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The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-04-04
TAFT RUsY.

Colon, April A. Secretary
Taft saw things for himself yes
terday. In order to get good
look at the construction work
the secretary tramped the entire
length of the future lock and ex-
amined every test. The party
left for Havana last night.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-04-04
Killed During Honeymoon.

Sutton. w. Va. April 4.-Dr. and
Mrs. Lloyd Garee, OF this place. were
burned to death and John Martin, of
FaIrmont, W. Va, narrowly escaped
a similar death when the Riverview
hotel was destroyed by a fire. causing
a monetary loss of $4,000. The
Cares were married only yesterday
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-04-04

Mr.. Kellogg is in Paducah. His at
torneys state that he does not wish
a receiver to wind up the business,
but to continue the business and pay
it out of debt. He represents that the
extra issue of capital stock, authorize
ed by the amended articles, Is not
necessary. If proper economy Is OBJ
served.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-04-04
THAW FOUND SANE
BY COMMISSION

New York. April 4.-The Thaw
lunacy commission reported this af-
ternoon. finding Thaw legally sane
The case win now proceed from the
point where It was Interrupted when
Jerome requested the appointment
OF iunacy commission.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-04-04

Among the carpenters 1t is said
on authority that a feeling against
standing out for the new scale is
growing. The more conservative
members of the union say that last
years scale should be signed up for
this year on account of the situation
in the contracting world. Several
large contractors are now running
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-04-04
shehon Is Taken Home.

Engineer Bud Shelton. who jump
ed from his engine Monday afternoon
at Fox Run switch. rs miles above
Paducah, on the Illinois Central. was
carried to his home in Louisville.h
injuries consisting Of broken leg
and bruises. having been dressed at
the hospital here.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-04-04
GRAIN MARKET.
Cincinnati, April 4.-Wheat,
1884; corn 4s3s; oats, 4o5s.
GENTRY MURDERER.

New York, April frank
Constantine was identified today
as the man wanted in Chicago in
connection with the murder Of
Mrs. Gentry some time ago.
Constantine broke down and
said: 81 am the man wanted in
Chicago. Mrs. Gentry cut her
throat while was in her house."
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-04-04
GILLESPIE is GRANTED
NEW TRIAL FOR MURDER

Indianapolis, Ind, April a. The
supreme court today granted new
trial to James Gillespie of Rising
Sun who is serving life sentence
for the murder of his twin sister,
Elizabeth. The case was one Of the
most sensational in the criminal an
nails of Indiana.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-04-04
Mining Town Tragedy.

Corning. o.. April 4.-John De-
bamn. formerly of Kentucky, shot
and killed Bert Stotts, this morning
during a saloon row in mining
town near here.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-04-04
Shot AT wife-Kined Himself.

Chicago. April al. P. Davis, a
street railway conductor, snot at his
wife today in an attempt to kill her
and then blew out his own brains.
No cause is known.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-04-04
PEASANTS RESTLESS.

ST. Petersburg. April A.
Strong detachments of Russian
troops are being rushed today 20
the RoumaniaD frontier, owing
to the restlessness of Russian
peasants.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-04-04

Kansas City. April e. oficial
returns show the election of d. e.
Cornell Republican. as mayor of
Kansas City. Kan, by a plurality Of
l.21s over w. w. Rose. Democrat.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-04-04

A mortgage from the. Woman's
club to the Citizens Savings bank, for
SO, 500 on the property on Kentucky
avenue between Seventh and Eighth
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-04-04

The first pipe organ was made by
Archimedes in 22O B. C.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-04-04

Showers tonight and probably Fri
day. Colder Friday. Highest tenn
perature yesterday, 20; lowest to-
day, go.
The new age., 1907-02-23
Seattle Owns Its Lighting System
and Has Found That 1t Pays.
COUNTY suRvEKYoR HoLBRooK

