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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-24
Afraid of a Wheel.

A fish will never run by the moving
wheel simply because he is afraid of 1t.
The same contrivance placed at the out
let of a pond will keep fish in and has
the advantage over screens that it does
not clog with floating waste and trash.
Naturally some of the foremost men in
the congress are the government en-
ployes, who are local to Washington.
Prof Titcomb is one of these. He was
formerly in the Rhode Island commits
sion on general work and has since been
brought to Washington. where he is now
in charge OF all the federal hatcheries in
the United States.
Prof. Bumpus. the secretary general of
the congress. belongs to the Rhode Island
commission. He was one of the pioneers
In lobster culture, and enabled Rhode
Island to establish the first practical lob
ster hatchery. That state and MasSachu-
sets were the leaders in this develop
ment, which is now such an important
feature of the work in many of the At
lantic coast states.
Breeding Black Bass.
The originator of pond breeding for
black bass was Dwight Lydell of Michi-
gan. He originated the nest box for black
bass, and made the pond rearing of the
fish a commercial success.
DIR. Olsen of @Grimsby. England, is not
only fish culturist, but an all-round
traveller. He is a member of the Royal
Geographic Society, and has made a spe-
cialty of the study of ice foes in the
arctic.
Theodore Coll sprang surprise on the
congress by announcing that he had dis
covered the spawning place of the eel.
Not all the members agreed with his
conclusions but Mr.. Gill produced facts
and observations to prove that all cells
both salt and fresh water ones, go to sea
to spawn, and that their spawning beds
are at a depth of 1900 feet off the Goa 81.
People who think the setting for fish
stories is worn out can pounce on this
for q bit
George E. Jennings is one of the liter
airy men present among the fishers. He
is the editor of the Fishery Gazette, and
one of the few newspaper men in the
business.
Raises Goldfish.
Any one who thinks there is not money
in fish culture as a backyard industry
need only look at the record Of Herman
I. Wolf OF Philadelphia, who is enc OF
the delegates He is specialist in gold
fish, and raises all sorts. from the com
mon aquarium fish of our ancestors tc
the fan-tailed Japanese variety. He has
written a book on the subject recently
and gets much as $50 a pair for some
of his fancy breeds
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-24
SEWER RIGHT OF WAY.
Commission Allows Damages to own
ers of Tracts

The commission appointed to assess the
value of a right of way through certain
tracks of land near the Eastern branch
and Langdon. D. c.. today filed it's report
with Chief Justice Clabaugh. The right
of way is asked by the District authori-
ties for the purpose of extending the
east side interceptng sewer.
The award allows damages to the Ross
tract of SITS. the Vermidya & Bailey
tract of 500. the Heurich land, $50, and
the Mathiot tract. SIS.
N II. Shea, William F. Guide and Thos.
M. Harvey made up the commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-24
Virginia Postmasters Convened.

ROANOKE. Va, September 24.-The
second annual meeting of the Postmas-
tiers Association of Virginia opened here
yesterday. Addresses of welcome were
made by Mayor Cutchin of Roanoke and
Postmaster Funkhouser of Roanoke. Re
Spouse was made by Postmaster r. Z.
Cabell of Richmond, president of the as
ISOLATION.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-24

the various progressive efforts he has
successfully undertaken are the forma-
ton of a national steamship line, the six
million soles loan for the purchase of
naval armament and the creation of the
deposit fund
Given Senior Leguia's large experience
in affairs and finance and his long serv-
ices in public life, it is believed by those
interested in Peru that the country will
have a capable and sound administration
and continuance Of its prosperity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-24
JULIUS GARFENKLE s CO., F ST., Cor. 18th.

administration. Senior Leguia entered into
larger scope Of national work, which
made him the most notable incumbent
of that difficult office that Peru has had
in modern times. He deserves a great
share of the credit for the present pros
perity of Peru, the national income having
increased from twelve to thirty million
soles during his administration. Among
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-24
General Passenger Agents Meet.

