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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-05-25

while throw few shovels full Of earth
on the dead merchant, lest he stinketh
and polluteth the rest
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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-05-25

Information IN regard to several eN.
cellent weekly newspapers that are for
sale can be obtained by writing to the
Western Newspaper Union, Denver
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-05
Monday

E. H. Hartman stated that he had
spent S257OOO,OOO to improve the
Union and Southern Pacific railroads.
The Isthmian canal commission an
nounced that the Gatun lake, formed
by the great Gatun dam, would be 225
square miles in area.
1t was announced that under the
new tariff agreement with Germany
the United States would save S6,664,-
900 year on exported goods.
The American Museum of Natural
History has sent out an expedition to
unearth relics of prehistoric man in
the North Platte region.
A Texas jury found the Waters
Pierce Oil company guilty on 2,521
counts of violating the antitrust laws
and fixed punishment at fine of ST.
$4,000 and revocation of its license.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-05
Township Builds a Theater.

What is believed to be the first pub
lie ownership theater in the United
States was dedicated with great cere-
mony in Shawnee township, just west
of the city of Lima, o.
The playhouse is in the country,
where large audiences will be prac-
tically impossible. but is perfectly
equipped with the most modern ap-
paratus.
The Shawnee township government
Is unique in that it has more money
than it can conveniently get rid of.
The Standard Oil company's great
tanks, refineries and car works are in
the township, though the workers live
in the city. The company pays many
thousands of dollars yearly to the
township in taxes, but nothing to the
city. Consequently the township is
burdened with wealth, though the city
is not.
Having paved all the country roads
in the township either with brick or
macadam, and made all the other
public improvements they could think
of, the farmer members of the town.
ship board finally decided to build the
theater.. What they will do with next
years revenue is problem.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-05
RATE LITIGATION.
Call For Meeting of Governors and
other Officials of Various States.

st. Paul, June A meeting of gov
ernors, attorney generals and other
officials of various states likely to be
affected by the rate litigation now be.
fore the federal district court, may be
held in st. Paul shortly. Attorney Gen
eral Young is considering the advis-
ability of sending out general call.
Mr.. Young says the suits are nothing
more than an attack on states rights,
and are important enough to warrant
general cooperation, especially by
Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and New York,
the legislatures of which have just
passed rate-regulating laws.
Another suit seeking to annul the
new Minnesota 2-cent passenger rate
law and the commodity freight law
was filed in federal court today against
the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
railroad. John j. Garlic a stockholder,
Is the plaintiff in the action, which is
identical with those begun last week
by stockholders of eight other rail
roads doing interstate business in Min
neSota.
The hearing on the temporary in
junction granted in the suit previously
brought will be held June 12, when the
other cases are heard by Judge Loch-
rem.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-05
Laud Mover and Haywood.

Frederick Kraft of Jersey City was
nominated at Trenton, N. j., as the So
cialist candidate for governor next
fail. He is editor of The Worker, a
Socialist paper published in New York.
The convention sent a telegram to
Meyer aud Haywood at Boise City as
surfing thtm that in future history
they would ue rated with Lincoln, John
Brown and Karl Marx as emancipators.
Later a resolution was adopted that a
copy OF the telegram be. sent to The
Undesirable Person at Washington.
The man who introduced it assured
the convention that the telegram would
be delivered to the person for whom
1t was intended.
Another resolution criticised the So
cialists of New York upon the ground
that they are controlled by bosses,
lack the membership they should have
and are not sufficiently active in
spreading the doctrines of socialism.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-05
To Boost Price of Bread.

A smaller loaf or a cent advance
seems to be the next jar for the
harrassed housekeeper, judging from
the way millers are boosting the
price of -four at Chicago which has
climbed from $3.50 to Sc a barrel in
about 30 days. 1T is due to the ad
vance in the price of wheat" said a
representative of the Pillsbury-Wash-
burn company. Members of the Board
of Trade, however, say there has been
little advance in the price of real
wheat-that the increase has been the
result of manipulations and doctored
reports, and is all on paper. Grain
elevators are full of wheat, with prac.
tically no shipments.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-05
snowstorm on June 2.

