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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-06-01
FAIRBANKS IS IMPROVING
seiicvsd that Slayer OF Mr., Gfout wiz
E,sspe Blood Poisoning

Braitlcboro, May 3i-willlam Fair.
banks who shot and killed his neice,
Mrs MOr, orout at Saxton's River
last Saturday night, continues TO I'm
prove at Brattloboro Memorial hospl.
tai. IL Is believed nov that he will es-
cape blood poisoning. An x'ray
photograph shows that the two bullets
shich he fred into his body are
lodged some distance leftof and above
his hnnrt.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-06-01
GOV. HUGHES HEADS LIST
New fors State Choose, champ'sin Ter.
centenary Commission.

81 Adams, May 81. Word vas r.
ceived here today Of the New York
slats. thanplain Tcrccaienary commits.
sion as follows; Gov. Chas. h. Hugh.
rs LleuL'0ov. Lcwis =. Chanler:
Senators Henry W. Hlll, Buffalo and
John G. u. Taylor, Mddlctown; speak
ar James W. wadsworih jr., Noun,
Morris; Assemblymen Alanson 4.
Dominy, Beekman, and James n. 10.
ley New York city; Frank ). wiiher
bee, Port Henry and John II. Booth,
Pittsburgh.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-06-01
No Collar No mu.sle. No Dog.

Thus saith the Select Gentlemen Of
Bennington and rownal and N they
are correct every Bennington dog with
out collar ~ Identity ita proud
owner and every pownal canine with.
out mouth guard will be- shot NJ sun.
rise. june I. A. y. 1907. or as soon
thereafter ns circumstances win per
init
oRiswoLo TO THE RESCUE
with n fine line OF Collars. Muzzlea,
Kennel Chains. Leads. Whips, Locks,
rush aud Comb. etc.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-06-01
UNVEILED AT BURLINGTON
Soldiers and isilon Aohumini Glil Of the
komnn's RsIIei Clfp,

Burlington, May 30 The feature of
the Memorial day exercises In this
city was the unwilling Of n soldiers
and sailors monument In City ball
park, purchased BY The woman's Re.
lief Corps Of slannard post, CAR
The presentation speech was made by
Mrs Hannah Beach and the s,oao was
accepted by Mayor w. J Blgelow.
The Memorial day address was doily
cred in City Hall park by Judge G. s.
Palmer.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-06-01

Wanted-Four or i've painters.
Charles Barnes, los Pleasant street.
Mr. and Mrs Harry c. Roster have
returned from short visit IN Troy.
W. s. q. Russell OF Springfield,
Mass. IL In town for few days.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-06-01
Card Of Thanks.

We, the undersigned, wish 70 thank
The nelghbors and friends who kindly
assisted during the sickness and death
OF our beloved father and also for tho
many floral tributes.
Mrs J. y. Camp,
Edward Newman.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-06-01
saw Napoleon .. n, ". Hcieaa.

RICHMOND. Va. June i.-I,ohsrt
Amber Bruce. i0I years OLD. who l.
said to have been the oldest Mason In
the world. died In the city almshouse
here yesterday. lie was born nj West
Overhaul. Va. He was n veteran Of
several wars and boasicd OF having
seen Napoleon Bonaparte In 1871.
claiming that Napoleon presented 70
him cross Of honor NJ ~. Helena. lie
had travelled n great deal.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-06-01

Senator Redncld Proctor, who has
been on a fishing trip 10 Mount Pico.
expects 10 leave Proctor this week for
another outisg In the same locality.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-06-01
WEATHER FORECAST
Probabilities Tor This section for The Next
"a Hours.

For eastern New York and western
Vermont rain tonight and Sunday.
Warmer Sunday.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-21


