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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
PROPOSED CANAL CONTRACT.
Percentage to Be Paid is Only on the
Cost of Labor.

Washington, Feb. 12. - Secretary
Taft, Chairman Shonts of the Isthmian
canal commission and r. R. Rogers,
general counsel for the commission,
appeared before the house committee
on interstate and foreign commerce to
explain the proposed canal contract.
and the plan to merge the Panama
Railway company's management with
the canal commission.
Mr.. Rogers explained that the chief
purpose of the contract is to permit
The government to avail itself of the
practical experience and efficient la.
Dor organization of an association Of
contractors The percentage to be
PAID the contractor is to be only on
the cost of labor, and not on supplies
and equipment, which are to be sup
piled by the government.
In response to inquiries by members
OF the committee Mr.. Rogers and SEQ
retary Taft both said that the eight
hour law would apply on the isthmus
under the proposed contract
When Mr.. Rogers was asked what
the total amount would probably be
upon which the contractor would re-
ceive percentage he replied that he
had not made any estimate and that
so far as he knew no careful estimate
had been made by any contractor.
Secretary Taft made a statement
about the Panama railway He said 1t
is controlled absolutely by the govern
ment. The directors are named with
the understanding that they shall vote
as the government desires and, Mr..
Taft said, any director would be re
moved at once for failure to vote as
instructed. He said he desired to be
heard at length before any steps are
taken to change the administration OF
the railways affairs.
Secretary Taft said positively that
he was in favor of the proposed con-
tract as it now stands. He said that
he believed that with the highest class
of contractors in charge the work can
be done more rapidly under contract
than by the government.
Secretary Taft expressed the opinion
that the annual payments to the con-
tractor under the proposed contract
would probably be about 100000 He
said that the total amount upon which
the contractor would be paid per-
centage is estimated at from $60,000,-
600 to $7O0O0,0OO
Mr.. Taft said that his understanding
of the contract and of the present law
is that they would not prevent the sue
cessful contractor from employing
Chinese labor on the isthmus.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
Herd of wiId Buffalo In Alberta.

At the annual meeting of the North
American Fish and Game associa-
tion held at Quebec last week an ap-
plication for membership was re-
ceived from President Roosevelt and
favorably acted upon. President
Roosevelt drew attention of the asso-
citation to the fact that herd of buff
falo in wild state had been seen in AL.
berta, Canada. and suggested that the
provincial governments be asked to
see that this herd be given effective
protection. The association decided to
act upon the presidents suggestion.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
Number and Value of Farm Animals.

Washington, Feb. 1.-THE crop re-
porting board of the bureau of statis-
tics of the department of agriculture
finds, from the reports of the cores
pondents and agents of the bureau,
that the numbers and values of the
farm animals on farms and ranges in
the United Stats on Jan. last were:
Horses, 19,747OOO, average price per
head $9351, value $1,S46,578, 900;
mules S,S17O0O, average price $112.16,
value S42S,O64 900; milch cows TO-
96S,OO0, average price $S1, value $685.
$4,000; other cattle 51,566,OOO, aver
age price $171O, value 1881 IT'S, 900;
sheep 53,24O,0OO, average price 1884,
value $2O0,210,00O; swine 54,794, 900,
average price $762, value $417, ,791 900.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
Saturday.

Viscount Goschen, formerly British
chancellor of the exechequer, is dead.
Three-masted schooner, unidentified,
lost with her crew during storm off
Cape Hatteras.
President Roosevelt will not be di.
verted from his purpose of reaching a
mutually satisfactory settlement of the
Japanese question.
Provision in Indian appropriation
bill to allow full-blood Indians In In.
dian Territory to sell their lands with.
out restriction, defeated, 81 to %, aft.
er two days debate in the senate
John F. Stevens, chief engineer of
the Panama canal, intimated that II
the work is to be done by contract he
would resign, and two weeks are TAX.
en- to consider the oliver combines
modified bid.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
Guests Escaped In Night Clothes.

