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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-09-27
Oregon News.
Special Correspondence

The Oregon State Fair at Salem
last week was record breaker in
point OF attendance, and the speed
contests were the best in the history
of the Fair and aroused even more
enthusiasm than when pools were
sold. The twelve new stables
which housed the splendid live
stock exhibit were visited by many
thousands, there being as many
ladies as men present. The dis
plays of products of the soil were
up to those in quality shown at the
Lewis and Clark Exposition, and
the crowds were admirably handled.
The citizens OF the great Harney
country have made an urgent ap-
peal TO the people of all parts of the
State to make special effort to
visit Burns October 9th to 18th,
when their Fair is in session, and
see the products of 0regon's big
gest county. An effort will be
made to send a delegation from
Portland. Artesian water has
been found at depth of less, than
three hundred feet in Harney Val
ley and the people are rejoicing.
No meeting devoted TO irrigation
has ever attracted such general at
tentiou throughout the United
States as Tie last convention Of the
National Irrigation Congress at
Sacramento, and Oregon is indebted
to Malhuer and klamath counties
for making showing which won
big prizes and caused the State tc
be generously advertised.
At least ten towns in Oregon
have established permanent exhibit
rooms at which good specimens of
fruits, vegetables AID other pro-
ducts are shown. Others are max
ing temporary showing on ac-
count of the large number of colon
lists taking advantage of the low
rates now on, and in each instance
it gives the newcomers place to
concentrate, where they are as
sured welcome. and as a result a
large majority locate permanently.
Hon. Wilbur K. Newell's hun
dred words on Oregon fruit is
splendid condensation of facts, and
IS being used in the new printed
matter of several ofthe active COM
mercial bodies. This statement of
Mr.. Newell's is direct, effective
and convincing.
The strongest assurance of the
growth OF many Oregon cities and
towns during the last year is the
large increase shown in the school
enrolment, and these school child
rem in each and every city, town
and village of the State are the best
advertising vehicle. Get your ad-
vertising leaflets in their hands, 10
go out in personal letters, and the
result will be amazing. while the
cost OF printing covers the entire
expense. The Toys and girls pay
the postage and do the work.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-09-27

Dades Little Liver Pills keep the sys-
TEN clean, the stomach sweet Prompt
relief for headachel and biiousuess,
Good for all the family. Sold by Otto
o. KrogstadN drugstore. N
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-06-20
MAYOR SCHMITZ is
REMOVED FROM OFFICE

San Francisco, Cal. June 19--MayoT
Schmitz was formally removed from
offlce by the supervisors at their meet
ing Monday afternoon. Supervisor
James Gallagher was named as acting
mayor in his place.
This is the first step taken by the
graft prosecution In the execution of
their plan to restore good government
IN this city. The ground on which
mayor Schmitz was removed is that
owing to his Incarceration in the county
jail following his conviction on felony
charge he is no longer able to perform
his official duties. ." d..
Gallagher will not hold the position
or acting mayor for more than a few
member or the board Of supervisors will
make room for the appointment of a
responsible citizen who will take Gal
lagher's place as acting mayor.
The grand jury may be called In
meeting this week to investigate the
alleged attempts to approach the
Schmitz jury during its drawing and
while 1t was staying at the hotel
The Home Telephone investigation
VIII also be taken up at the next meet
ing of the grand jury. It is also an
nounced that the investigation of the
night trust has not been completed.
The fight trust" paid, IT is said, $500
each to the supervisors for exclusive
permits in the fighting game. This
evidence was put aside so long II was
believed to have been abandoned. Now
comes the announcement that the
fight trust" is to be actively prose-
cuted by the grand Jury.
The bribery case Of Vice President
Louis Glass, of the Pacific States Tele-
phone and Telegraph company, was to-
day continued in Judge LAWYERS court
until next Friday.
The case Of Nathan w. Adler, ac-
cused Of perjury, was continued for six
weeks on motion of the prosecution,
Adler's attorney having been called
east.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-06-20
AMBASSADOR AOKI is
ANGRY; GLASS BROKEN

