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The Prescott daily news., 1908-06-27
Miss Beaumont Arrives.

Fort Worth, June 27.-Irene Beau. mont, aged seventeen, who was kid. mapped from Fort Worth thirteen years ago, arrived here from Goshen, ind. She is now surrounded by lux ury. Her father is a rich cattleman of west Texas, but has not been To- cated.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-06-27
MExlCANS ARRESTED.
Eleven Taken Into Custody at City
 of Ell Paso.

of Ell Paso.
 Fl Paso, June 27.-Eleven Mexicans of this city, alleged to be members of an organization which is planning a a revolution against the Mexican gov ernment, were placed under arrest Thursday. The first arrest took place about noon, when the police raided a house in the Mexican quarter of the city, capturing four Mexicans. Nine rifles, four revolvers and 1900 pounds of ammunition were found in the house: also description and map of several of the principal buildings in Mexico were found. The proposed rev. olution, if the authorities have the correct data on. the matter Is 2 very
The Prescott daily news., 1908-06-27
KILLING AT SAWMlLL.
GIL Reese Is Dead and Green Livsey
 Under Bond

GIL Reese Is Dead and Green Livsey
 Under Bond.
 Longview, Tex, June 27.-At Black. burn and Lacy's sawmill, nine miles south, Green Livsey and Gil Reese Friday renewed quarrel they had the previous day at Elderville. They met just as the sun was rising Friday. Both were armed with shotguns. Each fired, Reese was shot in the head. He lived twenty minutes. Livsey was unhurt. Both were prominent men. Reese leaves a widow and two little boys, Livsey is unmarried. The latter gave bond.
, 1908-07-08

Over Gravstederne forer han ct noagtigt Kort og over Begra-
xelserne n noiagtigt Journal med RuDrikker til Stedet efter hummer
eller M@rke, hvor Begravelsen e sket, Begravelsesdagen' den afdodes
Nayn. Stand, Alder og D5dsrnaade e1er sidste Sygdom efter Opgv-
ende af den, der bestnler Craven, hvorhos han forsyner hver GRAY
med n Markepml ibrendt Diet Journalen for samme anforte Num-
mer
Han indsender we'd hvert Aars Udgang til kommlsslonen e
Genpart af Kortet' og we'd hvert Kvartals Udgang en- Odskr1t 1or
Diet for1obne Kvartal of Journalent
, 1908-07-08
s
Translation.
Peter Carl Limpricht,
Governor Of the Danish Vest Lndia Islands, Knight of
Dammebrog,

MAKES KNOWN: By virtue of Colonial Law
1U have Professionally sanctioned the following Ordinance
concerning Regulations for the Public Cemeteries in the
Danish West India Islands, passed at 3rd discussion by the
Colonial Council for St. Thomas and It. Jan and by the
Colonial Council for St. Croix on respectively the 4th and
the oath June 1908.
From the day when the management of the Public Cemeteries il
the DANISH West India Islands is transferred to the Municipalities con
cerned, there shall be in force for these Cemeteries the following
, 1908-07-08

the oath June 1908.
From the day when the management of the Public Cemeteries in
the Danish West India Islands is transferred to the municipalities CON
celned, there shall be in force for these Cemeteries the following
REGJL IONS
Every grave shall be of such length and breadth as the corpse and
the coffin may require, and shall be Oft deep, or deeper in proportion
to the height of the coffin, 50 that no corpse shall be covered with less
than 4 it. of earth reckoning from the top of the coffin to the surface of
the ground.
The grave shall be ready in as hours after it has been ordered;
all digging however, must take place in the day time, and must never
be undertaken when it is dark or in the night.
AS soon as the corpse is lowered, the earth must be thrown in and
the grave made up before the evening.
The management of the Cemetery in each town is placed undera
Commission consisting of the Policenaster and 2 members Of the Colo
NAL Council concerned elected from its midst. The Commission elects
its own chairman.
And discharged-in the latter case with 3 months notice from either
ssds y Il the Government Hoietn emit d and according hig tho to GrG~m sa"o eih :" n + o S"1,
notice from either side-by the Commission.
and the former also receives the fees which are assignee. to him below.
The amounts of the salaries are. fixed on the annual grants.
The Commission decides on the plan according to which the Gem
eteries ar to be laid out, sees that they are kept in proper condition
and that order and propriety prevail therein, also that the Sexton and
Overseer perform the duties incumbent upon them,
1t receives, attests and forwards to Government the accounts
given in by the Sexton and ,iinspects the maps and books kept by him
for the grave plots and the burial,
the cemeteries are binding on the owners of grave plots, and the Com
mission is entitled, at their cost to remove from the grave plots owned
by them whatever, in it's estimation, is disfguring for the cemeteries
or is injurious to other grave plots. q.
The Sexton takes care, that the graves dug, filled in and made
M in a proper manner, and he has to find the necessary appliances for
these purposes and for lowering the corpse into the grave, such as
rope, planks, shovels or spades, hoes, &c, andhas also to pay the
labourers required when these IRE not provided, for him, IS N the
granting of a free grave and free burial to the party concerned, by the
The Sexton is entitled, but not bound, to take on himself the
masoning up of corpses in vaults
He is to take the oversight of the cemeteries and to see that order
and propriety prevail there, that the fencing and gates are kept in good
order, that the pathways II kept free from weeds and refuse, and are
and in this respect he must SCI to it that those grave plots whose
owners do not keep them in order are sown wlthg grass m ar re- KEEP
The wageworker., 1908-10-10

