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Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10

that when membership ceases the
presidency likewise ceases.
For the present, however, this mat
ter has no significance for Perth Am
boy, as all the local boards have been
successfully organized. 1t is to be
hoped the deadlock over the selec-
ton of a secretary of the school
board will not continue after the
mex meeting. Wrangling over Off
ces means a waste of time, and the
city's business is bound to suffer.
We have had enough of that kind Of
work. The people voted for a
change.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10

the other senators are equally sensi-
tive to the facts that p~artizanship is
frowned upon, that the legislator cam
not hide behind the party and that he
has no excuse for not doing his duty,
then the first Ubiquitous institution
1t cannot exist as an institution to
compel men to vote contrary to their
consciences and judgment in the in
terests of their party. 1t cannot, for
example, be used to force men to vote
for any candidate for United States
senator whom the people do not want,
1t cannot be called for the purpose
of making any senator or assembly
man put his party fealty before his
f~aithfulness to his oath of Office and
his loyalty to those who elected him
to represent them.
And the next vicious practice that
must be abolished, under the new
legislative declaration of independ-
ence, is that which is known as sena-
torial courtesy. This is the thing that
has, as Leader Hillery says, 'throt-
tied legislation in the past but its
special mission has been to throttle
good legislation. When a bill whose
enactment was demanded by the peo-
pie was not approved by partizan OF
corporate interests is was referred to
a certain committee, from which ii
could not be taken except by the vote
of a majority Of all the members, and
senatorial ccartesy has invariably
prevented the taking of any bill from
the custody of a committee. BY this
method scores of excellent measures
have been 'smothered in committee,
and much needed legislation has been
throttled.
The spirit of independence indi-
Gated in the speeches quoted is but d
fair reflection of the strong public
sentiment that exists throughout this
state. The Peoples Lobby at Tren-
ton yesterday voiced this sentiment
when they demanded the abolition oil
the smothering practice. Last yeai
the legislature would hardly listen &c
any such suggestion, and ignomini
ously defeated every effort of Senator
Colby to bring about freedom of leg
islation. This year the first matte-
to demand official attention is sena
torial courtesy, and though tn
movement toward independence re
ceived a temporary check in both sen
ate and house. there is yet a stronl
probability that public sentiment viii
prevail, as it has heretofore, and leg
islators will be given freedom to ac
for the people rather than for partie,
or corporations
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10

" 49,.
1t is within the range OF possibility
that Plainfield and Perth Amboy will
be connected by t~rolly~road via South
Plainfield. 1t was the intention TO
operate an automobile line between
the two cities, but this plan has been
deferred. if not permanently side
tracked and a movement inaugurated
looking toward the building of an
electric road between the points
named. The matter is in the hands
of the Good Government Club, which
claims that the Public Service Cor
poratioh does not give the P~lainfield-
ers the satisfaction that is their due.
The new road would unquestionably
be an advantage to the people of both
cities and would do much to stimu-
late trade in each communicable
abeth Journal.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
EDITORIAL c0MnGAT.


Teachers, even more than Con
gressmen, deserve higher salaries. Il
is a material age. The man who
fashions the walls of a house is held
to all igher test of skill and is paid
better for his worh that he who molds
the mind of a child. B~ricklayers in
San Francisco get IS per day; Harriet
Jones teaches school in Luzerne
county, Pennsylvania, for the same
sum per week, and is given employ
ment only nine months in the year.
Masons in Calgary, Canada, get $5.40
a day, or $40 a month; Lawrence
Amos teaches school in East Brandy
wine township, Pennsylvania, for $40
q month. Many teachers are paid less
than hod-carriers. College professors
ere worse off, in proportion, than
teachers. The average salary paid to
~professore In Columbia is $~S,746.S5,
10 adjunct professors, men between
thirty and forty, with a dozen years
of service to their credit, S~2,t26.92.
Such figures are little less than a
public scandal. No male teacher in
any community should be paid less
than enough to support deoently a
wife and five children. In every com
munity the teacher should have &
position of dignity and emolument
equal to that of the banker and the
professional man. Schools ought not
to be the last refuge for economic
dregs not wanted by business. They
should attract and keep in their ser
vice the best talent. Facts dealing
with this condition, both concerning
communities where the rate of pay
is scandalously low and where 1t has
been raised, should have wide circu-
lation. Golfers would like TO hear
from those who have facts to record,
as well as from those who feel strong
ly about the condition.-Collier's for
January 10, 1907.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
Makes a MIuid comnarlson.

