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Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
FEDERAL COURTS ABUSE RIGHTS
Nebraska's Governor Favors The
Curtailment OF Privileges.

Lincoln, Neb. Especially Because
of the restraining order granted by
Judge Munger, of the Federal Court,
to prevent the Railway Commission
from promulgating new grain rate
schedule, Gov. George L. Shelton de-
clared himself in favor of a consti-
tutional amendment taking from fed
eral courts the right to enjoin state
officials from enforcement of state
laws.
II believe the federal courts have
abused the privilege of the injunc-
ton enough to justify such action y
he said. TOO many state laws have
been tied up by the interference Of
the federal courts. l do not believe
the makers of the Constitution ever
contemplated such use of the injunc-
tion in the hands the federal courts. -
courts"
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
In THE FINANCIAL WORLD.

Philadelphia banks are renewing
brokers loans for four to six months
at per cent. interest.
There are persistent reports that
Amalgamated will cut its dividend
having closed some of the mines.
THE soundest business firms in
Philadelphia are paying 61a per
cent. on their paper said down.
town bank director.
Pennsylvania officials deny that the
company is going to borrow $780,
100000.
Amalgamated Copper sold down
from 65 ss to SOS which is the low
est price of the year. The top price
for this stock was 130 and the low
level a couple of years ago was S3.
Boston has been hard hit by the
slump in Copper Company stocks,
New York has been hit by the terri
fic crash in steel railway securities
and Philadelphia is hard hit by the
| big break in Rapid Transit and Union
Traction.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
$4,000 TONS OF COAL
Bureau Calls For Proposals To Sup
ply The Pacific Fleet.

ply Inc racine Fleet.
Washington, D. C. (SpetiaD,-Two
hundred and ffty-three thousands
tons of coal, exclusive of that to be
shipped in government colleries, Will
be required to get the Atlantic bat
tleship feet to the Pacific Coast and
properly coal it at Mare Island, ac-
coroing to the estimates made by the
Equipment Bureau of the Navy De-
partment, which has called for pro
posals for supplying the necessary
fuel. Of this aggregate $4,000
tons are semibituminous and the re-
mainder Welsh coal. The former is
to be shipped from Atlantic ports OF
the United States in Vessels either
of American or foreign registry, ac-
cording as the terms may be the more
favorable In the opinion OF the
bureau.
Specifications indicating the points
at which the coal is to be unloaded
the date Of loading, etc, were made
public by the Equipment Bureau
These inchlde in the case of the semi
bituminouS coal the delivery OF I,Ooo
tons at Trinidad, 5000 TO Rlo de
Janeiro. 10000 tons to Punta Arenas
$4,000 tons to Callao. $4,000 tons
at Magdalena Bay and 10000 tons
to San Francisco or Mare Island,
The loading period of the ships run
from the 1t OF December up to Feb
ruary /, Indicating that it will oa
very late In the year before the YES
sells start on their long cruise.
The Welsh coal to be delivered as
follows: twenty thousand tons al
Punta Arenas. not later than Janu-
ary 90; $4,000 tons. at Callao, net
later than February 8; 25,OO0 tons
at Magdaiena Bay, not later than
February %; 10000 tons, additional
at Maglalena Bay, not later than
March Is: 10000 tons at San Fran
cisco or Mare Island, not later than
ApriT ., and 10000 tons additional
at San Francisco or Mare Island
not later than April 49,
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
The Nation S Capital
Some Interesting Happenings Briefly
Told.

Earl Eichenherg, an exporter, OF
Texas. asked the Interstate Com
merce Commission to require the
Southern Pacific to pay him 100000
on account of discrimination.
The speed trial of the new battle
ship Kansas was satisfactory, though
she did not come up to the record
made by her sister ship, the Vermont.
Six hundred officers of the Army
are now serving on detached service,
according to statements made at the
War Department.
The preliminary meeting of repre-
sentatives of Central American Re-
publics to carry out the suggestion
of the United States and Mexico for
permanent peace understanding was
held in Washington.
The Navy Department announced
that through a fire in her coal bunk
ers the battleship Indiana narrowly
escaped destruction.
Rumors that Secretary of the Navy
Metcalf will resign his position in the
Cabinet are being revived in Wash
ington.
The first copy of the Canal Record
contains many important statistics in
regard to the work on the canal.
Lieut.. Phil Sheridan has been re-
lieved from duty as military aid to
President Roosevelt at his own re-
quest.
Plans for the transfer of the bat
tleship feet from the Atlantic to the
Pacific Ocean are nearly complete.
Mehmed Ali Bey has been appoint
ed as Turkish minister to this coun-
try.
The sentence of dismissal enforced
on two middies for "Frenching' was
mitigated and the young men will
be permitted to resign.
The production of denatured al
cohol under the new law has reduc-
ed the cost of wood alcohol from so
to 80 cents.
The Navy Department awarded the
contract for supplying oil for the
Navy to the Vacuum Oil Company.
Mehmed Ali Bey has been ap-
pointed Turkish minister to the
United States.
Commander Simon Cook, retired,
U. S. n, died in st. Louis.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
TRAIN HELD UP
BY MASKED MEN
'He Passengers Terrified By Fusasds
of Shots.
ROBBERS BLEW OPEN THE SAFE
Finding 1t Empty They Conto.,
themselves With Taking a ouant;.' u
oil Registered Mail-The Great Nor.t
ern Railway Company Has Offa,as
Reward of S., GOO. efea

