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The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-02
FOR BIG CANAL
CAIRO TO GULF
WELL KNOWN CIVIL ENGINEER
URGES GOVERNMENT TO
BUILD 1T.
TO COST FORTY MILLION
Fraud Order Against Missouri Land
Scheme Presidents Pathfinder"
Coming West--Big Trees
to Be Saved.
Special to The Bulletin.

Washington, July LA new plan
for connecting the Mississippi with
the South Atlantic II now attracting
attention. Lewis NJ Haupt. well
known engineer. would construst
ship canal reaching from Cairo, Ill.
TO Brunswick. Ga Hc asserts that
this route Is only 1906 miles lang and
that 1t would be the shortest and
most practicable connection obtain
able between the Mississippi valley
and the Atlantic coast. MIR. Haupt
wOud utilize q number Of the rivers
of the south. and thinks that the err
tire canal could be constructed for
100000. coo. He III confident that II
would pay for itself within thirty
years There IL not the slightest
question Of the value Of a waterway
connection between the middle west
ana The south Both sections would
benefit by II 10 great degree u
would have a direct and Immediate
effect on railroad rates. something
that the National Rivers aud Harhnrs
congress long has pointed out This
organization, however, is not ady8
eating any especial scheme, but II
deVot.ng It's efforts to furthering the
general cause of national waterway
beterments. 1t believes that the fel-
eral government should expend $5as
100000 year in improving the rivers
and harbors of the country, and
while Its efforts have been crowned
with considerable success. as Ii eyi-
'denced in the big appropriation bill
passed a the last session and The ap-
pointment by President Roosevelt oF
the Inland Waterways commission, II
lis endeavoring to keep alive the sei,
Ftiment already created. Its secretary,
Captain !. r. Ellison, Of Clneinn4si,
by increasing fne membership. whicfl
|alyeady is large and to be found in
every state in the union.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-02
STILL IN H|O|NC
IS ROCKEFELLER
UNITED STATES MARSHAL AND
HALF DOZEN DEPUTIES VAIN.
LY scouR THE COUNTRY FOR
HIM.

New York. July 1.-The search for
John d Rockefeller by United States
Marshal Henkel and half dozen depu-
ties. who wish to serve him with
subpoena directing him to appear be-
fore Judge Landis, of the United
States court in Chicago on July 6, is
still unrewarded and Rockefellers
whereabouts is as much of a mystery
as ever. Three other Standard Oh
officials. Charles NJ. Pratt. !. Q. Bars
tow and VIM. NJ. Hutchinson, were
served with subpoenas today.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-02
P|NK[RTON SPIES
AMONG MINERS
WE'RE PRESENT AT ALL MEET,
iNcs OF WESTERN FEpERA.
TON OF LABOR.
DETECTIVE SHOT FIRST
n Victor Riot Swears One Witness
For aywood--Defense viii
Close Case This
Week.

Boise, Idaho July morris Fried
man, he stcnographer who left the
employ Of the pinkerton Agency at
Denver to write book In which He
published certain correspondence OF
the agency that passed through his
bands, was again today the principal
tlgaro at the Stcunenberg murder
trial, Mgre than hat the day was
occupied in reading 10 he jury copies
of documents which Friedman took
from the Pinkerton records. They
were chiefly daily reports of secret
agents operating as spies among the
unions and union men at Cripple
Creek, Victor. Glohoyille. Colorado
City, Trinidad and Denver, and show
ed the complete surveillance Of the
Western Federation Of Miners and the
United Mine Workers of America dur
IN gthe labor troubles in Colorado In
1893 and 1904 pinkeron men sat III
the federation convention at Denver
In 1904 reporting all proceedings.
None of the reports produced BY
Friedman and read TO the jury by
Clarence Darrow contained other than
general references 10 the collateral IL
sues Ct the trial, but they were oifef-
ed In substantiatlon of the counter
claim OF the defense that the Pink.
erton Agency conspired for the de
struction of the Western Federation oil
Miners and the lives of Its leaders.
Friedman said that II he had known
this trial was soming up he wonlf
have taken many more letters and re.
ports Senator Borah pressed him @
tell Just what records there were IN
the Pinkericn office at Denver bearing
directly on this case, and while the
witness said he could not tell him q
any particular one he remembered
pdfflahd HI winch aaI9 manhsr n u u
crimes were laid at the door Of the
Western Fedora ion of Miners.
Another interesting witness was
James l. Wallace attorney. of Cripple
Creek who served with the militia
first as private and then as lievienant
during the strike of 1904. He relar
ted instances tending 10 shaw the mis-
use of power cf the militia by the Mine
Owners. he also gave the criminal
records of some of the gun fighters I'M
ported by the mine owners; he then
told of the working of the car sys-
tenn.
Wallace reeited circumstances COZ,
nected with the looting of union stores
and newspaper office, and swore he
saw X. G. Sterling, chief detective
for the Mine Owners. fire the first
shot in the Victor riot the day of the
Independence Station incident.
Counsel for the defense said today
that they might finish with all their
witnesses except Haywood and Meyer
by the end of the week. The defense
has prepared its draft of instructions
and the state is working up its rebut-
tai case so that the end fthe trial
approaches
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-02
LUTHERAN EDUCATORS.

