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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1907-09-28
IN UST RIAL

Big Boycott Called Off.
After several months Of fighting
against the United Railroads the strike
committee of the San Francisco labor
,uoio7& has called off the boycott for
bidding union men to ride on street
cars, although it declared the strike
still in force.
Rising Tide of immigration.
The coming report of Frank P. Sar-
gent, commissioner general of immi-
grafton, will show that the total num-
Der Of immigrants admitted during the
year ended June 80 was over ], 400, 900,
or 100000 in excess of the number that
came during the preceding year. Mr..
Sargent does not agree with some
members Of the congress immigration
commission that undesirable immi-
grants come from particular localities,
such as Italy, Syria and Asia Minor.
He says that our need Of laborers ne
cessitates our taking such nationalf-
ties as come, and it is impossible to
exclude all the Hunchakists and Black
Hand people who come in with the
others, but we must have laws which
will as far as possible exclude such
persons from the country. Regarding
the diversion of the tide of immigra-
ton Mr.. Sargent says that it is I'M
possible to divert the growing influx
into such a place as New York in a
day or a year, although gradually the
&C. +yyr ,i,,.y to ho h
west and the northwest, and it Is only
a question of time when foreigners
will learn that they can do better in
smaller places than in the big cities
Railway Army Of 1,521,555.
The statistics compiled by the inter
state commerce commission for the
year ended June 80, 1906, show that
the number Of persons on the payrolls
of the railroads of the United States
was 1921 $50. The total amount of
was@ and salaries paid to employees
during the year was 5000, S01 1858. The
number of railway corporations was
2,313 and the total single track mileage
224, 1863, of which 1871 was operated
by receivers.
To Curtai Copper Produe tion.
The officers Of the Amalgamated Cop
per company have ordered that their
mines reduce output so per cent until
market conditions improve. This course
Is brought about by the fact that the
Amalgamated company has on hand Il
large stock Of metal for which there is
little demand in the market. 1t was
taken for granted in trade circles that
the action Of the Amalgamated would
be followed by several of the other
heavy producing mines.
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venge, and much attention was paid to
the associations being formed through
out the country for the purpose of
helping ex-convicts to their feet. s
Attorney General Bonaparte, address
ing the Prison Wardens' association,
advocated the death penalty for habit
ual criminals and for attempts to COM
NIT capital crimes. He argued that
the primary purpose of punishment
was to assure obedience to the law
and that in infiicting punishment the
state looks not to the past and not to
the individual who now suffers, but to
all the individuals who may hereafter
fear to disobey by reason Of the suf-
ferings Of the one now punished. The
habitual criminal, he said, was prod
uct Of modern civilization, as our an
cestors would have hanged him for his
first felony. He did not favor hanging
men for trifing offenses, but he would
have society cease to nourish and
shelter its proved and inveterate enc
miles,"
Cost of Living In 1906.
A summary Of the report just sent
to the printer by the United States
bureau of labor, Of which Charles P.
Neill is the head, covering the year
1906, shows that the prices of food
were generally higher during every
month Of that year than in the CORE
spending month Of 1905. The price in
December was 4.S per cent higher than
the average for the year 1906, and the
year as whole showed higher aver
age than any other since 1890, the
period covered by the bureaus inves-
tigation. The increase Of last year
applied unequally to twenty five Of the
thirty articles included In the investi-
cation. Those articles showing the
greatest advance were lard. evaporat-
ed apples, pork, bacon, ham, fish, NUT
ton and butter. The retail prices Of
food were 20 per cent higher than in
the previous year.
The report deals also with the ques-
ton Of wages for manual workers and
gives figures showing that the advance
In wages per hour over the preceding
year was greater than the advance In
the retail prices Of food-that is to
say, the purchasing power of an hours
wages as measured by food was great
er last year than the year before. The
increase in this purchasing power was
IA per cent. AS compared with the
ten years average from 1890 to 1899
the wages per hour were 24.2 per
cent higher, and the number of en-
ployees 42.9 per cent greater and the
average hours Of labor a week 46 per
cent lower. In the principal manu-
featuring industries Of the country the
average wages were As per cent high
err than in 1905. The greatest increase
was In the manufacture of cotton
goods, where the wages were 11.2 per
cent higher, and in only one industry,
that of paper and wood pulp, was there
decrease-namely, IL per cent.
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strongly opposed the efforts on foot to
enhance the powers Of the federal
government.
Democrats Sweep Oklahoma.
Incomplete returns from the election
in Oklahoma indicated the election Of
Charles N. Haskell, the Democratic
candidate for governor, by majority
Of close to 10000. Four Of the five
congressman elected are also Demo-
Gratis, and the Democratic majority In
both branches of the state legislature
will be large. The new constitution
was approved by an overwhelming ma
jorfty, estimated at 125, 900, and the
prohibition movement was triumphant
by majority Of from 10000 to 10000.
To Lead Jersey Democrats.
Frank s. Katzenbach, who was twice
elected mayor of Trenton, overcoming
8 normal Republican majority, was
chosen by the New Jersey Democratic
convention as the party's candidate for
governor, President Wilson of Prince
ton having refused to allow his name
to go before the convention.
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EDUCATIONAL
Vesetarianism In Football.

