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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-09
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At New Havel-Now Haven :. Bridge
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-09
BASEBALL NOTES.

Fire early Tuesday morning de
stroyed tho grandstand and part of
the bleachers of the Scranton Baseball
AsSo, tton at Scranton, Pa.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-09
new ENGLAND.
NEW ENG. LEAGUE STANDING.
AT LAWRENCE.

Lawrence 80 90 l 1 ! Kill
Worcester ......0 00o-2-2
Batteries-Gilroy and Duggan: Heverenz
and Mcclure, Fuller. Time, Las. Umpire
Lanigan.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-09

The State of Guanajuato, Mexico. .,. an
produced silver worth $510.0O0,OOo MeA"'7
during the last $50 years.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-09
Good Races
AT Waldo Fair

Belfast. Me. Sept S-CSpeciaD "A good
crowd saw two trotting races at the Wal
do County fair today. Queen IneZ and
Lady Ruth both driven by Dewitt. were
the winners. The summaries:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-09

An Indian stream, the river kis.""n
500 feet wide. has the longest span
telegraph wire in the world. -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-09

Professional running high jump
Won by w. F. Marsh, r. B. Fraser,
second. Height it., in. Prizes IS
and SO.
Tug Of war-Won by Excelsior
Company from Damon Company. U.
R.. X of F., in one minute. Prize,
silver cup.
Five-mile motor cycle race-Won by
j. r. Mason Wilfrcd Caron. second.
Time. ?.47. Prizes SIS and $40.
Obstacle race-Won by f. j. Aver.
Dannie Mahoney second. Prizes,
dress suit case and hat.
Sack race-Won by Samuel Willis,
E. ]. Aver, second Prizes, So and 81.
Bicycle race-Won by f.. j. Aver, G.
E. Preston second. Time. 307R.
Officials: Starter. George T. Railey;
judges, James Scott, Ray Pomeroy, M
J. Cook; clerk. Carl Pomcroy; as
sistant clerk and announcer, George
Sullivan timers, George Drake and
Henry A. Wing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-09
Cattle.

1t is in the cattle department that
the pride of the fair is to be found.
F. A. Dolloff of Mount Vernon has
nine head of shorthorns. Hopkins
Bros of Fort Fairfield have large
exhibit of shorthorns. c. p. Hamlln
of East Wilton makes Il specially of
the Devon breed.
Fine Jersey stock is displayed by w.
c. Whitman of Turner Center. r. d.
Coombs, Bowdonham, exhibits some
excellent specimens of the Sussex
breed The following are among the
other principal exhibitors: S. W. Mel
son. Rowduinham, Sussex; G. A. Bon
ney. East Sumner Holstein; l.. II.
Maxim, Rowdoinham, Devons and
brown Swiss. l.. S. Cooling of Mon
mouth. Gucrnseye; .. II. Ross. Green.
GuernSeys. headed bv the BULL Mil
W GODS Mr.. Clnker: Meadow Brook
Guernsey Farm. John +. Buker. Bow
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-09
SOMERSET.
ST. BANS.

Word has been received that POST
master p. F.. Emery. who is at the ho,
Eital at Bangor for appendicitis. y
gaining from the effects of the ope'
alton. Mrs. Emery is with him. ,
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Metcat ",
GreenviIlc. We're here Thursday anu
Friday calling on friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Seedlings OF SHOW.
hogan were Wednesday and Thnrsa"
visiting relatives.
Mrs. Minta Soule who is at the ''V'
pital at Bangor is improving slowly ;.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. A. Maxim. 2lso W.,
son. George Pratt Maxim and "lle "
WaterviIle are expected in town wen
nesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-09
SMlTHFIELD.

