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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-02-14

SOME VOTING RESTRICTED TO
TAXPAYERS ONLY
NOW.
CON.-CON. HAD PROBLEM
II Vote on Acquisition Of Public Util-
tiles, Granting Of Franchises or
Raising Money Is Up, the Taxpay.
ers Decide.

The proposal regulating the govern
ment of cities and villages being on
second reading Friday morning, the
provision limiting to taxpayers the
right to vote upon questions concern
ing the acquisition of any public utll-
ity, granting of any franchises, bor-
rowing of money, or contracting of
debts beyond l per cent OF the as
sessed valuation of the particular city
or village, was struck out. In place
of taXpaying electors, was inserted a
two-thirds vote of all qualified cleo
tors. The vote on striking out was,
yeas AZ, nays Al.
Thereupon other assaults on the in
tegrity of the proposal were stimulat-
ed. Several amendments were offered
and things were in fair way to
change the proposal in particulars in
consistent with the compromise effect
ed after two months of consideration
by the committee. Members became
alarmed at the situation A reconsid-
Grafton of the vote by which tax
payers" was struck out and tive
thirds" was inserted, was taken.
The amendment was then rejected
and the original terms, combining vot-
ing upon questions of money raising
TO taxpayers, were restored, yeas 3d.
nays 80. The proposal then passed in
its entirety.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-02-14
EXPRESSING a Thorax.

DIR. Leopold Jaches of Cornells med
zeal school recently returned from a
study of the use of the Rontgen rays
abroad. Pausing in an account Of his
tour. Dr. Jaches said:
Abroad as here at home the great
public's knowledge of the rays con-
tinues rather vague. Investigators re-
ceive all manner of queer letters and
requests. Thus | heard in Berlin of "A
man who wrote to a specialist:
Dear Sir: ! have had a bullet in
my thoraX for IL years / am too busy
to come to Berlin, but hope you will
come down here with your rays, as my
case should be worth your while. II
you cannot come, send a packet Of
rays, with instructions as to use, etc,
and | will see if cannot manage to
work them myself
The specialist replied:
Dear Sir: | am sorry that my
engagements prevent my coming to see
you, and that l am out of rays Just
now. If you cannot come to Berlin
yourself, send me your thorax by ex-
press and l will do the best l can
with it,"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-02-14
Selling Bread in Old London.


Bread, which, like Goals. is advancing
in price, was also formerly a matter of
state regulation. I'm the thirteenth
century, for example, an enactment
was in force that the profit of the
baker on each quarter of wheat was to
be, for his own labor, six cents. and
such bran as might be sifted from
the meal. Again, in London, only
farthing and half-penny loaves were al
lowed to be made, and ii was a serious
offense for a baker to sell loaves of
any other size. Nevertheless, other
kinds of loaves were sometimes snug
gled into the market, hidden in vari-
Gus ways-under a towel. in the folds
OF a garment or beneath the arms. A
curious ordinance in the city of Lon
don forbade the baker, if he sold by re-
tail, to sell bread in or before his
house, before the oven in which it
was baked, or indeed anywhere but
in the market assigned to him. There
seems TO have been a strange preju-
dice against bread made in South
wark, one reason given being because
the bakers of Southwark are not
amenable to the justice of the city,
London Chronicle.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-02-14
The Storm Was Fierce.

Though the cities have recovered
from the. effects of the big storm
which swept over Michigan, railroad
service i'm some sections of the state
remains demoralized. Many country
roads are impossible, causing the
abandonment of rural mail service and
postponing several funerals.
A passenger train on the Port Aus
tin branch of the Pere Marquette left
Port Huron early Saturday evening
and was caught in a snowdrift which
completely filled a cut three miles
from Carsonvile. The train crew kept
up the fires, though the diminishing
supply of coal and water threatened
suffering to the passengers All night
the 40 men, women and children hud-
died together Bread which had been
shipped from Port Huron to small
towns along the line was confiscated
from the baggage car.
Grand Trunk passenger train No.
81 arrived in Muskegon more than 20
hours late. The passengers subsisted
on food brought from farm houses.
and on bread confiscated from the
baggage car
A train on the Gladwin branch of
the Michigan Central was stalled ali
Saturday night near the point where
it left the main line. Farmers furnish
ed the passengers with food and it
was not until Sunday afternoon that
the train was released.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-02-14
HURT HIS SENSE or JUSTICE.
Youngster Considerably Puzzled Over
Distribution Of Rewards.

