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appointment by VIM. II. Murray. as
president of the constitutional con.
vention." etc.
The ordinance is specific IN its
terms, and the power of appointment
by the governor to fill vacancies In
the Office of county commissioners.
as conferred by the ordinance. is not
one that can be delegated. by him
Where notices of vacancies have
been given the governor. and he fails
to make an appointment, in person
as the ordinance provides. within the
time prescribed by the ordinance, the
county clerk should notify me by
wire OF his failure to make the ap-
pointment and |. as president of the
constitutional convention. will fill
the vacancy as the ordinance pro-
vides. Notice is hereby given to the
various boards TO disregard appoint.
ments made by the one acting for
the governor, or by any person other
than the governor of the territory of
Oklahoma, or by myself. as president
ci the constitutional convention.
Very respectfully.
WM. II. MURRAY,
President OF the Constitutional Con.
vention for the Proposed State of
Oklahoma
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-27

lege teams for practice when
games will be arranged with teams
from other cities In this state and
Texas.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-27

See the big cost sale on books
on the first page.
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Try our drinks. they are delicious
and refreshing. none better.
Is ARDMORE PHARMACY.
Evening star., 1907-09-01
FALL SCHEDULE ON RIVER
Maryland, Delaware and Virginia
Liners Reduce bv One

Inc tail schedule Of the Maryland DeIa-
ware and Virginia Railway COMPANY. oper-
atlns steamers on the Potomac between
this city and landings on the lower river
to Baltimore, Will go into effect September
= and after that date one steamer VIII Da
Withdrawn from the route and but three
round trips per week VIII be made bet
tween here and Baltimore Under the new
schedule the steamers viii leave this city
at pm. every Tuesday, Thursday and
sunday, and Will make the usual landings
They VIII arrive in Baltimore early Tues-
day. Thursday and Saturday mornings.
On the return trip the steamer VIII sail
from Baltimore every Tuesday. Thursday
and Sunday, making the landings in the
inverse order, and arriving here Monday
Thursday and Saturday mornings. The
trips cut out from the present schedule
are those leaving here Wednesday and SAT-
urday afternoons and Monday and Friday
from Baltimore. 1t is understood tho
steamers Anne Arundel, Capt. Geognegan,
ana the Northumberland, Capt. Smith VIII
be Kept on the route and the Calvert can't.
Bohannon, will be withdrawn.
Evening star., 1907-09-01
Woman's Attitude Toward Marriage.

Down at Rye Beach, n H., there used to
be several very interesting Characters. but
they are dead. Two fishermen kept their
boats near the Farragut House for many
years and used to supply the hotel and the
cottages with fish and Holsters and take
the summer guests out sailing in their
boats. One of them was Mentor Johnson,
a giant in stature and of enormous strength
He could lift an ordinary dory in his arms
and carry it on his shoulder. The other
was David Philbrck, a sincere, honest
man of unusual intelligence in some direc-
tionS but very simple in others. Their fish
houses are shut. Their dories are dragged
up on the beach high and dry. There is no
fishing there now, and Uncle Nat Jenness,
the oracle of Rye Beach, says there hahn
no fishermen these days" He remembered
the time when twenty men went out or
Rye to the banks for Goldfish every season,
but they can make more money and have
easier life waiting on summer boarders.
They told me at Rye the other day that
Mentor Johnson had died of alcoholism, and
David Phibrick. his partner, of blood pois-
oning from tishhook that snagSed his
hand.
David had crossed the Atlantic twice and
had been around the Horn to California as
a sailor in his younger days, and had seen
good deal of the world elsewhere, but ne
never thought of getting married until ne
fifty-two years Old when MS father
died and left him a large house, line farm
and other valuable property. Then David
was lonesome and wanted somebody to keep
house for him. He used TO tell me that IL
the first time he was ever allowed 10
do as he'd a mind to.
Notwithstanding his pecuniary advan-
tages his kind heart and amiable dispo-
sition, David found it difficult TO get a wife.
He proposed to almost every single woman
in the county. They all rejected him one
after the other, but he never gave up the
search, and a few days before he was taken
down with his last sickness ne proposed
to one Of the hired girls at the hotel l
asked David once what sort OF woman he
preferred for wife, and lie replied with
Evening star., 1907-09-01

