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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
WANTS
PEACE DELEGATES
TO GET BIG SALARY
Congressman Announces He
Cannot Go to The Hague
Because of Campaign.


New York, April misrepresentation
has written to the executive committee
an explanation of his inability to at
end the peace congress-.
The senatorial campaign in his state
keeps him away.
In his letter Williams makes the sug-
gestion, which he says he has talked
over with President Roosevelt, that
each country pay "a good substantial
salary to the members Of The Hague
court appointed by it. give them a long
tenure Of Office, either for life or
for ten or fifteen years, and forbid
them to act as counsel for any nation
while so serving.
This, he says would enable each
country to select lawyers Of interna-
tional reputation. who can make long
work, II not life work. the objects set
before the court
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
AMERICAN RULE in
CUBA A YEAR MORE

Havana, April 11.-There is a general
Taft has said here, that the American
occupation of Cuba will last another
year at least. Taft said:
1.-The c%oncensus of opinion seems that
It would be wise and even necessary
20 take a census before attempting to
present provisional but under any sub
sequent government. II would be wise,
in order to test the condition of the
country and the operation Of the cleo
tion law, to hold a preliminary election.
municipal and not national. I have
coon and TO consult President Roose-
welt with a view to further confer
ence with the liberals and conserva-
,fiycS."
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
REJECTED four
Times In A week
he WEEDS WIDOW
Grandfather, Aged sc, Is Finally
Welded to a Great
Grandmother.

Freeland, Pa. April 10.-William
Cover, a carpenter of this place, and
Mrs. Mary Strause were married at the
home OF the brides daughter, Mrs. Will
liam McClelland.
The bridegroom is &C and has sew
era grandchildren, while the bride is
his senior by a few years and is a
great-grandmother. The bridegroom
lost his first wife a few months ago
in q drowning accident in the Lehigh
river, at Bethlehem, and last week sur
prised his lends by announcing his
intention to remarry.
He went counting in a business like
way, and in n week had proposed to
and was rejected by o u widows re-
siding in this place.
REQUIRED, but not discouraged, he
continued his search for a wife until
he met Mrs. Strause. who succumbed
to his Establishments.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
POET KNEW IDENTITY,
BUT NOT WAY HOME

Berlin, April 10.-The Deutsche Zei-
tung. a daily paper here. relates an
amusing incident about Gottfried KEEL
Ter, the we'll known German poet.
While celebrating with several friends
the success OF II Of his books, Keller
suggested Just one more glass" until
he was not so very clear as to his way
home.
AS he walked along without paying
much attention to grace Of motion Or
to the straightness of the path, Keller
thought it was taking too long to get
home. Meeting a little boy, he asked:
Say. little man. do you know where.
Gottfried Keller, the poet, lives?"
The youngster, recognizing the poet
from pictures in newspapers answered
joyfully:
ler."
II am not asking you who I am,
but where l live" the poet responded.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
BOY KILLS Ex.PREs,pEN7.

City of Mexico, April 10.-General
Manuel Lizadro Barrillas, ex-president
of Guatemala, was assassinated here as
he sat in a street car. AS the car
stopped a young mar a little over II
years old, climbed aboard, and rushing
to the general stabbed him twice,
the first blow severing the juglar vein,
the second cutting his face. The gen
eral died instantly.
The assassin was captured. He
a " his name as jose Estrada. and
his home at Ocos. Guatemala. Mem
bers of the Guatemala colony here
think Estrada was Q paid assassin.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
PUMMELS,
CONGREGATION SEES
LIVELY FIST FIGHT
Row Over Collection Breaks up
Episcopal Services in
Philadelphia.
CARRY MADONNA STATUE
Catholics Have Great Pageant on tho
Anniversary OF the Eruption
of Mount We
suViUs.

