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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-04
nation WILL EXTEND
IRRIGATION SERVICE
Meeting to Be Held in albuquerque,
N. NJ, Will Give Impetus
to Great Work.
WILL HELP FORESTRY. TOO.
Projects to Be Undertaken May In
volve Total Expenditure of Hun
dred Million Dollars.

Following by, only a few months the
meeting OF the Governors to consider
the conservation of the nations re-
sources the sixteenth annual irrigation
congress. to be held in Albuquerque.
\. NJ, from Sept. 90 to Oct. 10. will
be gathering of unusual significance.
Within the next few years the work
ot the government for retaining the
unfruitful lands of the continent will
almost certainly, it is asserted. under
go big expansion, and where now mil
lions of dollars are being expended in
utilizing wasted water supplies and di-
verting them to fertile arid regions. the
draining of swamp lands and the prob
lem of reforestation are likely TO be big
questions that in the near future will
receive the attention of the scientists
and engineers of the reclamation ser
vice.
In the work at present undertaken
the next three years will witness an
expenditure of S39,0O0,0O0. according to
the broad program that is being carried
out, and this. added to S31 100000 that
already has gone into the irrigation
works concerned, will bring to compile
ton twenty-eight irrigation projects in
sixteen States, making productive
100000 acres of formerly desert
waste.
From this zine on, also, the gc,,ern-
ment engineers plan to begin opers.tion
on at least one big reclamation project
each year until the whole scheme. in
volving an outlay of $10O.O00.0O0, shall
have been completed. Plans will be
discussed for those to be begun, includ-
ing big works in the valley of the Col
orado River and in the Sacramento Val
ley in California. All Of which lends
magnitude and Importance to the com
ing congress
Will Consider Forestry Also.
The subject of forestry is slated for
extended discussion at this gathering,
its relation to irrigation being the most
intimate, it is said. Rivers rising in
devastated countries are subject to an
nual floods that cannot be controlled
and work only further devastation each
year. while the flow can be turned to
no useful purpose.
In the country surrounding Albu-
querque, where the modern wonders OF
| irrigation are TO be discussed, there
are traces Of ancient works full as
wonderful in their way because created
by primitive peoples ages ago who were
the first irrigators of the West
The most remarkable part of iC. ac-
cording to the government engineers
who are surveying new canals for these
same regions, is that the ancients, with
their crude instruments, hit upon the
most advantageous routes for carrying
out these big engineering works, and
In many sections to-day, it is said, the
surveys are plotting out the new works
right along the lines Of those In use
centuries ago.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-04
CHICAGO.

Business in the aggregate discloses a
steadier basis and responds promptly to
improved weather conditions. The volume
of payments through the banks again
makes an encouraging comparison. and
trading defaults are close to the normal.
Much satisfaction is derived from, the
better outlook in leading manufactures,
furnace and finished mill products being
in renewed demand. Seasonablc mer-
Fchandise was sharply stimulated by the
heat wave, the principal retail lines max
ing extended sales of mems and women's
wear, while jobbers had many rush orders
for reassortment from both city and coun-
try. Cotton goods move more freely on
lower prices and wholesale stocks undergo
the desired reduction. Food products re-
fleet well sustained absorption, shipments
of hardware and builders supplies make a
nearer approach to those of a year ago.
and there is increased interior demands
for farm tools, wire and wagons.
Bank clearings. S216.4G0. 7O1. exceed
those of a year ago. when the week in
cluded only five business days by 10.1 per
cent.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number %. against % last week and
IL year ago. Those with liabilities over
5000 number s. against last week and
8 in 1907.-Dun's Review of Trade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-04
NEW YORK. ,

Weather, crop and sradeA reports are
irregular. There are some rather less re-
assuring advices from some sections as TO
leading crops. due mainly to excessive
rainfall in wide areas; bad roads are a
necessary result of this. and trade in
affected sections naturally has suffered.
In other places. where few DAYS Of
warm. forcing weather have interv ened.
trade is better. and in instances being due
to reductions, which have resulted in large
stocks of goods being cleaned up Taken
as a whole, the eastern and central west
ern States send best reports as TO final
distribution. In some primary lines of
distribution the better feeling noted some
time ago has become more widespread
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending May 2S number 263.
against 2S4 last week, 142 in the like
week of 1907. 127 in 1906. ia in 1905
and 1914 in 1904. Business failures in
Canada for the week number 81. as
against 80 last week and IA in this week
of 1907.-Bradstreet' Commercial Re-
port
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-04
TOLD IN A FEW LINES.

