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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-17
BRIBERY CHARGES
DISTURB MAGNATES
UMPiRES KLEIN AND TOMBSTONE
SUBMIT STATEMENTS TO
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

New York, Dec. 12-The session OF
the national league Of baseball CUBS
had a sensational close yesterday
when charges of attempted bribery OF
umpires who ofic:ated at the game
that decided the championship OF
1908. between New York and Chicago
at the Polo grounds, October 8, were
sprung, and the magnates appointed a
committee to probe them, even init
mating that criminal prosecutions
might follow the investigation commit
tees report. The committee consists
of John T. Brush, president of the
New York club, chairman; Charles H.
Ebbetts, August Hermann and Presi
dent Harry C. Pulliam OF the national
league. The names of the men who
are alleged to have attempted bribery
were not disclosed, nor are the partIc-
ulars made public. The statementsaot
alleged attempted bribery were sub
mitted that Umpires Klein and John
stone. The action of the umpires in
refusing to be bribed was highly com
mended by the league and a thorough
investigation was ordered.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-17
it a real compound and not mere
of one

it a real compound and not a mere
semblance of one.
The United States heads the list Oh
boot and shoe exporting nations Vi
the world, the value of exports III
1908 aggregating 81, 100000, accord
ing to the bureau OF statistics.
The interstate commerce com
mission refused to change It's oplnlon
in that $3.50 per 100 is sufhclent ~.
H. +ransDortation of furs In bales anu
bo~os from St. Paul to New YORK
separated statehood for Alllon a@
and New Mexico at this. session 10" ,p
odvocated by delegations trom IN
aorrjtories which will camp out III
.sIaabington until their object mas
been attained. s.-+ hill
into the hopper at this session. Len
representative Over5treet OF lhuisil-'r %
With measure for an increase OIL ~
W. cont in the enlisted strength u
| the army. 49,. +bo Tan
| aupSp-Amerlcd CALCllIS'
protect the territorial INTEGRITY ~
china will be the subject OF a sIeac
dea1 Of debate in executive season. Oh
tho senate during the present session
The president has accepted the res
iano+ion of Second Lieutenant Gavin
p Titus. Fourteenth United states
infantry. the first man to scale INC
walls of Pekin in August, 1900 DURING
the boxer trouble. Lieutenant llIu'
will engage in business. $3.50
President Roosevelt has appointed
Rnfne Thayer of the District OF CO.
Inmbia as Judge of the United State
court at Shanghai, China, succeeding
Tudge Lebbius I, Whitley, resigned
Judge Whitley was for long time IN
der serious charges, but was eHoheI-
ated. His re ignation is voluntary
The report Of the commissioner ol
Indian affairs f. E. Leupp, suggests
the transfer to the several state gov,
arnments of the Grand Junction ano
Fort Lewis schools, Colo; the schooI
at Genoa, Neb.; at Chi.occo, Okla; al
chamberlain, S. D.; at Morris, Mlhn.'
and at Carson, Neb.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-17
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY,

Washington. Dec. 8.-The business
Of both houses was confined largely
to listening to the reading of the
presidents message. A resolution
was introduced in the senate by Mr.
Knox providing for the appointment
of three representative to make nee
essary arrangements for the inaugu-
ration of President-elect Taft. The
resolution was adopted The miscel-
laneOus work Of the senate consisted
in the main of reference in executive
session of about 1900 recess nomi-
nations, wi ich were sent to the SEN
ate by the president. Speaker Can
non announced the appointment of
Higgins Of Connecticut to the COM
mittee on judiciary in lace of Little
field retired. and of dartin to the
committee on Indian affairs in place
Of Barker, deceased. Several import
ant amendments to the Hepburn rail
road rate law were proposed in bills
introduced by Congressman Townsend
of Michigan, OF of the most active
advocates of remedial legislation
along interstate commerce lines.
One of the bills gives the interstate
commerce commission power to pro
hibit the taking effect of an advance
in rates in a case in which shippers
individually or collectively protest
against the advance prior to the ex-
piratiOn of the legal thirty days nc.
tiCe. The bill places the burden on
the carrier to show at a subsequent
hearing on the prop )sed rate that the
increased rate is just and reasonable. |
Mr.. Townsend would also give the
shippers the right and privilege of
routing and prescribing what connect
ing lines a shipment shall take.
An emergency volunteer army mea-I
sure was advocated by President
Roosevelt in a special message toI
congress and a draft of the bill ac-I
companying the message was intro |
duced in the senate by Senator Gull
lon. The president says the bill is
intended to replace the present law
which he declares is faulty and
wholly inadequate to a speedy and
proper organization of a volunteer
force. The proposed bill is elastic; |
under its provisions a force of 2 0OO,-
600 men could be raised as we'll as
one of $4,000.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-17

