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New-York tribune., 1908-07-11
BOY HIT BY ROBERT LANNING's AUTO.
Judges Son Seriously Injuries Youngster
While Riding in Trenton.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

Trenton NJ j.. July l0.-Frank Sheridan. fourteen
years old was run down and seriously injured this
afternoon by an automobile driven by Robert Ian
ming. son of Judge William NJ. Lanning, of the
United States District Court. Sheridan was carry
ing bag OF -four on his shoulder and stepped in
front of the automobile from behind a wagon which
was going in the opposite direction
His skull was fractured, and his recovery is con-
sidered doubtful
New-York tribune., 1908-07-11
II LOCKOUT IN Paris.
Contractors Take Steps to Meet
WOrkcmen's 4gitatiOn.

Paris, July 1o-At meeting of the associa-
ton of contractors tonight general lockout
was voted. This situation has been brought
about by the workmen's campaign of partial
strikes. boycotts etc.
New-York tribune., 1908-07-11
IN INDI4N UPRISING.
Troops and Machine Guns Sent to
OueU Nezo MeaicO NaUajos.

Bisbee Arz., July 10.-An uprising of Nava
tos in New Mexico is reported to have occurred.
and thirty soldiers with machine guns have been
dispatched from Fort Huachuca to Fort Win
gate N NJ, to aid the troops stationed there in
quelling the outbreak. No details have been
received.
New-York tribune., 1908-07-11

tn Philadelphia every the Hour in Two
Hours See New Jersey Central Schedule on rage
II Satisfies the most exactins-AdVt
New-York tribune., 1908-07-11
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION ADJOURNs
BRYAN Receives 892 IL Votes 50 IL for Gray and 40 for
lobnson-A Candidates for Second Place Except KEN Withdrew
THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET.


and adjourned
President the received
and
OF elected he would not again
aboutw
Mr.
New-York tribune., 1908-07-11

AT BRETON WOODS
kessoe Mount Washington opens We'd Ao'H' '''S
--' fleasaIt OPENED june z AoNI
New-York tribune., 1908-07-11
JOHN w. KERN, OF INDIANA.

yePresent Convention at Denver
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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-28

Naught-Seven would be waiting at the
Union station at twelve-ten.
.'Well?" said the general manager,
lifting a. slow eyebrow at MacMor-
rogh and COMPRISING into the single
word his wish to know what had been
done in the conference OF two.
'Tis all right. Misther North" said
the contractor, rubbing mis- hands.
'.'Tis a crown jewel ye have in this
young
North cut the eulogy short in a
word to his secretary.
81 go east. special, at 'twelve-ten.
Eckstein, as Mr.. Marlborough has
probably told you. have luncheon
appointment at twelve with MI. Ford.
Meet him when he comes, and make
my excuses-without telling him any
thing he ought not to know. If you
| can take my place as his host, do SO;
but in any event, keep him from find
ing out where we have gone until we
are we'll on the way. That. all"
This was why Ford, wal.~s.ng the
few blocks from his hotel at noon 10
keep his engagement with North,
found the general managers private
office closed, and a suave, soft-spoken
! young man with a foreign cast, of
countenance waiting to make his
superior's excuses.
"Mr North was called out of town
! quite unexpectedly on wire,' was
the private secretary,s explanation
He tried to telephone you at this
Brown. but the operator couldn't find
you. He left ME to explain, and I've
been wondering if you'd let me take
his place as your host, Mr.. Ford"
Now Ford's attitude toward his OPP
ponents was, BY reason OF his gifts
openly belligerent; wherefore he
fought against it and tried to be as
other men are.
Il am sure Mr.. North is quite ex
cusable, and 1t is good-natured i'll you
4 TO stand in the breach, Mr.. Eckstein."
he said. "Of course. I'll be glad to GO
with you
They went to Tortoni's, and to q
private room: and the luncheon was
an eqicurean triumph. Eckstein talk.
ed well, and was eidently a young
man of parts, Not until the cigars
were lighted did he suffer the table
talk to come down to the railroad
probabilities; and even then he mere
ly followed Ford's lead
(To be continued).
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-28
WEST POINT.