Philo Holbrook, Jr., county sur
veyor of Multnomah county is one
of the most efficient, accommodating
and popular officials in the court
house. Mr.. Holbrook is son of ex-
County Commissioner Philo Hol-
brook Sr., whom the taxpayers re-
member as a tireless, faithful and
highly efficient official. Mr. Hol-
brook Jr. is a native son having been
born in the city of Portland in 1878.
He is a graduate of the Willamette
University of the class of 1898 and
has spent over Is years in the active
practive of the profession of civil
engineering, three years of which
was in the reclamation service in the
state of Washington.
Mr.. Holbrook is veteran of the
Spanish American war, having served
two years in the Philippine cam
paign with the gallant Second Ore
gon regiment. Though young man
Mr. Holbrook has had large exper-
ience and has had much to do with
some of the great projects of railroad
construction and irrigation enter
prises throughout the Northwest.
That a political Office should re-
ceive at the hands of the incumbent
the same careful and conscientius
service and attention as one feels
bound to give an individual or cor
poration is the belief of Philo Hol-
brook Jr. and to this fact is due his
popularity.
The new age., 1907-02-23
The Public "Be Damned Is the Slo-
gan of the Portland Railway Light
and Power Company.
WILL THE MAYOR RUN?

The mayor is not ready to speak
up yet, according to the daily papers.
He won't say whether he will be a
candidate again or not, or if he
should be whether he will run as a
Democrat or an independent. Very
likely the mayor has not yet decided.
Conditions are quite different now
from what they we're two years ago.
Then the city was in the swirl of a
moral wave. The preachers and
many active and influential church
members, almost every one of them
Republicans, were down on Mayor
Williams because he had licensed
gambling, and were particularly bit
ter against him after he had called
the preachers pack of liars. Hun
dreds, perhaps even thousands, of
this class of voters were in the humor
to vote for almost anybody to beat
the administration then in power.
They did so and helped elect Lane,
but most of them, the crusade fever
having long since died down, would
now vote for a good Republican, since
they are Republicans, in preference
to Lane. Probably good many of
them approve his administration to a
greater or less extent, but there is
nothing in it so particularly and rad
ically reformatory as to keep them
The new age., 1907-02-23
The City Should Own Its Lighting
System.
RAILROAD DEVELOPMENT.

Mr.. Hartman is going Mr.. Hill
one better or at least is going to
keep pace with him in providing a
sufficient route of entrance into Prot
land, having purchased large tract
of land through University park,
under which he will tunnel, so as to
come into the city on a very easy
grade, and SO that he can have ample
terminal facilities below Guilds
lake. A very large amount of money
running into the millions, will be
spent on this route, a bridge at
Swan Island, and terminal grounds
and improvements, which will give
Hartman fully as great facilities for
handling the traffic in and out of
Portland as Hill will have for his
north bank road.
The Portland railway system and
interurban lines will also have a
whole block almost in the heart of
the business district, bounded by
First, Second, Pine and Ash streets,
for a large depot and switching
ground.
These great expenditures mean
that the investors in railroads are
thoroughly convinced that Portland
is going to become a great city, and
that rapidly. They are preparing and
providing for an immense traffic, and
the men who handle all these mil
lions come pretty near knowing what
they are about when they spend
them.
1t may be remarked also that
when railroad men are spending so
much money here, and showing in
the strongest and most practical and
convincing way that they mean to
help develop Oregon and this city,
the lawmakers ought to be very care
full what they do in the way of pass
ing harassing and restrictive laws.
The railroads Harriman's and
Hill's-have been very good to Ore
gon lately whatever fault may have
been justified Heretofore. They are
building as fast as they can; they
are promising to build more as fast
as they can; they are using every eff
fort possible to provide more cars
and locomotives; they are spending
millions to develop Oregon and take
care of it's traffic; and under such
circumstances they ought to be let
pretty much alone.
We hope therefore that the new
commission, while it will have to
make showing of carrying out the
law and earning it's salary, will do
no more than it can help to en-
barrass and annoy the railroads that
The new age., 1907-02-23