nephew of John B. Vliet, formerly
of Milwaukee, and went to Kilbourn
as a boy with Mr.. Vliet when he sur
veyed the ground for the location of
the village of Kiibourn
DR.. Ernest A. Matthaei. who had
been practicing physician in Chi
cago for fifteen years, died Saturday
at Sierra Madre, Cal, whittier he
went in search of health last spring.
He was a native of Chicago and a
graduate of the medical school of the
University Of Illinois.
Frederick A. Thomas, probably the
oldest commission merchant in Chi
cago, died suddenly at his home in
Rogers Park of heart failure. Mr..
Thomas had been in the commi sion
business in Chicago for forty years.
Five years of that time he was on
River street and the balance at 121
South Water street. He was born Dec.
q, 1881, in New York state. He came
west with his parents when year,
of age and located at Rockford, where
his father long practiced as a ply
sician In 1856 he came to Chicago and
at first engaged in the manufacture of
picked cabbage which was sold to
the United States army. During the
war he was one of the sanitary com
mission that went to Fort Donelson
He was the originator of the Califor
MIA Fruit Refrigerating line, which
was afterward sold to the Armours
and Swifts
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-17
FOUR BATTLESHIPS
NOW IN DEMAND
MADE BY SECRETARY METCALF
IN HIS LAST ANNUAL
REPORT.

Washington, Dec. l2.~~Secretary
Metcalf, of the navy department, in
his annual report recommended that
congress authorize the construction
of four batt.eships, scout cruisers,
ten destroyers, four submarines, thre e
GOLFERS, one repair ship, one ammunI-
ton ship, two mine-laying ships
these two ships to be converted from
cruisers now on the navy list
craftsmanship, he says, has i'm
proved on the practice cruise around
the world. With respect to the as
sertion that our 12-inch guns are in
ferior to those of other powers, the
facts are found to be that the actual
nluzzle energy Of these Pinch guns,
which form the main armament of
our eight latest battleships in COM
mission, is somewhat greater than
that of any gun afioat in any other
navy.
1t is desirable, the secretary states,
to lengthen the dry dock authorized
by congress to be constructed at
LAO feet, to render it capable of ac-
commodating two or more vessels at
once. Secretary Metcalf recon-
mends that the navyyards at New
York. Philadelphia, Norfolk, Puget
sound, and Mare island be developed
to their full capacity for the repair
and maintenance of ships, but says it
is not further desirable to develop
other navyyards, at least until that at
Guantanamo shall have been equipped.
the last named station being regarded
as of the first military Importance and
as a natural startegic base 1t is
deemed highly desirable to acquire
by purcha or to construct a dock in
San Francisco harbOr
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-17
TRAGEDIES.

