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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-09-19
BY Associated Press.

st. Louis. Sept 1S.-William Ran
dolph Hearst. in a speech opening the
Independence party campaign in Mis-
souri,, here tonight. answered the
reply of Senator Foraker TO letters
read by Hearst in Columbus, Ohio.
last night. Aand read two more letters
from John D. Archibold of the Stand
ard Oil Company to Foraker These
new letters Hearst said, refute the
claim of the Ohio Senator that all
his work for the Standard Oil Com
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-09-19
Followed Him to Denver and
Caused His Arrest in
That City.
CHARGES AGAINST
HIM WITHDRAWN
Lady Who Went From PEN
saCola a Few Weeks Ago
Decides to Take $4,000
and Stop Prosecution, He
Agreeing to a Divorce.

Mrs. Alice Shear, of this city, who
went TO Denver a few weeks ago and
there caused the arrest of her hus-
band. Herbert Shear, formerly resi-
dent of Pensacola, and his cousin,
Miss Jennie Shear, who were alleged
to be living as man and wife, has
agreed to stop the prosecution, her
husband settling upon her over SZO,-
600 and agreeing TO divorce.
The story of Mrs. Shear is an in
teresting one She was married 10
Shear near Milton. and they resided
at Millview tor several years, where
he was employed by the Robinson
Lumber Company. Later he went TO
Mississippi. and It was while there
that he placed his wife in an asylum
in Meridian, where she was confined
for eight years, though she claims she
was sane the entire time. A few
months ago she obtained her release
and came to Pensacola, where she
mas relatives Then she began the
search for her husband and locating
him in Denver with his cousin, trav-
eIed there and caused their arrest
The Settlement.
Regarding the settlement of the case
the Denver Post of recent date con-
tanned the following:
More than $4,000 has been settled
upon Mrs. Alice Shear by her hus-
band, Herbert Shear, TO have her drop
the charges preferred against him and
to permit him to go his way in peace
! in the future. Pursuant 10 the COM
promise effected Saturday night.
note addressed TO the district attor-
ney and Justice De Lappe was hand
ed in this morning.
| II read as follows.
| "GentIemen--WOU you please dis.
miss the case of the people against
Shear and Miss Shear at the cost OF
myself? Signed, Mrs. Alice Shear
Justice De Lappe dismissed the case
| this morning.
The settlement is Is flows.
| Seven thousand dollars in cash.
Five thousand dollar life insurance
policy that will be paid up in five
years, and on which Mr.. Shear agrees
to pay up all the remaining pre-
miumS-
| Stock of the Bigger-Shear Lumber
Company, of Port Arthur. Canada.
A stone and brick residence in Port
Arthur, Canada, valued at $4,000
| Herbert Shear also relinquIshilg all
! claim to the house and TWO lots in
GuIfpOTt, Miss, to his wife.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-09-19
CHOLERA SITUATION IS
SERIOUS IN ST. PETERSBURG

been .G6I cases of which only 81 re-
covered
In view of the rapid spread Of the
epidemic and the danger 20 children.
the municipality has decided 70 close
the primary schools Of the city for six
weeks and convert the school build
fngs into hospitals. From noon until
midnight All new cases were report
ed IN the city
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-09-19
NOTED PRIEST DIES
IN puNkiRk, N. Y.
Ry Associ5ted presA
sy Associ5ted ore

Dunkirk. y. Y, Sept 19.-The Rev.
John Paudinelh. formerly provincial
of the Passionate fathers in. the Unit
ed States and Mexico. died a. the Pas
sicnist monastery here today He
was born in Genoa seventy-fouT years
age.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-09-19
BY Associated Press.

St Petersburg, Sept. 1S.-The mill
tary authorities today made known for
the first time the cholera conditions
among the troops The disease is
spreading so rapidly that d second
large hospital will be opened i'm
mediateIy. There are today 81 pa
tients in the hospitals Since the
beginning Of the epidemic there have
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-09-19
Meeting of Committee.