An operation on Jacob Ritz, who shot
himself at New York, removed four ounces
of his brain, but he retains all his facul
ties
Alvin F. Heaton, Jr., a school boy il
Kanab. Utah. is said to have confessed
numbering Mary Stevens, 10 years old, te
whom he had been attentive.
United States citizens residing in the
City of Mexico are conducting an excit
ing ballot TO see whether or not intoxi
cants shall be served at the Fourth Of,
July celebration.
The defalcation of William Montgom
cry, formerly cashier of the Allegheny
National bank at Pittshurg, will react
S1,25O,OOO, instead of $46J,000. as frs
estimated, it is said.
William Il. Truesdale, president of TIT,
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western rail
road. in an interview in New York declar
ed that the anthracite coal trade had no
suffered as greatly as generally supposed
during the business depression.
Fire destroyed property valued at SOS,
600 at Barrytown Landing. y. Y. Nearl,
every building in the town was destroyed
1t is believed the fire started from &
plumbers lamp at the Riverside Hotel.
A bill appropriating $4,000 for s
memorial to Abraham Lincoln on the sit,
of the Lincoln birthplace in Kentucky
was passed by the Senate upon motor
of Mr. Wetmore.
An earnest but Ineffective appeal was
made in the House by Messrs. Richard
son, Alabama, and Jones, Virginia, fer
a pension of $50 a month to Ellen Der:
nard Lee, widow of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee
Gen. Crozier, chief of ordnance of the
army, issued an order in Washington, D.
c.. to have all caliber so Calling and
Colt automatic guns turned into the
Springfield Mass armory for RECLAIM
bering and resighting FOR model of 1906
ammunition.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-04
( :AlSG,essi -
The News y

Pretty soon steak will be a sign of
wealth.
The American navy is still the unfeated
wonder of the world.
The Japs realize that peace has its dis
asters no less than war.
The desire to take Harry Thaw to Eu-
rope ought to be encouraged,
Congress has been just as busy as
though it had been doing something.
Prince Relic refuses to plunge at Monte
Carlo. He prefers to play a sure thing.
1t takes a strong minded woman to sup
port the weight of Merry Widow bon
net.
Evelyn Thaw says she wishes the pub
lie to forget her. The public wishes it
could.
An authority says diamonds are hard
er than STEEL" They are certainly harder
to get.
Now let us hear from the delegate on
Merry Widow hats as one of our national
resources.
Some are born to trouble. some hunt for
trouble and some marry into the Gould
family.
Mrs. Hetty Green denies that her
daughter is going to get married -ow.
Husbands will probably be cheaper before
the year is out.
The House of Representatives costs us
$50 minute. Yet people still say that
talk is cheap"
The fact that the japanese invented
limericks thousand years ago is enough
TO make some hot-headed people want to
go to war with them.
Every young naval officer knows ex-
actly how to build battleship. just as
every man knows how to run a farm. a
hotel or newspaper.
Down in Georgia they start a State
campaign a year or two in advance. so
as to find time to say all the hard things
they think about each other.
When Mrs. Hetty Green begins spend.
ing $50 day at hotel it's a sign tina /.
the panic is over.
The price of foreign noblemen has been
reduced but the better ones are still
scarce and expensive.
The man who swallowed a check for
Sl.o must nave some personal knowledge
of undigested securities
Gov. Swanson says "a clear conscience
is to be preferred to gold'' But some
people have neither one.
If Russia and Japan do not maintain
the ''open door" in Manchuria. Uncle
Sam is prepared to smash a window or
two.
Business must be picking up. High
waymen have just made haul of ST., 900
from a Texas train.
Paris concludes that in a Pittsburg d.
vorce suit each side is as bad as the 9TH
or, and probably worse.
When peaches sell for $3.50 each. it is
comfort to know that there is more
nourishment in potatoes.
If freight rates are raised, shippers viii
be inclined to believe that Government
regulation is working backward
Some of the governments trust prose
cutions are badly overcapitalized. The
$3O.O00,OO0 suit against the Sugar Trust
hasn't amounted to even 80 cents.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-04
CURRENCY BILL PASSES.
Measure Is Forced Through Despite
Filibustering Tactics.

