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The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-09-18
PIYTSBURG WOMEN YIELD RICH HARVEST IN TAXES.
Reveal Mortgages Long Hidden
Book Used
Telling bout toe

Pittsburg, Pa.-Wives OF hun
dreds OF Pittsburg rich men, after
several years of alleged holding out"
on the city assessors with their bonds
and mortgages, have at last been
taken into camp through a clever
move on the part of the assessors,
who are now boasting of it To the
discontinue OF the women who wear
blue silk stockings.
The assessors claim to have nncov-
cred assessable paper worth more
than S1,000,000, which has lain in
rosewood cases for years under cover,
the owners not caring TO pay taxes on
It, and so never made returns og il to
the assessors.
The Pittsburg blue book was the
medium through which the assessors
of Pittsburg hung one or the most
monumental bluffs ever worked OFF
on unsuspecting women. The cry
ing need of more taxable property
appealed to the assessors, and they
decided to call on the rich women of
Pittsburg, who have long been pus-
peCted Of having much taxable paper
which has never been turned in.
Thousands of letters were sent out
TO Mrs. John Smith, Mrs. William
Jones or Mrs. James Green, asking
them to please make statements to
the assessors regarding stocks. bonds.
mortgages. etc, that they were sup
posed to possess. This brought moth
ing Mesdames Smith, Jones and
Green ignored the summons as they
had done for years.
Finally the blue book was thought
of. There was some hard detective
work. end within "A week other let
ters were sent out, but this time ad-
dressed to Mrs Lucille Jam ison
Smith, Mrs. Vera Worthington Jones
and Mrs. Margaret Clancy Green,
and the letters read something like
this:
MY Dear Madam-You will please
furnish at once TO the Office of the
City Assessors full particulars re-
garding that block of Pennsylvania
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-09-18
MALLARDS IN A FARNIYARD.
How a Pennsylvania Raised and Do
mesticated a Flock of Wild Ducks.

Among the odd things to be found
within hailing distance of WACO Man
sion is a flock of mallard ducks-the
real mallards, such as are pictured on
posters and in game journals-at
peace and contentment among the
other ducks belonging to j. Franklin
Trowbridge, Of this place.
Strangers would at a cursory glance
scarcely see anything unusual in their
appearance, but there is vast differ
ence between the mallards and the
domestic variety. There is a differ
ence in size, in color and in carriage.
Several years ago Mr.. Trowbridge
secured some wild duck eggs and had
an old hen hatch them out. The eggs
were found along the Illinois River.
where is a common thing TO raise
mallards at home and use them as
decoys for other wild ducks.
AS stated, Mr.. Trowbridge got
them hatched, and now he has the
third or fourth generation of mallard
ducks. They wabble about the
premises as sedately as the homo
ducks. In fact. the mallards appear
10 be thoroughly at home in the Trow-
bridge yard, and they seem content,
too. From the first Mr.. Trowbridge
has kept their wings clipped. and
even at that sometimes when a flock
OF wild ducks come up from the river
the Trowbridge mallards hear the
call of the wild quack and squeak
and flutter and carry on at great
rate. eager to join the thronE in the
air. Except for these occasions the
domesticated mallards remain "pert"
and act as any sane. good old York
County duck would do.-Wago Cor.
respondence York Gazette.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-09-18
Her Real Suspenders.

Might have known it. When, years
ago. women began wearing mock sus-
penders in the form OF cloth straps
sewn to their shirt waists IL was a
foregone conclusion that soon or late
they'd adopt the real article. And
now it's come. Suspenders. OF silk. of
course. are indispensable TO the late
summer wardrobe OF the fashionable
girl. They are not visible, as were
the straps that preceded them. save
through the iiberality OF the peekaboo
waist. They are worn under the
waistband and. by an ingenious con-
trivance. fastened 20 the waistband
OF the skirt. Naturally, being OF the
eternal feminine, they come In a myr-
lad designs. and all are dainty. They
range the scale OF colors and each
hue comes in all its prettier shades.
Gold and silver buckles are attached
70 the feminine suspenders. each with
a tiny diamond or ruby or sapphire
set In the exact centre. Maybe. be-
fore long the more daring women will
wear them outside their waists. Af-
ter the sheath skirt anything may
happen.-Nsv York Presa
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-09-18