81 Paul, Mimi, (SpeciaN cou
eral Manager Elliott, of the croa.
Northern Express Company annonna
ed that the Great Northern Or;on+s,
Limited train No. 1, was held nn
two masked men six or seven Nil
west of Rexford, Mont. at an onI,e
hour. The robbers crawled ovor ~
tender at this place and at the noint
OF thelr guns commanded the emo;
neer TO stop the train. They tbon
ordered the engineer to 60 back T;th
them to the express car and ~
structed him to tell the express MOI
senger, mail clerk and baggagarno,
10 go back into the coaches While
this was being done the robbers kant
up continual fusillade with tbair
guns to terrify the passengers AMI
keep them within the coaches
After the messenger, baggagemsr
and mail clerk had left their care
the robbers went through the maiI
cars and robbed the sacks of LARGO
quantity of registered mail. Then
they went into an express car, which
carried an overflow of mail. baggage
and express and which contained .
regular through safe.
After exploding three charges. tha
safe was opened and found to he
empty. The robbers did not enter
the regular express car in which
the messenger had been riding.
On finding the safe empty the
highwaymen helped themselves to
the registered mail and after firing
a parting volley disappeared. In
view of the fact that the Great
Northern Express Company did not
suffer any loss, the Great Northern
Railway Company has telegraphed
the following offer of reward to all
points in the West along its line:
The Great Northern Railway
Company will pay the sum of S., 1000
for the arrest and conviction of each
of the persons engaged in the hold
up of its train near Rexford, Mont,
on the morning of September u,
1907"
This means a reward of $4,000
to those who arrest and secure a
conviction of the robbers. They are
described as being 80 years Of age,
one about five feet eleven inches tail
and the other considerably shorter
They wore black clothes and black
soft hats.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
10000 KILLED BY RAILROADS
Years Total, According To Interstate
Commerce Commissions Report.

Washington, D. c, (SpeciaD The
Interstate Comemrce Commission
made public an abstract of its nine
teenth annual statistical report COW
ering the year ended June so, 1906,
| showing the par value of the railway
| capital outstanding was S14,570, ,421 =
AIS, or S67,9 per mile of the rail-
ways in the United States. OF this
over 33 per cent. paid no dividends.
OF the railway stock outstanding $2,-
267,175.799 was owned by railway
corporations. and of railway bonds
s641.S05,030 were so reported.
The aggregate gross earnings from
the operated mileage of 222,340
miles of lines were s2.S25,765,167.
being $243,2S2,761 lower than in
1905. Their operating expenses We're
s1,536,S77271, or S146,275.119
more than in 1905. The net earn
ings aggregated $TSS,SS7,S96. an in
crease of s97.007,642. The net
earnings per mile of line average
sS,54S The income attributable to
other sources than operation reached
S256.639,591.
Deducting fixed and other charges.
the report says s3S5,1S6,32S is the
net income for the year available for
dividends or surplus There was
79S, ,507,S3S passengers carried, an
increase of over 60.000.000 and l.
31,374,219 tons of freight carried,
an increase of over 202, 100000. The
average revenue per passenger per
per mile was 2.002 cents. The earn
ings per train mile was increased both
for passenger and freight trains. and
the average cost of running a train
one mile increased. The ratio of
operating expenses to earnings was
over 60 ger cent.
The report shows 10.61S persons
killed and 97.706 injured. There
was total of 1,521,355 persons on
the payroll.
The report shows that one passen-
ger was killed for every 2,227. .041
carried, while in 1906 one passenger
was killed for every 1875, 1856 carried
One person was injured for every
74,176 passengers carried, as against
one injured in every 70,655 passen-
gers carried in 1905. For each pas
senger killed 7o,126,6S6 passenger
miles were accomplished, against only
44,320,576 passenger miles in 1905.
One passenger was injured for every
2,33S,S59 miles, against 2,276,002
miles in 1905.
The report shows an average of
6S4 employees per 100 miles of line.
There was an increase of Al en-
ployes per 100 miles of line over
1905. Wages and salaries paid to
employees aggregated $500, ,S01,653, /
but it is stated that this amount is
deficient by more than s27,000,000
because of the loss of railway records
in the San Francisco earthquake. |
There were 2,213 railway corpora
tions for which mileage is included. |
During the year railway companies !
owning 4,054.46 miles of line were
merged or consolidated. |
The numbers of roads in the hands
of receivers was "a. The number of
locomotives and cars in the service
of the railways aggregated 2,010.5S4, /
of which 1,S2T,7S9 were fitted with .
train brakes and 1,9S9,796 with au-
tomato couplers. Only 1.54 per
cent of cars in the passenger service
were without automatic couplers.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
JAPAN IS NOT
''' ~ SEEKING WAR
Regards United States as Her Best
Friend.
Japan IS BURDENED WITH DEBTS.
Statement of Former Ambassador Luke
Wright, Who Has Just Returned
From Tokio-Characterizes Talk of
Hostilities as Being Not Even Re-
spectacle Nonsense.

