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The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28
THE ISTHMUS
COMMISSION
REPORTS GRATIFYING PROGRESS
IN DIGGING THE BIG
CANAL.
PRESIDENT is PLEASED
SENDS LETTER OF coNGRATULA.
TION TO EACH MEMBER OF
THE COMMISSION.

Oyster Bay.-President Roosevelt
has made public report submitted to
him August 9th by special commis-
sion consisting of James Bronson Key
nolds. Samuel 2. nonnelly and Henry
Beach Needham regarding conditions
in Panama, The commission was ap-
pointed April 25th last.
That the President is pleased with
the report Is shown in letter which
he sent to each member of the COM
mission Friday. He will submit the re-
port to Congress with appropriate rec
concentrations.
The commission reports that 1t IN
spected the entire line of the canal eX.
cavation from La Boca, the southern
or Pacific terminus, to Cristobal, the
northern or Caribbean terminus, and
travelled through the excavation sew
eral times, interviewing the men at
work"
Indicating the scope of the inspec-
ton, the commission reports that II
visited the government workshops,
construction plants, warehouses. ship
yards, dredges, commissary stores,
living quarters Chat is, hotels, messes,
kitchens. camps), schools, club houses,
courts, police stations. and the conVa-
lescent home at faboga."
President Roosevelts letter to the
investigators says:
Il doubt If there is any piece OF
work undertaken on behalf of the
American people of recent years of
which the American Ieople have more
reason to be proud than of the work
hitherto done on the Panama canal.
The success has literally been as
founding. Five years ago, when we
undertook the task. no sane man would
have dared to hope for the results
which have already been achieved.
The work itself has been advanced
more xpeditiously than we had ven
tured to think. and the rapidity of the
rate of progress has steadily increased.
Meanwhile the treatment of hygien-
ic conditions on the isthmus has been
such as to make it literally the model
for all work of the kind in tropical
countries. Five years ago the lsthmus
of Panama was by-word for unhealth-
mess of the most deadly kind. AT
present the canal zone is one of the
healthiest places on the globe. and the
work which is being prosecuted with
such tremendous energy is being pros
ecuted under conditions so favorable
to the health and well-being of the
workers that the mortality among them
is abnormaliy small.
Finally in addition to the extreme
efficiency of the work under Colonel
Goethals and his assistants and the eX-
traordinary hygienic success achieved
under Dr. Gorgas, there is the further
and exceedingly gratifying fact that
on the isthmus the United States gov
ernment has been able to show itself
a model employer. There are matters
to correct, of course. as your trip
showed. but on the other hand it is true
that the United States is looking after
;he welfare. health and comfort of
those working for it as no other gov
ernment has ever done in work of like
character"
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28
Favor Denver or St. Paul.

Racine, Wis.-The Wisconsin delega-
ton. United Spanish War Veterans,
will leave Chicago Sunday afternoon,
August Both, for Boston to attend the
fifth annual encampment Of the organi-
eaton. St. Paul, Denver, Tacoma, Ok
lahoma City and Richmond. Va, are
after the 1903 convention, and Wiscon-
sin delegates will endeavor to have the
encampment held at st. Paul or Den
yer. because of the great expense they
are put to in going to Atlantic or Pa
cific coast cities. An effort will be
made to unite all the western delegates
on these two cities.
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28
Insurance Convention Closes.

Denver.-With the election of offic-
ers and the selection OF Cincinnati as
the meeting place in 1909, the members
of the American Life convention Fri
day brought to an official close the
most successful and most important
sessions that they have ever held
Samuel Smith, general counsel of the
Volunteer Life Insurance Company Of
Chattanooga, Tenn. and prominent
attorney of that city, was elected pres
ident to succeed b. II. Robson, and
T. w. Blackburn of the Bankers Re
serve of Nebraska. was reelected sec
retary. Thomas DAILY was chosen as the
Colorado vice president.
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28
RelaIum to Annex Congo State.

Brussels,-The chamber of deputies
has adopted the Congo annexation
treaty bv eighty-three votes to fifty
five. The annexation of the Congo
state to Belgium is now practically as.
sured, as the senate is ready to in
dorse the bill. The personal rule of
King Leopold in Africa is now drawing
to a close-in the future he will have
nothing 10 do with the state which is
to be administered by Belgium-and
it is hoped that maladministration in
this part of the world will now come to
an end
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28
COURT TO RULE
ON COMMITTEE
A TEMPO RARY INJUNCTION
AGAINST REPUBLICAN STATE
CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
is SECURED BY PARKS
LEGAL POINTS IN DENVER CON-
TRovERsY TO BE ARGUED
BEFORE JUDGE sHATTucK.

