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Middletown transcript., 1907-05-18
HIGHEST MAN PAID
John Hays Hammond and His Worlds
Record Salary

John Hays Hammond and His Worlds
Record Salary
John Hays Hammond, the mining en-.
gineer of New York, receives salary
aggregating $500, 600 year, which ID
more money than any other man ever
received for his personal services. Men
make millions on investment or by ma
nipulations or speculation. but Hammond
is the only man in the world who is paid
SO nearly million wear for professional
advice. Hammond is the greatest soldier
of fortune Of modern times, perhaps OF
all times, and was the model from which
r ard Harding Davis drew his hero in
'Soldiers Of Fortune" He was born in
San Francisco 50 years ago and was grad
uated from the Sheffield scientific school
Of Yale. During his boyhood in Califor-
mia he heard and dreamed of nothing but
gold, for the western coast was gold mad
during this period
In his quest for the precious metal
Hammond has travelled all over the
world, from Siberia to South Africa. He
followed the course. Of prospecting in
Austraiia during the boom days, and he
was in the Transvaal at the time OF the
Jameson raid. With Phillips, Frank
Rhodes and George Farrar, he was cap
tured by the Beers and sentenced q
death, to the great excitement Of the
whole civilized world. Dom Paul Kruger
under threats from Joseph Chamberlain,
released the four men upon payment OF
an enormous fine and sentence Of punish
ment.
Hammond came to New York and
opened-an office as consulting engineer.
He may be found now In a little room
in the Empire building, and so great is
his knowledge of goid-bearing ore from
all the great gold fields of the world that
he is able to pass unerring judgment upon
mines without visiting them. His word
is law to. investors II Hammond saws
Yes" financial kings will spend millions
for purchase or development Of gold
mines. II Hammond says No" investors
will not spend a cent, no matter how
tempting the offers may be. He has
corps Of assistants who visit mines under
question and make their reports to him..
Chicago Tribune.
Middletown transcript., 1907-05-18
Divorces Granted

Kenty County Court in session in
Dover last week granted DEGREES Of di.
sorce as f,llows;
Annie B. Callafl rs. Nicholas A. Ca
hall; William j. Reynolds vs.. Mary d.
Reynolds; Alice Harvey u. William T:
Harvey.
Those refused included:
Charles Kreamer Sampson vs. Martha G.
Sampson; Mamie Parrish ys. William
9. Parrish; DIR. Henry A. B. McCaulley
We. Mary E. McCaulley.
Middletown transcript., 1907-05-18
Health Board for Delaware CITY

There has been organized Board Of
Health in Delaware City. The organiza-
ton was effected on Thursday evening,
and the following members were ap-
pointed DR.. Waiter W. Ellis, DR.. Frank
Bellville and William E. CooIe. The
board will enter npon lis work immedi-
ately. The State Board If Health has
heretofore paid attention to the town.
Middletown transcript., 1907-05-18

FOR RENT-Dwelling and stable, East
Mainistreet. formerly occupied by John
". sotway. Possession 25th April.
G. E. HuKILL.
The independent., 1907-02-28
THE NERVE CENTER.

Experts are beginning to realize"
says dispatch from Washington"
that one of the bigg est railroad lob
bies that ever sWooped down on Wash
ington is making its headquarters
here now and devoting it's energies
and efforts to defeat number of
matters of pending legislation" The
hours of service bill, the movement
to reduce the pay for carrying the
mail, and the IaFollette measure
providing for physical valuation Of
the railroads in order to arrive at a
basis for establishing rates, are the
measures suggested as giving this
lobby the most concern. In the case
of the hours of labor bill, the meas
ure as reported to the house by the
interstate commerce committee has
already been so amended that it
should be entirely acceptable to the
railroads if passed In that form by
the house and senate. The reductions
in pay for carrying the maii cannot
in any case be tremendously import
ant to the railroads. The measure
that has precipitated the lobby, a
lobby greater even than the ono that
gathered to oppose the rate bill last
year. Is evidently the LaFollette bill
to evaluate the roads. Here. evidently,
has the very nerve center of the rate
question been touched. Trying to es-
tablish reasonable rates before the
value is known on which dividends
have a right To be. earned Is a public
which the stock waterers
can observe with reasonable cquanim-
ity. Proceed TO live. beneath the
water to the foundation for reasona-
BILE rates and washington is mobbcd
with lobbyists.
The independent., 1907-02-28
wAsHINGTON's BIRTHDAY.