Fire destroyed the Mowry House
In Syracuse early Sunday morning.
The fire was one of the most spec.
tacular In the history of the city and
within an hour from its discovery only
the outer walls of the six-story struc-
ture were standing and the Andrews
Hall block adjacent to the hotel was
also in ruins, the property loss aggre-
eating $250,000.
The confiagration was replete with
thrilling incidents and hair breadth
escapes. None of the occupants of
the building saved any of their per-
sonal property and a large number
made their way, or were carried to
the street, clad in their night clothes.
In rescuing the guests of the hotel the
fremen were ably assisted by spec
tators. Several persons were taken
out of the first three or four stories
on ladders. From the top, or sixth
floor, one man came down rope and
tie firemen rescued several persons
by an extension ladder.
No lives are known to have been
lost.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
Monday.

John Wanamaker's loss in the burn
ing of his country home In Jenkintown
Pa, was $1,5O0,O00.
DR.. H. w. Wiley of the agricultural
department declared one should eat
each day per cent of ones own
weight.
Chief Engineer Stevens of the Pan
ANA canal denied he had said he would
resign if the digging of the canal was
turned over to private contractors.
John D. Rockefelltr's $4,000, ,000
will be used by the general education
board to promote colleges in cities
and to advance the education of wo.
men everywhere.
Decision is reached in the Thaw
trial to have the prisoner take the wit
ness stand and tell of visions which
warned him to kill Stanford White 10
save his wife from poison.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
Use of Mrs. saae,s Gift.

The board of trustees of the Rens-
selaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, N
Y, formally accepted the gift of Mrs.
Russell Sage of $1,O00,OO0 to that IN
stitution. The faculty was instructed
to prepare an outline of the proposed
new courses in electrical and mechan.
ical engineering. The institute will
establish a separate department for
that work with Mrs. Sages money,
erecting large building where elec.
trical and mechanical engineering will
be taught. This will greatly broaden
the scope of the R, P. /. The building
will cost, 1t is estimated, at least
100000. A formal resolution of
thanks to Mrs. Sage was adopted.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
Judge Killed by Internal Machine.

Before he died Justice of the
Peace Robert Cortese of Paterson N.
j., who was mortally injured Friday
night by the explosion of an Internal
machine which he received by express,
made statement naming several per-
nons he suspected of having sent him
the package.
The police of Paterson and nearby
cities expect to be able to run down
the assassin or assassins, by means of
this statement.
The impression prevails In some
quarters that the machine was sent by
some criminal organization which had
reason to fear the enrolment of Judge
Cortese as a detective sergeant on
the police force of the city, which the
police commissioner was about to do.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
Tuesday.

r. b. Garland of Ansonia, Conn,
succeeded in lighting an incandescent
electric lamp without the use of wires.
Sir William Howard Russell, who
became famous as a war correspondent
of the London Times, has died at the
age Of SO.
Copies of all missing papers in the
suit against the American Ice company
were offered to the attorney general
by the company.
Ethel Barrymore declared her broth.
er Jack" to be very seriously Ill and
not in any way endeavoring to evade
service in the Thaw case.
Minority stockholders Of the old
Northern Pacific railway are behind
the efforts to obtain a senatorial inves.
tigation Of tho reorganization Of the
concern.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
Friday.

Reports by the interstate commerce.
commission show a rapid increase o!
casualties in railroad accidents.
The jury at Riverhead, In the case
of DR.. James W. Simpson, accused OF
the murder of his father-in-law, Bart.
ley T. Horner, brought in verdict OF
not guilty.
Many letters and kilograms received
by President Roosevelt have con.
vnced him of a change of sentiment
on the Pacific slope on the Japanese
question.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, testifying for
her husband, said she told him how
she was outraged by Stanford White
in his apartments in 1901 when she
was girl of 16.
Attorney General Jackson, alleging
that 100000 assets of the defunct Re.
public Savings and Loan association
have dwindled to $4,000, will probe
the receivership.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
RATES OF ADVERTISING:
Germany the Modern Rome.

Let the German people keep a lesson
from antiquity before their eyes. Once
before an England and a Germany OF
no less different character have con-
fronted each other. They were Car
thage and Rome. And old Rome with
its policy Of force and power finally
conquered the cash politics Of Carthage
and raised itself to the position Of the
first power upon earth. We have his
torical example when we say that the
German people must return from the
imitation of the un-German Carthagin-
ian-Brltish finance policy and must go
back to the Roman-German policy Of
power and might. In no other way
can a really great Weltpolltik be pro-
NOTED in the hope perhaps OF making
ourselves ultimately the leading peo-
pie in the world.-Berlln Grenzboten.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
Important Evidence MISSING.