Heavy SHOWS are 50 rare in KANSAS
that sleighs lead almost as Secluded
an existence as a married mJn's dress
suit.-Atchison tEanO Gi6hd.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
FIRE ALARM K

Rs--Raritan Copper Works.
2e-High and Lewis streets.
81 Madison avenue and Paterson street
28-Market and First streets.
o6-Smith and High streets.
B7-State and Smith streets.
4a-Buckingham ave. and Hartford IL
A6-Commerce and Front streets
47-High and Washington Streets
E4-State st. and Buckingham ave.
6e-Hayy avenue and Charles street.
b7-State and Wayne streets.
e2-Washington and First streets.
B3-New Brunswick ave, and Elm II
b4-Smith street and Watson avenue.
66-Commerce and State streets.
72-Front and Smith streets.
- w and Gordon streets.
74-Kearny avenue and Gordon street.
Ba-Smith and Herbert streets:
B3-Woodbridge road and washington 81
84-Lehigh avenue and Stanford street.
To send In an alarm. oper the door o.
the box and pull down the lever ano le'
20, once only. Stay at box until nremen
arrive.
SPECIAL SAILS
tnp-Break In circuit. 2 aps-Dr1
ana Are alarm test. 8 taps-Ftre out. b
taps-Police call. 12-Calls. for Lincoln
Engine Company. 13-Call for Washing
ton Hose. i4-Call for Mcclellan Englne
Company. 15-Call for Protection Hook
n Ladder. 16-Call for Eagle Hose
Company.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
NEW YORK HERALD WEATHER
FORECAST.

In the Middle States and New Eng
land today fair weather and fresh
northwesterly winds will prevail, with
considerably lower temperature. On
Friday fair to partly overcast weather
will prevail, with nearly stationary,
followed in the interior by slightly
higher, temperature and by increas-
ing eloudiness in the northern dis
tricts, and on Saturday partly cloudy
to overcast, warmer weather, followed
by snow in the northern districts.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10

aFhe NIsWs IN eyerN nome.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10

William P. Bradley deserves credit
for his action in Withdrawing as a
candidate for the presidency of the
school board when it became evident
that a deadlock would result and de-
lay city business. Mr.. Bradley shows
the proper spirit in placing the city,
welfare above personal ambition.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10

When tAS cd winds dry ina crack
The skin get DeyVitt's witch Hazel
Salve. SoM by G. K. Sexfo1
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
THURSDAY, JANUARY 10.
SCHOOL BOARD PRESIDENCY

In view of the, ruling made by
State Superintendent Baxter of the
public schools that a president of a
s,ard of Education continues in
ofice, even though his term as Il
scommissfoner has expired, until his
successor has been elected, E. B.
walker was wholly within the right
in presiding at the meeting of the
school board Tuesday night until a
new president was elected. The
school law clearly states that where
questions arise which are not COW
cred by the law the decision of the
state superintendent shall be ac-
cepted, subject 70. an appeal to the
State Board of Education. There
fore, when State superintendent Bax-
ter decides that Mr.. Walker remains
president, although not a member OF
the board, there is nothing else fol-
Mr.. Walker to do but preside or
abide by the consequences. AS there
was no deadlock and a new president
was elected without delay, the few
minutes that Mr.. Walker presided
Tuesday night makes little difference
n way or another.
The ruling of the state superin-
tendent, however. is important be-
cause of the effect it might have at
some future time. The decision that
a man not a member of a board may
be the presiding officer in that board
seems decidedly unusual, and, if it is
possible for the state superintendent
to make such a ruling, it would APP
pear as If there should be a change
in the school law covering the point
in question.
Should a deadlock occur, as it
frequently does in bodies in which
politics figure, we would have a
man who probably had been turned
down by the people as presiding Off
Ger. welding much ipiuence ever
though he had no vote. He would be
a total soutsiderl' as far as the school
board was concerned, yet he would be
the commanding figure in all proceed
ings. II is noticed that the schoo'
law has no such provision, but
that this is merely a ruling on thu
part Of the state superintendent.
A.common sense view by an ordi-
nary layman would be that nc
man could be president of a body
that he was not legally a member of
and we doubt very much if n court
would sustain such a position. The
presiIsnt Of eth9 school board is te
be chosen fro.a amcng It's membe@s
fhers1o..e rae ABcrshlp comes befori
4be aeokasac- q wolfe follow. tlen
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10

That death in the city lookup oc-
Cured just in time to back up the
mayors statement that the place was
not lit for a human being.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10

The coming of a large handkerchief
factory means one more industry for
Perth Amboy, more hands employed,
and more money in circulation.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10
Million Dollars for Funerals.