successfully in hospital, which was i'm
mediately erected upon the most improved
scientific plans and opened in august, 1896.
with competent physicians and nurses in
attendance. 1t is absolutely free to all the
employees of the Vermont Marble Com
pany and their families in nearly every
case, and practically so in all cases. Less
than per cent of the receipts of the hos
pftal since its foundation have been
from employees. In cases where the
surgeons consider it proper to charge. the
fee Is only 81 week, which includes board.
lodging, nursing. medicine and all expenses
except the services of the attending physi-
clan. Persons not in the employ of the
company are charged $40 and $12 a week
for the same service. The hospital accom-
modates eighteen patients, and is intended
promarily for the benefit of the employees
of the company, but the residents of the
community who require medical attention
are admitted whenever beds vacant.
The company carries a general accident
policy at it's own expense upon all its en-
ployes, under which any man who suffers
an accident receives half wages as long as
he is unable to work and his family $500
in cash in case the accident is fatal.
The Proctor Sanitarium.
Senator Proctor has established person.
ally a sanitarum for the treatment of
tuberculosis cases among his employees and
others. 1t is not yet open, but will be
ready to receive patients early in the fall
He bought farm elevated spot
near the village of Pittsford on the Rut-
land railway on the main range of the
Green mountains, in sight of Killington the
highest peak The soil is sandy and the
site is surrounded by pine woods, which
protects the buildings from the winds.
There is an abundance of sunshine and
pure water and every other requisite for a
sanitarium. The grounds embraces 24O
acreS-meadow, pasture and pine forests
and cost S90,O0 There are three buildings
about completed, which will accommodate
thirty-two patients at the start. and ex-
tensions can be added as they may be
necessary. The kitchen. dining room and
administration portion of the establishment
are designed for a maximum of seventy-five
patients Senator Proctor has endowed the
hospital with a trust fund of 100000 in
charge of a self-perpetuating board of
trustees OF which Frank c. Partridge,
Evening star., 1907-09-01

former solicitor of the State Department
at Washington and minister to Venezuela
is the president.
There is no institution of the kind in the
state, although commission was appointed
several years ago by the governor to make
Investigations and do educational work
The commission has been Industrious and
effective, but there is no hospital in which
tuberculosis cases could be isolated for
treatment. This institution however. is
not for incurabes. 1t is intended primarily
for the employees of the Vermont Marble
Company and members of their families
and secondarily for incipient cases of
tuberculosis that are likely to yield to
treatment.
Home of Ingersoll's Father.
The village of Pittsford, where the
Proctor Sanitarium is located, was once
the home of the father of Robert G. Inger-
soil. He was pastor of the Congregational
Church for many years. The Oldest in
habitantS relate some interesting stories
of the old gentleman, from which it would
appear that his famous son came honestly
by some of his characteristics. The latter
himself attributed his hostility to the Chris
tian religion in a large measure to the Sc
verify of the discipline to which he was
subjected in his childhood and early youth.
They say here that the Rev Mr.. Ingersoll
was one of the most radical and violent
Calvanists ever known in these parts. His
sermons were of the same character as
those preached by the Rev. Jonathan Ed
wards. He held his congregation over the
burning pit every Sunday for couple of
hours and consigned to perdition every
man, woman and child who did not agree
with him. His autocratic and dictatOrial
disposition involved him in frequent con-
troversies and alterations, and he finally
became so unpopular that he was compelled
to resign his pulpit and left Pittsford for
Dresden, Oneida county, N Y, where his
famous son was born.
Ten or twelve years after his departure
the Rev Mr.. Ingersoll came back to Pitts
ford with his family to make a visit to
those who had stood by him. and his sue
cessor asked him to occupy the pulpit Sun
day. This gave the old gentleman a chance
to get even with his enemies and he made
the most of it. He selected an appropriate
text and lambaSted many of his former.
parishioners by name in merciless man
Evening star., 1907-09-01
Personal to River Men.

