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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-04
INQUIRY INTO WALL STREET.
Proposed Action Of Interest to the
Country at Largs.

While the American public will take
sympathetic interest in all the rec
concentrations Of Gov. Hughes mes
sage to the special session of the New
York legislature. one at least is OF
immediate practical concern to the
country at large. This is the recon-.
mendation for a commission to deter
mine the facts in relation TO specula
tion in securities and commodities on
the New York stock exchange.
Such a commission, properly consti.
tuted, as it would be if made up by
Gov Hughes, could undoubtedly upon
thorough and impartial investigation
provide basis for wise and necessary
legislation which should protect legiti.
mate transactions and correct the
worst abuses now existent Regulation
in such matters is recognized by the
country at large as a delicate prob.
lem, and there is no disposition to tam.
per without knowledge.
The public has considerable excuse
for eNaggerating the evils of Wall
street and with good reason a deter.
H..
The business of the country is seri-
ously compromised by the fragrant
sins of d few. On the other hand. the
true functions of the stock exchange
are perhaps recognized more widely
than ever, and the country. especially
the west, wishes to SEQ thcm safe.
guarded. The investigation proposed
/ by Coy. i'usnca would help clarity The
atmosphere and probably would show
now much larger proportion of legiti.
mate business is transacted than is
generally believed
This is work for the state of New
YORK, not for the federal government.
The country has right morally to de.
mand that New York shall do what il
can under the law and in reason to
correct evils whose ultimate effects
are as widespread as the worlds
finance.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-04
ELECTRICAL STORM
SWEEPS THE WEST
EIGHTY FOOT CHIMNEY FALLS
ON HOTEL, lNJURING SEW
ERAL PERSONS.
WORST STORM FOR YEARS.
The Gale Does Great Damage t.
Property and Crops in Kansas
and Surrounding
Country.

Chicago, lll.-A gale, which reached
a greater velocity than has been
recorded in Chicago for seven
years, Thursday night preceded an
electrical storm which did consider
able damage in various parts of the
city. Several persons were injured by
debris blown from buildings and a
church and half a score of other build
ings were struck by lightning
The greatest single instance OF dam
age occurred when an SO-foot iron
chimney was blown from the roof of
an eight story building at t19 LasalIe
rect. The chimney fell gcTo8s a
court, breaking windows in the Bre-
voot Motel from the n to the sixth
stories, AMI al@o crashed through a
Say light in restaurant adjoining.
one man was severely cut by broken
glass and scores OF guests in the hotel
and patrons of the restaurant were
thrown into a panic.
Topeka, Kan-A terrific wind storm
passed over the southern part of
Jewell county on Thursday night
and killed George Hahn and injured
p persons, seven of them probably
fatally. The storm travelled from the
southwest and was $50 yards wide. 1t
took everything in the path and scat
tered number of houses, barns and
small buildings over the prairie. The
property damaged will amount to
thousands of dollars and the damage
to the growing crops is large. The
Bowman house was picked up and car
ried across the street and dashed to
pieces against an embankment The
members of the family were all in bed
and all were injured. The home of
Frank Critics was blown to pieces and
Critics was carried quarter of a mile
and dropped in cemetery.
Guthrie, Okla.-Tornadoes swept
over the country adjacent to Hen
messy and Cashon on Thursday and
wrought great damage to crops and
farm property. 1t is believed no lives
were lost, although details are meager.
A cloudburst deluged Seward, south of
Guthrie Thursday afternoon. The Cot
tOnwood river is rapidly rising
Burlington, Ia.-A severe wind and
rain storm struck southeastern Iowa
on Thursday. Trees were blown
lown, barns were wrecked. outhouses
Ieveled, chimneys demolished and
stock killed or injured
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-04
MONEY BURIED IN MINE
Stockholders Will Have Hard Time
Getting 1t Out.