All the evidence on which was based
the complaint Of Attorney General
julius M. Mayer against the American
Ice company of New York city for
dissolution of an alleged monopoly of
the ice business, served on Dec 20,
has disappeared from the attorney
generals Office and cannot be found.
This announcement was made last
night by Attorney General William s.
Jackson. Mr.. Jackson also made pub
lie aEldavits OF employees of the attor-
ney generals office which show that
a part at least of the papers were
known to be missing late In December
before the retirement of his predeces-
sor, Mr. Mayer; but that the disap.
pearance of the evidence was not
known to Mr.. Jackson until early in
January, when, after he himself had
assumed Office, he took up the case
with view of further proceedings.
Attorney General Jackson said that
wilful abstraction of evidence from
the attorney generals office would be
crime under the provisions of the
penal code.
This office has been thoroughly
searched" said Mr.. Jackson, "but moth
ing can be found except a copy of the
summons and complaint served by or
der of Attorney General Mayer upon
the officials of the American Ice COM
pany on Dec. 90 All of the evidence
upon which that complaint was based
and referred to init as ground for the
action. Is missing"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
The Week In Congress.

With the close of last week in con-
gress the naval appropriation bill was
under consideration in the house and
the army bill in the senate. Both
will be proceeded with at the earliest
opportunity by the two houses re-
spectively. In the house the post
Office appropriation bill will be the
next to receive attention, while in the
senate the District of Columbia bill
will follow the army budget 1t in
turn will be followed by the agricul-
tural appropriation bill
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
Exports of Iron and steel.

The expectation of iron and steel
manufactures reached their highest
record the past year, according to
figures of the bureau of statistics Of
the department of commerce and la
Dor. The total of these products ex-
ported in the calendar year 1906 ag-
gregated $172 100000, an increase of
$30,000,000 over the preceding year.
There has been an increase of rs per
cent in the expectation of these ar
ticles in the last three years.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13

the stock transfer tax bureau Of his
office. with reference to the handling
and disposal of millions of dollars
worth of the stamps issued by that de-
partment for use in the transfer of
stocks under the act of 1905.
According to the comptrollers state
ment more than $5,OOO,00O worth of
these stamps have been destroyed,
either In process of manufacture or by
actual burning, without adequate rec
ord or supervision, In the two years
since the act was passed. and there is
only the personal word of single
clerk, salaried at $4,000 and not under
bond, to certify the fact that they were
destroyed at all.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
Monument to Their Fallen Foes.

A St. Petersburg dispatch from
Hardin, Manchuria, says that the
Japanese are erecting two monuments
on Peropelochny Hill, Port Arthur, to
the memory of the Russian and Japan
ese soldiers who fell in the siege. In
proximity to the monument to the Rus
slams a Russian chapel will be built,
bearing this inscription: I'm memory
of the heroes who met their death In
defense of Port Arthur"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
Presidential Condolences.

JOIN" Adams was eight years older
than bis successor. Thomas jefferson;
he cig'lt years older than James Madi-
son; he eight years older than James
Monroe. and he eight years older than
John o. Adams. George Washington
ended lis term as president in his sixty
fifth year, and so. too, did John Adams.
Thomas Jefferson. James Madison and
james Monroe. Thomas Jefferson and
John Adams died ON the same day, July
4, 1896, exactly fifty years after the
signing of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. One other president, James
Monroe, died on July T. His death oc-
Cured in 1881.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
Thursday,

German Socialists have lost 3S more
seats in the reichstag on second bal
lots.
On the basis of the official returns
of the Russian elections thus far, a
majority Of those elected to the dou-
ma are oppositional.
Stanford White threatened the life
of Harry X, Thaw in 1908, according
to the testimony of Benjamin Boman,
stage doorkeeper of New York the
ater. ~
Lord Charles Beresford declared on
his arrival in New York that he did
not think there was any probability Of
war between the United States and
Japan.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
To Prevent clash In Central America.

President Diaz, acting on the direct
suggestion of President Roosevelt, has
sent a note to the governments Of
Costa Rica, Salvador and Guatemala,
asking them to use every effort to pre-
vent an armed clash between Nicar-
aqua and Honduras, with the intlma-
ton that past treaties must be lived
up to and that their dispute must be
referred to an arbitration board.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
Iri.h streotn IN Haxana.