West Point-Joseph Polerd. cashier
Of the FIT. Madison bank, DR.. Newton
and Will Atle all of FIT. Madison were
out in this vicinity hunting Sunday
in Mr.. Atles auto. While they were
hunting it rained and the roads were
too muddy to return to Fort Madison
that evening so they stayed at this
place all night and went home on the
freight Monday.
Miss Ester Link eIlterta ined good
number OF her little friends at her
home in this city in honor, of her
eleventh birthday. Refreshments were
served at, eight o'clock.
Miss Pearl Tompkins., was a Sunday
visitor at her home in Denmark.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Shroader OF
1T. Madison were Sunday visitors in
| this city.
| Thanksgiving services will be held
at the Catholic church on that day.
! Nuptial high mass will be held at nine
o'clock with a sermon BY Rev Jacob.
| Joseph Hienstine was visitor at
Fort Madison Friday and Saturday last
week. =
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Brink and
Mrs. Joseph Rienstine and son Charles
We're st. Paul visitors Sunday
| Miss Elizabeth and Anna Cakrnan
entertained a number or their friends
| Sunday evening. The evening was
| spent in playing games and refresh
! nents Were served at 10 p. m.
Robert Gardner and Isadore Link
We're visitors at Fort Madison last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pogge, ST.. cell
ebrated their golden wedding sunday.
A married mans conscience doesn't
worry him much until his wife begins
TO sit UP and take notice.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-28
Copyright loosely Francis Lynde.

By FRANCIS LYNDE

should say no, and confirm it with
a crossword"
1t was a week after the successful
placing Of 4 the Western Extension
building-fund bonds with the Dutch
syndicate, and Ford, having ordered
things to his liking on the newly
opened Chicago line, had taken the
long step westward to Denver to
begin the forging Of the third link in
the great railway chain.
Frisbie, now first assistant engineer
in charge Of construction, had come
down from Saints Rest for confer
ence with his chief. and the place of
conferrings was quiet corner in one
Of the balconies overlooking the vast
rotunda of the Brown Palace Hotel;
this because the carpenters were
still busy in the suite of rooms set
apart for the offices of the assistant
to the president in the Pacific South
western headquarters downtown.
You mean that the time is too
short?" said Ford, speaking TO FRS
bie's objection.
''Too short at both ends,' contend
ed the little man with the devilish
| mustaches and chin beard. "The
Copah mining district is one hundred
and twenty miles as the crow flies,
from the summit of Plug Pass-say
one hundred anu forty by the line of
our survey down the PaEnikin, through
the canyon and up to the town. Civ
ing you full credit for more getting
ready than l supposed any man could
compass in the three weeks you've
been at it, l still think it is impos
sible for. us to reach Copah this sea
son."
You must change your belief
Dick" was the curt reioinder. This
is to be campaign, not only of pos
sibilities, but of things done. We &C
into Copah with the steel gangs before
snow flies"
Il know; that's what you've been
saying all along. But you're looking
at the thing by and large. and In,
figuring on the flinty details. For ex
ample: you'll admit that we CAM
work to any advantage west of the
mountains until we have made q
standard gauge out of the Plug
Mountain branch How much time
have you been allowing for that?"
mo time at all for the delay: about
three weeks. maybe, for the actua
changing Of the gauge" said Foro
coolly.
"All right laughed Frisbie. "Only
you'll show us how 1t doesn't lie il
the back of my head--or in Crapsey's
unless he's better man than hired
him for
'.Who is Crapsey?"
HE is Purdue man that I picked
lup and started out on the branch tt
make figures on the change of gauge
The other three parties, under Major
Benson, Jack Benson and Roy Brissac
are setting the grade stakes down the
Pannikin, and Leckhard is wrestling
with the construction material you've
been dumping in upon us at Saint:
Rest. That left me short, and l hired
Crapsey."
Good. II he is capable, he may d.
the broadening. Call him in and Sc
| him at it."
"But man! Don't you want The
figures first?"
MY dear Dick! I've had thos'
figures for two years, and there's
nothing very complicated about tina
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CHAPTER x-continued.