TORONTO. Ont. September 24.-At yes
terday afternoons meeting of the Ameri-
can Association of General Passenger
and Ticket Agents G. T. Bell. the new
president, took over the reins of office.
Sam G. Hatch of the Illinois Central
was chosen vice president and Secretary
c. l.. Burt of the Boston and Maine
was reelected.
The next convention will be held at To-
ledO. Ohio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-24

Morris. James Ryan. Golden Rule Eugene
NJ. Root, Charles Hillary, James Chaconas
and William Johnson. The latter was
permitted to forfeit 81 collateral instead
of the sum required of the others
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-24

forty years and has made it success
He is the inventor of simple contrivance
of use in all the irrigation states for
keeping fish out Of the irrigating bitches
1t is a little water wheel placed In the
inlet of the ditch and moved by the cur
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
Naval Appropriation Bill Up.

Washington-The dove of peace how
cred over the house Friday. Instead
OF interminable roll calls and clashes
of party leaders on questions of par
liamentary law, there was an orderly
session devoted almost entirely to the
consideration of the naval appropria-
ton bill. BotA Chairman Foss of H.
linois and Mr.. Padgett of Tennessee
of the committee on naval affairs
made exhaustive speeches justifying
the action of the committee in report
ing what they characterized as a con-
sentative naval program for the next
fiscal year. Messrs. Favrot of Louisi-
ana, McKinlay and Knowland of Cali
fornia pleaded for a navy of such size
as to be capable of upholding at all
times the honor of the country at
home and abroad, while Mr.. Bartholdt
of Missouri advocated a halt in naval
increase and the substitution for it of
arbitration in matters of international
disputes.
Many other speeches were made
under the order of general debate on
the naval bill, but they were on other
subjects. The list included Messrs.
Webb of North Carolina, who favored
the regulation of interstate traffic in
intoxicating liquors; Lamar of Mis-
souri,, who wanted a stricter Sunday
observance law for the District of
Columbia; Touvelle of Ohio, who
pleaded for a monument to the men
under Generals st. Clair and Wayne,
who fell in battle against the In
dams; Parkins of New York, who de-
sired free wood pulp; Kustermann OF
Wisconsin, who emphasized the ne
cessity for decent American legation
buildings abroad, and Mr.. Aiken of
South Carolina, who pleaded for a re.
fund of the cotton tax.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
A Bolt.

The Republicans are suffering from
the ambition of some of their leaders
and the evident intention of President
Roosevelt to dictate the nomination OF
Secretary Taft as his successor, or
himself, in case Taft is impossible,
may result in a split in the party.
Even in Ohio where the convention
was apparently unanimous for Taft
there is a rebellion. That stalwart
Republican organ, the Toledo Blade,
which has been faithful to the Repub-
lican party since its organization,
leads in an open bolt against the Taft
Cox-Brown ticket. The Blade declares
that the Taft managers have handed
over the party organization to the cor
rupt Cox-Brown machine, and the San
dusky Register indorses the Blades
attack upon the state ticket.
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Taft must have known that in max
ing this combination with Boss Cox
and allowing him to dictate the most
important nominations for state Off
GERS, they were guilty of ~betraying
the people for their own personal adj
vantage, and it is decidedly refreshing
to see that the honest organs of the
party refuse to abide by it.
Such personal politics always leads
to party disruption.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
Corruntlon and Scandal.

The federal officeholders in the
southern states are expected to turn
out delegates to the Republican ma
tional convention with quickness and
dispatch at the disposal of the adj
ministration. But somehow the old
machine is squeaky and the plan does
not work well. The negroes are OPP
posed to President Roosevelt and his
man Taft. The L~illey-whites are some
what divided and there will be con-
testing delegations from nearly every
southern state. This offers a good
chance for the Republican national
committee to fix things" The fact that
any of those states have the sane
power in voting or contests as other
states have, and that those members
who are involved in the contests from
their states will have to pass, in a
judicial way, upon all the contests,
will put their virtue to a test that
most of them will be unable to with
stand.
Corruption will real its hideous head
and with both factions trying to fix
the committee to pass favorably on
their side of the contests, there is
almost a certainty of a scandal and
perhaps a split that will tear the hide
from the tough old elephant of the
G. o. p.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
TO CRIPPLE JAPS
BOYCOTT AT CANTON INTENDED
TO DO oo,oGo,o 900 DAMAGE.
SHIP UNABLE TO UNLOAD
Action of Nippon Government In Case
of Tatsu Maru Cause
of Trouble.

