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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-06-03

A. DeBoer Of Montpelier
bat he has not been asked to
PRESIDENT Of Dartmouth college
vre he to be asked (which he
|aesiy declares is not likelyl he
h accept. And we can't accuse
N CITING into a rut either He
Howwer, reach a rut should he
ball 10 a college presidency.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-06-03

The desire Of power in excess caused
the angels to fall; the desire Of lSnowl-
edge in excess caused man to fall
Bacon.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-06-03

body cise's turn next time" ii
wer TO the third.termers, and
repeated again Saturday. DO
81 moreg
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-06-03

Adams Messenger propounds
tion; what If the supreme
billy held that it was a weakly
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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-06-03

ge county court will soon zee
bel spectacle 81 thirteen lawyers
N on Q single case. Unlucky
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-06-03

PM another exposition The
poo Alaska Yukon Pacific ex.
Rnd we're not yet through with
ent nightmare.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-06-03

Auction as tonight, household
goods, ct aiction rooms, Pearl
street,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-06-03

To be bride each maiden plans
And schemes as best she can.
Then IL she cannot be a mans
She strives to be 8 man.
PHILADELPHIA Press.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-06-03

y conrt record for the month
was anything but blithesome
A ~ reached the four score ana
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-06-03
hg about June 20 look for summer.
Adc we Join the prophets.

& gan warmed to Roosevelt but
was still travelling in the wake
N last Fairbanks iceberg.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-06-03
"A clem.

a ciew
"Have you recovered my auto yet2"
asked the man whose machine had
seen stolen.
We're ON the scent" replied the de-
tective. giving the impression Of TO-
rosity. Philadelphia Ledger.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-06-03
Not AIlowed % Have Them.

Hewitt You have some ideas of your
own.
Jewett- Well, don't mention it to my
wife. New York Press.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-06-03

But He Never Does.
To could freely forgive
And kindly condone
If the boat rocking fool
Would 20 boating alone.
kansas City Times
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-06-03
Makes a Difference.

Makes Difference.
"She should have been a singer
has she d good voiceY'
"No. | mean in musical comedy
Minneapolis Journal. $3.50
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-06-03

Circus Time.
Small while fed the elephant
Peppers from his hand;
Now on a harp he's playing
In the better land.
Chicago News
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1907-06-14
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SAID:
"TExAs IS THE GARDEN SPOT OF THE LORD"
go, 900 Acre Ranch of Dr.. Chas. F. Simr
the Market.
10 in
pe Interest,"

FARMER can get rich, and make more
money of OF this cheap land, acre for
acre, than any land In the State Of
Illinois, that sells from $3.50 to $225
per acre
Come to the land OF beautiful sun.
shine and almost perpetual harvest.
Where the people are prosperous,
happy and contented.
Where the flowers bloom ten months
In the year.
Where the farmers and gardeners,
whose seasons never end, eat home.
grown June vegetables In January, and
bask In 'mid-winter's balmy air and
glorious sunshine.
Where the land yield is enormous
and the prices remunerative.
Where something can be planted
and harvested every month In the
year.
the Northern farmer here save prac-
tically all his fuel bills and three
fourths the cost OF clothing his family
In the North.
Where the country is advancing and
property values rapidly increasing.
Where all stock. without any feed.
fatten winter and summer, on the ma.
tive grasses and brush.
Where the same land yields the
substantials of the temperate and the
luxuries OF the tropic zones.
Where the farmer does not have to
work hard six months In the year to
raise feed to keep his stock from dy-
Ing during the winter. as they do In
the North and Northwest.
Where there are no aristocrats and
people do not have to work hard to
have plenty and go In the best society.
Where the natives work less and
have more to show for what they do
than In any country In the United
States.
Where houses barns and fences can
be built for less than half the cost In
the North
Where sunstrokes and heat prostra.
tions are unknown.
Where sufferers with Asthma, Bron.
chitis, Catarrh. Hay Fever and Throat
Troubles find relief
Where, surrounded by fruits and
vegetables, which ripen every month
in the year, the living is better and
less expensive than In the North
Where the water Is pure, soft and
plentiful.
Where the taxes are so low that the
amount Is never missed.
Where Public and Private Schools
and Churches Of all denominations are
plentiful.
Where peace, plenty and good will
prevail
Where II Is so healthy that there
are few physicians and most Of them,
to make a living supplement their In
come from other business.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1907-06-14
Town Enriched by Earthquake.
San Antonio. Texas

