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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-05-02
He Was a Tail Order Chan.

A young man who does not believe in
patronizing home industries, recently
sent to Sears, Roebuck & Co., for
pair of trousers. In the pocket of the
pants he found the following note:
Should this fall into the hands Of a
good-looking young man who desires to
correspond with lady of sweet dis
position, kindly address, -
The aforesaid mail order mutt" sent
letter to the address, and in few
days received the following reply:
Sir, my wife has just received let
ter from you, addressed in her maiden
name. Fifteen years ago, when she
worked in sweat shop, she might have
written the note. She is now the moth
er of six children, and is my lawful wife.
If yon don't cut out writing to her,
will take trip to your town and make
you look like two cents worth of dog
meat"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-05-02
H. G.. SINCELL & co.
A Curiosity.

A natual curiosity of more than or
binary interest was found few days
ago by ldmberman employed by A.
Knabb & Co. on tract of timber land
in Preston county, W. Va, near the
village of Clifton Mills.
While working in a swampy section of
land the woodsmen came upon an old
log which by mere accident they found
to be completely petrified The log was
gotten out, Grated and hauled to the
railroad at Somerfeld and shipped to A..
Knabb & Co. at Chester, Pa, who, it is
reported, will forward it to the West
Virginia department at the jamestown
Exposition. The log is a most wonder
full fossil for this section, being about
five feet long and from two to two and
half feet in diameter. The weight is
estimated by those who handled it to be
from 1000 to 1900 pounds. The ak
marks on the smaller end and larger
chip cut from the side can be plainly
seen.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-05-02
UP TO OHIO.

The we'll informed Washington
correspondent of the New York
World points out some of the inner
significance of the Foraker opposi-
ton to Taft in Ohio. 1t is not
merely the outcome of Foraker
personal antipathy to Roosevelt
and his dislike of the Roosevelt
political theories. The fire. alarm
senator is not jumping into this
fight simply to get even for the
Hepburn bill and the Brownsville
affair. Just as he used every en-
deavor to discreditJthe admins
tration in the senate and before
the country by trying to thwart
effective railroad legislation, and
by making a salutary measure of
military discipline a matter of
legislative inquiry, so he is now
working with deliberate purpose in
Ohio to accomplish the defeat of
Rooseveltism.
Whatever may have been the
basis Of fact for that S., 600
conspiracy story, told by a drunk
Ell senator at aiWashington dinner
table, there is no room to doubt
the plain fact that exceedingly
powerful financial interests earn
estly desire the nomination Of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-05-02
will Operate Timber Tract.

Messrs. Austin Brown, of Oakland,
and Albert Frazee, of Selbysport, Saye
contracted with Messrs. Dubois & b
Bros, of Bond, to cut and delivFto
the railroad operated by the latter cor
poration, large body of timber lying
in the neighborhood of Merrill, in Dis
trict No. II of this county. The tract
comprises several hundred . nd is
covered with hard az woods.
Messrs. Brown and Fra. IA, already
purchased mill of ten thousand feet
capacity which will be received on
Monday of next week from the manu-
facturers, when they will begin work
erecting it preparatory to cutting the
timber.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-05-02
BITTNGER.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Farmers are busy this week prepar-
ing the ground for oats and potato
seeding. Other evidences of spring are
seen on every hand
Jonas Bittinger recently sold valua-
bic horse to Daniel Baker.
Squire Wade H. Loar, of Swanton,
spent last Sunday night and part of
Monday with his brother J Jefferson near
here.
Harvey Spiker, of Accident, passed
through this village last Monday.
Prof. Loraditch, of Oakland, stopped
over night in this village last week
while en- route to Grantsville where he
will instruct a class in manual training.
Miss Elizabeth Welch was visiting
Miss Amanda Ellithorp last week.
Henry Wilt, who has resided near
here for number of years, will move
his family to Jennings this week.
Messrs. Mahlon Warwick and FLOYD
Stark, of Jennings, were treating some
of Bittinger's pretty girls to buggy
ride Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Wiley were shop
ping in Oakland last Saturday, return
ing home on Sunday.
Webster Deitriech, the little five year
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Dennis Deit-
riech, strayed away from his home last
Saturday afternoon and became lost
and when found he was about four miles
from his home, and it is said that the
little fellow had trudged over more than
twice that distance in his wanderings.
A small yellow dog which attended the
child all the afternoon until found has
become the hero of the hour.
Misses Mary Buckle and Efie Bit.
finger were shopping in Grantsville last
Saturday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-05-02
THURSDAY. MAY 2, 1907.
MARYLAND AT JAMESTOWN.