Washington, D. C.-Advices have
been received here that a move is on
at Canton by the Chinese to press the
boycott against all things Japanese
until Japanese commerce has suffered
to the extent of $500, O00, 900 Mexican.
The movement is spreading.
This SUI just happens to be 10000
for every dollar the Kwang-Tung gov
eminent was compelled to pay the Jap
anese owners of the Tatsu Maru for
the arms and ammunition upon that
vessel, whose seizure and subsequent
release upon Japan's demand form the
basis of the boycott movement.
In Canton 157 dealers in Japanese
products have voluntarily signed an
agreement in no circumstances to sell
such goods.
Another case reported is that a Jap
anese coal ship is unable to unload on
account of the refusal of the coolies to
handle her cargo. The merchants of
Canton, Hong Kong and other points
have served notice on their CORE
%spondents not to ship in Japanese bot
toms.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
NEWS OF CONGRESS
DoINes OF PEOPLES REPREsEN
TATlVES AT WASHINGTON.
BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS PRESENTED
Concise Report Of Measures Intro
duced and What Action lie
Taken on Them.
Pension Bill Introduced.

Washington-A bill was introduced
in the house Friday by Mr.. Louden-
slayer IN. j., chairman of the COM
mittee on pensions, providing for a
blanket pension of $14 per month for
the widow of any officer or enlisted
man of the army or navy, who has
died or shall hereafter die by reason
of wounds or injury incurred or dis
ease contracted in the line of duty In
any Indian war or the war with Mex
leo, or the civil war, provided the mar
riage took place prior to or during
such service.
If the marriage was subsequent to
that service, a pension of $12 per
month is provided for.
A monthly pension of $40 is provid-
ed for the widow of any officer or en-
listed man who served 30 days or
more in any of the Indian wars, or 60
days or more in the val with Mexico
or 80 days or more in the civil war,
and was h%onorably discharged. In
this case the widow is relieved Of the
necessity of proving death to have re-
suited from service.
A monthly pension of IS is provid-
ed for widows, as last described,
whose marriage antedated by five
years the date of the husbands death.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
Canadian Officer Arrested.

Winnipeg, Man.-Herbert Wright
a Canadian customs officer at EN-
erson, Man. was arrested at
Noyes, Mimi, Wednesday at the point
of a revolver by a United States i'm
migrant officer on a charge of having
struggled into the United States May
French, who had been denied admis-
sion to the United States two weeks
ago. Herbert Wright is a son of May
or Wright of Emerson. He was taken
to Crookston, Mimi, for trial. There
is much bitter feeling between the
officials of the two governments at
Emerson and Noyes.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
oRUcE WITNESS SENTENCED.
Woman Who lmpersonated Daughter
of Vireinian Never Was There.

London-Miss Mary Robinson was
sentenced Friday to four years
Imprisonment for perjury in the
bruce case. She pleaded guilty and
her counsel raised the question of her
sanity. The court considered her re-
sponsible and refused to spare h:r on
account of any supposed mental in
trinity.
Miss Robinson professed to be the
daughter of a Virginia planter, who
lost his fortune, she said, during the
civil war. Her story was that she
then went to England and got a posi-
ton as secretary to the Duke of Port
land, who told her he spent much time
masquerading as T. C. bruce, a small
tradesman.
She proves to be the daughter of an
English policeman and never was in
America.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
ISSUES SET FORTH
GOV. DOUGLAS ON THE DUTY OF
DEMOCRATS.
Doing Away with Ubiquitous Dingley
Tariff the Most Important Project
to Be Achieved - Consumers
Victims of Greed.