Having finished her afternoons
philanthropic work in the East side
tenements, the voluntary helper
started for home. Before she had pro-
ceeded far. however, she discovered
that a small purse which contained
the remainder of her money. about
four dollars, was missing from her
handbag. So, surmising she had either
carelessly mislaid the purse or been
robbed of it, she retraced her steps to
the tenements. Her search over her
recent working field availing her moth
ing, she was about to turn again
toward home, when tear-stained. sly
acting youth came out of one of the
tenements and accosted her.
Say, missus," he sniveled, point
ing across the street, where another
boy crouched in a hallway to exam
inc something, IF y re lookin' fer
y pocketbook, dat kid over dere's
got it,"
Acting on this declaration, the lady
hurried over and cornered the lad be-
lore he was aware of her propinQuity.
Seeing no chance OF escaping with
the purse and its contents the boy
complied with the lady's demand and
handed over the pocketbook.
Now, my honest lad" she then
said, turning to the first boy, who had
followed her across the street, there's
dollar for pointing out the thief"
AS this boy ran off clutching his re-
ward, the second lad squinted hard
at the lady.
Say, missus, he said, don't l get
nothin'?"
Not a penny"
Gee" he rejoined in a kind of per-
plexity; "an stole de pocketbook
from him! Magazine.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-02-14
STATE BRIEFS.

Kalamazoo is to have a new ar.
mory.
A fall on the ice may result in the
death of Mrs. G. w. Stevens. of Green
vile.
The constitutional convention killed
the proposal providing for a public
utility commission.
II is expected that death will soon
claim Darius Smith, of Buchanan, one
of the oldest residents of the district
Daniel Read Anthony, Jr., elected to
the senate from Kalamazoo, graduated
from the u. of NJ. law college in 1891.
Grand Rapids has given work to the
200 unemployed on the food wall 1T
the city market. They get Is cents an
hour
Rural free delivery route No or.
dered established April l at Lincoln.
Altoona county, serving 800 people and
20 families.
Wishing to retain her communion in
the Lagrave Street Christian Reformed
church, Grand Rapids. Mrs. Gertrude
B. Goss has asked the circuit court to
annul her divorce decree, granted on
the grounds of cruelty. The church
recognizes only statutory grounds.
A diamond which Frank J. Martin,
Grand Trunk brakeman. was trying
to sell i'm a Port Huron jewelry store
disappeared, and he accused the clerk.
officers were called. and on searching
Martin found 1t in his clothes. II an-
swers the description of one lost in
Lansing by Mrs. B. Anthony, wife of
constitutional convention delegate.
and 1t was held until she could see It.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-02-14
Her Revenge.

On crowded street car recently
there were several stout men taking
up 'oore room than they should. A
slip Of a girl got on and the conductor
called out move mp. please" They re-
luctantly moved about six inches and
the girl squeezed in. A few minutes
later a tremendously stout woman
laden with parcels entered and the
girl Immediately offered her her seat.
which she accepted. The selfish men
were lost to view under $50 pounds
of stoutness and the girl chuckled to
herseif.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-02-14
MICHIGAN BRIEFS.

Lewis Lahring, an old citizen OF
North Argentine, owner of the largest
farm in that section, is dead at the
age of 81 years.
Walter Gresham. of Sturgis. went to
Chicago two weeks ago and Tuesday
word was received of his death by a
street car accident.
The state tax commission has set
the dates for the following hearings:
Wabash. February I; Michigan Cen
trail. February Z; Armour car lines,
February 4.
The Hungarian population of Mus
kegon Heights have organization tho
Hungarian Aid society in an attempt
to secure control of city affairs
through politics.
Maxim and Matilda Couture. the
former 96 years old and the latter
about 30 have brought action in a
Port Huron court against their daueh-
ter, Mrs. Nora Van Camp, who they
allcge has forged their signatures to
4 deed for their little farm.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-02-14
Grand Jury Called.