Denver.-A temporary restraining Or
der directed to the Burger committee
of seven to the officers and mem
bers of the Republican state CEN
tral committee and all parties
in interest, was issued Friday
prevent the appointment of the pro-
posed new Republican county commit
tee and to keep that committee from
usurping the functions of the present
Republican city and county committee,
of which Fred W. Parks is chairman.
And Friday, Chairman Fred W.
Parks of the Republican city and coun-
ty committee issued an official call for
that committee to meet on Monday,
August oath, to take steps to hold the
ErimarieJ and county convention which
will elect delegates to the state con
vention and nominate a full county
ticket for Denver. Mr.. Parks as chair
man of the Legislative committee also
removed Fred H. Chaffin, secretary of
that committee composed of counties
floated with Denver in the election of
senators and representatives, and ap-
pointed William b. Pfouts in his stead
The restraining order was issued by
Judge Hubert l.. Shattuck on COM
plant of Mr.. Parks. who through his
attorney, H. j. Hersey, takes issue with
the Republican state committee in de-
posing him and his full committee with
out hearing and without charges
having been filed, contrary, he alleges,
to the rules of the party and the stat
utes. A hearing will be given August
2Cth on the application to make the
temporary order permanent.
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28
Favor kansas-coIorado Railroad.

Canon City.-Pres. S. II. Atwater
of the Kansas Colorado Power & Rail-
road Company, who with other officials
has just completed tour in the inter-
ests of the enterprise through eastern
Colorado and western Kansas, has the
following to say regarding the enthusi-
asm with which the proposition is be-
ing received and the possibilities of the
enterprise:
IL have received SO many assurances
from the people in the lower part of the
Arkansas valley that it seems almost
impossible for, anything but the most
favorable outcome to our efforts. |
have been told many wonderful stories
about western Kansas. but when saw
it with my own eyes it was beyond
anything l had ever imagined. The
people everywhere received us most
heartily and were greatly interested
in our enterpris."
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28
GENERAL NEWS.

The Republican primaries in the
state of Washington resulted in a small
majority for James Wickersham as
candidate for the United States Senate.
Crown Prince Frederick William
made his first balloon ascension at Ber-
lin Friday and maneuvered for short
time in military dirigible machine Of
the seml-rigid system
Eugene W. Chafin, Prohibition can
didate for the presidency, was fern
mally notified of his nomination and
delivered his speech of acceptance at
Chicago on the 18th inst.
The Methodist Episcopal church has
begun an active crusade for the cleo
tion of a speaker of the national House
of REPRESENTATIVES who will allow
Congress to vote the interstate liquor
shipment bill"
Nearly $16.000,00O, it is estimated.
are involved in two contracts that have
just been signed in New York, one pro-
viding Havana with a proper sewer
system, and the other for extensive
paving of the city.
The Cunard liner Lusitania reached
New York on the goth inst, after a rec
ord-breaking voyage, having made the
transatlantic passage in just four days
and fifteen hours. The best previous
record. made by her Nov. Sth last. was
four days. eighteen hours ana forty
minutes her new performance lowering
the previous mark by three hours and
forty minutes.
The London morning newspapers
have given great prominence to re-
ports OF the American fleets recep-
tion in Australia. Editorially they ex-
press the fullest satisfaction at the
warmth and brilliance of the welcome
accorded the visitors.
The Georgia supreme court has af-
firmed a decision of the superior court
which means that the courts of Georgia
will enjoin the picketing by strikers of
tie premises of employers with the
view of coercing or intimidat!ng per-
sons from entering or remaining at
work.
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28