Washington, June 1S.-Viscount Ooki,
the Japanese ambassador, called at the
department Of state and made a for
mai complaint because some small
boys broke a few panes of glass in a
greenhouse belonging to a Japanese in
Lerkeley. Cal.
Aoki was greatly disturbed when he
LETT the office of Secretary Root and
was considerably annoyed when asked
about the Japanese situation.
II have no time to talk" stated the
ambassador, and 1t was clear this his
feelings were much ruffied.
While Secretary Root and the Japa-
matter, Mr.. Root undoubtedly did some
plain talking to Viscount Aoki in re-
gard TO action Of the Japanese in at
tempting to magnify into an interna-
tonal question every trivial case in
which a Japanese in the United States
Is involved.
In spite of the clamor Of the cities
on the Pacific slope for battleships to
afford them protection in the event
that Japan should decide to make war
upon the United States. the president
will not send vessels of this class to the
western coast. Such a move at the
present time would infiame the Japanese
more, perhaps, than the attacks upon
their fellow subjects in San Francisco.
again, the navy department would
not consent to divide the battleship
fleet now lying at Hampton roads, for
the reason that to do so would be to
invite the disasters which overlook the
Russians during their war with Japan
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-06-20
HUMMEl LIVES LIKE
PRINCE IN HIS CELL!

New York, June 19.-Lawyer Abe
Hummel, best known at present as
prisoner No. 925 in the Blackwell's isl-i
and penitentiary, Is having the easiest
time in his varied criminal career since
the doors Of the frowning stone prison.
changed to upon him on May 21.
Investigation reveals the astonishing
fact that Hummel, although provided
with all the comforts of the prison hos
pital, is in fality shamming illness and,
slyly pulling the wool over the eyes Of
Warden Fallon and DR.. 8. l.. Dorf-
mann, the resident physician. f
Hummel takes daily walks on the
east side of the penitentiary and Is off,
en- accompanied by Deputy Warden
Murtha. who Is said to have been a.,
member of the same political club asi
the little lawyer. ...lE@
Most amazing fact of all, Hummel'sl
prison garb is a marvel Of sartorial art,
for which he paid the prison tailor a..
good round sum. While Hummel is
compelled to wear the light gray suit
with it's black stripes, just as Is every
other malefactor on the island, special
measurements were taken by his tailor
and his felon's suit fits his tiny figure
as we'll as If he had purchased Mr..
Prison Stripes from fashionable Fifth
avenue artistic clothier. All his gar
merits, down to his shoes, are specially
made for him.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-06-20
TWAIN TELLS AUTHORS
COPYRIGHT TROUBLES

London, June 1S.-Mark Twain, the
American author, was the chief speaker
at a banquet given by American Am
bassador Reid, saying:
What / desire TO say is upon copy
right and It will doubtless be my last
meddling in this present life with that
yexatious subject. Last winter l went
TO Washington In that interest, and IL
L may I will reproduce a conversation
which I had with a member of congress
who desired to qualify himself to vote
upon the copyright bill by inquiring in
TO the particulars of the interests I'm
volved."
Mr.. Clemens then gave as nearly as
he could remember 1t. his interview.
and concluded by showing OF how little
avail it had been.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-06-20
UNCLE SANS INK
MAKES HORSE BLUE

Washington, June 1S.-The meat in
set in a peck of trouble. Although a
dignified an entirely inoffensive scient-
list, Dorset came just as near to arrest
as a man can come without landing in
the coop. And it all came from coat
of indeHble ink which ornaments a
certain lazy, horse. In Dorset's labora-
tory the chemists had taken from a
barrel nearly all the ink, and the
scientist directed a colored man to set
the barrel out in the alley. His In
structions were implicitly followed, and
the barrel was filled UP with water,
also according to instructions. Now
1t happened that the ink in the bottom
Of that barrel was noted for being as
indelible as ink can be made. It was
such ink as Is used for stamping car
casses since the meat inspection law
went into effect. and the government
inspectors guarantee that anything
which they stamp with that ink stays
stamped.
Now the barrel which had been set
out in the alley was leaky, and the wa
ter, having become nicely mixed with
lAAS iuhB IdAA NO"l ihlO LIiS alASJ etIlu
formed pool. Along to that pool came
a poor, lean, tired-looklng horse, which
was white in color. He looked long
ingly at that pretty pool, and for him
to contemplate was to act. So he got
down and rolled, and then he rolled
some more.
Owner Shows Up.
Presently along came the owner OF
the animal, q German. And when he
saw bis once white horse now a beau
tiful indelible purple, his anger knew
no limit. He hunted up the nelghbor-
hood policeman and told his tale Of
woe. Then they hunted up Dorset, and
the copper wanted the name Of the
man who put the barrel in the alley.
Dorset refused to tell. The policeman
hunted up his sergeant, and the two Of
ficers of the law gave Dorset limited
time in which to give the name, threat
ening arrest. Dorset was getting pret-
ty nervous, and sought advice. He was
determined not to give up the name Of
the innocent colored man, but he didn't
want to be arrested. Finally he sought
advice and help. and an appeal to the
captain of the police precinct saved the
day.
and is a prominent member of the
bureau of animal industry. The bath Of
the horse promises to give further evi-
dence of the fine quality of the ink
Used by meat inspectors, for 1t is de-
clared that the Germans horse will
never again be entirely white.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-06-20
TELEGRAPH OPERATORS
ON VERGE OF A STRIKE

