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, 1907-12-16
FOR
CONVENTION
ALBANY COUNTY SHEEP AND
WOOL GROWERS ASSocIA-
TON NAMES COMMITTEE.
Will Formulate Resolutions to Be Sub.
mitted to State Gathering Second
Week in January Employing POSI-
ton of Local Organization on Lead.
ing Questions of Day.

At the meeting of the Albany Coun-
ty Sheep M Wool Growers associa-
ton at the office Of Otto Gramm Sat,
urday afternoon, which was in session
when The Republican went to press, a
committee on resolutions was appoint
ed to prepare the resolutions to be
submitted by the Albany county delega-
ton at the meeting of the Wyoming
Wool Growers association here on the
10th and 18th Of January. The COM
mittee consists of E. ]. Bell as chair.
man, DR.. Whitehouse, Ora Haley, Tol.
tee Live Stock company, F. S. King,
Otto Gramm, C. P. Arnold, Oscar Sod
ergreen and the Swan Land and Cattle
company. This committee will meet
in the next few days and draft some
resolutions expressing the sentiments
of the Albany county sheepmen upon
the question to be discussed at the
state meeting.
DR.. Whitehouse to. Sneak.
DIR. A. W. Whitehouse of this city
will be given a place upon the program
of the state convention, II the request
of the Albany county association is &C
cepted by that body, when he will pre-
sent the results of his investigation of
the recent alleged attempt to poison
sheep by spreading saltpetre upon the
range, several sheep having been kill
ed presumably from eating the poison
with grass. DR.. W%hitehouse conducted
some experiments with the mineral,
and the result of these experiments
will form the basis of his paper.
Some of the Features.
Secretary Walker of the state asso-
citation is now preparing the report OF
the committee 'on program for the
state meeting. The program will in.
clude a number of addresses by promi-
nent sheepmen and government ofic,
ials connected with the department OF
agriculture. The delegates will be
taken to the experiment station and
shown perhaps the largest collection
of varieties of sheep in the west.
There will be block demonstrations
and similar expeditions of the sheep
industry, and the association will be
given a practical demonstration of the
work being done by the securing plant
at the experiment station. The sta
ton collection of wool will also be ex-
amined.
, 1907-12-16
Deatr OF Pioneer

Dispatches from Grinnell, Ia, note
the death Of Mrs. Julia Chaplin Grin,
nell, wife of ]. B. Grinnell, n Of the
builders and former president of the
Iowa Central railroad in Iowa. The
Grinnells came from the east more
than half a century ago and the town
of Grinnell was named for them. The
Iowa Central vas the pioneer north
and south road in hat section Of the
state. 1t is now a part of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul system.
, 1907-12-16
FLOWER OF AMERICAN NAVY BE,
GINS LONGEST JOURNEY Ev-
Err UNDERTAKEN BY
AMERICAN VESSELS.
Parade Of Vessels Four Miles in Length
Passes Before President Roose-
welt on Board. Mayfiower, With
Flagship Connecticut, cne Of Most
Inspiring Sights Ever Witnessed
First Stop at Trinidad.

Old Point Comfort, Va, Dec. 16.-
The backbone of the American navy,
the sixteen irst-class battleships I'M
der command Of Rear Admiral Robley
D. Evans, set sail today for the Pa
cifc ocean, on a 14,000-mile cruise
which has set all the world talking.
Paraded Before President.
Parading in review before the presi-
dent of the United States and saluting
as they went, the stately white yes
sells drew anchor from the rendezvous
ground at Hampton Roads, steamed
out of the famous Old Vidginia capes
and were lost to view on the southern
horizon.
Headed for West Indies.
At a ten-knot speed they went, head
ed for the West Indies. The fleet will
bring up at Trinidad Christmas eve,
the first stage of the journey ending
there.
Parade Four Miles Long.
Inc uCSt paooSu Jul LII o'u6iS WI
umn, the Connecticut. the flagship of
Admiral Evans, leading the way. The
vessels were 400 yards apart, and from
the Connecticut to the Kentucky,
which brought up the rear Of the line,
reached q distance Of over four miles.
President on Mayf1ower.
Many yachts and excursion boats
accompanied the feet down the bay.
President R~ooseveit's party on the
Mayfower included Secretary of the
Navy Metcalf. The naval dispatch
boat Dolphin also came from Wash
ington with a party of congressman.
Mayhower at Reviewing Stand.
With the departure OF the fleet the
officers of the Mayhower proceeded to
get under way almost at once, so as to
, 1907-12-16
BRIEFLY MENTIONED.

