the files of Brit
ish newspapers published during the
American Revolution. The following
is taken from the London Morning
Post of August rs, l776:
Hancock, the president of the con
gress, is a ruined and, therefore, a
discontinued smuggler. Adams, a
petti-fogger, was, for want of COM
mon honesty, refused d place under
government. Lee, because not APP
pointed to a regiment out of his
/ turn, Joined these desperadoes. Have
we not reason to believe that Wash
ington and Putnam, the Judas and
/ Theudas of America, will share their
fate? The hand OF heaven must be
against unnatural rebels, who, in the
hope of repairing their own ruined
fortunes, bring famine, nakedness
and the sword upon a deluded multi
} tude.
| The men hereinabove referred to
as ''smugglers," '~pettifoggers,' .
: "desperadoes," Judases and the like,
are the greatest among the founders
} of what is now the foremost nation
on earth. Those who today aim to
J make it the best governed as well as
the most powerful ought not to ex-
! peet any better treatment than the
Tory element visited up on such>men
as Washington, Adams, Hancock,
J Putnam and Lee. But AbQse did not
weaken Tue cause OF these i've; nor
Will II injnre that OF p~resepf-day re-
HA2- IZA.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-28
A SIMILAR CASE.

Attention is called to an article
which appears elsewhere in today is
sue relating to the coal combine in
Passaic. The coal dealers there
stand together to keep up the prices
the same as is being done here, and
when the school board asked for bids
for the school supply all figures ~
alike and the price was the same as
coal at retail.
The Passaic school board, however,
was more intent upon serving the
city than the local board. When it
found itself lace to face with a hold
up, the board asked out of town men,
who are independent of the Passaic
trust, to figure, with the result that a
price of 81. 80 per ton was received.
This means a big saving to the city
Of Passaic. The coal combine was
turned down as it deserved to be. The
members of the school board here,
by quietly submitting to the holdup,
have shown themselves negligent in
looking after the best interests Of
the taxpayers with whose money they
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-28

from using this important inland
waterway across the state. When it
is realized what influence the Penn
sylvania railroad has with the govern
ment under the present machine and
corporation control, what chances
are there of this ever being changed?
The canal should be a ship canal, by
all means, but the Pennsylvania rail.
road should never have been allowed
to get the control it now has.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-28

In the course of time it dies. The
doctor gets from $25 to $1O0, the I'M
dertaker from 500 to $500; the edi-
tor publishes a notice of the death
and IN obituary two columns long,
lodge and society resolutions, a lot
| Of poetry and a free card of thanks,
and gets 10000. No wonder so many
editors get rich.-Meade, Kan, Globe.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-28

You cannot induce a lower animal to eat
heartily when not feeling well. A sick
dog starves himself, and gets well. The
stomach, once overworked, must have rest
the same as your feet or eyes. You dom
have TO starve to rest your stomach. KO-
DOL FOR DYSPEPSIA takes up the
work for your stomach, dlgests what you
eat and gives it a rest. Puts it back in
condition again. You can't feel good with
a dlsordered stomach. Try Kodol. Sold
by G. A. Sexton.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-28
FIRE ALARM X

23-Raritan Copper Works.
26-High and Lewis streets.
27-Madison avenue n Paterson street.
28--Market and First streets.
35-Smith and High streets.
37-State and Smith streets.
43-Buckingham ave. and Hartford 81.
4b-Commerce and Front streets.
47-High and Washington streets.
64-State st. and Buckingham ave.
66-Hayy avenue and Charles street.
67-State and Wayne streets.
62-Washington and First streets.
63-New Brunswick ave. Elm st.
64-Smith street and Watson avenue.
66-Commerc and State streets.
12-Front and Smith streets.
73-Water and Gordon streets.
74-Kearny avenue and Gordon street.
82-Smith and Herbert streets:
S3-Woodbridge road and washington ST.
6-Lehigh avenue and Stanford street.
To send in an alarm. open the door OF
the box and pull down the lever and let
60, once only. Stay at box until hremen
arrive.
l tap-Break in circuit. taps-Driil
and fire alarm test. 3 taps-tfre out. D
faps--Police call. 12-Calls for Lincoln
Engine Company. 13-Call for Washing
ton Hose. i4-Call for Mcclellan Engine
Company. 15-Call for Protection Hook
and Ladder. 16-Cail for Eagle Hose
Company.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-28

The many limitations of DeWItt's Witch
Hazel Salve that are now before the pub
lie prove il the best. Ask for DeWitt's.
Good for burns. scalds. chaffed skin. ecze-
ma, letter, cuts, bruises, boils and piles.
Sold by G.. A. Sexton.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-28

been any organizations, where the
rings have dictated because nobody
challenged them?
Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-12
Countx Aoafrs at Blair.

