davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1907-05-03
WHILE CROSSING BAY OF eIscAY
ON WEDNESDAY VESSEL
WAS DAMAGED AND
FIVE KILLED.
Flames Caused Several Explosions A.
ter First One, Crew Finally Jump
ina Into Sea and Launching Steel
Lifeboats, Being Rescued From
Water by British Steamer West
gale-Mysterious Vessel Russian.

Plymouth, England, May 3.-The
British steamer Westgate landed today
the survivors of the British tank
steamer Silverlip. On May 1, while
crossing the Bay of Biscay, an ex-
plosion of benzine in her cargo burst
open the Silverlip's decks and set fire
to the ship. The engineer and four
firemen were killed and four others of
the crew were seriously burned. For
ty-eight survivors were rescued by the
Westgate.
Flames lowered Many Feet High.
The first explosion on the Silverlip
damaged the sides Of the ship and tore
up the deck amidship. She soon became
, 1907-05-03
Live Stock at Kansas City.

Kansas City, Mo. May 3.-Cattle-
Receipts, 1000 head, including 200
southerns. Market steady. Southern
steers. $4.0O@5.5O; southern cows,
$3.00@4.5O; stockers and feeders, $3.50
@5.35; bulls, $3.2OQ4.50; calves, $500
$3.50; western fed steers, $4.50Q5.5O;
western fed COWS, $3.25@4.75.
Sheep-Receipts, 1000 head. Market
steady. Muttons, S5,50@6.75; lambs,
S7.10@S.60; range wethers, $3.50
700; fed ewes, $5.2596.60.
, 1907-05-03
WITCH ELM WINS.
Newmarket Track This Afternoon.
Takes Thousand Guineas Stake on

London, May 3.-The 1000 guineas
stakes at Newmarket today was won
by Witch Elm; Frugality, second, and
Sixty. third. Seventeen horses start.
ed. The stakes were for 3-year-old fiji.
lies, the distance being one mile. Alti-
tude, ridden by Danny Maher, was
fourth.
, 1907-05-03
CONDEMNED ANIMAL
WAS NOT MIXED.

Mrs. John McCue asked this paper to
say, although it was not at the time
deemed necessary, that the COW con-
demned yesterday on her ranch by or
der Of the state veterinarian was not
MIXED. No Il for a moment would
believe that the milk from such an ami
NAL would be offered for sale in the
city.
, 1907-05-03
GOOD PAPER
BY BUFFUM
INTERESTING DISCUSSION OF
PLANT BREEDING AND SEED
CULTIVATION IN STATE.
Director Of Experiment Station Enters
Into Some Of the Things That
Make for the Improvement OF A.
rieuItural cond,tionstScope Of the
Proposed Breeding Farm.