This programme is the result OF
steps taken by the Chamber of Com
meTce on motion of Hon. T A Jen-
nings. the matter being referred 10 the
agricultural committee. which met
Yesterday afternoon in Chairman r F.
WitcheIrs Office, with Hon. A NJ. Nc
MILAN and Hon. y. B. Cook in con-
ference
The institutes viii be held under
the auspices of the Chamber of Com
merce. and the state university will
furnish three or four qualified speak
ers. all of them experts The purpose
Of the meeting is to stimulate the
farmers in the raising of staple crops
with a view to the fullest development
Of the agricultural interests around
Pensacola. as it IS the conviction OF
the Chamber of Commerce that the
realization OF Pensacola's destiny de-
ponds upon the proper development OF
the country around her
The Subjects.
The committee decided yesterday TO
ask the state experts to speak on five
subjects Tobacco growing, diversi-
fed farming, home dairying, syrup
making and cotton growing.
The first four named subjects were
(ContfnUed on PAGE THol
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The Subjects.

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To reach all Of the peO=
pie, use both the DAILY |
and the WEEKLY JOUR- |
NAL.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-23
Personal NOTES.

England new proposes to pipe Irish heat
gas to London, having already secured
everything else the Irish once possessed.
Now that 1t has been decided that Adam
and Eve were duly and truly married,
surely someone should be able to tell us
who Cain took for a better half.
DR.. Clara E. Gary, one of Boston's most
noted women physicians, is advocating the
throwing open or the state reservations
for camping purposes during the warm
weather.
Now the government experts rave de-
tected death germs lurking in cracked
china" 1t follows that the servant girl
who fractures a teacup is guilty not only
Of carelessness, but attempted homicide.
A po~undkeeper in New Jersey says that in
six years he had been bitten by dogs 1900
times without the slightest inconvenience
That is ar average of about a bite and a
half each day, including Sunday. He Ger.
tainly must look good to the dogs.
There are now fewer persons being in
jured by accidents on the railways of New
York City, in proportion to the number
OF cars operated and the number Of per-
sons travelling in them, than at any pre-
vious time since the first line was put in
operation.
Chicago's 1.-TWO Million" club Is about to
receive a severe shock. The school census
OF Chicago, which has been under way
for several months, is now practically com
pleted, and the count does not reach the
100000 mark. The exact result will be
announced the last OF the week ard will
be about $4,000.
1t took two policemen and three husky
citizens Of Atlantic City eleven minutes 10
separate two women whose hands became
mixed up in each others hair. One OF the
women came all the way from San Fran
cisco to get into the mixup. The other
had kidnapped the Californian's husband.
While the mussing was going on the hus-
band ducked.
The impressive power Of the bedslat,
lauded by Chicago's rotund mayor,
achieved a new laurel in the Philadelphia
suburb OF Gloucester. An irate wife APP
piled It to a recreant husband and his
affinity. AS both were clad in gossamer
raiment. the bedslat reached the spot with
such emphasis that the screaming pair
jumped from a second-story window and
hiked for tall timber. As a promoter OF
aer al navigation and other exercise the
bedslat Is a hummer.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-23

Lincoln is going to carry the city to such
an extreme that a man who believes I'm re-
publican principles cannot erect a banner
there. Lincoln can take its candidate for
president and make the most Of It. Omaha
would make just as good a place for the
republican state headquarters as Lincoln.
Omaha is just as good or a better city for
mass meetings Of all kinds. 1t is not the
fact of the banner being cut down that We
complain of, for that was more than likely
an act OF some irresponsible persons, 1t Is
the spirit in which the city Of Lincoln
looks upon any demonstrations that is
against the sale of a few souvenir spoons
and glasses OF boose. Lincoln has become
accustomed to the patronage of the entire
state in political things, and now If the
shop keepers think that they have an
asset they can afford to cut all others out
for, let them eat their cake, but don't let
them have 1t.
Ainsworth Star-Journal: Lincoln has a
bunch OF about the most mercurlal politi-
clans in the world, and some Of them are
among The republicans. A number of these,
including Paul Clark and Bud Lindsay,
were greatly incensed because the repub-
lican state central committee swung a ban
ner to the breeze bearing Taft's picture and
a statement, Nebraska for Taft" These
are a part of the same bunch who in 1895
were ready to cruelty any republican In
Lincoln who spoke kindly of Bryan or his
candidacy. The writer was present when
Bryan cast his vote that year. When he
went to walk up to the polls he found a
line OF republican penny bit politicians
lined up on either side of the walk, and
just as he got in the midst Of them they
threw up their hats and shouted, 'Hurrah
for Mckinley And this is the crowd that
is kicking because OF this banner. The
writer yields place to no one when 1t comes
to giving respect to Bryan as a man and as
a friend, but 1t is no disrespect to him for
a man to say he is for Taft, or for the re-
publican state central committee, to thus
publicly announce that Nebraska is for
Taft, and Bryan has too much sense to take
any offense at it himself. But they were
not all republicans who were mixed up in
the final wind-up OF the affair. It seems
that after the fool class of republicans had
started the trouble It was taken UP by
some democrats OF like calibre and who
organized a mob and went in the night, cut
down the banner and burned II. This ac-
ton will make Lincoln an exceedingly hot
town politically during this campaign. The
republicans will resent with indignity this
act of vandalism and the lines will be
closer drawn than ever. 1t is safe to say
that the saner class Of democrats were not
mixed up in it, but the party will be
charged with it all the same unless 1t shall
purge itself by a public announcement of
the vandal act and replacement of the de-
stroyed banner.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-23
NEBRISKA's NEW ASSESSMENT.

