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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-11-20

has become known that the legislature
Is not only Democratic on Joint bal.
lot but that the Democrats will have
almost as many members OF the Sen.
ate as the Republicans.
From James r. Watson's standDoint
the brightest oasis In the desert of DE-.
feat was his home county Of Rush
which gave him larger plurality than
II ever gave before 10 nominee for
once on any ticket. His plurality was
5l2. Two years ago in his race for
Congress he carried the county by
only 80 plurality.
unofficial returns indicate that the
Democrats will have so OF the 1870
members Of the legislature. which viii
give them a majority of 10 on joint bal.
lot.
The defeat OF Senator Hemenwav Is
one or the most stunning blows the
Republican party has received In In.
diana In many years. After March 4.
next year the Democrats will have a
member OF the Senate for the first
time since David Turple retired from
that body.
IL Will be like a "Reminiscences OF the
old-time political days in Indiana for
this State TO have one Democratic Sen.
ator and one Republican.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-11-20
MAY BE SENATOR ROOSEVELT.
Washington Gossip Has II that He
May Succeed Platt.

Washington. Special: That Presi-
dent Roosevelt may be the successor
of Senator Plat in the Senate is re.
garded by many in Washington as not
at all improbable Those who regard
this as possible say they have assur-
ance from the President himself that
he would not be entirely averse to the
acceptance of the senatorial Office un.
der conditions as they will be after
March 4. So far as is known he has
made no recent expression on the sub
ject. but he has said within the last
year that with Mr.. Taft as President
he would not feel the came hesitancy
about entering the Senate that he
would feel with some one I'm the
White House with whom his relations
were not as intimate as they are with
Mr. Taft.
His general attitude has been ad.
verse TO entering the Senate. because
he has felt that as a member OF that
body he would be called upon to crit.
else his successor in the presidency.
and this he would feel a delicacy
about doing
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-11-20
ROOSEVELT EDITOR SURE.
Official Announcement Of His Connec-
tion With the Outlook.

New York. Special: Ii is announced
here officially that on and after the 5th
of March, 1909. Theodore Roosevelt
will be associated with the Outlook
editorial staff as special contributing
editor
Mr. Roosevelt will be more than a
mere contributor. His headquarters
will be at the Outlook office. and he
will be in frequent consultation with
its STAFF. His position will thus be
somewhat analogous 10 that OF a con
sulting engineer who IS called in to
give the benefit of his expert co-opera-
ton TO the staff of engineers in charge
of a great undertaking like the Pana-
ma canal.
Mr. ROosevelts contributions
though editorial in their nature will
be signed by his name. and will be the
free and unmodifed expires.
sion of his personal convictions.
AS already announced Mr.. Roose-
welt. after retiring from the presi-
dency, will sail for Africa. and the re-
ports of his scientific hunting expedi.
ton will be published in Scribner's
Magazine. The Outlook will have the
benefit of his foresight before he sails.
and will give to its readers occasional
articles from his pen on topics of cur
rent interest.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-11-20
OUTLINE Of MESSAGE
TO CONGRESS HAS BEEN COM.
PLETEp BY ROOSEVELT.
CUTS OUT BIG TASK FOR TAFT
viii Urge Rigid Control OF All Com
bines by Body Like inter
state Commission.