With all the harm that earthquakes
do" said rug dealer, 1t Is pleasant
to hear Of an entire town that an
earthquake enriched.
THE town l mean Is Ouzoun-Ada,
on the Caspian sea. the terminus OF
the Trans-Caspian and Samarkand
railway. Ouzoun Ada In the past had
a miserable port, but few years ago
an earthquake visited her and on Its
departure she found herself the richer
by harbor deep enough to float the
largest ships.
"Since that fortunate visit Ouzoun-
Ada's population and wealth have
trebled. d."-Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1907-06-14

$1,000 Reward will be paid TO any
one proving that any statement
in this advertisement is not true.
Write for literature and name
OF nearest agent.
G. F. SIMMONS.
2l5 Alamo Plaza San Antonio. Texas
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-07
Possibilities of SaltOn Sea.

In view of the failure of all efforts to
control the diversion of the Colorado riv-
er to form what is known as the Salton
sea in southern California, Charles A.
Byers of Los Angeles writes in the Jan
uary Popular Science Monthly that even
tually this artificial inland lake would
extend from Volcano lake in Mexico to
Indio, Cal, spreading over an area Of
1900 square miles, and have maxi
mum depth of $50 feet. 1t would be fed
by irrigation canal intersecting the Colo
RADIO river near Yuma, Ariz., and it's over
flow would be carried into the gulf of
California by the lower part of the same
river 1t would submerge thousands of
acres of tillable land, a dozen fair-sized
towns, several miles of the Southern Pa
cific railroad and number of rich depos-
its of valuable minerals. He figures that
the feed canals could be so dredged as to
permit the entry of ships from the gulf
and making it possible for coast steamers
to ply between Pacific coast ports and the
present inland town of 1ndio, which is
on the eastern slope of 1.-THE Sierra Madre
mountains. Nevertheless it would take
many years for the Colorado river to fill
this vast below-sea area, but it would be
possible for engineers to SO change the
lower section of the river bed that it
would let in water from the gulf to assist
in the lakes completion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-07
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CHICAGO.

Inability of the railroads promptly to-
handle all the business offered them is
the only drawback to trade in the Chi
cago district, according to the weekly
review issued by X. G. Dun & Co.
which says:
Mill and factory production is not di-
unfinished. and contracts for future execu-
ton make a satisfactory aggregate in iron
and steel. cars and motive power, wood
working and brass. Costs of the raw
materials hold firmly TO their high aver
age, but there is sustained rapid absorb
ton of available supplies of hides. leather
and lumber, and building stuff for early
use is in much request.
January permits for new buildings have
an aggregate value of 23 per cent in ex-
cess of those for same month last year
business structures included in the fore
going amount to S1.192.5 500. an increase
OF 22O.I per cent, and indicate an unusual
addition to capacity in various CONNER
cial lines
Mercantile collections maintain a sat
isfactory showing. and distributive trade
in staple goods is Upon an upward trend
Personal buying is more evident in the
wholesale district. there being larger
numbers of country merchants present,
and their steady purchases of spring lines
compare favorably in extent with those
at this time in 1906. Bookings have gain
ed in dry goods. cloaks and suits. mems
furnishings clothing, boots and shoes and
notions.
Travelling statesmen forward good orders:
from the interior, and results thus far in
ject more confidence in the outlook for am
unprecedented movement of wares to the
West and Southwest. Local retail trade.
has made effective January clearance
sales and winter stocks now are reduced
to a comfortable point.
Earnings of the Chicago railroads ex-
hibit liberal gains, but drawbacks to
freight transportation have again become
acute, although there is more rolling
stock in action and better directed efforts
to facilitate traffic. The total movement.
of grain at this port, 7.194, TT5 bushels
compares with 7,175, S04 bushels last week
and 7,491, 703 bushels year ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-07
LEADING FACTS ABOUT
THE FAMINE III CHINA

