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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-10-05
BENNINGTON BRIEFS


Miss Lulu Robinson of Bennington
Center spent Friday In Troy.
Miss Belle Smith OF Jefferson avenue
has returned from visit in Troy.
Westley Seymour OF Manchester is
the guest OF friends in town today.
Miss Julia Lamarre OF School street
has returned from visit In New York
Mrs. Josephine Contura OF Mill stree
left this morning for visit In Jackson
vile.
The parlor car which failed to make
Its appearance yesterday was In town
today again.
Philip Jennings OF Bennington Cen
ter has arrived from New York for a
weeks visit.
Homer Rudd, formerly OF this town
but now OF Pittsfield, Is In town today
calling on friends.
Miss Frances Ryan OF South street
is spending Saturday and Sunday In
Williamstown with friends.
Word has been received that Frank
Heath Also passed the recent Latin ex
animation at Middlebury with good
marks.
Quite large number from here at.
tended the Holy Cross VS. Williams
football game In WilllamstOwn this af-
ternoon.
The condition OF Miss Lousetta Hill
OF East Main street who has BEEN con.
fined to the house by Illness is inuch
improved.
C. b. Carleton and wife OF Marches
ter and Mrs. John Carleton OF London
derry are the guests of Raymond w.
Utley OF, Division street for few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. Robinson who have
been the guests of Mrs. Robinson's
grandfather. A. w. Wilcox OF Jefferson
avenue ,fBr some time. have returned t.
their home I'm New York.
There will be q special meeting OF
the X. Of G. tomorrow after late mass
to make arrangements to attend the
third degree initiation which will take
place next Tuesday In North Adams.
All members should attend.
The following item was handed into
the Banner Office this morning by
young lady from the Lyons district:
Last evening two ladies celebrated
the anniversary Of their birth by invit
ing In few friends to drink and be
merry with them. The evening was
most pleasantly spent with games, mu-
sic and refreshments. A feature most
pleasing to the ladies' was the intro
duction OF new beverage, known as
the 'Ployis Brand which when indulg-
ed In freely. seemed to have the effect
OF inhaled nitrous oxide. At late
hour the guests left for their respective
homes. all wishing that birthdays came
once each week"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-10-05
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News OF tho Town an6 Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers.

+. T. Wheeler is painting his store
on East Main street.
c. II. Karson of Gloversville, N. Y,
Is the guest OF friends In town.
Nelson Hitchcock of Pleasant street
left this morning to spend Sunday In
SALISBURY.
Thomas Howey OF Union street left
J this morning for visit with relatives
in Connecticut.
Frederick Barrett of Silver street
left yesterday for short visit In
Springfield, Mass.
Miss Eva Lassor of Mill street, who
has been confined to the house by i'll
ness, is able to be out again
The '"Sweet Kitty Bellairs" com.
pany which played in the opera house
last night, left this morning for Sara.
toga.
Engineer Sumner while out riding
in his auto Friday in the west part Of
the town, ran out of gasolene and was
obliged to walk home.
Albert schwartz OF Main street has
returned from two months stay at
Hot Springs, Arkansas where he has
been taking treatments.
If 175 people Came through the
storm to the Baptist Sunday school
last Sunday, how many ought to come
on fair day like tomorrow?
lockwood & Howe, real estate deal
ers, have sold the property belonging
% Grace Hannigan at the corner Of
County and Grove streets to James
Kelley who will take possession i'm
mediately.
Miss Fannie Fillmore will lead the
C. f. meeting In the Congregational
chapel Sunday evening at $50. Topic,
Opportunities-I.ittle Things Month
ly Offering. A welcome for young
people and others.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-10-05
RETAIL MERCHANTS
Meeting Friday Evening to Complete
Association Organization.