Judge Howard West, of the Ingham
circuit bench has called a grand jury
There is as yet no public knowledge
of what is in the air, though it is not
thought to be at all likely that any
county affairs are coming UP for a
probing. 1t looks like some more
state cases"
The first known of the judges inten-
tions was when the county clerk re-
ceived an order to summon the usual
number of jurors, they to report
Thursday morning to take up such
matters as the court might lay be-
fore them"
This will be the first grand jury in
Tngham county since the one in 1899
which dealt with the famous military
scandal. TO the undoing of number
of grating state officials.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-02-14
Man at His Best.

At what age is man at his best
and most likely to achieve his life
work? The Rev. F. b. Meyer once
put the age at 46. That seemed late
to a critic, but DIR. Leonard Guthrie
at the Royal College of Physicians
supported this statement He quoted
Jastro's table dealing with specially
precocious people, which showed that
the average age at which great ar
lists did their first work was 1873:
their first great work. 2S; their great
est work. 49,; and that the average
age at death was col. For poets the
figures in the same order were 1876.
27.s, 43.9 and GIG; for philosophers.
176, 1921. Az and 663. Here is
comfort for those who think of mid.
die life as fiat prose.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-02-14
Miners Crushed.

Steve Banocker and Andrew Ander-
son were caught under three tons of
slate i'm the Auburn mine of the Rob-
ert Gage Coal Co., of Bay City, and it
required ten men to lift up one block
weighing more than a ton. Banocker
has a fractured skull and may die
Anderson's hip was dislocated and his
hand crushed. Edward Kents shout
der was broken and his hip crushed in
the same mine the day before Fred
Lamb sustained a broken leg and
crushed hand in the Handy mine.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-02-14
Child Murder CHARGED.

Calvin Cummings, of Mundy town
ship. was arrested Saturday on the
charge of murder in connection with
the death of the newborn child of his
sister, Lulu Cummings. of Grand
Blanc township Cummings admitted
at the inquest that he had taken the
child from the home of its girl-mother
shortly after its birth and driven with
il three miles across the country to
his farm residence. where the infant
died the same night and was buried
in a shoe box I'm the dooryard.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-02-14
Married in Haste.

Ray Davidson and Idella Westover
Davidson have been found. They found
themselves. They are the Battle Creek
high school boy and seventh grade
girl, ages II and 10. respectively, who
disappeared several days ago, after
the boy had sold his cornet to get
money for a wedding tour and tn,
girl had donned a long skirt of her
sisters. The young couple went to
Toledo, 1t proves, and were there mar
ried. Wednesday night they appeared
in a Toledo police station, the boy say
ing that his money was all gone. He
asked that he and his girl be helped
home.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-02-14
The Next Con. Con.

The proposal for new constitutional
conventions to be held every 16 years
passed on second reading. The pro-
posal regulates the formation of fu-
ture constitutions and leaves nothing
10 the legislature, either as concerns
pay, limitation of time, date of cleo
ton or time for beginning the ses-
sion; the minutae is all provided for.
In general the act creating this con-
vention is followed Three delegates
are to be chosen from each senatorial
district. The convention of the fu-
ture is to begin work on the first
Tuesday of September and complete
II at its discretion. The pay is to be
81 900 for the session.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-02-14

Henry c. Ward, the millionaire. who
was adjudged insane by Judge Elmore
Brown in the Oakland probate court.
through his attorneys filed an appeal
to the circuit court Both sides are
preparing to summon more witnesses
in the next hearing and strengthen
their cases.
c. w. Stever. a passenger engineer
on the Ann Arbor railroad. died early
Tuesday morning I'm the university
hospital in Ann Arbor. of injuries sus-
tanned many weeks ago when a train
carrying Sousa's band was derailed.
A part of HIS spine had rotted away
He leaves a family In Owossc
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-02-14
Grain. Etc.

Detroit -wheat-Cash No red
97&c. May opened at 81 O3h and de-
clined 20 81 OF q July declined from
9Shc to 96s4c; No. red. 94%c; No.
white. 97Ac.
Corn--Cash No. 3. car at soc; No. 3
yellow. SIC
Oats-Cash No. white. cars at SIC
Rye-Cash No. Q S5c.
Barley-Fancy car. sample. at 81 per
cwt.
Cloverseed - Prime spot St1 90:
March, S11 25: sample 40 bags AT
$40 as. 80 at $40 25. I 5 at $40. q at 50 %.
prime alsike. $40 so: sample alsike. 70
bags at 50 so. at IS as
Timothy seed-Prime 40 bags att 21O
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-02-14

d.. Andrew S. Draper. commission
er az education in New York, SAYS
that illiteracy is much more general
in that state than in Germany, France.
Great Britain, Switzerland, Scandi-
1avia or Japan.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-02-14
AMUsEMENTs ~ DurRoIr
Week Ending Februgry 8, 1908