Snow fell in New York the first Sun
day in the month of June. The flakes
sid not fall as snow all the way to the
pavements, but coming from colder
stratum of air they swirled about the
tops of the skyscrapers and before
dissolving added a midwinter touch
to the most remarkable June that
New Workers have known.
At the local weather bureau, where
a conservative view is always taken,
the day was admitted to be the cold
est recorded here for the 2nd of June.
A stiff breeze accompanied with a
heavy rainfall, prevailed throughout
the day, which was about as cheerless
as could be imagined. Holiday excur-
sions were generally abandoned and
the pleasure resorts were without pat
rOnS.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-05
States Large Credit Balance.

Albany, June A balance of state
funds of s2O,645,S97, the largest ever
before deposited to the credit of the
state, is reported for the month of
May by State Treasurer Hauser. The
states receipts from indirect sources
of taxation during the month were
large, the excise moneys aggregating
$S,7O7,000, which is half a million more
than last year. The stock transfer
tax returned $556,OOO and corporations
paid an aggregate of s557,OO0, twice as
much as for the corresponding month
of last year. State Comptroller Glynn
and State Treasurer Hauser have de.
cided that the state funds shall net
larger interest return than heretofore
and banks holding state deposits will
be required to increase the rate of in.
terest on them from to 8 per cent.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-05
Saturday..

Porters in the big New York hotels
strike when their demand that they
be allowed to keep their tips is re-
fused.
Rioting in which many persons are
injured occurs in Ireland, the peasants
starting a crusade against the holders
of grazing farms.
Eight priests and II other persons
were severely injured by the fall of
a temporary floor in the Greek Catho-
lie church of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
President Roosevelt declared at the
unveling of the Lawton monument in
indianapolis there would be no halt
in his policy of federal control of rail
roads.
President Roosevelt's address on the
campus of the Michigan agricultural
college at Lansing was the climax of
the semi-centennial celebration of the
founding of that institution.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-05
IRISH BILL DROPPED,
Announcement by Premier, Sir
Campbell Zimmerman.
Measure Designed to Relieve "Passive
Reslsters" From Paying Education
Rates Is Also Crowded Out-Resolu.
ton to Be introduced Soon to Re-
strict Power Of the House of Lords.

London, June 4.-The Irish bill was
formally dropped by the government
with scant ceremony and only the
most perfunctory signs of mourning,
even on the part of its ministerial
sponsors.
The house of commons was well fill.
ed when Premier Campbell-Banner.
man rose to make his promised state
ment on the cabinets views regarding
what measures it was necessary to
eliminate from the governments over.
weighted legislative program so that
the present session might be brought
to close in the usual time
Il believe" said the premier, that
the Irish people would have done well
to give the details of the measure
greater attention than appears to have
been the case at the recent convention.
But in view of the announcement of
the leader of the Irish party in the
house of commons that he would abide
by the decision of the convention and
In view of the unanimous decision of
the convention to reject the bill, the
government cannot of course go any
further with it."
The premier added that the decision
of the representatives of the Irish
people was source of sincere regret
and disappointment to the ministers,
but now that the Irish bill was dropped
the government intended to introduce
during the present session an "evicted
tenants restoration bill' with powers
of compulsory purchase.
AS the cabinet had decided against
an autumn session, the premier con-
tinued 1T was necessary to drop the
licensing bill. This however, would
be the very first measure to be taken
up at the next session.
The measure designed to relieve the
passive resisters'' from paying educa-
tion rates for religious instruction. the
premier further announced. would also
be crowded out but the government
was determined to introduce at the
next session comprehensive educa-
tion bill, putting the whole education
system of the country in order.
Regarding the long promised at.
tempt to restrict the power Of the
house of lords, the premier said that
so soon as they had made little fur.
ther progress in the essential business
of the session he proposed to intro
duce resolution on the subject either
June II or June "a, when the govern.
ment would fully state its views on the
matter.
The premier then announced the
abandonment of number of measures
of only domestic interest and enum-
Grated those which it was intended to
pass, concluding with remarking:
when say pass mean pass the
house of commons as | cannot fore
cast what will be the action of the
house of lords"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-05
Big Demand For Japanese Laborers.