O'Reilly street. one of the big thor
Dughfares OF Havana, gets its name
from General Alexander O'Reilly, who
named the streets in 1863, and this
street after himself. AS the name In
dicates. he was OF Irish descent His
forefathers emigrated to Spain from
Ireland after the battle Of the Boyne
in 1890. Many of the O'Reilly's have
lived in Cuba, and the family had an
abattoir monopoly in Havana, which
was terminated in 1899.
Other Irish-Spaniards whose names
are identified with Cuban history are
the OLawlers and O'Donnells.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
MARKET REPORT.
New York Provision Market.

New York, Feb. II.
WHEAT-No. 2 red, 85%c f. o. b.
ahoat; No. northern Duluth, $3.50.
CORN - No corn, 52%c f. o. b..
ahoat; No. yellow, 531Ac.
OATS - Mixed oats, 26 to SO lbs.
461sc; clipped white, sc to 40 lbs,
49@52c.
PoRK-Mess, $1S.5O@19,25; family,
$3.50.
HAY - Shipping, 75@S6c; family,
choice, $1.O0@1.10.
BUTTER - Creamery, extra, 321s
6SSc; common to extra, 22Q32c; state
dairy, common to fancy, 20@30c.
CHEESE-State full cream fancy,
14Ac.
EGGS-State and Pennsylvania, soc.
POTATOES - State and Western.
per sack, $1.50@175.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
Rockefeller Gives $4,000. 900.

Thirty-two million dollars worth
Of income bearing securities have
been given by John D. Rockefeller to
the general education board. The do
nation is for general education
throughout the country.
1t is the largest single benefaction
for such purposes ever known. Mr..
Rockefeller had previously given the
board $11, 100000 for the same work.
His contributions now amount there
fore to $43,000,000
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
Spanish Sheep.

There are said to be 100000 MI
gratory sheep in Spain, which travel
on occasions as much as 200 miles
from the plains to the mountains.
They are known as transhumantes.
and their march, resting places and
behavior are governed by special regu-
lations dating from the fourteenth CEN
tury. At certain times no one may
travel the same route as the sheep,
which have the right to Craze on all
open and common land on the way.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
Buffalo Provision Market.
Buffalo, Feb. II.

Buffalo, Feb. IL.
WHEAT-No. ] northern carloads.
90hc; No. , red, Size.
CORN - No. 2 corna SOC f. o. b..
afioat; No. yellow, 50&c.
OATS 49, No. white, 46c (. o. b..
ahoat; No. 5 white, 45c.
FLOUR Fancy blended patent
per abl, S475@5.50; winter family.
rateut, S4.l5@4.90.
BUTTER - Creamery, western ex'
ira tubs, 33c; state and Pennsyl.
vania creamery, 32c; dairy, choice TO
fancy, 2S@29c.
CHEESE-Fancy full cream, 140
141ac; good to choice. 13@13kc.
EGGS Selected white. 30c.
POTATOES-Choice to fancy, per
bu., 4Sm50c; fair to good, 42445c.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
Much Exaggerated.

"Tell me- said the inqulsitie for
eigner, do American girls AFFECT mems
clothes"
NO" replied the gallant native, mot
to any extent"
'Well, well, is that really trueT
well, Of course. little rouge may
stick to the shoulder Of fellows coat
occasionally, but then it's easily brushed
off. f."-Philadelphia Press.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
Church and sabbath school.

Presbyterian Sabbath School at 9:46 a.
m. NAE. Sabbath School at 1000 q. m.
Preach Nng in M. Il. Church every Sab
bath evening by Rev. w. o. Calhoun.
Preaching in the f. M. Church every
Sabbath evening at the usual hour. Rev.
Ii. ID. Call, Pastor.
The regular meetings of the w. @. T..
u. are held at the headquarters on the
second and fourth Tuesdays OF each
month.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
WIFE's PITIFUL STORY.
Mrs. Thaw T old Jury Why She
Refused Proposal.