Chicago, Ill-The Amador Mining
and Development Co. of Montana.
a $lO,OOO,000 corporation with head
quarters at Chicago, has come to an
end. The copper-gold mine in which
has been sunk $650,OOo is worthless.
The majority of stock was owned by
residents of Chicago. There also are
large number Of stockholders in
Pittsburg, where the company had a
branch office, and in Boston, where the
secretary and general manager, d. E.
MacKinnon, has had headquarters.
Boston, Mass.-D. E. MacKinnon,
secretary and general manager of the
Amador Mining and Development Co.
of Montana, is not known in financial
circles here.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-04
TREATY WITH JAPAN
TIMELY ACTION OF THE sECRE-
TARY OF STATE.
Diplomatic Achievement, with Others,
Places Him in the Front Rank of
Statesmen and Reflects
Credit on Party.

The remarkable diplomatic activity
of the present secretary of state has
been brought to public attention many
times of late. If the United States has
become a world power during the last
decade it is proving that fact through
peaceful channels of international
agreement rather than by the threat
ening arm of military or maritime
force
The secretary has extended personal
greetings to South American republics.
He has met with cordial reception in
Canada He has been busy with the
author of the American Common
wealth" in attempts TO solve every
problem which has arisen i'll the field
of BritishAmerican relationships. He
has negotiated arbitration treaties
with France, Spain. Norway, Portu-
gal and Switzerland. The completed
record of his achievements is certain
TO place him in a high position among
the distinguished men who have oc-
cupied the governmental department
which is counted first in cabinet rank.
The news comes Of the arrange
ment OF a general arbitration treaty
with Japan. This convention is sim
liar to those already mentioned. 1t is
based upon the recommendations of
The Hague conference. 1t provides for
the settlement by arbitration of all
disputes of legal nature or in regard
to construction of existing treaties. 1t
does not touch questions of vital inter
est, such as the independence or the
honor of the nations involved. 1t does
not cover the adjustment of difficulties
where the interests of third state
are involved. In a sense it is of sec
ondary importance in a diplomatic
view.
But it is the first arbitration treaty
arranged between the United States
and Japan. 1t has its value just now
as a rebuke to those who would foster
| unpleasant relationships between the
two countries. The quiet and thought
full citizen of the United States has no
patience with the iingoism which
seeks to stir up bitterness in the Pa
cific. To such this arbitration treaty
will be welcome.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-04
PAPER TRUST AND WAGES.
Good Reasons Why Schedules Were
Singled Out for Revision.

1t has been asked why the white Ia.
per and wood pulp schedules should
nave been singled out for separate ac-
ton in tariff revision. Testfying be.
fore the house committee which inves.
uSated the paper industry, John Nor.
ris of the New York Times disclosed
facts which should serve as an answer
to this question.
After submitting evidence to show
that upon an increase of 80 cents In
the cost of production the paper trust
had raised the price to consumers s12
ton with an intention, to put it up
still higher, Mr.. Norris made this sig,
nificant statement:
Aside from these facts. which are
in themselves convincing. | submit to
the committee the reports of the Uni.
ted States bureau of labor which show
that the pay of the paper workers in
1906, as compared with the pay for the
year before, was considerably reduced,
and this state of affairs existed only in
the paper industry"
If, in the face of a steady advance
in the price of the output, itself far in
excess Of what was justified by an in.
crease in the cost of production, the
paper trust has decreased the pay OF
the workers, and If this state of af
fairs existed only in the paper indus.
try, there is ample reason for singing
1t out for separate action. Mr. Norris
was we'll supplied with documentary
evidence to back up his contentious
The assertions pertaining to wages
were based upon government reports
This being the case it is up to the
manufacturers to disprove those state
ments.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-04
Army Pay Bill Wins.

