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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-09

ENOR SALE cheap, 70 or 100 choice apple
IL and pear trees to close out, or will OK.
change for good COW hay. Apply 10 Geo y
Meath, Elm st. ' 2Gt6
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-09

once 3; s,.sSg g sa snd
ate Of Bliss Business College at North Adams,
Has had some experience and Is willing 20
work form0derate wages. Address Miss Julia
Powers. $50 South st. 87u
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-09

LNOR sALE-Barred Plymouth Rock Eggs
II from 5 choice breeding pens Bradley
Bros strain, one dollar per setting Also
cockerel and old COCK for sale. Prices right
Frank II. Chase. No. Bennington. W. ilt36
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-09

w ANTED-CoOks, mattresses, second girls
w and general domestics ei6 to 40 per
month. Also girls to take positions In shops
and mills at 81 TO " per Gay. Call or c0mmuni
cate ct once with ROCKY God Howe, Bennlng
ton. Vt. 26tf
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-09

oa ' hus,ness. sss for road driving cosrse sss,
payments, largest and best school; cOrreBp0n-
dent course for home study; send stamp for
catalogue. BOSTON AUTO SCHOOL, $40
fremont st., Boston.
The Glenwood post., 1908-05-02
FUEL COMPANIES
VIOLATE LAWS
COLORADO AND UTAH CONCERNS
UNDER BAN OF COMMERCE
COMMISSION.
UTAH LAND FRAUDS,
r. r. GRANTS SPECIAL RATES TO
c. F.. & |. COMPANY WHICH
CONTROLS 1T.

Washington-The Interstate Com
merce Commission Tuesday forwarded
to the Senate reports of Investigations
made by its agents regarding discrim-
nations of railroads in transporting
coal and oil in the states of Colorado.
Utah, Nebraska and Oklahoma.
The conclusion is drawn that the
Utah Fuel Company and the Pleasant
Valley Coal Company of Utah, both
controlled by the Denver & Rio
Grande Railway Company. of the
Gould system, have secured large
tracts of land by securing the relin-
quishment of persons who have en-
tered the lands for small sums, gener-
ally ranging from $50 to $3.50. Many
of these entrymen are said to be
young women who do not appreciate
the offense they are committing in al
lowing themselves to be thus used.
1t is charged that the Pleasant Val
ley company has acquired 10000 acres
of land, and it is asserted that the ac-
QUESTION of much of it has been at
tended by fraud and perjury. 1t is as
serted that the Rio Grande railroad
system has been granted special rates
to these companies.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany has received special rates from n
railroad company which is controlled
by it. This company, the report
states, has declared no dividends in
recent years, but it is suggested that
"a different method of bookkeeping
would show substantial earnings"
1t is charged in the Oklahoma re-
port that exorbitant prices are
charged to domestic consumers by the
leasers of the mines, most (which
are railroad companies. who mine
much CT the coal for their own pur-
poses.
Speaking of the coal mined along
the Union Pacific railroad in Nebraska
and Wyoming, it is found that while
the officers of that road are not di-
rectly interested in the mines, that
company does absolutely dominate
the mining, transportation and sale of
coal along it's line" 1t is also charged
that the company resorts to various
methods to prevent the opening of
new mines along its route, and the
conclusion is drawn that if the public
coal lands should be withdrawn the
effect would be to intensity and per
petuate the company's monopoly.
The Glenwood post., 1908-05-02
Bavari on Trial at Canon.

