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, 1908-04-24
RESUMES REPORTS
OF THE WEATHER
SECTION DIRECTOR PALMER Is
SUES FIRST OF WEEKLY SUM-
MARES FOR THE STATE.
Week Was Unusually Warm, With a
Scarcity of Moisture, Greatest
Lack Being in Southeastern Part
Of State-Beneficiai Showers in
Western Portion Of State.

Cheyenne, Wyo., April 24.-W. s.
Palmer, section director of the Chey-
enne office of the Chronological SER
vice, has resumed the publication of
the general summary of the weekly
crop bulletin for the week ending on
the goth, the summary being as fol-
lows.
, 1908-04-24
Arrival American Fleet at San Fran

Special rate from Laramie and re-
turn via Union Pacific Railroad COM
pany. San Francisco, Cal, going and
returning same route, $50; Los An
geles, Cal, going and returning same
route, $50. Dates of sale, April 4th,
5th, 25th, 26th, 1908. Final return limit
sixty days from date of sale. Stopov,
ers en- route. ALVA B. CADY,
Agent.
, 1908-04-24
State CT Ohio, city of Toleao, Lucas

State CT Ohio, City Of TOLEDO, Lucas
County, IS.
Frank j. Cheney makes an OATH
that ne is senior partner of the firm 0!
f. j. Cheney & Co., doing business In
the City of Toledo. County and State
aforesaid. and that said firm will pay
the sun of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case of Ca
tarrh that cannot be cured by the use
Of Halls Catarrh Cure.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
Elm my presence, this 9th day of De-
cember, A. D. 1886.
A. W. GLEASON.
Seal.) Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken int.r-
f. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
nally. and acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces OF the system.
Send for testimonials free.
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
, 1908-04-24
Charged with Padding PayrolI..

Formal complaints we're fled in the
district court at Ogden Wednesday
charging Alma T. Storm and Edward
A. Rogers with forgery.
The two men are charged with pad
, 1908-04-24
BEAUTlFY
YOUR HOME
Wall Paper at
Wholesale Prices.

Have an exclusive stock of English,
French and German imported Papers.
No one else can show them. Paints,
Oils, varnish, Window GIass-in fact
everything needed in house painting.
No one can do your painting cheaper,
provided they use strictly pure South
ern Lead and Linseed Oil. viii dis
count any dealer in the city. When |
paper or paint it stays on.
, 1908-04-24

showers occurred, but over the central
and eastern counties, the rainfall was
so light as to be of practically no bene-
fit; some sections received no rainfall.
Greatest in Southeast.
There has been a marked deficiency
in precipitation over nearly all Sec
lions of the state since the first of jan
uary, but the deficiency is the greatest
over the southeastern counties, where,
over many sections. no beneficial pre-
c%ipitation has occurred since last De-
cember.
Local Conditions.
AT Laramie the week was warm and
dry. There were three cloudy days,
but the only rainfall was a trace on
the 18th. The highest temperature
was SO degrees on the 18th, and the
lowest was 20 degrees on the 18th
, 1908-04-24
Not Much Rain.

There was an abundance of sun.
shine, and a marked deficiency of pre-
.cipitation. Over the extreme western
part of the state, a few beneficial
, 1908-04-24
AGREED ON
THE TERMS
SATISFACTORY CONFERENCE BE-
TWEEN RAILROADS AND TRAIN
MEN ON THE NEW LAW.
Working Out of Sixteen-Hour Provi-
sion the Principal Problem, Salts
factory Solution Having Been Ar
rived At-Trainmen Fully Pro.
tected Under Ruling.

A. l.. Mohler, vice president and
general manager of the Union Pacific,
has returned from Chicago, where for
the last two weeks he has been attend
ing a conference between the general
managers of thirty of the leading west
ern railroads and the representatives
Of the employees of the roads, says the
Omaha Bee. The matter under discus
sion was the working out of the six
teen-hour law which went into effect
April l and provides that except in
cases of emergency railroads may not
keep their trainmen on the roa for n
longer period than sixteen hours at a
time.
Pay of The Men.
The principal point at issue between
the managers and the men was in re-
spect to the pay the men were to re-
ceive when forced to lay over between
terminals in compliance with the six
teen-hour law. The men maintained
that when a crew was forced to lay
over at an intermediate station to COM
ply with the law they should be al,
lowed a full day for that dav and a
full day for the next dav when the
short run was made into the terminal.
Paw for Extra Hours.
An agreement was reached where
bv the crews will receive actual hours
Or mileage when continuing the trip
the next Jav after having been tied IN
for the night in accordance with the
nrov;sions of the sixteen.bour law
some roads have n short rim cIarsa
and when the men make a short run
thev get credit for a full dav for the
RIM
Tvino n, If Crews
The agreement which was reached
ar the conference also provides that
crews will, NOT be tod I'm ,nder the
of the law until after thew
have been at work fourteen hours and
when II is annarent thew cannot make
the terminal in comnliance with fne
sixteen-bour law If tied I'M under four.
teen hours If is aqree,5 that the tie.
I'm will ba considered as incident IN
the sixteen.hour law
Som. of III. REPRESENTATIVES,
The renresentatives of the trainmen
~ ,;n, b ID Cow
, 1908-04-24