Mrs. Annie johnson and daush,,'
Ruby returned to their home In MAUI
son Wednesday after a short ''''
with relatives and friends. -,
A large number from here atteho''
the fair at Watervill0"
Mr.. and Mrs. Barmore left Hiiisa,
camps Wednesday. They Will VIZ
the White Mountains for a few ua, s
and then return to their home IN ~"
York.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-08
OvERCROwH FORTUNES.
Made Possible by Improper Use of
Modern Corporations.

The huge wealth that has been ac-
cumulated by few individuals of re-
cent years, in what has amounted to a
social and industrial revolution, has
been as regards some of these indi-
viduals made possible only by the i'm
proper use of the modern corporation.
A certain type of modern corporation,
with its officers and agents, its many
issues Of securities and it's constant
consolidation with allied undertake
ings. finally becomes an instrument so
complex as to contain a greater num-
Der of elements that under various
judicial decisions lend themselves to
fraud ard oppression than any device
vet evolved in the human brain. Cor
porations are necessary instruments
of modern business They have been
permitted to become menace largely
because the governmental representa-
tives of the people have worked slowly
In providing for adequate control over
them,
The chief offender In any given case
may be an executive, a legislature or a
Judge. Every executive head who adj
vises violent instead of gradual action
or who advocates Ill considered and
sweeping measures of reform, es-
pecially If they are tainted with vim
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-08

a aau 10 above nullify the legislative
enoil 10 protect the wageworl,ers who
-,osl heeu protection from those ON.
pioyers who take advantage of their
grinding need. They halt or hammer
lhe movement for securing better and
more equitable conditions of labor
Ane eaik about preserving to the mis-.
cry hunted beings who make contracts
ior such service their liberty" 70
make them is either to sneak In a
spirit OF Eeartless irony or else to
snow an utter lack of knowledge Of
tne conditions of life among the great
masses of our fellow countrvmen n
lack which units Judge to do good
service Just as it would unfit apy ex.
ecutive or legislative officer.
Ihere Is also, ] think. ground for the
pellef that substantial injustice is
orten suffered by employees in conse-
quence OF the custom of courts issu-
ing temporary injunctions without no.
tice TO them and Furnishing them for
contempt of court in instances where.
as matter of fact, they have no
knowledge of any proceedings. Out.
side of organized labor there is a wide.
spread feeling that this system often
works great injustice to wageworkery
when their efforts to better their work
ing condition result in Industrial dis.
putes. temporary injunction pro.
cured ex parte may, as a matter of
fact, have all the effect of a perma-
nent injunction IN causing disaster to
the waGeworkcrs' side III such a dis.
pute. Organized labor is cEafing un.
der the unjust restraint which comes
from repeated resort to this plan of
procedure Its discomfort has been un.
wisely expressed and often improper.
ly expressed, but there is a sound
basis for it, and the orderly and law
abiding people of community would
be in far stronger position for I'D.
holding the courts If the undoubtedly
existing abuses could be provided
against
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-08
PAGE FIVE

the barren mountains IL which GER
tain OF these rivers mountains,
DE remembered, which formerly
| supported dense forests of larches
ana frs. now unable to produce any
wood and because of their condition
source OF danger to the whole coun-
! Try. The photographs also show the
same rivers after they have passed
through the mountains, the beds hay-
ing become broad and sandy because
OF the deforestation of the mountains.
One of the photographs shows a cara
van passing through valley. For
merry, when the mountains were for
ested. it was thickly peopled by pros
porous peasants. Now the floods have
carried destruction all over the land
and the valley is stony desert. An
other photograph shows mountain
rond covered with the stones and
rocks that are brought down in the
rainy season from the mountains
which have already been deforested
by human hands. Another shows
pebbly river bed In southern Man
NhOiC Nhdt was OuGe great
stream has dried up owing to the de-
forestation in the mountains Only
some scrub wood is left, which will
disappear within half century. Yet
another shows the effect of one Of the
washouts, destroying an arabic noun
tain side. these washouts being due to
the removal of all vegetation, yet in
this photograph the foreground shows
that reforestation Is still a possibility
In places.
What has thus happened in northern
China, what has happened in central
ASIA In Palestine, in north Africa,
in parts of the Mediterranean coun-
tries of Europe, will surely happen in
our country IL we do not exercise that
wise forethought which should be one
Of the chief marks of any people call
Ing itself civilized. Nothing should be
permitted TO stand in the way of the
preservation Of the forests, and 1t is
criminal to permit individuals to pur-
chase a little gain for themselves
through the destruction of forests
when this destruction is fatal to the
well being Of the whole country in-the
future.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-08
PROTECT THE FORESTS.
Their Peril Eelittled by shortsight.
ed, Greedy Public Foes.