The work of the assessors in Ne
braska for the current year, as shown
by returns to the state board, indicates
that the new revenue law is working
well. The burden of taxation is be-
ing more justly and equally distributed
than ever in the history of the state.
P~rophesies were freely made at the
time of the enactment of the law that
certain of its provisions would not be
found operative in practice, but expert
ence has fully justified the wisdom of
the Legislators in adopting the statute.
1t is not a perfect law and may yet re-
'quire some amendment, but 1t has done
its work, so far, in a very satisfactory
way.
Property has been listed for taxation
at something very closely approx
mating it's actual cash value. This is
proven by the announcement of one of
the railroad companies that an applica-
ton for a writ of mandamus has been
Withdrawn. The company protested,
- piShNhNSu W plOlS5l, against values
placed on lands and lots throughout
the state and asked that the court is
sue an order to direct the State Board
of Assessment to increase the valua-
ton placed on lands. Close examina-
ton of the figures, made by agents of
the protesting railroad company, has
disclosed that the values set down by
the assessors are very close to actual
values as disclosed by the record of
transfers.
This condition has resulted in a very
noticeable increase in the total of the
assessment roll of the state. Its chief
est effect, however, is to assure all
property owners that they are being
taxed alike. Now, when the railroad
property is finally entered on the as
sessment rolls on the same basis as
private property the revenue law will
be fulfilling it's purpose.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-23

fear. Notwithstanding our own r~esolute pur-
pose TO do tireless work for the election
Of Mr.. Bryan that the enthusiasm for hin
In this state Is as thin az II is wide, and
We are not sanguIne that even $500 will
be raised for his assistance. Pre-
Stunning that there are $1,000 Bryanites in
South Carolina, we dare predict that they
will not contribute an aggregate Of 1900
to the election OF Mr.. Bryan, which is to
say that they do not care a glass Of soda
water or a 5-cent cigar each whether he
be elected or not. What the hell do they
carer i'iEE
Savannah News: That Chatham county
democrats are lukewarm over the nomina-
ton OF William Jennings Bryan for the
presidency was clearly shown yesterday
when expressions from them were solicited.
They were not surprised that the Com
moner was the choice of the convention,
but they refused to enthuse over him.
Some powerful influence will have to be
brought to bear upon them before they
Will be stirred out Of this apathy.
Baltimore Sun: OF one thing there can
be no doubt and that Is that his (Bryan's)
nomination for the third time, while in no
sense a surprise, is a distinct dlsappoint-
ment TO a large section of his party.
With Missouri, Kentucky, Tennes-
see and North Carolina admittedly
fighting ground, Mr.. Bryan's nomina-
tion may accomplish one result that
would be beneficial to both the old
parties-the political breaking up of
the solid south.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-23
WAGES AND FREIGHT RATES.
Relation of One to the Other shown
by Statistics.
New York World.