Canon City, Colo-The jurors who
will decide the fate of Antoine Neroni,
alias Bavari, charged with numbering
a woman and three men, dismembering
their bodies and burying them in the
back yard of his home near Florence,
were selected Monday in three and
one-half hours.
The crimes with which Bavari is
charged occurred at Florence. Bavari
was living near Florence with Mrs.
Frank Palmetto as his housekeeper.
With him also lived Ercola Buffetti, a
man over seventy years of age. Dom.
mick and Joseph Minichiello, brothers,
were friends of Bavari, and with them
Bavari was engaged in truck garden
ing.
November 10th Mrs. Palmetto dis
appeared, and Bavari said she had
gone to Pueblo. Dominick Minichiello
disappeared Decembed 27th and Err
cola Buffetti December 2Sth. Finally,
on January 9th, Joseph Minichiello
disappeared and his widow, suspi-
cious of the actions of Bavari, caused
the latter's arrest
Within a few days the bodies of
three Of the victims were found bur
led in the back yard at Bavari's house
and few days later the body of JOS
eph Minichiello was found. Bavari
gave the information that led to the
finding of the three bodies.
Joseph Miner, who owns truck gar
den adjoining that of Anton Neroni
alias Bavari. near Florence, was the
most important of the five witnesses
for the state examined Tuesday during
the trial of Bavari on the charge of
murder. Mrs. Joseph Minichiello,
widow of one of the murdered men,
testified, and her statements were next
in Importance to those of Miner.
On September 26, 1907 Miner heard
Bavari and Mrs. Palmetto quarreling
and heard Bavari threaten to kill the
woman. Shortly afterward she disap-
peared. After the disappearance of
Joe Minichiello, the fourth and last of
the murdered persons, Miner had visit
ed Bavari and remarked that the mys-
terry didn't look good to him." He
said that Bavari turned pale and trem-
bled and wanted to sell all his property
and "go away" He said that he was
cold and sick and told Miner there was
too much work for him.
Mrs. Minichiello, on the stand. said
she had known Bavari only eleven days
before her husband disappeared
She testified that the gold ring found
in Bavari's pocket was one worn by
Dominick Minichiello. The defense AT
tempted to show that the ring had be-
longed to Bavari's mother.
The Glenwood post., 1908-05-02
The Funny Things One See.
MARSHALL p. WILDER


Shanghai has IL precinct police sta
tions and one court known as the
Mixed Court" because some repre-
sentative of the several consulates
sits each day with the Chinese magis.
trate.
| was introduced to the magistrate
by DR.. Barchet, and found him very
gracious, and possessing fair supply
of English. He was dressed in full
mandarin dress, brown satin coat.
beautifully embroidered, and a black
velvet hat turned up about the edge,
and decorated with the button, the
horse-tail and the peacocks feathers
that indicate mandarin's rank.
We went into the courtroom,
everyone quickly took their places and
the hearings began. All prisoners
when broug ght before the magistrate
must kneel during the entire proceed.
ing.
Though all the prisoners were Chi
nese, and the cases were conducted in
that language, could follow most of
them. as the English sergeants pre-,
ferred their charges to DIR. Burchet,
who is a proficient Chinese scholar,
and he in turn translated them to the
magistrate.
When policeman brings man be.
fore the court he drives him by his
cue, and when he takes him
away, he pulls him by it, or if there
are several prisoners, he knots their
cues together and pulls them
along in a bunch, With such persua,
sion, a prisoner is not apt to hesitate
long.
For thieving, prisoners are sen
fenced to certain number of strokes
with the bamboo. or the cangue for
SO many hours day-sometimes both
together.
The cangue is large square board
that fits about their necks, and be.
sides being very heavy and uncom-
Portable. is considered great dis.
grace, for it has the prisoners name
and crime pasted on it. In order to
make the punishment more severe, the
prisoner is often condemned to be
taken to the place where the crime
was committed, and made to stand
near the store or house where the ma
ture Of his crime, as well as his name
are plainly to be read by every passer-
by This is terrible punishment for
them for the Chinese are very sensi-
tive about being publicly shamed,
losing face they call it.
: In the afternoon l went back to the
! mixed court and saw some men bam-
booed. 1t was done IN a different
place from where the trials take
place. being at one side of an open
court, where a desk was placed, be-
| hind which the assistant magistrate
/ sat
I The prisoner throws himself on
, piece Of mating laid on the top step
leading to the magistrates desk. his
: trousers are pushed down, exposing
his thighs, and two men in ridiculous
The Glenwood post., 1908-05-02
Scientists Coming West.

New iork.-Preparations are being
made at the American Museum OF
Natural History to send out four expe-
ditions into as many states in the
West in search of archaeological
specimens. The first party will leave
in a few weeks, two will leave in June,
and the last will start in August.
AT the head of the first party are
DR.. w. D. Matthew and Albert Thorn
son. They will go to Nebraska, where
they will confine their investigations to
the ancestry of mammals, such as
three-toed horses. Their studies en-
brace the miocene period, which scien-
lists have agreed was at its flower only
100000 years ago.
The second party goes to Wyoming
for an investigation of the deposits of
the eocene period which is placed some
100000 years in the calendar OF the
scientists. While DIR. Matthew and MI
Thomson will look for three-toed
horses. Walter Granger of the Muse
um will try to find its ancestors, the
four-toed horse, specimen of which,
almost beyond value to the museum,
has been placed on exhibition.
The third party. by going to Montana
will get into a period of the history of
the world which is 100000 years be-
100000 from the present time Scien.
lists remember it by the word creta-
ceous, in which lived the dinosaurs.
The Glenwood post., 1908-05-02

red sugar-loaf hats trimmed with blue,
seat themselves on the prisoners feet
and shoulders, the latter one clutching
his cue
Two men with little fiat bamboo
rods about yard long squat each
side. when one begins and delivers
about rs lashs then rests, and the
other takes IL Ap. counting aloud as
they beat. The prisoner howls and
cries and begs. tears streaming from
his eyes. for though it does not break
the skin. 1t is extremely painful.
The men sitting on the prisoner joke
and laugh. the oflcers standing about
carry on animated conversations. and
as this all takes place in a courtyard,
open to the street, children run in and
out, playing and laughing. mothers
with babies in their arms look stolidly
on. the babies blinking solemnly.
while little crowd of curious men
stand about the entrance.
The mixed court, being Jointly un-
der the Jurisdiction of foreigners, is
necessarily more merciful and lenient
than an unmixed Chinese court.
A gentleman told me of witnessing
courtroom scene in the interior Of
China. where man who refused to
confess was struck on the ankle bono
with = mallet until he tainted fFom
The Glenwood post., 1908-05-02
Commission sustains KindeI.

Washington.-The Interstate Com
merce Commission Tuesday announced
a decision in the case of George j. Kin.
del of Denver against the Adams Ex-
press Company and others. Kindel al
legged that express rates from New
York to st. Louis and Omaha to Den-
yer are unreasonable, that rates be-
tween Denver and San Francisco and
Salt Lake are unreasonable, that rates
to Denver made by combination on
the Missouri river from eastern points
works unjust discrimination against
Denver and that the graduate scale Of
rates is unscientiflc and inconsistent.
The commission held that the base
rates Of 81 per 100 pounds from Omaha
to Denver and Of $4.26 per 100 pounds
from Denver to Ogden should not ex-
coed $3.50 and - respectively.
The Glenwood post., 1908-05-02
Insane Convict Runs Amuek.

Pueblo. Collaborating away from
the guards at the state insane asyirnD
Monday afternoon. Edward McEkse,
an ex-convict negro, eluded his purDo,
ers and. after attacking several wcInea.
secured hatchet and struck down
Mrs. Mary Jones, whose skull was frse-
tured and her brain penetrated by The
hatchet blade. There is said TO be mo-
hope for her recovery. McElfee wa0
finally cornered against house an0
Fire Chief McCartin called 4 chemical
wagon. Two lines Of hose were Iaa1
and the negro was knocked over by tbO
force Of q ~ inch stream shot At hin,
to the asylum.
The Glenwood post., 1908-05-02
THE DURANGO
MURDER CASE
TRIAL OF TWO MEN CHARGED
WITH KILLING SECRET SER
VICE AGENT WALKER.
WITNESSES ExAMlNE led
TESTIFY AS TO MOVEMENTS Or
DEFENDANTS MASON AND
VANDERWEIpE.

Durango, Colo.-The jury in whose
hands the fate of Joseph Vanderweide
and William Mason, charged with the
murder OF Secret Service Agent Jo-
seph A. Walker of Denver last Novem-
Der, near the Hesperus mine, will rest,
was secured Friday afternoon at 3
O'Clock after fully $50 veniremen had
been examined.
The opening statement sof the attor-
neys were made before adjournment
of court.
District Attorney Pulliam opened
the case for the prosecution.
James l.. Russell, chief counsel for
the defense, then made his opening
statements, outlining what the defense
will try TO prove.
The first witness called on Saturday
was George Goodman, the undertaken
who went to the mine to get the body
and prepare it for shipment to Denver.
Lucian c. Wheeler, the second wit
ness, testified that he came to Durango
from Denver in response to telegram
stating that Walker had been killed
and that he visited the scene of the
killing November 9Th. Wheeler told
of having his attention called to the
plOou ClotS Oh the STOunu ABOUT nlleeA
feet away from the shaft.
Frank Hall, assistant United States
district attorney, testified that he had
been to the mine shaft after the killing
and that he saw the two blood clots
mentioned He then told of Walkers S
habits in regard to the carrying of his
revolver, and said that Walker carried
.3S caiber Smith & Wessen in a
holster strapped to his left side. His
revolver always had four chambers
loaded and in the fifth chamber an
empty shell which was under the firing
pin.
John f. Chapson told of the party in
which were himself, Callahan, Thomas
Harper and Walker, starting for the
mine the Sunday morning of the trag-
edy. With the exception of Walker,
who rode horse, they drove a team
and wagon which they hitched in the
gulch not far from the air shaft. Walk
er remained at the surface near the air
shaft and Chapson, with Harper and
Callahan, descended into the mine to
investigate the workings.
Chapson testified as to the finding
of the two shells when he came to the
surface and seeing horse tracks and a
mans tracks near the place where
Walkers body lay.
He further testified that on reaching
the surface he picked up Walkers re-
volver, which was lying near him. and
examined it, finding it in the same con
dition as when shown in court. with
but one chamber discharged and the
hammer down against this. He said
that it gave no indications of having
been fired for sometime.
The Glenwood post., 1908-05-02

