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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-30
NOTHING CHEAP ABOUT THEM.

Turkish Brigands Compelled Payment
Of $4,000 Ransom for Boys Release.
Times.
Constantinople, April 30.-Seventy-
/. five thousand dollars was the ransom
paid for the, release of Robert Abbott,
son of a prominent British subject re-
siding at Saloniki, who was kidnapped
from his fathers garden March "a and
eventually liberated when the demands
of his abductors had been conceded.
The brigands originally, demanded
100000.
The British government will insist
that the ransom be repaid by the Turk
ish government.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-30
STEEL DIVIDEND.

Associated Press to Tho Evening Times.
New York, April 30.-Speculation is
rife among the financial men and stock
brokers on the question Of the United
Steel corporation common dividend.
The finance committee of the steel cor
poration meets this afternoon to agree
upon the dividend rate for the common
stock, which they are to recommend to
the directors meeting to be held i'm
mediately afterwards. Many opinions
are vouchsafed as to the probable ac-
tion that will be taken, but all are ad-
mittedlY pure guessWork.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-30
EXPRESS ON TROLLEY LINES.
Press to The Evening Times.

Columbus, O., April 3O.-The Pacific
Express Company tomorrow is to be-
gin the operation of an express service
on several of the principal electric
lines in western Ohio. Contracts have
been made with the Dayton & Troy,
the Springfield, Troy & Piqua, the
Western Ohio and the Toledo Urban &
Interurban lines. This is the first ad-
vent of an old-line express company
into the electric line traffic in this Sec
ton OF the country. Z
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-30
DO NOT EXPECT TROUBLE.
Everything Is Peaceable in Pittsburs
TRhOr Circles

LaDOF ClrcleSs
Ansociated Press to The Evening TimeA
Pittsburg, Pa.,, April 3O.-May day
in Pittsburg and vicinity is expected to
pass off with lei labor disputes than
in previous years. Heretofore consid-
cradle difficulty has been experienced
between the workmen and building
trades. but this year scales have been
signed and the men are apparently
satisfied. -.
With the exception of the machinists,
about 300 of whom are out on strike,
it is believed all the wage scales will
be amicably adjusted. The machinists
are striking for an increase OF wages
and shorter hours.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-30
REVISE IOWA RATES.
AaRRR1dfAA pRAaa In TH,~ Ev~~0.~ Ts,..

Des Moines, Ia, April 3O.-The Iowa
railroad commission today began a
session with the object of effecting a
general revision of the freight rate
schedules, to be effective on all roads
operating within the state. The COM
mission will continue the work until
it is finally completed, when it will
promulgate an entirely new schedule
of rates. During the last few weeks
the members of the commission have
made general inspection of all the
railroads. in Iowa, in order to gain
an exact knowledge of their condition.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-30

Probably no mayor, has received as
much attention from the public than
the one whose cut appears above. He
was elected mayor of the city after one
of the hottest municipal campaigns in
the history of the city, and >probably
In the state. Mayor Smyth is ply
sician of considerable prominence, and
Is a sturdy and upright citizen. His
friends predict that the administration
of the chief executive of Bismarck will
be as vigorous and as successful as
his fight for election, and that he
will keep the capitol city worthy of
all patriotic North Dakotans
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-30
SHRINERS OFF.

Ass0ctated FFess to The EvenlnG TImess
Des Moines, Ia, April 30.-Large
numbers of shriners from all over
Iowa are in Des Moines today to take
part in the ceremonial session ar
ranged by Ia Ga Zig temple for this
evening. A banquet will follow the
conclave. About 125 Iowa Shriners
will leave Des Moines tomorrow on a
special car for Los Angeles. where
the natiopal convention of the order
will he held next week.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-30
BEATS NORTH DAKOTA.
Damage from Raging Oklahon
Streams Reaches 100000.

DdMagt IFOM NHgIuE UKIan0m0
Streams Reaches 100000.
Associated Press to The Evening Times.
Oklahoma City, Okla, April 3d.
The North Canadian river and Light
ming Creek are receding rapidly and
the flood situation was greatly inn
proved today. But one person remains
unaccounted for. Forty families on
Capital Hill, across from Oklahoma
City, are homeless. The loss in rail-
way bridges, tracks. live stock, farm
and other property is estimated at
$4,000
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-30
WON'T CELEBRATE.
AssoclateA Press Cable q The Bvenlns


Berlin, April so.-May day in Berlin
and throughout the empire promises 10
pass of quietly and witout the GUS
tomary demonstrations and suspen-
sion sof labor. The executive commit
tee of the German social democratic
party has fssuedua manifesto COM
'manding the members of the party to
continue at their work as usual tomor-
row, and the order will be generally
observed. Employers have combined
in a declaration that any workman
taking holiday on May day will be
punished by being locked out for ten
days. Socialist leaders have warned
the laborers that they are not in a po-.
sdtion to incur this heavy financial loss
at this time, when workmen in many
trades are locked out because of their
demands for higher wages and better
conditions of employment
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-30

THE WEATHER.
a = y n X + Z +
North Dakota-Fair tonight and s.
Wednesday; rising temperature.
4 Il 4 \ y 4 y II
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-04-30
SHRINERs AT CRIPPLE CREEK.
Associated Press to The Evening Times.