Chicago, June 1S.--Strike talk was
about the only thing heard yesterday
afternoon at mass meeting Of the Chi.
eago Commercial Telegraphers. Fifteen
aundred telegraphers attended the
meeting. Including more than 100 girl
operators. .......
The union did not vote to strike, but
1t did the next thing to 1t in the alb
sence Of full authority.
1t passed a resolution declaring IT
the sense OF the local that National
President Samuel J. Small, of the
telegraphers, serve ten days notice on
the Western Union officials in New
York that they must meet the en-
ployes' committee for the discussion
and adjustment of grievances or bear
the responsibility fer interference with
public business. which would follow ac-
tion that will be incumbent upon this
organization, this being polite way OF
threatening a strike.
The resolution directed against the
Western Union in particular stated:
1.-The discrimination against the Com
mercial Telegraphers' Union of Amer
lea, now being practiced by the West
ern Union Telegraph company, is in
imical to the well being of the entire
telegraph fraternity.
"The subtle methods adopted by the
Western Union Telegraph company to
evade and eventually to entirely dis4
continue the payment Of the recently
publicly announced 10 per cent. ina
crease in the wages of telegraphers Ia
further menace to the well being OF
the telegraph fraternity.
THE Commercial Telegraphers' Union
of America, Chicago local No. 1, de.
clares 1t to be the sense of this body
that the far reaching possibility of d
continuation Of this policy on the part
of the Western Union Telegraph com.
pany will result in great detriment to
the public good.
"The stubborn opposition Of the
Western Union Telegraph company, aa
represented by its president, Robert c.
Clowry, to a reasonable recognition OF
it's employees as represented by the
Commercial Telegraphers' Union OF
America, through its president, Sam.
uel j. Small, threatens the public wei.
fare and invites an otherwise unneces-
sary and calamitous interference with
the business interests Of the country"
c. D. Jones, chief telegrapher of Chi
cago division, No. 81, Railroad Telegra.
piers, created considera BILE enthusiasm,
when he pledged the individual support
of the $4,000 members of the general
organization.
He had written, he said, to every
division in the United States, Canada
and Mexico.
A strike assessment Of one days pay
was voted, which will amount from the
Chicago telegraphers to about $4,000
From all the union telegraphers in this
country it was said that the benefit
would reach $50,000.
kilograms were received from New
York and other cities encouraging the
Chicago telegraphers in the stand they
have taken.
A message from the national presi-
dent, now in New York, stated that the
national officers expected to stay with
the Western Union officials until the
grievances were adjusted.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-06-20
WILL GIVE 2-CENT
FARE A TRIAL
Missouri Roads Will Put II in
Effect for Three Months Be-
fore Beginning Contest.