Washington, D. c. (Special) -
Not even respectable nonsense, y
was the way former Ambassador
Luke Wright, who has just returned
from Toxic to resume private life,
characterized the war talk between
the United States and Japan. The
Ambassador had long talk with
Acting Secretary of State Adee. hav-
ing called to close his official con-
nection with the department. pre-
paratory to going to his home, at
Memphis, Tenn.
Governor Wright was in Japan as
the representative of the United
States when the assault upon Japan
ese restaurant-keepers was made in
San Francisco and japanese were
barred from the schools. He had not
left Toxic when the announcement
was made by the Secretary of the
Navy that the Atlantic fleet would
be transferred to the Pacific Coast.
He said that the voyage of the At
lantic feet did not stir official cir
cles in Japan to adverse comment,
as it was understood that the in
terests of the United States in Pa
cife waters made it natural for this
government to desire to transfer part
OF its naval force there.
The San Francisco incident was
not so peaceably viewed, Mr.. Wright
said. as the action of the school
board in San Francisco was of an
official character and provoked much
discussion. He thought the prompt
action taken by the administration
in attempting to smooth over the
situation appeased most of the anger
felt in official circles in Japan.
But Japan does not want war
with the United States, nor any ma
tion," declared Mr.. Wright. The
country is burdened with debts and
heavy taxation. The rate of taxa
ton has been increased since the
war with Russia. Further than this,
she has Korea on her hands, and
that is no easy problem. China, too,
demands her attention. Further
than this, Japan looks upon the
United States as her best friend.
She always has so regarded this
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
New Law Working Well.

Washington Especially The new
naturalization law, filled to over
flowing with penalties for fraud, is
working to perfection. The Depart
ment of Justice is advised from vari-
Gus bureau chiefs throughout the
country that there has been a great
falling of in the number of appli-
cations and that judges. who hereto
fore have been loath to refuse final
papers, are requiring a strict COM
piiance with the spirit as we'll as the
letter of the law.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
SEVEN WIVES IN REVENGE.
Bigamist Punished Six Because One
Woman Once Misused Him.

Bellingham, Wash. (SpeciaD A
bigamist seven times over, James
Ross, after surrendering to the po-
lice dictated a full confession. He is
a physical wreck from cocaine. He
also has twice been soldier and
has twice deserted His life history
is a story of a long losing fight
against the drug which has mastered
him.
Ross has been married so many
times he cannot remember the names
of all the wives. The average length
of time he lived with them is one
month. His motive was revenge
He declares that he was ill-used by
woman early in life, and has been
trying 10 injure the sex. Now he
has repented.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
Posse Kills Wife Murderer.

Weatherford, Okla. Especially -
Crazed by jealousy and ignoring the
plea of his little daughter. who was
clinging to his knees, Lee Leedy,
proprietor of hotel here, fred three
shots into his wife's body, killing her
instantly Two hours later Leedy
was shot and killed by a posse of
citizens, who surrounded him in d
canyon a mile from town. After the
inquest the coroner's jury waited
upon S. D. Fry, a piano tuner, and
ordered him to leave town.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
Gold Mine Disaster.

August, Ga. Especially A Chron-
icle special from Washington, Ca,
says:
Information was received here OF
a disastrous explosion which occurred
at the Columbia gold mines across
the river in this county. 1t is stat
ed that the explosion was prema-
ure discharge of a charge of dyna-
mite, resulting in the loss of several
lives. Telephone lines to the mines
are out of order and details are moi
available"
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
Foreign.