V1ctor, COL, April 3U.-The advance
guard of the Shriners who are expect
ed to visit the Cripple Creek district
during the week. on their way to Los
Angeles, arrived today and were given
a royal reception by the Tramp
Shriners' club of the district. Over
$4,000 has been raised to entertain
the visitors. each of whom will be
presented with plush case contain
ing valuable specimen of Cripple
Creek ore. Invitations to visit the dis
trict have been sent to 5000 Shriners
throughout the country and it is ex-
pected that hundreds will accent,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
Manual Traininu.

"One who does not come in contact with the railroad or industrial world is hardly familiar with the fact that many sons of rich men serve full apprenticeships in the shops as a complement to their training for commanding positions said a rail- road official. Not a few vice presidents of railroads have worked at the forge and lathe after completing a college course. The ablest of the Vanderbilts of the pres ent generation is a machinist by trade, and George Grant Mason, nephew of the late J. H. Smith, is now a railroad super intendent. After graduating at college he worked four years In a machine shop; was promoted to the position of round house foreman; then trainmaster and re- gently to his present position of superin- tendent of transportation. He inherited from his uncle upwards of thirty million dollars.
 "W J. Harahan, vice president and general manager of the Illinois Central, son Of President Harahan, after gradu- ating as civil engineer, served an ap- premiership in the machine shops. These are but examples of the modern training of successful railroad men,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
Crep Prospects

Wheat has been advanced two or three cents a bushel because the gov ernment put the condition of winter wheat on May 1 about seven points below it's condition on May 1 of last year, and about three points below the ten-year average. These governmental reports of conditions are thought to point to crop well nigh one hundred million bushels below the 492000, 900 bushels of winter wheat grown last year. The reports from the efforts to SOW the spring wheat crop, and also from the winter rye fields are not fla Norable to large crops, and altogether the prospect is that the country will have less wheat to sell to other coun- tries and the home price of bread will be higher.
 Nor is the situation in the southern fields encouraging. A cold April and a wet May are retarding planting and germination, while the harder grass is springing up. The yield will be less ened, and this is reflected in prices. September cotton is today worth in New Orleans Il IA cents. What it is worth in New York need not concern any one, for its rotten methods stand fully exposed.
 Continuous rains and cold nights in May will certainly lessen the number of bales next fall, for this is the month when the plant should get firm grip in the soil in order to meet the hot sun and dry weather of the summer months. The crop is late, the fields are Mater-soaked, and the prospect is a bit gloomy. But a few bright days may change the situation, although bright days cannot restore to the crop all the bales promised in March.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
The City Frog Pond.

Tt appears to me that municipal au- thorities are letting a fine money making proposition pass by in not turning that pond in the Richmond Place vicinity into a frog ranch" said Leo Alderman yester- day "The pond Is there and all the res idents in that section will agree with me that the frogs are there. too. I think if the city could sell every pair of frog legs in our pond at 10 cents the finance committee wouldn't have to worry any more about raising tax assessments. In the course of a few years, with a little care, the frog farm would pay off the city debt.
 Not only are the frogs extremely noisy, but the low, wet undrained land will like ly cause sickness. As 1t Is now there's no estimating how many mosquitoes will breed on the surface. It appears to me it is due the residents in that neighbor- hood that the pond be filled. If the city can't afford to fill it it's a dead loss not to make some money from the frog bus mess"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
DEATH OF A MAN EATER.
the Atchison Globe