'Where are you going?" asked Ford.
Back to McVeigh and Mackie's-
where I can watch ticker and go
broke buying more Pacific Southwest.
ern," was the reply, and just then the
chauffeur found his opening and the big.
car whirled and plunged into the
downtown stream.
In the financial news the next
morning there was a half-colunn or
more devoted to the sudden and I'M
accountable furry in Pacific South
western. Ford got it in the Pittsburg
papers and read it while the picked
I'D stenographer was wrestling with
his notes. After the drop in the stock,
caused, in the estimation of the writ
er, by the company's sudden plunge
into railroad buying at wholesale, +.
S-W had recovered with a bound, adj
vancing rapidly in the closing hours
of the day from the lower thirties TO
forty-two, with a strong demand. The
utmost secrecy was maintained, but
it was shrewdly that one of the great
companies, of which the Pacific South
western was now a competitor on an
equal footing for the grain-carrying
trade, had gone in to absorb the new
factor in trans-Missouri traffic. Other
and more sensational developments
might be expected If the battle should
be fought to a finish. Then followed
brief history Of the Pacific South
western. with somewhat garbled ac-
count of the late dash for Chicago
terminal, but lacking-as Ford re-
marked gratefully-any hint Of the
eompanys designs in the farther
west.
.Tf Adair and Brewster and the
others only have the nerve to keep it
up!'' said Ford to himself. Then he
tossed the paper aside and dived once
more into the deep sea of extension
building, working the picked-up stem
ographer until the young man was
ready with his resignation the moment
the final letter was filed for mailing in
the Chicago station.
Five days the young engineer walt
ed for news from New York--waited
and worked like high-pressure mo-
tor while he waited. Each days finan-
cial news showed the continued and
growing success of the homemade
"corner,' and now the reporters were
predicting that the stock would go to
par before the price should break.
Ford trembled for the good faith of
his hackers on the board. When one
has bought at twenty-nine and a half
and can sell within the week for
eighty-seven, the temptation is some
thing tremendous. But at the closing
hour Of the fifth day the demand was
still good and when Ford reached the
hotel that night there was telegram
from Adair awaiting him.
He tore it open and read it, with the
blood pounding through his veins and
a roar which was not of the street
traffic drumming in his ears.
P. S-W. closed at ninety-two today,
and q Dutch syndicate will take the
tsonds. Success to you in the western
wilderness. Brewster wants tn know
how soon you'll reach his Utah cop
per mines, Adalr
CHAPTER XII
"I,m no cold-water thrower, Ford. as
you know. But If / were contractor
/ and you were trying to get me 70 com
7--sf myself TO any such steepiSchas-
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A married mans conscience doesn' I
worry him much until his wife begins
to sit UP and take notice.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-09
THE NAVY

1 approve the recommendations Of the gen.
eral board for the increase Of the navy, call
ing especial attention to the need of addi-
tional destroyers and Golfers, and above all,
Of the four battleships
It is desirable to complete as soon as posi-
bic a squadron Of eight battleships Of the
best existing type. The North Dakota, Della
ware Florida and Utah will form the first
division Of this squadron. The four vessels
proposed will form the second division. 1t
will be an Improvement on the first, the ships
being OF the heavy, single caliber, all big gun
type. All the vessels should have the same
tactical qualities, that is, speed and turning
circle. and as near possible these tactical
qualities should be the same as is in the four
vessels before named now being built.
I most earnestly recommend that the general
board be by law turned into a general staff.
There is literally no excuse whatever for con-
tinuing the present bureau organization of the
navy. The navy should be treated as a purely
military organization, and everything should
be subordinated to the one object of securing
military efficiency. Such military efficiency
can only be guaranteed in time OF war If
there is the most thorough previous prepara-
ton in time of peace-a preparation, 1 may
add. which will in all probability prevent any
need OF war. The secretary must be supreme,
and he should have as his official advisers a
body Of line officers who should themselves
have the power to pass upon and coordinate
all the work and all the proposals Of the sew
eral bureaus. system OF promotion by
merit, either by selection or by exclusion or
by both processes should be introduced 1t
Is out OF the question, If the present prin-
ciple of promotion by seniority IS kept.
TO expect to get the best results from the
higher officers. Our men come too old and
stay for too short a time, in the high COM
mand positions.
Two hospital ships should be provided. The
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-09
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nervous debility, lack of vigor, weakened
manhood, failing memory and lame back
brought on by excesses unnaoturRl drains
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a. I have determined to send copy of the
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This prescription comes from a physician
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am convinced 1t is the surest acting com
binatfon for the cure of deficient manhood
and viRor-faiure ever put together.
i think / owe II to my fellow man to send
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Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-09
NEGRO SLAYER DIES;
CASE REMARKABLE
After Lingering for Nearly an Entire
Day, Murderer of Two of His
Race Succumbs to
Wound