Philadelphia, April IA rough
and-tumble fight. participated IN by the
rector. Rev. E. q. Knight. vestryrnen
and members of the congregation. was
the cliinas of services in Emanuel
Episcopal church.
Emanuel church has been faction-
torn for some time and the rector is
under $1,000 bail on the technical
Easter collection. The fight resulted
from a ontes over the collection talk
en- up at the church.
Two sets of vestrymen We're chosen,
n favorable to the rector the
other TO his opponents. Both vestries
named an accounting warden to take
charge of the church money.
Both financial officers of the church
had announced their intention of pass
ing the collection plates and many
members of the congregation had at
tended in the expectancy of a lively
time.
Fall to PummeIing.
Mr.. Knight sent a note to George
Shegog, the anti-Knight accounting
warden, before the services, saying he
had appointed two choir boys to AXE
up the Offering in the church. Mr..
Shegog said that to prevent trouble
he would permit the choir boys to act.
The rector, carrying the two plates
of money, followed the supplied choir
out of the chancel after the occasional.
AS he left, Mr.. Shegog left the rear
pew and started after the rector.
Mr.. Shegog stepped forward to take
the collection and the next instant he
and j.. w. Watkins. who had been
elected accounting warden by the rec
tors faction, were pummeling each
other.
A general fight quickly followed. At
least our other members were seen
struggling on top Of the two main
contestants and several fist encounters
tool place.
The two men fought. until the rector,
having the advantage of numbers,
forced Mr.. Shegog and his friends out
OF the room.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
TOWN OF EPILEpT|CS
TO Be RUN BY STATE
Money Appropriated by indiana
Legislature Being Used
in Preparation.

Newcastle. Ind. April 1O.-Within two
months Superintendent Van Nuys, OF
the state epileptic village. near this
city. will be ready to receive Il limited
number of patients. but at first only
those persons will be accepted whose
utilization is not so far advanced but
that they can do some work about the
village, and thus aid in developing the
institution.
The last legislature appropriated
SOS, 900, which Is now available. and
furniture is being purchased for the
two buildings. which were completed
last fall.
1t is estimated that fifty patients cam
be cared for with the present facilities,
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY
e IN NLlr

Columbus, April 11.-Attorney Cen
eral Ellis In an opinion just given out
declares there Is no way under exist
ing laws h a a direct primary for the
selection Of a candidate for president
or United States senator can be held at
public expense.
The opinion vas in to the
IA queries concerning the legality
of the proposed primary suggested by
Senator Foraker and accepted by the
friends of Secretary of War Taft. The
attorney general says such a primary
can only be held at private expense
and must be conducted separate from
the regular elections.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
PLOT 10 WRECK TRAIN FAILS.

New York, April 1O-''There is nothing
new in the discovery credited to Gilmore,
the Pi,tsburg cobbler, by which coal
ashes may be treated chemically so as to
burn f. a long period and give greater
heat than pure COAL" said Leander Ham
mond, Il carpenter.
Mr.. Hammond claims that for a long
time he has been burning coal dust in his
stoves at home after he had saturated it
wish a secret chemical.
AS a result of his experiments. the car.
peater says shat he can make one ton Of
coal dust so treated last a whole year In
hea.ing an ordinary sized house.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
RIOT OVER MADONNA
ON VOLCANO ANNIVERSARY

Rome, April 1.-THE anniversary Of
the disastrous eruption of Mount We
suvius, last year, was marked yester-
day by two harmless earthquakes in
Calabria and huge religious professions
in the towns around the volcano. The
famous statue of the madonna, be-
lieved by people to have sweated dur
ing the calamity, was carried about by
the clergy and the local authorities, and
vas followed by thousands of worship
ers.
The professional feast at Nocera In
feriore ended in a riot caused, 1t is said,
by excitement over the report that an
other statue of the madonna was OPEN
ing and shutting it's eyes.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
TOO MANY BABIES,
STORK SOCIETY FAILS

Boston. Mass, April 11-Swamped by
the births it was organized to promote,
the American Birth insurance society
has gone into the hands of receivers
and the supreme court has been asked
to decide the disposition of $1,000 on
hand. The society started operations
about two years ago and was intended
to pay $3.50 to 5000 upon the birth of
a baby In the family of a policy holder.
Though it occurred much new business,
the sc"-ety was unable to keep up with
TIE births it had to paw for.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
COMES TO A eRlEvrous FINISH

New York, April 10.-A venerable dea-
con OF Bloomfield Center, N. j., got off
81 trolley car there last night.
Miss Dolly Gray. who seemed to be
in Joyous spirits, danced up to the dea-
con, tool some fancy steps and kicked
off his high hat.
Then the dazzling blonde kicked off
the hats of several dear old men as
she called them.
A policeman arrested Dolly and her
hair turned color in a single night, but
not gray
Shor black hair bristles were on her
head when the wig was removed.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
MORGAN BLAMED FOR
FAILURE OF "SALOME"

Chicago. April 1.-THE real reason
for New Works %antipathy 20 the
Strauss opera, "Salome," has been re-
the cat out Of the bag.
"Salome" she gasped. Why. 'Sa-
lone is all right. The real reason WHY
the opera was stopped is because some
body odd ]. P%ierpont Morgan that it
was not pretty, and he owned enough
stock in the company TO put an tnJ
To the prcdEction."
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
pELMAR kEEPs CUP.