snr,ngfield, Ill. July lone OF the
,a~gest gatherings of college profess
ers ever held in the United states
convened today in Trinity German
Evangelical Lutheran church in THIS
a,,w and will continue in session until
Eriadv The conference is composea
:, tbe professors Of colleges, semin.
aries and universities Of the missouri .
synod of the church. which comPrlses Prise.
- ,Se .O greater part Of the United states
"a canada and also Brazil
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-02
DUE IN TWENTY YEARS
Chicago City Railway Mortgages Prop
erty to Secure Money-Will
Improve Road.

Chicago. July IA mortgage on
the properties of the Chicago City
Railway company was recorded today
calling for an issue Of bonds for slO,-
600 .0O0. due in twenty years at 5 per
cent interest. The money is for use
in the general improvement Of the
C mpany's line and is the first step
in carrying ont the reorganization
plans provided for by the ordinance
psssed last April.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-02
ARRESTED
Charged With Assauitins His Daueh-
ter-ls Discharged On Evi-
denee Of His Wife.

New York. July Thomas Boyian.
father of lt le Viola Boylan, who was
assaulted and murdered several days
ago was arrested today and taken BE-
fore q magistrate whore he was dis
charged. there not being sufficient
evidence against him To warrant his
detention.
When arIa,Ene1 Boz Ian maintained
that h had no actual knowledge
aboui the murder Of the child and his
wife gave evidence IN his favor.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-02
AMERICANS LEAVE
Hiah Commissioner Says They Come
to Canada for Greater Peace
and Prosperity.

London. July 1--Wilfred Lau-ier.
premier of Canada, was a guest Of
honor at the Dominion Day dinner at
the Canadian club tonight Lord
Stratheona. high commissioner for
Canada presided and in his address
referred 10 the increase Of Amcrif an
immigration into Canada declaring
that pany American farmers knew
that in the Canadian northwest pros
pecs we're better adm that peace and
order were more assured in Canada
than in the United States.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-02
FESTIVAL FOR NEW CANAL.

Brussels. july THE port OF Zea
b. gge. which IS the hariror Of the neF
Rruges-Heyst canal was formally op
ened to commence today. The-eanal
has been cons frueted at a cos q
about ss.Goe.o00 and is aFaiiAble Tor
sea-going ships Of the largest size
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-02
TO MOVE BIG WHEAT CROP.

Spokane, Wash, July 1.-Two nun
dred miles of the Spokane division OF
the Great Northern railway VIII Ee
laid with 9s-pound rails, replacing u
round rails. The work vii be started
from Spokane and extended westward
the track being replaced in time to
move the grain crop, which, in the
Spokane country will be near the a.
o0o. 900 bushel ark this season.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-02
wIrHpRAws FROM TEXAS.

Uewark. n. J., July 1.-The Puden-
tisl Insurance Company ioday an
that. following the example
of other life insurance companies. il
would withdraw from Texas. consider
ing It impossible to comply with the
Law recently passed in that state.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-02

First Assistant Postmaster General
Hitchcock who Is becoming known as
the political pathfinder for the ad.
ministration. is leaving in TWO or
three days for an extended western
tour. His trip this time will really
begin IN Ohio and will go as far west
as the Paeihc coast The postonice
department official is now al Oyster
Bay. where he is receiving final in
structinns from the president II Is
ieliese hv some that Mr. Hitchcock
Is being sent 10 make a careful analy-
SIS Of the Taft sentiment. VIII ie others
are Of the opinion that he is under
secret orders from President R0ose-
welt himself 10 ascertain Just how
deop and earnest Is the third term
idea So far as Mr.. Hitchcock Is cen
cerned. there Is M hope of getting
any Information from him. He pro-
tests against the newspapers Of Tie
'conntry des cnating these freQu NJ
trips as political tours. Il IS fact.
nevertheless. tha5 there is a eocd
deal more politics in these flying jour
news than there Is postOffice blsi1css
on his recent tour OF the southern
states for Instance. he rounded np
the chairmen Of he Republican com
mIttees. the 'paircnage referees" ard
got in touch with the Republicans gen
q. ally. The newspapers. without r.
gard 20 political complexion. insist
that b. saw these men not altosethe.
on behalf Of be postal service hu''
more largely on strictly p7rig poiit~
.tai business There. Mr tiichc7ck 8
forthcoming western TRIP IS exciting
considerable speculation
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-02
DANGER IS OVER
Ice Famine in New York Thought to
Be Nearing End-Have Situation
In Hand.

New York. July 1.-The danger c.
an ice famine in Grea er New YORK
due to the strike of drivers employed
by the American Ice company seems
TO have passed by reason of activity
of the independent dealers. Both the
ice company and the drivers claimed
tonight that they had the better of
the situation.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-02
COMMITTEE APPOINTED
Missouri Synod Settles College Cues
tion-To Raise Funds For New
School.

Milwaukee. July i.-After debating
the matter six years the Missond
Sga-d Of the English In heTan
Church has settled the college question
by appointing a committee on ways
and means to raise nds TO build a
central college and 10 report IN t~o
years. Adolph Peterson and Pete
Lies. Of Buffalo. were elected trustees
Of be Synod
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-02
SHOT TO DEATH
Nebraska Man Killed Because he
Didn't Like the Way Horses
Were Cared For.

Lincoln. Neb.. July IL. A. Corv
travelling salesman for a wholesale
harness establishment AT Hastings.
Neb-. was shot and killed BY Charles
GiOe. a liveryman Ct Hallam. twenty
miles from Lincoln this afternoon
The men quarreled about the manner
in which Cory's team had been cared
for. Goe surrendered
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-02
DEBT DECREASES
Monthly Statement Shows Big In
crease Of Cash in Govern
nent Treasury.

Washington. July The monthly
statement of the public debt shows
the debt. less cash in the treasury.
ss7s, So. 1855. decrease for the month
s1c.1s5.7T5. Cash in the treasury In
creased during the month nearly sll-
0eJ.0OO.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-02
STRIKING TeLEeRAPHERs.

ssn Francisco. July Manages
o-p-,a, of the Western Union saia
,od.v that the situation showed de-
S,sos Improvement- Several oper-
ators had returned 70 work be sala
and the company was taking on com
-stenf men who applied for positions
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-02
GARBAGE sslKEss GO TO WORK.

New YORK. July 1-The sirifisg
irivors 81 garbage teams voted tbs
afternoon to return to wo-k and thea
snhnif Their grievances N Mayor NC
C'eIlan. TIE mayor had previously
told shem he would give them 10 con
slderation uniii they returned to work
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-02

II They Are His First Crop.
Nothing is more pathetic than an
old man who is trying to SOW wild
oats.
The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-02

uNLEG3 A THING has teen advsr,
tred properly V has not really hsrn
offered for sale.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-08-16
Notes of Current Eventss

Women make big hit in Wisconsin as
real hired farm hands"
Secretary Cortelyou is at work pre-
pairing an authorized life of William Nc
Kinley.
New York surgeons restore the sense
of smell to a patient by removing a piece
of the skull.
Clothes of some Americans at Ambas-
sador Reds reception aroused derision
of English ~tai!ors.
The tobacco plant has grown larger
and more profuse in the United States
than in any other country.
Gov. r. B. Glenn of North Carolina is
to be one of the chief speakers at the an
nual dinner of the Brooklyn Democratic
Club at the Brighton Beach hotel on Aug.
20.
Money is Sc plentiful in Chicago that
one man, arrested in Milwaukee, says he
picked up" $3.50 on the streets of that
city; another man strolls through the
levee with S2,395 and is not molested.
In Texas a woman has the contract to
carry the mail from Kiffe to Siernal Hill,
and Georgia has a woman mail carrier
who travels a 40mile route tri-weekly,
besides managing a large farm.
Nahum P. Humphrey, 81 years old, of
Springfield, Mass, claims to be the only
man now living who shook, hands with
Gen. Lafayette when hat worthy attend.
ed the dedication of the Bunker Hill
monument.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-08-16
Tragedy Of . Wooden Leg.