Washington correspondence:
With the end of the most remarkable
filibuster in the history of the Senate
and the passage of the Aldrich-Vree-
land emergency currency bill by both
houses and the winding up of other
business, the Sixtieth Congress adj
journed sine die at IL 80 o'clock Sat
urday night.
At 1 80 o'clock the Senate adopted
the report of the confereeS of the two
houses on the currency bill by the de-
cisive vote of 43 to %, and thus was
taken the last congressional step neces-
sary toward the enactment of emer-
gency currency legislation, toward
which Congress has directed its princi-
pal effort since it convened last Deem
Der. The result came Unexpectedly
soon but not until the Senate had been
well worn out by filibuster which.
while not largely supported. made up
in intensity what it lacked III numbers.
The obstructive tactics were begun by
Senator La Toilette Republican) of
Wisconsin when the report was taken
up by the Senate. Friday. and being
prosecuted by him all Friday night,
was continued Saturday by Senator
Stone (Democrat) Of Missouri and Sen
ator Gore (Democrat) of Oklahoma.
Mr.. La Toilette broke the record as a
long distance speaker. talking eighteen
hours and forty-three minutes; Mr..
Stone held the floor for six hours and
half, almost without interruption,
than two hours.
When Senator La Toilette ended his
record breaking speech at Z :03 a. m.
Saturday he was still in strong voice.
and said that he was reluctant" to
yield the floor. but realized that other
Senators wished to speak.
Many of the Senators were routed
out of bed Friday night and early Sat
urday morning and brought into the
chamber TO make a quorum. Among
these were Senators Stone and Gore.
the Senate leaders deciding that it
would not be good policy to allow them
to enjoy an uninterrupted nights rest
and be fresh for the task of continu-
ing the filibuster began by Mr.. La Fol-
lette. Many of the Senators were
brought in partly dressed by the dep
uty sergeants-at-arms
President Roosevelt was summoned
to the capitol to sign bills during the
last hours of Congress at O'clock. He
was waited upon by a committee COM
prising Representative Payne. Hep
burn and Williams. and Senator'S Hale
and Teller. Shortly before 10 o'clock
he signed the compromise currency bill.
Previous to his signature of the cur
rency bill the President had handed it
to Secretary Cortelyoy. who carefully
read its provisions. Two other men,
bers of the Cabinet were present-Sec-
retaries Root and Garfield.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-04
HARD LUCK TALES.

At Mazomanie. Wis. William Royston,
a carpenter who was crushed under fall
ing building during the tornado, died from
the effects of his injuries. Two other
carpenters were also injured.
At Beresford. s. d.. Peter Baker, a
pioneer of about so years of age. shot
himself with a shotgun. The night be-
fore he returned from Sioux City in a
very weak condition and encouragement
over his broken down physical condition
is supposed to be the cause.
Critical illness of more than twenty
people Las resulted from the eating OF
pressed chicken and new cabbage at q
church social given by the men of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Rockwell
City, Iowa.
During an electrical storm near James
town, y. D.. John Alpersbach Frank
Dupfe and John Ihomallo had their barns
burned and many farm animals killed by
lightning. In endeavoring to save num-
Der of setting hens in a burning chicken
coop. the clothing of Mrs. Thomalso be-
came ignited, and she sustained burns so
serious that for a time her life was de-
SPARED of.
When Walter Potter and wife returned
from Greene, Iowa, TO their farm home
they found the home destroyed by fire and
the children, Charles, aged ., and Merle.
aged Z, so badly burned that they died
during the night. The children used
kerosene to start a fire and the oil can
exploded.
Heads of the lakes boat lines that OPP
crate between Superior and Canadian
points have received notice from the
Canadian immigration department to take
passengers emigrating for Canada IN
less they are provided with SO in cash.
This is an old order revived because of
the present cheapness of labor in Can
ada.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-04
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