Vesetarianisr In Football.
Coach Stagg Of the University Of
Chicago football team has inaugurated
a vegetarian regime by announcing
that only flesh abstainers will be per-
m1tted to take places on the varsity
eleven this fSll. He claims that the
endurance and agility Of athletes are
greatly enhanced by the vegetarian
diet and hopes in this way to win back
the western championship lost last
year to Minnesota.
Railroad Course at Illinois.
President James Of the University of
Illinois has announced the appoint
ment of Professor e. r. Dewsnup as
professor Of railroad administration
and management. Professor Dewsnup
Is an Englishman who has studied rail-
roads in several countries.
1900, 900 Pupils Defective.
Former President G. G. Birmingham of
the New York board of education, as
chairman of committee which has
been investigating the conditions of
school children In all the larger cities Of
the country, reports that about 12,OOO,-
600 boys and girls are behind their
proper grades because of physical de-
fects that could be remedied with prop
er medical attention, or about one-third
of the entire school attendance. In
New York alone there are 465, 800 de-
fectives. Among the 1,4OO children
studied in that city 10 per cent were
suffering from malnutrition and IA per
cent came from families living on less
cent have only tea or coffee and bread
for breakfast. A little over half of the
families in this group have lost no
children.
Jesuit Colleges Merge.
Woodstock college, the philosophical
and theological training school for the
Jesuit scholastics. which has been 10,
rated at Woodstock, near Baltimore,
since 1869, is soon to be moved to
New York city and made part of the
University of Fordham.
Education In Massachusetts,.
The Experiment Station Record an
nounces that the Massachusetts col.
lege has established a department Of
agricultural education, its work to
include both instruction and research
Normal courses will be offered to pro-
spective teachers, and studies will be
made of problems confronting agri-
cultural teaching in colleges and
schools of various grades and of agri-
cultural extension with view to intro
ducing agriculture into the elementary
schools, establishing agricultural high
schools and correlating and unifying
the agricultural instruction given in
the state. The work will be in close
cooperation with existing educational
agencies, especially the state industrial
commission.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1907-09-28