The RepublicanAis the only paper In
Laramie that prints all the news and
reaches all che people.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-22
NAY TRY THAW HERE
As to His sanity-necision as to Jury to
he Made on Saturday.

BE Made on Saturday.
WHITE PLAINS. Sept. 2L-Because Dis
trict Attorney jerome had not received
the legal papers from Lawyer Charles
Morschauser, representing Harry X. Thaw
In the application for q trial by jury
In Westminster county TO determine
whether Thaw Is insane or not, be asked
for an announcement when the matter
came before Justice Mills to-day, n the
Justice set the hearing down peremptory
for next Saturday morning for argument.
Il have received none Of the papers
in connection with the different ordere.'
said Mr.. jerome. -and I am not ready
to file my return. There will be q CUES
ton Of the exercise Of the judicial dis
erection and these facts should be set
forth in afldavits. There will be a mo-
ton for commissions to issue to England
and perhaps to Paris TO examine certain
witnesses unless Mr.. Morschauser Will
stipulate regarding their testimony. and
this will all take time. These witnesses
peoples ase
sfhe county Of New York has been
at great expense at the first and second
trials and during the various hearings,
and II a trial is granted in this matter
1t Is obvious that 1t will involve great time
and expense. II the county Of New York
10 to bear the expense, then l shall have
to make a motion to change h place
Of trial from Westminster county TO New
York. As the testimony will princi-
pally be by experts and the fees which
they will charge will be from $50 10 40
a day for the mere coming and going,
and that alone for three experts will
average about $3.50 a day just TO get their
attendance. not considering all the other
great expenses ,
Justice Mills remarked that he had
given considerable attention to the CUES.
ton Of q jury trial, and he considered
1t not a constitutional right, but simply
a question Of the judicial discretion Of
the Court.
Il am commanded by the statute
said Justice Mills, Ito continue this hear
ing %summarily, and I am very anxious
to dispose Of the whole matter as soon
as possible. This matter must be
disposed Of next Saturday morning,
when arguments will be heard on the
question Of a jury trial. 1t will not take
me long to decide the question
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-22
CONNERs CAN RUN CAMPAIGN,
Chairman OF Eric. County Committee
Gives Hin n Free Hand.

BUFFALO. Sept. 2l.-Edward E. Coates
worth, chairman of the Democratic gen.
eral committee Of Erie county, this after
noon made public a letter which he sent
last week TO Democratic State Chairman
Corners giving Corners the privilege Of
naming a campaign committee which
C~oatesworth had been authorized by the
general committee to name. Coates
worth's letter is In part as follows:
AS l am not an admirer Of your poiit-
ioal methods or in accord with your
political judgment, 1t Is but fair and just
to the Democracy OF this county that you
be given a free hand in the conduct of the
present campaign. Thereby accord you
the privilege OF naming the campaign
committee I was authorized to appoint.
at is needless for me to say that while
l am not in sympathy with the methods
employed by you in managing the affairs
Of the party / shall do my utmost In the
present campaign for the success OF each
and every candidate nominated On the
Democratic ticket
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-22
BIspHAM GETS CHILDREN.
Dramatic Scene in Court When They Are
Taken From Mother.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. n.-When Judge
Audenried in Quarter Sessions court
to-day ordered Leonie. the fourteen
year-old daughter. and David. the ten
year-old ION, OF Mr.. and Mrs. David
Bispham from the custody OF the mother
to the care Of their father a dramatic
scene ensued.
Mr.. Bispham broke into sobs. and when
the children. both ciinging to her in tears,
were led away many women in thep packed
court cried audibly.
The hearing. which because OF the
social and musical prominence OF the
principals packed the court. was the
elimination Of the act OF Mrs. Bispham,
who took the children from her husbands
BY a previous decree she was permitted
to have them four months each summer.
Ordered to produce them on September
is and declining to do 90. Judge Auden-
reid issued q rule on the mother to show
cause why she should not be adjudged In
contempt. Former Ambassador TO Italy
William w. Porter fled her answer.
Among other things it charged that the
husband. had declined to permit her to
see the children in 1905 and 1905, as agreed;
that the children had not been provided
for to their best interest:that she had been
denied the privilege Of seeing her son.
out q protracted illness. and that her al
lowance had dwindled from 5000 in 1905
to 1000 this year.
1t was at the conclusion Of the reading
Of the answer that the Court ordered a
postponement until next Monday, and
the children into the custody of the father,
to be produced by him on that date.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-22
DOC MORTON INDICTED.
Got Loose in Philadelphia, but Says He
VIII Surrender To-day.