One of the most interesting papers
vet listened to by the Laramie Literary
club was that read last night by Dr..
B. C. Buffum upon the subject OF The
Rise and Significance of Plant Breed
ing" Since history began" said Prof.
Buffum. agriculture has been a basic
and most important human activity,
and so far as we "a judge, it must
ever maintain that position, for as yet
there is o sufficient evidence that
synthetic manufacture can ever take
the place of organic growth. 1t is the
producers surplus which supports or
ganized government, the school, the
church, the theater, the stock market.
fine arts, transportation, the preacher,
the doctor, the teacher, the lawyer, the
gambler, the dude. the society belle
and SO on"
First Letter Shaped Like PIowshare.
In showing how closely agriculture
is related to the refinements and pro-
gress Of civilization, Prof. Buffum
spoke of the fact that the shape of the
primitive pillow was initiated to form
the letter alpha, showing that agricul-
ture long a%ntedated a written Ian
guage. The speaker illustrated the
different laws governing variation and
change in animal and plant life. That
sex in plants was known to the an
clients has been proven, but the real
discovery of the fact was made by
Cameraria in the last years of the six
teenth century, its true significance,
however, not being realized until con-
ceived by Hofmeister in 1910. Arti-
fetal selection was carried on by the
Roman farmers, perhaps as early as
the beginning of the Christian era.
Adaptation TO circumstance and ma
tural selection has made profound
changes in plants" This theory was
illustrated by the speaker by the rela-
ton of a number Of facts, and by the
mention of a number Of names of men
who have made plant breeding a
science, w. M. Hays, the present as
sistant secretary of agriculture, being
prominently spoken Of.
Mystery Of Plant Breeding.
The question, what is the mystery
of plant breeding" was answered by
this: Good care, varying circum-
stances and judicious selection for
what you want" The wide field COW
cred by the answer was gone into by
the speaker, and the value Of the work
was illustrated by the millions which
have accrued by a comparatively sim
Pile improvement Of a useful plant.
Secretary Wilson estimates that in two
years time our agricultural produc-
ton, in the United States alone, would
exceed in value the entire gold pro.
duction of the world since the discov.
cry Of America by Columbus. The six
teen sugar beet factories in our neigh.
boring state Of Colorado, alone, last
year furnished over 100000, 900 Of the
kind of moving capital which brings
prosperity to a people. A few years
OF corn breeding in Illinois, Iowa and
Missouri has doubled the corn crops
In those states, and the money values
involved are so vast that the mind
cannot grasp their signifcance.
Fortune In Garden Bssns.
Dr.. Baffum said that he personally
, 1907-05-03
MEMBERS OF BOARD
VISITING SCHOOLS.

The four members of the school
board in the city, Messrs. Carter,
Jones, Hertzog and Johnson, this morn
ing visited the school buildings, get
ting an idea of the amount of repair
ing to be done to the buildings during
the summer vacation, that sufficient
money to meet the contemplated e1-
pense might be asked Of the electors
at the annual meeting next Monday
evening.
, 1907-05-03
GEORGES WILL DIP
ALL THEIR CATTLE.

Mrs. Ludwig George states that no
time will be lost in having all the cattle
now under quarantine on the George
ranch properly dipped in an effort to
rid the ranch of mango. She says a
mar visited her place four months ago
with a gun, but she thought he was
shooting rabbits and drove him away.
my daughter has a bright little boy
and 1 think more of my new grandson
than all the cattle we have" she said.
, 1907-05-03
CONFERENCE OF
IDAHO DIOCESE
BISHOP FUTILE PRESIDES AT
MEETING OF SEVENTH DIS
TRICT AT BOISE.
Preached Opening Sermon and Attend
ed Gathering in His Honor in the
neutrality-suspicious. Funston of Ida
no, SpaIding of Utah and keator
of Washington Attended.

Boise, Ida, May 3.-The fifth annual
conference of the seventh missionary
department of the Episcopal church
was held at St. Michael's cathedral
Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock,
with a sermon by Bishop Tuttle and the
celebration of the holy communion.
The afternoon session did not convene
until 4:3O o'clock, when the corner
stone of the new Bishop Tuttle church
house was laid with impressive cere-
monies, by the grand lodge of Masons
of Idaho.
Greeted BY Friends.
In the evening at $50 the Columbia
theater was filed to the doors with a
throng of old friends of the venerable
Bishop futile, who came to listen to
the greetings of those who had labored
with him in the upbuilding Of the
church in the pioneer days of his work
in the state.
Pioneer Bishop Of Idaho.
The states represented are Califor-
MIA, Washington, Oregon, Utah, Idaho,
Arizona and wyoming. Besides Bish.
op futile these bishops are present:
Funston Of Idaho, Scaddyg OF Oregon,
Spalding of Utah, Keator OF western
Washington And Wills OF eastern
! Washington. Bishop Tuttle was, the
pioneer bishop of Idaho, being in
charge of a large diocese OF which Ida.
no was a part in 1868.
, 1907-05-03
OF ACCEPTANCE

Prof. Quaintance of the joint COM
mittee Of the Laramie Woman's club
and Laramie Literary club, which
placed Mr.. Gramm on the list Of ell
gibles of those clubs for members OF
the school board, this morning receiv-
ed a note from Mr.. Gramm accepting
the place. Mr.. Gramm told others yes,
terday personally that he had decided
upon this move.
, 1907-05-03
Telephone Girls on Strike.