Presidential birthdays were a more
serious affair when the foundation was
being laid for todays holiday, than
they are now. Partly because official
spfeHdor was in vogue, partly because
every measure that was calculated to
lend dignity and authority to the new
government was needed in those un-
steady times, and Of course partly be-
cause Of the real feeling of respect
and Indebtedness to the man. Wash
ington's birthdays We're celebrated
with a good deal Of show from the
beginning of his term as president in
1888 to the end eight years later Al
birthday reception and ball which
Washington and his wife always at
tended was a regular feature of Phil
adelphia social life during his term.
When "A schism in Philadelphia So
ciety gave rise to two such celebra-
tions the president used to attend the
one on the eve Of his birthday and
the other on the evening Of the 22nd
Yet those occasions and the unan-
unity with which we nowadays honor
the father of his country do not JUS
tify the conclusion that all was good
feeling in those times. The president
was mentioned as a mangler and
murderer of the constitution, charge
not escaped by later presidents.
Thomas Paine in 1896 called him
"treacherous in private friendship and
a hypocrite in public life" John Adams
wondered whether Washington would
ever have been commander of the rev.
olutionary army if he had not been
the husband of the rich widow of Gus
tbs. A New York paper tenderly in
quired whether posterity would not
say of him that "the mask Of political
hypocrisy has been worn by Caesar,
by Cromwell and by Washington"
These criticisms Of Washington sug-
gest a reflection on the need of care
in Judging the character and motives
of our present day public men. How
ever strongly their ideas and policies
may meet criticism it seems wise to
reserve condemnation of the men
themselves with whom we happen to
disagree To remember Thomas b.
Reeds sweetly cynical discovery that
a statesman is a dead politician may
save us from posing for our posterity
as Washington's detractors now do for
theirs, in the role of examples of how
badly mistaken men may be.
The independent., 1907-02-28
THE PRESIDENTIAL succEss,ox

iloW the question of presidential
succession as the laws now stand
niisht III certain circumstances he
dangerously involved is shown bv q
| report OF house committee recon-.
| mendlng certain changes in the stat
ute. Up to 1885 the law provided that
In case of the death Of both the presi-
dent and the vice president the presi-
aent pro tempore of the senate and
tne speaker Of the house of repre
sentatives should be in line of sue
cesslon. Soon after Mr. Cleveland
came into office in that year the vice
president, Mr.. Hendricks, died. The
senate was republican and elected
John sherman, republican, president
pro tempore The house was demo-
cratic, and elected democrat John
G Carlisle. speaker. Mr.. CIeyeIand's
death at that time would therefore
nave turned democratic admins
tration into a republican administra-
ton under John Sherman Mr.. Sher-
mans death in turn would have re-
turned the administration to the dem
ocrats under Mr.. Carlisle. This sit
uatlon caused the new succession law
under which cabinet officers then
provided for were placed in line Of.
succession instead of the senate and
house officials, thus assuring that there
would be no change in party control
during the term for which party had
elected it's candidate. Two cabinet
offices have been created since 1885,
however, and it is now proposed TO
add the secretaries Of agriculture and
of commerce and labor to the line.
In recommending that bill the COM
mittee calls attention to some prz-
zling situations that might arise under
the law as it is now and as it will
continue to lie alter the proposed law
passes. The law OF succession gov
erns cases Of removal, death, resig-
nation or inability of both president
and vice president What is meant
by inability, and who is 70 determine
when n president is in condition of
Inability? IL president-elec died
before his inauguration, would the
vice president-elect be president for
the full term? Should both the presi-
dent-elect and vice president -elect die |
before their Inauguration, what cab
met officers would come in under the |
succession law? These are questions |
to which the law gives ne answer. A |
world of trouble might be saved by |
settling these points before their set |
tlement bears on a particular case. |
The independent., 1907-02-28