George N. Morton. known as Doc Nor
ton. was indicted yesterday for grand
larceny on the complaint Of Roger Nor
gan, treasurer Of the Hopper-Morgan
Company, who says Morton got $40 900
in notes from him and kept the money
Morton, who was arrested in Philadelphia
last week, was released yesterday on
habeas corpus proceedings. He came
to Jersey City and sent word to Assistant
District Attorney Kindleberger through
his lawyer that ne would surrender this
morning. He did not come into the juris-
diotion last night because he had not
arranged for bail.
Edgar A. Whitney, x.Parkhurst agent,
and Mike Jacobs. a lawyer, were indicted
yesterday for grand larceny. They are
accused by Josef Z. Freeman. a rug
dealer, OF swindling him out OF sl84.
practices in the New York courts and
such crooked laws as must be in vogue
in New York were two of Judge Auden'
reid's comments to-day while hearing
q habeas corpus plea for DR.. George Nor
tor Morton had been arrested on q tele.
gram from New York charging him with
embezzlement. This was the only evil
ant or witnesses, Deputy Assistant
District Attorney Robert NJ. johnson
represented New York county.
is there a warrant for this man?' asked
the Judge.
Not that l know Of replied Mr.. John.
son.
Has he deem indicted?'
mo, sir; but he will be to-day, as the
Grand Jury is in session.
With no warrant and no indictment
how dare you come here and ask me tc
deprive him Of his liberty?'
well. we arrest people n hold them
in New York under such circumstances
when other Commonwealth ask It,"
we are not responsible for h va.
garious practices OF the New York courts,
CURLY commented the Judge.
Later when Mr.. johnson was explain
ing that in New York the District At
torney could secure an indictment with
out previous commitment in a Magis-
trate's court Judge Audenreid remarked:
Then the District Attorney can indict
anybody at his p~leasure-me for in
stance. You should not expect us to help
you to administer a law 30 crooked as
must be in vogue in New York
The Judge discharged the prisoner
with the comment: He is entitled to
his law just like a fox is
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-22
GLUNT TO BECOME 4 MINISTER.
Leaves q Position in q Carnegie Steel Mill
Worth $4,000 q Year.

PrrTsBURo, Sept. 21.-After spending
twenty-five years in the making Of iron
and steel George L. Glunt. superintendent
OF the lle inch mill Of the Carnegie Steel
Company at Homestead has resigned
his place and will tomorrow enter the
Western Theological Seminary to become
a Presbyterian clergyman.
Mr.. Glunt leaves a position worth Si0,-
600 a year, including bonus for fast work.
He has been considered one Of the best
steel. experts, and when it became known
that he was to quit the mills at Home
stead a fine position high up in the cal
oulating department Of the Steel Corpora
ton was offered him, but this he refused,
saying he believed he had been called
to preach the Gospel. At his home on
Lehigh avenue, Pitteburg, tonight Mr..
Glunt said;
There are too many young men going
to perdition from the mills, / have been
along the entire route and know whereof
l speak. 1t has always been my inten-
ton to enter the ministry and I have
now taken the plunge. l have made
much money in the steel business and
could have made more. but / felt called
to get out Of that line Of work.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-22
CAMPAIGN CASH THE ISSUE.
Wisconsin Democrats Will Denounce Sen.
atorial Primary Methods.