Pursuant to call and public notice,
the enrolled members of the Benning-
ton Retail Mercnants association met
last evening at the store OF Il. f. Hart
for permanent organization. 1t was
made the occasion Of a smoke talk and
reception to delegation of merchants
from the North Adams Merchants as.
ISOLATION who came up to lend help
ing hand. Those in the delegation
were: President II. G.. Tower. Vice
President c. Y. w. Jayne. Secretary s.
McVeigh and the following ex-presi-
dents: r. A. Thompson, F. +. Carlisle,
and w. Il. Lonergan.
Chairman Z. Il. Hart opened the
meeting by welcoming the delegation.
He then introduced New England Or
ganizer Elisha Winter of Boston who
outlined the national movement, In
support of which the organized New
England states of Maine, New Hamp
shire, Vermont and Massachusetts will
meet In New England convention at
Boston, Wednesday. October 30th. II
is the aim of that convention to ar
range for the more perfect organiza
ton Of every New England state be-
fore the holding Of the 18th annual con
vention Of the National body at BOs
ton May lila, 1908.
Mr.. Winter closed with strong ap
peal for the local organization. Pres
Tower of the North Adams Merchants
association and the other members OF
the North Adams delegation then out
lined the workings Of their organiza
ton. A number of the Bennington
merchants then expressed themselves
as strongly in favor Of forming a sim
liar organization. The following Off
GERS were elected: President, Il. f
Hart; vice president. j. Oliver Burt;
secretary, Edmund Iafranchise; treas
urer, II. j. Cole. The following com
mittee was appointed to nominate a
board of directors: r. s. Drysdale, Z
u. Patterson, M. WEIGH, John Multi
gan, A. +. Loomis.
The same committee was handed q
copy of the North Adams bylaws to re
port on. A vote of thanks was then
extended the North Adams delegation
and on motion the meeting was ad
journed.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-10-05
RALLY SUNDAY
Methodist Church Has Arranged All
Day Program.

Day Program.
Tomorrow will be observed as Rally
Day at the Methodist at 1890 a. m.
The pastor. Rev. DR.. Rowley, will
preach on Praying for Revival
and will make some important state
ments concerning the new church en-
terprise Every member Of the church
and congregation should be present.
At Ills a. m. a novel Rally Day
Railroad schedule will 60 into effect.
Time table (tickets) at Griswold's,
from the teachers or at the morning
church service Re sure to get one.
All who are not members Of other
schools, are urged to be present. Al
$50 p. m. Rally service for the Ep
worth League, E. d. Barber, leader
subject christian Stewardship,
special program. At 7.30 Rally for
young people. the pastor will preach
another sermon especially for them
subject, "Vipers which Cling to Young
Peoples Hands" A cordial welcome
to all.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-10-05
FOB SALE.

fNOR SALE-TwO National cash registers
Z Apply At Candy Kitchen for particulars.
7itG
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-10-05

U,OR sALE-Pair OF work horses, cheap.
IT, ". Armstrong. 7ltf
EOR SALE-l0ro0m house. nicely finished
| T. good barn. wagon shed and hen house
| IL acre Of land. Inquire Of Mrs Julia Elwell
| $50 SO. Branch st. ~
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-10-05

Trial Catarrh treatments are being
mailed out free. on request, by Dr.
Shoop, Racine. Wis. These tests are
proving to the people-without q
penny's cost-the great value of this
scientific prescription known to drug
gists everywhere as DR. Shops Ca
tarrh Remedy. Sold by all dealers.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-10-05
Christian Scientists.

Services, Sunday at 3 p. m. and Wed.
nesday at 7:45. corner Park and Scott
streets. Subject. Oct. 6, Are Sin,
Disease and Death Real" Reading
room open Wednesday and Friday
from 2 to s.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-20
PROBING RAKE0FES
Investigation to Be Made of
Alleged U. s. Reclamation
Service Crafts,

Associated Press to The Evening Times.
Boise, Idaho, March 20.-An inves-
tigation of the charges of graft among
government officials in connection
with reclamation work near this city
began here today, the board of engi-
neers of the reclamation service con-
men are D. w. Ross, supervising en-
gineer; Charles B. Smith, assistant
engineer; and F. c. Homme, constric-
ton engineer. Both reclamation prof.
ects in this vicinity are involved. The
hearing is the result OF an inquiry
conducted by Col. A. R. Greene OF
Kansas, special agent of the interior
department, who has been here secur-
ing evidence for some time. He is the
inspector who probed the Washington
and Oregon timber and land frauds
and who secured the indictment OF
western Kansas cattlemen for violat-
ing the homestead laws and illegal
fencing of public lands. 1t is alleged
that the accused officials violated the
law by favoring certain contractors
and have made deals in the purchase
of machinery and supplies, on which
they received large "rake-offs," en-
abling them to make large sums by
speculating in land.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-20
FOR USING
RAzORs ON
WHITE WOMAN
Mrs. Ella Rheton, and Children.
Attacked While Walking on
Public Road
TWO ARE PROBABLY
FATALLY CUT UP
Perpetrators Jailed in Schoolhouse
and Taken Out at Night
and Shot