Andy EngebretsOn, talloF' wa"
fo,rd dead in his room in hotel at
GAINESVILLE.
Charles Bass, superintendent OF
mines at Coahnont, Ala, was held up
by a negro and fatally shot.
Lottie E. and Ida Kap.an, SISTERS
re pectively 10 and II years OF age
were found dead, asphyMated by lIlu-
minating gas in New York.
Seventeen persons have persisted IN
o storm which dashed the NeWfound-
land coast for forty-eight hours. In
all ten fishing vessels went ashore
Two negroes are dead and three
Italians are believed to be fatally IN
iured as the result of a mine explosion
at the King coal mine at Norwood, W.
Va.
!. A. Holt, an engineer on the
Southern railway, was shot TO death
while in the cab Of his engine at Dur
ham. N. c. No c.eW has been found 10
the murderer.
John Morey, aged 4G year,, a well
known farmer living east OF Waupaca
was instantly killed at a street cross
ing when struck by a Wisconsin Cent
raj pas enger train.
Charles W Blow, manager OF the
American Linseed Oil company
Crown works, shot and killed himself
at his home in St. Louis. Worry over
a sick son is given as the cause.
Ward Burlingame, for twenty-5eYen
year chief clerk in the dead letter OF
flee at Washington, D. c., and private
secretary of four Kansas governors
and three Kansas senators, died OF
heart failure, aged Y years.
Fire from an overheated kitchen
stove burned the Shapiro block in
Priceburg, Pa, four persons perlshing
in the flames. The victims were:
Abraham Shapiro, merchant; his son
Arthur and daughter Anna, and his
mother-inlaw, Mrs. Sarah Blatski.
Mrs. Emma Russell Chesebrough
wife of a we'll known yacht designer
at Bristol, R. l., shot herself in the
head with a revolver. One sister, Mrs
Samuel P. Colt, is the wife Of the
president of the United States Rubber
company.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-17
TRADE SCHOOLS
RECEIVING TEST
EXPERIMENTS OF GENERAL IN
TEREsT PROGRESSING IN
EMPIRE STATE.
EDUCATORS VIEW TRAINING OF
THE HAND AS ADVANCE
STEP

Industrial training is engrossing the
attention of educators throuhgout the
country In New York experiments
are being conducted under all conceiv-
able conditions, and the results win
be interesting to educators and the
general public. This activity marks a
great awakening in education.
Recently the New York state gov
eminent published an elaborate plan
for establishing a system of trade
schools. The plan provides for the
training of Workmen in craftsman
classes OF schools; factory schools,
which train for work in factories,
where there are many employees who
work with much machinery, and trade
schools, which train for the cOnstTuc-
tive trades in which the work is es-
sentially individual and independent
Of machines. To encourage the or.
ganization of such schools the state
will appropriate $500 for each of said
schools with not less than twenty.
five pupils, maintained for the mini
mum period of forty weeks in one
shcool year and an additional $20C
for each teacher employed in such
school year for the same period.
The committee of ten appointed by
the national society for the promotion
of industrial education to devise an
adequate arrangement of trade
schools to become a coordinate part
of the present public school system
has been actively studying conditions
The committee feels that industrial
training should be started as soon as
the children are able to hold tools in
their hands, say about the age of g.
Besides this, the committee thinks
there should be free industrial high
schools at night for the further in,
structiOn Of boys who have been
graduated from the elementary
schools.
The opening this fall of the Stuy.
vesannt evening trade schooL-a mil,
lion and half dollar institution-was
hailed as a decided step forward in
industrial training. More than eight
hundred students were enrolled and
many were placed on a long waiting
list. instruction is given in car
pentry and ioinery, cabinet making,
pattern making, bIacksmithing
plumbing, machine shop work, print
ing and typesetting mathematics,
free hand, architectural and mechani-
cal drawing, machine design, applied
electricity, steam engineering, electric
chemistry and applied physics Ger
tifcates Of proficiency will be awarded
in each course.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-17
ABOR AND INDUSTRY.