William L. Douglas, former governor
of Massachusetts, is a sound and sensi1
BILE Democrat. Regarding three tenets
Of Democracy he says:
81 am heartily in favor of a larger
measure of home rule for our cities
and towns.
1T is hardly necessary to say that
l am opposed to extravaganza n In
favor of strict economy and retrench-
ment in all of our governmental af-
fairs. Not a dollar of the peoples.
money should be spent unnecessarily
or invested in measures of doubtful
utility to the people as a whole.
THE most important issue in this
country is that of the tariff. In my
opinion, the Dingley tariff wall that
surrounds this country is entirely too
high, not only for the welfare of con-
sumers and Of the people as a whole,
but for the manufacturers, as a class.
1t protects the larger manufacturers,
combined into trusts, at the expense
of the smaller and Independent manu-
facturers. 1t does not protect the
farmer, for the prices of u staple
farm products are usually fixed by the
prices in foreign markets. 1t does not
protect the workingman, for there is
no tariff duty on labor.
1.-THE extremely high tariff rates Of
the Dingley act, higher than any be-
fore enacted, or than those OF any
other country with the possible excep-
ton of Russia, are largely responsible
for the era of trusts in which we now
find ourselves. The protected manu-
facturers have combined in order to
restrict production, raise prices ana
get the full benefit of these unneces-
sarily high duties.
The protected infant industries of
today are the billion-dollar steel and
other giant trusts that get the ions
share of the tariff bonus and then
show their appreciation for these ia
vors by intimidating and expressing
ordinary manufacturers, and by sell-
ing their tariff-protected wares in I'M
protected foreign markets at prices
only two-thirds or three-fourths as
high as those charged at home.
I'm my opinion, the American con-
sumers, who pay the tariff taxes that
go to swell the profits of these trusts,
| should be the most favored customers
of these giant paupers. Our w peo-
pie are entitled to any bargain-counter
prices that our protected trusts may
have to offer"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16

Fresh air seem to be good for mon
keys as well as for human beings. In
the autumn Of 1906 the Chicago health
commission suggested to the keeper of
the Lincoln park zoo that he put a
pair of monkeys in the outdoor cage
for the winter. The keeper thought
that was a rash experiment, as mon.
keys seldom survive a single winter In
Chicago, even with all the care that
can be given to them; but he pre-.
pared the cage for them. The mon.
keys not only survived the outdoor
air, but were in better health in the
spring than those kept indoors.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
"pry" Forces to Contest.

kalamazoo, Mich.-The anti-saloon
forces have decided to contest
the local option election in Cass
county. Rev. John Walker of Dowag-
lac, who will make the protest, says
that a number of men in Dowagiac re-
ceived from 81 to SIS for their votes
and also that members of a paving
gang that are not legally entitled to
vote cas- their ballots against local
option. 1t is also said that a gang of
20 negroes from the northern part
of the city were driven to Silver
Creek town hall and voted.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
Favor Army Industrial Schools.

Washington-A favorable report on
the resolution directing the establish
ment in the army of trade or indus
trial schools was urged Thursday be-
fore the house military committee by
it's author, Representative O'Connell,
Of Massachusetts. He said he be-
lieved the solution Of the problem of
how to make the army service more
popular among the people and there
by lessen the yearly percentage Of
assertions lies within his proposal.
Soldiers should be schooled during
their service, he said, so that at the
end of their enlistment they shall be
equipped to re-enter civil life
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
$4,000 WILL GIVE UP STRIKE.
Ohio Union Head Says 1t Is Probable
Settlement Will Come Tuesday.

Columbus, Ohio-"It is probable
that the $4,000 miners who are
now idle in Ohio will resume work
about April Is or 16, following the
conference Of the miners and opera
tors at Toledo next Tuesday" de-
clared William Green, state president
of the miners Friday. He added:
1T is probable that the operators
and the miners will reach an agree
ment at Toledo and that the old wage
scale that was in effect up to April !
will be readopted."
President Green said the miners
and operators had had several on.
ferences and there seemed to be no
hesitancy on the part of the opera
tors to sign the agreement.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
Asks WRIT to Test LAW.

Jefferson City-Attorney Joseph
Jamiscn Of st. Louis, representing the
Republican central committee of that
city, filed a writ of mandamus against
the election commissioners to compel
them to accept and approve a call for
an official primary and delegate con.
vention to nominate officers TO be
voted upon at the November general
election. Judge Can't said that as
nearly all the judges are away, the
matter can not be taken up for a week
at least. The mandamus is a test of
the general primary law enacted by
the last legislature.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
Asks Picture of Fine Hen.