out of their party lines this spring.
No mayor would now tolerate public
gambling, as indeed Judge Williams
would not much longer if he had been
reelected. Former conditions as to
women in saloons will not be tolerat-
ed under any mayor. So why is Lane
particularly preferable to any one of
half a dozen Republican aspirants?
This is what a great many who voted
for him in 1905 are asking.
The mayor realizes all this, and is
very likely doubtful about his ability
to win again. Indeed, as he studies
the situation, he may be pretty well
convinced that could not win again.
In that case, why incur the expense
and trouble of another campaign?
He can retire with considerable credit
and the record of having beaten so
eminent man as Judge Williams.
He could always assume hereafter,
and nobody could positively dispute
or disprove it, that he might have
been elected again if he had not de-
clined because he preferred private
life and his practice. He could al
ways have the satisfaction of having
been elected mayor, and not the dis
satisfaction of having been beaten
after having served one term.
Besides, the mayor is thrifty. He
could never be trailed by the coins
he drops along the way. To run
again would entail quite an expense,
the best he could do, and to spend
that much money and then fail would
grieve the mayors economical heart.
So he is celebrating, and calculating
chances, and wondering if a weak
Republican might get the nomination,
and mentally looking askance at his
preacher friends of two years ago,
and as yet refusing to announce any
decision. How could he when he has
not decided? It's an even bet that
he will decline to run. He is rather
wise.
The new age., 1907-02-23

Governor Chamberlain declared
the Smith normal school bill un-
constitutional but Attorney-General
Crawford, whose opinion is gener-
ally sound and reliable, decided that
it was constitutional Between the
two, under the circumstances, the
people generally will agree with the
attorney-general
The new age., 1907-02-23

Brother RAIDER has been unani-
mously found not guilty of anything
AS to the alleged $500 said to have
been received from Senator Bourne
it is stated that there is no proof OF
this. Mr.. Bourne is not a man, even
if he did let Brother RAIDER have
$500, to "squeal" And the money
couldn't be found on Brother RAIDER
The new age., 1907-02-23

The champion cotton raiser of Ok
lahoma is colored man named AL
fred Smith. He has not only taken
all the premiums offered in that state
for the first and best cotton, but his
product has received a blue ribbon
at the st. Louis Worlds Fair.
The new age., 1907-02-23

What many considered the most i'm
portant measure, the railroad COM
mission bill, known as the Chaplin
bill, was passed, and is now law.
If it proves to be as greatly beneficial
a law as it's advocates claimed it
would, that will be a good piece of
work that will overbalance several
sins of commission and omission.
Most people in this matter will as
sumo the attitude of Missourians;
they will have to be shown. The
New Age doubts very much whether
the commission will be worth its
cost, but if it does not act so as to
stop railroad building and conse-
quent development no great harm
will be done, and in two or four
years the law can be repealed, as
former railroad commission law was.
At this writing the normal school
question unsettled, the governor hav-
ing vetoed the very reasonable reso-
luton of the matter contained in the
Smith bill-to have board of re-
gents select two schools to be main
tanned and two to be discarded. The
governor argued that the law was
unconstitutional because it delegated
powers belonging only to the legis-
lature and which it could not dele
gate. The Inconsistency and insin-
cerity of this position is shown by
the governors approval of the rail-
road commission bill which grants
far larger and more important pow
ers to a commission. If the normal
school bill is unconstitutional on this
ground the railroad commission bill
must be good deal more so. This,
however, was not the governors rea-
son. The Smith bill constituted him
and two others whom he should ap-
point regents to decide, and the gov
ernor did not have the sand to
take this responsibility and incur the
blame and unpopularity that would
result in two towns and the country
around them from deciding against
two of the schools. He is very care
full to offend nobody unless he is
sure of pleasing larger number at
the same time-which is good poll
tics but not a very high grade of
craftsmanship.
Some probably good tax bills were
passed; the port of Columbia law
will be a very good one for Portland
and the Columbia river country and
some other meritorious laws were
passed. The appropriations will be
far larger than ever before, but most
of them were necessary or unavoid-
able, and the legislature is not to
be blamed for making them. The
new laws will make a great deal of
litigation, which will please the law
yers, and furnish an excuse for Gre
ating more judges and raising their
salaries.
AS usual, the people will breathe
a sigh of relief" when the legisla-
lature adjourns, for every additional
day means more appropriations or
expense, but at least it can be said
that the legislature might have done
much worse. No scandal has been
even rumored, and that is a good
deal to say these days.
The new age., 1907-02-23

Vulcan Coal Company. wholesale
and retail dealers in house. steam and
blacksmith coal. Foundry and smelter
coke. Puget Sound steam coal in car
lots, $3.50 per ton and up. We handle
all the best grades of domestic and
foreign house Goals. Phone Main 2776.
ONCE 329 Burnside ST., Portland, Ore
gon.
The new age., 1907-02-23
EDITORIAL
WHOSE LAND is 1T?