The Pennsylvania miners custom
Of attending the funerals Of all men
killed in mine disasters cost them
more than $1,000, 600 in wages last
year.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-01-10

Before listers antiseptic inyen-
tons the death rate in amputations of
the thigh was Al per cent. It is nov
about six per cent.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-12-13
BIG FIRE At ST. JOHN
Four Buildings and Contents
Completely Destroyed.
Loss Between $50. 900 and $50, 900
--Charge Made That Saloon
Interests Fired Buildings.

Our neighboring town OF St. John was
visited by a disastrous fire Tuesday
morning. From dispatches we learn
that the fire started in the hardware
and implement store of r. B. Gaines
about O'Clock and did damage vari-
ously estimated at from $4,000 to
$4,000. The blaze was discovered by
q. W. Page, who has bakery store
next to the Gaines store. Mr.. Gaines
says his loss will be $4,000, of which
$4,000 was in notes and papers in the
safe, which were destroyed. The loss on
the stock is $4,000, with about $4,000
insurance
The loss OF G.. W. Page to his stock is
estimated by him at $500, and he saws
he had 5000 insurance The building
was owned by Mr.. Palmer and was worth
$1,000, with $4OO insurance.
The office of the Pacific States Tele
phone Co. was destroyed, though part
OF the switchboard was saved.
James Jennings, who is clerk OF the
school district, had an office in the
Gaines building, and lost all of his pri-
vate papers and the records of the
school district.
2. l.. Taylor, who has confectionery
store adjoining that OF Mr.. Page suffered
a loss of $1,000 to his stock, he says,
which was partly covered by insurance.
The loss on the building was $500, with
$500 insurance.
The origin of the fire is not known.
but charges are made that it was of in
cendiary origin. Mr. Gaines, who took
an active fight against the saloons in
the recent city election in st. John, ac-
cuses that element with the crime of
setting bis building on fire.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-12-13

his son, o. N. Haskins, from Gliddon,
Iowa, who arrived Wednesday, The
funeral took place yesterday afternoon at
l O'Clock from the NJ. e. church, Rev.
Georgt II. Newman officiating, interment
taking place in Colfax cemetery. The
deceased leaves a wife and daughter
besides the one mentioned above, Mrs. F.
A. Cowie OF Deer Park, Washington.
Mr. Haskins was born in Addison coun-
ty, Vermont, December 10, 1927. When
20 years old he moved to Iowa, where,
in 1851, be married Miss Catherine Hop
pas. In 1864 be entered the Union army
and was with Sherman in the famous
march to the sea. In 1892 he came to
Colfax, where he has since resided. Al
though not man Of rugged health Mr..
Heskins lived to a good old age. His
was the first death in his immediate
family. He was quiet, retiring man,
with correct ideals OF life, which carried
him without loss OF char acter through
pioneer and army experiences. During
the Is years he has lived in Colfax be has
been held in high estet m by all who knew
him
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-12-13
Charged With Stealing.

Deputy Sheriff Daley brought from
La Crosse last Wednesday one j. C.
Dodson, charged with breaking into a
box car at that place and taking goods
therefrom, putting him in Jail. He has
not been arraigned at this writing, but
will probably be charged with burglary
Dodson is 27 years of age and has a
family. His father was in town yester-
day seeing about the case. The 0. r. &
n claim there Is an organized band Of
box car rustlers at La Crosse, breaking
into and taking valuables therefrOm at
altogether too frequent intervals, and
they wish to put stop to the nefarious
business. Other arrests are promised, =,
which will probably come after the bod
son case has been disposed of.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-12-13
NEW PURCHASING AGENT
All Supplies for County Officers
Come Through Auditor.
Proceedings of the Board of County
Commissioners in Regular
Monthly Session.