BLAIR Neb., jan u.-(Special)-Th
first meeting of the new Board of County
Supervisors was held Tuesday and Wednes-
day of this week. r. II. Miller of Lincoln
precinct is the only new member of the
board. II. D. Schoettger of Fontanelle
was elected chairman. Dr. II. Noble was
appointed physician and the Blair Democrat
was designated the official paper OF the
county. The new board was somewhat
worked up over the matter of allowing a
warrant order to County Clerk Faber.
which was allowed by the old board last
week. to pay for back taxes on the lots sold
to the government for the new postoffice
site which the county clerk had certified
was paid. The government was about 10
bring suit for the taxes and interest.
amounting to So County Clerk Faber
turned in the warrant and sent the re-
ceIpts to the government in two days after
the warrant was allowed. and at this meet
ing Attorney Baker appeared with an APP
peal against the payment OF the warrant
which should have been held ten days be-
fore payment. Five members Of the board
agreed yesterday to pay the amount from
their own pockets before allowing the
county to be sued for it. Clerk Faber main
tains his right to turn over the warrant
Immediately. and the end is not Set,
Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-12
OPPOSE NEW JUDICIAL DISTRICT
Adams County Lawyers Declare
Against Burkett Bill.


Against Burkett Bill.
HASTINGS, Neb., Jan. 11.-(Special Tele-
gram. 1.-The Adams County Bar Association
has declared its opposition to the bill in
troduced by Senator Burkett for the crea-
ton of a new federal district to include all
counties in the state south of the Platte
river.
The attorneys of this county are In favor
of a district for the western end of the
state, with provision for the holding OF
court in Grand Island, Hastings and Kear-
ney, but they will oppose any division along
the Platte river which will leave the meet
ing place of the court in Lincoln or any
eastern town. The position taken by the
association is that it is just as convenient
for attorneys, witnesses and litigants from
the western part of the state to attend court
in Omaha as 1t would be In Lincoln. and
unless provision can be made for the hold
Ing of court regularly in some western town
remain unchanged.
The chairmen of the county committees
Of the republican, democratic and populist
parties have co-operated with the attorneys
in call for a public mass meeting, to BIZ
held January 20, at which resolutions will
undoubtedly be passed requesting Repre-
sentatives Norris, Kinkaid and Hinshaw Il
urge a division along north and soutf
line. In the meantime an effort will bt
made to interest other western counties II
the movement
Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-12
HILL SAYS THIS NONE OF HIS
saloon Keeper Denies Assertion of
Woman She IL His
wife.

''The woman who was arrested WedneS-
day at my saloon and who gave her name
to the police as Mrs. David Hill. besides
saying she was my wife. is not and never
was my wife, stated David Hill, manager
of the Owl saloon, yesterday afternoon
1.-THE woman's name is Allie Fox, and she
came into my saloon In drunken condition
and broke the showcase. / put her out of
the place and officer Fisk arrested her."
Mr.. Hill added that the woman's repre-
sensations of the case were false.
The woman in question was arrested
Wednesday evening at the Owl saloon. 1914
Douglas street. and charged at the city jail
with malicious destruction of property. She
was registered by the police as Mrs. David
HILL" and said she was Hills wife. As
there was no prosecution in police court
Thursday morning the woman was dis
charged.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-12
Unidentified STRANGER Dies.

ALLIANCE, Neb, Jan. 11-(Special Tele-
gram. 1.-The unidentified man who was
found unconscious lying near the Burling-
ton tracks at Girard, a blind siding near
here, several days ago. died last evening
without being Identified, he having remained
unconscious to the end. He is a man about
five feet six, dressed like a laborer with
overalls and heavy sheep-lined duck coat.
has high forehead light moustache. sandy
complexion, blue eyes and the appearance of
Swedish nationality. 1t is presumed he was
injured while stealing a ride. The remains
were taken in charge by the county author
tiles at Hemingford.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-12
Pythians at osceoia.

oSCEoLA, Neb.. Jan. 11.-(Special. last
evening the meeting of the Knights Of
Pythias of the Fourth congressional dis
trict brought together. besides the members
OF the local lodge, the grand moguls of the
order in the state, there being present
George A. Magney OF Omaha, J. N, Kildow
of York. Harry NJ. Boydstor of Nebraska
city and Will H. Love of Lincoln. The
lodge was able to present attractions
enough TO keep the brethren together until
3 bells in the morning.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-12