Mate Murdoch Of the steamer Wakefield
is rapidly recovering from an injury 70 his
left hand received In handling lines aboard
the steamer Harry Randall last week while
the steamer was engaged in attempting to
float the Norfolk and Washington Inc
steamer Norfolk, which was ashore on
Metompkin bar, near Maryland Point
Capt. Chap Slye, master of the steamer
7. V. Arrowsmth, which went into service
on the Potomac yesterday has for his crew
Capt JEFF Posey as pilot. Jean Murdoch and
j. Chesser, quartermasters George Guest,
purser and Ilewellyn Phillips steward
room of the steamer, with Harry White as
second engineer.
Evening star., 1907-09-01

stock ranches, lumber camps and various
other places where such conveniences are
necessary. AS rule they are conducted
by the corporations and, in many cases.
the employees are paid in orders upon the
store instead of cash. This system has
been severely criticised and frequently con-
demned. In certain states it is forbidden
by law, although the wives and other wom-
en- belonging 10 the families of workingmen
! almost universally prefer 1t, because IL
prevents. or, at least, makes it difficult
for their husbands, fathers and to
waste their wages in the saloons. a we'll
conducted company store" where the nee
essarIes of life supplied at a reasonable
cost, is no doubt to be commended for that
and other reasons, 1t is all question of
management.
The system al Proctor is similar to that
which prevails at the great Krupp iron
works in Germany. and. while II is not
unique, it is entitled to the careful nveSti-
cation and imitation of other corporations
which are anxious 70 deal fairly with their
men.
For many years the Vermont Marble
Company conducted store on its own ac-
count and supplied its employees with mer-
chandlse at as low a margin of profit
| SAFETY would permit. They endeaVored to
obtain the best quality of goods required
and sell them at prices lower than were
charged for the same articles by the mer-
chants OF the neiGhboring city of Rutland
| For years the company has furnished its
employees with fuel at prices from 80 to 70
| cents a ton cheaper than they could obtain
| II anywhere else, but even that careful and
| liberal management did not escape COM
| plant and criticism, although the company
| profits on the sales were not equivalent to
| the interest that would have been derived
! from the capital If it had been deposited
| in the savings banks
Dividing the Profits.
| In May. 1903. cooperative experiment
| was attempted on the Krupp plan. and the
| company announced that the entire profits
| would be divided among its employees in
proportion to the amount of their trade.
/ The management was retained in the hands
| of the company, which furnished the neces-
| sary capital. committee of five employees
| was appointed for each of the stores to su-
| pervise the business. audit the accounts and
distribute the profits. During the first year
Evening star., 1907-09-01
PROFITS ARE DIVIDED
Employees Share Dividends of
the Company Stores.
FOLLOWING KRUPP CUSTOM
Free Hospital Established for the
Proctor Marble Workers.
SANITORIUM NEARLY FINISHED
Pittsford, VT, Where Robert G. In
gersoll's Father Once Lived
and Preached.
sANITORIUM NEARLY FINISHED

Special Correspondence Of The star and the Chicago
Record Herald.

Special Correspondence Of The star and the Chicago
Record Herald.
PROCTOR, Vt, August -. 1897
Each of the twenty quarrics belonging
TO the Vermont Marble Company. of which
wrote you yesterday, is surrounded by
the cottages and tenements Of the mon
-p,oycd therein. and although none of
m are remote. they are all several
niles from the city Of Rutland, which is
the general center of trade. And for the
convenience of the men and their families
the company has always maintained stores
for the sale of general merchandise. Sim
liar stores are found at factories, coal
mines and other isolated industries through
out the country. plantations III the south,
Evening star., 1907-09-01

ner. His sermon created CONSERVATION be-
cause of its personalities, and he was COM
PEELED to leave town the next day to avoid
physical rejoinders. The incident stands cut
as the most sensational in the entire history
of PittSford township.
Evening star., 1907-09-01

an axiom that was worthy of Soloman:
Young gals is highly tightly; widdnrs 10
eNactln, but old maids is thankful and
Wiliin TO please"
Evening star., 1907-09-01