San Francisco, Cal, May 3.-Prac-
tically all the operators of the Pacific
States Telegraph and Telephone COM
pany struck today for an increase of
wages. Bookkeepers and other en-
ployes are acting as operators pending
the engagement of %non-union girls.
, 1907-05-03
Miners Will Return.

Vancouver, May "a special from
Fernie says: 1t is unoficially report
ed today that the miners have decided
to return to work. The result Of the
vote will be made public later. The
agreement practically means the
~closed-shop principle.
, 1907-05-03
Shire Now in Butte.

Butte, Mont, May 3.-Zeke Shire,
the self-confessed murderer of Maurice
Chaplin, an auctioneer of Denver, two
years ago, arrived here today in
charge of a deputy. His relatives are
trying to prove an alibi for Shire, but
he declares he deceived his mother as
to his whereabouts the night of the
murder. and instead of being OF 2
ranch, as his relatives claim, he was in
Denyer
, 1907-05-03
Town Is BURNING.

~Bellingham, Wash, May 3.-Forest
fires are closing in on Maple Falls, in
the northwestern part of Whatcom
county, and the town is burning. The
last word received before the tele-
phone and telegraph wires wen down
was a frantic call for help from Bel
bingham.
BeIlinsham Sending Help.
A special train with fire fighting ap.
paratus is leaving here. Maple Falls
has a population of 500.
, 1907-05-03
CHICAGO Quotations for Live Stock.

Chicago, ILL.,, May 3.-Cattle-Re-
ceipts, 1900 head. Market steady.
Beeves, $4.25@6.40; cows, S1.S0@4.S0;
heifers, S2.60@5.30; calves, $4,000
5.25; good to prime steers, $5.35@6.40;
poor to medium, $4.25@6.40; stockers
and feeders, $2.90@5.15.
Sheep-Receipts. 5000 head. Market
steady. Western, $4.4096.S0; year
lings, s6.75@7.65; lambs, $6.50@6.S0;
western, S6.509S.70.
, 1907-05-03
MEETS WITH MlSHAP
AT BLACKSMITH SHOP.

C. F. Einspahr, the First street
blacksmith, severed the end of one OF
his fingers with a drawing knife at
the shop this morning and was later
treated by DR.. Stevens. The wound
will lay him up for a few days.
, 1907-05-03
Closing Stock Quotations.

New York, May 3.-Atchison, 95A;
do preferred, 95; New York Central,
11SA; Pennsylvania. 124% lev. div.);
Southern Pacific, 81; Union Pacific,
1893; do preferred, 94k; Copper,
$685.; Steel, 3S; do preferred, 1924.
, 1907-05-03
VIII Push huntIey Project.

Omaha, Neb., May 3.-The govern
ment has definitely decided to proceed
with the Huntley project of opening
8 $1,000 acres of government land for
settlement near Billings, Mont, by the
lottery or drawing system. The exact
date has not been fixed, but it will be
about June 80 or July 1.
Water All Ready for Use.
This will be the first government
land ever thrown open for settlement
where water for irrigation is immedi.
ately available. The land is within
fifteen miles Of a sugar beet factory at
Billings.
, 1907-05-03
INITIATE

At the meeting this afternoon OF
Black Hills lodge, Brotherhood OF To-
comotive Firemen and Enginemen,
three candidates were initiated and
considerable routine business was dis
posed Of.
, 1907-05-03
THREATENED STORM
IN NORTH ALBANY.

John McGill, in a note to Hugh
Hynds from McGill, dated yesterday.
noted the presence of very threatening
weather in that section, with some
snow and a cold wind.
, 1907-05-03
Would Save Mother.

Shire readily consented to waive *
tradition and return with an officer to
Denver this morning, but declared he
preferred to hang in Butte instead of
at Denver, as the execution would
worry his mother and distress his rel
atives.
, 1907-05-03
Wool at st. Louis Steady.

