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Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1907-06-28

Weiser, a small town near Spokane,
Washington, has boss twirler in the
person of Walter Johnson, who has
pitched tifty-seven games without =
run being scored against him.
Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1907-06-28

There Is again cry for sane
Fourth, and 1t will be rs much dis
regarded this year as it has been be-
fore.
Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1907-06-28

Pictures Of your shack and improve
ments d your claim will Be mo-
mento Of happy days to you IN after
years Write O. G. Anders, : profes-
sional photographer, ct Smith post
ofIice. NE IS prepared to DO I'll kinds
of view AJsd portrait work. "
Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1907-06-28
"NOTHlNG Is TOO GOOD TO
BE TRUE


BIZ TRUE
/ Walter Wellman, with his airship,
has started on his quest for the north
pole.
Except for the wireless, he is cut
Ioff.
Before him are the glittering Ice
fields, the trackless wastes of snow,
unknown perils and dangers. How
do you imagine he feels about it?
Before he sailed from Tromso for
Spitzbergen, where he will fit out his
craft, he cabled ''Nothing is too
high to be reached, or too good to be
true"
Besides dangers, there is another
thing before him an ideal.
We say what Is the use Of dis
covering the north pole.
Practically, there isn't much. 1t
| will not add q single dollar to circula-
tion.
But it will add great deal to
knowledge when we shall have ex-
plored the 100000 square miles
about which we know nothing today.
We will know the pressure Of the
atmosphere In those regions, the
direction and force OF the winds, the
kinds and movements of the clouds.
| We shall be better acquainted with
the aurora. We shall know the
temperature OF tllenorthern sea at its
level and in It's depths. We shall
chart its currents and calculate it's
tides. We shall understand the
velocity OF sound in low temperatures
We shall know the fascinating natural
history OF the polar regions, about its
birds, its beasts, its water creatures,
its vegetation, its mosses and lichens.
We shall make maps Of its geography,
burroy into its rocks and ice, and
brii-~ home samples OF its air.
i AS intrepid Sir John Barrow said
| many years ago."The north pole is
the only thing In the world about
which we know nothing" and science
can never know the whole story of
the world until it knows all the
world.
But, overshadoWing allthat science
may learn, there is the achievement
4 of an ideal.
The frozen north has been calling
mankind for cent uries, even before
) stout old Harald Hardrade, king of
the Northmen, undertook to solve it's
mystery. Man always wants to do
what man has never done before, and
that is why the great quiet north has
its long list of martyrs.
u Wellman may be one more. We are
hoping that he will not be. We are
hoping for his success, and that his
big airship will carry him swiftly and
safely over the wide expanse and
bring him home again. We can't
help admiring his pluck, and then we
all want America TO be first to set
foot upon the spot where every direc-
tion Is due south.
i But even if Wellman fails, he has
, taught us something.
" Nothing is too high to be reach
ed" Do you believe that? Does
your ambition spread its wings that
far? Nothing is too good to be
true" Do you know in your heart
|, that this is true, or are you held back
by your lack of faith.
n Some day q hero will stand at the
north pole. Every day some man OF
!, woman realizes great ambition. But
the reason the hero will stand ct the
pole, and the reason the ambition Is
achieved, Is because each has believed
: that nothing is too high to be reach.
ed, or TOO good to be true. st. Paul
Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1907-06-28

The Pierre CapitalJourna; says
there Is every evidence OF $4,000 peo-
n In Stanley county now.
Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1907-06-28

The newspapers again have it that
the Great Northern will build from
Aberdeen to Pierre.
Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1907-06-28

The last state legislature passed >
law which puts cigarettes under the
ban after Monday.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
RUSSIANS ASK HELP.
THIRTY MILLIONS PRACTICALLY
AT POINT OF STARVATION.
Peasant Leader i'm New York Pre-
diets Greatest Strike in History
Unless Conditions Are IInproved-

1.-THE conditions in Russia have not i'm
proved during the last year." said Alexis
Aladdin, the peasant leader who arrived
in New York the other day. Thirty mill
ions of people in Russia are to-day prac-
tically on the point of starvation and dur
ing March. April and May it is likely
that 100000 people will die. 1t is my
desire 10 appeal to the American people
to help my distressed countrymen, but
whatever money may be raised here [
don't want it to fall into the hands of the
Russian government officials. The Amer
lean relief committees should have their
own representatives. in Russia to distrib-
ute the funds. If the Russian govern
ment does not grant a constitutional form
of government the greatest strike in the
history of the world will follow. 1t will
be a greater strike than that Of 1900.
There has been a great change among the
people since the previous outbreak. Now
they have a central point of organization
and point of concentration. If the gov
eminent ignores the demands of the
Donna the general strike will follow. 1t
will be in March or April and will have
the support Of the navy. The cOnces-
sions asked from the crown by the last
Douma have not been granted. The peo-
pie want personal liberty, freedom of the
press and financial control. The govern
ment may grant some small concessions,
but if there is strike rebellion will fol-
low. The people will then insist on
republic. The army will in time join the
naval revolt, which will be followed by
the strike of the railroad employees, the
government telegraph employees and the
working people in all the large mines and
factories
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21