the hideous pain-the bone being
crushed to jelly.
The most dreadful of all executions
In China is the ling chee, or hundred
cuts, where the condemned man is
given SO cuts on different parts of the
body, contrived with such devilish
cunning that death does not come
until the last cut. reachinr the heart,
puts them out of their agony.
This execution is only administered
LOT three crimes; attempted assassina-
ton of the emperor or empress. the
killing of father or mother or the kill
ing OF husband by wife. The killing
OF wife by husband is not SO seri-
GUS matter
In China man must sign his own
death warrant by linking his thumb
and making the impression OF it on the
paper. Chinese law, when once it has
a man in its clutches. is loath to give
him up whether he be innocent or
guilty. So If he does not sign the war
rant willingly he is tortured until he
does it in sheer desperation.
Political prisoners, who are sen
fenced to banishment, seldom reach
the place of their destination, for after
such sentence there is almost always
an accident. either by the chair in
which he is carried being tipped while
on bridge by one of the coolies
stumbling and thrown into the river.
where there is no hope of escape from
the clumsy, tightly-closed affair, or
else the banished one is mysteriously
attacked by highwaymen and mur-
dered.
All axa,ut;op. ~ o,, Gov. ~. Sr,a
The Glenwood post., 1908-05-02

witness And the effect of that uni
versal and deadly system of bribery is
only too apparent a system that saps
the strength and ability of China to
become great country, for from one
end of the kingdom to the other there
is no disinterested desire for ad-
vancement; only case of the big fish
eating up the little ones-and no man
so great that he cannot be bought.
II prisoner condemned to be be-
headed will pay the executioner fat
bribe he may expect to be sent out OF
existence with neatness and dispatch
after being heavily drugged with
opium But il he refuses he must sur-
fer a clumsy execution that will be at
tended by torture and pain before the
end finally comes. Even in the simple
and less painful bambooing, a bribe
will induce the whipper to hold the
bamboo stiff, causing much less pain
than If allowed to bend and spring.
1t appeared that only those of the
criminals who could not purchase ran
som were executed. Those who had
$50, or friends that could supply that
sum, were liberated on payment of the
same to the mandarin OF the district.
The luckless 90 had apparently neith-
er friends nor money So they were
marshaled out of prison under
strong guard of soldiers: and, like the
prisoners in our Sing Sing who are al
lowed for their last meal the best that
the prison cuisine affords, these male
factors were furnished any mode OF
conveyance at the disposal Of the au-
thorities to convey them to the place
of execution.
The condemned were marshaled in
line, and required to kneel on all
fours" before the mandarin and his
suite. All knew the procedure and
there was no confusion. The heads
man. armed with a keen. broad-bladed
sword, stepped out. If this gentleman
should fail to sever the head OF his
victim in three blows. his own would
De forfeit But in this instance he did
his work with both certainty and ce-
lerity. Approaching the first in line,
he gave swift. swinging blow on the
back of the neck and decapitated
head rolled onto the sword.
This dreadful system Of bribery and
squeezing" is the canker at the heart
of China. Everyone expects 1t from
everyone else; even the children are
not to be trusted. A Chinese woman
sends her child to chow shop, and
weighs the food when 1t is brought
home to see that her own child is not
squeezing" her.
In making change, the smallest boy, as
salesman. will keep back two or three
cash" Should you say: How fash
ion you steal my cash? You b'long
alice same as tief," he will indignant
ly answer: MY no b'long t'ief; my
ketchie you watch. then b'long t'ief.
but my just make little squeeze"
1t would seem as II all the horrible
punishments 80 publicly administered
would effectually prevent even the
most reckless and hardened from
committing crime, but 1t doesn't seem
to do 80. and the courts go on flourish
ing on the bribes extorted and the
money paid by innocent people to
keep out of court, for 1t is openly
averred that Chinese court of JUS
tice. among other delinquencies, is not
even above blackmail.
1t is not surprising that among the
people are such sayings rs Tigers and
snakes are kinder than Judges or run
nsrs." or I'm life, beware Of courts; in
death, beware of hell!'
The Glenwood post., 1908-05-02
Predict. T.fts Nomination.