view YORK world.
On the payrolls of the railroads of the
United States there were last year 1872, O74
employees. They received for their services
Sl,072, 1856, 427. This would be an average
for everybody, from president to switch
man, from superintendent to track laborer
of only s641. Making the salaries of 5000
or over a class by themselves, the aver
age pay Of all the engineers, firemen,
conductors, brakeman, switch-tenders
watchmen and clerks is less than 50 a
day.
These figures taken from the statistical
report of the Interstate Commerce COM
mission, would seem to be conclusive evil
dence that railroad wages as a whole are
not too high.
AS for the sister claim that II wages are
not reduced freight rates must be increased
the same official figures give the gross
profits over the operating expenses as
$4o,5Ss, 764. Tn operating expenses, beside
the billion donars in wages, included $780,
100000 for fuel, equipment, repairs, main
tenance and other current expenses.
The net earnings of $50, OOO,O 0 are equiv,
alent to 5 per cent on a capitalization Of
SIG, 500. 900, 600. OF the net earnings more
than half went to dividends and surplus,
NNANN AA1AA ~ RoI AAAtANE dlu
sinking funds on the bonds.
Whether the profits of a railroad are
reasonable and adequate cannot be told
from its capitalization. The Chicago and
Alton. for instance, earned more than 7
per cent on its capitalization before Ed
ward II. Hartman watered the stock and
inflated the boEds. Tina the new common
stock pays no dividends is no proof that
either wages should be reduced or freight
rates increased. Railroads which have not
watered their stocks and issued bonds to
Increase the profits Of high finance are
enormously profitable properties today.
Lackawanna stock sells at 500 and over.
New Haven stock sold at more than twice
par before high finance inflated II.
Here is where the necessity comes for a
physical valuation Of railroad property.
Some roads must charge higher rates than
others to secure an adequate return on
their investment. A road running through
a mountainous country costs more to build
and operate than a road on a prairie run
ming at grade.
The proposition that the officials should
increase freight rates 10 per cent would
levy an increased burden on business.
commerce ard consumption of SlSO.O00.OO a
year, Before this burden should be i'm
posed the railroads should meet the bur
den OF proof, first. as to their capitalize
ton and actual investment; second. as
to the Teasonableness and adequacy OF the
present returns thereon, and third, as to
whether the evil straits into which some
railroads have fallen are not due to the
lack of honesty. to stock speculations ana
the get-rich-quick methods of the men in
charge OF them. rather than to any lack
OF earning capacity II properly. managed
at low rates.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-23
SUMMER.
Denver Republican.

Denver Republican.
We hear a lot from poet chaps
Who move our hearts to pity
Because poor father has TO stay
And work hard in the city,
The while his family enjoys
A glorious vacation;
But this shows that the poet tribe
Has missed its calculation.
For what does father do
But quit his work at two
And, after a most nifty lunch, hikes to the
base ball ground;
At eight dimes a la carte,
Then makes an early s.art
For the local COney Island, where the
wheels are going round.
We hear about his toilling hard
To meet his wife's expenses,
And how he sends away each week
His dollars and his ~centses;
But that Is most fictitious stuff
The poet chaps are strewing,
For making gray hairs sprout Ia lust
What father is not doing.
He sees a summer show
Where cooling breezes blow,
And then he gets a touring car and has q
midnight roam;
And the only care he knows
Is when this message shows:
We've all been bored to death here and
now we're coming home."
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-23
SOUTHERN NEWSPAPERS.

1t is accepted by politicians of all
parties that the majority OF the states
in the solid south" will asst their
electoral votes for Mr.. Bryan, but
there is abundant and cumulative evil
dence that they will vote for him
from force of habit and without en-
thusiasm. The leading newspapers Of
the south reflect this sentiment by
either openly confessing their neon
cern as to the result of the election or
admitting the hopelessness OF success
under the standard of the twice-de-
feated leader. Here are some inter
esting excerpts from recent issues of
southern democratic newspapers:
Macon CGa) Telegraph: II announce that
II l am elected ] shall not be a candidate
for reelection william ]. Bryan. This
is a graceful act, but perhaps il would be
a stln more graceful act, very generally
approved. IL he would announce that II de-
feated he will not be a candidate for a
fourth nomination. There ought to be some
limit 10 the number Of nominations as
well as to the number OF terms.
Richmond Times-Dispatch: The sum
total OF the candidate and the platform Of
fers no rallying cry TO the Times Dispatch's
enthusiasm.
Charleston New and Courier: We still
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-23
A summer Mania.
Baltimore Sun.