Population affected. 1900. 900.
Stories afioat of actual cannibalism.
Flood area. about 10000 square miles.
People eating roots, leaves. bark of
trees.
Seven million already helpless from
famine.
Fully 100000 refugees at Using Khan
geu alone.
Mission orphanages full to overfowing
with famine waits
Houses gone. Were built of mud, and
melted in the flood.
No work to do: business stagnated; no
real relief in sight for months.
furnishing parents throw their children
into the food and then commit suicide
Fuel scarce, millet and sorghum stalks
being covered by mud. Coal mines food
ed.
Children abandoned. tied so that they
could not follow their desperate parents
home.
Hordes breaking through the military
Gordon to get into the eastern cities to
beg for food.
Household goods. farm implements. cat
tie all sold. Children being sold for 50
or So apiece.
Refugees fill boats so thickly that all
must stand during voyage room to
eat or lie down.
All the dogs and sheep eaten; the
chickens. too valuable to be eaten, sent
to Shanghai markets.
Country districts in rebellion, the des-
perate people preferring to die by the
sword rather than by starvation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-07
Civic Federation Entertained.

The meeting of the National Civic Fed
Grafton at the home of Mrs. Potter Palmer
in Chicago gave the representatives of
labor and capital an unusual opportunity
for intimate intercourse. Many of the
humblest and poorest wage artisans thus
shared in the elaborate entertainment and
shook hands with multi-mllionaires or
gossiped with them across the table. Of
the $50 persons who accepted Mrs.
Palmer's invitation. 200 were labor union
officials, and the rest were prominent
manufacturers or fnanciers. The main
object of the gathering was to explain the
purpose of the National Civic Federation,
with a view to establishing a branch in
Chicago. The leaders of the federation
tried to make it clear that its purpose
was not to act as an arbitration board to
settle labor disputes, but that it was de-
signed to give representative men on both
sides an opportunity to get personally ac-
quainted, so that with a better under
standing of each others interests, dis
putes could be settled without resorting
to either arbitration or strikes. The main
difficulty frequently is found to be that
OF bringing contending persons together in
friendly conferences.
Addresses were made by former Mayor
Low of New York, August Belmont,
Grandmaster Stone of the Engineers
brotherhood, President Mahon of the
street railroad men and several others.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-07
SOLDIERS ARE ACQUITTED.
Shooting of Fleeing Thief Upheld
In Pennsylvania.

Lieut.. Ralph W. Drury and Private
John Dowd of the Ninth United States
infantry, who have been on trial in the
criminal court in Pittsburg, charged with
killing William H. Crowley, citizen
of Lawrenceville, Sept. 10. 1903, were
acquitted, the jury bringing in a verdict
of not guilty after having been out all
night. Crowley was shot in fleeing from
the arsenE grounds. where it was alleged
was stealing copper from the roofs of
government buildings. The verdict cites
the extent TO which a citizen of Pennsyl-
vania may go in his efforts to prevent the
escape of felon whom he has caught in
the act of committing a felony, but does
not decide what is the duty of soldier
of the United States in similar circum-
stances. This is the question the govern
ment wished to have decided. but Judge
O'Connor, in his charge, made it plain
that the order a soldier had received or
the regulations Of the United States army
had nothing to do with the case. He said
that it was the duty of a citizen of Penn
sylyania to stop and arrest a man caught
committing a felony, even if he had to
break doors or inhict an injury on the
felon to accomplish this arrest. The case
aroused interest in civil and military cir
cles throughout the country because OF
the questions involved. Lieut.. Drury and
Private Dowd were released.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-07
From Far and Near.