MADISON. Wis. Sept. 21.-Burt Will
Jams Of Ashland. candidate for Lieu.
tenant-Governor will offer a strong
resolution at the Democratic
platform convention in viii oh the use
Of money in the Senatorial campaign
will be denounced.
A demand for legislation that will pro-
tect the real purposes Of the primary
election laws will be included in the plat
form.
This will be the keynote Of the Demo
cratic campaign.
The Republican convention will also
be held tomorrow, and there will be a
lively squabble over how to answer the
Democratic charges. The fact that the
three defeated candidates for the Sena-
torial nomination may side with the ele-
ment which wants a legislative examina-
ton will make II unpleasant for the Ste.
phenson men, who seem now to control
the convention. The hottest fight in the
history Of the party, even including the
La Toilette battles. is scheduled for to-
morrow.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-22
BRISK LOCAL CAMPAIGN
Promised by Parsons and to Begin Three
= Days From Now.

Chairman Herbert Parsons Of the Re-
publican county committee called a meet
ing yesterday Of the executive members
Of the committee and gave them orders
70 whoop things up in their districts
otter this week.
THE campaign in this city" he said
after the meeting. will open on Friday
night. when Senator Beverage will speak
IN Carnegie Hall, and Gov. Hughes will
be notified in Brooklyn on Saturday.
There will be no cause for criticism of
The campaign for lack Of ginger. From
dext Monday until election day there
win be meetings every night in every
district Of the city
1.-THE speakers bureau Of the county
committee was opened yesterday at the
county headquarters with John Boyle,
r., an active Republican worker OF the
Twsnty-hfth Assembly district, In charge.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-22
BRYAN OFFERS HIS MULE
As n. Prize to the County That Gets Out
the Best Vote.

William j. Bryan has written to Chair
committee Offering his mascot mule as
a prize to the county which shows the
largest percentage OF increase in the
Democratic vote over the average cast
at the last three elections. When Mr..
Mack made the announcement yesterday
some OF those who heard it were inclined
to make fun Of the affair, ~whereupon he
grew indignant and said that the offer
would not only be accepted but that Il
would be a stimulus to Democratic
leaders in every county in the country
for the reason that the animal had be-
come famous and was the most written UP
q~uadruped in the United States. This is
the letter Mr.. Bryan wrote to Chairman
Mack:
MY DEAR MAcK-The Agricultural
Society of Minnesota presented me with
q mule as a mascot for this campaign
and after a consultation with the news
paper representative s%ojourning at Lincoln.
he was named Major Minnamascot-
MINI" for Minnesota. "a" for Agricultural
Society. The title OF Major was given
to him in honor OF a newspaper representa-
tive who volunteered to be the first to ride
him and who for a brief space Of time was
in close proximity to the mule. He has
since been ridden and I think Will be safe
for riding by election day. and Is broken
to work.
Desiring to make this mule la BILE
to the party. l propose that he be offered
as a prize to the county showing the
largest percentage Of increase in the vote
on electors over the average vote for
electors in the last three campaigns. on
condition that the county shall turn. the
mule over to the precinct securing the
largest gain. the Democrats OF that pre-
cinct to vote the mule to the Democrat
In the precinct who in their judgment
has contributed most to the increase in
the precinct. Gus
make the announcement and let the
mule do his part in getting out the Demo-
cratic vote. Very truly yours.
W I.nnrLA
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-22
FOR CONaREss IN KINGS:
Republican Conventions TO-niBht-In-
terest I'm Senator FOelker's Candidacy.