Representative Williams said in
discussing the immigration bill:
81 want this country kept white
mans country and l want this coun-
try, as far as it can, to be a white
mans country, not merely because
/ believe the Caucasian is superior
to other races, but because this is our
land, the land of our traditions and
our ideals"
What does he mean by "a white
mans country? That only whites
should live in it? That the existence
Of black or mulatto men should not
be tolerated at all? If so, how is he
going to get rid of the blackmen?
They are here, and through no fault
of their own. Does he mean that
they shall be expatriated or extermi-
mated? If so, why does he not come
out courageously and say so? Or
does he only mean that the white men
shall have entire dominance over the
blacks, and that the latter shall have
no rights or liberties, more than if
they were slaves or chattels? This
is probably about what he means, but
even in that case he will have to
learn that this is not in this sense
and to this extent white mans
country
Mr.. Williams says that this is our
land" meaning the Caucasians' land.
Indeed! He would have difficult
task proving that The right of
might enabled the Caucasians to
wrest the land from the Indians, who
not only could not but should not
have held the land, because they did
not use it, But the negroes occupy a
different status. The white men are
responsible for the black mems pres
ence here. They have been here now
in increasing numbers for nearly 800
years, most of the time as slaves, but
for IA years as free men, guaranteed
equal rights by the constitution. They
are citizens engaged in all sorts of
occupations. They and their ances-
tors for generations back were born
here. They have been producers, and
on occasion soldiers. They have
helped feed the country and produce
it's wealth; they have fought for it;
they have learned and worshipped in
it; they have had no other country,
nor can they have; SO by what right,
human or divine, has this man to say
that this is "our land" the eau
casians' land, alone?
Mr.. Williams is no doubt a pious
or a religious man, and devoutly be-
lieves in God as the Creator of both
lands and creatures. Did not God
make the black man as we'll as the
white man, with organs, faculties,
sensibilities, emotions, aspirations,
very much like those of the white
man? And did not God bring the
black man-though he did come in a
slaveship-if God is responsible for
everything, as we'll as the white man?
And where is the Almighty's decree
or order or warrant for one race to
say: This land is all mine; none of
it. nor any right, not even of life,
liberty or the pursuit of happiness, is
yours in it,"
No, Mr.. Williams. the portion of
the African race that without its fault
or volition found home here must
remain, and must be treated as hav-
ing a right here, and must be able to
say, as well as you: This is my
land"
The new age., 1907-02-23

1t is generally regarded that State
Treasurer Steel's choice for railroad
commissioner was quite as good
one as the governor could have
made.
The new age., 1907-02-23
THE LEGISLATURE.

The legislature will wind up it's
session this week with about the
usual record Of good, bad and indif-
ferent things done and left undone.
The new age., 1907-02-23

The railroads may not always do
just right, but they are Oregon's best
friends.
The new age., 1907-02-23

1t is moonlight now, so that peo-
pie won't have to go home quite in
the dark for a few evenings.
The new age., 1907-02-23

Time to be thinking about coun-
Gilman to elect.
The new age., 1907-02-23

But what will the poor democrats
do if Mayor Lane should decline to
run?
The new age., 1907-02-23

1t is coming to light that not all
the truth had been told or made pub
lie about that Brownsville affair.
The new age., 1907-02-23

Colcred men will not forget that
Senator Foraker had the courage to
stand up for their. rights.
The new age., 1907-02-23

Some think it looks like Devlin
Some again scout the idea.
The new age., 1907-02-23

Now Senator Mulkey, having made
a record, is considerably spoken
Of"
The new age., 1907-02-23

No present councilman is likely tc
be mayor
The new age., 1907-02-23

This is also the black mans coun-
try.
The new age., 1907-02-23

Greedy Corporations Such as the
Portland General Electric Co.,
Make Municipal Ownership Imper-
ative.
The new age., 1907-02-23

are doing SO much for Oregon and
for Portland.
The new age., 1907-02-23

Office Phone, 500; Stable, Black 1872
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-12
NeDS .0S ne
gsWeek3
-
WASHINGTON.