St. Louis. Mo. May 3.-Wool steady,
unchanged. Territory and western
medium, 22@26c; fine medium, 1870
21c; fine, 14@16c.
, 1907-05-03
In IL Cowardly7

Gyer-Yes, he is what you might
term a financial pessimist.
Myer-What's a financial pessimist?
Gyer-A mar who Is afraid to look
pleasant for fear his friends Will a
to make q touch.-Chicago Daily
News
, 1907-05-03
New York Financial Market.

New York, May 3.-Money on call
steady, az @4 per cent. Prime mer-
camille paper, 5RQ6 per cent. Bar
silver, Csc per ounce.
, 1907-05-03
PRESIDENT DECLINES.
Will Not Consent to Appoint campIin
as Federal Attorney.
Special to The Republican.

Special to The Republican.
Washington, d. c., April 3.-The
president, acting upon the advice OF
the department of justice, which has
been investigating the recommends.
tons Of M. B. Camplin of Sheridan for
appointment as United States attorney
for the state Of Wyoming, has declined
to make the appointment.
, 1907-05-03
DISPUTE BETWEEN MASoNS AND
GRANITE CUTTERS AS TO
WHICH SHALL LAY
CUT STONE.
Both Contend for the PRIVILEGE and
Master Bricklayers Order Sus-
pension of Work Pending Settle.
men of Differences-Omaha Pack
ing House Employees Notified of
Increase of Pay Effective at Once.

Philadelphia, Pa, May 3.-As the
result of a dispute among the labor
unions representative the bricklayers,
stone masons and granite cutters of
this city, work on many buildings was
suspended today, by order of the Mas
ter Bricklayers, who last night decid-
ed to stop work until the unions can
come to an agreement.
Effect FarReachine.
About 1000 workmen are affected,
but if the suspension continues for
more than a week, about 10000 men
of the building trades will be forced
into idleness. Neither wages nor hours
are involved. The dispute concerns
the laying of stone after it has been
made ready by the granite cutters.
AS to Who Should Lay Stone.
The masons, reinforced by the brick
layers, with whom they are affiliated,
hold that they should Law the stone.
, 1907-05-03
MAN
IS COUNT
KILLED IN RUNNING FIGHT WITH
OFFICERS OF POSSE WHO
THOUGHT HE WAS
MURDERER.

Identified as Count Otto Won Waidstein
of Austria, Nephew of Cardinal
and of Prince Of Wurtemberg-
Believed He Was Being Chased
by Robbers and Shot Down When
Officers Could Not Overtake Him.
, 1907-05-03

Why not get AL the news when II
Il nsws by reading The Republican!
, 1907-05-03
Armed Police Successful.

Armed police eventually obtained
the upper hand and dispersed the riot
ers. The outbreak at Rawalpindi is
attributed to the incendiary influence
of the agitators, who have been max
ing speeches throughout Punjab and
who are responsible for the recent out
break at Lahore.
, 1907-05-03

SLIGHT UPWARD
TREND OF NEEDLE.
bank today marked 1920, an increase
of about twelve-hundredths since yes
terday. The weather was fair part
of the day.
, 1907-05-03

Lead, Copper and Zinc.
New York, May 3.-Lead, $6.0O9
6.25; copper steady, $25. OO@25.5O.
st. Louis, Mo, May 3.-Spelter quiet,
S6.45
, 1907-05-03
CITY unions
ARE NOT TOGETHER

while the granite cutters, supported by
the builders, claim that they should
not only cut the stone, but lay it.
, 1907-05-03

Grain and Provisions at Chicago.
Chicago, ILL.,, May 3.-Wheat-May,
S1%c; July, s4Bc. Corn-May, 49h
, 1907-05-03

1850; July, 1870. Oats-May, 45c;
July, 1850.
Pork-May, s15.67R: July, $15.22k.
Lard-May, sS.67k; July. $s.S2k.
Ribs-May, $3.50; July, $S.72k.
, 1907-05-03
ANT|-EUR0PEAN
RIOTS BY H|NDUS
TWO BUNGALOWS BURNED AND
MISSION CHURCH PiLLAGED
BY THE ANGRY NATIVES.
Armed Police Eventually Successful In
Dispensing Mobs, After Much Dam.
age Had Been Done to Property Of
Europeans-Outbreak Due to In
~cendiary Aeitators.