gress, the Department of Labor was
reduced to a bureau along with fish
and fisheries, lighthouse board, bu-
reau of standards, coast and geodetic
surveys, etc. Congressional Record,
January 18th, 1908, pages 9O4, 9O5,
906.
The democrats did not believe that
it was right to humiliate labor by
reducing it's position from that of an
Independent department, to tnat of
bureau. The Record, pages 927, O28,
929, of the same date as above re-
ferred to, shows that motion was
made to recommit the bill to estab-
l:sh Department of Commerce and
Labor, to the committee on interstate
and foreign commerce of the house,
where the bill originated, with in
structions to report department of
commerce and a department of labor,
each entitled to a secretary in the
cabinet of the president. Every af-
frmative vote was cast by the demo
The wageworker., 1908-10-10

ticularly to labor's direct concerns?
Has he overlooked the fact that the
Commissioner of Labor, at the head
of that bureau has been especially
active for years past in arbitrating
the differences between employers
and workers and settling labor con-
troversies of all sorts? Does Mr..
Bryan read the newspapers"
Ii Mr.. VanCleave had read the
Daily Congressional Record, he would
never have made the above state
ment. The bureau of labor, when
first created, was included in the de-
partment of interior, and afterwards,
by act of congress, it was made a
separate department with Carol D..
Wright as superintendent. All that
this department lacked was a secre-
tary to be qualified to take his place,
as the secretaries of other depart
ments, in the cabinet of the presi-
oent. When the Department of Com
merce and Labor was created by con-
The wageworker., 1908-10-10
, greeted with tremendous applause
c.f tho tuo nla tforroc Tho Rruan

greeted with tremendous applause
Of the two platforms. The Bryan
home guards turned out in their new
uniforms, and the Havelock band
made good music.
Mr.. Bryan was feeling in fine form,
and was greatly pleased with the re-
ception given him. Despite the rain
and the awful mud the crowd that
listened to him was enormous, and
had the weather been right it would
have been the biggest political meet
ing ever held in Lancaster county
Mr. Bryan did not confine himself
to a discussion of the labor planks,
but considered every issue of the day
and showed clearly the difference be-
tween the two parties on all questions
affecting the interests of the wage
earners. The meeting was a great
success. 1t is pretty generally be-
lieved that Mr. Bryan will receive a
handsome majority in the 'sShop
City"
The wageworker., 1908-10-10
uNTRurHFUL vANcLEAvE.
Facts From the Records That Con
vict Him Of Falsehood.