Ottawa, Ont, June A report re-
ceiyed ut the department of trade and
commerce from Alexander MacLean,
Canada's agent to Japan, gives a press
opinion that within a short time he
United States will have more difficulty
obtaining labor from Japan than 1t
now has keeping Japanese laborers
out. There is a growing demand for
Japanese laborers from almost all the
countries of South America and from
Hawaii which promises, with the de-
mand for men for the development of
Corea and Manchuria, to absorb the
whole Of Japan's supply of laborers.
Within the last few months the emf.
grafton companies, who deal In Japa-
nese labor as an export commodity,
have filed contracts in Mexico for al
most 10000 laborers.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-05
Kept Memorial Day by law.

Kansas never observed Memorial
Day as strictly as this year. They
could not help it, for a new state law
prohibits all amusements on this day.
This law was brought about because
a circus persisted in giving two per.
formancese and its parade in Topeka
last year on Memorial Day. This year
there were no circuses, carnivals,
amusement parks. racing matinee or
baseball games. In fact practically
every form of amusement has been
tabooed This is one of the four legal
holidays in Kansas, so practically
every business house was closed.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-05
Wisconsin.syracuse Races.

Wisconsin university won the var.
sity boat race with Syracuse on Lake
Mendoza Friday evening, and the Syra.
cusans won the four cared race. The
Saces could not be rowed until after
sundown, on account of choppy seas.
Syracuse's four crossed the line al
most five lengths ahead, the time be.
ing estimated at Is minutes. Bartlett
and Brumder of Wisconsin seemed ex.
hausted.
The varsity crews kept about
abreast of each other for a mile and
half, although Syracuse had slightly
the lead at the start Wisconsin then
gained little and gradually increased
the lead. The crew crossed the line
about four lengths ahead of Syracuse,
covering the two miles in 1924.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-05
David Hume Makes Request.

4 iocular bequest Of David Hume to
his friend John Home was curious.
Home liked claret and disliked port,
calling il poison, and the two friends
had many discussions on the subject.
They also used to have disputes as to
which Of them took the proper way of
spelling their common family name.
The philosopher, about Il fortnight be-
fore his death, wrote with his own
hand the following cOdicil TO his will:
81 leave to my friend, Mr.. John Home
of KildufT. ten dozen Of my old claret
at his choice and one single bottle of
that liquor called port. | also leave
him six dozen Of port provided that
he atteSts under his hand. signed John
Hume, that he himself alone finished
that bottle at two sittings. BY this
concession he will ut once terminate
the only two differences that ever arose
between us concerning temporal mat
ters. New York Tribune.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-05
INTERNATIONAL ISSUE.
British Captain Refused to Give Up .
Deserter From Fort Seward.


Washington, June 4.-Colonel Henry
A. Greene of the Tenth infantry, com.
manding at Fort William H. Seward,
Alaska, has appealed to the war de-
turn of a deserter, and incidentally to
punish the captain of a British ship
who perhaps has created an interna.
tional issue.
According to Colonel Greene, Ser.
geant Buell., a member of the post
band, deserted from Fort Seward and
made his way on board the British
steamer Princess May. When the ship
touched at Katchikan, Alaska, May IA,
the city marshal, under instructions
from the military authorities, sought
to arrest Buell..
The latter locked himself in his
cabin and the captain of the ship re.
fused to allow him to be forcibly ar.
rested, and sailed away to Canadian
pert, where the deserter landed and
disappeared.
Colonel Greene asks the war depart.
ment to have the state department
make demand upon the British gov.
ernment for the return of the deser.
ter to Fort Seward and for the punish
ment of the captain.
The acting judge advocate general,
however, has taken the ground that
the military has no such authority and
If the effort is made to punish the
British captain it must be through the
civil authorities, who were derelict in
the first place, in not arresting both
the deserter and the captain if he re-
sisted process within territorial wa
ters.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-05
Accused Of counterfeItlna.