Kansas City, Mo-, June 19.-The
Missouri 2-cent passenger fare act will
go into effect at o'clock a. m. on
wednesday next and be given three
months trial. If at the end of that
time 1t Is found to be unremunerativa
its enforcement can then be fought In
the courts by the railroads.
The state officials are temporarily
enjoined from enforcing the maximum
freight rate law. and this case will ba
argued later in the federal court.
Judge Smith Mcpherson, Of Red
Oak, Ia, in the United States district
court here yesterday afternoon, after
handing down an opinion in the prem.
ises, ordered the PRONUNCIATION of the
above stated facts, which had been
agreed TO by the attorneys for the
state and the eighteen Missouri rail.
roads involved. The court in its de.
cision had suggested that the 2-cent
fare should be first given a practical
trial before injunction proceedings
preventing its enforcement be consid.
ered
Hadley Claims. Victory.
.ff AerDeft .. t1adley, attorney general
said. regarding the 2-cent bill:
II at the end of three months the
railroads want to litigate the reason.
ableness OF these rates the question
OF the jurisdiction Of the state and
federal courts to determine the dues.
tion will be fought out and the state
has lost none Of its rights OIL
advantages.
The injunction suits which I have
brought against the companies on tn,
passenger rates in the state court viii
stand.
''As the reasonableness of the
freight rate law can be more speedily
heard and determined by the fedora
court on account OF the fact that prac.
tically all the testimony necessary t.
the determination has been already
taken on the stand II will be heard ant
decided in that court. The state is IL
the better position to win the case un.
der the act Of 1907 than 1t was unde,
the law of 1906. feel that the ordef
made is both a moral and a sub
stantial victory for the state"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-06-20
NOISY-H0SED GIRL
TRIES TO KISS Jury

Chicago, June 18.-Miss Mary L.
Wfghtman, "the girl with the noisy
silk stockings" cha. ged with stealing
$1,000 from the Chicago branch Of
Hapgood & Co., where she was en-
ployed as cashier, was found not guilty
by jury in Judgs Bells court.
She was so elated that she attempted
to kiss the jurors. Pandemonium
reigned, and the jurors fed, unkissed,
while the excitement was at its height.
The scene was the finale Of a star
tling trial. Miss Wightman, who Is a
graduate Of Northwestern university,
was charged with tampering with the
books, misappropriating the money and
giving it to a gambler.
AT the trial an employe Of the firm
Testified that he believed Miss Wight
man was dressing beyond her means,
because he heard her silk stockings"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-06-20
TRIAL MARRIAKE OF
FIVE YEARS FAILS

Columbus, Ind, June 18.-After q
1ve-year trial marriage, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Layman found they could not
agree and the fifth anniversary of their
wedding they separated, as they had
contracted to do when they were mar
ried at Minneapolis. Mimi, June 10,
1902
II appears that when they went to
the county clerks office for their mar
riage license in Minneapolis, they had
a premonition of future trouble, so
they arranged for 1t. They entered into
q contract to separate when they found
they could not agree, and after a thirty
day separation to agree to a divorce.
Mr.. IIayman says he paid 50 to have
this marriage contract recorded, and
all he will have to do now to get a
divorce will be to make an affidavit
that he and his wife have been separ-
ated thirty days.
Sister Vivaeious.
The cause of the separation of Mr..
and Mrs. Layman Is sensational. He
says he and his wife lived happily to-
getker untiI about three weeks ago,
whcr Mrs. Layman's sister, Miss Hazel
Holmes, arrived here from Noblesvil!e
on q visit. Being only 16 years of age,
Miss Holmes wanted to go out at nights
AMI her married sister had to accom-
pany her.
Both being pretty In figure and face
they attracted the attention OF many
Columbus men. The result, according
to Mr.. Layman, was they were won't
to remain from home until midnight
while driving with men, some OF whom
We're married.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-06-20

New York, June 1S.-Mrs. Avis
Boyce, vice president OF the Women's
auxiliary of the American Anti-Tuber-
culosis league, Is here on an anti
kissing crusade.
She Is the young Georgia matron who
stirred up the doctors and the press at
the meeting last week at Atlantic City
by denouncing the kiss as one of the
best means, next to infected milk, for
spreading consumption.
Some of the doctors seemed to be IS
partial to kissing as they are to raw
milk, so they went at the idea hammer
and tongs and fought valiantly for the
preservation of the time honored pas
time.
But Mrs. Boyce stood her ground
and declared that, as she knew of no
way to pasterize kisses, she would
have to maintain her position that the
habit was pernlcious and dangerous
and that the kiss Of "a tuberculous
person, even In the early stages Of the
disease, might be a guarantee Of con-
sumption, with its usual sequel of a
painful sickness and a speedy death.
Good Consumption Chance.
'But I was not speaking for the
adults" said Mrs. Boyce, when seen at
the Hotel Empire. Il had the help
less, defenseless, babies in mind and.
indeed, / said, DO not allow nurses,
or servants or visitors to kiss your
babies
Now probably one out of every fifty
has tuberculosis In some stage so you
see what q large chance there Is for
the child getting tuberculosis in kisses.
There is, too, an ethical side to the
question. The sacredness of the kiss
is destroyed by this promiscuous habit
and the child that grows up on a diet
OF miscellaneous kisses, II he or she
Is not killed by the process, has a
blunted or perverted idea of the most
delicate and uplifting act of affection,
and this, l am sure, Is apt to work
harm"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-06-20
DEVOTES HIS LIFE
TO FIGHTING FLIES