If there is any one duty which more
than another we owe ii to our children
and our childrens children to perform
at once it is TO save the forests OF
this country for they constitute the
first and most important element in
the conservation of the natural re-
sources of the country, There are, Of
course. two kinds of natural resources.
One Is the Kind which can only be
used as part Of process of exhaus-
ton. This is true of mines. natural
oil and gas wells and the like. The
other. and of course ultimately by far
the most important, includes the re-
sources which can be improved in the
process of wise use The soil. the riv-
ers and the forests come under this
head. ANY really civilized nation will
so use all of these three great national
assets that the nation will have tkcir
benefit IN the future Just as farm
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-08

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The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-10-03

that midnight closing on week days has more to do
with this than Sunday slosing.
AS for the Sunday saloon, the critic would evil
IDENTIFY combat it with Sunday baseball rather than
with unlimited closing laws:
Now in combating the saloon want to register
my sincere conviction that there is nothing that will
take saloon bunch away from the saloon except
baseball The masses are crazy over baseball. They
better than the saloon. On Sundays, all through
summer, when baseball games are running, the
saloons emptied. And the men are not only not
drinking, they also saving money and sitting
out in the open air. l believe Sunday baseball is
the strongest enemy the saloon has got among
saloon habitues. The churches fight Sunday amuse-
mentS, and particularly earnest against Sunday
baseball and confess that baseball makes lot of
noise. Nevertheless, baseball is a perfectly Clean
decent, innocent amusement and | solemny register
my belief that among drinking workingmen it is
the saloons only competitor
Perhaps in the larger industrial centers where
factory operatives have other day their disposal
for attending baseball games without loss of pay
Sunday ball games might be permitted with whole
some results. To say much this, however is
to be most disagreeaby reminded of how far away
we getting from the older times, when people
rest from the weeks abors in quiet Sunday But
while the industry and life of the present day are far
nolser and more distracting yet closer confinement
is imposed upon the average wage-worker than was
the case IN the day of the orthodox Sabbath, and
this cannot be forgotten in dealing either with the
liquor or the Sunday problem.
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-10-03
The End of the Scimitar.

This issue closes the Scimtar 1t has been pub
lished once week for the past year, lacking three
numbers. | hope it has done good and sown seeds
which will bear abundant fruit in the future
It's aim has been for the moral uplift of the
people everywhere. This immediate section of the
great Rocky mountain country, Utah. Wyoming and
Idaho is controlled by the Mormon organization
politically To my mind this polygamous and law
defying order is the greatest to our mmedi-
ate civilization The Sci1nitar has endeavored to
arouse the people to combat its pernicious and cor
ruptng power.
l am compelled to give tip the paper. My views
remain the same, l plead guilty to one charge,
often made against me, that l am poor man. Were
it otherwise-coud l afford to do SOL should con-
tnue to publish the Scimitar.
The supreme court has rendered decision which
makes it impossible for to support either of the
state tickets | am not able financially to print my
individual views each week. and inasmuch l
am not in accord with the views of any state party
this is an appropriate time for the Scimtar to
pend l hope the paper has been pleasure and
benefit to its readers l. myself, deeply grateful
for the many kind expressions and for the assistance
which has to the paper.
Fred T. Dubois
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-10-03
Two Years Ago.