Philadelphia, June 4.-Samuel Tate,
aged IS, was arrested here by secret
service agents, charged with counter
feiting. Charles Bustamonta, a Cuban,
whom the officers charge is a confed-
crate, was also arrested. Tate is now
under Indictment in the federal court,
having been arrested for counterfeit
ing in March. The arrests followed
the flooding of the lower section of the
city with counterfeit dollars.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-05
Friday.

Governor Hughes vetoed the bill
providing equal pay for the men and
women teachers in New York city
schools.
The original manuscript order for
the massacre of Glencoe in Scotland In
1892, according to a cable despatch,
was sold in London auction room for
$1,000.
Queen Maud of Norway was rescued
by General Michel from grave peril
in the park at Versailles, her horses
having plunged from a bridge over a
small lake.
Thomas d. Jordan, former controller
of the Equitable Life Assurance so
clety, appeared before Judge Green
baum and pleaded not guilty to the 10
indictments handed down against him.
The visiting British journalists were
entertained in Berlin, and the Under
Secretary of State, Herr Muelberg, at
a banquet defended the policy of the
German government as being one of
peace.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-05

DR., Long writes to the president,
citing proof of the truth of his animal
stories and demanding a public apol
ogy.
Secretary Metcalf demanded an ex-
planation of slight to the navy uni
form reported from the jamestown ex-
position.
Thomas d. Jordan former control
Ter of the Equitable Life Assurance
society, was indicted on 20 counts of
forgery and perjury.
Thomas w. Lawson told a cores
pondent of the New York Herald in
Paris he believed Mr. Roosevelt would
be the next president of the United
States.
A typhoon passed over the Caroline
islands on March 2S and hundreds of
people were killed by the waves which
swept over the smaller islands. The
saved were mostly those who had
climbed cocoanut trees.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-05
1000 PERCENT PROFIT
Expert Tells How Common
wealth Was Looted.

Township Builds Theater - laud
Meyer and aywood-Snowstor on
June ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Races.
$11,5oo For a Jersey Bull - Trolley
Collision.
The Capitol investigating commits.
sion held brief session at Harris
burg, Pa, on Saturday for the taking
Of testimony. The reports of the ex
perts of the commission were read.
The report of the auditors will be pre-
sented this week and will show in de-
tail how the $9,00O,000 used in furnish.
ing and decorating the Capitol was ex.
pended.
The report of Fritz ]. Lautz of Buff
falo, the commissions expert on mar
BILE, shows that in many instances the
profits of j. II. Sanderson Of Philadel-
phia on marble work exceeded 1000
per cent. Mr.. Lautz states that the
columns in the hall of the house of
representatives are mere composition,
instead of Mycean marble, as specified.
Plaster was substituted for marble in
some places and inches that should
have been ornamented were made
plain. A cheap grade of marble was
substituted for the marble specified
for the bases of the metallic filing
cases throughout the building
The report shows that Sanderson
supplied the marble fountain for $500,
the value of which is s175; mantel
for 81, 7GG.40, the value of which is $50;
another mantel for $1,7S4.S0, the value
of which is 5000; and that he collect
ed $75,016.S0 for marble work, the
value of which is $7,267 Sandersons
total overcharges on marble work
were $1S4992.4O.
The total overcharges of the Penn
sylvania Construction company on
marble bases, etc, were $39,626.51.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-05
National Conventions,

Several important national organiza-
tions will held their annual convention
this week. The annual meeting of the
Sons of the American Revolution will
begin at Denver on Monday and last
until Wednesday. The National Edu-
catlonal association will meet at Los
Angeles on Saturday and will be in
session five days. On Wednesday the
general synod of the Reformed Church
in America will meet at Albany. On
the same day the National Confection-
ers' association will begin a three
days meeting at Cincinnati
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-05
Burnham to Have a New Trial.

George Burnham, Jr., former gen.
eral counsel of the Mutual Reserve
Life Co., who is serving a term in
Sing Sing for grand larceny, is to
have new trial under a decision
handed down by the appellate divis.
ion of the supreme court. In the de.
cision, written by Justice Ingraham. 1t
is held that the testimony as a whole,
as presented against Burnham in the
lower court. does not justify convic-
ton. 1t adds that errors were com.
mitted both in ruling upon questions
of evidence and in the method by
which the case was submitted to the
jury.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-05
HARRY HAMLIN KILLED.
His Auto colIided With Wagon and
He Was Hurled to the Roadside.

