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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1907-01-12

Two con tests have been started tle con-
stitutionaI amendments, claiming that the
wide open tax amendment failed to carry and
that the road and bridge amendment did carry
The appeal has been taken from the state can
wasting board to the district court at Duluth,
by S. G. McConoughy of Duluth.
He claims that the tax amendment did not
receive enough votes to become amendment
to the state constitution. He claims that many
votes were counted for the amer ,iment which
should not he W been counted for it. He al
1eges that there were numerous errors, mis-
takes and msconnts. He claims that in Ram
sey county alone 1854 votes were erroneous1y
nted; in Hennepin 1885 and in St. Louis
county $500. n other parts e the tate, he
says, that there were 10 Coo vot counted for
this ancndmeHt which shGulu aar been
added to it's total. Ther ,ras:s s8tal therefore,
of a5.547 voes5 wrongs ed to the
amendment. He claims 1...;,z., a. It many il
legal votes cast by nq, al.lIed vote RS.
The state canvassing noar,l sad that t56,O51
votes bad been cast for the arp-relment when
only 1870, 504 should have been the ,gure, accord
ing to the appellant.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1907-01-12

The legislature is again in session and
composed as it is of mostly new men, it's ses-
sons will be watched with interest Most of
the public men in state and national affairs
were at one time "new men, in the Legislature,
and it is fair to presume that some Of the men
who will be most prominent ten or twenty
years from are at the present time just be-
ginning their public career as Legislators.
Those mea who serve the people faithfully will
find that the Legislature is door of opportunity
to them while others whose records will find
them out will pass out of the legislature and
into private life and the fact that they were
once in the legislature will be forgotten except
for the official records.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-02-16

Henry Oldys, assistant biologist in
the department of agriculture, has
1000 samples of bird music written In
popular form so that 1t is possible for
the human voice exactly to initiate
the songsters of the field and forest.
He has recorded, says the Washington
Herald, the actual tones, setting them
in the proper musical key. and their
reproduction is easy for anybody who
can read musical symbols. Mr.. Oldys
has been gathering bird language for
10 years and during most of that time
has been devoting his expert knowl.
edge of the subject to official reports
which find their way in the govern,
ment archives.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-02-16
HOMES OF HALF-CivtlIzEp MA.
TivEs BUILT IN TREES.
Placed Higher In Earlier Days to Pro.
vent Surprise by Enemy-Lhe
In Far-or Country Ideal
for Savages.

Boston.-Of all the habitations -
man none is more strange to the ey,
OF q civilized person than the hous,
In New Guinea, the largest island l.
the world.
Lying north of the continent OF Aus.
tralia, and south of the Philippines
New Guinea is peopled by semi.sav'
age tribes, to whom the ways Of white
men are as yet so new that many OF
their ancient customs survive.
Among these is the building OF
houses in trees, or on pilings over the
land or the water. In some parts OF
the island are whole villages built hall
mile from shore. Everywhere in the
interior of the island the houses are
built several feet above the ground
and in certain communities the tree
house, a survival of the days when the
tribes were usually at war with one
another. may still be seen.
The primary purpose of the tree
house is to protect its owner against
surprise from an enemy. In war
time he takes his family, arms and
provisions, climbs to his house and
draws the ladder up after him.
But why cannot his enemy cut down
the tree, may be asked. Such a thing
would be simple II the tree cutter
, could wear suit of armor and have
an ak that would resist the dulling ef
fects Of wood as hard as lignum vitae
The tribes Of New Guinea have nc
means of protecting themselves
against the poisoned arrows of an en-
envy except their shields, and shield
would be rather awkward to manage
when cutting down a tree having a
family at the top dropping down
stones, hot water and poisoned darts
and arrows. Besides, the savages
had only stone axes in the days when
the tree houses were used as fort.
resses.
In these days the tree houses of
New Guinea serve the same purpose
as all the other elevated dwellings
on the island-they keep their occu.
pants safe above the fever-soaked
ground. with its deadly night mists,
and they also keep off deadly beasts
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-02-16