 Alfred Packer, known throughout the west as the Man Eater was found dead lately In a lonely cabin in Colorado Many years ago Packer was employed to guide a party of five men from Salt Lake into New Mexico. They became lost on the way and encountered severe snowstorm. Packer alone survived and became fugitive from justice It was claimed that he killed his five companions and ate a part of one body to sustain life. Later Packer was arrested and sent to the penitentiary, being released many years afterward. Packer claimed that one of his companions killed the other four while insane from hunger, but admitted that he ate part of one of the bodies while crazed with hunger. Now Packer himself dies a lonely and miserable death. after years of wander ing and fear and dread.
 The writer of this used to hunt big game in the west in company with B. B. Brooks, now governor of Wyoming. Governor Brooks. while living alone in the mountains once had a call from Pack CT and entertained him several days. He did not know at the time that he was entertaining Packer but afterward saw him in prison and recognized him. Gov ernor Brooks says Packer was the most wretched man he ever knew; he was up at all hours of the night and had a hunted look
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
HE HAS FILED 5o,ooo SAWS.
Twenty Years of Raspng Steel-And
 the PubIic's Nerves.
From the Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
 T. J. Goodwin of 1204 Ohio avenue, West Side, declares that in the last twenty years he has filed 5o,000 saws and walked 65,000 miles. While accomplishing this, he says he has carried with him the burden of saw wise with a seat attach ment, contrivance which weighs twenty two pounds. He is 69 years old.
 From the accounts he has kept the old man estimates that he has filed an average of ten saws day for the past twenty years and has walked an average of about twelve miles a day for that period. He makes about S1.50 a day and says that he is satisfied with that amount.
 His is familiar figure in Kansas City, East and West Sides. and in Argentine, where he has many regular customers. His business is principally with butchers. though he files many wood saws.
 I commenced filing saws in 1863 when I lived in La Harpe, Ill., he said. but l did the work then in connection with other business. For the last twenty years since I have been in Kansas City, have done no other kind of work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
Open-Hearih Rails

An order for 150,000 tons of rails to be delivered in 1908 to the Hartman lines is further evidence of the value of open-hearth rails, for the order in question was placed with the Ten nessee Coal and Iron company. The rails thus contracted for are to be made in this district from our own Alabama ores.
 The recent reports of railroad com missions and railroad managers con- tain frequent references to the increas- ing number of broken rails. In the three months ending March 31 in New York state 3O14 broken rails were re- moved, as against S26 in the core. spending months of the previous year. In February last 449 broken rails were found on the Union Pacific and South ern Pacific, and 179 of the number were 90-pound rails which had been in use less than six months.
 None of the reported breakages oc- cured to open-hearth rails. They hap pened to Bessemer rails rolled in Pitts burg, and Chairman Gary of the steel trust parties the charge by saying that heavy modern equipment calls for heavier rails-that a 110-pound rail should now be considered standard.
 Possibly open-hearth rails will not stand the wear and tear of heavy train loads and high speed on roads that dc not keep their roadbeds in prime con dition, but thus far no reports oi breakages of open-hearth rails have come in, and until there are reports l of that nature we have right to clain, | that open-hearth rails are the safer oi the two kinds in use. The Hartman managers seem to be convinced they l are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12

to Tuscaloosa. Florence, Tuseumbia and Sheffield are linked together by an electric road So will Birmingham and Montgomery be, and an electric line will surely be built to Huntsville unless the gap between that town and Oneonta is speedily filled.
 It is a mistake to think that inter- city electric rails will not be laid in the south. When the northern field has been well exploited promoters will look for opportunities in the south, and they will find them, and electric roads will repeat here the history of steam roads. They will carry freight, express goods, mails as well as passengers, and each year will bring them more and more into rivalry with the locomotive and it's burdens.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
DIcfatlnn the Succession

4 third term is intolerable, but so is the determination of a second term man to name his successor. And yet that is exactly what MT. Roosevelt is trying to do, and he is not at all care ful in eoncealing his efforts In that direction. Both he and the political Mir Cortelyou do not hesitate to declare that the administration policy Is to force the nomination of MT. Taft for President Every state that can be in duced to send Taft delegates will be rewarded, and in all states except h. diana favorite.son inducements will be fought to finish. The President, says a Washington special, will not tolerate them. Knox shall not have the dele gates in Pennsylvania, nor Cannon in Illinois, nor Hughes in New York, nor Warner in Missouri, and so on to the end of the list.
 Heir presumptives have been pro- claimed in past periods in the political history of the country, but a more strenuous effort of that nature was never attempted than the President and MT Cortelyou are now engaged in eoncocting. There is no concealment about it-no pretense of fair play or dignified federal action. In any state that will not send Taft delegates Roosevelt inducements will be sought, and in that way it is proposed to shut out the favorite-son business, Indiana alone excepted. Fairbanks will be per mitted to bag delegates in his own state, but no one expects him to get any additional ones.
 Some of the administration delegates will be pledged to Taft and some to Roosevelt, but all are to vote for the Ohio man in the long run, who is of ficially slated for the succession.
 Let us not complain of the methods of the esteemed Mir Diaz of Mexico, who holds and conducts his own cleo tions in his own way. MT. Roosevelt is treading in his footsteps by substitut- ing MT. Taft's boots for his own. A free selection by the people of a Presi- dent has 5one out of fashion on the re- publican side of the house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
E lectric Roads in the South