New York, Special: A dispatch TO
the New York American from Wash
ington is as follows:
The President has already com
pleted the outline of his message to
Congress. Much OF the material for IL
has been gathered together and many
features have been roughly drafted.
IL can be stated that the President
will send what can be recognized as a
characteristic message. He will re-
iterate a demand for those things
which Congress has not yet got around
TO giving on the strength of former de-
mands and will come out for some new
features OF progressive legislation.
In short. in his farewell message
the President may be expected TO cut
out large task for the new Admins
tration, which will assure that there
will be plenty doing for some time TO
come. The tariff question has been
relegated to the new Congress and the
new President. Judge Taft will have
the writing of the tariff message, and
1t viii be his first communication to
the legislative branch OF the Govern
ment. He is going TO work on il at
Asheville during the winter and have
II ready before Inauguration.
With the tariff taken care of Presi-
dent Roosevelt will present the case of
those various reform measures he has
been pressing in the past The list
will include:
Practical and effective amendments
to the Sherman antitrust act. with the
view Of establishing some such Gov
~ mo nj -
dustrial corporations as the Interstate
commerce Commission maintains over
the railroads
Passage of the Government en-
ployes liability act
Increase of the naval establishment
by the construction Of two new battle
ships. at least, and probably renewal
OF the request for four.
Provision for the establishment of
forest reserves in the Appalachian re-
gion.
Inauguration OF an effective FEEDER
al control of the water powers of The
country with a view TO preventing
their monopolzation of private inter
ests and TO assuring that power shall
be sold at reasonable rates
internal waterways improvement
and development.
Campaign fund publicity.
One section of the message to
which the President has devoted him
self with especial satisfaction is the
discussion OF the battle ship fleets
trip around the world Ii has been a
source of qualification to him that the
display has been so strikingly sue
cessful, both as a demonstration of the
fitness OF the navy and of the excellent
relations between the United States
and the nations of the world. The
President will take occasion once
more to press for a permanent policy
Of naval expansion.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-11-20
DIVORCE FOR sRYAN's DAUGHTER
Reported w. J. Asked Her 20 Defer
Action Until After Third Battle.

Kansas City. Mo. Special. Now
that the election Is over, will Ruth
Bryan Leavitt. daughter OF William j.
Bryan, defeated candidate for the
Presidency, bring suit for divorce? A
former member OF the Bryan house
hold at Fairview declares that she
will. The Leavitts.' declared this
person, have been on the verge Of a
legal separation for more than a year.
Mrs. Leavitt was anxious TO bring d.
vorce proceedings even before the
Denver convention. Her father point
ed out that such a step might bring
unfayorable comment. and urged that
the matter be deferred. After Mr.
Bryan received the nomination for
President al the hands OF the Demo
cratic party there were still greater
reasons for deferring the matter
owing TO increasing criticisms OF the
divorce evil. have every reason to
believe the proceedings will be insti-
tuted now within very short time"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-11-20
FRENCH GENIUS PASSES
vICTORIEN SARDOU, PLAYWRIGHT,
DIES AT PARIS.
HEROES KNOWN WORLD OVER
Wrote First Play in a Garrett, but
Realized Fortune and Sue
cess Afterwards.
HEROES KNOWN WORLD OVER

Paris. Gable. Nictorien Sardou,
who had been III for a long time, Is
dead from pulmonary congestion. He
was the Dean Of France dramatists
and a member of the French Acad-
envy. The man whose first play was
Kissed, and who then wanted TO go to
America to seek his fortune. died rich
and honored with the proud title Of
Frances greatest and most prolific
dramatist.
Sardou was a man of singular
charm. and he was greatly beloved.
He was born in Paris September Z,
1881, the son of Leandre Sardou, the
compiler OF several publications.
His first comedy. La Taverne Les
Etudiens," was produced in 1854 in
the Odeon, then the second state thea
tre but ii proved a complete failure.
He then wrote the comedy. Les Pat
ties de Mouche." which was produced
with great success in 1860. and subse-
quently adapted for the English stage
under the title of "A Scrap of Paper"
Sardou lived at one time in a gar
ret and was Frustrated by typhoid fe-
yer, but neighbor. Mile. De Brecourt.
nursed him with tender care during
his Illness from which he slowly re-
covered He married her the follow
ing year and was by her introduced to
Mile. DeJazet. who had just estab-
lished the theatre which was named
after her NJ. Sardou's pieces. after
his first failure. were performed at
this theatre Nine years after his
marriage Sardou was in possession OF
a handsome fortune and a European
renown. when a gloom was temper
arily cast over his career by the death
of his wife.
Almost every land knows the stage
heroes and heroines born out of Sar-
dou's resourcefui mind Nine. Sarah
Bernhardt has won her greatest tri-
umphs in roles he wrote for her. such
as Tosca Fedora and Gismonda.
Nine. Sans Gene" was written for
Nine Rejane in which she portrayed
the outspoken. goOd-hearted wife OF
Marshal Lefevre.
NJ Sardou realized a princely for
tune by his writings and built a splen-
did chateau at Marlyle.Ray. He mar
ried, on June H. 1872. Mile. Smulier,
daughter of the Conservatism OF the
Museum Of Versailles. He was dec
Grated with the Legion of Honor in
1868 and was elected a member Of the
French Academy in 1877.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-11-20
CRACK At ROOSEVELT
TAKEN BY KAISER IN SUP
PRESSED INTERVIEW.
STORM OF PUBLIC WRATH
Would Have Been Aroused by Article
Withdrawn by Century Maya
zine at Big Loss.