Facts From the Records That Con-
viet Him Of FaIsehood.
The wageworker is in receipt of a
letter from a friend who exposes the
lying tactics of vanCleave, and at the
same time points out the difference
between the democratic and republi-
can attitudes towards labor in the
present conflict The letter is from
Washington, D. c., and is as follows:
am in receipt of circular with
the compliments of Mr. j. w. Van.
Cleave. president of the National
Association of Manufacturers, en-
titled: Mr.. vanCleave's Answer to
Mr.. Bryan" in which is used the fol-
lowing paragraph:
Does not Mr.. Bryan know that in
the Department of Commerce and
Labor. there is a bureau devoted par
The wageworker., 1908-10-10

IN OLD DAYS WoRkMEN Us.s
TO ADVOCATE CERTAIN Limits
OF OUTPUT IN ORDER TO PRO-
LONG THE WORKING SEASON.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE THE
HARDEST WORKED AND PRODUCE
MORE TO THE MAN THAN ANY
OTHER, AND, Therefore, WHEN
CUR OPPONENTS SAY THAT WE
WANT TO RESTRICT OUTPUT
THEY TALK IN BAD GRAcE.-SAM-
UEL GOMPERS,
The wageworker., 1908-10-10

Gratis and every dissenting one by the
republicans.
Mr.. VanCleave will hardly contend
that a bureau with a commissioner, as
now exists, could possibly represent
labor and it's interests as well as
secretary in the cabinet of the presi-
dent. The republican party by its
every vote of record stands COM
mitted against recognizing labor, by
creating a labor department with a
secretary in the cabinet of the presi-
cent. The democratic party stands
in favor of it, as the record shows.
The wageworker., 1908-10-10
A JUST CRITICISM.

Roosevelt uses his high Office to
elect Taft. Strauss, Wilson, Root and
other cabinet officers are on the stump
for Fat Boy Bill" while the civil serv-
ice commission throws dust in the pub
lies eyes by reprimanding letter car
rier for "pernicious activity in poll
tics" What monumental fools the ad-
ministration must think the people are
Labor Review.
The wageworker., 1908-10-10
BRYAN AT HAVELOCK,

Arouses Enthusiasm of Union Men
With Stand on Labor Question.
William J. Bryan spoke to an enor-
nous crowd at Havelock last Monday
evening. Several hundred union shop
men were in his audience, and he was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-11-22
STRENUOUS F4T4LTSu.

Commander PeaTy was talking in New York
about the luck he would have in reaching the
pole with the Roosevelt
They say you are a fatalist," said a re-
Iorte-. They say that you believe you are
.ated 70 find the pole before you die
The explorer laughed.
II I an q fatalist" he said. 4 assure YOU
ny fataliSn Is Of the working and strenuous
End-lke that ~ old Abe Cruger.
odd Abe lived in New England in the days
q Indian warfare He was a fatalist Of a pro-
n0unced type. nevertheless, he would not ven
tire forth without MS bIunderbuss-
-one day he had an important errand, but
TIE hunde-5uss, when he came TO get it, was
missing from The rack made Of antlers where
always hung. Some one Of his family had
taken it Abe sat down TO wait till it was
Fought hack
But. Abe. ! thought you were a fatalist?'
ai5 friend.
50 ! am The old man answered.
Then why bother about your blunderbuss?'
tainted the friend. You are in no danger
,-1z the Indians. since you can't possibly die
lL your tine comes
Yes said the old man. But suppose was
q meet IN Indian and his time had come. 1t
sgudnt do for me not TO have any biunder-
--ss would itg"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-11-22
THE child CRITIC.

Princess Lwoff Parlaghy the Hungarian
painter. asked in Philadelphia to address
women's club on portrait painting subject
that would have had much interest, for the ar
list has done portraits of the Kaiser, the Car
and other celebrities.
But she declined to deliver the address.
I cannot speak impromptu, she said, and
what is more wearisome than a speech read
from notes?
"A friend of mine once spoke before class of
school children on literature. She mad spent
week writing the speech. She read it TO the
little ones. as she hoped. with great success.
But the next day she heard that boy on
being asked by his mother what had happened
at the school replied carelessly:
"'Oh. nothing much, except a lady talked to
herself on a piece Of paper"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-11-22
GOING TOO FAR.

Vivian Burnett the original of the sun re-
membered Little Lord Fauntleroy,' at po-
Htical convention discussed with Il reporter a
certain party manRuvre
.'They went too far there" said Mr.. Burnett
s'Thev made themselves ridiculous by their ex-
cess Do you know what they reminded me or?
They reminded me of Juvenile elocutionist my
mother often tells about.
This lad at a school treat, got up to recite
the first piece of his life He was ambitious; he
wished to make a great success of his piece, and
he had been told by his teacher that the secret
of elccution the gesture-for every phrase
its fitting gesture
The opening line of the boys selection was
The com lifts it's tail of fire
s-Ire overzealOus boy, to fit its proper gesture
to this line. lifted up the tail of his coat and
held il out in horizontal position
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-11-22
TO THE POINT.