Pursuant to adjournment, the Board
OF County Commissioners of the County
OF Whitman and State of Washington
met on the I'd day OF December, A. d.
1907. Members present, Mccoy, Ruply
and Ellis.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-12-13
Royal Camp Elects Officers

Royal Camp No. 116. at their meeting
Friday night OF last week, elected officers
as follows: Paul Pattison, consul COM
mander, and DR.. II. B. Palamountain,
adviser, for a term of six months; o. L.
Crawford, banker, and Thomas Oliver.
clerk, for one year; FL. L. Pummer,
manager, for IS months; E. E. Nc
Cutcheon, sentinel, and Alton Tetrick,
inside watchman, for six months. After
the election of officers the members pres
ent, who had assembled in force, were
treated to pumpkin pie, cider and cigars
by the officers .elect-a treat that carried
many of them back to the good, old
fashioned corn husking days of the past.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-12-13
NEW BRIDGES ON TAP
Several to Be Built Between
Now and Spring.
The Bridges Will All Be Numbered
County mmissioners Looking
Over Situation Generally.

The commissioners are paying con
siderable attention to bridges just now.
Between now and spring eight or 10 new
bridges will be put in, besides extensive
repairs being made on several old timers.
County Engineer Murray has been in
structed to outline this work, and will
number all the bridges of the county,
thus making reference to them easy
Good bridges, like good roads, are a
necessity. Now that the county ia free
of debt the com missiOners are wise in
directing their attention particularly to
roads and bridges.
A Palouse dispatch of last Monday
stated that Commissioner Ruply was in
that burg seeing about the new steel
bridge to be built across the Palouse
river at Bridge street. The city will re-
pair the present structure and bids will
be advertised at once for the new one
to be built next spring. The span will
be 100 feet, with a 20 foot driveway and
a seven foot walk on the side. The city
Of Palouse has five bridges spanning the
river within the corporation limits.
This Bridge street structure has some
thing of history. Says the dispatch ::
"lt was for appropriating $17OO war
rant issued to pay the American Bridge
Co. for the material for the East Main
street bridge at this place that former
County Auditor Raby served term in
the state penitentiary.'
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-12-13
PRICE FIVE CENTS,

cording to his statement, to gather up
discarded ties along the railroad track
Tor fuel. Others had gone before him,
hence ne found no ties. Being without
iuel and his family suffering from cold
he helped himself to a small quantity of
coal belonging to the railroad, intend
ing, so he asserts, to call later and pay
for it. The railway officials, however,
claim that much stealing of coal is GO
ing on, even those belonging to the
-Four Hundred OF La Crosse taking part
in the business. They desire to put
stoD to il.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-12-13
Death of Lucius M, Haskins.

Lucius NJ. Haskins, aged 80 years,
died at the home OF his daughter, Mrs.
Ida M. Lee, at Penawawa last Friday,
old age being given as the cause OF
death. Mr.. Haskins was a veteran of
the civil war, but not G. A. R. man.
He has resided in Colfax the last Is
years, and was one of our wealthiest
citizens. The remains were brought here
from Penawawa Sunday evening, and
have been held pending the arrival OF
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-12-13
Marriage Licenses.

Marriage licenses have been insued by
the county auditor to the following:
A. j. Schuoler and Essie L. Nickerson.
both OF St. John.
Mitchell E. Taylor and Flossie En-
mons, both of Winona.
James Emery Gordon Of Palouse and
Mary E. Stewart OF Hooper.
Walter L. Buchanan of Colfax and
Pearl M. johnson OF Garfield.
Dan A. Hunter of Tekoa and Lura
Maude Carter of Garfield.
George Fl. Bayldone Of Spokane and
Mabe! A. Leonard of Garfield.
Ray Stanton Kellor of Culdesac, Ida,
and Pearl Elizabeth Gibson OF Mason
City, Illinois.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-12-13
loo Free With Checks.

R. l.. Hunt, residence unknown, was
sentenced Wednesday by Justice Doolit-
tie to 30 days in the county Jail for
drawing a check on the Bank of Cakes
dale when he had no funds in the bank
to pay it. He pleaded guilty to the
charge and is eating at the expense OF
the county at the Hotel de Ratliff.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-12-13
Fined for Stealing Coal.

J. o. Martin was before Justice Doo-
little Wednesday charged with stealing
coal from the 0 r. & n. at La Crosse.
He pleaded guilty and was fined IS and
costs. 1t is claimed his was a technical
offense. Martin is farmer. 81 years of
age, living at La Crosse, and went. ac.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-12-13
More Teachers Are Wanted.