Congress must do all the work it
is to do at this session before next
Monday at noon. Two things unite
70 make the coming week the most
dangerous in legislative way of the
lie OF this congress, as it is of the
lie OF every congress. In the first
place the congress now in session is
body which under the simplest rules
OF common sense should not be al
lowed to cast a vote or pass an ap-
preparation. It's life really expired
When q new congress was elected last
november. The congress now pass
ing laws and making appropriations
is already superseded. The ship sub
sldy bill. which it is hoped to press
through this week, would be impos-
sibie but for the support of members
IKE Grosvenor who have been polit-
zeal corpses for months. A second
danger lies in the practice of leaving
appropriation bills of tremendous size
and Importance to he rushed through
hastiiN in the last week, often In tho
last day Of the session. Here Is the
opportunity of the vultures that stand
around the edges waiting for chance
to rush in and make grab. Here is
the secret OF the sudden swelling of
the volume of appropriations at the
end of session, for tho urgency OF
the case exposes congress To be held
up by every member who is ready 10
block proceedings untfl his favorite
schcme ~ watered by an appropria-
tion, II would require only simple
act "t legislation TO remedy both these
evils
The independent., 1907-02-28
in LOGICAL ORDER.

Rev. c. M Shepherd of Pawnee pro-
duces a clever piece of sarcasm in his
letter limiting that the present attack
upon railroad abuses is of less import
ance than the assault upon the rum
power.
If Mr.. Shepherd will investigate the
history of the prohibition party i'll Ne
braska he will find that for many years
it was encouraged by the railroad pol
iticians as a means of keeping people
interested in something outside of the
railroad business. For nearly two de-
cades the leaders of the prohibition
party were given passes and encour-
agement Their work was considered
valuable by the managers because IL
helped to keep people who wanted to
break away from the old conditions
in hostile camps The split in the pro-
hibition party in 1896 was procured by
outsiders, and the men in the prohibi-
ton party responsible for 1t were AZ
the time riding from one end of the
country to the other without payag
cent for railroad fare. AS a result of
this interference the prohibition party
was of no value To practical temper
ance and no progress whatever was
made in curbing the corporations
1t finally dawned upon large num-
Der OF people of Nebraska that instead
OF dividing into hostile parties, eac's
attacking a different evil IL was tins
to unite and march together for good
government individuals and news
papers asserted their right 20 inde-
pendent thinking and soon brought the
leading parties around to the con-
sideration of the problems most im-
mediately affecting the state. The plat
forms OF the democratic and republic
can parties last year were substantially
alike for this reason. Two Years ago
a start was made TOWARD better polit-
ical conditions hy taking the election
Of United States senators out of the
hands OF the politicians. This yea
the railroads have becn unhorsed ns
political dlctators. Effective corpora.
tlon legislation has been aud WITH be
passed
These problems out OF the way. Il
viii be possible 80 bring the questioe
Of county option sauarely before the
parties for solution during the corning
The independent., 1907-02-28
CHRONIC CRIMINALS.

What to do with the chronic criminal
is a question tnat rises constantly to
plague the student of penology and the
policeman too. There are ten thousand
crooks in the streets of New York
says the inspector of police. Every one
of them has been prosecuted as a Grim
inal and every one is waiting the op-
portunity TO commit crime. To send
a man to Jail on general principles is
not In accordance with our theories
Of personal liberty. and injunctions re-
straining men from picking % pocket
have no practical force Yet IL seems
mhearable 10 allow man 10 run III
large wheA il is known he intends to
commit a crime. To meet this case Il
bill Is before the legislature legalizing
the holding OF ''a person who has been
convicted Of felony or one who has
lSen convicted as a pickpocket, thief or
burglar. and having no visible means
OF support. found lettering about
steamboat landings. railroad stations,
banking institutions. crowded thor
uughfares. ears. omnibuses. hotels. or
any public gatherings or assembly.
acting suspiciously and unable to give
a satisfactory explanation OF his press
snee
Thia enables the police 10 arrest any
The independent., 1907-02-28
ONLY A SQUARE DEAL.