Ruth Bryan Leavitt, daughter of VIII
liam Jennings Bryan, will go on the
stump for her father this fall, it is an
nounced, at Omaha.
Bessie Johnson Mariani. daughter of
Mayor Tom l.. Johnson of Cleveland. has
brought suit for divorce against her hus-
band, Frederic Mariana, Italian steel ex-
pert.
Members of the class of rs of Yale
university will erect a flagstaff near Wood
bridge Hall. New Haven, Conn, in honor
of Augustus c. Ledyard, one of the Yale
men who lost their lives in the Philip
pines.
The first GYM esium TO be opened by
the Y. NJ. c. A. in Russia has just been
started in st. Petersburg. at the expense
of James Stokes of New York City.
The Mexican government has announc-
ed that if the Yaqui Indians surrender
they must do so Internationally, all of the
requests of the chiefs for leniency having
been refused.
Reports by the public service commits
sion Of New York show 4.707 accidents
in April on street railways, subways and
elevated roads. Preceding months show
ed: January, 1921; February 1851 !;
March, 1853
Ernest Z. Bicknell CT Chicago was
elected president by the conference on
charities and corrections in session at
Richmond, Va.
Tamisuka Yokohama and Yasuo Matsui.
japanese architects from Toxic, have ar
rived in New York for the purpose of
studying the construction of American,
theaters and gathering data for the Toxic,
artistic and imperial tieater.
John Murray. the publisher has OBJ
tanned a verdict of $37 800 damages
against the London Times because the
Times accused the publishing firm of ex-
tortion in selling the letters of the late
Queen Victoria at a high price.
Frances Wynne, New York salesgirl,
has obtained $4,000 from n patent-medi-
cine concern because. she says. il used
her picture as an advertisement without
her permission.
The London Economist announces that
Delagoa bay, in Portuguese East Africa.
probably will be leased to the Transvaal
as an outcome of a conference recently
held al Pretoria.
1.-THE Educational theater," or the chill
dren's theater, as it is popularity known
in New York, is curing young people of
their longing for the professional. OF
$50 who have taken part not one has
gone into the theatrical fraternity, says
its director.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-04
FEATURES OF INTEREST
ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN
AND is TO BE.
All Sides and Conditions OF Things
are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to
make it Com p1ete.
j. K. Jones is No More.

Former United States Senator James
K Jones, of Arkansas, died in Wash
ington, d. c., Monday after an illness
of a few hours, aged SO years. He was
one of the leading Democrats in the
Senate from 1885 to 1908, and was one
of the strongest supporters of William
]. Bryan, having acted as chairman of
the Democratic National Committee
and conducted the campaigns of 1896
and 1900. Since leaving the Senate in
1908 he had conducted law practice
IL Washington and had not actively en-
gagged in politics. Last week Senator
Jones returned from visit to his
daughter, Mrs. Leonard Corrigan, in
Arkansas, and was apparently enjoy
ing good health. Complaining slightly
Monday morning, he remained in bed.
and at $3.50 in the afternoon he died,
the immediate cause of his death being
heart failure.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-04
ABDUCTION ENDS FATALLY.
Indiana Man Shot While Attempting
to Garry Off Woman.

An involved matrimonial difficulty
resulted the other afternoon in the
shooting and death Of W. w. Patterson.
keeper of the Syracuse, Ind, boat
house on Lake Wawasse. and Ernest
Franks. his brother-in-law. was dan
gerously wounded in desperate run
ming battle in automobiles, which was
fought near Millersburg.
According TO reports of the affair.
Patterson when shot was attempting
to abduct Mrs. j. VI. Sargent of SYRIA
cuse at the point of a revolver, out of
revenge. it is said. because Mrs. Sar-
gent. close friend of Mrs. Patterson,
was accused by Patterson of having
disrupted his family affairs. Patter-
son was married TO daughter Of DR..
Franks of Ligonier. having eloped with
her. She subsequently left him and
went to live with her father in Lyon
Ter. Mrs. Sargent was visiting at the
Franks residence.
Patterson called Mrs. Sargent on the
telephone and told her he was coming
after her. To this no attention was
paid. as the young man had been act
ing strangely for several days. Later
he went TO Landlord Hoover of a local
hotel and said he was Federal officer
and had n warrant for Mrs. Sargent's
arrest Together they started is an
automobile to DIR. Franks house. On
the way he met DR.. Franks, father Of
the wounded Dian, and Mrs. Sargent,
who were driving to town. Covering
them with revolver, he dragged the
woman from the carriage and throw
ing her into the automobile, forced
Hoover TO start toward Millersburg.
News of the abduction quickly spread
through Ligonier. Ernest Franks,
brother Of Mrs. Patterson, organized
a posse and started i'm pursuit, taking
the lead in n big touring car. At Mil
lersburg Patterson left his auto and
entered the telegraph Office. Then the
posse from Ligonier arrived i'm an auto
mobile. Franks ordered Patterson TO
drop his revolver. Instead Patterson
fired and wounded Franks. At this
member of the posse fired, fatally
wounding Patterson.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-04
SMELL WILL IS VOID.
Jury Finds Millionaire Insane When
He Made Testament.

