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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-11-30
OHIO SENATOR :.
N0T|f|0RAKER |
Charles P. Taft Y viii Get the
Hamilton County Delega-
tion Vote

Columbus. Ohio. Nov. S0-Rapid
progress was made today in the solu-
tion of the problem who is to fill,
after March 4. 1909, the Ohio seat in
the United States senate now occu-
pied by Foraker.
Republican State Chairman Henry
A. Williar +ulned from Cincinnati
today vi Information that the
Hamilton. Republican delega-
tion in 1. ,:ature will vote for
Charles T.. -. for senator.
Governor Harris announced that he
will call special session of the leg
islature to elect q United States SEN
ator to meet on Monday, January T..
1t was decided that the Republican
Legislative caucus to decide on can
didate for senator will be held on Sat
urday evening. January 2.
Most important Of these develop.
ments is the announcement that the
thirteen votes of Hamilton county in
the caucus will be cast for Charles p.
Taft. This seems tosmake Foraker's
case hopeless.
The friends of Foraker here and
through the state have been comfort
ing, themselves with the idea that
Boss George B. Cox would instruct his
minions on the Hamilton county dele
cation to give Foraker the support Of
his own county. They suffered keen
disappointment today on learning
that, on the contrary, Foraker does
notleyent get part II the delegation,
but 1t all goes to TafE Without the
delegation from his home county an
Ohio candidate usually finds it use-
less to prolong contest. Especially
is this true of a Cincinnatian.
There Is added Significance in the
fact that this particular senatorship
has been regarded for years as a. Gin
cinnati asset. True, there was a hi
atus after Henry B. Payne defeated
George III. Pendleton, which continued
until Foraker. landed In the senate,
but that was only the exception to
prove the rule. +
Taft, with the Hamilton county
delegation solidly supporting him. is
CUuSlUereu 10 De IN praCL1Cally I'M.
pregnable position. So far as candi-
dates other than the two Cincinnati-
ans are concerned they are not taken
seriously here. Congressman Theo.
dore E. Burton is supposed to be maxi
ing play for position in the fight for
the Dick successorship from northern
Ohio two years hence. Many doubt
whether his judgment in mixing up in
this fight Is az good as that of form
er Governor Myron T. Herrick, who
will be formidable opponent of Dick
when the time arrives, but consider
ed 1t good politics to keep out of this
contest.
Governor Harris belated entry in
to the race is supposed to have been
q tactical play by Foraker to keep
some country members he cannot get
from going Into the Taft ranks.
1t is freely predicted today that
Charles P. Taft will be without Re-
publican opposition for United States
senator when the legislature con-
venes on January 2.
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GRUEsoME WORK
One Hundred and Ten Bodies Have
Been Recovered.

Pittsburg, Nov. 3O.-At o'clock
today 110 bodies had been recovered
from the Mariona mine. More than
sixty have been identified. John H.
Jones, president of the Pittsburg-Buf-
falo company, said that all the
corpses found thus far would be
hoisted from the shaft before night.
The list of victims, he declares, will
not exceed his first estimate OF 100.
A number of bodies are buried under
the fallen workings and will not be
recovered for several days, others
have been blown to fragments and
are being picked up piecemeal.
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WOODRUFF QUITS !
!: SENATORIAL RACE
Election of Elihu Root to Sue
ceed Platt Now Practically
T.. Conceded