ments. The cooking utensils are
earthen pots. The stove is q little
clay platform in the middle Of the
house floor, surrounded by fender
of saplings, woven and smeared with
clay.
For beds hammocks made of vege.
table fiber are generally used, and are
best suited to the climate. Bedding is
not necessary.
Since nobody wears clothing, the
housewife need neither sew, darn nor
mend. AS cook her accomplish.
ments need not extend beyond the
preparation of sago porridge and the
roasting of a pig.
The houses are made Of palm leaves
woven INTO thatch for the roof. and
sides Of bamboo. The floors are split
bamboo, laid fiat side upward.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-02-16
MRS. CHADWICK BROKENDOWN

nails OF the world. from an aristocratic
lady" plumed with all the gorgeous
finery that thousands of dollars could
buy, to wan, prison-pallored wo.
man, broken in spirit and body.
BY orders from the government
Mrs. Chadwick is to be transferred
from the Ohio penitentiary to the gov.
eminent prison at Moundsville, w.
Va, where she will complete her ten.
year sentence for the ruin brought
about by her astounding financial
transactions.
For the first time since the second
Imprisonment of Mrs. Chadwick a
photograph af the so-called witch of
finance has escaped beyond the Of.
fees Of the penitentiary. where the
prison records are kept 1t was ia
ken In anticipation of the transfer of
the woman to another prison and
shows the famous female swindler as
she actually appears adorned with a
convict's number and dressed In
prison clothes.
Less than three years ago Mrs.
Chadwick was living in palatial
home. She was driving about the
streets of this city in an automobile
and borrowing immense sums of
money as though It were water She
would hardly be recognized now by
those with whom she engaged In big
transactions in the days of her regal
splendor.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-02-16
NEW GUINEA HOUSES

Life IN New Guinea, for y savage,
is ideal, since 1t is not necessary to
work for a living, and the wearing Of
clothes is not considered necessary.
The forest supplies food In abund.
ance, In the way of bananas, yams and
sage, while hogs flourish in the wild
growth, and form the staple meat diet
of the people.
Cocoanuts, which grow abundantly
u over the island, are much used for
I'D, and the milk of the young nut
common drink. The meat of the
.U,, when dried, is a staple article OF
barter with traders.
In the homes of New Guinea house.
keeping is reduced to its simplest eie.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-02-16
sians On Windows sarsss

There is one Boardway office buiid.
ing that attracts attention by the lack
of signs on the windows. It is a tire.
mendously big building, with scores
OF windows, not one of which bears
the name of firm, except several on
the ground floor which are decorated
with the name of banking concern
The owners of the building object on
artistic grounds. to utilizing the win.
dows for advertising purposes, and
as the tenants evidently are OF the
same mind window signs are done
away with.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-02-16

that he was going was not known
until after he was on the way. 1t was
announced that Mr.. Stillman went on
account of his health, but 1t is more
than limited that he hurried away to
escape a summons to testify before
the interstate commerce commission
in the investigation of the Hartman
roads.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-02-16

Honor by the French government, is
president of the National City bank
Of New York, said to be the greatest
bank In America. He holds offices in
Al organizations, including banks,
trust companies. real estate, railroad,
gas. timber, copper, warehouse and
life insurance companies. Two years
ago the French counsel Of instruction
voted to engrave Mr.. Stillman's name
on the walls Of the Ecole des Beaux
Arts In Paris. Mr.. Stillman sailed for
Europe several days ago and the fact
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-04-16
IF THE STAND
PATTERs RULE
THERE WILL BE A CLOSE CAM
PAIGN IN 1908 IL BURBoN-
ISM CONTROLS THE RE
PUBLICAN PARTY.