defraud the government OF land by
means of false entries. We main
tain this cannot be shown. but that Mr..
Ware was land owner and settler in that
country long before Lambert came into the
country, and that Ware had acquired the
lands of the L. b. l. ranch long before by
purchase from lawful owners.
I'VE will show further that Mr.. Ware and
the U. B. I. ranch people always welcomed
the settler and homesteader into that coun-
try and were always on the best of terms
with them: that they were the friends of
the settlers"
Mr.. Mahoney dwelt at some length upon
the insufficiency of the indictments and
their inaccuracy and the manifest injustice
of bringing the accused to trial upon such
defeative indictments.
First witness for Government.
The first witness for the government was
called at 415 o'clock. He was James
Whitehead register of the land Office at
Broken Bow. The records of his office were
introduced In evidence, which he identified.
An alleged fictitious entry by one George
II. Rhodes was introduced as entry No.
1887 The application, declaratory state
ment and affidavit of the alleged entryman
were produced and identified by Register
Whitehead. Objections to the admission OF
the evidence were made by Mr.. Mahoney
as irrelevant but were overruled by the
court.
Pending the question Of whether the af-
fidavit is required by the homestead laws
or is merely a requirement or rule Of the
Department of the Interior recess was
taken until $3.50 Friday morning.
In the meanwhile the fury will be KEEP
together by the strict order OF the cour'
and was placed in charge of Bailins w. Z
Baird and William Anderson.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-12
FIGHT OVER RAILROAD CROSSING
Northwe-tern watching the Opera
lions of Great Northern.

Northwestern watching the Opera
lions of Great Northern.
FREMONT. Neb., Jan. n.--tSpecisl.)-
The Great Northern has a big gang of
men at work putting in the side tracks
and yard here. Track laying on the main
line is completed to the South Platte line
of the Northwestern and semaphore for
the use of the two roads and the Union
Pacific is being built. There is some talk
that the Northwestern will prevent the
Great Northern putting in its crossing until
after the semaphore is finished. During
the most of the day for the past two
days a train has been kept standing on the
crossing and besides for the last two nights
watchmen have been employed by the
former company to prevent any attempt
being made to steal a march on them and
putting in the crossing without their
knowledge. The latter company has con-
siderable work ahead putting In the yard
tracks and no serious trouble between the
two companies is apprehended. The grade
in this county is practically ready for the
ties and rails but there Is quite a stretch
in Burt county near Oakland to be fin
ished.
Persistent rumors are in circulation in
railroad circles here that the Chicago.
Milwaukee & st. Paul is interested in the
construction of the Lane cutoff on the
Union Pacific and on its completion will
run its trains into Fremont over the latter
road and build a line to the northwest UP
Maple creek valley. Both the Milwaukee
and Great Northern have a survey up that
valley and it's construction would take
away considerable shipping which now goes
to the Northwestern.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-12
Turks AduIterate Candy.

BEATRICE. Neb.. Jan. 11.-(Special.) DIR.
G. H. Brash, secretary of the State Board
OF Health, has received letter from State
Food Commissioner thompson informing
him that an analysis of the candy sold by
the Turks, who recently fed from this city,
shows that it was badly adulterated. The
complaint originated in the fact that the
family of @. w. Maurer became sick after
eating from a five-pound box purchased al
the store operated by the Turks. In closing
Mr.. Thompson says that he regrets very
much that our laws do not restrict this as
the market
Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-12
News of Nebraska .

TABLE ROCK-About an inch of snow
fell last night.
BEATRICE-This section was visited by
a light snow last night and prospects are
for more snow today. .,s
PLATTSMOUTH-Mr NJ. Sultzer, 70
years old, passed away at the home of her
son. Emil Walters, near here.
COOK-Mr. Harry Hosic and Miss Mary
Mastalka OF this place were married today
at Tecumseh. They will reside in East
Cook.
PI.ATTSMOUTH-The stockholders Of the
Bank of Cass County have elected these
officers for the ensuing year: President.
Charles G. Parmele vice president. Jacob
Tritsch: cashier, T. M. Patterson; assistant
Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-12
Union Paciac Pays Part of Taxes.

KEARNEY, Neb.. Jan. I.-(special Teie-
gram. County Treasurer Troup this morn
ing received draft for SO sss. 20. being the
amount rendered by the Union Pacific as its
taxes in this county for the year 1905. The
total amount Of taxes charged to the Union
Pacific in this county for the year 1906 Is
yss,7ssb2 The company failed to pay any
interest on the tax which II paid.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-12

GERS here arrested today James q. Lynch
wanted IN that place for alleged swindling.
Lynch was traced to this city. where he
was working under assumed name for
the Rock 'Island Railroad company, by
letter he had written to a person in Valley
Junction, Ia.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-12

man J C. Harpham of the commercial
committee received a telegram from Mr..
Written this afternoon saying that he
would accept the offer rendered him yes
terday. Tho salary of Mr. Written will be
1850 annually and his tenure of Office two
or more years
Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-12
SON TRIES TO HOLD UP FATHER
Town Marshal Appears and Blocks
the Game.

NORFOLK, Neb.. Jan. 11-(SpecialD-Joe
shaffer OF Plainview. aged Go. was the VIC
tim last night of an attempted hoidup
worked by his son. Clay Shaffer. aged 2o'
and Sam Marty. aged %. Both young men
were caught in the act by the town marshal
OF Plainview. and fed. They have left
town and their whereabouts is unknown.