New York. Special: F. II. Scott.
publisher of the Century Magazine.
states that the omission in the next
number OF an interview with Emperor
William was purely a matter of court
esy to the Kaiser and that the maya
zine gladly assumes the large financial
loss occasioned by the widespread adj
vertising VI the article written by Will
lam Bayard Hale
In the smothered interview IL is
rumored that the Kaiser spoke of
President Roosevelt and of matters af
fecting the United States in a manner
that would have aroused as great "A
storm of public wrath in this country
as has been aroused in Great Britain
by the Kaiser's interview in which he
says he outlined the campaign against
the Beers
Said MIR Scott: Il have nothing to
say as To whether the request that the
article be suppressed came from the
Kaiser or not. l have nothing To say
regarding any exchange of messages
or anything else The Century simply
believed il courteous 10 omit the pub
LEGATION OF the interview and has done
so"
~ II q HdlNtI vi simple courtesy.
Mr. Scott said. The magazine does
not consider the matter of expense.
No such arrangements have even been
thought of"
In advertising the interview the
Century announced that il dealt with
impressions of President Roosevelt
war and Christianity-the true mis-
sion of wealth-the principles OF archi-
tecture-the Roman Catholic Church"
Since the Kaiser has begun to ap-
preciate the storm raised in England
and Germany by the interview with
him printed in London he is reported
TO have become worried about the ef-
feet OF some of his statements regard
ing the first and last subjects Of the
advertised interview. In literary cir
cles in New York 1t is regarded as a
certainty that the interview would
never have been Withdrawn excepting
at the express request of the Kaiser
and his Ministers.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-11-20
IN OUR FLEETS WAKE
Britain May Send an Armada OF Bat
tie Ships Around the World.

London. Gable: II has been said
that following the successful maneu-
vers OF the American navy the British
Government is planning to send fleet
OF warships around the world. on
cials OF the Admiralty were ques-
toned, but all they would say was:
There is no information we can give
you on this matter"
This negative statement, however,
would seem 10 support the intimation
that such tour had been suggested,
but under the present political condi-
tons In Europe IL is not thought at all
probable that the Admiralty would
dispatch feet in any way compar-
able TO the American feet.
There is a possibility that the
squadron under Sir Percy Scott.
which is at present in South Africa,
and which has been ordered 10 South
America, may be brought home by
way of the far East and the Suez
Canal.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-11-20
Teddy and Bill to Go nun,ino.

Washington. ID. c.. Special: Presi.
dent Roosevelt and William II. Taft
probably will indulge in a hunting trip
together about Thanksgiving in the
mountains of North Carolina There
is TO be no visit to Pine Knot this
year The hunting has not proven ex.
citing or successful down that way
Mr. Taft is said 10 be planning TO take
a long rest from his campaign labors.
Asheville. n. C.. is reported to be the
point he has selected
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-11-20
MISSOURI GIVES TAFT 4,235.
Stone Takes Senatorial Nomination
From Folk by 1892.