General Drude, commanding the
French forces in Morocco. attacked
and burned the Taddert camp of the
Moors. Heavy losses were inflicted
on the Arabs.
Car Nicholas and the imperial
family left the stranded royal Yacht.
STANDARD, which went aground of
Horsoe, near Hango. Finland, for the
dispatch boat Asia.
The cable steamer Silvertown. hav-
on board 1900 miles of cable for the
new direct New York-Havanna cable
line, sailed from London.
Horrible atrocities were committed
against helpless Jews during the
massacre at Kishinef, many of the
victims being burned.
Volunteer military automobilists
cause most of the casualties at the
German military maneuvers.
The steamer Junaqua was hit bv
a waterspOut while sailing I'D the
Damuii River, in Cuba.
Solsky, an insane man SUSPECTED
of being the Berlin ripper. ESCAPED.
A dispatch from Walter Wellman
at Spitzbergen says the airship's start
for the Pole has been delayed on ac-
count OF prevailing blizzard.
Archibald Henry Blount, lord of
the manor of Orleton, England. be-
queathed about 100000 to Yale
University
About 100 OF the leading Chinese
mercantile establishments at Canton,
China, were destroyed by the fire.
Mr. Pacheco, the newly appointed
minister from Mexico to Japan. pre-
sented his credentials TO the Mikado.
The French press has been stirred
up by the tone of the German note
anent the Morocco affair.
King Alfonso of Spain underwent
an operation with the object of di-
lating the ducts of the nose
A royal proclamation was issued
advancing New Zealand from a col.
ony to dominion.
Prince Wivieschiff, of Vienna. was
killed in an automobile accident al
Forli, Italy.
Preparations are being made il
Germany in anticipation of a cholers
epidemic
The strike of the dock laborers a
Antwerp has been partly adjusted.
General Drude has notified tn,
French Minister of War that he ha
a sufficient force and no further aiC
will be sent to him.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
OIL TRUST FINE.
Applies For Writ Of Supersedeas In
Circuit Court At Chicago.

Chicago (Special) The Standard
Oil Company of Indiana applied to
the United States Circuit Court for
a writ of supersedeas to prevent the
United States Government from pro-
.ceeding to collect the fine of s29.-
240. 900 recently entered against it
on the order of Judge Lands.
Judge Groscup, before whom the
application was made, declined to
take action until he had heard argu-
from the attorneys on both sides.
The arguments consumed the greater
part of the day.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
Tariff Treaty With Holland.

The Hague (By Cable) The gov
ernments of the Netherlands and the
United States have come to an un-
derstanding in the matter of tariff
agreement. This agreement will
shortly be submitted to Parliament
for ratification. II provides for the
reduction in the American duties on
brandy and other spirituoss liquors
imported from Holland, in return for
which Holland binds herself to i'm
pose lower duties on certain import
ed meats, but otherwise to maintain
the existing taria arrangements.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
Federal Power Halts State.

Jefferson City, Mo. (SpeciaD -
Judge Potter, of the United States
Court at ST. Joseph, enjoined Secre-
tary of State Swanger against an
nulling the charter of the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific Railway
Company to do business in Missouri.
The injunction proceeding grows out
of the law which prohibits corpora
ton from taking cases from a state
court to the federal court.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
Proposed New States Census.

Guthrie. Okla. Especially. - The
special census of the new State was
substantially finished, and the popl-
lation of the two territories, with
only two districts missing, was an
nounced by Census Supervisor Hunt,
as follows: Oklahoma 1.-TWO dis
tricts missing), 1876; Indian
Territory (two districts missing)
6S9.967. Total. with four districts
missing, 1,408,732.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
PalAa In Retirement.

Havana 9y Cable). - Former
President PALM of Cuba in an inter-
view given on bis estate at Guamo
stated that he iskeeping aloof from
politics, and is deN1ing all his time
to agricultural mtere*s. He also de-
clared that he was equally apart from
all narties. and this st'tement is re-
garded here as cf some importance,
Sc the Conservatives havt sent him
se,ntatious co from all of thsr meet-l
ings.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
Longworth For Mayor.

Cincinnati, o. (SpeciaD. = Con-
gressman Nicholas Longworth as the
Republican candidate for mayor is
now said to be the political program
of Julius Fleischman and Norman
Kenan, against their former friends,
George Cox and Rud Nynicka. Con-
gresham Longworth and Mrs. Long
worth arrived in San Francisco
Thursday on the steamer Sierra from
Honolulu
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
Auto Jumps Embankment.