After lying almost twenty hours with his
skull shattered and a gaping wound over
his right eye Franklin Maywither, the
negro who shot and Killed Dora Vaughn, an
octoroon variety actress, and Edward Dean
a negro barber, at the home of the woman
at $40 South Los Angeles street. Monday
afternoon and later shot himself died at
the receiving hospital at noon yesterday.
His was one of the most remarkable cases
the police surgeons have had for some time,
Despite his wounds Maywither was con-
scious almost up to the time he died
Early yesterday morning when the police
nurse went to secure more hot water bags
to place about the patient his pulse was
barely noticeable When the nurse returned
the negro was sitting on the edge OF the
bed.
The startled nurse asked Maywither what
he was doing and the latter replied he was
thirsty and was going to get some water:
He was placed in bed again and secured
with leg irons. l..
shortly before he died he was asked II
he wished to live and he replied in an even
tone that he did
The body was removed to the Porter ana
Roberts morgue, where the body OF Dean
was taken Monday night. The body or the
woman Is at the Pierce Brothers morgue.
The coroner will sign certificates OF murder
and suicide.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-09
THE ARMY

As regards the army I call attention to the
fact that while our junior officers and enlisted
men stand very high, the present system Of
promotion by seniority results in bringing
into the higher grades many men of mediocre
capacity who have but a short time TO serve
No man should regard it as his vested right
to rise to the highest rank in the army any
more than in any other profession. 1t Is
curious and by no means creditable fact that
there should be so often failure on the part
of the public and its representatives to under
stand the great need, from the standpoint
of the service and the nation, of refusing
TO promote respectable, elderly ineompetents
The higher places should be given to the
most deserving men without regard to seniority,
at least seniority should be treated as only
one consideration. In the stress of modern
industrial competition no business firm could
succeed if those responsible for its management
were chosen simply on the ground that they
were the Oldest people in its employment yet
this is the course advocated as regards the
army and required by law for all grades ex-
cent those of general officer. As a matter
OF fact, all of the best officers in the highest
ranks of the army are those who have at
tanned their present position wholly or il part
by a process of selection.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-09

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Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-09