Cloudy and colder this morning.
Looks now like a white Christmas
The bank barometer today marked
22.95.
Call 142 Black for the package de,
livery.
The examinations at the university
will begin tomorrow.
The schools will close for the Christ
mas holidays or the goth.
Train No. 8 was compelled to wait
here twenty minutes today, there being
no dining a on the train.
Mrs. J.. w. Harris will return to Den,
yer tomorrow, after a few days visit
with friends here and to look after
some business matters.
H. l.. Carver, the university %janitor,
who has been i'll at the home of Rev.
Lansdell for several days, is able to
sit up a part of the day now.
Word from Hon. Eli Crumrine from
Denver Saturday night was that he was
feeling. first rate but was not intending
to come home for a while yet.
Why complain of high prices when
you can buy at the prices offered to-
day by the Laramie Grocery company ?
Notice their ad. in this issue.
Prof. Lee at the assembly of the
East Side school this morning address
ed the pupils on decorum in the build
ing and the conduct Of the pupils as
they left the rooms and halls.
, 1907-12-16
NOTES FROM THE COURT HOUSE.

Deputy County Clerk Dayton is ex-
pected from Ogden this week.
David T. McFarlane presented three
coyote pelts for bounty today.
John McFarlane today sold to David
T. McFarlane, for $4,000, 800 acres of
land in sections "a and 25, township
rs. range 72.
The Wyoming Sheep company today
transferred to the Rawhide Ranch COM
pany a large amount of land in Lar
annie and Albany counties, in town
ships 26 and 81, ranges 81, 6s and II,
for 81. Ranges CT and 68 are in Lar
annie county.
A United States patent to Gustave
Won Berken, dated December IL, 1906,
for 100 acres of land in sections 20. 30
and 81, township 81, range II, was
filed today.
, 1907-12-16
commlssIoa BEGINS Work.

Goldfield, New, Dec. 16.-The Roose-
welt commission began the investiga-
ton of the labor conditions at Gold.
field this morning. No witnesses have
yet been summoned before the com
mission, which will first go over the
testimony and information secured by
Governor Sparks and General Funston
before hearing new evidence.
More Men at Work.
The number of men at work in the
mines and at tn consolidated mill has
been increased today, and the state
ment was made by the operators that
a majority of the new men are former
members of the federation.
, 1907-12-16
REAR ADMIRAL EVANS
ON HIS WAY To PACIFIC

take her place at the head of the
formidable column and lead the way
to the reviewing waters off Thimble
Shoal lighthouse, ten miles out in
Chesapeake bay.
WarshIps Up-Anchor.
Orders were issuer at the same time
upon all the warships to hoist anchor.
By the time the ~battleships began to
move the presidents yacht was well
down the bay. Coming to anchor near
"the Tail of the Horseshoe" as the
waters about Thimble Shoal lighthouse
is known, the May1ower let go her
anchor and stood by to review the Pa
~ciic-bound parade.
The Flagship Appears.
There was little time to wait before
the Connecticut showed off the quar-
ter rail. Her rails were manned by
half a thousand sailors in the nattiest
suits of blue, with the marine guard
full uniformed and stiff at attention"
on the quarterback, with the band
playing the national anthem, with Ad-
miral Evans on the after bridge, high
above the main deck.
An Inspiring Sight.
With the Union Jack at the stem,
the t~wo-starred rear admiral's ensign
of blue at the main truck and a spot
less new American flag on the staff at
the stern, the Connecticut presented a
picture which fairly thrilled those who
saw it and set their patriotic pulses
beating in quickened ,rythm.
Reception Aboard Mayflower.
Upon arriving in the Roads, the May
flower anchored in the very center of
the throbbing feet. Then followed a
reception on board, the president hav-
ing a farewell message for the four
rear admirals and sixteen commanding
officers.
Took Each Officer by Hand.
At the conclusion of the meeting on
the Mayflower. the president shook
each officer by the hand, and as they
went over the side he made them an
Official adieu.
President Starts Cheering.
The president lifted his hat and the
spontaneous cheer he voiced was
quickly taken up by the others of his
party. From his position on the May
flower bridge the president viewed the
entire pageant. The fleet passed out
OF the Virginia capes shortly after
noon.
, 1907-12-16
MINERS ENToMBED.
seventy-five Said to Have Been Caught
in Alabama Explosion.