Hot Springs, Va, Nov. 30-Timothy
L. Woodruff, chairman of the New
York Republican state committee, to-
day eliminated himself from the SEN
atorial race in favor of Secretary of
State Elihu Root.
This action was taken after a pro-
tracted conference with President
elect Taft and was followed by state
ments by both Messrs. Taft and
Woodruff. Aside from these state.
ments each of which comedies the
election of Mr.. Root to succeed Sen
ator Platt on January 10 next, no de-
tails Of the conference were mado
known.
Mr.. Taft said:
II can only say that I am very
much pleased at the attitude that
Governor Woodruff has taken. He
has been moved by an earnest de-
sire to promote party harmony and
has established his claim to the graft
tude of the Republicans OF New York
and also of the country at large for
making 1t as certain as possible that
such statesman as Mr.. Root will bo
chosen to represent the state of New
York in the senate.
II am personally very much pleas
ed, now that have had to give up my
purpose to continue Mr.. Root in the
cabinet that shall have tho support
and assistance which he will render
to the administration with his great
ability and his knowledge Of govern
mental affairs. I am sure from what
know that the action of Mr.. Wool
ruff and the election of Mr.. Root will
conduce to great harmony among the
Republicans in New York and will
strengthen the party"
Mr.. WOodruff's statement follows:
II have refrained from all public
discussion of the United States SEN
atorship and have made no statement
as to what my course concerning It
would be, both because of the views
I hold as frequently expressed at tho
time of the last national and state
the state committee TO further the
candidacy of anyone person against
another, and also because have been
awaiting, as l have stated to the
press, the disposition of all matters
left over from the congressional COM
mittee, including the preparation and
filing Of our financial statement be-
fore giving this matter my serious
consideration. AS soon as this work
was cleared up came to Hot Springs
at the request Of the president-elect
here. / have learned from him that
az It is now definitely determined that
he cannot retain Secretary Roots
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services In the cabinet, he Is very
desirous, but without interfering in
the matter that his administration
shall have the benefit in the senate of
the exceptionally valuable assistance
which Mr.. Root can render by reason
of his intimate knowledge of all the
important matters with which the
government"has been concerned both
at home and abroad during the Nc
Ktnley and Roosevelt administrations.
"All will doubtless agree with me
that every right minded supporter and
we'll wisher of Judge Taft should sub
ordinate any personally ambition to
whatever may seem to be essential to
the complete success of the new ad-
ministration, to which the American
people are looking forward with the
highest expectations.
Furthermore, the unamious sup
port of Secretary Root by the state
organization would unquestionable in
sure harmonious party action by the
state officers and the federal authori-
ties, and an impartial consideration of
the claims of all of the local organi-
cations in the state unbiased by such
factional antagonisms as contest,
for the senatorship would surely pro-
woke.
I'm addition to these considera-
tions it is of the greatest Importance
in the greater city of New York that
perfect harmony should prevail in the
ranks of the Republican party. es-
pecially among the Republican coun-
ty organizations of the which are
now arrayed against one another on
the senatorship in order to insure the
defeat of Tammany hall in the NUM-
cipal election of next fall, thereby Sc
curing an administration that will put
an end to the extravaganza and in
efficiency in the government of the
city which is now reproach to every
person living in the first municipality
OF the land.
"For these reasons I am not and
will not be candidate for senator,
although profoundly appreciating the
unamity and earnest manner which
have been appealed to by the or
ganizations and members Of the leg
islature from my home county of
Kings to become candidate and the
cordial offers of support which have
come to me from every section and al
most every county of the state"
An Ambassador.
New York, Nov. 30-With the an
nouncement from Hot Springs of the
withdrawal of Timothy L. Woodruff,
Republican state chairman of New
York, from the senatorial race in this
state in favor of Elihu Root, friends
Of Woodruff here suggest that he will
receive some other substantial re.
ward for his services in the campaign.
1t is hinted that he would not be
averse to being made an ambassador,
and Vienna was suggested as the post.
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MURDERED BY
H|GHWAYMEN
John B. Gedney Was Thrown
From Bridge After Being
Robbed

st. Paul, Nov. 30.-The body of John
B. .Gedney, brother of NJ. A. Gedney,
Charles E. Gedney and Isadore W..
Gedney, proprietors Of the NJ. A. Ged-
ney Picking company of St. Paul. was
found under the bridge of the Mime
apolis and ST. Louis railroad. at Sec
ond street and Fourth avenue South
Minneapolis. yesterday with his skull
fractured. 1t is supposed that he had
been robbed and thrown over the
bridge by highwaymen or that he ac-
cidentally fell from the bridge. Ged-
ney. while interested In the picking
plant IN st. Paul, was resident Of
Onalaska, Wis. where he had a wife
and three children.
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BURGLAR CAUGHT
Had Escaped Police Search for Nine,
Months

New York, Nov. 30-A search. Of
nearly nine months for the perpetra.
tor of daring burglary in San Fran
cisco is believed to have been ended
here today with the arrest Of man
who the police say is G. B. Staucliffe.
hotel, San Francisco, is charged with
having broken into the room Of the
proprietress Of the hotel, Mrs. L. A.
Palmer, there beating her into I'M
sensibility with revolver and after
ward making his escape with 81 500
in cash and jewelry worth $1,000.
The police say Stancliffe confessed
and signified his willingness to waivs
extradition and return at once 70 Cali
fornia.
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COST OF CENSUS
VIII Take Nearly Thirteen Million
Dollars Next Time.