IL the standpatters are to conrtol
the next republican convention we
shall look for a closer campaign In
1908 than might otherwise be ex-
provided. of course, that the
democrats are guided by sanity and
broad statesmanship in their plat
form prononucements and their tick
ct The time was never more aus
pieious for tariff reform. The pop
ular mind is in terment. Instinct
lively IL knows that Industrial and
economic conditions are out OF Joint
1t has been told by the leaders OF
public thought that the trust Is
mainly responsible for the ineouali-
ties OF opportunity that exist. and
that transformation abuses have ad-
ded 90 them While this is true. II
is only a part OF the truth. and the
smallest part
over protection Is the mother of MI
the erosser evils ot the body polite
IL has been only. few years since
one of the chief benencaries of this
overproduction- -Havemeyer OF tho
sugar trust-testifled under oath 10
the conviction that the tariff Is tbe
mother OF the trusts with famous
folly We are attacking the spawn. and
shrink from the duty OF resontelv
attacking the source OF the evil. I'm
I'll this is done Il will be foolish IN
expect to accomplish substantial re-
suits. The people are not fools. The
main trouble is their inertia. Yield
ing to a fundamental impulse OF Inn
man nature, they become enamored
of leadership and are too prone to
surrender belief in that leadership's
courage and wisdom But partv limos
now lie too lightly to encourage the
theory OF the standpatters that their
word will be accepted as gospe, nv
the followers OF their party. "Deeds
and not words" are what the people
are at present demanding. Perfor-
nance and not promise is what thew
expect. If the subject Of tariff revis-
ION Is to be taken mp after the next
president has taken his seat. why
should IT not be taken up now
Washington Herald
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-04-16
TO THE POINT.

fes' located at Norfolk now.
Coming down during the Expof II
So write me about anything you
want to know, or call 10 see me.
same old boy; glad to hear from
anybody at any time. Houses to
ent during the exposition.---Good
property for sale.
10. WHITE ATKINSON.
Board OF Trade Bldg
Norfolk. Va.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-04-16

Look out for the leader on next
sunday. by That time we Will he
aoie TO give our readers a much
better newspaper.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-04-16
NEW HOTEL RIVERSIDE

AAOJoOOAO, w. w.
A. NICHOLSON, Manager.
Newly rented throughout with
commodious sample rooms.
EVERYTHING FIRsT-CLAss.
Open day and night and run on tho
European and American Plan.
Your patronage respectfully 30,
lcIted.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-02-11
LUXURY TO OWN A DOG
IN CITY OF WENATCHEE
AND 1T is A MUCH GREATER
LUXURY TO OWN TWO DOGS
-NIARSHALL ENFORCES
So A YEAR TAX LAW

The present city administration
has taken steps to do away with a
large part of the canine element of
the population and from present
evidences the next couple OF weeks
will be bad ones for dogdom.
For several years past there has
been a dog tax but on account of the
difficulty to collect it has been me-
elected Those who wish to keep
dogs within the city limits must pay
a tax of $500 each year per dog.
The recent publication in the
World of the notice that all dogs
must bear tags from the city showing
that license had been paid on them,
caused a few of the negligent owners
of more or less valuable CANNES to
pay the long delinquent tax.
Friday the crusade against dogs
received another impetus when a VIC
ious dog was shot by Marshal Van
1dIuIHSIdiu lOi lid WllnOut pi
vocation attacked and bitten j. NJ
Duffy near his home on Mission
street. The shot was apparently
heard as far as the city limits on
all sides for the same afternoon
taxes began to come in at a rapid rate
and City Clerk was for short time
threatened with writers cramp from
writing dog tax receipts. A report
er for the World followed the crowd
which weEded its way along Mission
street, city hallward, each member
of which bore in its arms or trailes;
at the length of rope a canine
There were little dogs, big dogs, dogs
of all ages, races and previous con
ditions of seivitude. The small. much
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-02-11
IN INVESTIGATION OF
SOAP LAKE DEAL
RESIDENTS OF DOUGLAS COUN-
TY ASK LEGISLATURE TO
ESTABLISH STATUS OF
SHORE LANDS