Republican Conventions T~0-nlght-ID-
terest I'm Senator Foelker's Candidacy.
The Republican Congress conventions
In the six districts in Brooklyn will be
held tonight and to avoid unpleasan mt
clashes over the selection Of candidates
Timothy l.. Woodruff. who had a con-
ference with President Roosevelt at
Oyster Bay yesterday will meet the
various Assembly district leaders at
the Temple Bar headquarters to-day to
make the slate,
Two years ago the Republicans elected
Charles T. Dunwel. who died q few months
ago, IN the Third district; Charles B. Law
in the Fourth, George E. Waldo in the
Fifth and William M. Calder In the Sixth.
while the Democrats, az usual, carried
the Second and Seventh districts, ~electing
George II. Lindsay and j. j. Fitzgerald
respectively. While the Republican man
ayers are banking on retaining their
asoendenoy of 4 to 2 in the Congress repre-
sentation Senator MoCarren and his
associates in the Democratic %organiza-
ton are hopeful Of gaining at least one
district.
ihC ItcpuDlCdl COhNCitioh o-hiBits
in the Second district will probably be
adjourned. The district is ordinarily
Democratic and the Republican mana
gers will delay action with a view Of ef-
fecting a fusion with the Independence
Leaguers.
There is a sharp fight for the nomina-
ton in the Third district. which has a
normal Republican plurality OF about
600. The leading candidates are Sena-
tor Otto g. Foelker, who figured 30 promi-
nently as a friend OF Gov. Hughes in the
fight over the racetraok bills Judge Fred
Wells. ex-senator Arthur j. Andett and
CharleS 7. White, a newspaper man.
Congressman Charles B. Law will be
renominated in the Fourth district with
out opposition
Congressman George Z. Waldo, whose
scrap with Mr.. Woodruff over the party
management in Kings county led to his
political overthrow, will not figure in
the convention in the Fifth district and
ex-Park Commissioner Richard Young
will be nominated, probably without OPP
position.
Congressman W. NJ. Calder will be re-
nominated in the Sixth district and Denis
Hurley will be named as the candidate In
the hopeless fight against the Democrats
in the Seventh,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-22
SITUATION IN INDIANA,
Republicans Expect Losses In the Cities
but Hope for Rural Gains.

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 2l,-The Repub-
lioan State central committee met here
to-day for an exchange Of views In the
light cast on the situation by the special
elections. A comparison Of data pre-
sented by several members led to the
conclusion that the Republicans would
lose votes in all the cities but that there
might be some gains IN the country
districts.
The losses. II was believed, would affect
only the State and legislative tickets,
and none Of the members saw In the re-
to fear that the national ticket would
suffer.
II was conceded that the Republicans
must do a great deal OF work In the ooming
six weeks " they change the drift Of the
campaign, which 10 now plainly against
the State and legislative tickets.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-22
GRAND JURY IN CONTEMPT.
Judge Won't Stand Criticism, Even From
a Branch OF His Own Court.

MEMPHIS. Tenn. Sept, 2l.-Angry at an
attack upon his official actions in the trial
Of liquor law violators. Judge j. W.
Palmer this morning declared he would
soon illustrate his idea of workhouse SEN
fences to the Grand Jury.
Judge Palmer intimated that he would
cite members of the Grand Jury for CON-
tempt. and as to punishment he said:
-Then probably ] will give the Grand
Jury some idea Of my views on imposing
workhouse sentences to fit the crime"
Because he had assessed nominal fines
the Grand Jury In its final report to-day
criticised Judge Palmer.
IF his Honor be sincere In his efforts
workhouse sentenced will be imposed on
such violators," read the report.
Il have not looked into the matter fully
vet. but what l have deduoed is sufficient
to assure that 1t is within my province
to cite the Grand Jurors for contempt.
This l shall do when / am fully convinced
In the matter" said Judge Palmer.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-22
OFF FOR THE DOUBLOONS.
Maytiower Was Only waiting for the
Cyclone to blow BY.

The schooner yacht Maytiower equipped
with a kicker sailed yesterday with her
Harvard and Yale crew on a cruise for
sunkep treasure somewhere or other In
a latitude below Sandy Hook. She waited
until all Of the West Indian cyclone had
passed to the northeast before venturing
into the open. Once she vas a cup de-
fender, the finest Of the oentreboarders
designed by Edward Burgess before the
keel sloop came into fashion on this side
of the water. She may make five or six
knots even in a calm. and as the hurricane
season is pretty near an end 1t Is not
unlikely that she may get down near the
equator. IL she 10 bound 30 far. without
mishap, using sail when she can't use her
motor and perhaps gathering In slathers
Of doubloons and silverware. But nobody
can recall any expedition within the
memory Of folks alive that eve got any
thing except experience In q search for
treasure
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-22
LABOR'S HOPEFUL REPORT.
State OF Trade Is Steady n in Some
Sections Impro owing.

The state OF trade in this country h
reported as steady in most Of the des.
patches received from labor unions In
various States by Frank Morrison, score
tary OF the American Federation Of Labor
In some cases there Is considerable i'm.
the majority OF cases there are indica-
tons of improved conditions.
Reports from the granite districts are
that there is plenty Of work for the paving
cutters. Wages have been slightly in
creased at Bloomington. N. c.. and several
other towns: Improvement in the build
towns Of Alabama. There is a good de-
mand for labor in Kansas City, Mo, the
reports state. A despatch from Adams.
Mass. said there would be plenty OF work
there for unskilled men for a month or
two.