The results of the interstate commerce
commissions inquiry into railroad own
ership of coal mines, as directed by Con-
gress, last session, have now been re-
ported. 1t is shown that the New York
Central, the Pennsylvania, the Baltimore
and Ohio and other carriers own directly
or by stock in other companies large in
terests in coal lands. The commission
recommends that interstate carriers, after
a reasonable time, be forbidden such own
ership except to supply their own coal
consumption.
Referring to the Pennsylvania, the re-
port says that the ownership of coal stock
by officers and employees ''bas created a
serious and dangerous condition." result
ing in unfair distribution of cars.
Evidence of conspiracies in restraint of
trade are found in the associated rail-
ways of Virginia and the Caroiinas, and
in the Tidewater Bituminous Steam Coal
Traffic Association, in both of which ex-
list agreements to maintain prices and
freight rates. Similar agreements were
found to exist in the Eastern New York
and New England All-Rail Bituminous
Coal Association, and in the Buffalo bu-
reau of bituminous coal statistics.
The commission urges that all carriers
be required to make public their system
of car distribution, that carriers be pro-
hibited from using private cars in the coal
traffic
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
The He1ion FiIament Lamp.

Prof. III. G. Parker of the physics de-
partment of Columbia and Walter G.
Clark, an electrical engineer, have an
nounced the success of their experiments
to find a better medium than carbon for
electrical lamps. They say they have
substance which they have named helion,
composed largely of silicon, but contain
ing some other ingredients not mentioned.
The mixture is deposited from gas on a
thread of carbon. To prove its superior
ity they turned an electric current into
two bulbs attached to the same wire
One was the ordinary IS candle-power
carbon flament and the other of the same
size, but supplied with the helion fla
ment. A slight flow of electricity that
made the carbon lamp appear as a dull
red wire produced in the new bulb white
light that you could read by. As the cur
rent was increased the old light changed
from red to yellow and increased in bril-
liancy until it reached IS candle-power
while the helion light went to 40 candle
power. The latter would stand much
more overlooking than the former, and
is expected to last twice as long, besides
operating with much less current. He
lion is not metal, and can be manufac-
tured in unlimited quantities, but is more
expensive to make than carbon filament
at present
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
Interesting News Items.

Prof. Sir William Crookes of England
has discovered a process of extracting
nitric acid from the atmosphere.
Eight prisoners broke Jail at Danville,
Va, while an iron door was accidentally
unlocked during the absence of the SER
geant and jailers. One has been recap
tured.
John Glacken, a salesman, Jhot and in,
stantly killed Maria Morris in front of
her home in Philadelphia and then fred
two bullets into his own body. He will
die.
An application for more time for the
completion of the battleships California
and South Dakota has been received from
the Union iron works of San Francisco
owing to labor trouble.
C. L. B. Lands, formerly a promi-
nent business man, was committed to jail
at Reading, Pa, to answer charge or
forgery. it being alleged that be had Sc
cured $4,000 from various financial In
situations.
Fire destroyed a hotel and a number
of stores in the village of st. Vincent de
Paul. Quebec, causing loss estimated
at $4,000. There was much excitement
among the prisoners in ths penitentlary.
1t has been practically decided to hold
the next national rife match on new
range opposite Putin Bay, about twelve
niles from Sandusky, Ohio. The rifle
to be used in the competition is the Krag-
Jcrgensen model of 1898.
Frank Banusick was sentenced at
Newark, n. j., to be hanged on Feb. Z
for the murder of Thomas Hof at Mont
Clair. Banusick, who was in love with
Mrs. Hon, killed Hof with a hammer and
left his body on q railroad track.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
YOUNG SLAYER GONE.
DIES BY ELECTRocUTIoN IN THE
OHIO PENITENTIARY.
Michigan Youth Executed Despite
Pfteous Appeal of Aged Father
Pope Speaks of America Gland
of Promfse'' for Catholics.