The democratic candidate for governor carried
IL out of the 81 counties in the state two years
ago.
The Mormon issue the only issue in the cam
paign, the democratic party standing firmly against
Mormon domination. The democratic candidate car
ried every Gentle county excepting three and lost
those three by small Alexander is running as
democrat on a Mormon ticket
The contrast be easily made when this cam
pagn is over Alexander will not carry more than
two counties in the state, and the chances are he
will not carry single county.
The managers for the Mormons understand this
perfectly.
If Alexander does not he will be wiser The re-
suit of the vote will demonstrate clearly the strength
of the anti Mormon movement.
1t may be that the decision of the supreme court
is a blessing in disguise, and that the people will
demand that they be allowed free expression in
two years They may demand that the issue be sub
mitted to them squarey so they may determine
whether the Mormons or American citizens shall
govern and control Idaho.
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-10-03
Bonner County Downed.

Every democrat in Bonner county understood the
ISSUE They sent solid delegation to Wallace,
headed by S. P Donnelly, the national committee
man. who voted against allowing Mormons to sit
as delegates They knew these Mormons had not
supported the platform candidates of the party
in the two previous campaigns. There was not
dissenting democrat in all of Bonner county. The
primaries called by the proper committee and
very largely attended and the vote was unanimous
There contest from Bonner county. The pri-
maries held Saturday The primary law
says they should be held on Monday. The supreme
court decided that this deprived the Bonner
county delegates of right to participate in the
ganization of the convention The democrats of
Bonner, although of one mind and notwithstanding
their unqestioned democracy, dsbarred, be-
they had not literally complied with the re-
quirements Of the primary law.
The Mormons of Oneida Fremont and Bear Lake
counties, although not democrats nor supporters of
democracy allowed to participate by the decis
ion of the court because by the ruling they had
complied with the forms of the primary law We
presume the Mormons pleased with the judgment
of the court. We imagine the democrats of Bonner
will be surprised, to say the least.
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-10-03
THE IDAHO SCIMITAR.

stance? The owners of that cluster of wells, who
produce the oil and must market it go to bank
ruptcy; the land owners, who want their royalties
the laborers, who want employment; the ocal mar
chants, whose trade depends on production and sale
of numerous small producers?
We would all like to see this company take out
a domestic charter attorney general brought
suit to prevent it laying the additional lateral line
until it should domesticate The oil pipe company
said: "All right stop us Mr. Attorney General If
you wish we can wait"
But our interested citizens above mentioned ap-
pealed to me in their distress saw that our people
the only sufferers and that we could not
pei the oil pipe line to domesticate and | stopped
the and for this reason Mr.. President you say
have been corrupted to aid the oil pipe company.
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-10-03
Saloons and Sunday Closing.

Springfield (Mass.) Republican: Some one writes
for the Independent what he knows about Saloons
and his knowledge of the subject is evidently based
upon what he refers to as erich and variegated ex-
perience,' extending from New York to Denver he
naturally prefers to keep his name to himself What
especially mpresses him is the "hard, unfeeling list
less type of men, who keep Saloons which he at
tributes the fact that the saloonkeeper sees worse
human nature and of it than any other class
of tradesmen and is made to feel that EVERY mans
hand is against him, that he is despsed and looked
down upon and that hardens him"
Some of this writer's observations are of interest
for their bearing upon the matter of regulating or
suppressing the liquor traffic Of the Sunday-cosing
movement in New Jersey he learned this from
factory operative at Orange:
One of these hatters said to me the other day:
This Sunday closing law is turning from beer
drinker into whisky drinker" He went on to
explain that because it easy to carry home
or two quart bottles of whisky Saturday night
he taking that instead of beer Before Sun
day closing" said he g my kids never saw me take
a drink They've drunk twice Sunday
since He also said that the law turning houses
into saloons. A number of men put together and or
der cases of beer sent to one house. Then they go
there to drink and play cards on Sunday The
since the present regime began. | know personally
of two saoonkeepers who have given up their bust
ness and gone into the botting business delivering
at the houses; and there are others.
Still it is admitted that there must be great deal
less drinking there result of the Sunday closing
of saloons, for there is not a saloonkeeper in
Orange who wears smiling face" But it is added
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-10-03
Haskell to Roosevelt.