Birmingham, Ala, Dec. 16.-Seventy
five men are reported entombed in a
mine explosion at Yolande, in the
northwestern part of Tuscaloosa coun,
ty. A special relief train left here for
Yolande at 1870 this afternoon to give
assistance to the entombed miners.
Seventeen Rescued Alive.
A message from Yolande at 2 this
afternoon says that out Of the ninety
men who went into the mine this
morning seventeen have been taken
out alive. -Four were dead and all
hope was given up for the others.
, 1907-12-16
TiIIman Defends President.

Washington, D. c., Dec. 16.-In the
course of a speech in the senate to.
day, Senator Tillman commented char
acteristically on financial affairs. He
said he believed Roosevelt was a pa.
triot, and that, while he was guilty
of many indiscretions and said many
things which in cooler moments he
would have been willing to take out Of
print, he did not believe the president
felt any satisfaction whatever in being
instrumental in the present financial
paralysis, as he had been charged.
, 1907-12-16
CENTENNIAL COUPLE
WERE MARRIED HERE.

Mr.. Charles Raymond Rathbun and
Miss Minnie E. Porter, both of Centen-
NAL, were married this morning, at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. s. w. Hix-
son. on Cedar street, and will leave
tomorrow for their home neal Centen-
NAL. Among the guests at the wed
ding were the parents of the groom
and a few close friends. Rev. Oscar
Woods performed the ceremony. The
Republican congratulates Mr.. and Mrs.
Rathbun and wishes them much hap
piness through life.
, 1907-12-16
Have Gone to Omaha.

Superintendent Whitney and Master
Mechanic Sullivan of the Utah division
passed through the city yesterday, on
their way to Omaha on company bust
ness. They were accompanied as ia,
as Cheyenne by George Maginnis, for.
merly a train dispatcher here, who has
been in California recently and who
was on his way to Denver.
, 1907-12-16
ISSUES
Man Who Walked Thousand Miles In
Thousand Hours Wants More.

New York, Dec. 16.-Dan O'Leary.
the pedestrian who recently walked
a mile at the beginning Of every hour
for a thousand hours, has issued a
challenge to Edward Payson Weston
for a six-days walking contest. The
challenge includes Henry Schmahl OF
Chicago and Charles Rowell of Eng
land. All the men are old-time Pc
destrians.
, 1907-12-16
More Men laid or.

Seven section men On sections be-
tween this city and Rawlins were laid
off this morning, in the reduction of
the working forces, the men being pick.
ed here and there as they could be
spared. Some of the sections are left
with the foreman and n man.
, 1907-12-16
Net Union Pacific Man.

The men employed by the Union Pa
ciic railroad deny that William Swee.
rey, who was arrested with several
others for footing box cars in the I'm.
ion Pacific yards, was at any time an
employe of a railroad, says the Denver
Post.
, 1907-12-16
More kansans in Wyoming.