The ordinance proposed by Council
man zimman to fax the charges for
rental of business telephones on the
basis proposed by the telephone com
pany itself ought to pass. At the time
the telephone company made this
proposition to cut off dollar a month
from the charge for its business tele-
phones, The Bee advised the council
to accept 1t on the spot before it could
be withdrawn and give us the benefit
of that concession at least until a sec
ond telephone system should have
been installed. The second telephone
cannot be in working order short of a
year and half to two Years. and we
ought to have the benefit of the exist
ing companys former proposition at
least during that time.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-21

spurs OF Havana who have been rest
less since the American invaders sup
pressed the cock fight and substituted
the stock exchange for the jai alai
form of gambling Their numbers are
sufficiently large to cause lot OF
trouble should they decide to adopt
the actual instead of the oratorlcal
form OF warfare.
In the mean time the conservative
elements in Cuba. composed Of natives
and foreigners from all countries, want
the United States to establish a pro-
tectorate over Cuba, looking to annexa-
tion which would give Americans per-
manent and effective control of affairs
on the island. The Plat amendment
makes it imperative upon the United
States to protect the lives and property
of both foreigners and natives in Cuba.
Without anticipating the decision of
the administration at Washington, II
is a safe wager that this protection
will be given, even If in the doing
Gen. Castillo and Col. Garcia get their
uniforms disarranged.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-21
ANOTHER MESSAGE FROM GARol.

ANOTHER MESSAGE FROM GARCIA.
Col. Emanuel Garcia. one of the 33d
degree patriots of Cuba, has been talk
ing again and says that Cuba must
come into the union of the United
States of America in a mighty short
time or go into the scrap heap. That
announcement would bring cheer to
Senator Newlands and other ardent
annexation advocates, were it not
coupled with the assertion that the
tobacco fields of Cuba will absorb
every drop of Cuban patriotic blood
before any annexation scheme can be
brought about that depriyes the Cuban
Of his inalienable right to home rule
and the offices. Right on the heels Of
Col. Garcia's talk comes the news from
Havana that the leaders of the liberal
party are demanding that the Ameri-
can provisional government in Cuba
strike camp at once and get out, under
penalty OF a revolution and possible
invasion of the United States. Over
his own signature, Gen. Eloinaz del
Castillo writes a piece to the organ of
the liberal party at Havana in which
he declares:
Welcome peace but with independence
and liberty. The only peace possible In
Cuba Is TO strike down the imbeciles who
place their fate in a Dictatorship or who
| believe that with a protectorate or an
nexation they can make sugar What
will be made is war-war colossal and
without quarter, sparing neither lives
nor property. These traitors to the
fathefland, what must be thought of
them? We are resolved that we shall
not see our adorable republic OF Cuba
ruled by foreigners or the plaything of
ambition.
That raises the issue squarely. Col
Garcia and Gen. Castillo have put
the situation plainly up to the authori-
ties at Washington and asked them
to shoot or give up the guns and the
question is what will the president and
Secretary Taft and Governor Magoon
do about IL? II must be said for Gov
ernor Magoon that he scented the bat
tie from afar some time ago, and Of
fered a solution Of the problem by in
creasing the rural guard to an extent
that would have given practically
every Cuban patriot horse, a gun and
place on the pay roll, but was turned
down at Washington, and now the ad-
ministration must meet the emergency,
The old swamp angels who escaped
determination at the hands OF Spain
are very hungry and very thirsty
anxious to join the discontinued hot
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-21

The Chamber of Commerce of San
Francisco has published a compre-
hensive report on the subject of in
ysurance settlements, growing out of
the losses by fire and earthquake,
which contains many facts that must
prove of interest to all cities where
fire insurance and fire projections are
problems of annual consideration.
After setting out, at great detail, the
story of the struggle over the settle
ment of the fire losses in San Fran
cisco, the report says the most dis
couraging feature of the fire insurance
situation in the United States is the
indifference of the American people to
enormous annual fire loss, due princi-
pally to fiimsy and meretricious con-
struction.",
Statistics show that the annual fire
loss in the United States is about
$500, 900, 900 year, while the cost of
maintaining the fire departments of
the nation is about $3.50. 900 a
year. Fire insurance premiums cost
the country nearly $3OO,O0O,0OO a
year, while the losses paid amount to
less than $15O,000,OO0. The net
losses by fire and the maintenance of
fire departments exceed $500, 900, 900
annually, which must be set down as
absolute waste of money and energy.
forming a very serious handicap in
the development of cities, as no prog
ress can be shown until this enormous
loss has been Offset by new money in
new buildings and enterprises.
The share Of this loss that might
be prevented by stricter building laws
and better enforcement of existing
laws for fire avoidance is undoubtedly
very large, and other large cities may
profit by taking leaf from San Fran
cisco's lesson in fire insurance ex-
perience.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-21
"HOLD, ENOUGH
Railroads Beseech President for Ala
TO stop Legislatures.