The people of Maryland have
reason to feel great pride and salts
faction in the part that their State
has been taking in the opening
days of the Jamestown Exposition.
1t is the historic note that char
acterizes that Exposition, and
Maryland's participation has been
fully ins keeping with that note.
The State building is of a beauti-
full colonial. design, being modelled
after a.Ihouse built by Charles
Carroll of Carrolton, and the main
hall in it's replica of the Senate
chamber lin the State House at
Annapolis, in which Washington
resigned ibis commission to the
Congress of the United States then
assembled in Lthat chamber. In
this hallshave been collected a re-
markable group OF historical
documents and portraits, of great
patriotic..interest; and among them
is included, as Captain Colston
stated in his address of presenta-
ton to the Governor, the letter
written by General Washington
to the Governorsof Maryland all
nouncing 1.-THE surrender at York
town. Governor Warfeld, in his
speech accepting the building, did
wellato recall to memory the re
markab]e andSpregnant history Of
the relation between Maryland and
and Virginia, gzand especially of the
transaction between them at the
Revolutionary WAR, which may
we'll claim toIhave been the germ
of the Constitution of the United
States and thus to have been a vital
cause of the transformation of a
mere confederation Of States into a
national Union. Such historic
memories are all everything foun-
tain of true patriotism. The Gov
ernor, in his speech, did not fail to
pay graceful and well-deserved
tribute to the ladies TO whose en-
ergetic and well-directed efforts the
character of thei Maryland Building
as to its interior arrangement and
its historic collections, is mainly
due. That Maryland would show
up at Jamestown as she should was
to be expected, ssbut it is pleasure
to realizesthat in this case the ex-
pected has. happened.
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THE DEATH RECORD.
MISS HELEN LAUGHLIN.

At seventeen O'Clock this morning
after days of weary suffering, the soul
of Helen LaughIin, the thirteen year old
| daughter of Mr.. Hice r. Laughlin, chief
train dispatcher for the B. & o. in this
city, entered into rest eternal, the end
coming peacefully. Helen had been i'll
for more than three weeks past with
typhoid fever, and her condition was
extremely. critical from the first. For
several days the patient lay at death S
door, with little or no hope Of her re-
covery, but few days ago there was
surprising turn for the better, and the
hopes of her father and other relatives
ran high and recovery was being pre-
dicted. Yesterday afternoon the
patients heart took a bad turn, and
despite the strenuous efforts of the at
tending physicians the little girl continu-
ed to sink until death came as noted.
She was conscious from the time her
heart failed her to the end. The remains
were removed from the Sanitarium to-
day to the Laughlin residence on Yates
avenue, from where the funeral will
occur at an hour to be named later.
Mr.. Laughlin's first wife, and mother of
Helen, was Miss Annie Flanagan,
daughter of Mrs Mike Flanagan of Will
ford street, and the mother died when
Helen was but six months of age. The
baby girl was then taken by her grand
/ parents, DR.. land Mrs. Laughlin of Mt.
Lake Park, and by them tenderly reared.
/ She was never of robust health, and when
/ attacked by the fever her relatives and
| friends were fearful from the first. She
was bright and charming little girl
and was dearly loved by all who had
/ ever come into contact with her. She
was the idol of her fathers heart and
also idolized by her grandparents and
their families on both sides. Saturday s
Grafton Sentinel.
v r. i,MRs. HENRY MYERS.
Died, on the morning of May1st, 1907,
at her home near Oakland, of asthma,
with which she suffered many years,
Mrs. Henry Myers, aged more than
/ seventy years. The deceased lady was
born near New Germany, this county,
being as%sdaughter of the late Henry
burst, who went west many years ago,
dying in Preston, Mimi, about 1896. In
the year 1859 she was married to Mr..
! Myers, who survives her. She was the
mother of nine children, seven of whom
are still living. Mrs. Myers was raised
in thisIcounty where she has large
circle Of relatives and friends. She was
a member of the Lutheran church for
many years. Her funeral will take
place tomorrow morning from her late
home and the interment will be made in
the cemetery on the farm. The hus-
band and children of the deceased lady
have the sincere sympathy of their
friends in their sad bereavement.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-05-02
MORAL Now's the time for the Big HoIIer!