Elderly aunt suppose sou wondered, dear
,tle Hans. Why left you 50 abruptly in the
-ns. I saw man. and, Oh, how 1 ran!
Hans-Did you get him?-Fliegende Batter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
To Abolish Child Labor,

From Pennsylvania comes the news
that one branch of child labor may be
abolished, says Technical World Maya
zine. In the coal mine regions of Penn
sylvania are employed some 24,000
breaker boys, who pick out the slate
from the coal at the cOllieries. The
Delaware & Hudson Coal Company has
installed a mechanical slate picker in
its colliery at Wilkesbarre and the re-
port is that it works successfully.
Twelve boys and the mechanical spiral
slate pickers now take the place of the
three hundred boys who would be re-
CURED in a plant of that size under the
old regime. The company will probably
place these mechanical pickers in all
its other plants.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
why She Sang the Hymn.

A well-known bishop relates that he
was in a small country town where,
owing to the scarcity of good servants,
most of the ladies preferred to do their
own work. says a London paper.
He was awakened quite early by the
tones of a soprano voice singing Near
er, My God. to Thee!" AS the bishop
lay in bed he mcditated upon the piety
which his hostess must possess which
enabled her TO go about her task early
in the morning singing such a noble
hymn.
At breakfast he spoke to her about
it, and told her how pleased he was.
"Oh, law" she replied. that's the
hymn boil the eggs by-three verses
for soft and five for hard"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
A misunderstood JeSf.

Lord Lytton, when viceroy of India,
was seated one day at dinner next to a
lady whose name was Birch, and who,
though very good looking was not
overintelligent. Said she to his excel.
lency:
Are you acquainted with any of the
Birches?"
"Oh, yes!' replied Lord Lytton. 81
knew several of them most intimately
while at Eaton-indeed, more intimate,
ly than ! cared to-"
my lord" replied the lady, you for.
get the. Birches are relatives of mine
And they cut me- resumed the
viceroy, but" and he smiled his won't
ed smile, Il have never felt more in
clined to kiss the rod than 1 do now
Sad TO say. Mrs. Birch did not see
the point, and told her husband his ex-
cellency had insulted her.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
Expense of Marketing Crops.

Expense of Marketing Crops.
The expense of hauling crops to mar
ket is estimated at SSO,0OO00O in ad-
dition to railway transportation
charges. The government has recently
conducted an extensive investigation
of the cost of marketing crops with a
view to promoting agricultural econ
omy. The expense is so great that
much valuable land remote from trans
portation facilities is practically value
less for cultivation and can only be
profitably utilized in live stock hus-
bandry, as cattle, sheep and horses can
be driven cheaply to remote railways,
where the expense of hauling field
crops would eliminate all profits in
agricultural products.
Wheat, oats, corn. barley and fax
cannot proftably be produced from re-
mote transportation facilities. Corn is
the leading cereal and costs 8 per cent
of the crop to haul it to market. 1t
is an expensive crop to produce and
market and the cost of hauling it to
the elevators is a heavy tax on the
industry. Wheat costs around ) cents
per bushel to market, and potatoes
nominally the same. Tobacco and cot
ton are among the least expensive agri-
cultural products to market owing to
their high value per pound. Wool
averages the longest haul owing to
large percentage of the crop being pro-
duced on the ranges remote from rail-
way transportation and costs an aver
age of 30 cents per hundred pounds to
deliver to market, the average haul of
wool being forty miles
The expense of marketing farm crops
falls on the producer, whether he hires
his products hauled or takes them per-
sonally. The farmers time and team
have a per day value when occupied
with operations on the farm and have
an equal vakle when devoted to mar
keting agricultural produsts.
The government investigation was
conducted with the object of discover
ing methods of delivering crops to mar
ket at reduced cost. If the expense
could be cheapened one-tenth it would
save farmers SS,OOO,00O annually.
The only practical method suggested
by the government experts was to i'm
prove the roads of the country. to
cheaper the expense of moving crons TO
market. With better public thorough
fares the farmer could double the cana
city of his load and reduce the cost of
marketing proportionately. Like rail-
ways which the government subsidized
with enormous grants of public lands.
the improvement Of the roads of the
country should command national and
State appropriations and not burden
the local authorities with the cost OF
etterInents..Soodails Farmer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
TO SAVE HISTORIC HOUSE.
Plans for Preservation of Francis
Scott Keys Home.