The name "Elgin Butter on car
load of the product made in Indiana
was the issue in a lawsuit heard at
Elgin, Ill.
One tiny dog at the New York dog
show, which opened at the Waldorf
! Astoria hotel in New York was sold
for $500.
The GAINESVILLE aerie of Eagles has
decided to give the Mercy hospital an
endowment of 500 year to be used
for caring for sick members if any
should need ASST lance.
Steel laying on the sections of the
Milwaukee road in Montana crossing
the Rocky mountains has stopped,
and will not be resumed until the
snow thaws next spring
| The Dumbarton bridge and cutoff
over San Francisco bay, saving fifty
miles of travel, will be completed and
regular trains will be running over
the new route late in February.
The long ocerdue ship Haddon Hall
arrived at Seattle, 245 days from Liy-
erpool. 1t was only by the best he
roiC fight that the boat was prevent
ed from laundering in the south At
lantiC.
One of Mrs. Aurel Batonyi's two
uits for divorce has been discontin-
ued in New York to make place for
the second suit, which contains the
twelve allegations Of the first suit and
two more in addition.
Heath Officer A. H. Broche of Osh-
kosh has received notice from the
state board of health that that city
is to be made one Of the centers for
free distribution of antitOXin for diph-
iberia to poor patients.
Coal operators, mine owners, en-
gineers. practical miners, scientists
and officials at Pittsburg for the Amer
lean mining congress, participated IL
the formal dedication of the federal
governments laboratory and testing
station.
After a closed season of six weeks,
fishing was resumed at Two Rivers.
There are eighteen gasoline boats and
one tug fishing out Of this port. The
boats will fish as long as they are
able to get to their nets without in
reference from ice and sIrsh.
Just six minutes were required by
jury to declare 4. P. Gilbert. as
sistant general freight agent of the
Chesapeake and Ohio railway. not
guilty of the charge of allowing re-
bates to w. R. Johnson K Co. grain
dealers at Richmond, Va.
Fire in a schoolhouse at Sayre. Pa,
endangered the lives of many pupils.
The children fed panic stricken to-
ward the door. but Miss Harriet Sa-
mons, a teacher, soon checked the
stampede and all passed out unin-
jured.
In the case of Gustave Den Donckers
against the BuEdy Lumber company
at Merrill for damages to the amount
OF $4,000 for personal injuries re-
ceived while in the employ of the
Worden Lumber company, a compro,
mise was effected out of court and the
case settled for 81 500
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-17
Operation Restores Spec Oh.

Racine, Wis. Dec. 10.-At the st.
Luke's hospital an operation was per-
formed upon the jaw of Frank Chris
Hansen, bicycle dealer, which re-
stored his speech. Eleven years ago
Christensen was struck in the mouth
by rife ball. the force of the bullet
Embedding one of the teeth in the jaw.
I'm yuecessful attempts were made to
remove the bullet and tooth. On ac-
count of the wound the speech OF
Christensen was impaired 1t became
worse and the man submitted to an
A-ray examination and the operation
was decided upon.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-17

In a concurrent resolution introduced
by Senator Dick of Ohio. 1t is fur.
Their proposed that il be recommended
that Americans everywhere remember
the day The action is also favored
ooking toward the erection of an ade-
quate memorial to the great war presi-
dent
The house passed measure pro
yiding for So cent gas in Washington
The bill now goes to the senate, as
well as another bill abolishing bucket
shops in the district. An attempt by
Representative Henry of Texas to OBJ
tain change Interference to a bill
prohibiting the making of future con
tracts on agricultural product
brought forth promise from Chair.
man Scott of the agricultural com.
mlttee that his committee would
soon grant a hearing to the
farmers union and others on this
subject.
The house voted to adjourn on De.
cember 10 to January /.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-17
DOME Sic.

The National CouhCH Vi Jew -"
Women elected Mrs. Hugo hoSenoeIe
of Pittsburg president LOT lhree Ee'''S'
A discharge in bankruptcy was
granted 10 MI - ol'''S ,rl l0I p,rn|,s
,e' ,'' Nv Wy 49, e1ot1Q and
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''L ''SS'.' ~ 80 ''J yI,y,.,,,. ~I,,,, tho
NJ - - - ..;tI, -, ,,,urd,r op
S0' C'''i C'l,'! . u -, 81
visor 70 tIe government Of Corea was
boopr :, Gan Francisco
vaIpahIos worth over 100000 are
,,,o,.+o, 90 b,vo haen tal,an from the
bo,,. If Mrs Gaorge Wood. wealthy
pbfIodaInhia rac-u . rs she Law dead
in bor homo October ~.
Governor Curry of New Mexico is
IN WASHINGTON to renew the fight for
statehood for New Mexico and Ari-
:ona lie conferred with the president
rha is in full sympathy with the
povemaut.
y7vg,, aro - Ohio,s oightvaIght
counties are dry" Seven are wet.
This is the re ult of six months work
of the Ohio Anti-SalOon league since
the Rose county option law went in
to effect.
NAV irwin tha actress. who was
,tric1,or Will, illness - G. Touis has
called to show improvement thus far.
She has developed tonsilitis and prob
lb,y will not be able to resume her
angaeements for two weeks.
Tbo s+.+,,+os GOVERNING tho nawIv
,,,.,tjt,,+o5 I9oreio,, oouroiI ora shortly
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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-17
ADVANTAGES OF
FOREST RESERVES
WATERPOWERs PRODUCED. NAvI.
CATION AIDED AND TIMBER
CONSERVED.