some man on whom they can de
pend to give a check to the Roose-
welt program of corporate control.
These interests have unlimited re-
sources at command in the way of
money. Their resources are man
lpulated by men of the Hartman
type who do not hesitate to boast
OF their readiness and their power
to control legislation by corrupt
methods. These men know, too,
that another four years of the
square deal regime means the un-
covering OF a lot Of crooked work
with the possibility of forced dis
gorgement of ill-gotten gains.
The task they have set for them
selves is to bring about the nomi-
nation of reactionary republican,
and the irst step i'll that direction
IS to beat Taft in Ohio. If they
can accomplish that first step, the
allied interests have hopes cfbeing
able to prevent the nomination of
any straightout Roosevelt republi-
can. They would not hope to nom
mate Foraker, and the plan APP
pears to be concentrated on Fair
banks, but Taft victory in Ohio
would mean that reactionism was
hopelessly knocked out in the very
first round.
Hence it is that the Foraker
Taft campaign has a significance
of national Importance. 1t is M
to the Ohio people to decide
whether or not the reactionaries
are to cut any figure in the repub-
lican national convention. Re-
ports appearing in West Virginia
papers published along the Ohio
indicate that the people on the
other bank ! the river are for Taft
in the rr iortion of about nine to
one, Vile the politicians are in
cl:ned to be non-committal. The
men who have been used to run
with the old machine are 10th to
leave it, but this machine will run
up on rough going when the people
lind out that its real purpose is to
take them out Of the Roosevelt
camp.
Foraker stands for a continue.
tion Of the conditions which have
made the Standard Oil system and
Harrimanism possible. Taft
stands for a continuation of the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-05-02
Church Services.
BAPTIST.

Bar llSI.
Deer Park Preaching Saturday even
ing, subject rs Infant Baptism
Scriptural. Services Sunday morning
as usual
Loeb Lynn Preaching Sunday at 3
p. M, 'subject THE intermediate
State.
Everybody invited to all services.
c. w. HUDSON. Pastor.
ST. PAUL's NJ. E.
Sunday, 1870 "a m., the Sacrament
of the Lords Supper will be observed.
Sunday school at 2. Is p. M; song ser
vice at 7.45 and preaching at 8 p. m.
Service Monday, Wednesday. and
Thursday evenings at 8 o'clock.
A cordial invitation is hereby extend
to all to attend our services. All
christians are invited to participate
with US in the Communion service Sun
day morning.
j. B. WORKMAN. Pastor.
ST. MARKS LUTHERAN.
Services next Sabbath as follows:
Sunday school at $50 a. m. Preaching
8 p. m. Luther League, Wednes-
day s p. m. Council meeting in vestry
of church next Monday at 8 p. m.
Preaching in Deer Park Lutheran
church next Sabbath at II a. m.
Everybody welcome.
E. MANGEs, Pastor.
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campaign for the control of public
service corporations. The more
clearly this contrast is made to
stand out in the canvass for the
primary, the more overwhelming
will become the sentiment for the
nomination Of Taft. 1t will take
that $4,000, 900, and then some, to
fool the people Of Ohio on the pro
position of turning down a reac-
tionary.
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Gone Into the Mercantile Business.

Mr.. Cornelius w. Friend, of Hine.
baugh, this county, has opened a gen.
eral store at the homestead of his father,
the late County Commissioner Ira E.
Friend, and will keep in stock line Of
groceries, dry goods, clothing, etc.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-05-02
Church Council Organized.