Railroad stock which the late
Mr.. -, your father, gave you on
your wedding day; also regarding
the mortgages and bank stocks which
were given you by your husband some
years ago. We wish to have an ac-
counting of taxes, and must ask you
to give this your immediate atten-
ton"
The rich women Of Pittsburg never
stopped to ask questions. They simp-
ly flew to the Offices of the assessors
to settle.
They did not know what might hap
pen later If the assessors could get
their maiden names and their family
history so readily, and they decided
to get their long held stock placed
on the books and pay their taxes.
Some Of the women almost tainted
when told that their maiden names
came from the blue book. The as-
SCISSORS sent out 1000 of these letters
and have been forced to put on ex-
ira clerks to handle the business that
is coming in.
The Pennsylvania Railroad, which
had 1000 holders of stock, is a
favorite for the rich Pittsburg wo-
men. The railroad some time ago re-
fused to permit the city assessors to
copy names from it's books, as did
many banks, and there was no way
to get at the fair holders Of this
property. Mortgages held on prop
critics outside the State Of Pennsyl-
vania was also safe from taxation in
Pittsburg as long as the owners could
keep the knowledge Of their owner
shin from the assessors
According to an employe OF the
city there is great fear on the part
Of persons of great wealth that they
may be arrested for perjury, since
they recently took oath as to all their
taxable possessions and did not in
clude taxable railroad stocks and
bonds worth thousands OF dollars,
but when the blue book was rung in
on them. they uncovered the hidden
store Of bonds.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-09-18
Emmett Dalton Pardoned From r


Bartlesville. Okla.-Emmett Dali
ton and Mrs. Julia Lewis were mar
ried here a few nights ago.
A few months ago Dalton was par
doned from the Kansas Peuitentiarv.
where he was serving a liie sentence
for participation in the raid on the
Coffeyville (Kan.) banks sixteen
years ago.
Julia Lewis is the widow of Err
nest Lewis. who died in a bloody fight
with Federal Marshals Keeler and
Williams in this city last November.
Lewis killed Williams during the
battle, in which more than twenty
shots were fired in small room.
Lewis served term in the Colorado
Penitentiary for train robbery and
had worried the authorities of Kan
sas and oklahoma by conducting a
modern Monte Carlo" on a narrow
strip OF ground which he declared
was owned by neither State. IL was
discovered later that he had moved
the State line marker six years be-
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-09-18
GERMAN OLD AGE PENSIONS.
o by O S,stem-Puncrs
Toxic

London. - David Lloyd-George,
Chancellor of the EXchequer, has
returned to London. He said, when
it was suggested that he discussed
naval programs in the course of has
stay in Germany, that he had gone
TO that country simply to investigate
the German system Of old age pen
sions. Punch, commenting on this,
says: Now that his recommpnda-
tion TO grant pensions has been
adopted he naturally feels that he
ought to seriously study the ques-
ton"
1t seems, according 10 Mr.. Lloyd
Georges statements I'm an interview,
that he did not find the German sys-
TEN 10 be of such n socialistic char
acter as he and his friends advocate
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-09-18

tentiary in Time 70 Find Her Widow
fore, preparatory to entering upon
this sort of enterprise.
The romance between Dalton and
Julia Lewis. known as the Cowgirl.
hegau twenty wears ago. when the
laIter was a preItS uaugnJer OF Texas
Johnson and lived with her parents
near the Kansas line eighteen miles
north of Bartlesville. She and Dali
ton were about the same age and they
rode races, practised shooting with
rifles and rode their ponies TO all
of the dances. While Dalton was hid
den from the officers Il is said that
the girl cooked his meals and kept
him informed OF the movements OF
the pursuers.
They will live here. where the
bride has large amount OF prop
erty The wedding was a very quiet
affair before a justice OF the peace.
The bride aud bridegroom have re-
fused TO accept n lucrative offer 20
so on the stage made by a Chicago
Snowman.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-09-18
Find 1870 Mexican Towns
Not Officially Recognized.