Fred Caster. convicted of killing Po-
liceman Dan E. Lewis while fleeing from
a Columbus residence which he had rob
bed in June, 1905, was electrocuted in
the annex at the Ohio penitentiary few
minutes past midnight Friday morning,
the execution taking place because he
could not raise S15 to take his case to
the Supreme Court of the United States.
Gov. Harris received many appeals for
respite for the condemned man, and
shortly before he gave his final decision
not to interfere this telegram came from
Amos Caster. father of the young man,
who lives at Flint, Mich. please respite
my poor boy and give him chance to
have the United States Supreme Court
review his case. Two Supreme judges of
Ohio dissented at first hearing. Do not
send him to death without fair chance.
Have mortgaged my home and am making
an earnest effort to raise funds, with ev-
cry prospect of success The Governor
could not get any assurance from Casters
attorneys that they would appeal the case
if respite were granted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
PLAN OF THAW DEFENSE.
Contend that Defendant Was Ten
nararilY IrreSn0n 81 HE

porarily irresponsible.
Harry X. Thaw is fighting against
the plea of insanity his attorneys are
trying to establish with the aid of such
carefully prepared expert testimony.
Thaw fears that District Attorney
Jerome is planning to send him to the
madhouse in the event of his acquittal,
and this fact makes him fear the plea
his lawyers have set up. They are at
tempting to prove that he was insane
at the time of the murder of Stanford
White, June %. 1906, but that he has
been constantly improving since then,
and is now entirely sane. Thaw fears
that his attorneys are putting too much
emphasis on this feature of the case
and believes that a stronger attempt
should be made to impress the jury
with the self-defense plea. and to win
the unwritten law.
The trial was brought to a sudden
halt Thursday by the death of Mrs.
Joseph B. Bolton, wife of juror No. II.
double pneumonia, and its fatal ter
mination caused alarm among those
directly interested in the Thaw case.
The testimony of DIR. Evans in the
Thaw case revealed the nature of the
defense. The doctor, who is not an i'm
provised expert, but the head of large
insane asylum and a physician of many
years experience in mental diseases,
testified that on the occasion of his
first three visits to Thaw in Jail. Thaw
was undoubtedly insane He was suf-
fering the after effects of mental ex-
plosion." During the period covering
the later visits of the physician Thaw
showed a steady improvement, so that
it would appear that at present he is
nearly, if not quite, sane. In other
words, he defendant was not response
BILE for his deed at the time it was COM
mitted, and, therefore, should not be
punished. On the other hand he is not
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
Master of Inflated Steamer Larch-
mont Accused of Cowardice.


mont Accused of COwardice.
A new element was injected into the
horror attending the loss of the steam
er LarchmOnt in Block Island sound
through collision with the schooner
Harry Knowleton, when Captain Nc
Vey of the steamer admitted that his
lifeboat was one of the first, if not the
first, to leave the sinking ship.
This statement was made in reply to
charges by Fred Hiergsell, an 1Syear-
old lad of Brooklyn, one of the sur
vivors, that the passengers were left to
shift for themselves; that the ships
tempting to provide for the passengers,
and that Captain McVey was the first
to desert the ship. The statement of
young Hiergsell caused a sensation, in
teen survivors were employees on the
ship, or, in other words, that while APP
prOXimately 20 per cent of the vessels
crew was saved, only per cent of the
passengers survived.
Captain McVey explained that while
his boat may have been the first in the
water it was because he had a good
crew and that he remained by his ship
sons were known to be on the steamer.
and there is every indication that the
number was nearer 200. Until the hull
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
Brief News Items.

The Spanish socialists have decided to
Join the republicans in the coming gem
eral elections.
Fire destroyed the main business street
of Holloway, Mimi. village of 200 peo-
ale, seven miles north of Appleton.
Marian Livingston, cousin of the late
John Greenleaf Whittier, is dead in Phil
aLelphia after enduring the privations of
poverty for twenty years.
1t has been decided to hold the fourth
annual convention of the Roadmakers' As
ISOLATION in Pittsburg March y, Is and
IA. Over $500 delegates, representing
thirty-eight States, will be in attendance.
The army transport Logan sailed fron4
San Francisco for the Philippines with
seyenty-fve first-class passengers, the
Twenty and Twenty-fourth bat
teries of field artillery and 1000 tons Of
general supplies.
The home of Frank Sostock, Pole, at
Oil City. Pa, was destroyed hv fire and
two children were burned to death.
Martin Braun, who has been making an
investigation for the personal information
of President Roosevelt, announced at FL
paSO tnaL ne "a ulScoNcreu WHolSsdIe
schemes for smuggling Chinese across the
Mexican border.
Rabbi Solomon Foster of the Temple
B'nai Jeshurun of Newark, " J.. at
tackled the custom of having the Bible
read and having Christian hymns sung at
the public schools of that city, at the
monthly melting of the Newark Ministe-
rial Association.
Charles Fl. EVERY, formerly teller in
the st. Louis Union Trust Company,
pleaded guilty to charge of en1bezzling
s.. 600 from the trust company and was
sentenced to five years in the penitentiary.
The Alabama Seaate passed a bill
which empowers tho State railway COM
mission to examine all books of railroad
companies and authorizes it to require
officials to bring these books before the
commission.
A Morocco syndicate has been forced in
Berlin to further German trade interests
in that country. The move is taken to
indicate Germany's seriousness in follow
ing up the interests she urged in the al
<eciras conference.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
SAVE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
President in Message Makes Pie,
for Western Fuel.