ST. Louis. Mo. Special Returns
compiled give Taft 317.l24 votes in
Missouri and Bryan 312,SS9. a plural
!ty for Taft OF 1926.
Hadleys plurality for Governor is
1928.
Returns almost complete give Stone
the Democratic senatorial nomination
over Folk by 1889 As the Legisla-
ture is Democratic on joint ballot by
six votes Stone is assured OF re-elec-
ton TO the Senate. provided all Dem
ocrats I'm the Legislature abide by the
advisory vote OF the primary.
Lieutenant Governor John c. Nc
Kinley has probably won the Repub-
lican senatorial nomination over Rich
ard c. Kerens by about $4,000 votes.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-11-20
Morse and Curtis Guilty.

New York. Special: Charles w
Morse. until year ago leader in the
world Of finance. and Alfred n. Curtis
former president OF the National Bank
Of North America. were found guilty
in the criminal branch of the United
States Circuit Court on charges Of
misapplication OF funds and falsifying
the books Of the bank Curtis was
sentenced to Is years in the penlten.
tiary.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-11-20
Miss Roosevelt in Peril.

Genessee. y. Y. Special: Ethel
Roosevelt was riding behind the
hounds in the Genessee Valley clubs
fox hunt when her saddle horn slip
ped as her mount was taking a fence.
The thoroughbred became fractions,
and IL looked for a moment as IL she
was in for bad tumble Harry Wilson
OF Genessee dashed up in time to put
Miss Roosevelt's horse under control.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-11-20
Child Spends sit,5oo a Year.

New York. Special: That It has
cost him sli 500 year to feed. clothe.
house and educate l2year-old Carolyn
n Dorsett. is asserted by her father
and guardian. r. Clarence Dorset.
LAWYER OF this city. according to an ac-
counting filed by him in the surro-
gates Office in Newark. ~ J. The
childs income is about $4,000 a year.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-11-20
American Tobacco a Trust.

New York, Special The Govern.
ment's contention that the American
Tobacco Company is a trust operating
in restraint OF trade and in violation
OF the Sherman antitrust law. was
sustained in decisions handed down
by Judges Lacombe. Coke. Noyes and
Ward In the United States Circuit
Court here Saturday. Judge Ward dis
scented.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-11-20
Must Roll Peanut EIGHT Miles.

Alto Pass. Ill. Special: According
TO the terms Of an election wager.
V. b. Sheets will roll a peanut eight
miles with1a match There are sew
eral long. steep hills to climb. and Mr..
Sheets fears he may not complete his
task in time to vote for Mr.. Bryan in
1910
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-11-20
CLOSE RAGE N STATE
DART or G. o. p. TICKET WINS BY
CLOSE MARGIN.
MARsHALL'S VICTORY SIGNAL
n,mocrats Also Elect Nine Congress
men and Majority OF the
Legislature.

Governor
THOMAS II. MARSHALL (Dem.)
Lieutenant Governor
FRANK J. HALL (Dem.).
Secretary of State
FRED A. SIMS (RepD.
Auditor of State
JOHN c. BILLHEIMER (Rep).
Treasurer OF State
OSCAR HADLEY (Rep).
Attorney General
WALTER LOTT (Dem).
Reporter Supreme Court
GEORGE w. SELF (Rep)
Superintendent Public Instruction
LAWRENCE McTURNAN (Rep).
State Statistician-
]. l.. PEETZ (RepD.
Supreme Court. Fifth District
q A. MYERS (RepD.
Appellate Court. First District
DAVID MYERS (RepD.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-11-20
NO New courthouse

Brazil. Ind, Special: The PROPOSE
ton to build a new 100000 courthouse
In this city. which was submitted to a
vote Of the people at the general cleo
ton. was overwhelmingly defeated.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-11-20