City OF Mexico.-The geographical
commission appointed by the govern
ment seven years ago 10 map all OF
the towns OF the country have just
made their report. They make the
astounding statement that they dis
covered 1879 towns which were not
officially known to exist and which
have heretofore had no federal con-
troll.
Many Of these towns are of cone
siderable sire. ranging In population
from 5000 to $4,000 people.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-09-18
eSS HIM GS
KNOWINGs

There are two persons married in
New York City each eleven minutes
in the day.
Few persons realize the volume OF
the real estate transactions in New
York City. Fhe records o9 the FIVE
boroughs show that there is an aver
age OF thirty deeds and twenty-seven
mortgages hled for record every busi-
ness hour OF the year.
Just 3,96S,66O cords OF wood were
used in the United States in the man
ufacture OF paper pulp last year, twice
as much as was used in 1898.
Cape Nome Is only two degrees
below the Arctic circle. and yet prob
abilities are that within a year or two
IL will become the site OF a town with
all the modern Improvements. The
rush In the direction OF the new gold
fields is almost unprecedented. and
IL the expectations now entertained
are realized. II will become the
largest gold camp in the world.
The royal palaces OF Bangkok form
a city in themselves. They consist ot
several hundred individual palaces.
surrounded by magnificent gardens
and pagodas.
Persons who make IL a business TO
contribute to the beautifying OF wom-
en- say that there are more OF them
with double chins in New York City
than in any other city In the world.
The extra chin comes after forty
years, and there are about 900 Of
them In the city that the owners are
trying to get rid Of.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-09-18

in Great Britain. He said: EN-
ployers Will tell you that nearly all
their workmen are Socialists" Re-
ferring to the pension system he said:
What a, gigantic scheme is theirs
compared with ours. Thirty-fOur
million pounds C$17O,OOO,OOO) are
distributed in pensions evety year"
lie added that of this sum the
State pays S14,000,000, the cost of
administration only. For the rest
S7O,O0O.000 is sick pay The work
men contribute two-thirds. Eleven
million pounds, or S55,0O0,000, is
paid 10 the aged and incapacitated,
masters and men contributing
equally, and S45,000,000 is paid for
accidents, which expense the employ
ers must meet.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-09-18
"Asleep at His Telegraph Key"

The Explanation of Many Serious WrecksA Danger Which the
Most Improved Signalling Systems Have Not Altogether EIm
nated---Dfficuy Experienced by Railroad Officers in
Preventing Subordnates From Becoming Careless
1.-The Man Who takes Chances" Menace
to the Travelling Public.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-09-18
Wars OF Future should
Re Settled nv Airshins

Washington, ID. C.-That airships
will play an important part IN the
next war between world powers: that
the Civil War would have lasted but
nine months II either army had a
balloon corps like that now at Fort
Myer. Va. and that the United States
Government should secure the SER
vices OF the Wright brothers and
Thomas 8. Baldwin. were the opinions
expressed by Colonel James Temper.
In command OF the aeronautical divi-
sion Of the British army.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-09-18
sN.E 3eAAN
~ ssgy5eS ss'yseS ~

Glass mirrors were known in 23 A.
d.. but the art OF making them was
then lost. and not regained till 1900
A. ID.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-09-18

Red glass hastens vegetation, whils
blue glass suppresses II. Sensitive
plants, like, the mimosa. grow fifteen
times higher under red glass than
under blue.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-09-18

llileS higher uuueT Ieu glass; budo
under blue.
Bullets of paper or tallow produce
far greater damage than metal ones
when used for short-distance firing.
1t was recently found on trial that.
whereas a metal bullet penetrated a
dead plank one inch thick and left
neat hole, paper bullet broke up the
plank. A paper bullet, passing
through six pieces of tin placed one
foot apart, buckled them up and
made them useless. whereas a metal
bullet merely left small round hole.
The merits OF the sugar beet were
discovered gradually. For ages ID
was used chiefly as cattle feed. Later.
the leaves were used as a vegetable.
and the roots were roasted as a SUBJ
stitute for coffee. About the middle
OF the eighteenth century a German
chemist named Marggraf found that
the roots contained a considerable
proportion Of sugar, but it was not
till 1901 that the first beet sugar
the aid OF King Frederick Will.
lam III.
In a paper read by Thomas Ryan.
OF Buxton, England, on radio-activity
in water from hot springs it is stated
that the experiments he had conduct
ed had satisfied him that the water
OF the Buxton hot springs at the
source had radioactive properties,
but when removed from the source
it lost these properties. He wished
TO induce students in the new science
and theory Of matter to direct their
attention to the phenomena mani
tested in Buxton waters. and also in
waters of similar hot springs.
There is plenty of evidence OF the
very best sort which goes to prove
that not only Europe and North
America, but the lands situated with
in the Arctic Circle, must have en-.
joyed a tropical climate. The num-
erous fossil remains found in those
regions are those of plants and ami
mails which, according to the present
state of our knowledge, must have
lived under conditions now found
only in the equatorial belt. Nothing
is clearer than the fact that the polar
cold is steadily gaining on the tem-
perate and tropical zones, and that
eventually the land will be all ice
fields.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-09-18
A Strange Case of "Nervcs."