TEMPLE THEATRE AND WoNDERLAND
Afternoons 2;l5. Toe TO 35c. Evenings Sis
lUc to 6Oc. "Tne Rain Bears"
WHITNEY OPERA HOUSE, Matinees daily
except Wednesday. loo, 2Oc, 30. Little
Heroes of the Street.
LYcEUM THEATER-Every Night Mats
sun, We'd, Sat. Toe, &c, soc. Geo. AIDES
Just Out OF College.
observation-disclosures sun, Tues, Thurs
and Sat. Prices DC, 3Oc, SOC and T5c. An
Matinees Except sunday DC. CAMILLE.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-02-14
A Tornado's Fury.

Extending 40 miles from west TO
east, the path of destruction made by
tornado. just north of Wesson.
Miss, Friday was found to be a
worse disaster than was at first re
ported. In the tornado zone the dead
numbered eight and the fatally in
jured four, while at least 100 other
persons were hurt The death list
may reach 10. most Of those believed
to be dead being Negroes who have
not been accounted for since their
frail cabins were crushed. The dam
age may reach 100000. In the
wreckage lie four churches, six cot
ton gins and several country stores.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-02-14
THE MARKETS

Detroit-CattIe-Ex dry-fed steers
and heifers, 81 75m5; steers and heif-
s snd he'll hefeTs 500 to 100 1900 81 S5@4
steers and heifers that are fat, 500 TO
zoo sS@S 80; choice fat cows, 81 7o@
heavy bulls. 81; fair 10 good bolognas,
bulls, 81 3 so; stock bulls. 81 1908 20;
choice feeding steers 500 to 1000. 81 40
"a; fair feeding steers. 500 to 1000,
50 SOFAS 75: choice stockers. 500 to 700.
SO 25M3 10: fair stockers, 500 to 700.
$363 %: stock heifers, 81 50@3; milk
common mixers, S1S635.
Veal calves-Market dull at last
s3G6 so; milch cows and springers
steady.
Sheep and iambs-Market lambs 15c
higher sheep steady: market dull: best
lambs. 81; fair to good lambs. Sc 25G
6 IS: light to common lambs. IS 5OM6;
fair to good butcher sheep, $4Q4 so;
culls and common, S303 so.
Hogs-Market steady last Thursdays
prices. Range Of prices: Light to good
butchers, 81 1901 %; pigs. 81 10: light
workers, 81 Is; roughs, SO so; stays, 1-3
East BuTalo.-Cattle-B export
steers S5.40@6 best shipping steers,
oslo: best rat cows. si6i50: fair to to
good. S363.10: trimmers. $2m225: best
fat ,heiferss s 25@5; few extra az 1928:
best feeders. 1854: stockers S3.500
3.75: export bulls. $ld4.25: few at $3.50:
bolognas. $3.50d 3.75; stock bulls, $3.50
as: the good cows sold steady. hut il
Is almost impossible to sell common
cows on this market at the present
time good cows. $35G As; medium. $23
133: common. S20m23
Hogs-Market 1O6 Sc higher: closed
steady at the opening. with a good
clearance for all that got yarded I'm
time for the market; medium. heavy
and workers., $i.70i.75; pigs. S475:
roughs. $40: stays. $3n3.50.
Sheep-Market active and higher:
best native lambs s7.7Om7.75: culIs
s666.75; westerns. s7.406 $50: year
lings. S6.25m6 S.; wethers, S5.5Om6
ewes s45065.5O.
Best calves. SS7569: medium to good.
$606.50; heavy. S4@450
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-02-14

Shoponogons. chief of the Chippe-
was, has been sent to Jail for beating
his aged wife.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-04-16
ROOa ] !!
VIM SSead First Year After Retireaeat
From White House ID For. s
eiIa Lands. '