the profits were "a per cent on the entire
sales, which gave the employees trading at
the Proctor store a dividend of 10 per cent
upon their purchases; those trading at the
West Rutland store a dividend of 8 per
cent, and those trading at the Center Rut-
land store, dividend of per cent. These
dividends were paid by bank checks
During the year 1904 the profits were
slightly larger. and the dividends averaged
per cent. Since that time the arrange
ment has been continued In a very salts
factory manner and is highly appreciated
by the employees. l am told here that none
of the many schemes of betterment which
the Vermont Marble Company has under
taken in behalf of the quarries has given
greater satisfaction. In 1905 and 1866 the
dividends at the Proctor stores were II per
cent; in 1903 they were 10 per cent at the
West Rutland store and per cent for 1906
at the Center Rutland store they We're per
cent for 1905 and per cent for 1906. The
variations In the dividends are due TO sew
eral causes, which would require more space
than | can spare TO explain, and they are
such as occur in the ordinary experience of
every retail tradesman.
The company retains no financial interest
In the stores, but in the settlement at the
end of each year 1t is created a reason
able amount of rent for the store build
ings and per cent interest upon the capt
tai actually invested. This eliminates all
excuse for criticism, particularly when it
Is understood that the employees enjoy the
profits. but run no risk with respect to
losses, which are underwritten by the COM
pany. No rebate is paid to customers other
than the employees of the company and their
families. which gives them the benefit of
the profit on the trade with non-employes
which amounts to from S25, 600 to $50 600 a
year. Coal and other fuel are handled by
the stores on the same basis as food cloth
ing and other supplies.
The Company Hospital.
The hospital system at Proctor is also
admirably managed and is worth the atten-
| tion of the officials of other corporations.
| In 1895 the company began to employ
! trained nurses to attend cases of sickness
among employees and their families in their
| own homes, but experience soon demon
| strated that the patients could be made
more comfortable and treated much more
Evening star., 1907-09-01
25c Salt Boxes,
SI.5o Wash
Boilers. o8c.

Extra Heavy
Copper bottom
" a : n Boiler.
number \ size.
Half 4 dan for
% regularly
Sl.JO.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-23
The Latest Report.
.na.l %n rn> r,,..s.- rs

The Latest Report.
Special to The EveAipg Times.
Minot, April 23.-3 P. M.-Great
Northern train No. 4, east bound from
Williston to st. Paul, was ditched
about 9 o'clock last evening two miles
east of Blaisdell, N. d., while running
thirty-five miles an hour. The engines
tender and the first seven coaches
were derailed and in overturning were
badly smashed, injuring more or less
seriously about dozen persons,
seven of whom are In a local hospital.
All the seriously injured were in the
smoker where they remained impris-
toned an hour and half after the acci-
dent before the rescuers could effect
their release.
Due to Spreading Rails.
Spreading rails is assigned as the
cause of the wreck
Owing to the fact that Blaisdell is
"blind" siding it became necessary
for the trainmen to go to Stanley,
distance of fifteen or sixteen miles, in
order to reach telegraph Office to
wire to this city for assistance. Y
A relief train, with Drs. Taylor,
Jermott and other physicians and
nurses aboard, left here and reached
the scene of the wreck at about 8
o'clock this morning.
Leg Cut OF.
One of the most seriously injured of
the victims is Geo. Herrin, former
master mechanic on the Minot divis-
ion, now an engineer, who was dead
heading" home from Glasgow, Mont.
He had one leg cut off.
Engineer Jos. Grove was in charge
of the locomotive on the ill-fated train.
He was. uninjured, the engine and
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-23
REVOLUTION
SPREADING
aOsss.. s0eiety Playing Into
Hands Of Rebs By Alternating
the Educated Youth.

A..eeiateA Press Cable to The Eye.i.s
London, April 23.-The progress of
the reform movement in China is de-
scribed from a point of view much
less eulogistic than recent reports
from English newspaper correspon-
dents in letter received here from
Peking. The writer is foreigner,
holding an official position, whose op-
portunities for gaining reliable infor-
nation and whose judgement are
worthy of the greatest confidence. He
tells the inner story of the down fall
of Tang Shao VI, the Yale graduate,
who until recently was. one OF the most
powerful men near the court He
speaks Of the disaffection in Yuanshih-
kais much advertised army, and takes
a discouraging view of the govern
ment's financial status, of the attempts
at educatiqnal reform and the sup
preston OF opium. He says,
1T looks as though the government
was doing everything to ALLEVIATE the
young men educated abroad, and thus
to play right into the hands of tho
revolutionists.
"The floods in Human, Kiangsi and
Kangsu last summer, and the result
ing famine, have greatly strengthened
the revolutionary party.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-23
A STRANGE SUICIDE.
Pretty Metropolitan French Girl
Sought Lovers Room in Which