Associated Press to The Evening Times.
Memphis, Tenn, March 20.-The
Commercial Appeal this morning pub
lished the following special from
Stamps, Ark: Charged with having
used razor with probable fatal effects
on Mrs. Ella Rheton, white woman,
and her daughter, and kicking her
son, a small child, about the road,
two colored women were shot to death
at McKamie, near here last night by
mob.
According to the statement of Mrs.
Ella Rheton, she and her two children
were attacked by a negro woman
while walking along a public road
yesterday, she and her daughter re-
ceiving knife wounds which it is
feared may prove fatal.
The women were arrested AMI
placed under guard at the school
house, the town of McKamie being
without Jail, from which place they
were removed by mob at late hour
last night and shot to death.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-20
EXPEDITE
PAIENT|NG
Of LANDS
Commissioner Of General Land
Office Makes Order Affect
ing Homesteaders
1T INVOLVES ABOUT
10000 ENTRIES IN ALL.
Patents Will Be Issued at Once
Where Entryman Obeyed
the Law
(By e. C. Snyder.)

Washington. d. c., March 20.-The
following general order to the COM
missioner of the general land office
was issued by the secretary of the
interior today:
This order is one of unusual import
ance to the citizens of the public land
states, involving as it does about 3d.
900 entries and large number of
locations and selections which have
accumulated in the general land office
at Washington pending examination
before the issuance of patents. In
cluded in these are about 10000 home
steads, 1000 timber and stone and
other cash entries made under speci-
fic laws, 1000 desert land and 500
mineral entries.
To bring the work up to date the
clerical force of the general land Of
flee working over time will be en-
ployed fully ten weeks. To further
expedite the work the secretary of the
interior, on recommendation of the
commissioner of the general land Of
fee. has extended the office hours of
the general land Office from 4:3O to
5 p. nj.
The arrearages in the local land
offices throughout the country will be
disposed OF as eXpeiitiously as possi-
BILE, the secretary having issued or
ders to redistribute and concentrate
at once the field and Office forces upon
the prosecution of this work in the
portions of the public domain wherein
the congestion is the greatest. In ad-
dition the local land officers have been
directed to allow final certificates to
issue on the large number of proofs
pcndiRg in their respective offices.
'tbsse oagers sill: at oncessolsider
and pass upon all final proofs for
lands within non-mineral areas, and
will allow final certificates thereon in
the absence of protest or objection.
The order of the secretary contem-
plates no relaxation of vigilance on
the part of the government in pre-
venting illegal acquisition of the pub
lie domain. 1t will bring relief. how
ever, to many thousands of deserving
entrymen, but offers no encourage
ment to unlawful filings. The order
does not affect coal land areas, but
these will be covered Immediately by
subsequent order and directions.
Because of the failure of congress
to provide an additional appropriation
for the necessary field inspections, the
work cannot proceed as rapidly as de-
sired, but the force and means now
available will be used to the utmost
limit to expedite the patenting of lands
where the entrymen have complied
with the law in good faith.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-20
WOULD SEND
HARRY THAW
TO THE CHAIR
District Attorney Jerome Bends
Every Effort to Secure a
Conviction
OF YOUNG PITTS
BURG MILLIONAIRE
He Successfully Objects to Dr..
Hamilton Being Permitted
to Testify

Associated Press to The Evening Times.
New York, March 20.-The taking Of
testimony in the Thaw trial was
dragged over into another day and
again 1t was experts who delayed mat
ters, their cross-eXamination having
taken much longer than was expected.
Delmas, chief of the Thaw battalion af
attorneys, hoped this morning to fin
ish his side OF the case early in the
day.
One report current was that Jerome
would today call a new witness, said
to be Miss Ida Vera Simonton. Miss
Simonton has been abroad for several
months, but it was stated was to have
arrived here today. Miss Simonton
met Miss Nesbit in Paris, it has been
said, when Miss Nesbit was there with
Thaw and it is stated that her testi-
mony would corroborate certain por-
tions of the Hummel affidavit.
Delmas called DR.. Allan McLane
Hamilton, as the first witness and
Jerome objected to DR.. Hamilton tes-
tifying at this stage of the Thaw case
and proceeded to argue the point.
When Delmas accused the district at
torney with trying to shut out the
truth. Jerome withdrew his objection
saying that he was ready to reopen
the entire Thaw case so that all the
Continued on page Az
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-20
PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT
PLANNING
May Tour World at Expiration Of
His Term as Chief Executive
Of United States
WILL HE AGAIN
REFUSE REELECTION
~. h.,
That Is the Main Question tina. =.
Bothering Hundreds Of His
Close Friends