At meeting of the church council of
st. Marks Ev. Lutheran church held in
the vestry on Monday evening the fol-
lowing were chosen as the officers of
that body for the ensuing year: Presi-
dent, DR.. M. c. Hinebaugh secretary
Mr.. James A. Sincell treasurer, Mr..
M. r. Hamill. Mr.. Daniel Hinebaugh
was elected delegate to the conference.
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WANTED Boarding house keeper at
the mill of Mason Bros, located near
Bittinger, Md. Address Mason Bros,
Swanton, Md. st.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-21
Snake River Rising. Rapidly.

LEWISTON, May 21.The rains OF
Yesterday brought the rivers up a few
feet higher and much interest is being
manifested in the actions of Mr.. Hirsh-
ley. who is designated the man on
the island" He has moved himself
and his effects to the upper story OF
his house as the water has already
overlooked the first. The famous Snake
river island of which he is the sole
guardian. is no longer visible above
the waters.
Each day great numbers of people
visit the banks, inspect the stage of the
water and at the same time keep an
eye on Mr. Hirshley, some even going
so far as to call to their aid the field
glasses.
There is some mystery hanging over
the actions of the man on the island"
and various reports are in circulation
as to his purpose in living on its peril
Gus and forbidding bosom. Some claim
that he is squatting on the island for
the purpose of retaining and making
If his homestead and others think that
he is employed by the Northern Pa
cific railroad company to hold down
the proba bilities of extremely high
water will force Mr.. Hirshley either to
leave or build another story on his
house and anchor it with bands of
steel"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-21
Lewiston to Pave.

LEWISTON, Idaho, May 21.-Sur-
veys preparatory to advertising for
bids for the paving of two miles of
streets in the business section of the
city are being made under the direc-
ton of Engineer William B. Chase.
City Engineer of Portland. The petit
TONERS of the property owners were
received by the city council last week.
The petitions asking for the proposed
Improvement contain 80 per cent of
the property owners who will pay for
the work, and other sections of the
city adjacent to the Improvement dis
trict are circulating petitions asking
that their portion of the town be in
Guided in the first contract.
The estimated cost of installing the
pavement in the district now being
surveyed is between 100000 and $275,-
600 and it is expected all preliminaries
will be completed in time for the work
to commence by early fall. 1t is un-
derstood the council will consider Bit
ulithic, asphaltum and vitrified brick.
and it is probable the proposals for
bids will invite estimates for installing
the three kinds.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-21
Crooked Since 1893.

SEATTLE. May 21.-Further inves-
tiga-ion by Prosecuting Attorney Ken
meth Macintosh into the affairs of
Honest John Riplinger, has shown
that the fugitive city controller was
crooked in his dealings with the city
when he was city treasurer in 1898. and
that several persons were aware of the
fact but shielded him. Three months
ago. Riplingers chief deputy made an
affidavit, which has just come into the
possession of the authorities, that he
had seen his chief purloin certain city
records that contained proof of his
dishonesty.
In Riplinger's letter files have also
been found letters to and from money
lenders. showing that he was brazenly
buying warrants for them, and that
profits were being divided between him
and them. From the evidence it seems
that ever since 1898 Riplinger has been
doing crooked work.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-21
SOCIALIST REPORTER
SPRINGS SENSATION

ROISE. May 21.-"This satchel is
full of Pettibone dope!' 1t will open
any combination in the world"
A wild-eyed stranger. who had Just
eaten a hearty lunch at the Woman's
Exchange, laid a big satchel on a stool
and made the above remark as he paid
his bill. The woman behind the desk
thought it was joke and smiled. The
smile was not returned.
Haven't you heard the big doings
today?' continued the apparently ex-
cited customer. No? Well, they've
discharged the jury in the Haywood
case and the governor and attorney
general will be in Jail before night.
They have discovered the capitalist
newspaper men have conspired
agains them and they are all to be
properly fixed You shall know the
truth and it will save you!"
The woman's face blanched with
fear. AS the young man grabbed his
satchel and rushed from the place the
woman hurried to the street and in
formed a policeman of what had taken
place. He Swallowed the man to the
court house, where he discovered the
youth was a correspondent for a New
York Socialist paper. His satchel was
found to be full of copy" for his pm
per. While the man was not deemed
particularly dangerous the officers
have decided to keep him for a urI-e
under surveillance.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-21
Diamonds Lifted" In Portland.