Janesville. Wis. (SpeciaD walter
Brittan, president of bank at Be
lott, was probably fatally injured and
his wife and Mrs. Frederick Strong
we're seriously injured, when a tour
ing car fell over a 25-foot enbank-
ment. Frederick Strong. also a bank
president, escaped by jumping.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
Tries To Drown Herself.

New Orleans (SpeciaD Virginia
Reed, negro woman who, according
to Charles E. Letten, defaulting tax
clerk, received about 100000 out OF
the 100000 he stole from the State,
attempted to commit suicide by
jumping into Bayou St. John. She
was fished out in time to save her
from drowning
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
Courdain Becones Insarc.

Atlanta, Ga. (SpeciaD Louis \.
Guardian, the eccentric millionaire,
wlo attracted much notoriety by de-
clsring that unless the court sent him
tojail he himself would build prls-
or and be his own warden. became
inane at the federal prison here TINS
wek and was taken to Washington
were he will be placed in the Gov
ernnent Insane Asylum.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
Ladrone Leaders To Die.

Manila (By Cable). = Governor
General Smith has refused to inter
cede In the cases of Macario Sakey
and Julian Devaga, sentenced to die.
They are former ladrone chiefs and
confessed to brigandism. Filipino
Newspapers have been agitating Tor
light sentences while American pa
pers have insisted they be given the
extreme penalty.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
The Neus
Domestic

firm of Guggenheimer, Uptermeyer {
Marshall, died of apoplexy at hi
summer home, in West End, Lon:
Branch, n. ].
Measures to prevent repetition
of the Western car famine of las
winter are being discussed by th'
car service committee of the Ameri
can Railroad Association.
The suit of c. NJ. Raymond agains
the Standard Oil Company for $50.
100000 was continued indefinitely
because of the illness Of Henry H
Rogers.
Maryland Day attracted $4,000
persons to the Jamestown Exposition
the record attendance, excepting the
day President Roosevelt was al
Jamestown.
The commanders of the Anglo
American Polar Expedition report
that the soundings they made dis
closed no new continent north OF
Alaska.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is ex-
pected to adopt the new two-cent
rate pending the final decision OF
the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Announcement is made that the
Amalgamated Copper Company will
soon shut down its mines in about
Butte, Mont.
Edward W. Vanderbilt is not cap
able of managing his affairs, accord
ing to the verdict of the jury.
The new Cunard Liner Lusitania
has smashed the worlds record by
steaming go miles in day.
Four men were injured by an ex-
plosion on the houseboat Mary
Catherine, near Chicago.
William Brown, stovaway, who
attempted to escape from the steam
er Annette while at Kingston, ia
maica, was devoured by sharks.
Police reserves were called out to
disperse a crowd that fought to get
into the already filed Astor Theater,
New York.
Comptroller Metz has rejected the
bid of Abraham White for from S15,-
100000 to s17.000,00o of New York
City bonds
a shortage OF 100000 has been
discovered in the Office OF the state
tax commissioner at New Orleans,
La.
Ex-Judge E. H. Gary says the time
has passed when the great corpora
tions can ignore the public.
Prof. NJ. H. Seville has discovered
the ruins of city built in South
America 500 years ago.
Lee L.esdy, proprietor of an Okla
homa hotel, who killed his wife,
was slain by posse.
There is talk of a coal shortage
owing TO the scarcity of labor.
The will Of Jerome Lillibridge, of
Scranton. Pa, involving 100000,
has been set aside on the ground that
his wife guided his hand in sign
ing the document.
The United States Court at ST. Jo-
seph, Mo-, has enjoined the Secre-
tary of State of Missouri from an
nuling the charter OF the Rock Is
land Railroad.
The warrant for former Governor
Taylor, OF Kentucky, has been sus-
pended in order that he may appear
as witness in the Caleb Powers
case
The wreck of the steamer Dean
Richmond, loaded with lead and cop
per. sunk in Lake Erie in 1878, has
been located by Fisherman.
Frances Kowalski. sister of the
teller OF the wrecked Milwaukee
Avenue Savings Bank, Chicago, died
from grief.
Union printers have won a two
year fight with the Faithorn Com
pany, of Chicago.
W. H. Rogers. the only colored
member of the Georgia legislature,
has resigned.
E. H. Hartman says the West is
prosperous.
Peaches are scarce in the West.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
Hague Conference Nears End.

Washington (SpeciaD The last
session of The Hague Conference
will be held on September 2S, and
the protocols will be signed on the
following day, according TO letter
received by Major Porter, acting
Judge Advocate General of the
Army, from Brig. Gen. George B.
Davis, member of the American
delegation