Preservation of the old home Of
Francis Scott Key, author OF the "Star
Spangled Banner" is at last assured,
writes a Washington correspondent Of
the New York Globe. The old house
where Key lived is in historic George
town, now a part OF Washington, and
while substantially built structure, it
is fast falling into state of dilapida-
ton. The Francis Scott Key Memo
rial Association has decided TO pur-
chase the property for $1,000 and TO
expend a liberal sum in restoring the
building TO the condition it was when
occupied by the author of the national
anthem.
Charles Weisgerber, who preserved
the home of Betsy Ross, the birthplace
of the American flag, in Philadelphia.
will take charge of the Key mansion.
Mr. Weisgerber originated the plan to
preserve the Ross home and has man
aged its finances since that time. He
has agreed TO assume control of the
Key home, and it is thought the sue
cess of the movement for preservation
of it is now a certainty.
After the house or mansion" as it
is generally called. has been restored
the plan is to open it to the public.
The association thar has undertaken to
preserve the property has a distinguish
ed membership, including such men as
Admiral Dewey, Admiral Schley and
others, and membership certificates VIII
be issued with view of getting a large
number of people all over the United
States interested in the movement.
Handsome reproductions Of the paint
ing, The INSPIRATION portraying
Francis Scott Key anXiously watching
from his prison ship in Baltimore har
Dor to see whether the flag still floats
over Fort McHenry. are being given to
persons forming clubs to aid the OBJ
jects Of the association.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
POOR STATE FOR PHYSICIANS.
Remarkable Health Statistics of the
Methov Valley, Washington.


\ remarkable showing of the health
fulness of the state of Washington is
furnished in the Methow valley, in
GkanOgan county, says the Seattle Post
Intelligencer. During the past year
there has not been a single death in
that valley, which has population of
5000. In the valley there is only Il
single physician and he has not found
work enough to keep him busy. The
healthfulneSs thus shown is not con-
fined to the Methow valley. 1t is All
attribute of all parts of the state, fact
which will be abundantly demonstrated
in future statistical tables, when the
states registration figures are recog
nized and reported with those of Other
states.
Up to this time official publications
on the death rate are confined to the
cities of the state where there is reg
istration of all Deaths Those figures
make a remarkable showing. For ex-
ample, recent bulletin of the census
bureau shows that the death rate in
Seattle for 1906 was only 1877 per l.
600 inhabitants, while in Tocoma the
death rate was 11.9 per 1000, figures
lower than are to be found in other
cities of similar population
At that, the bulletin does not, in fact,
Go full justice to either city. For eX-
ample, the rate in Seattle is based on
the census bureaus assumption that
the population of Seattle in 1906 was
104, 1G9, an abSurdly low estimate.
There are more names in the Seattle
directory than the whole number of
people estimated to be in the city two
years ago, according to the census bur-
eau.
When attention was directed to the
extremely low estimate of Seattle's
population, the director of the census
took the remarkable ground that to
credit Seattle with a large population
would be to show such low death
rate as to be absurd He insisted that
the local estimates of population must
be erroneous. because they did not cor
respond with what he considered Il
proper death rate for that number of
people. BY this logic it is clear that
instead of a population of 5000, there
cannot be any people in the Methow
valley, because there were no deaths
there last year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-06-04
Ink Ern1e ON the Pen.

The winter of 1904 in Europe still
holds its place as one of the most Sc
we're and remarkable on record. So
tremendous was the cold that trees
split asunder with deafening reports.
The strangest sight of all was on the
Thames. Here on more than d foot
thickness of ice a thoroughgoing town
OF streets was erected. There were
tailors' shops, butchers shops, tobac-
conists, printers and, indeed, many 9TH
er business all being carried on as if
they had stood there for years.
Whiting anywhere but near a large
FIRE was impossible, as the ink froze
in pot and on the pen. whole barrels of
liquids were frozen solid. and wine was
sold N one pound blocks. New bread
on being taken out of the oven would
Immediately stiffen and become solid.
There were hundreds of deaths from
the cod, and throughout the frost the
poor suffered acknowledgements
Weekly.