Kansas City-The Missouri state
board of agriculture has written to
Ernest Kellerstrass, the poultry fan
cier, asking him for a portrait Of
Peg, the famous $4,000 hen. This por-
trait is to be hung in the Missouri
agricultural college. Peg is the hen
Nine. P~aderewski recently offered
Kellerstrass $4,000 for, which price he
refused, but sold her five chickens
Matched from her eggs, for $1,000
apiece. Kellerstrass is now looking
for a portrait painter who can prop
erly handle the subject. He prefers
a Missouri artist.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
Mr.. William H. Allen, g~ecretarv

Mr.. William H. Allen, secretary of
the bureau Of municipal research in
New York city, said in a recent adj.
dress: Municipal government in
America is a dead failure" Of course.
comments the Youths Companion, this
startling oyerstatement was qualified
in the rest of a careful, Illuminating
address, for it is the business Of the
bureau to help municipal government
to avoid failure. The municipal
government Of Babylon is a dead fail
ure because the city is dead. Cities
that are alive have not lived long
elcugh to fail.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16

Neutrality-suspicious. were four rep
resentatives of large commercial in
terests before the house committee
on banking and currency, all of them
opposing the Aldrich currency bill,
which they declared would do no good
and might result in much harm to the
business interests of the country. Vic
tor Morawetz of New York made an
extended argument against the bill.
The other speakers were E. w. Clark
of Detroit, Frank De La lame of
Philadelphia and Horace White of
New York. The hearing will be re-
sumed Monday.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
Denies Asking Road Fund.

Harrisonville---The members of the
county court of Cass county deny that
they ordered any representatives to
go to Jefferson City and demand Cass
county's share of the good roads fund.
Two men recently made a trip to JEFF
ferson City and applied to the state
treasurer for $4,000, claiming that
amount as the county's share. They
were refused, and declared that they
would seek to compel the treasurer
through the courts to make the pay
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
st. Paul Man Starves to Death In
Thirty-one Days.

st. Paul, Minn.-Knute Ohm
stead died early Wednesday, having
literally starved himself to death in
an attempt to fast for 40 days in order
to demonstrate his theory that the
mind controls and sustains the body.
His fast lasted 81 days, according to
those who lived with him.
Ohnstead had been getting weaker
for a week, and Tuesday a fellow
boarder notified the police, who found
Ohnstead emaciated and weak. He re-
fused to be treated by a physician or
to eat. A doctor who went to see the
faster found him dead.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
Old Man Brutality Murdered.

st. Paul, Minn.-A special to
the Pioneer Press from Washburn,
Wis, says that John Hall, 70 years
old, the father-in-law of former Sena-
tor ]. j. McGillivray of Black River
Falls, was brutally murdered Tues
day night in his home shack, IL miles
from Washburn. A little money and a
watch was found in Halls pocket, in
dicating that robbery was not the mo.
tive of the crime.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
Mourned as Dead: Now Arrested.

Niagara Falls, N. Y.-Detective Cal
lahan arrived here from Cleveland
with Wilfred Gray, who was mourned
for dead and whose supposed body
was buried on July 10, 1907. Gray
left here mysteriously in April, 1906,
and was later charged with an al
legged shortage in his accounts as bank
er of a local lodge or Woodmen Of
the World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
Latter Day Saints Meet.

InSependence-The worlds confer
ence of the Reorganized Church of
Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints on
vened at independence. Several hun
bred delegates were present. For
tn first time in many vars the com
plete roster of the twelve, represent
ing the apostles, was in attendance.
Joseph Smith, n of the members of
the presidency of the reorganized
church, who resides ia Independence,
is presiding.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-16
NEWS OF MISSOURI
Judas woodson Poisoned.

Jefferson City-Judge A. NJ. Wood
o of the Missouri supreme court, is
confined to his home, suffering from
the effects of poisoned ivy, which he
came in contact with while working in
his garden. Both of his eyes are bad
ly swollen. and he is forced to keep
to his room. 1t is thought that he
will be out in a few days. The judge
prides himself on owning the finest
private garden in Jefferson. He does
not trust the labor incident to a gar
den to a hired man, but performs all
the work himself.