ing to the testimony of Mr. Rogers
son and brother-in-law, the Standard
Oil official had been compelled to give
up all business cares, his face had be-
come distorted and his speech affected,
while his entire left side was no longer
normal. Judge Hammond ruled that
it would be cruel to compel Mr.. Rogers
attendance in court and dismissed the
appeal for an immediate trial.
Fears Pettibone Will Die.
George A. Pettibone was unable to
appear in the district court at Boise.
Ida, last week to have his case set for
trial. An affidavit Of the attending
physician states that Pettibone is suf-
fering from ulcer Of the bladder,
which, unless soon checked, will prove
fatal. He says an operation may be
necessary, but fears the patient will be
unable to survive it.
Standards Bonds $4,000, 900.
Judge Grosscup, in the circuit court
at Chicago, decided that the Standard
Oil Company of Indiana should file two
bonds Of 100000 and 100000 each
in order to obtain supersedeas stay
ing execution on it's property to satisfy
the judgment Of $29, 100000 recently
imposed by Judge Lands in the dis
tict court.
Arrest Of Capitol Grafters.
The first step in the criminal prosecu-
ton of the men responsible for the
looting of the Pennsylvania treasury
in connection with the construction Of
the new state capitol building was
taken Sept. 49, when Attorney General
Todd began actions against John 81.
Sanderson, contractor; Joseph M, Hus-
ton, architect; Congressman Cassel,
treasurer of the Pennsylvania Con-
struction company, which supplied
some of the metallic furniture; former
State Treasurer Mathues, former
Auditor General Snyder, Public
Grounds Superintendent shumaker
and eight other men charged with hav-
ing active connection with capitol con-
struction frauds. The accused men
were held in heavy bail for their ap-
pearance in court, Sanderson, Huston,
Snyder, Mathues, Cassel and Shumaker
being required to furnish bonds in the
sum of $50, 900 each. ..
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to distinguish between modernistic
thought and the modern studies which
are not In opposition to the church.
He foresees that the adversaries of the
church will represent it as the enemy
Of science and progress. "To this"
says the pope, "we will reply by our
actions" and he goes on to say that
the most illustrious representatives Of
Catholic science will be grouped to-
gether with the object of favoring and
helping 'the progress Of everything
that can be called true science or erudi-
ton" The encyclical also orders the
dismissal from seminaries and Catho-
lie universities Of all teachers who pro-
fess modernistic theories. In the Eu-
ropean press there is some discussion
as to whether this encyclical is aimed
at one country more than another
Some say it is directed against France
and others against the United States,
but it is by no means certain that the
pope had any particular nation in
mind.
Mrs. Besant Against Moral Code.
In her address before the twenty
first annual convention of the Ameri-
can section of the Theosophical socie-
ty at Chicago Mrs. Annie Besant, the
new world president of the organiza-
ton, took a pronounced stand against
the adoption of a fixed moral code and
against the imposition Of penalties by
the society for any individual action.
She said further that none of the great
religions had a penalty enforcing it's
commandments by exclusion; but, on
the contrary, they regarded it as a
primary duty to try to improve their
evildoers. She thought the Theosoph-
zeal society would not wish to copy the
example of those church which en-
ploy heresy trials and excommunica-
tons. Such a code would be the de-
NAL of brotherhood. The society voted
to sustain her position.
In illustrating her point Of view in
one of her talks Mrs. Besant used the
personality of John D. Rockefeller as
an example, saying that in his next
incarnation he would probably reap.
pear as highly developed and per-
fected individual-in fact, almost an
angel. She explained that he would
probably retain all of his capacity for
doing things and slough off the baser
motives and aims actuating his present
career.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1907-09-28

An Electric Anaesthetie.