Washington, Nov. 30.-The cost Of
taking the next census as estimated
by Director North, in his annual re-
port just issued will be $12,930, 900.
The director points with pride to
the fact that this sum is but $410,U00
more than the cost of the. census of
1900, and says that this will be ac-
complished In spite of the enormous
growth in the population during the
last decade.
The increase he said heretofore
from decade to decade has been about
so per cent.
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the Kansas agricultural college for
some time, and got other education
than that received on the farm"
Young Judges Arc Judged.
The students were not allowed to
talk to one another or to compare
notes, as they are to be marked on
their reports as II It. were examina-
tion papers they were turning in. Ex-
pert Judges on the various classes
Of animals shown the students were
at work with them and the boys judg-
ment as shown on their report cards
and In an oral recitation to Prof.
Shepperd will be compared with that
of the judges. The youths will then
=. marked on percentage basis.
tas sslSS IS sssdsnt asflae pss'ns Ing
student" said Ring. Manager Tom
Bell.
The amateur agriculturists had eigh-
teen minutes for each class. The
result Of their cogitations on the bo-
vine, ovine' and porcine specimens put
up for their inspection will be an
nounced some time tomorrow.
Just Like Old Farmers.
They went at It like old farmers.
They felt the animals fetlocks as
though they were taking their tenn
perature and examined minutely the
thickness and grade of the sleeps
wool, the horses teeth and legs, the
long silky hair Of the prize cattle and
the coarser bristles of the porker
They watched the horses as they were
put through their PAGES, first at q
walk, then at trot, then at q canter
and then at gallop And when they
were satisfied that nothing had es-
capped them they stepped gravely back
and wrote something in their note
books.
On cards which they handed in
when through with each class, to
Prof. Shepperd, they wrote down the
final result Of their Inspection or
q 2 or 8 or q 4. according to the
class to which they believed the ami
NAL belonged.
List of Colleges IN Competition.
The colleges represented were Kan
sas state agricultural college at Man.
haitian Kas.; Minnesota agricultural
college of st. Anthony's Park, Mimi;
Iowa agricultural college Of Ames,
Iowa; university of Nebraska, Lin
coin, Neb.; Texas agricultural college,
OF College Station, Tex; Missouri ag-
ricultural college of Columbia, Mo; !;
Ohio state university, Columbus, o.,
and Ontario agricultural college Of
Guelph, Ont. William Lanxon Of
North Dakota agricultural college
was present to assist his professor,
Mr.. Shepperd.
Some Animals,
Steers weighing $500 pounds each
and horses which have paraded be-
fore King Edward were some Of the
arrivals at the stock yards today,
One of the latest animals ct the show
Is bull weighing $500 pounds.
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FORMULATING
THEIR REPORT
Conservation of Natural Re.
sources Is Beginning to As
sumo Tangible Form