Anent the sO-called lack of employ
ment, the county superintendent's Office
gives out the information that 16 more
teachers are wanted in Whitman county,
there being that many school districts
unprovided for. This sounds strange
considering the number of certificates
recently given out, as well as the cry of
the number Of unemployed
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-12-13

Concluded on third page.
The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-12-13
Purchasing Agent Appointed

County Auditor Duncan, at the session
OF the county commissioners last week
was selected as county purchasing agent.
This is the course pursued in most coun-
ties, and experience has demonstrated
that it is the best. 1t is somewhat in
in the nature Of responsible head.
Christmas and New Year post cards at
the Elk Drug Store.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-10-02
Hard Times in Kansas.

The old days of grasshoppers and
drouth are almost forgotten in the
prosperous Kansas of to-day; although
a citizen of Codell, Earl Shamburg,
has not yet forgotten hard time he
eucountered. : He says: 81 was worn
out and discouraged by coughing
night and day, and could find no re-
lief till tried pr. Kings New Dis
covery. 1t took less than one bottle
to completely cure me-" The safest
and most reliable cough and cold cure
and lung and throat healer ever dis
covered. Guaranteed by j.. H. Will
Jams. druggist. soc and $1.O0. Trial
bottle free. m
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-10-02
Kentucky's Oldest Democrat,

The Oldest Democrat in Kentucky
was IN Frankfort yesterday. He is
DIR. James A. Speer, of Oldham coun-
ty, grandfather of George q. Speer, of
Auditors office. DR.. Speer is niety-
nine years of age and still is hale and
hearty, being erect of carriage and
spry as man twenty years his junior
says the Kentucky State Register.
He boarded the train at Lagrange
yesterday morning and made the trip
to this city by himself. He was met
here by George Speer and put in a
buggy and sent to Alton, where his
son, and George Speer's father, re-
sides. He will make a visit there.
Dr. Speer says throughout his long
life he has never scratched the Demo-
cratic ticket, and has always voted it
from top to bottom, and he is hoping
that he will be given the opportunity
this fall to vote once more under the
rooster for the splendid ticket named
by the Democratas.
So hale and sprightly does the aged
gentleman appear that predictions are
being freely made that he will go far
past the century mark, 1t is believed
that he is easily the Oldest Democrat
in the State.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-10-02
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature ssass the Of EHAz1zu
Master commissioners Sale.

Ohio Circuit Court, Kentucky.
The Geiser Mfg. Co., Plaintiff,
VS..
H. NJ. Knight &C., Defendants.
BY virtue of a judgment and order
of sale of the Ohio Circuit Court rem
dered at the August Term, 1907, in
the above cause for the sum of $3.50.
90, with interest at the rate of 6 per
cent per annum from the 26 day of
December, 1905, until paid, subject
to the following credits: $1.0S paid
March Bird 1906; $1,000 paid August
30th, 1906; $4,000 paid October 25th
1906; $4,000 paid April 3rd 1907
and $1,000 paid May LIST, 1907; and
also an addition 10 per cent on said
sum as attorneys fee herein and
costs herein, I will offer for sale by
public auction at the court house door
in Hartford, on Monday, the 9TH day
of October, 1907, about / O'Clock p. m.,
upon a credit of three and six months
the following described property, to-
wit:
One No. /, right hand portable
sawmill 20x46 cable feed and receder
attached, so feet OF 1915 ply belt and
80 solid tooth Disston saw, together
with all belts, tools and other APP
purtenarces necessary to make COM
plete outfit as furnished by the Gel
ser Mfg. Co. of it's kind Also one
Mccormick corn husker and fodder
shredder, No. 522, with ell belts, tools
and other appurtenances that go to
make same complete. Likewise one
II h. p. Heilman engine (traction) No.
1899 and one Heilman thresher 32X50
M. 1O4, Heilman outfit four years
cid. Heilman outfit complete with
all belts, ETC., or sufficient thereof
to produce the sums of money order
ed to be made.
The purchaser will he required to
execute bond with approved security
after sale.
This 18th day of Sept, 1907.
F. L. Felix,
Master Commissioner.
e. b. Likens, Birkhead & Watkins
Attorneys.