Railroads Beseech President for Aid
TO stop Legislatures.
Washington Dispatch to New York Times.
mighty cry for help has gone UP from
the railroad companies east and west. In
their extremity they have appealed TO the
president OF the United States to help them
out. They want something said which will
deter sitting legislatures from enacting pro-
posed legislation. The cents a mile pas
senger fare propaganda has spread until it
would appear that nothing now can be done
to prevent that legislation in a majority of
states. Not even the railroads in Pennsyl-
vania have successfully opposed the legis-
lation for reduced passenger rates in that
state.
1t is the fear that freight schedules will
be next considered and that the graft which
has been enjoyed by the railroads since 1878
in the mail-carrying contracts will be in
terfered with that has caused the new
alarm. Today there are present in Wash
ington lobbyists. and lawyers who are moth
ing but lobbyists representing the Burling-
ton railroad. the st. Louis & San Francisco
railroad, the Great Northern railroad, the
Rock Island railroad, Baltimore Ohio
railroad. Pennsylvania railroad, New York
Central railroad, the Southern railroad and
numerous smaller lines. Pamphlets and
newspaper publications are being utilized to
show the awful things that are going 10
happen to the railroads and the people If
the proposed legislation In the matter OF
mail transportation is enacted.
The railroads which will suffer the great
est in the proposed legislation are the New
York Central, the Pennsylvania and the
Burlington. Pamphlets have been written
by the attorneys for a half dozen lines and
distributed among members of congress
with the yelled threat running through
them that the railroads will not carry the
mail and make no effort to maintain sched-
ules II further interfered with.
Members Of congress who understand the
situation are inclined to make merry with
this threat 1t has been but a shoTt while
since the Rock Island railroad. which had
a shorter route, was in position to get
the Postofice department to give II a con-
tract for carrying the mail between Chi
cago and Omaha. In order to retain the
mail contract the Burlington offered TO
carry the mail for a lesser sum than
the contract price and the postmaster gen.
eral gave the contract to that company.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-21

Count ToIstoy's son has been indicted In
81. Petersburg on n charge Of high treason
for publishing his fathers latest political
pamphlet.
Major Gordon w. Lille, otherwise known
as "Pawnee BILL" refused 20 fuidli a con-
tract to deliver seven bull bisons to Mex
lean senior when he learned that thoy were
to be used In the arena. lie proposes to
contest the law suit
The only surviving cousin of Abraham
Lincoln is Eliza Lincoln. who lives at Fort
Branch Ind. He Is said to closely resem-
BILE The Great Emancipator" in appear
ance. He Is feet 2 inches In height and
is thin and muscular.
|, Hon. william E Borah Idaho's new
senator. has the prestige at home Of great
legal talent. of eloauence and of a fine
personality. He is but AZ years Of age and
next to Mr.. Dixon OF Montana, will be the
youngest man in the senate.
Senator McCumber OF North Dakota was
the only member present In the chamber
one evening last week when $50 private
pension bills were rushed through. Vice
President Fairbanks and Mr.. NcCumber
had the field all to themselves.
James f. MARITIME. the farmer orator"
of New Jersey. enjoys the distinction of
having been the candidate OF his party
the democratic--for almost every office tn
his county and senate district for the last
thirty years without ever having won.
Eric Geddes, recently appointed freight
manager OF the Northeastern railway. in
England, is an American who fourteen
years ago was agent at small station
on the Baltimore & Ohio road. Later ne
was connected with railroad enterprises In
India.
The famous talking record OF former
Senator William Vincent Allen Of Ne
braska is seriously threatened by Senator
Beverdges latest performance. The former
spoke in continuous stream, while the
Hoosier spread over four days with breath
ing spells between.
President Roosevelt accompanied by
Mrs Roosevelt and their two daughters.
will leave Washington on Washington's
birthday for Massachusetts to spend one
day with Theodore, jr., at Harvard and
another with Kermit at Groton returning
to Washington on Monday morning. The
president will make only one speech on his
trip. and that will be before the Harvard
union.
Chief Justice Fuller OF the United States
supreme court and Associate Justice Har-
ian nave peen euslple Ior IelrehiehI loI
four years past, but both are in sound
health physically and mentally Associate
Justice Brewer will be eligible for retire
ment in June and the old report has been
revived that Associate Justice Peckham
may retire before November s, 1903, when
he will have reached the allotted three
score and ten. The other members of the
court have more than Ave years to serve
before any of them will be eligible for re-
tirement.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-21
WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
I have wondered what lies past the