On the l4th inst Miss Annie 8.
Peck of Providence, X. l.. sisnaled to
Lima. Peru. her arrival at an altitude
of $4,000 feet on Mount Huascaran, the
summit of which is covered with per-
petual snow. She was accompanied by
two trained Alpine climbers.
The Wright aeroplane made a sue
cessful flight at Lemans, France,
Thursday. making seven complete
tours of the fie,I and remaining in the
air about nine minutes. Unfortunately
it was somewhat injured In landing, so
as to require several days for repairs.
A gun seller named Ferreri and his
assistant, who sold the carbine to
Manuel Buissa with which Buissa
killed King Carlos in February of this
year, have been unexpectedly arrested
at Lisbon and placed in solitary con-
finement.
A new high explosive, of 4 power
beyond anything hitherto used in the
German army, was tested at Munich
Wednesday. Three shells, exploded
by electricity, tore Krupp armor
plates to pieces. The explosive is the
invention of Fritz Cehre.
The Cunard turbine steamer Lusi
tania has again lowered the one-day
record having travelled $50 knots In
the twenty-four hours from noon Sun
day August 10th to noon Monday Au-
gust 18th. The previous record run.
CAB knots, was made by the Lusitania
July Gtn.
Boston and eastern Massachusetts
is undergoing n "crime wave" Half
a dozen murder mysteries are still un-
solved by the police. The undeniable
wave of crime is credited to the fact
that many foreigners are out of work
and are attempting to adopt the meth
DDS of European banditti.
Emperor William has given $4,000
to the robert Koch foundation for re-
sisting the spread of tuberculosis.
This donation completes the 100000
that Andrew Carnegie stipulated
should be subscribed before his gift
of like amount. made last winter,
should become available.
The Modern Woodmen of America
having lost heavily by its plan of ap-
portioning its funds among various
banks. several of which made disas-
trous failures. has ordered that here
after all the surplus benefit funds shall
be invested in first-class bonds. This
is expected to furnish increased security
ana secure a nlSner rate OF Interest
The available funds now average about
4,0vJ 600.
AS manner of showing their appre-
citation of the support which they re-
ceived from other labor unions during
their strike for an eight-hour day the
International Typographical Union at
Boston recently voted to spend $1,000
in entertainment of the delegates TO
the convention of the American Fed
Grafton in Denver this fall. Part of the
money will be used in trips around the
state.
Ten of the fourteen men charged
with participating In the attack made
upon the county Jail at Norfolk, West
Virginia, by mob that sought to
lynch the negroes Heu.y Smith and
Brack King. charged with criminal as
sault on aged Mrs. Powell, have been
each fined $1OD and costs. with sixty
days in Jail. Appeals were granted.
The Atlantic fleet in perfect con-
dition, reached Sydney, New South
Wales. on Wednesday. the 18th inst,
and was welcomed by gathering OF
100, 900 people.
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28
Five Millions in Gold.

Denver.-Five million dollars in gold
tullion was moved through the streets
of Denver Saturday and not person
who saw ii passing guessed that any
thing but ordinary express packages
were in the five express wagons that
carried 1t from the Union depot to the
United States mint The bullion came
from San Francisco, ard is the largest
shipment OF bullion received in Denver
at one time. 1t came over the Santa Fe
route in charge of the WellsFargo Ex-
press Company, guarded by six armed
messengers and a representative of the
Treasury Department.
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28
Glenwood Springs has voted bonds

Genwood Springs has voted bonds
for u public school gymnasium.
A two-year-old black bear was cap
tured eight miles from Trinidad few
days ago by two Mexicans, who sold
it to Trinidad butcher.
Lake San Cristobal in Hinsdale
county is to be the center of one of
the finest pleasure and health resorts
in Colorado. Incorporation papers were
taken out Monday by prominent busi-
ness men of Lake City, who will spend
100000 on preliminary plans for the
resort. Hotels, cottages and various
amusement places will be built around
the lake. The company is incorporated
under the name of the San Cristobal
Health & Pleasure Company.
Ten thousand souvenir books adver
tising Colorado's advantages for health
seekers will be distributed at the Ma.
tional tuberculosis congress at Wash
ington. DIR. Charles Denison of Den
Yer, DR.. William Beggs and other au-
thorities on the white plague will COM
pile the books. each contributing an
article.
number of capitalists. including C.
C. Parks of Glenwood Springs are in
Hunter Mesa, near Rifle. which. if car
ried through, will furnish sufficient
water to irrigate between 5000 and
5000 acres.
The Canon City Chamber of Com
merco will send number of framed
scenic views of Canon City. including
the Royal Gorge, Sky Line Drive. Tenn
pie Canon and horticultural scenes to
the international tuberculosis con.
gress which will be held in Wash
ington, ID. c., next month.
State Engineer Jaycox left Denver
Tuesday. the 18th. for Grand Junction.
via Montrose and Delta, to meet the
county surveyors of Mesa and Delta
counties and see that the work of re.
surveying the county line which di.
vides the two counties is well started.
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28
Will Marry in the Heavens.