New York, April 11.-Elmer e.
Smathers will retain the gold cup won
by his horse Major Delmar, in the race
with Lou Dillon in 1904, as the result
of the verdict returned today by the
jury In the suit brought by the Mem
phis Trotting association.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
aN
HUGE FRAUD CHARGED
IN INSURANCE COUNT
jerome Will Start Country
Wide Probe. Affecting Mu-
tuai and New York Life.
FoRGERlEs IN ELECTION
Policy Holders Committee Withdraws
Its Watchers, Declaring That
Fair Play Is Impossible
Fictitious Names.
FoRGERlEs IN ELECTION
"cLEAN, HONEST,
POLICY" is ADVICE
OF PAUL NORTON.

Chicago. April e.-Paul Morton.
president of the Equitable Life As
society. of New YORK. en-
tertained at dinner at the Audi.
torium hotel the western general
gents and officials of the company.
He told of present and future con-
ditions in the insurance business
and said all extravaganza had been
eliminated in all branches. and that
a clean. honest, conservative policy
was the policy to which they u
stick If they wished to be success
full. Forty-five agents from Illinois,
Michigan, Wisconsin,, Ohio, Mime
sofa, North and South Dakota and
Nebraska attended,.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
NEGRESS SAID TO
Be THIEF WHO LOOTED
CHICAGO TREASURY

chicago. April 1.-THE Journal says
the mystery surrounding the theft Of
Sl73,OO0 from the United States SUBJ
treasury here has been feared. The
alleged thief is a, negro scrub woman,
whom the secret service officers have
taken charge of and are ,~endeavoliag to
f.ettfrom her some, trace of tile missing
nsol.ey.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
MONEY MARKET.

New York, April 9.-Money easy. at
Ia ak per cent. Prime mercantile
paper 646Ha: sterling exchange heavy.
at Ss.85.40@4.S5.45 on demand, s4.Sl.95
Q4.S2.S5 ior sixty days.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
GERMAN EXPLORER MEETS
THE POPE OF BUDDHISM

Berlin, April 11.-one by II the
worlds mysteries are being cleared up.
A British expedition having laid bare
the secrets Of the forbidden Tibetan
city OF Lhassa and Sven Hedin having
found the Ashia Lama, it remained to
discover what VII. become of the Dalai
Lama. the worlds greatest recluse,
who fed from Lhassa as the English
approached the sacred city.
DIR. Tafel. the German explorer. now
claims he has found him in a Tibetan
monastery near the Chinese frontier.
Tafel is the first European. who ever
stood face to face with the pope of
Buddhism. The meeting which occurred
last January was achieved with great
est difficulty.
Familiarity with the Tibetan language
and customs enabled I'm to pass as a
native. He describes the Dalai Lama
as a small ma1l of the genuine Tibetan
type, pocn marked, with a small mus
cache.
The Dalai Lama condescended to ex-
change gifts.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12
PASTOR LABOR DELEGATE
ISSUE LIP 10 GOMPERS

Spokane, Wash, April 11-Offcers Of
the typographical ~pressnlen's
unicns have served notice they will
withdraw their delegates from the Spo-
kane Central Labor union and appeal
to Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor. for a
ruling on the action of the local body
in %unseating Rev. w. j. Hindley. pas
tor of Pilgrim Congregational church,
who was formally admitted as a fra
terna delegate a short time ago and
afterward ousted at the instance of
the bartenders' union.
The %unseating of Rlndley is probably
the first action of it's kind taken by a
recognized labor organization in this
country. n whatever ruling Mr..
Gompers makes will be OF vital effect.
The bartenders' explanation for their
action is that while Rev. Mr.. Hindley
is a stanch friend OF organized labor,
he could not be other than a~ntagonistic
to the interests they represent.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-12

II am not asking you who I an
but where 1 live" the poet responded.
Evening star., 1907-05-26
CITY'S LOST ISLANDS.
Illinois Has Three That Once Belonged
to st, Louis,