The lower house of congress, by {
vote of 139 to so, agreed to the confer
ence report on the army appropriation
bill, thus insuring to the officers anc
privates in the regular service an an
nual pay increase aggregating $1,000,
600.
The report did not go through with
out opposition. Mr.. Hay of Virginia
voiced the ominous warning that with
in five years congress would be votine
an annual appropriation of no les:
than $25,0O0000, and Mr Tawney O.
Minnesota likewise protested against
giving the officers a salary even ap
proXimately adequate. But the bill
passed; that is the main point. And Il
passed none to soon if the country (.
to maintain even a pretense of +;
standing army.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-04
Who Owns the Waterways?

One of the most intricate problems
involved, and one which must be
cleared before we have gone far with
the management of water power, is
that of the ownership of running wa
ter 2 matter to which both congress
and the supreme court have given
considerable timo with very incon-
elusive results. Under old conditions,
when the erection of a dam was the
whole apparatus of power develop
ment the man who owned the dam
site was considered by that possession
to own the power in the water during
the time it was passing his land.
When water power was the only pow
er, and larger development was neces-
sary, this dam owner was given the
right to take for fiowage the lands of
his immediate neighbors, for a fair
price But now that we have passed
far beyond that stage, to a time when
the improvement of river begins at
the fountain from which it springs
slopes of the surrounding hills, we
can no longer follow this old proce-
dure. The work which is done at
head waters actually creates a power.
declares J. l.. Mathews in the Atlantic,
since it enlarges and steadies the
flow; and that power is possible of
utilization over and over again, for
every foot of fall from the fountain to
the sea. The supreme court has often
held that the government has but a
navigation right in streams, and that
the states themselves own the water,
and the landowners the use for pow
er. But old usage must give way to
new needs, and a new body of law de-
scribing and establishing the owner
ship and the extent of the several
rights in river is one of the urgent
needs of the new movement.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-04
SEVEN MEN ESCAPE FROM JAIL
Boy of 20 Overpowers the Sheriff
Then Robs Him of $too.

Steubenville. O.-With leader
but 20 years old who overpow-
cred Sheriff d. F. Vorhees, seven
prisoners escaped Thursday night
from the county Jail here and have not
been captured. The fugitves are:
Emmett Coulter, leader, held on lar
ceny charge: Charles McBee, robbery;
Mike Levidi. cutting with intent to
kill; Teny Mace, cutting with intent to
kill; John McCrea, murderous assault;
Fred Eli, robbery and larceny; Jack
Wind. violating liquor laws. With IS
minutes start of the officers, the men,
II is thought, started towards Pitts.
burg. When Sheriff Vorhees entered
the corridor to lock the cells for the
night he was knocked down and his
keys were taken from him. The prs-
oners also took 500 from the sheriff's
pockets and divided il.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-04
JEROME GOES
ON WARPATH
DEFENDS HIMSELF AGAINST
CHARGES OF DERE-
LECTION.
SAYS He DID HIS FULL DUTY
New York's District Attorney Ayers
His Course as Public Prosecutor
Has Been Guided by Law
and Conscience.