Il The more populous northern states, md especially the states that contain large cities, are being filled with cleo tric suburban and inter-city roads. In states like Ohio and Indiana there is a network of such roads that carry
 the young farmers to the nearby towns and that bring to the farms the com
 forts and conveniences of the city. The electric roads in Indiana and Ohio not only pick up passengers at the farm
 house, offering them even sleeping car
 accommodations, but they offer cur rents to the farmer to light his house, do his pumping, drive his churn and geyen to blow his fields.
 What is now feasible in the middle west and in the east would not per
 naps at present be profitable in the cotton states, but after while electric roads will be built in sections of the buth also. Already one has been damned frsm Gadsden via Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Roosevelt Sentiment.

F. W. Tucker of Little Rock. United States collector of internal revenue, spent a part of yesterday in Birmingham on his way from Washington to his home in Arkansas. Like all officeholders he takes a keen interest in politics and especially at this time, when alignments for 1908 are being formed.
 Tt looks as if the republican nomina- tion would be forced on President Roose- velt," said MT. Tucker. That was the feeling In Washington and every day the drift seems more clearly in favor of Roosevelt. Mir. Roosevelt was never so popular as now, and party men are not paying any attention to alleged anti third term sentiment. It Is thought that if the republican convention declares President Roosevelt the nominee by ae- clamation he could not decline to carry the standard. no matter how averse he might be to serving in the White House another term.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12

From the New orlk Sum
 Exception is taken in Tennessee Coal and Iron quarters to the intimations that the intention of John W. and Charles G.. Gates to retire from active business will dlsorganize the so-called pool In the stock. It is contended that there is really no pool i'm the usual acceptation of the term in Wall street. The control rests with what might with more propriety be desig- mated as a proprietary syndicate, of which the elder Gates Is a member, his stock like that of all other members. being paid for When the syndicate, which is composed of a number of very rich men, was in process of formation Charles G. Gates asked for a participation on &C., count of his father, who was then in Texas, and requested that time should be given for consideration of details 1he outcome was that the former head of the American Steel and Wire became one of the proprietors of the Tennessee com pany Gates & Co.,. never had charge of the syndicate arrangements and the stock was never in charge of the firm. Such of it as was not kept in the strong boxes of holders friendly to the syndicate was placed with a house on the other side of Broadway, where 1t remains today, and Is likely to remain until the plans for which 1t was accumulated are car ried out. John w. Gates has expressed no desire to be relieved of his par ticiration in the syndicate, and if he did it is asserted. some of the other mem hers would be both able and willing to negotiate with him for his holdings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
LESSON IN POSTAL WAYS.
Superiority of Foreign Service to That
 In America Is Asserted.
From Appleton's. s.

From Appleton's.
 In New York it takes two hours to send special delivery letter from Harlem to Twenty third street. In Berlin, through the rohrpost, letter can be sent simi- lar distance in two minutes.
 It would be advantageous to all people if the statesmen of the world, foregoing for season their provincial boosting, could convene in international session and exchange ideas regarding the worlds progress. was impressed with this fact when had occasion in Budapest to send a registered letter. Instead of having to wait for clerk to copy the superscription and hand me a receipt. I had simply to show the letter properly stamped and then drop it in a mechanical contrivance, which immediately issued receipt card automatically dated and numbered.
 It makes the system of registering letter in Hungary as simple as dropping a piece of mail in a letter box is in Amer lea. I desired to test this innovation and so I mailed a letter in Budapest ad- dressed to myself in a hotel at 4.unich Two hours later I took the train to the Bavarian capital. and the day after 1 arrived in the hotel I received word that there was registered letter for me at the postoffiee.
 The German system of postal money orders is far superior it seems to me, to the American. You hand the money into a German postoffice, give the address of the person to whom 1t IS to be sent and walk away with the receipt. That ends your responsibility. The government carries the money to the house and even to the room of the addrcssec.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
The Iron Market.

"The iron market Is growing stronger every day, but there is comparatively little unsold output in this district for last half delivery" said H. Hammond. "Priees are firm at $2o on a No. basis for last quarter delivery. Spot iron will naturally be a choice commodity from now on."
 While Birmingham iron was sold this week for last quarter delivery at $22 on a No. ? basis, 1t was small lot, less than 200 tons. and therefore could not be called the market price, As MT. Hammond says, SEQ Is the price, and that Is taken to be quite fancy enough, although melters seem to be ready now 4o pay most any figure that may be asked.