Industrial Commissioner Manss of the
burlington began his address tn the
commcrcial club convention with an in
timation that he feared the railroads
were without friends in that meeting
This feeling may be typical OF rail-
road men NJ tho present time. With
two cent fare bills Ahowering about
their heads all over the West. their IN.
fiuenco In legislation in nearly every
western state seemingly gone aud a
disposition In tho legislatures tu brln.
the railroads 20 account on a score az
points. the old time railroad managers
The independent., 1907-02-28
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT

person as a vagrant whom they may
think needs watching, in case he has
criminal record to justify 1t. This
is done by the police Of many cities
without any special authority. Whi.a
such proceedings are capable of seri-
Gus abuse, the protection of the public
seems to demand that something of the
lnu be done. In several states it is
proposed that long sentences be pro-
Vided FOR such men as have become
confirmed petty criminals. and provi-
sion made for treating them by re-
formatory methods in the hope of
eventually making men of them.
The independent., 1907-02-28
TERMINAL TAXATION SCIENTIFIC

The experts are generally coming to
an agreement on the proposition that
the taxation Of property for both state
and local purposes is undesirable, be-
cause Of the difficulty of securing a
uniform assessment in all Of the cOun-
ties When the merchants Of Omaha,
for example, induce their assessors to
list their stocks at less than 50 cents
on the dollar. while the Lincoln mer-
chants put theirs in at 80 or 90 or
100 cents, and the state board refuses
to effect an equalization, the unwork
ableness of the present system is dis
closed. To take its place a tax on
railroads and other corporations doing
business over the state generally is
recommended. Under that plan Omaha
may assess it's merchants at cents
on the dollar if it wishes without
damaging any other county, because
no part of the state tax will be levied
on that assessment.
One objection urged against ter
minal taxation is that if this scientific
method Of making the corporations
pay the state tax, leaving the counties
free to assess and levy as they wish
for local purposes, it will hardly be
worth while to pass the terminal tax
alton bill This objection is answered
by the report of plan by the Cali
fornia tax commission, which proposes
to turn into the state treasury all the
taxes collected from the franchise
values of corporations. leaving the
physical property of the corporations
to be taxed wherever it may happen
to be, in common with all other real
property This is counted a scientific
ally just tax. 1t will be noted that
ii more nearly approaches the ter
minal or municipal tax now proposed
for Nebraska than the system that
it is to displace. Instead of being
move away from the scientific taxa
tion of railroads, therefore, terminal
taxation will be in fact a long step
towards the adoption of an ideal svs-
tenn.
The independent., 1907-02-28

TWO years. An attempt to force it ir
ahead OF the measures that are needes.
70 restore the government of the s.tafa
70 the people may result i'm suspen5ing
~ progressive legislation for a term
OF years. 1t is not fair to assume Yfit
Mr. shepherd would seriously advise
cropping the present program in orde,
10 place emphasis upon the particular;
REFORM that he SO strongly desires.
The independent., 1907-02-28

may appear justified in feeIini, that
the skies are falling.
The matters which the people have
TO adjust with the railroads cover o
wide field If they appear to take a
measure of delight in the adjusting
process the railroads alone are to
blame, 70 say the least. the people OF
Nebraska are not so arrogant in their
attitude toward the railroads through
the present legislature as the railroads
were arrogant toward the people
through the last Legislature The rail-
roads may remember that the regula-
tive legislation now flooding them is
but the bursting Of a dam which they
themselves have constructed. 1t is
hardly necessary to assure the rail-
roads. however that the people Of Ne
braska, including that part Of. them
represented in the Commercial club
convention, are not the enemies of the
railroads. The. railroads by attempted
usurpation Of public functions afd by
arrogant conduct when successful in
thls have caused a reaction against
themselves. The public can be depend
ed upon to realize, however, that two
wrongs do not make a right. The fact
that they have been abused by the
railroads does not and will not war;
rant reprisals, but only measures to
prevent further abuses. These meas
ures may seem radical TO railroads
Which have been accustomed to dictate
legislation for themselves, but that will
not mean that they are not just
The independent., 1907-02-28

the companies will be unable to add
to the present passenger train service,
and some trains now running must
be discontinued"
If members Of the present legisla-
ture and readers of the legislative re-
ports note something strangely famil-
lar about these arguments they have
only to recall that history repeats
Itself.
The independent., 1907-02-28
Loss OF Appetite

Is common when the blood needs puri-
flying and enriching, for then the blood
fails to give the digestive organs the
stimulus necessary for the proper per-
formance Of their functions.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is pre-eminently
the medicine TO take. 1t makes the
blood pure and rich, and strengthens
all the digestive organs.
was all run down and had no
appetite. After taking one bottle of
Hoods Sarsaparilla l could eat any
thing / wished" Mrs. Amanda Fen
ner, Oneco, Conn.
Accept no substitute for
The independent., 1907-02-28
on,, On. "naoao arIyrSr~

Similarly named remedies sometimes de
esise. The iiret and original Cold Tablet
" WHITE PACKAGE with black and
red lrtiffnK, and heaFa the signature OF
w. w. GROVE. Ia
The independent., 1907-02-28
nIHEor Am INDIRECT rAxEs.