Washington April IA. should
President Roosevelt's present desirs
be realized he will spend the first year
after his retirement from ONCE in
travel outside the United States.
Mr.. Roosevelt's itinerary, however
has not been determined. His plan IL
to see some Of the rugged and little
frequented portions OF foreign lands.
as well as to travel the beaten track
of the tourists.
That the president will indulge his
fondness for hunting big game is be-
lieved by those to whom he has con-
fided his intention.
It was at the recent dinner of the
Boone and Crockett club in this city
that the president last told Of his in.
tentions for next year. He was told
of the opportunities for hunting in
Alaska and urged to arrange for trim
there. This, he said, would interfere
with his plan for foreign travel, and
would have to be considered, If at all.
at some future time.
President Roosevelt is quoted as
adding at this time:
IF William Taft is nominated and
elected president. which would he
very gratifying, it would make impos-
sible criticism, II were abroad, to the
eject that l was debating to him or
that had dictated or had been turned
down In my suggestions
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-04-16
Bitter Rivalry Of Three caua-
dian Organizations Reveals
Scheme at Detroit.
FORTUNES IN The BUSINESS
Immigration Authorities Have Scant
Hope Of Reaching the Princi.
pals in the Plot.

Detroit, Mich, April IL. - Though
the bitter rivalry Of three Canadian
organizations for smuggling Chinese
into the United States wholesale
scheme of bringing the Orientsls ille-
gally across the international border
here at Detroit was discovered yester-
day. 1t is said that several comforta-
BILE fortunes have been made at the
business during the past two years by
enterprising young men who have
made Windsor, Ont, their headquar-
tiers. The immigration authorities
here have scant hope of reaching the
principals in the three competing
agencies. but man who gives his
name as A. McMann is held at the
Wayne county Jail in connection with
the capture last Tuesday of three Chi
nese at Adrian. Mich. The Cinnamon
and McMann were found in a Wabash
box car bound for Chicago. There was
a dead horse in the car and the four
men were concealed under the straw.
How 1t Was Worked.
The plan was to engage a freight
car at Detroit for the shipment of a
horse, some worthless animal being
placed In the car for blind. The
Chinese, it Is said, have been freely
brought across the Detroit river on
the railroad car ferries, being hidden
with the connfvance of employees on
the boats until the immigration in
spectors had made their rounds and
then being hurriedly directed to
empty freight cars. The following
day they would be transferred to
freight cars especially engaged, and
usually started west on train which
makes only one regular stop between
Detroit and Chicago.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-04-16
Crimes.

A man supposed to be Abner Bos.
worth of Hazelwood, Pa, committed
suicide at Columbus, Ohio bx Jump
ling from the State street bridke into
4 the Scioto river.
Clarabe Hayes. aged twenty-five
years. Of Alton. ILL.,, was given life
dsentence in the penitentiary after he
had pleaded guilty to the charge of
lmurdering his wife Jan. IS, this year.
John Webb. a business man of
lutte. Mont, must serve five days in
he county Jail and pay the county S.
. penalty for contempt Of court.
AZ ach was the finding of Judge George
| Bourquin. Webb was found guilty
Jury tampering in the case against
Boucher, another merchant.
sS,s Counterfeit dimes and quarters and
u drug that has the same effect as
opium are made by prisoners in tho
enttentiary at Chester, ILL.,. accord.
~ = To testimony given by guards be.
fore the legislative investigating com.
= mites.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1908-04-16
PLEASE STOP 1T, SAYS ELk,Ns.
Depreeates Publicity Given Rumores
Engagement of His DAUGHTER.

0~9S"e W sso 0ou8uSSVs
Washington. April II. = Senator
Stephen B. Elkins, in view of the re-
ports from Rome that the rumored en-
gagement of Miss Katherine Elkins to
the duke of the Abruzzi had been con.
firmed there and that in fact matters
had progressed so far that the royal
family ,have placed ORDERS flor the we'd
ding gifts, last night sentato the Assoc.
ciated Press a statement deprecatory
Of current reports, as follows:
IF you can consistently, will YOU
kindly cease the publication of dis
patches and rumors of the reported
engagement of my daughter. The mat
ter has occupied the attention OF the
press so long and to such an extent
that l fell called upon ito make this
request.
while making it. wish to state
that l appreciate the kindly express
sions that have appeared concerning
my daughter in connection with her
reported engagement. Whenever
there shall be any reason to make an
announcement about the matter will
te glad to give it to-, the press in an
authentic FORM