New York.-In an extensive article
In which President Roosevelt is quoted
as saying that he has positive as
surance that Secretary Taft will have
at least 700 in the Chicago convention.
the New York Herald comedies the
nomination of Taft on the first ballot
1t says in part: President Roosevelt
several weeks ago predicted that Secre-
tary Taft would have at least 500 votes
on the fret ballot at Chicago. He now
predicts that the secretary will have
at least 700 delegates on the first bal
lot. interests heretofore hostile have
united In his favor.
The Glenwood post., 1908-05-02

The town Of Craig, one OF the prin-
cipal places along the line of the Moi
fat road In Routt county. has decided
to incorporate by vote of eighty to
forty-nine. This ID the elimination of
An agitation that has covered the past
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-03-21

| scrupulously clean. or the butter may
deterioratc.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-03-21

danger hat a Northern farmer eor
ing to the South may pillow SOM
types of land go much deper than 4,
has been plowed. that he will ,,r,
up too much sour soil all nj onca
Increase the depth OF plowing grad.
ually. and he careful o TO increase
IL too much when the blowing !.
done In spring. shortly before tho
planting IL To be done. \ reasonah,.
regard for the practices OF farmer, In
a new territory tn which one moves
IL wise enough. because tn n genera,
way they do what their cxperiene>
has shown them to he boat but one
thing tho average Southern farmer
has yet To learn Ii that he must ux
larger plows. larger horses or mules
and more nf them. Ten months from
now a report from this q~uest!ouer
would he interesting and Instructive
To those who believe that big plovs
and strong horses are out of place on
the Southern farm. What ~ good
plo~ing In the North Ia good ploxiur
In the South. and while there n
much poor piowing In the North.
there Ia NOR" poor plowing In the
Southland that II n great draw
back Ia Southern agriculture
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-03-21

scrupulously clean. or the butter may
deteriora,c,
Dairymcn can breed good cows
cheaper than they can buy them. and
will also have the satisfaction OF
knowing something about the work
OF their dams.
DO not be fooled BY the watcry
grass Of early apring. II has little
nusrimcut In IL: and II other feed L.
not used in connection with II. the
cows will not do much. This IN where
the majority of dairymen lose every
year. rsc dry ICED full long.
A really good cow may bring her
owner n gross income of 800 per
year. bat many cows do % bring
$40 In twelve months. Tho differ
cnec In the cost of keeping tho two
kinda of co~a ie not very great. but
look at the difference In the prons'
Tho difficulty with using a cloth
so strain through IL. that too often
tho cloths get ~dirsy~~csrn In tho
hands os a fairly clean dasryman.
For that reason. a hne ~.rc ssralncr
In preferred by many. aimee 1t can DO
cleaned with more certainty.
Tie prepared 10 uao plrety uf hci-
ding for the cnas. II makes them
nsnrr comfortable and keeps them
cleaner. and moro OF tho liquid part
OF tho In saved for the land
The liquid par, ~ Tho richer.
Under eira niy farm conditions. tho
Tactic acid bacteria pscdnmsnasrs
over The other kinds. aud tho iaesie
acid onrs arc the helpful htna. The
had on~s are carried In dirt. Keep
alfs oas Of milk. and tho bad onca
~iIl ir largely kept out. The itn*
gsnrsanec ~ cleanliness In sn great
tho subject ~lll bear bclng sc-
called To mind ro~ and thea.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1908-03-21

Measss. Edi,nras came here In
January aud brought tour r~gch~run
mares Weighing from i.ssu Ia 1900
pounds. and i've coi,a. 3%y~aT-oid
aucklings. The natives here toll TIC
I had better srnd them back 10 IN.
nnis. an they arc too large. tina, IL IL
too hot for them here. and that our
isainch rio~s etc. arr not a success
In tho black fcii. don't know how
w~ will make IL. but IL doca seem
foolish 10 Try Ia work heavy land
with six TO eight hundred pound
mules and j~ennien,
W. u, NULL.
r~rairiestiic. Ala.