Passenger fares are mainly u direct
tax Everybody travels mere or less.
and when he does his railroad fare
The independent., 1907-02-28

FATo OINTMENT y guaranteed 90 cure any
casa ~ ltehana hllnd. siieedinK or pfoirudn nx
.'lsn ~ = 10 u days ov money refunded. 500
The independent., 1907-02-28
Weak Kidneys, Weak Nerves
SO A PHYSICIAN WRITES

1t is OF but little use to try to doctor the kid
ueyS themselves. Such treatment is wrong,
for the kidneys are not alone to blame for their
weaknesses or irregularities. They have no
power-no seif-control. They are operated and
actuated by tiny shred of a nerve which is
largely responsible for their strength. or weak
ness: II the Kidney nerve is strong and healthy
the kidneys are strong and healthy. If the
Kidney nerve goes wrong you know It by the
inevitable result-kidney trouble.
This tender nerve is only one OF great system
OF nerves This system controls not only the
stomach. For simplicjty's sake DR.. ShOOp has
called this great nerve system the Inside
Nerves" They are not the nerves OF feeling
not the nerves that enable you to walk, to talk,
to act. to think. They are the master nerves
and every vital organ is their slave.
The one remedy which aims to treat not the
Kidneys alone but the nerves which are TO
everywhere as DR.. Shoop's Restorative (Tablets
or Liquid. This remedy is not symptom
remedy-lt is strictly acause remedy While it
usually brings speedy relief its effects are also
lasting.
II you would like to read an interesting book
on inside nerve disease. write DR.. Shoop. With
the book he will also send the Health Token"
-an intended passport to good health. Both the
book and the Health Token are free.
For the free book Book on Dyspepsia
and the Health Book on the Heart.
IOken you must ad- Book 8 on tnekidneys.
dress Dr. Sh0op. Box Book 4 for Women.
which book you want. Book Con Rheumatism
DR.. Shops Restorative Tablets-give full
three weeks treatment. Each form-llquid or
tablet-has equal merit Druggists everywhere
The independent., 1907-02-28
Hoods SarsapariIIa

Insist on having Hoods. Get ittoday.
In liquid or tablet form. 100 Doses 81.
The independent., 1907-02-28

For the free book
Q d the n ealth
Token you must nd-
dress DR.. ShOop. Box
9940Racine, Wis. State
which book you want.
The independent., 1907-02-28

DR.. Shops Restorative Tabess-give full
three weeks treatment Each form-liquid or
tablet-has equal merit Druggists everywhere.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-09-30
ERSONALS.


Attorney c. w Beale is in the city
from Wallace. in attendance at the
sessions of the supreme court.
Judson Spofford arrived in the city
yesterday from Boise. where he has
been for the last month on business
connected with some mining interests
he has in that section.
l. w. Hart, clerk of the supreme
court. is registered at the Bollinger
and will be in the city during the COM
ing session.
Architect H. N. Black left this morn
ing for Moscow, where he is inspecting
the construction of some public build
ings.
Rev. A. NJ. Allyn of Spokane. who
preached in the Baptist church yes
terday morning and at Charleston in
the evening, left on the Palouse train
this morning for his home.
w o. Marks will leave tomorrow
for Vollmer, where he has combined his
drug stocks and will conduct a store.
Roscoe Tough returned to the Nor
NAL and will take up his work for the
year. He was last spring elected cap
tain Of the baseball team, and is prom
inent in. school athletics.
DR.. s. S. Taylor left this afternoon
for Grangeville, and Will put on his
picture show there at the fair this
week.
Charles Jensen returned this morn
ing from a trip into the Clearwater
timber belt.
This is the opening day at the Indian
training school at Lapwai, and the
Clearwater train brought about 20 or
more pupils from different points
along the Clearwater short line