A man who travels on a wooden leg
says: about the worst accident we
ever heard Of Detailing a wooden-legged
man is the time one such unfortunate
was going home after being to a late
supper, about 3 O'Clock in the morn
ing, when his peg leg went through an
auger hole in the grub plank sidewalk,
and he kept circling about that hole all
night thinking he was going home. The
editor of this paper wants it distinctly
understood that we cannot vouch for
the truthfulness Of this story."-Kan-
Sas City Journal.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-08-16
DAMAGE BY STORM.
Lives Are Lost and Crops In Many
Places Are Ruined.

TINSSS
Twenty-Five lives are reported to
have been lost and property damaged to
the amount of 100000 in a tornado
which swept over the southern part of
Minnesota. northern Iowa, the south
western end OF Wisconsin and a part
of Illinois. Dispatches tell of deaths
in almost every point where the tornado
struck.
A farmer, his wife and son We're kill
ed near Mason City, Iowa, their home
being destroyed over their heads while
they were in bed. Two coaches of a
Green Bay, Wis, passenger train were
thrown over an embankment near Wi
mona, him., and three men were Sc
verely Injured. The wind reached q
velocity of about ninety miles an hour
and was accompanied by terrific rain
and lightning. The village of Joice,
Iowa, was wrecked by the wind and
one person killed II many injured.
Twenty or more buildings were I'M
rooted. At M~arshalltown a severe
windstorm, accompanied by hail, lev
eled corn, blew down loaded fruit trees,
I'M did much other damage. Shipping
at Clear Lake and many cottages We're
destroyed. A half dozen barns and four
houses near Rockwell were demolished,
Inc the roof was blown from the Cath
Ollie church at Rockwell. Many houses
were destroyed in Winona and the roofs
were torn off twenty large factory
buildings. The lighting plant was
wrecked, leaving the town in darkness.
The power house of the local street
car company was put out Of commits
sion. The cars in the streets We're over
turned, and one of them was carried
against the side of a store. Fronts Of
the stores were blown in n the wind
carried all kinds of stock from the
shelves and counters.
A severe hailstorm practically devas-
tated the corn crop in the western
townships of Peoria county, ILL.,, and
the east tier of townships in Knox
county. Hailstones twelve inches in
circumference cut the blades from the
corn as keenly as if the stalks had been
trimmed with a knife. Thirty thousand
acres of corn is completely ruined. The
loss Is estimated at 81 ,OOO,OOO to corn
alone in Peoria and Knox counties. A
fifty-five mile an hour win blew dur
ing the storm. The large hailstones
broke hundreds Of windows and the
strong wind uprooted trees and moved
farm houses and barns from their
foundations.
At Havana, ILL.,. Miss Margaret Lein-
niger, 1~6-year-old daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Leininger Of Mason City,
is dead, the result Of being struck by
lightning during the storm. At Pana,
Ill.,, lightning killed Frank Henderson
and Frank McMullen. Property valued
at $4,000 was destroyed. Corn was
stripped by the heavy hail, barns burn
ed, and hay stacks thrown over the
fields. A terrific electrical storm, ac-
companied by a cyclone. passed over
Litchfeld, ILL.,, uprooting trees and
causing much damage to buildings and
rrODS
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-08-16

Few tasks our engineers have to un-
dertake, are more difficult than b con-
.struction Of what Kipling calls
coast-wise lights'-especially II they -.
off-shore and not on the mainland cliffs
So writes VIM. G. Fitzgerald, in AM
article on building a lighthouse, in the,
Technical World Magazine. Yet how
well worthy the years Of patient toih
and heroic strife with wind and wave
the structure seems when the beams
OF its lantern sweep the wild seas for
he salvation Of ships, freighted witbs
human souls!
As to cost Of construction, while a.
shore station may be built Tor any suna
between $4,000 and 100000, an Of
shore light may cost as high as $780,
600 before it has finally conquered The,
fierce elements and is ready to send sea-
ward Its triumphant beams OF Perhaps
10000 candle power.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-08-16
Pnuperism and Crime Costly.