The tendency toward sudden
"panic" on the part of men of this
class who have once been involved In
a wreck, constitutes a real danger in
railroad life. and explains why IL is
often considered necessary by the
master mechanics and superintend-
ents to discharge the engineers and
signalmen connected with an acci-
dent, even though they may not have
been in any way responsible for II.
An engineer who has once gone into
hs ditch with his machine" u never
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-06-16
KEYNOTE OF
The CAMPAIGN
Continued from first page.)

grown IN regions which nave hereto
fore been unproductive, and in every
way possible conserving the natural
resources of the country for our
selves and the generations to come
after us
The department Of commerce and
labor, organized in 1908, has been ac-
tive and potential in extending our
commerce and protecting Our labor.
1t has dispatched messengers to for
e1gn countries, particularly to South
America and the Orient, to learn the
needs and tastes of the people with
a view of increasing our tSAde. The
exports, which in 1903 aggregated
1892 million dollars, .ill, it is esti-
mated, in 1908 aggregate about 1900
millions, showing an increase prac-
t1cally to every country It's bureau
of statistics has established system
of recording the internal commerce
of the country on the great lakes and
at important interior centers. Its bu-
reau Of manufactures has brought
about moreintimate relations between
the manufacturers Of the United
States and buyers abroad and, by
bringing purchasers into closer touch
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-06-16
FOR SALE AT
THE OWL DRUG STOR

toms laws as changed Industrial con-
dtt1ons at 5home and abroad may have
made necessary, keeping steadily in
view the cardinal principles of pro-
lection to American industries and
American labor. AS evidence of its
good faith in this regard, the national
house Of representative clothed I'M
der the constitution with exclusive iu-
rlsdlction to originate all bills for
raising revenue on the s0th of April
just past, by formal resolution, au-
thor1zed and directed its committees
on ways and means, the organ of the
house having Jurisdiction of the ques-
ton, ito sit during the recess of CON
gress and to gather such information,
through governmental agents and
otherwise, as it may see fit, looking
toward the preparation Of a bill for
the revision of the tariff"
Supplementing this action on the
part Of the house Of representatives
and cooperating with it, the senate,
in the exercise of its constitutional
prerogat1ve to propose or concur
with amendments as on other bills"
on the 10th of May passed the follow
ing resolution:
Resolved, That the committee on
finance are authorized, in connection
with Investigations heretofore ordered
by the senate, with the view Of
promptly securing the information
necessary for an intelligent revision
Of the custom laws of the United
States, to call to their assistance ex-
perts in the executive departments Of
the government and to employ such
other assistants as they shall require.
and they are especially directed to
report what further legislation is nee
essary to secure equitable treatment
for the agricultural and other pro-
ducts Of the United States in foreign
countries, and they shall also, in the
consideration of changes of rates, Sc
cure proof Of the relative cost of pro-
duction in this and in principal com
peting foreign countries of the various
articles affected by the tariff upon
which changes IN rates Of duty are
desirable
The public declarations by con-
gress, upon the eve of the election.
give the most solemn assurance pos
sible that the work will be speedily
undertaken and pressed to an early
contamination.
In this connection it can be safely
promised that, whatever revision or
readjustment takes place under the
control Of the Republican party, it
will give just and adequate protection
to American industries and American
labor and defend the American mar
ket against the unjust and ,,neou,J
aggression from whatever quarter
they may come
Our recent financial disturbance
challenged the soundness Of our
monetary condition and brought to
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-06-16
Mr.. JOSEPH MONTRY OF
MAHNOMEN. NINA.
Writes Letter Which May Be of
Great Interest to Skin Suffer
ers of this City.
Mahnomen, Mimi, I-27-'o8.