Washington, Nov. 80-Tomorrov
the national conservation commission
will meet in this city in closed ses.
sion to begin the formulation Of its
report to President Roosevelt on the
state Of the country's natural re.
sources. This report is due on Jan.
uary 1. 1t will embody the results
of six months of the most concen.
trated research work that was evel
undertaken and will be the basis up.
on, which the president will prepare
q special message to congress, rec.
ommending legislation to meet the
situation which the commissioner
Investigations have shown to exist
The commission will go over the
statistics and reports that have been
compiled during the six months since
It began it's word and draw up a ten
tative outline of its report, which Il
will submit to the joint conference
with the governors of the states and
other Representatives Of the states
and national organizations which II
has called for next week beginning
December to assist 1t with advice
and suggestions as to the form and
substance Of its report. After tho
opinions of the joint conference have
been heard, the commission will get
to work at once on the final formula
tion Of the report.
All the material and information
necessary for, the report including the
drst inventory of any country's ma
tural resources that was ever made, II
in hand now. This material makesda a
typewriter pile that would make a
respectable library, but the work wal
SO systematically planned and exc.
cuted that any. part Of the informa-
ton is instantly available and an
epitome Of 1t all is ready for the
commission.
The secretaries Of the four sections
of the national conservation commis-
sion who have had charge Of the In
vestigations of the respective divi-
sions Of natural resources. waters,
forests, lands and minerals. will each
present summary Of the results Of
the work that has been done In their
departments and the experts who
have carried on the actual work OF
Investigation will. be-. on hand ia
answer questions with regard to spe-
cial features. $.ss. |
With this knowledge N hand the
commission will take up the formnla-
tion Of It's report. The tfirst steps Ia
this work will be done BY the sec
tions. and the chairmenj Of the sec
lions Will present the portion Of the
report which his section has had In
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hand to the joint conference. These
chairmen are Representative Burton of
Ohio. Of the section Of waters; SEN
ator Reed smoot Of Utah, Of the Sec
tion of forests; Senator Knute Nell
son of Minnesota, OF the section Of
lands; Representative John Dalzell
of Pennsylvania, Of the section of
minerals. .
This will be the: nFst full session
Of the national conservation commits
sion since Its organisation and .prac-
ttcally every member will be present.
James ]. Hill and John Mitchell havo
written that they expect to attend.
Andrew Carnegie can not get to
Washington in time for the opening,
but will come later.
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Had Papers Which Incrimin.
ated Men High Up in Pub
lie Life
EDMAMDEO TWO HUNDRED
TH0usAAc DOLLARS FOR SECRET
Victims Refused to Pay Price and
Plans We're Arranged to Have the
House Burglarized and Woman's
Obnoxious Husband Killed.

Paris, Nov 30.-The Libre Parole,
an anti-Semetic journal, is still keep
ing up the cry that President Felix
Faure, who died in this city in 1899,
was the victim of a political murder
because he intended to refuse the re-
quest for re-trial of the Dreyfus
case. 1t claims now that Adolph
SteinfNel, who was found dead in his
residence in Paris last May, was mur-
dered with the connivance of his wife
and the political police. The object
of the crime was to obtain possession
of certain letters written by M.
Faure, which the paper alleges COM
promise men now active in public
life. Continuing, Libre Parole says
that Steinheil was fully conversant
with his wife's manner of life and
that he had possession of papers for
which he demanded 100000. Thia
sum was by those implicated consi-
dered exorbitant and consequently an
arrangement was perfected with
Madam Steinheil to burglarize the
house, she to take advantage of the
occasion to rid herself of her hus-
band. The paper gives the name of
detective who, it alleges, directed the
operation, and 1t declares that the
namesof: the actual assassin had been
disclosed by Mariette Wolfe, who was
a cook in the service of Madame
Steinheil. No documents, however,
were found as Steinheil had confided
them to the keeping of friend. The
whole house was ransacked, only to
md that the papers had been removed
to Switzerland.
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AN ASSASSINATION
Man Killed While Attending Q Public
Gathering,

Charleston, s. c., Nov. 30-An as
sassination, still Surrounded in mys-
terry, took place at Barnwell, this
state little after 10 o'clock last
night when Perry Usserry was shot
in the back of the head with a load
of buckshot and slugs while standing
talking to friend just on the edge
of the grounds Of carnival. Usserry
was instantly killed. Marvin Hol-
land, to whom he was talking was
slightly wounded. The shot was fired
from out OF the darkness. Immeli-
ately after the shooting a man whose
identity is not yet known, was seen
running toward nearby swamp with
gun in his hand. Bloodhounds from
the state psnitentiary followed tbs
trial through the swamp. losing it in
the road on the other side.
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LARRABEE QUITS
Assistant Commissioner Of Indian
Affairs Resigned. ~