Buffalo, June 4.-Harry Hamlin. one
OF Buffalo's best-known and wealthiest
citizens was killed in an automobile
accident on the Wiliamsville road, a
mile north of the city line late yester.
day afternoon.
Mr.. Hamlin's automobile collided
with a light wagon driven by Jacob
Schaller retired butcher. of Buffalo.
Hamlin was hurled to the roadside and
instantly killed. Schaller was badly
hurt but will recover. John Heckel, a
12-year-old boy who was in sohaller's
rig, was fatally injured. Both his legs
were broken and his skull fractured.
In the automobile with Mr.. Hamlin
were Anthony Gavin. a member Of the
Buffalo police force, and two of Ham.
Inns employees, one of them acting as
chauffeur. Opposite the Country club
two automobiles going in the same d.
rection passed the Hamlin party. The
road was covered with a heavy coating
of dust and the two rapidly moving
machines left a dense cloud of dust in
their trail
Schaller and the boy were driving
toward Buffalo and the automobiles
were going in the opposite direction
toward Williamsville. The first two
machines passed them well to the
right. Schaller was peering ahead
through the dust when Hamlins ma.
chine flashed directly in front of him.
There was no time to turn out.
The automobile struck the horse.
tearing off its front legs and carrying
the wreckage of the wagon 200 feet
down the road. Schaller was tossed
to one side but the boy was jammed
into the wreckage of the rig and the
front of the automobile. The left
front wheel of the automobile came off
fitting the machine to the left
Mr.. Hamlin, who was on the front
seat with the chauffeur, was thrown
over the ditch and onto the trolley
tracks which parallel the roadway.
He landed headforemost on the rails.
His neck was broken The chauffeurs
and Gavin escaped with slight injur-
les
Mr. Hamlin was so years old and
lived at 1914 Delaware avenue. He
was son of the late Cicero J. Hamlin,
famous as breeder of trotting horses.
He is survived by a wife and one
son, Chauncey j. Hamlin, who is an
attorney.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-05
Aerarian Riots In Ireland.

The latest phase of the land agita-
ton in the congested districts of Ire
land is a crusade against the holders
of grazing farms on the II months
lease system, and it is developing with
great rapidity and intensity.
Roscommon, Kings county and
North Tipperary are the centers of
Iawlessness. In bygone times these
localities saw many eyictions, and to-
day the peasants are determined that
the land shall be redistributed to small
holders.
Bands of peasants are destroying
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-05
Collision of Trolley Cars.

Crowded with holiday passengers
at Elyria, Ohio, a Cleveland and
Southwestern trolley car bound from
Wellington to Cleveland, was struck
rearend by another car at the corner
of Sixth street and Middle avenue
Thursday night, resulting in at least
seven deaths and IL persons being in
jured Two of those injured, II is
thought, will die.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-05
Royal Golden Wedding.

King Oscar and Queen Sophia of
Sweden will celebrate their golden
wedding on Thursday. The gift of
Sweden will be collection to enable
poor patients to gain admission to the
sanitarium for consumptives founded
on the 25th anniversary of King Os-
cars reign. Many persons of royal
rank will journey to Stockholm to Of
fer their congratulations.
The 40th anniversary of the ascent
of Emperor Francis Joseph 70 the
Hungarian throne will be celebrated
Saturday. The festival will continue
two weeks.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-06-05
Church and sabbath school.

Presbyterian Sabbath School at 9:4b a.
IN. NJ. E. Sabbath School at 1000 q. m.
Preaching in M. Il. Church every Sab
bath evening by Rev. w. o. Calhoun.
Preaching in the f. M. Church every
Sabbath evening at the usual hour. Rev.
II. ID. Call, Pastor.
The regular meetings of the w. @. t.
u. are held at the headquarters on the
second and fourth Tuesdays OF each
month.