Washington, Dec. IA special an
peal for a forest reserve in the south
ern Appalachian region was made be-.
fore the commercial congress IN. Gil.
ford Pihchot, chief forester of IN.
United States. He declared that the
southern Appalachians furnish the
source waters of a number of import
ant river systems, which afford the
possibilities of immense power pro.
duction. The geological survey finds
that these streams will produce a
minimum of 100000 horsepower, or,
taking as the basis of the six high
water months, nearly five million
horsepower. At least half OF this
can be developed at profit At $40
per horsepower per annum would be
worth TO southern industries $685.
600 600 a year. Probably less than a
half million is developed is yet
Water power to the value 1888 900 600
year actually used would give
the south a tremendous impetus
not alone in manufacturing, but in
transportation. in lighting and in de
velopment of every kind Water
power is valuable even where coal is
cheapest, but it Is most valuable to
those sections which have no deposits
of coal, and its advantages will
increase as the supply of coal grows
scarcer and the price higher
All the waters gathered in the
southern Appalachians flow to the
sea through navigable channels The
heavy rainfall and the steep slopes
lead to a very rapid run Off Fur
therIorc there are no natural lakes
for storage. If the flow were mt-
form the amount Of water discharged
by these streams is sufficient to
make their importance for navigation
very high. But the runoff is vari-
able. Moreover, the variability is. in
creasing.
Every one of the southern Appala-
chan streams shows that floods are
more frequent and of greater dura-
ton since the watersheds have been
heavily cut and severely burned
Excessive low waters too are increas-
ing i'll length and frequency. The
forest was the only natural influence
which tended to equalize the flow
Even on steep slopes the forests
served the purpose of changing the
water from service to underground
drainage. When the forest is cut
away the water instead of being alb
solbed is thrown off into streams in
foods. With the rush of water down
the slopes the soil is rapidly carried
away. The quilted condition of the
mountain fields is a familiar one.
The soil which nature put upon those
fields has been washed away and it
keep the lower courses of the streams
open for navigation
The Appalachians are Of profound
commercial importance for timber
supply, watepower and navigation
and there is a close interdependence
cannot be fully utilized nor can the
streams be employed for navigation I'M
less those lands which are kept in
tilIage are handled so that the soil is
not washed away To make the most
Of the region is therefore a problem
of engineering of agriculture and Of
forestry, and it concerns all classes
of our peOple-the manufacturer.
the farmers and the railroads. How
ever you look at it the Appalachian
and White mountain bill is a good
said Mr. Pinchot.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-17

the accident was the work of agita-
tors, but this rumor was quickly dis
proved.
The new cabinet of President-elect
Jose Miguel Gomez of Cuba, is semi
officially announced as follows: Sec
rotary of state, Justo Garcia Velez;
secretary of justice, Pelayo, Garcia;
secretary of the treasury, Mercellne
Diaz de ViIlegas; secretary Of govern
ment. Eusebio Hernandez; secretary
Of agricu.ture Ortelio Folio, secretary
Of public instruction, Canon Mesa;
secretary Of public works, Renito La
guereIa: secretary Of sanitation, DIT
Nicholas Alberdi.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-12-17
THEATER TRUST
IS |NCUBATINC

Chicago, Dec 14.-Seventy-fve the
aters between Chicago and San Fran
cisco. including the playhouses in
Omaha, Denver and San Francisco, are
to be merged into one company, ac-
cording TO a Chicago report which
credits the story to an authoritative
source Klaw and Erlanger are said
TO be the prime movers in the extern
sion of the so-called trust although
others are declared TO be interested.
Owners and lessees of the playhouses
in a great number of western cities
are reported as speeding toward Chi
cago TO confer with Erlanger, and the
attorney for the combine.