Pueblo, Colo.-A novel feature will
be given spectators at the State Fair
Pueblo Day. when Miss Ada Reni, an
aeronaut. will be married while 1000
feet in the air to Walter II. Williams
of St. Louis, according to letter re-
ce;ved by Secretary A. G. Watson, of
the State Fair Association.
The letter came from Charles Bre-
nard, who will have charge of the bal
loon races during the fair.
1t stated that Miss Reni, to whom
Williams has been engaged for two
years. had promised to marry him in
Pueblo if he would consent to have the
ceremony performed in balloon. Ac-
cording to her suggestion. Immediately
after the ceremony, they will drop in
separate parachutes and she is to re-
main on terra firma for the balance
of her life.
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28
LYDIA E. PINKHAM

Nature and woman's work COM
bined have produced the grandest
remedy for woman's ills that the
world has ever known.
In the good old-fashioned days OF
our grandmothers they relied upon
the roots and herbs of the tleld to
cure disease and mitigate suffering.
The Indians on our Western
Plains to-day can produce roots and
herbs for every ailment, and cure
diseases that battle the most skilled
physicians who have spent years In
the study of drugs.
From the roots and herbs of the
field Lydia E. Pinkham more than
thirty years ago gave to the women
of the world a remedy for their Pc
crlliar ills, more potent and effica-
cious than any combination ofdrugs.
Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound is now recognized as the
standard remedy for woman's ills.
Mrs. Bertha Muff, of 515 NC. ST.,
Louisiana, Mo-, writes:
"Complete restoration to health
means SO much to me that for the sake
of other suffering women am willing
to make my troubles public.
"For twelve years l had been suffer-
ing with the worst forms of female ills.
During that time had eleven different
physicians without help. No tongue
can tell what suffered, and at times
could hardly walk. About two years
ago wrote Mrs. Pinkham for advice.
followed it, and can truly say that
Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and Mrs. Pinlshams advice re-
stored health and strength. 1t is
worth mountains Of gold to suffering
women"
What Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound did for Mrs. Mutf,
it will do for other suffering women.
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28
Scores Standard Oil Decision.

Denver-General Herbert S. Hadley
of Missouri in his presidents address
to the National Association of Attor-
neys General Friday said: "The
Judge who cannot see the Standard
Oil Company of New Jersey in the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana and
who cannot see through both of these
legal factions to the real owners and
real offenders. John ID. Rockefeller, H.
H. Rogers, John d. Archibald and
others is either blinded by prejudice
or of an unfortunate disposition to OBJ
scure the merits of a controversy by
strained and irrevelant technicalities. /"
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28
India's Savings Banks.

The postal savings bank of India
was established in 1882, in which year
the depositors numbered 39,121 and
the deposits amounted to s932,24S. In
1907 the depositors numbered 1,190,-
220 and the deposits amounted to $49,-
223.2S3. which, perhaps, should not be
considered large in country having
a population of some 30O.000,000. but
the average Indian farmer. mechanic.
servant or laborer never deposits
money in bank. but hides it away
in pot or box in the ground.-NeW
York World.
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28
Order Slot Machines DESTROYED.

Denver.-At Littleton Wednesday
District Judge Ashbaugh rendered a
decision in the slot machine cases
seized at Petersburg Aug. 9th, order.
ing their destruction by the sheriff
Judge Ashbaugh decided that the mon
ey should be taken from the machines
and the machines destroyed. Attorney
Hilton was granted fifteen days to
take the case to the Supreme Court
The ten machines ordered DESTROYED
are valued at about 5000 each The
machines occupy cell in the county
Jail, where they will probably remain
until time for the bonfire.
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28
St. Louis Auditorium.

st. Louis.-The cornerstone of the
Coliseum being erected at the south
west corner of Washington and Jeffer-
son avenues, was laid Saturday. The
structure is to be completed by the
middle of October and will be one of
the most spacious public buildings in
the United States. 1t will be three
stories in height and in architecture
will follow the Italian Renaissance
The auditorium will have seating
capacity of $4,000. which may be iii
creased on occasion to 20.000
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28

Shearing is practically over in the
state and growers predict that Wyon-
ing Will produce at least $4,000 900
pounds OF wool this year. The average
weight of fleece will be close to eight
pounds. This clip will be somewhat
in excess of that of last year. which
was 33637,0O0 pounds The growers
last year received s7,s11,77S for their
wool, but owing to the general reduc.
'ion In prices this year the value of
the clip will not aggregate much more
than S6,25G,0O
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28
hemspapers of the World.