An Electric Anaesthetie.
The discovery of a method of caus-
ing sleep by electricity is credited to
Professor Leduc Of France in current
cable advices, and experiments along
the same line have already been made
by Professor Scripture Of Yale. Pro-
lessor Leduc finds that a current Of
thirty-fve volts sent internationally
through two electrodes applied to the
skull will induce thoroughly health
eul sleep. While the patient sleeps I'M
der this influence the most difficult and
painful surgical operations may be
performed, and the mind seems to
work more clearly and rapidly as an
after effect. The particular advan-
tage of this new anaesthetic is the do
ing away with all drugs and in being
able to induce restful sleep for patients
suffering from nervous exhaustion
where the administering Of drugs
would be dangerous.
Machines For Detecting Liars.
Professor Hugo Munsterberg Of Har-
ward university has invented several
machines the purpose of which is to
record the emotions and reveal the Sc
crets Of the human mind. One scien-
list calls them truth compelling ma
chimes" and another machines to cure
liars" 1t Is said that one Of these ma
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matter Is to be brought TO the atten-
ton Of President Roosevelt and the
department Of justice.
More Atlantic Rates Cut.
] The White Star line took the lead In
the Atlantic rate war by reducing the
westbound passage on its best boats
to $3.50 and on smaller boats to $50
and $50. The American line also
made big cut.
Many Railroads Not Paying.
An abstract of the interstate COM
merce commission report for the year
ending June 80, 1906, shows the par
value of outwsanding railway capital
to be $14,57O, 121, 17s, or $67,936 per
mile of railroad. 1t appears also from
this report that over one-third Of this
capital did not pay dividends. Never
theless the gross earnings Of the 222,-
$40 miles of operated lines were $685.
765, 167, or $243, $50, 761 more than the
previous year. The net income was
1886, 1S632S. There were 1868 per-
sons killed and e7,7o6 injured.
Weyerhauser on Lumber.
Frederick Weyerhauser of Musca-i
tine Ia, the head of the lumber com
bine, who is said by some to be richer
than Rockefeller, in an interview call
ed Judge Lands a fool for fning the
Standard SO heavily and said Rockefel-
Ter would never pay cent Of the fine
AS to the lumber trade, he denied that
there is trust and insists that the
high prices are due to the growing
scarcity of lumber and that prices will
go still higher. He thinks it an out
rage the way the wealthy men of the
country "are being attacked" He asks,
"What do they mean% and what
have we done?"
Farmers to Fight Grain Trust.
Open war has broken out between
the so called grain trust and the farm
ers of the middle west. The farmers
say they have paid million dollars
year tribute to the grain trust and
have been organizing until now CO.
operative elevators are in operation all
over Iowa and are being extended into
Minnesota and Nebraska. Their or
ganization possesses a $5O,00OOOO re-
serve fund, while back Of the trust
stands the wealth of the Armours and
other millionaire capitalists.
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would be toward the destruction of
dogmas and of the church hierarchy.
Modernism is further characterized as
unlimited curiosity, presumption indi-
vidualism, ignorance and disrespect of
real Catholic science and discipline"
al bishops are enjoined to see that the
clergy and the laity be turned from
this line of thought and are ordered to
establish college of censors in every
diocese to revise Catholic publications
and rigidly to prescribe all objection
able books, newspapers or pamphlets.
Notwithstarding this general prohi-
bition, the .pes letter endeayors
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1907-09-28

A>o'lho'li oIi GUS. lure OF an mCOrSe-
ment. 1t was announced that Mr..
Stratus would give a complete pasteur-
1zing plant to the city of Brussels. The
Straus plan. which was first put into
operation in New York city fifteen
years ago, has now been adopted in
nearly 400 cities in all parts of the
world, and the United States govern
ment has indorsed pasteurization AS
the proper way to make milk safe and
to stop the spread of tuberculosis.
Prison Congress at Chicago.
The annual congress of the National
Prison association attracted many
prominent officials and students OF
criIninology to Chicago. The report of
the committee of preventive and re-
formatory work advocated a complete
revision of our criminal code It is held
that the system of fees charged in the
defense and prosecution Of criminals
is wrong. A wealthy criminal should
not be permitted to pay for his defense
a dollar more than the state pays in
defending a criminal without financial
backing.
Throughout all the addresses at the
congress the prevailing tendency was
In favor Of those methods which lead
toward the reformation and better
ment Of criminals rather taa4 those
which are 2c1s,.attd bS & spili5 Of x
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person being ex- burg.
amined. A pencil is grasped lightly in
the fingers, the point of the pencil just
reaching smooth sheet Of paper,
which records the Involuntary writ
ings Of the suspect. 1t has been learn
ed that the arm muscles and finger
muscles thus used constantly witch
under the stress of any passing emo
ton. Tests upon different persons
have disclosed the fact that the same
general outline is made by any person
under the stress Of the same emotion
Another instrument more delicate in
construction, called the pneumograph,
records the normal breathing and any
variation in breathing caused by an
emotional suggestion. The recording
is done electrically and in another
room far removed from the suspect.
The effect of emotional stress upon the
rate OF breathing is matter of COM
mon know.e, g.. Still another device
called the sphygmagraph, is attached
to the wrist and records the action Of
the heart beats. It is said to be the
surest of all as the heart is the most
sensitive and the least Influenced by
the will.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1907-09-28

Chicago Rejects New Charter.