William Fowler Thompson, president
of the Standard Glass Company of Potts
vile. Pa. was arrested at Philadelphia.
He was charged with obtaining money
under false pretenses on stock subscrip-
lions.
William Whitley was deposed as man
ager of the Farmers Cooperative Har-
vester Company at Springfield, Ohio, and
the books of the concern were ordered
audited.
John r. Cavanaugh, formerly of Pitts
burg. was arrested at Rochester, n. Y,
charged with misappropriating $4,000
belonging to a department store which
he promoted.
Manchester, who was Miss Zimmerman n,
are informed she is to be made lady in
waiting to Queen Alexandra, being the
first American so honored.
George Lever Weidermann, declared to
have been an American. has been found
dead in the snow on Mont Aiguille, near
Castillon. Exposure is believed to have
been the cause of his death.
Ernest W Brown. professor of mathe
mates at Haverford college. England, has
been awarded gold medal by the Royal
Astronomical Society in recognition of his
researches into the lunar theory.
Oliver Dyer. who is said to have in
troduced stenography into this country
and was the first shorthand reporter in
the United States Senate. died in Boston.
aged SO years. Mr.. Dyer was pupil of
Isaac Pitnan.
The second and subsequent meetings of
the anti-American boycotters were frus-
trSted by the action of the viceroy of
Canton. China. who ordered the apprehen-
on of the leaders.
An Italian named Davis was killed in
palace. Buenos Ayres. while
looping the loop. Davis had challenged
Mephisto. who performs the act nightly,
and fell TO his death while attempting the
feat.
Vivian ]. Fagin. formerly United
States marshal. pleaded guilty before
Judge Spiegel at Cincinnati. Ohio. to
The charge of intimidating an officer of
election. The court announced that it
would take the case under consideration.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-07
NORTHWEST is SNoW-BoUND.
Great Drifts Block Traffic and Much
Suffering Is Remarked

The Northwest is a prolific section OF
our great republic. For several years the
summers have produced record breaking
crops and last seasons yield is still large
ly in the hands of the farmers for the
reason that the railroads have been I'M
able to handle it. In the winter it is
not a question of harvesting wheat but
of digging out of the snow Last week
practically all traffic was stopped in the
Northwest and so far the conditions have
not changed to any appreciate extent.
For several days not train was NOV
ing west of Grand Forks, n. D., and the
500 ':re was out of business The drifts
VIII II were piled up were the biggest
ever seen, being in some places higher
than an ordinary house. In many places
farmers We're compelled to let themselves
down from their second-story windows by
ropes in order to begin the digging of
paths to their stock barns, the snow
having drifted above the doors and win
dows of the first stories of their homes.
When the blizzard ragged more than one
farmer was lost in trying to make his
way from house to barn and was frozen
to death. The cautious ones did not ven
ture out into the binding storm without
ropes attached to their waists by means
of which they could find their way back
to warmth and comfort. All over Min
nesota, North Dakota and other States
trains were stalled for days, the tracks in
many places being under eight feet of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-07
HANDS BABY TO BEAR
WOMAN MISTAKES ANIMAL FOR
HER HUSBAND.
Dusk Assists in Error, Which Is
Discovered at Once, but Too Late
to Save Infant-DamaGes for
Lost Job.

Mrs. James Ingram, wife of farmer
near Alton, Va, at dusk on a recent
evening handed over her child to huge
bear, and it is supposed the infant was
devoured. Mrs. Ingram had agreed to
meet her husband as he came from work,
and he was to carry the baby for her to
the house of a neighbor. AS she reached
the appointed spot a figure rose up beside
a fence, and Mrs. Ingram at once handed
the child TO it, thinking it was her hus-
band. To her establishment the figure
seized the child and made off toward the
woods At this moment Mr.. Ingram ar
rived and at once started a search. He
found the tracks of a gigantic bear, but
could not overtake the animal as it fed
into the forest. The intense cold of the
past few days has forced the bears to
come down to the settlements for food.
Mrs. Ingram is frantic over the fate OF
her child.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-07
FIRE IN HARRISBURG
PENNSYLVANIA CAPITAL VISIT
ED BY 100000 BLAZE.
Eight Large Buildings, Including
Opera House, Are DESTROYED or
Severely Damaged-Girl, Fearing