There are 1880 newspapers pub.
lished in the United States; about
1000 of them are published daily and
12O are managed, edited and pub.
lished by negroes. In Asia there are
5000 periodical publications, of which
the greater part appear in British In
din and Japan; the latter country pub
fishes 1,500 newspapers. Africa has
only 200 newspapers, of which 80 are
published in Egypt and the rest ap-
pear in the various European colonies.
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28

1t looks as though the potato bug.
like the elm tree beetle. the cotton
boil weevil and the wicked flea. which
have on their backs lesser critters to
bite 'en, is going to get his. Farmers
In Maine. which is big potato state,
are rejoicing over the alleged dis
covery of parasite which is eXter-
minating the potato bug. That in
sect has been for many years one of
the scourges of the country. infest-
Ing every region where tubers are
raised II the parasite proves to be
all that is claimed the days of the po-
tato bug are numbered.
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28

Another proof of the growing i'm
portance of interior waterways. Traf-
dc on the Missouri river has so in
creased that larger steamboats, and
more OF them are demanded to meet
requirements. The Missouri is mighty
stream, 5000 miles long. though the
tOrtuous course and uncertain depth.
with fuctuating currents. make navi-
cation difficult and dangerous. Never
theless there are long stretches where
boats of considerable draft can be EN-
ployed, and with water transportation
for large portion Of the products of a
big region the gain would be great
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28

A Chicago professor predicts that
English will be among the dead Ian
guages In the year 1000. However
when 1t is considered that the Ian
Euage has been pretty well used and
abused without showing the wear
most persons are sanguine enough to
hope that 1t will live a little longer.
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28

One want begets another. The
harvest is uncommonly big this year.
and the demand for agricultural imple
ments is on corresponding scale. In
some quarters the announcement is
that all records have been broken
Such activity means busy times and
lots of work in the manufactures oi
mowers and reapers and other up-to
date machinery for farmers.
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28

The Pan-American idea continues to
ind favor. The president has ap-
pointed nine delegates to the Pan
American scientific congress-. to be
held in Santiago, Chile, in December.
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28

The English papers have combined
to boycott the word suffragette. They
discovered that its use was no assur
ance that a circulation solicitor
wouldn't get painful of dishwateI
where he had been counting on kind.
Iy welcome
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28

Tests of reinforced concrete barges
and pontoons have been conducted by
the Italian government since 1897. and
the results have been SO gratifying
that several more of the strange con
atructious have been ordered
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28

Who denies that the world is grow
ing better? asks the Omaha Bee A
man has been sentenced to seven
years in prison at Goldfield. New, for
selling fake mining stock. Life is 60
ing to lose some of its attractiyeness
in the west il 1t is made crime to
fleece a tenderfoot by the mining
stock game.
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28

John Ruslsin proposed old-age pen
sions more than SO years ago. In his
lectures at Manchester in 1857 on
-The Political Economy Of Art he
pleaded for pensions to soldiers of
the plowshare as well as soldiers Of
the sword"
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28

A co-educational college in Ohio is
reported to have been responsible for
10000 weddings during Its career of so
years This looks as IL the co-educa-
tional system is not as bad as some
persons say 1t is.
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28
VODKA" bottles in Russia carry

Vodka" bottles in Russia carry the
imperial eagle on the labels-the
vodka" trade is government mo-
nopoly-but a commission of the
Duma, appointed to consider the drink
evil, has lately recommended that the
eagle be removed from the label. and
a skull and crossbones be put in its
place, with appropriate warnings
against the use OF the poison.
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28

Japan's new prime minister says
his one aim will be to preserve the
worlds peace, but thus far he has not
ordered the Japanese navy to sink
ITSELF
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28

Wu Ting-Fang has eight ancient
rules which assure person that he
ean live for 200 years. The rules must
be the limit of unbearableness. or
somebody would have tested them by
this time
The Springfield herald., 1908-08-28

Mr.. and Mrs. John d. Rockefeller,
Jr.. have a second son. The outlook
for that youngster is brighter than 1t
is for the second son of the king OF
Spain