actual experience of the hospital ship with
the fleet in the Pacific has shown the IN
valuable work which such ship does ana
has also proved that it is well 10 nave II
kent under the command of a medical officer
AS was to be expected, all of the anticipa-
tons of trouble from such command nave
proved completely baseess. 1t Is as ABSURD
to put a hospital ship under nne oIhcer as
ii would be to put a hospital on shore under
such a command. This ought TO have been
realized before, and there is no excuse tor
failure to realize it now.
Nothing better for the navy from every
standpoint has ever occurred than the cruise
of the battle feet around the world. The
improvement of the ships in every way mas
been extraordinary, and they nave gained
far more experience in battle tactics than
they would have gained If they had stayed in
the Atlantic waters The American people
have cause for profound qualification, both
in view of the excellent condition of the heet
as shown by this cruise, and in view OF the
improvement the cruise has worked in this
already high condition. I do not believe that
there is any other service in the world IN
which the average Of character and efficiency
in the enlisted men is as high as is now
the case in our town. believe that the same
statement be made as to our othcers'
taken a whole; but there must be reser-
walton made in regard to those in the highest
ranks-as to which 1 have already spoken
and in regard to those who have just entered
the service; because we do not now get fun
benefit from our excellent naval school at
ANNAPOLIS. 1t is absurd not to graduate the
midshipmen as ensigns; to keep them for two
years in such an anomalous position as at
present the law requires is detrimental TO
them and to the service. In the academy
itself every first classman should be re-
uuired in turn to serve petty officer and
officer; his ability to discharge his duties
as such should be e prerequisite to his going
into the line. and his success in commanding
should largely determine his standing at
graduation. The board of visitors should be
appointed in January, and each member should
be required to give at least six days service,
only from one to three days to be performed
during June week, which is the least desirable
time for the board to be at Annapolis so
far as benehting the navy by their observa-
tons Is concerned.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
The White House, Tuesday, December 8, 1908
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-09
NATIONAL GUARD

Now that the organized militia, the National
guard has been incorporated with the army
as a part Of the national forces, it behooves
the government to do every reasonable thing
in it's power to perfect its efficiency. 1t should
be assisted in its instruction and otherwise
aided more literally than heretofore The
continuous services of many well trained reg
ular officers will be essential in this connec-
ton. Such officers must be specially trained
at service schools to qualify them as In
structors Of the National guard But the
detailing of officers for training at the service
schools and for duty with the National guard
entails detaching them from their regiments
which are already greatly depleted by de-
tachment of officers for assignment to duties
prescribed by acts of the congress.
bill is now pending before the congress
creating a number of extra ofheers IN the
army, which If passed, as II ought 10 De-
will enable more officers to be trained as IN
structors Of National guard and assigned TO
that duty. In case of war 1t VIII De OF the
utmost Importance to have large number
of trained officers TO use for turning raw
levies into good troops.
There should be legislation 10 provide
complete plan for organizing the great BODY
of volunteers behind the regular army ana
National guard when war has come. Con-
gressional assistance should be given those
who are endeavoring to promote rife practice
so that our men, in the services or out of
them. may know how to the rifle. While
teams representing the United States won the
rife and revolver championships of the world
against all corners in England this year, it
is unfortunately true that the great body Of
our citizens shoot less and less as time goes
on To meet this we should encourage rifle
practice among schoolboys, and indeed among
all classes. as well as in the military services,
by every means in our power Thus, and not
otherwise. may we be able to assist in pre-
serving the peace of the world. Fit to hold
our own against the strong nations Of the
earth, our voice for peace will carry to the
ends OF the earth. Unprepared. and therefore
unfit, we must sit dumb and helpless to de-
fend ourselves, protect others, or preserve
peace The first step-in the direction of prep
aration to avert war If possible, and to be
fit for war if it should eome-is to teach our
men to shoot
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-09
CHARACTERISTIC
MESSAGE IS SENT
BY ROOSEVELT


and the postponement will merely give ampler
opportunity for America to be represented at
the exposition. Not since the first international
exposition has there been one Of greater i'm
portance than this will be- marking as 1t does
the fiftieth anniversary of the ascension to the
throne Of the emperor of Japan. The extra
ordinary leap to a foremost place among the
nations of the world made by japan during
this half century is something unparalleled In
all previous history. This exposition VIII htly
commemorate and signalize the giant progress
that has been achieved. 1t is the first exposi-
ton OF its kind that has ever been held In
Asia The United States, because of the
ancient friendship between the two peoples,
because each of us fronts on the Pacific, and
because of the growing commercial relations
between this country and Asia, takes pc
culiar interest in seeing the exposition made a
success in every way.
take this opportunity publicly to state my
appreciation of the way in which in Japan,
in Australia. in New Zealand and in all
the states of South America, the battle feet
has been received its practice voyage
around the world. The American government
cannot too strongly express its appreciation
of the Astounding and generous hospitality
shown our ships in every port they visited.