Associated Press to The Evening Times.
Washington, D. c., March 2O.-
president Roosevelt will not permit
donal republican convention in my
judgment" said one of the big lead
ers of the republican party this week.
Il believe MIR. Roosevelt meant what
he said on the night of November 6,
1904, when he was elected president,
that he would not be candidate to-
succeed himself. That he regarded
his election as an election to Sec
ond term and that at the end of his
term he would retire to private life.
l have every reason to believe that
he 1s of the same opinion now.
But that does not say that he will
not again be a candidate for the high
office of president. My opinion is that
at the coming national convention a
man will be nominated who, in many
ways. will reflect the Rooseveltian
idea. Whether that man will be Sec
retary Taft, Vice President Fairbanks
or some one yet undreamt of, do
not know, but l am profoundly con-
vtnced that who ever is nominated
will be satisfactory to the present
chief executive.
With some one else in the White
House l can now see candidate that
might prove to be mighty interesting
and dn some particulars unknown in
the annals of our political history.
II happen to know that Mr. Roose-
velt desires above all things to make
q tour of the world a la Bryan, but
with this difference. He will go as
a close observer not as brief chron-
icler of the times, to so much per
letter as did our good friend of gov
ernment-ownership-of4public utilities
fame.
Should the president indulge the
thought, that is very close to him, and
travel with Mrs. Roosevelt, on tour
of reflection and observation through
the older civilization of both east and
west, kings and queens, emperors and
shahs will paysto him that honor due
to an ex-president of the United States
and Theodore Roosevelt the man. He
will take two years in which to 'gird,e
the earth and If my guess comes true
he will land in the country of his
birth just about the time the national
republican convention is to convene
In the summer Of 1912. And having
had four years of some other president
the people will just naturally demand
the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt
and the people usually get what they
60 after.
Years and ASSOCIATIONS with other
nationalities, with their influences and
their horizons SO different from our
own, will have done their work and
the radical of today will be the con-
servative of tomorrow. So look
upon Theodore Roosevelt's future ca
reer. "A pipe dream may be! Full,
however, of possibilities, you must ad-
nit"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-20
CALIFORNIA
IS swept BY
GREAT FLOOD.
Losses Estimated Into the Millions
Result from Sudden Rises in
Rivers and Creeks
PEOPLE TAKE TOTREE
TOPS FOR SAFETY
Chico, Oroville. San Jose and
Other Towns Almost En-
tirely Inundated

Associated Pre1s to The Evening Times.
Oroville, CAL, March 2O.-It is esti-
mated that the loss occasioned by the
flood in Oroville will be not less than
$650,000. The water is now falling as
far as Montgomery street.
All business houses on this street
are under six feet of water and the
individual losses range all way from
$4,000 to $25,OO0.
Chico, CAL, March 20.-Flood con-
ditlons are still serious and the viii
lage of Dreadful near Oroville has
been entirely destroyed by Feather
river. Over two hundred men, women
and children were drivn to take refuge
in trees and on tops of houses, where
they were eXposd to the rain and cold
for forty-eight hours. Small boats
rescued many. One boat engaged in
rescue work was capsized and seven
were drowned.
San Pose, CAL, March 90 More
damage has been done by floods in
creeks in the last "a hours, than in
the past Is years.
Stockton, CAL. March 20.-Stcckton
is suffering from the most disastrous
food in its history, the water in the
streets is from one to six feet deep.
Telephone, gas, electric power, street
car and railroad systems are denlor-
Continued on page 4.)
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-20
RESULT OF
LARCHM0NT
Massachusetts Boards of Trade
Take Up Licensing of Pas
senger Steamers.