MILWAUKEE, sentinel
l have wondered what lies past the worlds
far rim,
Where the great red sun goes down.
Since the dreaming of youth, so long ago,
| have longed, so lOnged, sometimes to go
over the slopes and the mountain trails,
The deserts and valleys, through wood and
wales,
To the land where the sun goes down.
l have gazed in the desolate, tinted west.
There where the sun goes down,
And wondered at strange and foreign lands,
OF unknown tongues on other strands,
And longed, so longed, sometimes to go
That ] might see that l might know
There where the sun goes down.
have looked at far-away, Jeweled skies,
There where the sun goes down.
And longed for the deeps of a starry night,
A trackless waste and a Polestar light,
And wished that had been born to see
Those lands and know of their mystery
There where the sun goes down.
And I've turned, in the dusk, from the
afterglow.
After the sun went down,
To the lights that cleaned in the city's
heart,
The lights in hall and throbbing mart,
And longed, so longed, for the arms and
breast
That Graded me sweet to sleep and rest
After the sun went down.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-21

Ehe Omaha Commercial club must
have gotten its wires crossed. II the
protest it sent to Washington against
cutting down the mail-carrying subsi-
dies to the railroads received the same
attention accorded its protest sent to
Lincoln against reducing the passen-
ger rate to 2 cents mile, the railroad
managers will not call upon it for as
sistance again very soon.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-21
SCHOOL BOARD FINANCES.

The action of the school board,
looking toward reorganization of its
system of finances. is a move in the
right direction. 1t is notorious that
for years there has been neither head
nor tail in our school board methods
of accounting and auditing and that
no two persons could arrive at the
same result in attempting to ascertain
just how the board stood financially.
The juggle of a fiscal school year
differing from and overlapping the
calendar year, which is the fiscal year
for all the other Jurisdictions. has,
doubtless, been chiefly to blame. but
out of this discrepancy has arisen all
sorts of shutting of the funds and
questionable practices for evasion OF
the law. The Bee recently called the
board to task for disregarding the
statutory prohibition against spending
more than $25, 600 out of current rev.
enues for the purchase of school sites
and construction of new school build
ings. which has been excused on the
pretense of distributing the payments
over three calendar years." although,
in fact, all paid out within fourteen or
fifteen months. Another questionable
practice of the board has been to
draw warrants ad libitum against
prospective revenues without regard to
the legal limitation holding them
within the money in hand and So per
cent of the actual tax levied. AS a
consequence we had a constant float
ing debt of outstanding interest-bear-
ing warrants, which, however, we are
glad to say has been almost eliminated
during the past year or two
There Is no good reason why the
school board finances should not be
managed upon as scrupulous business
methods as the finances of any other
part of our local government The
first prerequisite TO reform, however,
is full knowledge of the present con-
dition, which may be expected to be
! forthcoming as result of the boards
present action. The investigation
must then be followed up with thor
ough reorganization, If the taxpayers
are TO have any benefit out of it,
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-21
HOT WORK At THE FINISH.
Railroad Lobbyists wOrkins over.
time I'm washinEton.
Kansas City Star.


Kansas City Star.
The railroad lobby seems 10 I've do,,s
quite well at Washington. Instead az hon.
est weighing Of mails with possible re-
duction OF N20o,OO the dishonest weighing
win continue, and tho reduction win NO,
exceed 0,ScoOO0 while even this amount IL
not certain. The railroads evidently knew
what they were doing when they sent In
Washington the most expensive lobby that
has ever represented them in congress. for
they can we'll afford the increased cost
considering the results obtained.
IL is rather discouraging to ATTEMPT rer1
lation to prevent gross frauds in con-
gress which the railroads are so easily en-
abled to influence. No wonder the train
mems organization, now meeting I'm Chi
cago. announces that every time they have
q bin introduced into congress to improve
labor conditions on the railroads tho rail-
way lobby defeats its passage. Especially
are the trainmen anxious to secure shorter
hours. But the railroads are enabled to
prevent the limitation OF hours OF work
in the face Of the declaration Of the train
men that the worst of wrecks occur be-
cause employees are forced TO work from
twelve to twenty hours eonsecutvely
often their eyes become 50 they cannot
see signals and they are so exhausted that
they fall asleep at their post.
While the lobby goes on successfully
thwarting the attempts of President Roose-
welt to force the railroads into some SEM
blance of fair dealing with the public, the
magnates are less successful In Wall street
than at Washington. In spite of all their
threats and Misrepresentation the value
of railroad securities sticks pretty well
to the toboggan, sliding down a point OF
two nearly every day. which is a plain
token of the public demand that those who
control railway corporations shall keep out
Of politics and speculation and devote more
time to the Improvement of roadbeds and
equipment. 1t may take some time to do
it. but the public will surely find method
of persuading railroads to do right. which
even the United States senate cannot
thwart or defeat.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-21
Proiected Boost of Freight Rates.