PORTLAND, May 21.-Jewelry, to
the value of $500 was stolen from the
office of Wells, Fargo & Co., at the
Grand Central station last Tuesday
morning. and police. as usual, "are
working on the case"
The stolen package contained dla-
mond brooch, two diamond stick pins
and a diamond ring. as we'll as a cigar
cutter. and had been sent all the way
from New York city, to Leon S. Rosen-
blatt. an insurance man of this city, by
his sister, Mrs. Fannie H. Simmons.
The sender mad the package insured
for only $780, but the jewelry cost
$500 and amongst the articles stolen
are mementoes considered priceless.
The express deliveryman appeared at
Mr.. Rosenblatts office on the morning
of the theft and reported that a four
ounce package had been abstracted
from the counter at the depot, while
the transfer was being made from cars
to express wagon. The theory of the
police is that some employee of the eX-
press company may have been unable
to withstand the temptation to make
off with the package, when no one was
looking
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-21
A BILLION FOR AUTOMOBILES.
The Almost Staggering Amount In.
vested In Benzine Buggies.

The fact that in nine years the
world has manufactured $4,000 auto
mobiles. which sold for more than a
billion dollars, seems almost stagger-
ing. What is more impressive is that
last year the output was almost 900.
600 and that the United States leads
the world. This is surprising when
we consider that the industry is prac-
tically a French one in its origin ana
pristine development. 1t has taken the
Yankees a very short time to get into
the game and carry off the prizes. The
industry now is not only important but
is continually growing.
1t is not denied that in some re-
spects the machines of foreign makes
are superior to the domestic product.
They are made with more care and are
intended to last many years. On them
there seems to be spent an unusual
amount of that personal labor and skill
which make for permanency. But that
is only one part of the whole scheme of
automobling. If it were ALL we should
either have to buy abroad entirely or
follow their methods. The situation
calls for neither horn of the dilemma.
Automobiling as a sport is necessarily
confined to the rich or the well-to- do.
And on the same principle that the
American manufacturer throws away
his machinery the moment it becomes
obsolete ana substitutes the latest pat
4 tern. the American automobiles is
anxious to have the latest and best of
machines.
1t is generally supposed that Ameri-
can machines are less substantial than
those of foreign make. This is true
only in a relative sense. The American
machines are Of all grades and speeds.
The great trouble in this country is
that the man who buys an ordinary
touring car, which ought not to be sent
more than % miles an hour. thinks
that he can speed it up to 40 or so
without damage. One might as well
try to make an ordinary roadster go
in the 2:20 trotting class and expect
no damage. 1t is also true that inn
proved construction and better work.
manship are putting American cars far
ahead of what they were even three
wears ago. There is no reason to doubt
that in a short time we need fear no
competition on any grounds.-Philadel
phia Inquirer.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-21
Biz Railroad Undertaking.

One If the greatest undertakings on
which contractors who are building the
Chicago Milwaukee & st. Paul rail-
road to Tacoma are engaged. is hll1ne
canyon $50 feet deep and half mile
long. The canyon is near North Bend
Just this side of the mountains. on a
branch of the Snoqualmie river. A
mammoth pumping plant is to be es-
tablished above the canyon and the
course Of the river is to be changed 10
a point higher on the mountain to give
additional Roadway. The filling is to
be done by sluicing down the side OF
the mountain.
This is considered remarkable feaI
of engineering and the preparations
for the work are being watched with
interest by engineers all over the coun-
try.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-21
Aqed Man Badly Hurt.

PENDLETON, Or. May 21.-Robert
Albee, one of Umatilla county's old and
well-known pioneers, lies near deaths
door at Pilot Rock. The old man. who
is still hale and hearty at the age OF
50. had made a visit to his mountain
ranch alone. After being there for sew
eral days he returned to his home Sat
urday afternoon SO badly injured that
he was unable to talk. He had several
bad bruises and cuts on his head and
body and one side of his face was black
and blue from blow under the eye.
Owing to the old mans severe
wounds it was difficult to learn how he
had received his injuries, but it seems
that he was attempting, with the aid OF
his horse. to roll a log over, and that
in some manner he was thrown under
the moving timber and injured.