DR.. Charles NJ. Bushnell. who is con.
Quoting a mode public playground at
Washington, D.. c., says that the United
States spends S6,GO0,0G0.0OO annually on
the criminal, pauper and vicious classes.
This figure is based upon an extensive
study of what he calls the social illness
of :his country. He find that the aver
age factory hand earns S440 a year.
whereas the average criminal costs about
$1,000 a year. Disease as a result of
vicious habits is believed to be increas-
ing; suicides are increasing six times
as fast as the population. and murders
three times as fast, while insanity is also
making gains. In Industrial enterprises
we are, it appears, each year manning
and killing from two to nine times as
many persons as are killed in similar pur-
suits in Europe. He declares that we
have 100000 paubers and 100000
persons on the ragged edge of pauperism.
To-day he finds that over one-third Of orr
population live in large cities, as COM
pared with 3 per cent ia 1890.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-08-16

Henry c. Robinson, a witty lawyer
who used to live in Hartford, Conn,
once told the following anecdote n
evening, when he was introducing an
English author to a Hartford audience.
THE first famous Englishman whom
/ ever saw was Charles Dickens, who
lectured here In Hartford when I was
a young boy.
Il had read some Of the stories of
this great writer, and / was most anx-
ious to catch a glimpse Of the man him
expected to arrive 1 walked up and
down the street in front of the hotel
where l knew he was to stay.
The hotel was built close to the side
walk, and the long windows of the par.
lor were so low that the passer-by could
easily see into the room.
II soon realized that n gentleman
was sitting within, reading n paper. I
stepped close up under the window and
pressed my face against the glass, Gag
er to get a good look at the stranger.
Yes, it was he! 1t really was. l had
seen his picture often, and couldn't be
mistaken. l stared and stared, anxious
to impress every feature upon my mem
ory. After a few moments he turned
and saw me there, the little eager Yam
kee boy, gazing up at his face; and
then the famous man, laying aside his
paper, actually spoke, so hat 1 really
heard the voice Of the great Charles
Dickens himself, and he was really
talking to me!'
Here Mr.. Robinson paused impress
slvely, and some one on the platform
inquired, "What did he say, Mr.. Rob
inson?"
"He said" replied Mr.. Robinson. in
go away!"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-08-16

eNS
it. Conditions of modern life are making
tie average workman a bondsman to ma
chinery, according to the Bishop, who also
holds that extravagant expenditure by
the rich was one of the great causes of
social unrest.
There is no more righteous arraign-
mcnt of the church of our time" said
Bishop Potter, than it's Indifference to
the social condition of the classes made
up of the less favored men and women
down in the gutter. The church has
justly been severely criticised for it's lack
of interest in the mental, moral and ply
steal %upbuilding of the masses. The task
of the church is to translate the mind
of Christ, first by sympathy, then by
painstaking curiosity.
This sympathetic curiosity would lead
men in the church to know something OF
the strata of life below that in which we
are wont to move. Such sympathetic
curiosity will sooner or later lead to the
only hope for the socia! unrest of our
time, and that is personal service.
The trend of our generation toward
mechanical devices and the elimination
of the personality Of the workman, how
ever clever and valuable in it's material
results, is a trend to be afraid of. The
modern tendency to institutionalism is
destroying the habit and instinct of per-
sonal service. 1t is only by personal ser
vice that we can lift the man in the gut
ter.
when Christ found the hungry he fed
them when he saw the diseased he healed
them when he found the blind he made
them to see. Note how invariably he did
this himself, how often he illustrated the
principles of the New Testament by
means of the human hand. Some time
when you hav leisure go through the
Eew Testament and put a mark through
every incident that Christ did for the sor-
rows and the woes of human nature with
his own hand.
1.-The church should take active steps to
cure the physical and mental as we'll as
the religious ills of the people. The
church neglect of this vital work cannot
be remedied too soon. 1t has neglected
it's most important functions.
LAS a further and great cause of social
unrest there comes that monstrous profu-
sion and extravaganza of expenditure.
Determinations wealth cannot be too scath-
ingly condemned.
I'm such conditions of social life you
have COM very close to the origin of a
great deal of social unrest. l am pro-
foundly convinced that the impatience of
he masses comes more from the abuse
: wealth than from any other cause.
any of US who claim to be Christs dis
Pies are guilty in this particular. The
presence of luxury in the midst of tene-
ment life has become to the average work
er 4 source of irritation. He sees wealth
openly lavished around him while he
struggles in misery. Is it any wonder he
becomes wrought up at what he con-
siders the great injustice of society?"