Elizabethtown, n. Y-District At
torney jerome was the central fig
ure on Tuesday in the final proceed
ings here before Commissioner Hand.
appointed by Gov. Hughes to hear tes-
timony in connection with the charges
of dereliction in the performance of
the district attorneys official duties.
Mr. Jerome began his summing up
after the filing of brief by Franklin
Pierce, attorney for the complainants
He presented no brief on his own be-
half, but will file one for Commission
er Hands perusal at the conclusion of
the hearing. The district attorneys
argument occupied the entire days
session.
He launched into lengthy analysis
u the motives which animated those
most active in bringing the charges
against him. He said the procc, linga
were "fiimsy and mendacious."
Il have lived all my life in the city
of New York" said the district attor.
ney, "and the 16 best years of my life
there were given to the public service
Twice / have run for office in that city
and have been elected, the last time
against every political party and all
alone; and | consider that l was elect
ed to exercise my judgment in the dis
charge of the duties of that office and
not the judgment of irresponsible edi-
tors of yellow journals and what they
might say l ought to do. The duties
laid upon me in that office and which
] have striven to discharge were
these: To be fair and just, to apply
one law to all persons, not one law to
the poor man and another to the rich
! have stood under great pressure be-
fore that grand jury room as a south
ern sheriff has often stood before
southern Jail when he knows that the
prisoner within is guilty and worthy
of punishment, but will allow him to
be punished only IS the law requires
Regarding the charge that he had
refused to advise the grand jury to in
dict George w Parkins, in the So
called $4,000 political contribution
case Mr.. Jerome said:
ut was perfectly plain that Bryan's
election would have been followed by
Il sliilHhdSt III JIe value Ol the StCuTl-
ties of the New York Life Insurance
Co. of 10 TO II per cent, so that with
$450,000,000 worth of securities this
contribution by Mr.. Perkins was a
shrewd movement even if illegal But
was it illegal? There was abundant
evidence that the officials Of almost
every financial institution in New
York City had contributed to the Re
publican party committee to help de-
feat Bryan, so that if Perkins was
guilty then had my work cut out for
me good and plenty for year or more
ahead. l tried to get judicial de-
cision in the matter Judge O'Sulli-
van refused to take it up and decide it.
The judiciary of New York City
was as scared as anybody in New
York, because it was on one hand j.
Pierpont Morgan's partner and on the
other hand the yellow journals"
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-04
ELECTION OF BISHOPS.
New Dignitaries Named, M. E. Con-
ference Turns to Other Things.

Baltimore, Md.-The Episcopal cleo
ton of the Methodist Episcopal gen
eral conference of 1908 is now a
matter of history and when announce
ment was made late today Of the So
lection of the eighth and last bishop
very many of the delegates heaved
sighs of relief.
their election, and the number of votes
each received on the electing ballot,
are as follows: Rev. Dr. w. +. Ander-
son of New York, secretary of the
board of education, Freedmans' Aid
and Sunday schools, $40 votes; Rev
DR.. j. L. Nuelsen, professor in Mast
Theological seminary, Berea, o.. $40
votes; Rev. DR.. w. A. Quayle, pastor
of st. James church, Chicago, 519
votes; Rev. DR. Charles w Smith, ed
itor of the Pittsburg Christian Advo-
cate, 511 votes; Rev. DR.. Wilson s.
Lewis, president of Morningside col
lege, Sioux City, Ia, 524 votes; Rev
DR.. Edwin II. Hughes, president of De
Paw university, Green Castle, Ind,
511 votes; Rev. DR.. Robert Mcintyre,
pastor of the First church, Los
Angeles, Cal, 514 votes, and Rev. Dir.
Frank NJ. Bristol, pastor of the Met
ropolitan church. Washington, d. c.,
493 votes. The bishopS-eleCt will be
consecrated at special service which
will be held on Sunday afternoon at
the Lyric
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-04

Mr. Asquith, the new British pre-
mier. was a lucky find by Mr. Glad
stone. He entered parliament in
1886. single speech, which proved
his power as a debater, led Mr.. Glad
stone, in 1892, to offer him the impor-
tant post of home secretary with a
seat in the cabinet. although he had
not previously held any Office. He re-
mained at the home Office until the
Rosebery government was defeated in
1885; was in the opposition ten years,
and has been chancellor of the ex-
chequer since December, 1905. He
has therefore served but five years
and three months in all as an officer
Of the crown. To have attained the
chief place in the government by two
steps, and in so short time, is al
most Unprecedented.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-04
Fleet MAKING Fine Record.