II is estimated that the contemplated
Increase In railroad freight rates will add
several hundred millions to the revenues
OF the transportation companies. II is
thus the clever managers of great cor
porations pluck the fig Of oOntentment from
the nettle of adversely. Much ado was
made by them over the fact that the re-
cent raise IN wages would add something
over a hundred millions 20 the operating
expenses OF the roads. but the hundred
millions additional 10 be paid out for wages
will be amply offset by the several hun
dred millions 10 be extracted from patrons
in the shape Of an all round raise OF freight
rateo
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-21
A Real strenuous job.
New York Sun

A resolution making the president a press
censor has been introduced in the house by
young Mr.. Wharton OF Illinois. Exercise
of the power proposed would require the
president, II he took his duties seriously,
10 keep an eye upon every newspaper in
the country reporting a murder trial or a
social scandal. No doubt he would be will
ing TO respond to the call upon him both
as a moralist and a hustler, but We sub
init. for the consideration OF the president &
other well wishers. that there might be
such a thing as killing, him with kindness
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-21


The legislature has passed a bill to
require the labelling of all packages
containing intoxicating liquor. The
bill is aimed at what is known as the
jug" trade, although it is general in
whether consigned in jugs, bottles or
barrels. When a beer'keg is hereafter
sent out in Nebraska with a sign on
1t, Intoxicating liquors." people will
have a right to suspect that it contains
beer. This will not apply, however,
to champagne, as all of the champagne
drunk in this state is imported from
abroad and the label law can not apply
to interstate shipments.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-21
Good for the Young Woman,s chris

Good for the Young Woman's Chris
tian association. The hustling young
women have~pushed the subscription
list for the building fund, out of which
their new home is to be erected. over
the 100000 mark which they had set
up before them. 1t has been a long
pull, but also a strong pull, and a pull
altogether. And, after all, it is results
that count.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-21

Illinois is trying to pass law re-
curing life insurance companies to
furnish the state with list of Illinois
policyholders and the amounts Of
their policies. Has the state any
more right to know how much insur-
ance a man is carrying than it has TO
know how much money he has in the
bank or what he pays for neckties.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-21
reform All Along the Line.
Pittsburg Dispatch

Twolcent-a-mile fare bills we're passed
on Tuesday by the Missouri senate. the
West virginia house and the Iowa house
and on Thursday the Pennsylvania house
fell into line by the Unanimous passage
OF a bin of the same sort The state legis-
latures seem 20 be doing their best to proht
by Secretary Roots warning; but we do
not know that some Of the people who
are protesting against federal eneroach-
msnts will be any the better pleased.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-21

The Lincoln correspondent of the
democratic World-Herald has discov-
cred "a truly great day for the people
such a day as this railroad-ridden
state has not seen in legislative ses-
sion for years." Such day, he
should have added, as was never seen
at any session when the democrats
controlled the legislature
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-21
Pain of Threatened Cut.
Portland Oregonian,

cut of tl2O00,OO0 on the cost OF mail
transportation by the railroads is at once
deep and slgnihcant-the latter because the
saving is TO come through a reform I'm
weighing methods and not in reduction
OF rates. II looks very much as II there
had been monkeying on a colossal scale
with the government steeyards in the in
terest of railroads
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-21

The veterinarians of Iowa and Ne
braska have combined with the veteri-
narians of Missouri in new organiza-
ton to be known as the Missouri Val
ley Veterinarian association. This
ought to place the Missouri mule on a
footing of equality with the cowboys
broncho.