Allahabad, British India, May d.
CURED at Rawalpindi, Punjab. A Hin
du mob burned two bungalows, pillag-
ed a mission church and looted the
postoffice.
Power Plant Burned.
They also burned a garbage and all
the motor cars in it, destroyed the
plant of the power house and smashed
the windows in the residences of many
Europeans.
, 1907-05-03

Daily Republican. 80 cents . month
, 1907-05-03

torica1 Department; Cheyenne, wyoming
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-26
: Shall None But MiNiOnares Run the Government :
bert j. Beveridge United States Senator from Indiana


So we are face to face with this
grave situation There is no posi-
bility for the strong young men, now
maturing among the masses of the
American people, Of entering the ser
vice of the republic and remaining
there If the present tendency goes
on it will not be5a quarter Of q century
until this government of, by, and for
the people will be conducted exclusive.
~ by enormously wealthy men.
4 1t will not do very much good to
raise salaries of senators and con
gressmen, even if that were possible;
and Il doubt its possibility. Such a bill
was offered a few years ago and
nearly every millionaire voted against
it. Those men who voted for it were
fiercely lamp oned. But even If that
bill had become a law, the increase in
salary would have been comparatively
trivial, and any increase which is at
all possible would accomplish very lit
tie. Indeed it is doubtful whether it
would not be unwises to increase sal
aries to a point where the men whose
only income is their salary could live
on equal terms with their more fortu-
nate colleagues. For no man ought to-
come to either house or senate for
financial reward. The truth is that
our national affairs have become so
impo rtant, numerous and complex that
they can be properly handled only by
men having especial aptitude and
training for them. Such men ought to
be carefully selected and then, when
tried, kept constantly in public life
until their age renders them unfit for
further public service.
For public life has become pro-
fession in the best sense. So far
reaching, profound and numerous are
the problems constantly arising that
/ the best thought and most careful and
continuous study by our statesmen are
indispensable to their solution. The
nations legislator can no longer at
! tend to his own affairs during the con-
gressional vacation if he gives intelli-
gent attention to the business Of the
republic; for these periods when con-
Hgress is not in session are the only
opportunities he has for study and in
lvestigation This latter cannot be
done during the sessions of congress
is the time for action.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-26

1t is quite plain then, is it not -
that if the nation is to be well served,
the people must choose for public Of
flee men naturally gifted in salesman
ship, and then keep them in service
practicing the profession of public life.
But the poor man cannot do this,
even if the people want him. unless
the luxury of living in the nations
capital is reduced. The rich man can,
Of course, because expense is nothing
to him. And president, senate and
house composed of rich men might run
things admirabl bly, rather think they
would. But it would be government
by an oligarchy of wealth, to the ex-
clusion Of poor men. Very we'll! @
do not want that sort of thing in
America.
So it would seem that the people
must make up their minds to keep
rich men out of public life except
those rich men Of such extrao ordinary
qualities of esmanship as to make.
| it a national misfortune il prejudice.
kept them from serving the republic.
May it not be best for the American
! people to defeat at the polls and in
their legislatures vastly wealthy men
who have not these distinguishing
qualities of craftsmanship?
/ If this is the best course, 1t is easy
to see that this process should begin
with men whose money is their prin-
ciple recommendation to Office, as
we'll as the strongest lever with which
4 they lift themselves into power. II
this should become the practice Of the
American people, the nation would
/ still have the service of the rich men
who are real statesmen, like Washing
ton, and also Of the poor men who are
real statesmen, like Lincoln. But if
| this is not done, the republic must be
Exclusively governed by the lords Of
Igold who may be statesmen, may be
lfgure-head, or may be something else.
There is no use shutting our eyes to
/ these conditions. The alternative is as
Interchangeable as fate; either the i'm
mensely rich must be kept out Of pub
lie Office or else the republic must be
deprived Of the labors of those natural
statesmen, not favored by financial for
/ tune (such as the great men Of our
CONTINUED on page 81
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-26