Governor Charles N. Haskell, passing through
Kansas City his way from Chicago to Guthrie,
gave to the Associated Press letter addressed to
President Roosevelt defending Haskells attitude to-
ward the Prairie Oil and Gas company and assailing
the president for granting before statehood fran
chise in Indian territory for Standard Oil pipe line
at the request of Senator Chauncey Depew
, "You knew" writes Haskell that Senator Depew
was the greatest Standard Oil agent in the senate"
Governor Haskelrs letter says
'In regard to the Prairie Oil and Gas company
oil pipe line franchise in Oklahoma, | said that the
secretary of the interior granted this franchise before
statehood; that federal courts would prevent
states interference and that we are compelled to
treat it find the grant, and that hence prop
ery dismissed the suit brought by our attorney
general without my approval
Ex-Secretary Hitchcock says he did not grant any
franchise Secretary Garfield says he did, but that
the states power is not in any way limited to con-
troll it and that | am clubbing
: The press reports this morning say that Hitchcock
in hearing that companys application for franchise
in the year 1904 (three years before statehood),
hesitated about granting it, whereupon Senator
Depew and others went Htchcocks head to
you Mr. President and got an order to the secretary
to make the grant
The Prairie Oil and Gas company was Kansas
corporation and under that franchise at once built
its main line from Kansas down about 100 miles into
Indian territory that state of Oklahoma and
began and still continues operation.
Right was also included to lay lateral lines to as
semble oil from wells into main line, three such
aterals being laid to the nearby cluster of wells now
in question Thus statehood found this foreign cor
poration with its vested rights under the interior de-
partment grant embracing interstate property
Mr. President, ignore your grant and tear
up that line under state authority? You know
can't Will domestic corporation come in
with that interstate line existing and parallel it to
the same wells? Certainly not no more than new
state railroad would build parallel with existing
interstate road to carry amount of grain pro-
1ucton not ample for BOTH
Who wants an additional lateral line in this in
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-10-03
Bryan and Idaho.

The chances for VIM. ]. Bryan carrying Idaho
have been strengthened by the fight between the
Mormon faction and the regular democrats All
the regular democrats and all the Mormon faction
will support the Bryan electoral ticket. Mr. Bryan
will receive the votes of all the democrats
A certain portion of the Mormons will be "set
apart" to vote for him The hierarchy at Salt
Lake must issue orders that the Mormons cast some
votes for him. The situation for Bryan is as good
as it could be-
Many republicans will vote for Bryan because
the national republican party is in league with the
Mormons. Other republicans will vote for him for
various reasons. n
Unless the situation is disturbed by some I'm
fortunate and unexpected happening Bryan has
show to win the electoral vote of Idaho
The Scimitar has now been issued for nearly
year Many subscribers have not paid 1t is earn
estly requested that every subscriber who reads
this and who is in will Immediately send
in his subscription
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-09-09
500 Reward. 500.

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situation.
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-09-09
NO DOUBT ABOUT IDAHO.

Idaho will be for Taft. The state
that has on two other occasions cast
its electoral vote for the peerless
Bryan Is now strongly fortified in
the Republican camp and will swell
the vote in the electoral college for
William H. Taft. The state h.
always been largely Republican, pa
in the days OF fusion and confusion
free silver and free soup the juds
ment of the people veered from
true North. and the state was give
over to the Democrats and the +
ulists. The return Of prosperity
however, cleared up the political a,
snosphere and the citizens OF flah
have taken their bearings anc n
vote in the November election WI
show that they have the RICH: reel
pning.