Assoeiated Press to The EveAink Times
New York. April 23.-Becalses she
was afraid she was losing the love that
meant more than life to her, Isabelle
Bouttelot, pretty French girl, killed
herself last night, having sought her
lovers room as the place to die.
Louis Belleville, q member of the
orchestra at Hammerstein's Manhattan
opera house, was the lover, and when
he returned to his room in Nine. Call
lard's boarding house on Twenty
eighth street early in the morning he
found the body of his sweetheart and
letter which she had written telling
him that life was no longer worth liv-
ing.
In the evening the girl passed
through the restaurant on the ground
floor Of the boarding house, and, climb
ing on fence in the back yard,
reached fire escape which led to her
lovers room. Once in the room she
tore part Of her clothing to shreds and
stopped all the crevices in the windows
and door and turned on two gas jets.
Then she sat down in a rocking chair
to await death.
Belleville was much affected by the
girls death and has arranged for her
burial.
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Early Morning Report,

Minot, N. D., April 23.-Another
chapter was added to the long list of
Great Northern wrecks last night
when train No. which left Williston
at 500 went into the ditch two miles
east of Blaisdell, small way station
nearly fifty miles west of Minot, kill
ing two, SO it is reported, injuring six
seriously, and a number of others less
seriously.
The train carried ten coaches and
seven of these, with the engine, went
into the ditch. The first intimation of
wreck was contained in telegram
sent to freights on the division by the
trainmaster at Minot, as follows:
Lookout for No. 4. Has left Palermo
and has not reached Tagus." There
are telegraph offices at both these
places but none at Blaisdell, which is
between these two points, and the news
could not be sent out except by a
runner to the nearest telegraph sta
ton which is something like eight
miles distance.
There were some interesting expert
ences connected with the work Of,
rescuing the imprisoned passengers.
w. A. Gordon of Grand Forks, who
was at the wreck, took two little girls
and woman from one of the derailed
coaches through window. A man
who was pinioned beneath some tim
bers, and who was severely injured,
helped to cut himself out While
rescuers were chopping the imprison-
ing timbers loose at one end, the VIC
tim took saw and sawed off the
other end, thus materially assisting
in his own release. He tainted from
loss of blood shortly after being re-
leased.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-23
lCARN|VAl Of
! FIRES IN new
YORK At NIGHT
-Four Men Dead. ESQ Horse.
y Burned and Twelve Fiiremen
Badly Injured
THE RECORD LAST
NIGHT IN GOTHAM
Six Different Fires in Five Hours
Following Midnisht-Losses
100000
Associated Press to Tho Evening Tines.

Associated Press to The Evening Times.
New York, April 23.-Four men
burned to death, two. hundred and fifty
horses killed, twelve firemen injured,
two OF them seriously, two engines
overturned and wrecked by collisions
with street cars, several thrilling res
cues. from burning buildings, and
property loss Of $200, ,O00--that Is the
story of the fire department for the
five hours following last midnight
Six different fires in the upper east
side in Broadway, in the middle east
side and big stable fire at Christo-
pher and Barrow streets kept the fire.
men constantly at work.
The dead are four Italians whose
bodies burned beyond recognition,
were found In the ruins of the bnrned
Dispatch stables in the block between
Christopher, Barrows, West and Wash
ington streets. Three alarms called
out the great battery Of fire apparatus,
including two big fire boats, but 1t was
only after hard fight that the the
tiremen saved the big adjoining tene-
ments and the Palace and Knicker-
booker hotels. Two hundred and fifty
horses, which were quartered in the
building perished. The bodies of the
four Italians were found in the ruins
an hour after the fire had been ex-
tinguished. ,
The money loss in the stable fire was
100000.
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SEQUEL TO THE
RECENT ARRESTS
Rugby Editors Go A-"Court-
ing" Again-Bratton Causes
Cassidy's Arrest.
spessal 70 rhs Eve.i.e T,ne..


Rugby, N. D., April ga warrant
has been issued for the arrest of o. l..
Cassidy, cashier of the Citizens State
band. L. H. Bratton, editor of the
Rugby Optimst is the complaining
witness, and he alleges assault with a
dangerous weapon.
L. H. Bratton claims that on March
Is, L. r. Nostdal came to his place of
business and attempted to beat him up.
Nostdal, however;1was unable to finish
the job, and about this time Bratton
claims Cassidy came along. The lat
ter is alleged to have mixed in the
fight. Editor Bratton received cut
in the scalp, and he claims that Cas-
sfdy was responsible.
The cases of l.. H. Bratton and Max
Boehmer, which were scheduled to
come up on Monday, were continued
for week. Judge Cowan caused the
postponement to be made, he not hav-
ing had sufficient time to look up the
matter OF his jurisdiction in these
cases.