From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
St Louis has lost three isla:-ls, though
the names are as well remembered now
as when the islands themselves were ac-
tually in existence. One is Bloody Island,
just opposite the city. The old timers used
to go there to fight their duels, and in
those days the river channel ran on the
Illinois side of the island, and except in
hich water there was only a slough be-
tween st. Louis and the dueing ground.
The government and railroad works put
Bloody Island on the Illinois side, and now
a good part Of East ST. Louis Is built over
the sand bar that was once thicket OF
willows.
Arsenal Island, too, used to be on this
side of the river, and boys rolled up their
trousers and waded across the narrow
slough from a point little south of the
workhouse. The boats went on the other
cutting into the Illinois farms at such a
rate that the government threw up a dixie
Just across from the arsenal, turned the
river to this side, the island was joined to
the Illinois shore, was finally purchased by
the state Of Illinois from the city of St.
now covered by farms.
Duncan's island was big sand bar that
began near the foot Of Lami street and ex-
tended north to Geyer avenue 1t was pur-
chased by the Iron Mountain Railroad Com
pany, which wanted to locate It's yards in
that neighborhood and filled up the site with
earth from Picot's hill in Carondelet. The
names still live, for the people Of East st.
Louis make difference between the
island" and the mainland, just as the
nal Island and the switchmen in the yards
south Of Chouteau avenue tell one another
that certain car is down on Duncan's 8
island.
Evening star., 1907-05-26
: NEWPORT NEWS :
I HAS AMPLE SERVICE
STREET CAR FACILITIES AT NEW
PORT NEWS.

The Newport News and Old Point Rail-
way and Electric Company, the Citizens
Railway and Light Company and the
Hampton Roads Traction Company. all un-
der the same control furnish Newport
News and the vicinity with an ample street.
car service and one that Is up to date in
every particular. Within the past few
months a number of new cars. large and
comfortable. have been put on the line
running to Old Point Comfort.
The companies own in all about seventy
five miles of track in this section. Connec-
ton is made with Hampton, Phoebus. Old
Point Comfort and Buckroe Beach
The officers of the combined companies
are: w. ]. Payne. president; George
Schmelz, vice president. and w. w. s.
Butler, general manager.
In addition to the street-car lines. the
companies operate a modern line Of steam
ers between Jamestown Island and York
town and ferry line between Old Point
Comfort and the exposition grounds.
Largely patronized excursions up the
James river are run Sundays. The palace
steamer Montauk is frequently utilized for
this purpose.
A gas and ice manufacturing business Is
also conducted by the companies owning
these large transportation interests.
Evening star., 1907-05-26
Disease and the Swiss Law.


Visitors to Switzerland at this time OF
year are apt to have very unpleasant ex-
periences of Swiss law In the event of their
contracting infectious disease. A typical
example of this has just occurred. young
lady who was staying at hotel pension in
Montreux was attacked with scarlet fever.
and had to be removed to a sanatorium
On the top of all the other trouble and ex-
pense incurred. the proprietor of the PEN
sion raised a claim for $40 as an "indem-
nite," and seized the luggage. clothing and
Jewelry Of the young lady and her mother
pending the settlement of the claim in the
law courts. Swiss law entities a hotel
keeper to compensation under such circum-
stances, but. considering the probability
that the disease Is contracted inside the
establishment rather than outside it would
seem that the customer has, prima facle,
quite as good a claim to compensation.
Although the sanatorium t. which the
patient Is compulsory removed under such
circumstances as the foregoing is a public
institution, the charges are Il a week ire
spective of medical fees and the cost of dis
injecting the place from which the patient
Is removed. In this state of things. it would
seem worth while for visitors to Switzerland,
at the time Of year when infectious disease
Evening star., 1907-05-26