(Co ntinued on page 81
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-04-19

A correspondent of Harpetss Weekly
has confded the following doleful and
arresting plant to the current issue Of
that journal:
In the name Of humanity, can any
thing be done 10 rescue us from the as.
saults made daily and hourly on our
sensitive tympana by the charming
young creatures at the telephone switch
boardg
"a while ago called for 1883 Thirty
eighth street. Immediately a gentle
voice inquired;
observation-disclosures eight--thirty
eighth
'Thc deadly rattle of the harsh and
rolling SO paralized me that I could
barely gasp yes
I'm calling one-nine thrrrree-
eight--thirty-eight,' the lovely girl rasp-
ed into my ear with a caekling series
OF explosions in the word thrrfree' that
almost carried away the side OF my
head Knowing that the hand that runs
the switchboard is the hand that rules
Che world | was, of course afraid to
protest.
But to YOU a. a champion Of OPP
pressed humanity | appeal for release
from the awful assaults Of the over
rolled r, On what alleged principle OF
mnemonics or aid 20 acoustics Is this
barbafism inflicted upon u.s. Is there
any possible excuse for this damned
iteration which consumes at least four
ilfths Of second Of valuable time
whenever it IS praeticed upon usg Stop
this time.wasting torture, and to you
and the Telephone company | shall ever
remain a grateful subscriber.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-04-19
Ole Messenger



At the Japanese embassy In Wash
ington Jungo Hitomi was called into
the Office Dc the chief Of the secret serv-
Ice with which the embassy was pro
yided and received the following order:
IA cabIegram has been received from
Tokyo stating that the Russians have
succeeded In getting and deciphering
the imperial dispatches to our peace
commissioners now in Portsmouth.
have been directed to forward an Inn
portant message (sent here by an old
code not used for many years. by mes
senger to the commissioners wish
Won to take it, starting by the next
train
Every man leaving this embassy, as
you know, Is Swallowed by persons in
the pay of the Russian government.
You will be followed, and possibly it
may be known that you are mes
senger, for We have spies right here in
the embassy / hope that you VIII get
the dispatch through, but | doubt IT..
Take no weapon except these bank
notes. These Americans are not to be
fought. They must be bought
The dispatch was written on tissue
paper, and. taking or his shoe, Hitomi
placed ii on the sole where it would be
under his foot. lie asked for a dummy
dispatch OF large proportions bearing
the embassy imprint and placed It in
his side coat pocket. The bills amount
Ing to $4,000 lie distributed about his
person. Then a cab was called, and he
set out for the station.
He had not turned tile first corner be-
fore man who had been standing by
an automobile jumped into It and start
ed after him uitoml had gone but 4
short distance when he felt a shoek.
and the cab was knocked into kindliag
wood. Hitolni, who, slngularly enough.
was very little hurt dIscntangled him
self 70 see al automobile speeding
away chased by policeman. Calling
another cab. the messenger, first shov.
Ing five 500 bills into the hands Of the
owner OF the wrecked cab, pushed on
to tie station, which he reached in ami
pie time.
Nothing occurred on the trip ill the
train had passed Newark and WAS
within Ave or six miles Of Jersey City.
Then man took q seat beside the
Japanese and ten minutes later cried
out:
You thief! Give me back my
watchl"
Flrnging bis hand into the lower side
pocket Of TIitomi's sack coat, the man
pulled out a watch and chain and held
them up to tie gaze Of the passengers
Conductor, shouted the stranger,
''giye ME some tralnmcn when ! get 20
Jersey city to hold this man Gil | can
gefa policeman to avrest him.
When the twain rolled into the STA
ton, d policeman was called who took
the messenger III charge. die man who
claiined t3 lave 5een robbed agreeing