The jury in the sensational Smell
will case, on trial Mt Clinton, H.. re-
turned verdict setting aside the will
of Colonel Tom Smell, the eccentric
old millionaire, Oh the ground that he
was insane at the time the will was
written.
The verdict awards $4,000 OF Colo
mel Smells fortune to his only living
son, Richard. The children OF Thorn
ton Smell will also receive $4,000.
The original will gave Richard Smell
9S cents week; the breaking of it
makes him almost millionaire. Mabel
Smell Mcnamara, the protege of the
dead man, who was by the will to re-
ceiye $1,000 year, gets nothing.
The case attracted much attention
because of the number of women in
volved. Many women, some of them
members of prominent Illinois fami-
lies, wrote love letters to the old colo
mel which brought them rich returns
in the way of gifts, usually of money,
from Smell. Among the persons in
volved and whose letters were brought
out at the first trial were the wife and
daughter of Rev. f. A. Hamilton. But
the most notorious of the letters We're
those said to have come from Mabelle
Smell Mcnamara, whom Smell said was
his niece, but whose relationship was
denied by the contestants. She is al
legged to have gotten 100000 from the
colonel, before he made his will.
That the letters written Smell by
Mabelle Smell and other women wreck
ed his mind and character was the dec
laration made by Richard Lemon. coun-
sci for the contestant in the notorious
case, in his closing argument Colonel
Smell was sane,' he declared, until
these vampires got possession of him
and wrecked him In mind and character
and influenced him in giving up his
wealth.
Colonel Smell, whose will practically
disinherited his son Richard, became a
millionaire by shrewd deals i'm Illinois
land He moved to Clinton in the early
sos, and with small capital began his
business. Every collar he could get
and save-and ne saved most of the
money that fell into his hands-he in
vested in land. Much land bought at
$1.25 an acre he sold at $500 an acre.
At the time oe his death he owned
5000 acres of fine farm land in the
vicinity OF Clinton. Previous To the
death of his wife in 1875 he was con-
sidered an exemplary husband. When
her body was buried he was prevented
from jumping into the open grave and
begged TO be buried with her
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-06-04
&MDs
gP@RR

Jack Atkins won the rich Metropolitan
handicap at the opening of Belmont Park
IN New York.
handily from Nebraska university in
eigh. innings by the score of 3 to !.
Jared from a vicious blow that had
sent him to the floor and so dazed that
he could hardly see. Rudolph Unholz was
declared beaten in the eleventh round of
his go with Joe Cans at San Francisco.
Pinned to the floor for fifteen minutes
beneath a platform on which rested 5000
pounds of iron, Warren Travis of Will
liamsburg. who is known as a profess
sional strong man, received injuries in
the Brooklyn Athletic Club house which
may result in his death.
Sir Cleges. George Longs colt. won
the Blue Grass stakes at Churchill Downs
in a terrific drive with Dark Night
through the stretch.
Benning race track will be removed
from the District of Columbia into Mary
land because Congress has imposed PEN
atty of $500 for betting on races within
the District.
Trance, a lively youngster, placed at
the prohbitive odds of to 9, won the
Suffolk selling stake at the Metropolitan
Clubs closing race at Jamaica. lie COW
cred five furlongs in one minute five sec
onds
Allie Moore annexed the title of two
mile king in the Americana Canadian pro
fessional roller skating championship for
that distance held in Chicago. Moore
took the grand final in > 10 40, leading
John Flannery of Youngstown by two
feet at the finish.
In the dual track meet between Penn
sylvania freshmen and combined school
teams, at Philadelphia, Roy Mercer, an
1S-year-old George school boy, broke the
worlds interscholastic pole vault record,
held by c. Freeney of Chicago. clearing
the bar at l. feet y inch Mercer also
won the quarter-mie race in 0:J0 Ii and
the broad jump at p feet o inches
In the Metropolitan Driving Clubs
matinee races on the Charles river speed
way. in Boston. Chase, a bay gelding
(2:O7Hl. owned by c. III. Beltedeau,
made new worlds record for trotters for
a half mile on speedway. The first heat
was trotted in / minute fiat, lowering
the previous record of ] :O0H, held by
Mack Mack, and the third heat, also won
bv Chase, was trotted in :00A. The
second heat was won by Phoeben ~, in
:00A.