Another carload of Kansans interest
ed in the building of the Denver, Lara
ME and Northwestern passed through
the city this afternoon, on their way to
Hanna, where they will be met by S. J.
Kent of that company. They were met
on the depot platform here by E. A.
Buck, the company engineer.
, 1907-12-16
SOLICITOR DEAD.
General Attorney For Railroad Sue.
cumbs to Heart Disease.

st. Louis, Mo-, Dec. IL. F. Park
er, general solicitor for the St. Louis
n San Francisco railroad, was found
dead today in the bath tub at his home.
Death resulted from heart disease.
, 1907-12-16
ROBBERS COMMIT
DOUBLE MURDER
SMALL GROCER KILLED SUNDAY
NIGHT AND WIFE DIES IN
HOSPITAL TODAY.
Robbers Called for Box Of sardines,
and When This Was Set Before
Them They Dealt Man Blow With
Iron Bolt-Woman's Head Split
Open With Meat cIeaver.

kansas City, Kas., Dec. 16.-Mrs.
Fannie Sternberg, wife of Louis D.
S%ternberg, the grocer, who was killed
Sunday night by robbers in their small
store on the outskirts of Kansas City,
kas., died today in a hospital of
wounds inflicted upon her by the muir,
derers.
Could Not Tell Of Attack.
She did not recover sufficient con-
seriousness to tell of the attack. An
iron bolt and meat cleaver were the
weapons used.
Evidence Of Crime.
An open can of sardines on a coun-
Ter, a long iron bolt and a bloody meat
cleaver near the bodies of Mr.. and Mrs.
~sternberg supply the evidence of how
The crime was committed. 1t Is be,
lleved that the robbers asked for the
sardines and as the grocer placed the
open box before them they struck him
down with the iron bolt.
Woman's Head Split Open.
me robbers then entered the living
apartments back Of the store and at
lacked Mrs. Sternberg with the meat
cieaver. They split her head open and
shocked out one of her eyes, beside in.
nictng several brutal wounds on her
body.
Looking Q Large Sum.
: SternbeEg. who was AZ years old, re
Gently took $500 from a bank and it IL
nough the robbers believed 1t was In
the store. They secured about SIS.
, 1907-12-16

Mayor Sp0lding has sold the stone
from the interior Of the city jail to
Ross Hansen, having been empowered
SO to do at the last meeting of the
council.
, 1907-12-16

Nebraska Senator's Boom for Vice
President on Hughes Ticket.

Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 16.-George E.
Tobey, formerly private secretary to
Senator Burkett, began today the or
ganization Of a Hughes club with Bur.
kett as an aspirant for vice president.
The followers of LaFollette are also
at work in Nebraska.
, 1907-12-16
WEATHER REPORT
FROM THE uNIVERsIT>

FROM THE UNIVERSITY
Frank A. Smith, observer at the uni
versity weather station, gives the fol
lowing figures for twenty-four hours
ending at noon today. as recorded by
the instruments in the office of the
experiment station al the university:
Maximum temperature, 26 degrees,
Minimum temperature, 4 degrees
Barometer, 22.S19.
Total wind, 143 miles; prevailing
direction, southwest.
Maximum velocity, southwest, "a
miles at 10 a. m. today.
Relative humidity, 81.
Dew point, 9.
The minimum temperature for the
twenty-four hours ending at noon Sun
day was 6 degrees below zero.
, 1907-12-16
Accident at Green River.

Train No. 6 and a switch engine col
lided at Green River last night and
one Of the firemen was killed. The en-
gineer Of the switch engine had a very
close call.
, 1907-12-16
Central Bank of Issue.
Oklahoma Senators Sworn In,

Washington, d. c., Dec. 16.-The two
senators from Oklahoma were sworn
in today. Senator Money presented
the credentials of Robert L. owen and
Senators Culberson those OF Thomas
p. Gore, the blind senator. Gore walk
ed slowly to the vice presidents desk,
leaning upon the arm of the Texas
senator.
, 1907-12-16
WORKING In Hanna Yards.

Brakeman B.. A. ellis was sent to
Hanna this morning to accept a posi-
ton in the freight yards there. The
length of his stay there was not stated.
, 1907-12-16
Made Trainmaster at Evanston.

AS intimated in The Republican sew,
eral days ago, F. H. Smith, the BROTH
er-in-law of Will Thomas Of this city,
has been made trainmaster of the Utah
division with headquarters at Evans
ton.
, 1907-12-16
President to Centennial.

President and Mrs. Fred A. Miller,
who returned Saturday afternoon from
Cheyenne left this morning for Cen
tennial.
, 1907-12-16
Will Adjourn on Saturday.

Washington, D. c., Dec. 16.-The
house today passed a concurrent reso.
luton providing for adjournment next
Saturday until January s.
, 1907-12-16

Washington, d. c., Dec. 16.-In his
annual report to congress today, vii,
liam b. Ridgely, comptroller of the
currency treats of the zee money
tightness in the United States and
that the deposits in all the banks re.
porting to the comptroller were S13,,
099, 615, 34S, a gain of over $3.50, 000,-
900 within the past seven years. The
total stock of money was reported
July / of the present year at $3,115, 600,-
GOO.
, 1907-12-16
Owens Gets Long Term.

After the oath had been administer
ed to Gore, he was conducted to the
desk and signed his name. The terms
of the two senators We're drawn by
lot. Owens secured the six-year term
and Gore the two-year term.
, 1907-12-16
EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGE
PREFERRED I

A bookkeeper was arrested at IL
o'clock Saturday night, charged with
~embezzling funds from his employer
on the 14th, and this afternoon plead
ed not guilty and waived examination.
For the present names are withheld
out of Difference to the request of the
accused mans family.
, 1907-12-16

A wave Of theft is said to be sweep.
ing over New York, but the police
uniforms are spotless and fair to see
, 1907-12-16

VOTES TO RE-oRGANIzE
RAMBLER COMPANY.
The Rambler Mining and Smelling
company voted today to re-organize
under the recent call for a special
meeting to ratify the purchase of the
New Lincoln and Rambler claims.
, 1907-12-16
MOVING TO CITY

MOVING TO CITY
FOR THE WINTER.
Thomas and David McFarlane Of
Owen are in the city. Thomas McFar-
lane coming for the winter. His wife
is the daughter Of Mrs. f. Whiting.
, 1907-12-16

MORE SNOW FELL
DURING AFTERNOON,
Another furry Of snow came this az
ternoon and whitened the ground
where Saturdays snow had melted OF
blown away, but the storm was not Sc,
we're and not Of long duration.
, 1907-12-16

Why not get all the news when II Il
news by reading The Republican!
, 1907-12-16
TOO MANY FR|LLS
IN SCHOOLS Of DAY
TRUSTEES OF CHICAGO SCHOOL
BOARD MAY START REvoLU.
TON OF THE METHODS.
Find Inability to Spell and To Do Sim.
Pile Sums in Arithmetic ShamefuIIy
Prevalent, and Parents Are Asking
What They Are Getting for Large
Amount of Taxes.

Chicago, ILL.,, Dec. ia revolution
in American school methods may be
the result of a movement set on foot
by trustees of the school board, who
believe that Chicago teachers have
strayed too far from the little old red
sc~hoolhouse'' program of ''readin', writ
in and 'rithmetic." The trouble start,
ed when one of the trustees told of
the failure of pupils in the eighth and
ninth grades to spell such simple
words as friend medium" and ri
VAL
, 1907-12-16
BELIEVES CHANGES NEEDED IN
CURRENCY SYSTEM CAN BEST
BE BROUGHT ABOUT IN
THAT WAY

Annual Report of William 3. Ridge!y
Treats Of Tightness of Money in
United States During Recent FIur.
Confidence Of People But BY the
Banks Among Themselves.
, 1907-12-16

dynamite bombs. was today given an
indeterminate sentence in the reform.
atory by Judge Carlton M. Bliss.
, 1907-12-16
Successful Misspelling.