Sensations In Two State Departments.
Guests Escaped In Night Clothes.
Judge Killed by an Internal Machine.
Exports Of Iron and Steel-Rocke.
Teller Gifts.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw told her story
on the witness stand last week. To
save the life of her husband, who
is charged with murder, she barred
u the world the innermost secrets of
her soul-a portrayal for which a
sanctuary were a more fitting place
than the crowded. gaping court room.
1t was the same story she told Harry
Thaw In Paris In 1903, when he had
asked her to become his wife-the con-
fession of woman who felt there was
an insurmountable barrier to her ever
becoming the bride OF the man she
loved.
In the big witness chair she appear
ed hut slip Of girl and she told the
l.itlful story of her eventful young life
in frank, glrlish way.
AS the young wife narrated her girl.
hood and told of the early struggles OF
herself and her mother to keep body
and soul together, of how poverty
stood ever at the door, and Of how
finally she was able to earn liveli-
hood by posing for photographers and
artists, she had the murmured SYM
pathy OF the throng which filled every
available space in the big court room.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
Short Items From Various
Parts of the World.
Record Of Many Happenings Condensed
and Pvt In Small Space and Ar
ranged With Special Regard For the
Convenience Of the Reader Who Has
Little Time to Spare.
Wednesday.

Wednesday.
John B. Mcdonald, builder Of the
New York subway, was elected Dresi
dent of the Panama Construction com
pany.
Daniel Osiris, who bought Malmais'
on, the home of the Empress Jose
phine, and presented 1t to France, Is
dead in Paris.
The state superintendent Of insur
ance has finished his anRual report
declaring that the laws passed since
the Armstrong investigation insure
safe methods in the future.
Charges of grave errors in the work
of the interstate commerce commits
sion, made by Charles s. Hanks and
George w. Hartman, were declared
unfounded by President Roosevelt.
Attorney General Bonaparte inter
vened in suit of poor negro woman
against the Illinois Central railroad
hoping to prevent the employers LA
bility law from being declared uncon
stitutional.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

,TIf NESTA LODGE, No. 1859, I. Q. o. F:
l. M Gets every Tuesday evening, in Odd
Fellows Hall, Partridge building.
NAPT. GEORGE STOW POST, No. 274
" G, A, r. Meets 1st and Sd Monday
evening in each month.
CAPT. GEORGE STOW CORPS, No.
" l37, w. X. c., meets first and third
Wednesday evening of each month.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13

1t is doubtful whether great chess
player Is often. we ale sure he Is not
rf necessity. to be regarded as a man
Ol powerful intellect. 1t has never
been shawn that the greatest masters
Of the game were men with big brains
fof anything Dut chess London Sat
ur1ay Review.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
Fast suttaIo Live Stock Market.

CATTLE - Export steers, $500
d615; good to choice butcher steers,
$435m5.35; medium half-fat steers,
$3.65@4.15; fair to good heifers, $3.65
d475; good to choice heifers, 5000
5.25; good butcher bulls, $3.500425:
choice veals, $9.75Q10OO; fair to
good, $9O009.50
SHEEP AND LAMBS - Choice
lambs. S76O@77O; choice yearlings,
S6.25mG.50; mixed sheep, $50065,50
HOGS - Best Workers, $740@745;
medium ana heavy hogs, $7409Z46;
pigs. light, i72QqI50.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
Thaw Discussions Barred.

Atlantic City, Feb. 12.-"No discus
sion of the Thaw case is allowed in
this saloon" is the latest order posted
by local hotelkeepers, who declare the
arguments engendered by the famous
legal battle take on too much the ap-
pearance of incipient riots.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
Terms, si.OO A Year. strictly in Advance
BOROUGH OFFICERS.

BttrgeSS.-J. T.. Carson.
Justices Ofthe Peace-C. A. Randall, ID.
w. Clark.
Cbuacitn,en.- B. Muse, ]. W. Lam
ders, @. A. Lanson. Geo. Holeman, G. T.
Anderson, VIM. Smearbaugh, e. w.
Bowman.
Co,stdble-W. II. Hood.
Collector-W. II. Hood.
School Directors-J. O. Scowden, T.
f. Rtchey, 3. M. Henry, DR.. ]. O. Dunn,
@. Jameson, j. j. Landers.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13

CENTRAL HOUSE,
" GERow Il GEROW Proprietor.
Tionseta, Pa. This is the most centrally
located hotel in the place, and has all the
modern improvements. No pains will
be spared to make it a pleasant stopping
place for the travelling public. First
class Livery In connection.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-02-13
Reform Conventions.

On Thursday the National Woman's
Suffrage association will meet in con.
vention in Chicago. On the same day
the National Reform convention will
meet in Harrisburg, Pa.