Attorney General Bonaparte de.
cides that States no more than indi-
viduals may violate the Contract
Labor law.
Senior Don Ramon Pima, the new
Spanish Minister to the United States,
has arrived.
Maximum and minimum tariffs
were urged by advisers of the Presi.
dent for submission to the next seS-
sion of Congress.
Ambassador Bryce will go to Can
ada to confer with Earl Grey, the
Governor-Genera on the fisheries
and all diplomatic questions now at
issue between the United States and
Canada.
Miss India Bell Vedder Fleming
daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Robert
I. Fleming, became the bride of Don
Luis F. Corea, the Nicaraguan Minis
ter to the United States.
Secretary Root has informed the
Government of Haiti that this coun.
try cannot permit discrimination
against American citizens by DEGREES
of expulsion, and such must be APP
piled to all foreigners as well az
Americans.
The President has nominated Cap.
tains Seth M. Ackley and Benjamin
F. Tilley to be Rear-Admirals.
The new Panama Canal Commits
sion was completed by the appoint
ment of Rear-Admiral Harry H.
Rousseau in place of Rear-Admiral
Endicott
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-12
For Married Happiness.

Here are few of the qualities that
make for married happiness:
A spirit of liberation, which will
always make one of the two lenient
towards the shortcomings of the
other.
A cheerful temper, which will
make both always see the bright and
rosy side of things, and laugh at the
thousand and one little miseries of
conjugal life.
A genial philosophy which will
keep them satisfied themselves, and
with each other.
A keen sense of humor, which will
ever prevent them from making fools
of themselves in their own eyes as
well as in each others, and will fill
their homes with gaiety.
A generous temperament, which,
will make them easily forgive and
forget little offenses, and only re-
member services and good turns.
An artistic temperament and the
love of the beautiful, which will pre-
vent them from making matrimonial
li's prosy, dull and monotonous, and
will constantly enable them to find
something that will keep alive their
ideals and feed their intellectual
wants.
Openness, which will cause them
to say outright what they mean, men
tiop what little grudge one may have
against the other, and never to brood
and consume their own smoke in
sulks and retirements.-Pu Ad-
vocate.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-12
Power From the Tides.

Attention is once more called to
this subject by the proposed estab-
lishment of power plant based ON
the use of the tides to compress air
at Rockland, Me. At that place there
exists natural tidal basin covering
an area of about one square mile.
The average rise and fall of the tide
is twelve feet. 1t has been calculated
by the engineers in charge of the pro-
ject that 5000 horse power can be de-
veloped, assuming an efficiency of
seventy per cent. for the air COM
pressing apparatus. 1t has been
shown that compressed air can be
transmitted long distances through
pipes with very little loss of power,
and it is proposed to supply such air
to stone quarries situated within
radius of twenty miles from the tidal
basin. 1t is pointed out that many
similar tidal basins exist elsewhere
along the eacoast,-Youth's Com
panion.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-03-12
DOMESTIC.

Ex-Governor Montague, Of Vir-
ginia, discussed lynching at Harvard
University.
The seal fishing steamer Leopard
was crushed in the ice off Cape Race.
her crew of 103 escaping over the
foes.
Colonel Albert S. Tower, Assistant
Paymaster-Gener of the Army, has
been placed on the retired list on his
own application after more than thir
ty-two years of service.
The Minnesota Legislature has
passed bill appropriating $4,000
for a silver service for the battleship
Minnesota.
Run down by wagon at Hot
Springs, Ark, Mrs. R. H. Thaw, Sec
ond cousin of Harry K. Thaw, was
badly hurt.
The Italian Consul at New Orleans
has protested the use of jails for de-
tanning immigrants under deportation
sentence.
Six Steel Trust officials visited Su-
perior, Wis, to report on a site for
a plant at the head of the Great
Lakes.
Because ne attempted TO whip a
boy pupil. Perry Evans, teacher of a
country school at Gotebo, o. t., was
assaulted by number of male pupils
and injured so badly that he died a
few hours later.
The Illinois House of Representa-
tives has refused to reduce an appro-
priation of 100000 for investigating
the States claim against the Illinois
Central road.
Employees of the Cincinnati South
ern will contribute $4,000 to the
fund for a monument at Atlanta to
the late President Samuel Spencer.
The Ute Indians, at Fort Meade, s.
d.. threatened to resist the decision
that they must return to their reser-
walton.