Eight buildings in the center OF the
business district of Harrisburg. Pa, were
either destroyed or badly damaged by
fire early Friday morning, involving
loss estimated at 100000. The Grand
Opera House block at Third and Walnut
sire cts, in which there were five stores,
was destroyed and nothing is standing
but the walls. The Duncan building, on
the opposite side of Third street, occu-
pied by three stores and a poolroom, was
also destroyed. The Park hotel and the
Columbus hotel were badly damaged by
fire and water. The United Telephone
Company building. the Security Trust
building, the Bijou theater, Roshon's pho
tographic studio. College block, the Har-
risburg Gas Company building and the
buildings occupied by the Harrisburg
Cycle and Typewriter Company, the
Philadelphia and Albany dentists and Z.
G. Hoover, jeweler were also damaged
The fire started from an explosion IN
Pyne's hat store in the opera house block
at 2 o'clock, and within an hour had de-
stroyed the playhouse and stores IN the
building and had leaped across Third
street to the Columbus hotel and College
block. The opera house was owned by a
Harrisburg syndicate. On the first floors
were John Pyne's hat store, Wilson
Hoffa's drug store, Miles Freys cigar
store and pool room. the Grand Union
Tea Company and w. f. Paufs shoe
store. The opera house stood at the
southeast corner of Third and Walnut
streets, facing Capitol park and diagon-
ally across the street from the postoffice.
Across Third street, at the southwest cor
ner, was the Duncan building, which was
occupied by George NJ. Harry's cigar
store, fruit and candy store and bar
Der shop. The Columbus hotel adjoined
the Duncan building on the west and
next door is the telephone building. The
hotel was ruined by fire and water, in
voiving loss of $4,000. This building
was owned by Marcissus Russ, and the
contents and equipment by his son, Maui
rice. The damage to the telephone build
ing will not exceed $1,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-07
Interesting News Items.

James Scheurman of Franklin, Neb.-
fell down in hog pen and after des-
pc1ate fight was literally eaten alive by
the hogs.
]. p. Morgan's banking house in New
York will'in future be in the hands OF j
= Morgan. Jr.. and it is announced that
Wall street will see little of the senior
member of the concern in future.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals held
that warehouse receipts are intangible
property anG are to be listed for taxa
ton at the domicile of the owner.
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, convicted of the
murder by poison of Mrs. Deane and
Mrs. Cunning at Dover. Del, will have
to wait three months longer before get
ting an opportunity of having her case
reviewed by higher court.
A part of the Wilmington. Del. plant
of the Pullman Car Company was dam
aged by fire to the extent of about $780,
0Co. Included in the loss are fourteen
Pullman cars which had been repaired
and were ready to leave the shop.
Orders have been issued from headquar-
ters of the department of the Missouri
at Omaha that the battalion of 300 engi
neers now at Fort Riley, Kansas, leave
that post on Feb. % and go to Cuba.
Stephen Van Wyek of New York
started suit against the estate of the late
Harry Wonder Horst of Baltimore to en-
force the payment of $4,000 claimed TO
have been loaned the dead man in gam
bling game.
The breaker and washery of the Erie
Company at Avoca, Pa. were destroyed
by FIRE. causing loss estimated at $780,
900. The fire is supposed to have orig
mated from burning cdlm bank situated
near the engine room of the breaker.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-07
NEW YORK.

Irregular weather conditions make for
numerous cross currents in retail trade,
but there is evidence of enlargement liz
some lines of spring business. notably cot
ton goods, demand for which is limited
only by capacity of mills, wholesalers or
jobbers to deliver In the iron and steel
trade conditions vary with the material
and sections reported, so far as future
business is concerned. The receding of
the waters has made for resumption of
trade and industrial activities in the
Ohio valley Colder weather and clear
ance sales have stimulated trade East
and North. In the Northwest trade, traffic
and contraction feel the effects of heavy
snowfalls, coming on top of an acute
car shortage, though that section appears,
to be gradually winning out, except in
parts of the Dakotas. There is little
change to be noted in crop reports. The
cold weather of last week has been sue
ceeded by rains or snow, and the wheat
belt has had a better snow covering than
at any previous time this winter.-Brad-
streets Commercial Report.