The state legislature will be asked
to investigate the Soap Lake deal
to ascertain the status of lands in
that vicinity Much interest has been
taken in this section in regard to the
attempted sale last fall, of the lands
surrounding the lake. A communica-
tion from the people of that vicinity
has just been received by the Com
mercial club of this city asking for
an Investigation. The letter reads
follows:
Soap Lake, February IS 1907.
Gentlemen:
Believing that Soap Lake should
remain heritage of the people and
that the lands surrounding it should
not be disposed of without the con-
sent of the people we ask your as
sistance in the following:
We desire to know the status of
the land in this locality surrounding
Soap Lake.
We desire to know how long the
prevailing condition of affairs will
exist. and whether or not this great
public property shall remain with the
people or shall be made subject to
the will and, caprice of others
In order to ascertain just where
we stand in this matter we ask your
organization to take ~ the subject
with the state legislature and de-
mand an investigation of matters
connected with it. Il
Yours very truly,
MRS. LUCY B. GRAY,
r. A. FITZSIMMONS,
NJ H. SORELL,
MRS. H. E. HICKS,
CHAS. JOLIFF
The next meeting of the CONNER
cial club will be held Tuesday even
ing, February -, at which time the
communication will be acted upon.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-02-11

bespangled and perfumed specimen
of caninity from Railroad avenue
froliced about large, sedate looking
dogs of uncertain pedigree and num-
erous Scotch collies mingled with the
assemblage while on each was placed
the emblem of canine democracy for
which the owner separated him SELF
from dollars two.
The crusade has already ASSUMED
proportions which insures the swell
ing of the eity's bank account to Il
considerable extent and Marshal Van
Landinghain is authority for the
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-02-11
WILL REORCANzE
NATIONAL TREASURY
CORTELYOU is EXPECTED TO
GIVE HIS NEW DEPARTMENT
A GENERAL SHAKING UP
NEXT YEAR

WASHINGION, oD. ll."NOue OIL
the various cabinet changes that has
been arranged by President Roose-
welt is attracting the attention of
that in the Treasury department. On
March Secretary Shaw will retire
and George B. Cortelyou will take
his place. The Postmaster General s
promotion to the treasurery portfolio
was bitterly opposed in the, senate,
but, like all the opposition to the
White House during the Fifty-Ninth
congress, melted away when it put it's
forces to work, and Mr.. Cortelyou
was confirmed.
Most of the objection to Mr. Cor
telyou in the senate was based on the
fact that he was chairman OF the
Republican national committee. This
came from Republicans and Demo-
Gratis alike Mr.. Cortelyou's friends
lost no time in starting the story
that the Standard Oil-National City
bank interests were back of the OPP
position. While this was an effec-
tive means OF fastening Mr.. Cortel-
you's confirmation, it proved roor-
back in that it. suggested that Mr..
Cortelyou's alleged unfriendliness to
the Rockefeller-Harr interests
might have it's source in his friendly
fonlipo for. tho ot opr pvOun nf
New England financial interests
the Morgan-Hill crowd.
That there will be lively shake
up in the Treasurery department
when Mr.. Cortelyou takes hold no
one doubts When he took charge of
the Postoffice department he lost no
time in reorganiZirg it. He is a
great man for detail, habit he ac-
quired when he was a clerk. not
many years ago. He moves with ex-
treme caution, and he wants to know
just what is being done by his bureau
chiefs, and especially what they tell
the newspaper men.
He will not change his tactics when
he becomes Secretary of the Treas
ury. In fact, the information from
the Treasury department is immense
~ valuable A few days or a few
hours max mean immense profits to
those who learn in advance what the
Secretary of the Treasury intends
doing to relieve the money market,
to anticipate interest on bonds, or a
call for bank statements.
Will Put Check on Leaks"
No one denies there have been
leaks from the Treasury in the
past But it is equally certain that
Mr.. Cortelyou will see to it that the
leaks if they continue will not be
as frequent or to the profit of the
same set of individuals that have
profited from them in the past. This
will necessitate many changes, so Mr..
Cortelyou's friends announce, in the
personnel of the Office. Nor will this
extend merely to the higher officials
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-02-11

This isn't such a bad old world
after all. Just think what might
happen that never does.
fnd fortunate is the man who
doesn't have to pay dressmaker
for recovering his missing rib.
When man tells you that all he
asks is chance it's a safe bet that
he is looking for a iead-pipe cinch
Chicago News.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-02-11

A frenzied financier says the open
season for suckers is never closed.
When a man tries to please his
wife's relatives he attempts the i'm
possible.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-02-11

statement tfgt there are many more
dogs on " ich the tax has not YET
been paid.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-02-11
No Recent Precedents.

In the two immediate predecessors
to Mr.. Cortelyou, Secretary Gage and
Secretary Shaw, he has no precedent
for shake-ups in the Treasury depart
ment. Mr. Gage came from the head
of the First National bank of Chi
cago to the cabinet and he never
lost his interest in high finance while
he held the Office. He paid little at
tention to details and left this ent;r
ely to his subordinates, not a few
of whom made the most of ,Leir op
rortunities, and have since cstab
lished themselves firmly in the tjnan-
cial world.
T In line with the gossip about the
/ ipe lines" that the National City
balk-Standard Oil inte 'es.s are
charged with, having in he inner
workings of the Treasury depart
mont, it is said that these same inter
osis have kept UP their coEnection
with the Treasury department. and
have used it to their great profit by
getting information in advance of
certain actions to be taken by the
Secretary of the Treasury. No one
charges that either Secretary Shaw
or Gage had anything to do with the
leaks, but rather that the practice
grew out OF their failure to go into
the detail of the work of the depart
ment or check up the actions of the
men in charge of the routine of the
Office.
Whether these charges are true or
not lot of people here believe they
are, and the eagerness with which
some of the followers of the Cortel-
you train are awaiting the change in
the treausry helps to confirm the
fairy tales of fortunes to be ma 2 out
of inside, information from Uncle
Sans gold warehouse.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-02-11

of the Treasury It will, no doubt,
include, as it did in the Postofice
department, those clerks and ac-
countants in position to learn what
is going on in the inner workings
of the department.
For this, reason every one expects
that the Treasury, like the postal
service, will be reorganized from top
to bottom. Frank H. Hitchcock has
been Mr. Cortelyou's right hand man
in the Postoffice department, where
most of the actual work in uncover
ing the frauds. Chief clerks and
he holds the Office of First Assistant
Postmaster General. He is sched-
uled for the place in the First As
sistant Secretary of the Treasury.
He is a tireless worker and has look
ed after many of the details of adj
ministration that Mr.. Cortelycu
could not manage himself, and which
he did not care to intrust to any one
else. BY a gradual process of elm
ination the Postmaster General got
rid of all the men who were active
ly engaged in the ferreting out of
the postofiice frauds of a few years
ago.
+ Former Postmaster General
Wynne, who is now Consul General
at London, LETT the cabinet to make
room for Mr.. Cortelyou. He was the
chief mover in the postal fraud inves-
tigation. Then Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General Bristow was
crowded out. 1t was he who did
others followed, and where they
were protected by civil service and
could not be got rid Of entirely they
were reduced in rank and put in
places where they are never heard
from. This is simply Mr.. Cortel-
you's way of building up his own or
ganization. He has his own ideas
about running things, and he wants
men who must depend upon present
and not past performances for their
standing.
The Treasury department has wit
messed fewer innovations than any
other since the foundation of the
government. AS the first great sec
retary, Alexander Hamilton, planned
it, SO it has been moving along ever
since, except for such enlargements
as the tremendous growth of the
country has demanded. The funda-
L4ental plan is unchanged. But Mr..
will make some changes for the bet
ter.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1907-02-11

cial club will be held Tuesday even
ing, February 12, at which time the
communication will be acted upon.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-07-30
Faeetlous Teetators.

VIII making often affords a man an
unrivaled opportunity of paying off
old scores and speaking his mind
without any fear of unpleasant conse.
quences TO himself
The great duke of Marlborough evil
IDENTIFY could not resist the tempta-
tion OF farewell slap" at his duch-
ess when he left her 10000 where
with TO spoil Blenheim in her own
way and e15.0OO to keep clean and to
go to law with
There is also a distinct note Of
spitefulness in the extract from the
testament of a Mr. Kerr who after
declaring that he would probably have
left his widow 10000 If she had al-
lowed him to read his evening paper
in peace, adds: But you must re-
member my dear, that whenever |
commenced reading you started play.
ing and singing. You must therefore
take the consequences. | leave you
$1,000. Grand Magazine.