In view of the recent mishaps tt
British and japanese ships, the Ameri
can people have been somewhat merry
GUS about their own. But good fortune
to most remarkable degree has at
tended them. They have had compare
lively little vicious weather and have
been able to steam on or beyont
schedule time in circlpg continent
1t is hoped that the return trip will be
as eVentless. Good handling of the
big vessels means much, but there ar,
always circumstances like the partins
of the anchor chain of the Illinois thai
cannot be guarded against. The DO
tential danger from the mass of explo
siyes carried is also ever present. i
is satisfaction to know that moth
ing has been left undone to avoid pre-
ventable accidents. II is also crafty
ing TO believe that the American ships
in construction as well as in the safe
guarding Of the magazines, are as wei
protected from internal explosions ant
fires as any ships afioat Should the
fleet make the return cruise withour
loss of life or grave injury to any YES
sci, it will have created a record not
only without parallel in naval enter
prise, but will furish an instance o.
immunity from casualties without par
allel in any land industry with euua
conditions of danger.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-04
Death Threat sent by Mail.

Cleveland, O.-Two letters bringing
warnings of death If money is not
placed under the Lake Shore railroad
tracks near his home within three
days have been received by Pasquale
Coreno. The first letter, demanding
$500, was received three weeks ago.
Coreno armed himself and notified the
police. The second missive was re-
ceived Wednesday at Coreno's barber
shop on West Eleventh street. In 1t
the price for life was set at 500.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-04
Present Need Of RattIe.shins.

The naval appropriation bill as re.
ported TO the house authorizes the
construction of two battles ships in
stead of the four asked for by the navy
department. Representative Hobson,
a member of the committee on naval
affairs, protests against this, and says
there should be six new battle-ships.
so as to keep Japans ambition curbed.
The ambition of Japan does not
seem TO need the curb at this time. If
small appropriations for military pur-
poses are an index of a pacific dis
position, Japan is not in warlike
mood. That country has set apart
only 20 per cent. of the estimated reve-
nues OF the year for the army and
navy. 1t intends to spend on both
about what the United States proposes
to appropriate for the army. The
japanese budget is inoffensive. There
is nothing in it to provoke the multi
plication of American battle-ships.
The japanese government is not
dreaming of sea fights and conquests.
1t is worrying over the threatened
Chinese boycott of Japanese goods.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-04
THE NATIONAL LAWMAKERS
Proceedings of the Senate and House
of Representatives.

Washington.-Nery little was done
by either the house or senate on the
27th outside of discussion of or action
on the currency question. Under sus-
pension of rules the house passed a
bill amending the tariff law of the
Philippine Islands.
Washineton.-The Aldrich-Vreeland
compromise bill passed the house on
the 2Sth by a vote of 166 to 140.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-04
Handy Got Three Years.

Cleveland, O.-J. w. Handy, 36
years old, real estate operator, was
sentenced by Judge Beacon Wednes-
day to three years in the penitentiary
at hard labor. Handy was sentenced
on the indictment charging he OBJ
tanned $4,000 from G. f. Rose under
false pretense Three years is the
maximum sentence.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-04
Monument to Great Republican

The bureau of American republics
was the concept of the late James G..
Blaine, whose broad view foresaw the
day when commercial interests would
bring the governments of this hem.
isphere into close union, and who rec.
ognized the necessity of establishing
mutual respect and confidence be
tween them. The first Pan-Americau
conference held in Washington served
chiefly 10 disclose the necessity for a
stronger system of international com.
munications. Out of that conference
grew the bureau of American repub-
lies, which has amply justified all the
expectations of its founder and stands
today monument to his memory. Z.
We trust Alton Il. Parker is pre-
pared to recipTocate the warm and ac-
tive support Mr. Bryan gave to his
candidacy in 1904.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-04
Thinks Jewel Thief Taken-

Alliance, O.-While picking the
pocket of a farmer Thursday. it is
alleged, a man said to be Richard Jeff
ries, alias Dick" Jackson, alias Geo
Davis, was arrested by detectives. lie
is wanted for burglaries in Columbus
and New Orleans
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-06-04

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Admiral crownInshieId Is Dead.

Philadelphia, Pa.-Admiral A. S.
Crowninshield U. S. ~, retired,
died at the Episcopal hospital here
Wednesday. He never recovered
from the shock of an operation per.
formed some time ago.