Topeka, June 19.-Dr. s. j. Crumbine.
secretary of the Kansas state board OF
health, has the oldest occupation In
the Sunflower state. He has buckled
OH his armor and gone forth ito do or
die" in the mattle with the hy--the
busy, buzzy little insect that bumps
its head cheerily against the sunny win
dow pane, gets stuck In the butter and
tantalizes you when you strive to In
dulge in an afternoon siesta.
According to DR.. Crumbine the fly
is mankind's chief enemy If II were
not for the fly. says the doctor, typhoid
fever, tuberculosis and other contagious
diseases could be exterminated with
comparative ease. @
Believing as he does. DR.. Crumbine
has taken 1t upon himself to educate
Kar sans against this peril. He advises
them to shun flies as they would the
plague and exercise care in abating
nuisances that would attract flies DIR.
Crumbine gives out monthly bulletins
warning his constituents of their dam
ger. .n ..
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-06-20
NORWAY LET'S
THE WOMEN VOTE

Christiania, June 19.-Women over 25
who pay taxes on a minimum income
have been given the franchise In nat
ional elections by the storthing.
Providing Universal Suffrsse
Stockholm, June 19-The riksdag was
closed with the usual ceremony, the
prime minister reading the royal mes
sage. Press comments on the session
remark that 1t will rank in Importance
in Swedish parliamentary history with
that Of 1863, when the riksdag voted
for the abolitions of class representa-
ton of four estates and established the
present system of two elective cham
bers.
The franchise reform message, pass
ed at this session, providing for uni
versal suffrage and proportional cleo
tions, will nearly quadruple the cleo
torate Of the second chamber and will,
to a considerable extent, give demo-
cratic character to the constitution of
the first chamber.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-06-20
HOLMES MADE FORTUNE
IN CROP REPORT LEAK

Washington. June ia sensation
was created In Judge Stafford's court
To-Day. when Louis p. Van Ripper, re-
garded as the principal witness in the
trial OF Edwin S. Holmes. jr., on the
cnarge OF defrauding the government
IN connection with the leak of the cot
ton crop reports OF the agricultural de-
partment, was called on the stand.
Van Ripper said he had first met
Holmes In August, 1904, in hotel in
this city, whittier he came to meet him
on representations by Frederick A.
'Peckham, of New York. who had as
Sured him of Holmes ability to sup
ply advance information concerning
cotton reports. -
Holmes, according to the witness
then proceeded to exhibit copies OF
crop bulletins and to tell him he had
practically made up the reports and
that Statistician Hyde had accepted his
estimate.
Holmes told him he had been sup
plying information concerning the re-
port to other persons in New York
ana the result of which he had ac-
cumulated $4,000. ... ..-..
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-06-20
ELKlNS' SON TO
WED AN ACTRESS:
ROOF GARDEN Low

New York, June 1S.-Miss Louise
Lonsdale, the actress, who appeared In
wild Rose" at the time Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw was a member of the company,
today announced she will be married
shortly to Blaine Elkins, Of West Vir-
ginia.
Miss Lonsdale has been on the stage
five years and last appeared in the
musical comedy. I'm Newport"
She Is a Washington girl. Young
Elkins and Miss Lonsdale were mem
bers Of a theater party at the New
Amsterdam roof garden the other night
and at supper afterward the news of
the engagement was made known. Ell
kins Is a son of the West Virginia SEN
atOr
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-06-20
COURT TELLS SPOUSE
TO THRASH BOARDER

New York, Jne 19.-Because OF the
advice given by Magistrate Connorton
to John Stengle, a meat dealer OF Ninth
street and Vernon avenue, to "go home.
take the star boarder out in the lot and
thrash him." Long island City is hold
ing it's ear to the ground. Stengle was
with abandonment and ill-treatment-
Stengle told a story about a star
boarder, and when Magistrate Connor-
ton suggested a thrashing, he said:
Il can't. He's bigger than I am"
Take a club, then, and come back
and let me know how you made out"