Mahnomen, Mimi, I-2z-'os.
| Only few lines to let you know
that | have had bad leg with
the weeping Eczema for IS years.
spent quite a bit of money on
doctor bills but I could never find
relief. spent over 500 for the
medicines that | bought until I
found your advice about your D.
d. D. Prescription. I have used
81 bottles of it and / am cured
entirely for which I thank you
ever SO much for it. l will be
glad to advise all Of my friends
who have eczema of the wonderful
medicine.
| am your thankful friend,
Mr.. Joseph Montry.
What D. D. D. did in this case
it ought to do for you. This won
derful remedy is now recognized
by the foremost physicians and
scientists as the quickest and
surest cure for Eczema and skin
disease of any nature. This
remedy IS as safe and pleasant to
take as pure water, and is applied
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-06-16
COLONEL AlgM.s MRruous f7l HOWL,


COLONEL ALIENS WRTuous ~ HOWL.
In recent tissue of the Bemidji
Sentinel, the self-styled Colonel
Allen ends harrangue on tax mat
tiers as follows:
"rhe movement was started by
the Sentinel and at this date We
have not received one dollar of the
cost of setting up type or printing
single line, but we have received
between two and three hundred new
subscribers and will doubtless
receive twice as many more when the
farmers find out that there is a paper
in Bemidj that is not raising hell to
be bought off,"
That the Colonel" started" the
tax matter, no one, for one moment,
believes. The tax league was the
work of c. McKusick and several of
his associates, and the Colonel
was easily persuaded to print the
articles written for publication, those
writing them knowing by experience
that the columns of the Sentinel are
for sale, at any old time. 1t needed
but a small argument to show the
Colonel" where the money sub
scribed for membership in the league
would divert to subscriptions for the
Sentinel for six months-and the
Colonel" was therein" with his
usual gusto.
Relative to mot raising hell to be
bought off,
1t is a fact which Allen can't deny
that at the last two city elections
he has sold the Sentinel, body and
breeches, to the supporters of Mayor
Pogue, and John F. Gibbons of this
city is not at all backward in telling
of the fact-that he got the use of
the columns of the so-called Daily
Sentinel" to use as he saw fit.
In February, 1907, Allen was
afraid to stand for the dope" being
handed out by the Sentinel and hied
him to St. Paul, under the pretense
of working in the interest of Bemidji
securing the proposed state Normal
school; and he did not return until
the squabble over the election had
passed. He claimed no connection
whatever with that Daily Sentinel"
before election, but after Mayor
Pogue had won out, Allen swelled
with big Importance and told of
OUR wonderful victory''-the old
coward.
Last February, Mr.. Gibbons and
his associates felt the need of a
personal organ and again they
easily persuaded" Allan to resurrect
and rejuvinate the Daily Sentinel"
which had slumbered for a year,
Allen having told the Pioneer that
he had killed the hrst-born because
they wanted him to roast the Pho
neer-and he Wouldn't This
time the "Colonel' thought it in
cumbent upon himself to announce
that he had no connection whatever
with the Daily Sentinel" which
he did-over his own signature, in
the first issue, as the fight was
close one, and there was a posi-
bility that Mayor Pogue would
be defeated.
Again, when Mayor Pogue was
reelected, Allen again claimed
great victory for U.s." ignoring
the fact that John Gibbons had
again been the man behind the
quill"
A man who will so openly sell
his paper, and make no bones" of
doing SO, has little license to allude
to other people as raising hell to
be bought"
Aliens course in raising the
money to sell shares of stock for
his Sentinel Printing Company"
shows the caliber of the man; and
his I holier than thou" attitude i'll
becomes him.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-06-16
Steamer Again Damages rridee.

Superior, Wis, June 1.-THE big
superior-Duluth draWbridge, which
was wrecked two. years ago by the
steamer Troy, was struck again by
The steamer Wilpen. The span was
tearing completion and was Jared
ihree-eighths of an inch off its bear:
ags. It could stand an inch and a
half without going into5the bay again.
but the jar will set the date of re-
opening back about a month.