President in Message Makes Plea
for Western Fuel.
President Roosevelt Wednesday sent
to Congress a long message calling at
tention to the urgent need of legisla-
ton affecting the different phases of
the public land situation in the United
States.'' The President advocates the
conservation of coal and other fuel re-
sources on lands still belonging to the
government, saying that henceforth the
nation should retain its title to its fuel
resources; urges government control of
the Western public land pastures, with
a system of small grazing fees, ETC., and
asks for an appropriation of $5OO,OOO,
Immediately available, in addition to
present estimates, to be used in detect
ing and preventing land frauds. He
contends for a system of government
leasing of mineral lands and for treat
ing these fuel lands as public utilities.
President Roosevelt points out that it
would have been better if some eastern
coal lands had been left under govern
ment control, and suggests provision in
the West against recurrence of the
conditions we deplore in the East
Citing $500 cases of public land entries
in four districts mentioned, the Presi-
dent says noncompliance with the law
was found in more than half of them,
and deliberate fraud in many cases.
The President first refers to his pre-
vious messages to Congress ON the sub
iect, and again calls attention to the
Importance of legislation which would
provide for title to and development of
the surface land distinct from the right
I'd underlying mineral fuels under a
leasing system on conditions which
would inure to the benefit of the public.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
now insane. and, therefore, should not
be committed to an asylum.

now insane. and, therefore, should not
be committed to an asylum.
The rest of the testimony since the
first day has been an attempt to cor
roborate the opinion of the expert that
Thaw was insane and to show the eX-
istence of a condition of affairs acute
enough to drive to temporary insanity
a man who had a predisposition to it.
When insanity is due to the effect of
bone pressure on the brain an operation
upon the skull often causes the recoy-
cry Of the patient. In this case it is
alleged that the irritant was not
piece of bone but the man White. With
the removal of White, in this case not
by the hand of a surgeon but by the
patient himself it is assumed that
Thaw's brain ceased to be irritated and
returned to its normal condition.
It remains to be seen whether the
district attorney can discredit this med
icaI witness as thoroughly as he did the
first one, or can show in other ways the
responsibility of the slayer. 1t remains
also to be seen whether the jury will
approve this return to the plea of tenn
porary insanity, which has been in dis
credit for some years because badly
overworked.
Unless something spectacular has
been reserved the nature of the de-
tense is now clear. The character of
the counter testimony for the prosecu-
ton and the cross examination of the
witnesses for the defense will try Sc
verely the professional skill of Mr.. Je-
ronae. The public is interested in the
battle of able lawyers over a human
life such as is being waged.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
CHINESE IN CLEVER TRICK.

Monaghan Raises Draft Here ana
Cashes II at HongkOng.
The Pinkerton detective agency and the
police departments of Oakland and San
Francisco are endeavoring to find in
China an American-born Monaghan, Woo
Ang, who recently raised a draft from
SIS to $4,000, obtained bill of exchange
for the latter sum from an Oakland bank,
sailed across the Pacific and cashed the
draft at Hongkong. The police theory is
that the Chinese worked with a confed-
crate named Woods. In Kentucky Woods
bought a draft for IS on the Hanover
National bank of New York. The draft
was transferred to Woo Ang. Woo cashed
his bill of exchange at Hongkong before
the fraud was discovered, and beyond the
fact that he is in China the detectives
have no clew to his whereabouts.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
Roads All Over Country Preparing to
Make Increases.

hoHuS over
Make Increases.
Railroads of the entire country are
preparing to make general increases in
freight rates which will bring them
several hundred millions added reve-
nue. annually. In Chicago conferences
have been held between the highest
traffic men of both Eastern and West
ern roads, with q view to eliminating
hundreds of rates which are known as
commodity rates. and to compel ship
pers to submit to the classification
rates, which are substantially higher.
The preliminary work is being done
by committees representing both sec
lions of the country, and the exact
general move for more revenue will not
be known until these committees make
their report, which may not come be-
fore June
The excuse put forward for a gen.
eral increase in rates is the alleged
alarm felt in Wall street and among
the stockholders and directors of all
railroads over the increasing difficulty
in obtaining money with which to
make needed improvements, built ex-
tensions and provide equipment and
facilities for carrying the traffic of the
country. 1t was stated that more than
81 ,S00O00,000 had been appropriated
by the railroads for these purposes, but
that it was impossible to float the Sc
curities in any of the money markets
of the world
Accordingly the railway presidents
and the men who control the transpor-
tation facilities have come to the con-
clusion that the only way to raise the
necessary money is to join the process
sion and increase the price of what
they have to sell, which is transporta-
tiOD