Associated Press to The Evening Times.
Boston, March 2O.-With the recent
Larchmont disaster as a text, the
boards of trade in Massachusetts have
-. -'"ated movement, the purpose of
3eal g.. "cure national legislation
whlc,. c1st, make compulsory the
manning of licensed passenger steam
ers with trained crews. The matter
has been called to the attention of
President Roosevelt and Secretary of
Commerce and Labor Oscar L. Straus.
Formal representations have been
made that many passenger steamers
are today practically unnamed, ex-
cept by an irresponsible Glass;,
heterogeous lot of freight handlers
and Jumpers, who are more familiar
with carthooks and freight tracks than
with Nfeboats and life-saving devices;
who are already overworked and not
receptive to training, and therefore not
adapted to render effective aid in an
accident, but who, as often demonstra-
ted, themselves take possession of the
lifeboats and crowd defensless women
and children into the sea-"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-20
CHARGES GRAFT
TO HIGH OFFICIALS
Lower House of Russian Par.
lament Began Actual Work
of Session Today.
A...eiated Press Cable to The Evening

A..seiated Press Cable to The Evening
Tinea.
st. Petersburg, March 2O.-Without
any further allusion to the ministerial
declaration of policy, the lower house
of parliament today began the actual
work of the session with the organi-
zation of committees, which in Russia
are elected instead of appointed. The
committees on budget, on audit, and
on general finance, will be elected to-
morrow, Indicating that the discussion
of the budget will be the first in order.
The proposal to appoint a special
committee to organize famine relief,
led to prolonged and animated de-
bate, in which various groups parti-
cipated.
Judge Constantine Kaklugin, deputy
of the left party from the Don Region,
said that the famine had spread even
to the Cossack districts and that many
Of the Cossacks were destitute and
begging for relief.
A peasant deputy bodily charged the
government with stealing money in
tended for famine relief and referred
to assistant minister of interior Gurko,
who is alleged to have been involved
in the Lidval grain contract scandals,
as an example of corruption in high
places.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-20
HONEST N|GGER? HUH, JUDGE, THEY
Amt N0NE,' SAID SEAB0RN PACE

cause ebery niger what breaves is a
nat'ral bon thief an they can't trust
each other. Dere amt a niger on dis
yeah arth but what'll steal If he gifts
half a chanel, All toll 'em. Ah'll steal,
you'll steal, all niggers'll steal. II de
boss 'ud go away from this yeah sto'
five minutes de whole bunch oh us
niggers 'ud be in there helpin' ouah-
selves.
Charley Benjamin, he up an gets
mad at that and gifts kettle O. boilin'
watah and t'rows it In my face an
puts out one O. my eyes, an beats me
ober de head Jest to prove dat he's
honest. But he ain't,. jedge. Dey amt
no honest niggers."
Benjamin was fined $50.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-20
.ESCAPADES NOT
CRIMINAL ACTS
schoolmate Of Harry Thaw
Denies Tales Told About
Slayer Of White.

Associated Press to The Evening Times.
New York, March 20.-Harry K.
Thaw spent quiet day in the
Tombs. Yesterday afternoon Lawyer
Dan O'Reilly visited Thaw and helped
him prepare in duplicate a statement
sent from Lewellyn Gilliland of Van
Vert, Ohio, in which the latter de-
nounces as an injustice the stories
which he says were sent out last sum
mer from Wooster, Ohio, where Thaw
and he were schooimates at the Woos-
ter university.
As Mr.. O'Reilly was leaving the
Tombs he gave copies of the state
ment sent out by Mr.. Gilliland who
signed note to the effect that the
interview was authentic.
Gilliland's Story.
Mr.. Glliland says:
"The college escapades of a man
whose life is regarded as a success
are looked upon by the world as good
Jokes. Let that same man afterwards
fall from grace, and those same
pranks are regarded as crimes, and
thus 1t is that the escapades of Harry
K. Thaw, who is now on trial in New
York city for the Staying of Stanford
Wnlte laSt summer on the roof OF that
noted architects most famous struc-
ture, are being depicted as criminal,
and Thaw's career as such was begun
while a lad in knee trousers in his
early college days at Wooster, Ohio"
Mr.. Gilliland then, at considerable
length, reviews Thaw's school life,
pointing out that Thaw has been cred
tied with many pranks in which he
never participated, and that as mat
ter of fact the prisoners life at Woos-
ter was in every way praiseworthy.
1t is now said to be definitely decid-
ed by the lawyers defending Thaw
that there will be no cross-examina-
tion of the six experts retained by the
state, all of whom pronounced as their
opinion that Thaw's sanity when he
killed White was established beyond
question by the facts presented to
them in the district attorneys hypo-
thetical question.
This announcement was generally
regarded as victory for Dolphin M.
Delmas, the one lawyer for Thaw who
insisted from the first that Jerome's
experts should not be questioned at
all by the defense.