Chicago Rejects New Charter.
By majority of slightly over $1,000
in light vote the city of Chicago re-
jected the new charter authorized by
the last legislature. This charter pro-
vided for a change in the method Of
taxation, doing away with number Of
different bodies and concentrating the
power Of tax levies in the city council
The opposition was due mainly to the
clause giving the taxing bodies power
to levy on property as high as Z per
cent of the assessed valuation.
Favors New Constitution.
President Edmund j. James of the
University Of Illinois In his address on
Illinois day at the jamestown exposi-
ton frankly advocated the creation of
new federal constitution He held
that it was highly demoralizing for the
American people to do as they pleased
without regard to anything but their
own views of e1pediency and then
maintain that all these things are in
harmony with certain professed prin-
tlplSo vi lut Ia w duu LIE CONSTITUTION.
He thought the time had come when
problems of such complexity and mag
nftude confront US that they cannot be
solved without large co-operat ton OF
the federal government, such that il
cannot be extended within the limits
of the constitution
RooseveIt's Cocktail Bulletin.
President Roosevelt has caused the
issuance of bulletin in reference TO
the charge that the Fairbanks cocktail
was really ordered by Roosevelt o.
Loeb and not by the vice president
The official declaration as made public
by Loeb is as follows: THE statement
is too absurd to be given any credence.
Neither the president nor his secretary
either directly or indirectly ordered
anything of the kind at the lunch in
question or at any other lunch where
they We're guests
Parker Against Federal Control.
Former Judge Alton B. Parker of
Ne- Wort II ht2 address on cone4i-u-
to-
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r e LIG GU s
Test of Church Cordially,

est OF Nn1rcn Norolaiitys
Miss Laura A. Smith tells in the La
dies Home Journal Of her experiences
in making a series Of visits to different
churches in the larger cities with the
object Of testing 'the welcome given
a stranger in the average church to see
what was meant by the invitation
Strangers cordially welcome" Miss
Smith says that she dressed in very
plain clothes and by both dress and
manner tried to typify the average
young woman who, stranger In the
city, seeks a church utilization. In
only two churches Of New York and
Brooklyn did the pastors voluntarily
seek her out and speak to her. In one
other the pastor was brought to her,
while in five churches thirteen mem
bers had spoken to her, and in thirty
two she had been ignored absolutely,
in all thirty-seven churches having
been visited. In Boston she attended
twenty-four churches, and of these
one pastor spoke to her, while in four
four members, two being ushers, pass
ed a friendly word, while In the other
nineteen mot word from any one"
From the inhospitable east she turned
her steps westward, where the results
of her visitations remain to be record
ed.
Several New York and Boston minis
ters interviewed upon the question
raised by Miss Smiths test hold that
it is now generally regarded as beyond
the true courtesy of the church to force
attentions upon visitors, such as hand
shaking and questioning. One says
that because personal inquiries are not
made or attentions paid is in no sense
a contradiction of the invitation to
strangers Another says that normal
persons go to church not for sociabili
ty, but for spiritual edification, COM
munion and exaltation: hence they ap-
preciate the gentle courtesy of being
let alone in their quest.
Pope Plus Bans Modernism.
A new encyclical issued by Pope
Plus X. makes a sweeping condemna-
ton of ali the so called heresies of the
present time, which he has grouped I'M
der the term modernism" In taking
this attitude the pope asserts that he
Is but following in the footsteps of his
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advising all mothers
to give their infants
milk brought to the
boiling point, pas
teurized or steriliz-
ed. This action, fol-
lowing upon the ad-
dress Of Nathan
Straus Of New York,
telling of his efforts
toward pasteuriza-
ton, was in the ma
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logg submitted in ev-
idence statistics COM
piled by the Stand
ard officials showing
that the Standard
Oil Company Of New
Jersey had earned
profits In the last
seven years aggre-
eating $49O,315,934
and that during the
same time dividends
had been paid to the
amount of $3O8, $780,
N3. These profits
came from the plants
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chimes was en-
ployed by Pro-
fessor Munster
berg in his re-
cent test of Har-
ry Orchard. the
chief witness for
the prosecution
In the Haywood
trial. This in
s t r u N e IL t i S
known as the
acknowledgement.
1t consists mere
Iy of a. wooden
sling suspended,
from the ceiling
upon which rests
the arm of the
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MIS- ELLANEOUS

Boston and Maine Wreck.
Through the slight error of a single
letter in train order. express AID
freight trains coilided on the Boston
azzti Maine EaaE Vest Canaan, N. H.,
Sept Is, jus before daylight. causing
ti,e Goath h,lsy- .yp qsso,. % 4;
'i-->. 80 M. -SeS 81.
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