Here are a few of the longer words
that were successfully misspelled by
the pupils. Operation language"
symptoms" interrupt attempted"
exercise" anxiety experiment"
and "~invincible." This evidence was
c~orroborated by another trustee who
found hat not n of forty-three fiji.
teen-year-old pupils whom he question.
ed could discount a note for S100 for
6 month and 30 days at 6 per cent.
Didn't Grasp Subject.
They didn't any of them know
what | meant declared the indignant
trustee in board meeting. Il might as
well have talked Choctaw Ito those
boys and girls" This statement caus.
ed a sensation and will result in an OF,
fetal investigation of fifty Chicago
schools, for the purpose of determin-
ing whether the fiounces and frills OF
modern pedagogy have not crowded
out the essentials of spelling.
Attitude of Parents.
The attitude of the 500, 900 fathers
and mothers in the city is well sum-
med up in the words of one of the pro-
testing trustees: What are we get
ting for our So, 900. 900 a year? We
hear a good deal about making paper
boxes. That may be well enough, but
it is necessary first that our pupils,
leaving our schools at 16, should BIO
equipped to solve simple questions In
arithmetic"
, 1907-12-16
COMPTROLLER FAVORS
GENITAL BANK Of jSSUE

comes a sudden demand for %currencyj
it can be supplied in bank notes withl
out depicting the supply of reseryeI
money.
Central Bank of Issue.
These desirable changes can best
be accomplishment fact, can only sat-
is~factorily be accomplished, through
the establishment by the government
of a central bank of issue and reserved
, 1907-12-16

mills were started this morning, on
some rush orders for material, and
will probably run nov until the holt
days.
, 1907-12-16
BARROW
WAS Ill
UNABLE TO ASK lMPEAcHING
QUESTIONS IN EXAMINATION
OF ORCHARD IN PET
TIBoNE HEARING.

Edgar Wilson, Attorney for Defendant,
Secures Admission That Pettibone
Was Not In Idaho When Steunen-
berg Was Killed and Moved to
Have Evidence Stricken Out, but
Motion Denied and State Proceeded
, 1907-12-16
Rolling MILLS eoinn.

Both trains of rolls at the rolling
, 1907-12-16

Daily Republican. so cent. . month
, 1907-12-16
Cause Of the Panic.

"The condition which led to the pan.
ic in October and November, 1907
were not due to the failure Of individ
ual banks" says the report. They
were not due to lack of confidence by
the people in the banks, but to a lack
selves in their reserves. They feared
there was not sufficient currency and
the result was a currency famine.
, 1907-12-16
Remedy SUGGESTED.

The remedy to this state Of affairs
is to improve the reserve system so
that the reserve deposits in the banks
can be kept in the banks, where they
will surely be available. We must i'm
part to our currency system some ele.
ment of elasticity, so that when there
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GuIIIOTmO Il en- VaeacIORos.

81 emperador = Ia empsratris de Ale.
mania aprovechRn los ratios dc ocio que
BuS vacacionea le proporcionRn, en- ocupa.
clones enteTamente distintaB.
El Kaiser, por la msfians eBcuth8 los
infoTmes de sus Ministries de suH secreta-
rios; del medic dfa hRcs una intereBante
visits & los escultoreS noHuegos 90 entre'
tiene buen ratio con elloB conversando y
tomando notas sobre q aEte eBCandinavo.
Su jcrnada termina en- Ia ''villa" de un
comerCiRnte en- parsguas M. Erikaen, 6
qui6n 81 Soberano ha querido honrar con
su amiatsd.
La empeyat1iz ea menos afecta que Hu
esposo Ia variedRd. Su ocupaci6n pre-.
dilects es Ia foteg -affs: la peTsonsImente
desarrolla, fia y monta las instant6neas y
demas exposicionsB fotcgr6ficaa que toma
con aua msgeiicos aparatos.
EetaB fotogFaffas SO coleccionaF6n en-
albums que la emperstTis frmar6 con Bu
aut6ggafo, y los cuales seE6n deupn6s obss'
quiadas & las BcciadsdeB de bsnefcencia
para que Be foEmen CON ellos algunos Totes
de sus t6mbolRs Tai donRci6D, como SO
comprende, no puede scr mejor, pueB los
albums de la KaiHeEina, adem6s de ser
msgnffooB, ser6n muY Solicitados y psga'
dos pTecioa elevadfaimos.