Washington. Nov. so.-Major chas.
F. Larrabee. assistant commissioner
Of Indian affairs and for twenty-eight
years connected with the Indian serv-
ice, has resigned to take effect No.
vember 80. Major Larrabee denied
reports that there was friction be.
tween Secretary of the Interior Gar
field and said his resignation was due
to Ill health. Major Larrahee is a
native of Maine. j.
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FRANK v. MEAD
DIED YESTERDAY
Held Several Territorial Offices
in Dakota Edited The
Pioneer Press

st. Paul, Nov. 3O.-Frank w. Mead,
who came to st. Paul in 1857 as a
printer and editor on the Pioneer, aft
erward the Pioneer Press. and who
for several years lived in Dakota ter
ritory, holding various territorial Of
fices. died yesterday in the Swedish
hospital in Minneapolis, aged 7S.
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CARNEGIE GIFT
Upper lows University Cats $4,000
From Philanthropis.

\ Fayette. Iowa. Nov. 80. President
A. Shanklin Of upper Iowa university
today received q check from Andrew
Carnegie for 100000 in payment Of
Mr. Carnegie's pledge to give tha!
amount when 3150,O00 additional en-
dowment Of the university should
have been completed.
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SEVEN HUNDRED DROWN.

Cheefoo, China, Nov. 3O.-Two
japanese steamships collided off this
port today. The details of the acci-
dent are lacking, but it is reported
that total Of 700 persons have been
drowned,
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CATTLE BARRED
FROM CANADA
No United States Vessel With
Cattle Aboard Can Touch
Canadian Ports

Winnipeg, Nov. 30.-The Canadian
Pacific railway today refused to carry
American cattle through Canada for
export. No United States vessel with
cattle abroad is now allowed to touch
any Canadian port.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-29
THREE BOYS AND BOAT
WILL REPRESENT SEATTLE
How the Johnson Boys Designed and Unaided
Built the YawI Gwendoiyn II---A
Remarkable Type.

all the woodwork, to recaulk all seams,
to revarnish the, spars to replace the
wheel with a tiller, to install galvan-
lied iron water tanks and water tight
food lockers, to overhaul all the rig
ging, to apply an additional coat of
graphite paint to the underbOdy are
only few of the things that the crew
of the Gwendolvn have accomplished
in the last ten days. When the boat
leaves her moorings, she will be as near
marine perfection as it is possible to
attain.
1t was during the busiest time of one
of these busy DAYS that the writer
climbed over the rail and descending
the companionway came across Skipper
Lloyd johnson working in the tiny
galley.
I'VE commenced building this boat,
my younger brother and I'-the
speaker is but 24-''over year ago.
Three of US own her, Henry Henkey,
also of Seattle, my brother and myself
Every stick that went into her We
handled, following out our own de-
signs. Through an acquaintance, the
use of an old shed at Georgetown was
extended to rs, and there, in an impro-
vised pattern room we laid down her
lines on black paper. You know that
laying down the lines means to take
cross sections of the boat, both hori-
zontallv and vertically, at various
points and make patterns of them by
which to construct. The greater part
of the work was done nights and holi-
days-as both my brother and myself
work at the trade of steamship build
ing during the most of the year.
He paused moment to give some
TO one of the crew, who
appeared at the head of the comran-
ionway. 1.-The skipper has to know
the whereabouts of everything, from
gasket TO the key of the wheel" ne
with a smile.
In response TO the demand for full
details of the boat, he plunged into a
description. Of which. on account of
the numerous technicaHties, only a
portion is reproduced here.
1.-The Gwendolyn H. is a yawl. 10
feet over all, 80 feet on the water line.
with a beam Of 13 feet s inches. She
weighs Il tons and draws about feet
Of water AS you see. she has
two staterooms. each having two
hunks. three hunks in the main cabin,
and a 1ush-upholstered divan- She Is
throughout Of fir. with the
exception of the frames, which are OF
bent oak These frames are built TO
withstand the toughest sea and wealth
sr The planking is an inch and half
thick Three tons of lead are moulded /
into the keel, and laere are five tons
Of inside ballast. The engine, when
we put it in. viii be under the conn
panionway, but for this ocean race we
are going to depend entirely on sails"
II suppose you will take along some
storm saiIs?'' was asked.
mo, I believe not" was the reply. }