contract price.
Battleship Missouri, 1850 tons. s.. 2Ss. 900
contract price
Battleship Virginia, 5000 tons, s. $4,000
contract price.
Battleship Louisiana. 10000 tons, s. 900. 600
contract price.
Battleship Minnesota 16 600 tons 81 no 900
contract price.
Armored cruiser West Virginia, 1880
! tons, S,Ss5,OOO contract price.
, Armored cruiser Maryland, 1850 tons,
$3,7IaOOO contract price.
Protected cruiser Charleston 300 tons,
y, 10000 contract price
Monitor Arkansas, 1925 tons, 5000, 600
contract price.
Gunboat Nashville, 1.oe7 tons, $50 900
Gunboat Helena, 1887 tons, $4,000
contract price.
j Gunboat Wilmington, 1897 tons, SO, 900
contract price.
Vessels Under Construction.
There are now under construction at this
yard eighteen vessels, representing an ag-
gregate cost of $12,OOO,OOO. Several are
nearing completion. while work on others
has just been started. The vessels build
ing are:
81, 400, 600 contract price.
Armored cruiser North Carolina, 145OO
tons, 81. 100000 contract price.
Mallory liner Brazos, 5000 tons, 5000, 600
contract price.
Freight and passenger steamer for Matt
son Steam Navigation Company, 4,5OO tons,
5000 600 contract price.
Sun oil steamer Sun, $500 tons, $500 600
contract price.
Lumber steamer for Hammond Lumber
Company, 5000 tons, $250,0OO contract
price.
Lumber steamer for E. c. Smith Lumber
Company, 5000 tons, $25O,OOO contract price.
steel steam-propelled dredge for Ameri-
can locomotive works, 600 tons. 100000
contract price.
Two car floats for Lackawanna railway,
500 ZOO contract price.
Two car floats for New York Central
railway, 100000 contract price.
Six dump barges for Panama canal COM
mission, $15O,OO0 contract price.
Visitors to the great yard are always
deeply interested in the unfinished war
ships. The cruisers Montana and North
Carolina are over 10 per cent completed and
will. it is expected, be turned over to the
Navy Department early next year. These
vessels are two of the largest and most
powerful armored cruisers afloat, and when
commissioned will make a valuable addi-
ton to the United States navy. D. A. c.
Evening star., 1907-05-26
This entire bsldias used exclusively ty tks taaA.
Schmelz Brothers, Bankers.

place The officials rushed back. Another
sword had gone from another case. But
all was sti1-no one was in the place. no
one In hiding-and a thorough search re-
vealed no trace Of any kind
The robber was never discovered, but
later on 1t dawned on at least one shrewd
official that the thief had coolly occupied
place of refuge in one of the cd Italian
cassoni or chests. on exhibition close by
and had worked from there; that he may
have been there for hours on the watch
and was prepared after running back to
his place of concealment to remain perdu
in the box until the next morning, when on
the doors being opened he could se.ze
favorable opportunity to mix with the early
visitors. with the swords safely tucked up
his back under his overcoat
Evening star., 1907-05-26
GREATEST IN AMERICA
Shipyard at Newport News Gn-
exCeIIed in World.
ITS EARLY BEGINNINGS
The Late Coils P. Huntington Was
the Founder.
IMMENSE WARSHIPS BUILT
Portion of Yard Reserved for Naval
Representatives. Armored
Cruisers Under Construction.
Special From staff Correspondent.

Special From Staf Correspondent
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. May 25-The de-
velopment of the greatest shipyard on the
American continent is story fraught with
interest. In 1888, when Newport News
was a mere village, the Newport News
Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company was
organized, and the foundation for the future
greatness of the business was laid by the
late Coils P. Huntington. The great plant.
of which it's founder was justly proud, has
grown steadily year by year. until today 1t
Is unexcelled among the shipyards of the
world in size. equipment and quality Of
work produced.
When Mr.. Huntington established the
shipyard he chose Calvin B. Orcutt of
Evening star., 1907-05-26

Spector of ordnance.
Lieutenant Commander George Madison,
inspector of equipment.
Assistant Naval Constructor Henry Will
liams; assistant to the chief of tne depart
ment of construction and repair.
Chief Carpenters William Boone and
Haley. attached to the department of con-
struction and repair.
Warrant Machinist Higgins. acting assist
ant inspector of machinery.
Since receiving it's first contract In 1890
the company has buiit and completed a to-
tai of ffty-one steam vessels, representing
an aggregate cost of $50. $50 900 This in
cludes warships. merchant ships. steam
boats, tugboats and pilot boats. The sue
cess of the work done by the yard Is best
shown by the records of ships turned out.
All of the vessels have been eminently sat-
Evening star., 1907-05-26

New York to take active management of
the details connected with the enterprise,
and under the latter's immediate direction
as president of the company the immense
plant. conceived in the mind of its founder
as far back as 1856. was in successful
operation before Mr.. Huntington's death.
Officers of the Company.
The following are the staff officers at the
head of the plant and the several depart
ments.
Calvin B. Orcutt, president
walter "A. Post general manager
A. L. Hopkins. assistant general manager
Leroy +. Boggs. private secretary TO the
general manager.