Washington. Special: The Emperor
Of China is seriously III, according TO
a dispatch received by the State De
partment from Minister Rockhill at
Pekin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-13

was destroyed by fire in 1896. the erection
of a new building on the old site was
projected. this taking shape in the act or
March :, 1899, appropriatinG Sloono
therefor. This, with other sums voted TIL
1872 was sufficient to erect the marble
structure now the general land office. Ii
has not been much changed from the
original plan of four stories, save the
basement has been arranged for office
rooms and the roof raised. 1t cost about
100000. and when the department re-
sumed business it was thought the build
ing would meet the requirements for
years to come. Nevertheless authority
was given for the purchase of additional
ground and by 1S45 the government
owned the entire square, with the build
ings. McLean's row. before noted. was
among them. and the city post office
moved to and was located here for some
fifteen years. IT occupied one of the three
houses and private families the two
others. Before many years additional ac-
commOdatlOnS We're required and the ex-
tension of the building on the three re-
naming fronts was determined on. BY act
of March. 1870. 100000 was made avail
able TO commence operations. and by other
appropriations the work was continued.
and was so far advanced that in 1NoS
some of the rooms were occupied. but II
was not fully completed till war times. In
the meantime the city post office had
vacated the 18th street house, which, with
others. was demolished To make room
for the building. and was located in the
Seaton House. now the Central Union
Mission. on Louisiana avenue between
9th and eth streets. till quarters in the
new building, fronting F street. were
fitted up for il. Over a million dollars
was spent on this work. AS rule there
was but little renting other than that
stated above done by the department or
its auditor JAMES CROGGON.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-13
Natives Outclass Artisans of Ulster
Mystery of Salmon's Return.

From the Outing Magazine.
1t is almost invariably the rule that sal
mon> Matched in the headwaters of a
stream will return to that stream to
spawn four years afterward This is what
is known as the mother stream theory
II is called theory. and indeed there has
been much argument against it. hut actual
experience has proved il TO be almost
automatic. At various hatcheries, young
salmon fry. upon being hatched. have been
liberated into the waters of the stream
with distinctive notcheS cut in their tails
or fms. Four years later. fishermen or
trapmen. having been placed on the alert
by intelligence from the hatchery oper-
ators. have actually taken dozens of these
disfigureu fish. now full-grown and re-
turned to their mother stream to spawn.
And the writer knows of only one instance
where fish with hatchery marks have re-
turned to any other stream except the
one in whose tributaries they were Matched
In this instance, marked fish from Puget
sound hatcheries on the Ska git river We're
taken in the nets of fishermen on the
Fraser river. This scarcely disproves the
mother stream theory, however, because
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-13
CHASE'S COACH GIFT TO NATION
VENERABLE VEHICLE IS WELL
PRESERVED.
Handsomest Equipage in Capital in
1S62-Lincoln Rode in It.
Curious in Construction.

An interesting relic of bygone days is
soon to be presented to Uncle Sam for
exhibition in one of the Washington mu-
seums 1t is the oldfashioned coach
which was used by Salmon p Chase, back
in the fifties.
For twenty-four years the vehicle has
occupied an inconspicuous place in the
salesroomS of Charles o. YOungs carriage
house AGA and 466 Pennsylvania avenue.
Now Mr.. Young says he proposes to pre-
sent the carriage to the government free
of any cost.
1t is his hope that it may be made an
exhibit in the National Museum
The venerable coach was probably con-
structed about sixty years ago. 1t is still
in good state of preservation. for in those
olden times vehicles and other things
We're constructed solidly and to withstand
the ravages of time, like the tabled par
sons one-hosS shay"
Handsomest Carriage in 1862.
In 1862 the old coach was said to be the
handsomest equipage in Washington. 1t
transported through the streets the reign
ing society queen of that time. the daugh-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-13
Natives Denied Opportunities.

1t is well to recall. however. that they
have had undue advantages over the
native inha bitants and that if the latter
had such equal opportunities in Ireland
as they have had in the United States
they would doubtless have held their own
with the other races. Tree hundred
years ago all of the land of Ulster was
confiscated and handed over to the Scot
fish and English forefathers of the pres
ent masters of Ulster and Belfast. The
native Irish who were suffered to remain
became laborers on the properties they
once owned.
Within the past ten years some of the
native Irish have been permitted to pur-
chase part of the land owned and taken
from their forefathers without compensa-
ton.
1t is a remarkable fact that the United
States census of 1900 shows that for every
100 farms occupied in the United States
persons of Irish parentage are foremost
In ownership. The figures are as follows: