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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21
PEACE CONFERENCE OPENS.
Representatives of Five Central Amer
ican Republics Meet at Washington.

Washington, d. c. - In the red
room of the Bureau of American Re,
publics, amid the smoke, not of bat.
tie, but of the flashlights of photo.
graphers, the peace conference of the
Central American republics convened
Thursday. The ceremonies incident
to the opening of the conference We're
informal. AS if by prearrangement
the plenipotentiaries of the five Cen
trail American republics parties to the
conference and the officials represent
ative of the American and other gov
ernments interested in the conference
arrived at the bureau at about the
same time.
Elihu Root, secretary of state, and
Senor Enrique CreeI, the ambassador
from Mexico, representative of the
two governments which had called
the conference into session, were es-
corted to the conference room by com
mittees of the plenipotentiaries.
In addition to the conferees and the
officials directly interested in the con
ference there We're in attendance Off
cials of the American state depart
ment and of the Bureau of American
Republics.
Secretary Root and Ambassador
Creel were presented to the pIenipo-
tentiaries and a few minutes were de-
voted to conversation. At 2:45 p. m.
Secretary Root was introduced to the
conference as temporary chairman. In
accepting the chair the secretary de
livered a brief address.
AS the representative of Mexico,
which Joined with the United States
in calliuas the con ference into haiuo
Ambassador Creel made an address.
Senor Luis Anderson, of Costa Rica,
for the conference, responded to the
addresses of Secretary Root and Am
bassador Creel
Permanent organization of the CON
ference was effected by the election
of Senior Luis Anderson as perma-
nent president.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21
sTRAus TO COTTON GROWERS.
Free Trade Speech Said to Have
Caused Apprehension.

Cotton Growers Startled" is the
the peculiar anti-protective speech de-
livered before the National Associa-
tion of Cotton Growers in Washington
on the fourth of October. Why should
the cotton growers have been startled
at the speech? With few exceptions,
the cotton growers are Democrats
who persistently vote for free trade
congressman from their southern dis
tricts. We would expect applause, not
apprehension, when a champion of
their pet idea makes a deliverance in
such harmony with their past predi-
lections.
Mr.. Straus did not tell them of their
dreadfully wrecked condition under
the operation of the Cleveland Wilson
German free trade act, nor of the
wondrous good fortune which had be-
fallen them in spite of themselves
through the Dingley rescue, nor of the
splendid achievements of American
trade and commerce through our pro
tectiVe system, through which our for
eign commerce has grown phenom-
enally and furnished consumption for
their productions; but deliberately ad
vised these intelligent gentlemen that
the time had come to call halt to
their onward and upward progress,
and encouraged them in follies the
hardships of which had pinched them
time and time again under free trade
conditions in the past
If these cotton growers were really
startled we welcome this rs evidence
of dawning sanity, not heretofore
visible, and trust we may soon see
them putting into effect their disap-
proval by their votes against the pol
icy which they have so much good rea-
son to fear
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21
Are Already on the Free List.

The Washington Democrat is much
worried about the tariff on print paper.
If the duty was removed it is not like
ly that the price would be affected in
the least, for there is no place from
where print could be imported where
the freight rates would not be pro.
hibitive. Not long ago the Democrat
wanted the tariff removed from logs,
out of which wood pulp is manufac-
tured, and now a number of more pre-
tentious papers are talking the same
thing. The joke of it is pulp logs now
are admitted free.-Iowa City Repub-
lican.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21
A BULLET ENDED HIS LIFE
c. 7. BARNEY, A NEW YORK
. FINANCIER, SUIClDED.
He was Recently Deposed as President
of Trust Company Which Failed
for $6o,oo0,ooo.

New York City.-Charles Tracy
New York, Nov. 15.-Charles Tracy
Barney, the deposed president of the
knickerbocker Trust Co., and until re-
Gently a power in the financial world,
shot and killed himself Thursday in
his home. His loans with the bank, it
is said, are amply secured and vixen
he was forced from it's presidency he
was, to all intents and purposes, elimi-
mated as factor in banking circles.
What i'll effects his unexpected taking
off might have had On the financial
situation generally had long since
been discounted.
In distress of mind over the dissipa-
tion of his private fortune and the loss
of his high standing among business
associates, intimate acquaintances find
the hidden drift that broke his health
and reason. And even much of his
wealth might have been saved. At the
time that Barney was dying at his
home a handful of friends at a down
town office were concluding an ar
rangement by which the loose ends of
the bankers many enterprises were
to be gathered up and financed by a
stock company which, if not wholly
successful, would at least rescue from
the wreckage sufficient to insure his
future financially. The conference
broke up at the announcement that
Mr.. Barney was dead.
Mr.. Barney, who was in his fifty
seventh year, shot himself early
Thursday while alone in his chamber
on the second floor of his home. The
bullet entered below the heart and
lodged under the left shoulder blade
He died about 2:30 p. m. after suffer
ing intensely.
Mr.. Barney was president of the
Knickerbocker Trust Co., which clos
ed its doors at the beginning of the re-
cent financial crisis The institution
was one of the largest trust companies
in the city and had liabilities estimat-
ed at from 100000, 900 to $4,000, 900.
Mr.. Barney had long been prominent
in the financial life of New York and
was Interested in many enterprises.
He was born in Cleveland, O., Janu.
airy 27, 1851. He was the son Of A. II.
Barney, president of the United EX-
press Co. After graduating from
Williams college in 1870, he married
Miss Lilly Whitney, sister of William
c. Whitney.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21
Let Well ENOUGH Alone.

The success of the Republican party
beginning with the election of William
Mckinley was the result of the decided
stand taken by the leaders in the in
terest of protection.
The prosperity of the country to-day
is due to the development of Ameri-
can industries guarded by protective
tariff.
The rank and file of the Republican
party are content to "let we'll enough
alone" and the vote at the coming
presidential election will undoubtedly
demonstrate that a good many Demo
Gratis about the United States are Of
the same opinion.-Scranton Tribune.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21

Advertisements are published at the rate OF
one dollar per square for one insertion and fifty
cents per square for each subsequent insertion.
Rates by the year, or for six or three mcnths,
are low and uniform, and will be furnished ON
application.
Legal and Oficial Advertising per square,
three times or less, a.; each subsequent lnser-
tioa 70 cents per square.
Local notices ~ cents per line for one tnSer-
Eertion; cents per line Tor each subsequent
con. ccutive insertion.
Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per
line Simple announcements of births, mar
IlageS and deaths will be inserted free.
Business cards, five lines or less. 80 per year;
i've lines ut the regular rates OF adver-
I sing.
No local inserted for less than IS cents per
issue.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21
Another View of the Case.

In his Kentucky speeches Mr.. Bryan
claims for himself the credit of the
policies of the Roosevelt administra
tion. President Roosevelt has done
nothing not approved by Republican
platforms; consequently, Mr.. Bryan
must have been convert to Repub
licanism all the time. This view Of
the case is more plausible than that
any Republican can be Bryan Dem
ocrat.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21

Believers in woman suffrage and the
most scornful disbelievers will unite,
unless they were born without humor,
in enjoying social comedy presented
by a recent election in small town.
says Youths Companion. Two wom-
en- were nominated to succeed their
husbands as members of the school
committee. Some citizens, who do
not favor women on the board, nomi-
mated the husbands for reelection. The
excitement walked up many men who
had not voted on school questions for
.-ears and with pathetic loyalty to
their sex, they swelled the vote for
the husbands to overwhelming defeat
Of the wives.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21
The Judge Set Aside the Verdict

Grand Haven, Mich. - A Jury
on Friday found William Shin.
mel guilty of the murder IS months
ago Of Martin Golden, storekeeper
at Denison, but Judge Padgham set
aside the verdict and severely scored
the jury, declaring the evidence,
which was entirely circumstantiaI, did
not warrant the verdict The Judge
released Shimmel on $500 bond
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21

Ernest Thompson Seton, writing in
a current magazine on the Marriage
OF Animals remarks casually that
domesticity is 'notoriously bad for
the morals of animals" and cites the
dog as a conspicuous example. The
immortality of animals! Heavens and
CArlhl
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21
Fond of the Sea.

King Alfonso of Spain is very fond
of the sea. He and Queen Victoria
Eugene find one of their greatest
pleasures at San Sebastian in the
long daily swim. Both are perfectly
at home in the water, the youns
queen having early acquired the art
of swimming in Solent waters.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21

Men who think rise says a Phila-
delphia paper. Still quite a number of
men glued to street car seats are in
brown study when a tired woman en-
ters and clutches a strap.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21

A New Yorker, who is counting
trouble says that bold, high foreheads
are not evidences of intellect, because
children and women have bolder and
higher forehaads than men. When he
gets through being scalped by the
women he will realize that a bold
tongue is no evidence Of intellect.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21
JOB PRINTING.

The Job department of the PRESS IS complete
and affords facilities tor doing the best class of
work. PARTICULAR ATTENTION PALDTo LAW
PRINTING.
No paper will be discontinued until arrear-
ages are paid except at the option of the pub
Usher.
Papers sent out OF the county must be paid
Ger in advance.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21

The navy says the army cant shoot.
and the army says the navy has to
give vaudeville shows in order to get
recruits. 1t may yet turn out that
the militia is the most efficient branch
of the service.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21

DR.. Emil Koenig of Berlin says that
the decay of the entire human race is
imminent He should not take so Sc
riously these reports from Pittsburg
and New York.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21

The claim of DR.. Sewell that most
alleged mad dogs are really only suf-
fering from thirst will not, however,
encourage many philanthropic souls
to rush out with a pan of water and
offer them a drink.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21

Europe is getting ahead of us in the
balloon industry only because the war
Office over there doesn't care what it
does with the taxpayers money.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21

Twenty-four millions of dollars Ia
the official estimate Of the amount of
money expended in Europe this year
by Americans touring in automobiles.
The basis of the calculation is that
there are 5000 touring parties, aver
aging five persons each, spending $40
a day for two months. Great guess
ing!
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21

American theatrical companies are
to tour British provinces. Newcastle
will be kept abundantly supplied with
GOALS
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21

The fortune of $3,OOO,OOO left by the
late Robert Pinkerton shows that it
sometimes is profitable to mind other
peoples business.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21

The dearest friends today may be
the most desperate enemies to-mor
row
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21

There is every reason in the world
why the farmer should feel compla-
cent who has a few hundred bushels
Of wheat stored aMay.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21

If the sprightly young collegians
were as swift in their studies as they
are in their class rushes, remarks the
Cleveland Leader, what a wealth of
wisdom Ohio would have in a few
years.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21
Bank Cashier Suicided.

Kansas City, Mo. - J. b. Thomas
aged 63, cashier of the Bank of Al
bany, Mo, committed suicide Friday
py shooting, in hotel here.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21

The will of Henry j. Bryer provd-
ing that no grandchild who uses to-
bacco or intoXicants or frequents sa-
looms before reaching the age of thir-
ty, shall inherit any of the property
is surely safe and sane document.
If a man reaches that age without
having formed bad habits it is almost
a certainty that he newer Will
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21

The substitution of radium as a.
money metal would be a great CON
venience for the men who are en-
deavoring to collect all the coin in the
world
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21

Although the steamships are getting
awfully fast, even the best of them
will carry dining rooms and sleeping
apartments for a few decades yet.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21

Says the Baltimore American, mo
toriety and fame are the twin sisters
OF ecccntricity" Must mean triplets.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-11-21

There is more in this pompadour
matter than appears on the surface
rats for instance.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-01
SENTENCE Of
FORTY YEARS
AND $4,000
. Can Be Imposed Upon Editor Of
seei.t, ok Herald and Hi.
Advertising Manager
PUBL LISHED "RED
LIGHT" PERSONALS
And Other Offensive Matter in
Violation Of u. S. Statutes---
Case Up Tomorrow

Associated Press to The Evening Times.
New York, April Fines Of $4,000
each and forty years in prison at hard
labor are the maximum penalties that
can be invoked upon James Gordon
Bennett, proprietor, and Manly M. Gill;
man, advertising manager, of the New
York Herald, who pleaded guilty to
eight indictments for circulating OBJ
scene matter through the mails and
upon whom sentence will be pro-
nounced tomorrow by Justice Hough
OF the United States circuit court. It
is considered likely that they will es-
cape heavy fines. The New York Her
aid company, as corporation, was
also named as a defendant and will he
fined.
The charges grew out of the publi-
cation in the Herald for many years
OF a "red light personal column" It
was alleged to be the source of many
evils and a crusade for its suppression
was inaugurated by the Parkhurst So
ciety and many prominent ministers
of the city, aided by the Hearst news
papers. Publication of the offensive
personals was discontinued some time
ago as. a result of the public clamor.
On March William Rand, Jr., as
counsel for the Herald corporation and
the indicted individuals, pleaded guilty
in the United States circuit court to
eight charges of sending through the
mails newspapers containing obscene
and suggestive advertisements, in vio-
lation Of section 3,S9S of the revised
statutes of the United States. At the
request of Attorney Rand sentence was
suspended until tomorrow, when the
indicted individuals will appear before
the court in person,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-01
COUNSEL FOR
HARRY THAW
REST CASE
Are Supremely Confident That
He Will Be Found Perfectly
AND THAT TRIAL
WILL BE RESUMED
The Present I Hearing Will Prob
ably Come to a Close by
Tuesday Night
CONJECTURES MADE
BY BOTH SIDES
Jerome Does Not Look for Com
mission to Finish for Several
Days
CONJECTURES MADE.
BY BOTH SIDES

Associated Press to The Evening Times.
*.s y
New York, April lit is proba-
BILE that the Thaw lunacy commits .
sion will report Thursday morn
' ing. The case was adjourned last
week until this morning and when =
the jury was called before the =
court today, Justice Fitzgerald.
adjourned again the trial until .
Thursday morning at 1O:3O =
o'clock. The lunacy commission
Will meet tomorrow and it is ex-
pected that they will be ready to =
report Thursday.
Il ***** *****
New York. April 1.-Counsel for
Harry K. Thaw announce that the
Thaw side rests so far as further tes-
timony by their side is concerned he
fore the lunacy commission. The de-
fense believes that this will help to
bring this hearing to close by Tues
day night, and that the trial delayed
for more than a week by the move
ment to determine Thaw's sanity at
the present time. can be Immediately
resumed. The defense assumes, Of
course, that the commission will find
that Thaw is now sane In fact they
are supremely confident of such an
outcome basing their opinion on the
splendid showing Thaw is said to have
made when questioned by the COM
missioners.
District Attorney Jerome does not
share the opinion of the defense that
the commission will conclude it's
hearing on Tuesday. He said the de-
fense was assuming too much and
expressed the belief that several days
would elapse before the commission
reported.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-01
ROADS BOOST
GRAIN RATES
TO THE EAST
Increase of From 2 to 4 Gents
Per cwt. Announced Legal
Battle May Result.

Associated Press to The Evening Times.
Chicago, April What is believed
to be the beginning of a concerted
movement by the railroads of the coun-
try to raise freight rates all along the
line was inaugurated today, when all
trunk lines out of Chicago raised the
rate on grain and grain products from
this city to the Atlantic seaboard from
2 to cents q hundred. Formal notice
of the increase has been filed with the
interstate commerce commission and
will probably result in legal battle
over the constitutionality of the rate
regulation law.
on grain from Chicago to Boston New
York and other Atlantic ports has
ranged from 1914 to Is cents hun
dredweight. These have now been ad-
vanced to liz and 10 cents. respec-
lively. 1t Is stated that similar in
crease will soon be made from this
city, st. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas
City and other middle west points to
the gulf ports.
An increase in grain rates at this
time of the year, when navigation on
the Great Lakes is just opening, is un-
precedented. In the past the grain
tariffs have usually been lowered in
the spring and advanced in the fall,
when the crop movement is on and
lake navigation closed.
The action Of the railroads is looked
upon as a measure of retaliation for
the adverse legislation and public agi-
tation against them during the last
year. Railway officials allege as the
chief reason for raising the rates that
they have found It impossible to bor-
row money, owing to the present inse-
curity of stocks. It is not known what
action, If any, the interstate commerce
cimmission will take in the matter,
but it is probable an investigation will
soon be made to determine whether
the new rates are Just and reasonable.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-01
ASYLUM INSTEAD
OF THE GALL0WS
John M. Crane, Wife Murderer,
is in the Last Stages of
Mental Degeneracy.

Associated Press to The Evening Times.
Kansas City, Mo-, April 1.-Within
the next few days a jury will be called
to investigate the mental condition of
John M. Crane, sentenced to hang the
18th of this month for the murder Of
his wife. Two prominent physicians
who have examined Crane declare that
he is in the last stages Of mental de-
generacy. The convicted man walks
the floor of his cell continually, clap
ping his hands and whispering contin-
ually to himself.
Crane shot and killed his wife. Hem
rietta, in this city on July 6, 1905. In
sanity was pleaded at the trial by the
attorneys for the defense. but Crane
was convicted of murder in the first
degree and condemned to DEATH Since
the trial his mental and physical con-
dition has been constantly growing
worse and It is now almost certain that
he will be sent to an asylum instead
of to the gallows.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-01
NO HUNTING
PERMITTED
HEREAFTER
Ramsey County Farmers Devise
Novel Game Law Providing
$50 as Penalty
HUNTERS FROM
OUTSIDE BARRED
C. N. Builds $4,000 Restaurant
at Devils Lake---Chauses in
U. S. Land Office

Times.
Devils Lake, April 1.-The farmers
of Norway township, Ramsey county,
have devised a game law satisfactory
to themselves. even If displeasing to
the hunters, and somewhat beyond
their legal powers. At recent town
meeting, the electors solemnly pro-
ceeded to enact a law prohibiting
hunting in the township by any one
not a resident thereof, and providing
fine Of $50 against any Philistine
invading the happy hunting grounds. /"
After enacting said measure. the town
authority proceeded to take legal steps
on the validity thereof, but whether
the advice causes any doubt in Nor
way township as to the validity of
the law or not is unknown.
Hon. NJ. H. Brennan succeeded Hon.
Ole Serumgaard as register of the
land Office today. The retiring official
is universally regarded as having been
very competent and satisfactory Off
cial, and the appointee as eminently
fitted for the place. Numerous
changes in the personnel of the land
Office force have occurred or will oc-
cur in short time. Alvin Clark.
chief clerk, will leave to take posi-
ton in Washington state; w. D. Deck
er, clerk, has left to take a position
in the Indian service in Oklahoma, and
has been succeeded by B. H. Moore of
Ashley, N. D.
Work has been commenced on the
various railroad improvements now
being made or soon to be commenced.
The report that a crew of snow SHOW
elers was at work on the Aneta
branch was evidently a mistake. as
the line has been open to Warwick
for a number of weeks. and there has
been no work this side of Warwick.
The snow is practically gone on the
grade, however. SO work may COM
mence at any time and the branch
should be completed within two weeks
thereafter. The company will soon
commence the erection of $4,000
eating house, just west of the new
passenger depot. similar in architec-
tural design and construction to the
depot. 1t is also reported that fifteen
stalls will be added to the round
house, a new freight depot built and
important additions made to the
ShOnS