In the good old summer time there seems
to be a mania among certain citizens to
get human life in jeopardy. The boat-rock-
ing maniac is a. historic character, but ne
has been to some extent driven by an in
dignant public from the business of drown
ing people. The man who playfully pre-
sents a gun at his friends under the delu-
sion that 1t is unloaded is, like the poor.
always with us, and from this kind of
dangerous lunatic there seems to be no es-
cape. Another dangerous creature who
should be locked up is the fellow who goes
about armed with a rifle or pistol which
he shoots at random into the air, regard
less of the fact that a bullet so shot must
return to the earth somewhere. II a human
being should happen to occupy the spot
where the bullet Is TO strike, of course that
human being must suffer, But this fact
does not deter the gentleman who is anus
ing himself in this sprightly manner.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-23
TIE DETECTION tRoM RRrAN.

wv hOh bhl IN
While Mr.. Bryan and his newspaper
champions are trying to make light Of
Mr.. Hearst's notice that he will not
support the Denver platform nor the
democratic ticket, it is evident that all
Of the party managers are keenly con-
cerned over the evidences of detection
In the ranks of the former Bryan sup
porters. M. Bryan is constantly re-
ferring to the fact that he received
over 5000, 900 votes in each of his
races for the presidency, while Judge
Parker received but a little more than
10000 600 votes in 1904, but he ig-
nores, although fully aware of the
fact. that he faces entirely different
conditions in the present fight.
In 1896 Mr.. Bryan ran as the choice
OF an assortment Of political organiza-
tions, including the democrats, the sill
yer republicans and the populists, and
had the endorsement of Hearst, who
then had a strong hold on the labor
vote. Ton Watson was Bryan's popu-
list running mate on the two-tailed
ticket and it is a matter of record and
common knowledge that a large pro-
portion of the $500 900 votes re-
ceived by Bryan that year was at
tracted by that organization. AS a
matter of fact the democratic party
was in practical dissolution that year
and was captured by populist ideas and
populist organizations. This year
Watson Is the nominee of the populist
party and is making a bitter and de-
termined fight against Bryan, whom
he accuses of having betrayed the
populist party and deserted the princi-
pies and policies he championed with,
such vigor in 1896 and in 1900, when
he stood as an ultra-radical and drew
support from all the minor parties of
unrest.
The socialist vote was also largely
for Bryan in 1896 and in 1900. In
1896 the socialist candidate received
less han 10000 votes. With Eugene
V. Debs as a candidate in 1900, the
party polled 1000 votes, the majority
Of the socialist radicals still going to
Bryan. In 1904 the Debs vote was
4O2, 2S3 and Debs is predicting that
his party will poll at least 1000, 900
votes in the present campaign. Debs
is opposing Bryan as strongly as he
opposed Parker, and the socialist vote
in 1904 showed that it was drawn al
most wholly from the democratic can
didate.
In addition to the %populist and So
cialist OBJECTIONS, Mr.. Bryan Is faced
with the assurance of a complete loss
of the Hearst party vote. This indie
pendence party was organized after
1900. In 1907 it polled 121 900 votes
in New York and $4,000 in Massachu-
sets, and with a national ticket In the
field this wear will draw literally from
the elements that have heretofore sup
ported Mr.. Bryan and will make his
success impossible in New York, New
Jersey and Illinois. where the Hearst
following is numerically strong, The
Hearst party, the socialists and the
populists withheld their support from
Judge Parker in 1904 and were re-
sponsible for the poor showing he
made, and these three elements are all
strongly arrayed against Bryan in the
fight of 1908, while against their de-
lection he has no offset upon which
he may rely with any degree of conf
dance
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-23

The veteran William NJ. Stewart, for
mer United State senator from Nevada,
who was one of Bryan's most ardent
champions in 1896, now declares that
the Denver candidate is nothing but
a political acrobat" The senator adds:
Show me the political limb he has not
lit on and then flown from at every
adverse wind" The senator evidently
shares Mr.. Hearst's opinion of "a
chameleon candidate"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-23

An Aged Political Mystery Solved al
Inst,
New York Trlhnne.

New York Tribune.
Now bobs up s]erenely a tale that Presl-
dent Roosevelt was elected in 1904 by virtue
OF a vast campaign fund contributed-by
whom? BY that Warwick Of the world.
that Olympus-shaking potentate. President
Cabrera Of Guatemala! We had hoped that
the awful skeleton could be kept in the
closet. But since it hasn't been, its COM
panions may as well be let out, too. and
the confession be made that Cabrera was
not alone in that dastardly manipulation
Of American politics, but had as his fellow
conspirators the second syndic of Andorra
and the deputy assistant great high mucka-
muck Of Borrioboola Cha. OF course the
object OF these three in thus imposing Mr..
Roosevelt upon this nation against its will
is quite obvious. But we wonder IL the sui.
tan OF Oman or the hereditary grand duke
Of Pumpernickel is to finance Mr., Taft's
campaign?