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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-20
WANTS INQUIRY
FOR CONGRESS
INTOGAS PRICE
Chairman Smith, of House District CommR-
tee, Will Introduce Bill for Appointment
of Experts by the President
Urges Commission to Investigate Lighting
Situation and Work OF Other Public Service
Corporations TO Assist Legislators.

Representative Samuel w Smith, chairman the House District
Committee out an interview today which he plain
position in the peoples fight for freedom from the hadhps the
Gas Monopoly He said:
although have introduced the Commissioners b asking that
the OF public service commission be conferred upon them
another will shortly be whipped into shape by my committee provd
Ing that the President Of the United States shall appoint as
public service commission whose Congress shall
determine what laws shall be enacted governing public utility cor
poons in the District and regulating the prices they charge for all
their products and services.
REPORT ON GAS PRICES
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John Hobbs Fights for
Freedom When Seiz-
ed by Police in
New York.
Is Wanted in Kansas
City for Crime Com
rlitted Six Years
Ago.

NEW YORK, Feb. 10-After a world
wide search. covering a period OF six
years. New York detectives today ar
rested John Hobbs. wanted by the au-
thorities OF Kansas City. No. charged
with the murder OF SIX persons.
The prisoner. known 10 the police Of
this city and Boston as John Kelly.
blew Up a safe and set hre 10 a build
ing, in which the lives were lost. The
detectives accosted him at Grand street
and the BOwery, and he drew a pistol
and attempted 10 nre one OF them
struck him with a club. knocked him
unconscious, and. after adjusting hand
cuffs. revived him and walked him 10
headquarters.
Eluded His Pursuers.
Pinkerton detectives. Secret Service.
and private detectives have visited ev-
cry point on two hemispheres hunting
for the man. Only recently he turned
up IN Boston. and after having blown
three safes there, Il became known
that he was the same man wanted IN
Missouri. Inspector McCanerty obtain
ed a goJd description Of him yesterday
and assigned detectives TO search for
him. Walking up the BOweTy they
espied him and his arrest followed.
Hobbs is known as one Of the most
desperate burglars in the world. He Is
said 70 have killed at least nine men
IN his time.
Bafhed The Police.
he was taken in custody here three
years ag0. but he was discharged for
lack OF evidence. Two hours later it
was learned that he WAS the man
wanted IN Kansas city.
Only recently he was sentenced 10 q
prison term IN Boston. but IN some
manner got out before his term expired.
The Missouri authorities were wired
10 and reply came 10 hold the man
untn requisition papers could be Sc
cured. The police who caught him will
share IN a reward Of 5000
lie was arraigned IN the Center
Street police court and remanded-
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concentrations Of the commission
implicitly.
The District Committee does not
believe that there should be any
stint in the salaries paid to this
proposed commission. Everything
should be so arranged that the
President viii be able to secure the
services Of the three best-known
men in this country on the subject
Of public service corporations.
The reports and findings Of this
commission should be the best and
most authoritative in the country.
They should result in the District
Of Columbia being held up to all
cities as the model Of excellence in
what is required of public service
.corporatisls.
Made Service Here the Mcdel.
Let the country realize that the
price of gas, the standard Of gas,
the arrangement OF pressure, ard
ali these things. shall be so gov
erned in Washington that this city
will be the authority for all other
cities and communities.
Let it be the same in all other
corporation matters, when the cor
porations are public service con
cerns-whether the dispute be with
the gas. the electricity, the tele-
phones, or what not.
1T is safe to say that the recon-
msndations OF such a commission
will be enacted into law by Con-
gress. do not feel qualified to
say What the price of gas should
be. l don't believe any member
of the House could say accurately
in this regard But If we have a
commission, composed OF eminent
men, whose recommendations ara
backed by experience and knowi-
edge, we Will have a ground on
which to stand. We will knox how
to legislate
Urges his Scheme.
The Commissioners have asked for
these powers. but If they had them.
they would have u employ experts.
Therefore, Il seems 10 me that the best
thing 70 do is TO lei the commission
be appointed by the President directly.
A commission appointed by The Press
dent would soon be a recognized authOTi-
~ on the matters with watch it dealt"
Mr. Smiths recommendation OF sucd
a plan and such a bill carries with it
the assumption that mis- committee viii
report it lavOrably to the House The
sentiment Of the House at this time
Is for cheaper gas. The members. IA
any event, VIII pass tie bill as outlined
by Mr. Smith, but they may pass a
provision that. in the meantime, the
price of gas sheli be lowered.
What many members Of the House
gre opposed 10 IS allowing any posi-
biiity of the imitation Of the gas com
pany being consumrlated. They VIII
want 10 be assured that there is no d.
rect danger OF this In the interval that
is required for the proposed public
service commission to make It's recon-
meHdatious To Congress This danger
- removed in great degree, however. BIZ
the fact that II will necessarily be 8
long ttmc before the Supreme Court az
the United States win take I'D the an
peal of the Gas Monopoly from The de-
cision OF the District Court OF Appeals
which dealt the company a vveli-deserved
blow and refused the imitation.
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What Congress Did
IN THE HOUSE.

Inpeaenment charges against I5d~a
Whitley, OF shanghai China, were res5
Judiciary 'i
me District bills which rgere on tba
calendar for today wee Dostponed
Tor consideration until Saturday next
Senator Iatiuier
Tne Committee on Insular Affairs IA
vorably reported a bill 10 Increase fha
mem berssip of the Philippines Com
mission from eight TO nine members.
Chairman Smith. of the District Com.
uiittee, announced himself in favor Of
the appointment by the President OF
public service commission for the
District of Columbia
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PeritonitiS Follows Oper-
alton for Appendicitis
at Providence
Hospital.
Senate Adjourns Out of
Respect for the Dead.
Burial in South
Carolina.

Senator Esbury Churchwell LatiLler OF
South Carolina Gied at Providence Hos
pital at 9:15 O'Clock this morning. His
death was due to peritonitis resulting
from an operation for appendicitis. After
the operation Z was discovered that SEN
atoT Latimer was not suffering from ap-
pendicitts. but a In1re serious all
-nent. and Ittle hope yes entertained for
lis recovery.
When the end came Senator Latimer 5
four daughters and son were gathered
around his bedside. He VI conscious
almost 20 the end and was able to
recognize his loved ones.
At Bedside All Night.
Senator Latimer spent a restless cay
yesv erday and his coadltion became
alasmingly grave early this morning.
Throughout ths entire night his rela-
tives remained by his bedside expecting
the end any moment At O'Clock
physicians announced that the Senator
wss beyond human aid. FIJI. cen minutes
later the struggle was oyer and the
news OF Ser aJor Latimers death was
communicated TO his colleagues in the
upper houSe of Congress.
Out of respect to the memory of he
Southern statesman the Senate al
Journed Immediately after transaetg gnz,
routine morning business. The fias on
the Senate will be hung at half-u1ast
The body Of Senator Latimer, VINO sue
ceeded Senator John hcLaurin, viii be
taken % Bolton, $. C, tonight and will
arrive there tomorrow evening al e.96
o'clock. Funeral services VIII he held
Saturday morning,
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Light Made of FiSh'S
Battle TO Control
Road.
Neither Contestant in
Room When DeciS-
ion Is Read.

CHICAGO. Feb. 2O.-E. II. Hartman.
the Wizard Of Wall street, won COM
plete control of the Illinois Central to
day. when Judge FarlIn .. Ball dis
solved the SUuyvesant Fish Injunction
restraining the voting OF 10000 Harri-
man proxies on stock Held by the
Union Pacific Railroad Company. Fish
was routed on every point. and the
Hartman victory was absolute.
Judge I'all not only dissolved the
Fish injunction, but he settled the main
point that foreign corpora tioIs may
hold and vote stocks in Illinois corpur-
agions. Had the decision been otn p
wise. St00. 10000 worth of Illinois stocks
would have been invalldated.
Make Sport Of Fish.
or the Fish hght, Judge EaH prac-
tically made sport IT it We're not for
the fact that the name OF Hartman is
a name 10 conjure WITH" he said, "the
allegations Cof FishJ might not be taken
seriously
Neither Fish nor Hartman was IN
court 10 hear the decision that meant
control of the great railroad corpora
ton for one and the defeat Of the other
Both remained in New York, where
they We're speedily spprised of the find
ms by telegraph. President John r.
Harahan. whose tenure OF office de-
pended uaon the vietOFy OF Hartman,
reached tie court shortly after the
reading Of the long decision began,
Fish Is practically ousted from power
by the decision. His defeat as director
IS expected from the Hartman faction
at the next annual meeting. 10 be held
March ?. Hartman now has the power
10 throw him completely out OF the
official family Of the railroad
Can Vote Shares.
Hartman gets his power from the
iact that the Union Pacific and the
Railway Securities Company are per-
mitted to vote their shares in the an
nuaI election. Hartman holds the
proxies and practically owns the shares.
Il am of the opinion that the Secur-
itIes Company and the Union Pacific
have full ownership of the shares of
stock they severally claim 10 own and
hold in the Illinois Central" said Judge
Ball. including the right to vote that
stock at the coming stockholders meet
ing of the latter corporation; and that
such right is not forbidden by the
statutes OF this State, nor by the de-
cIsion of our supreme court, nor by the
public policy of Illinois"
What Fishs plans are is not revealed
oy his Chicago representatives. He
anticipates his etectment from the
board Of directors as the result OF this
defeat, but he is thought TO plan to
take an appeal TO higher courts and
die lighting"
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The complaint has been made
that the price of gas here is too
high. This commission viii inquire
into the matter and recommend to
Congress what il deems necessary
in the matter. The bill creating
the commission should be so framed
that Congress will follow the rec
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-20
MetcaF
VIII Greet Fleet
At San Francisco

Secretary Of the Navy MetcaIf today
announced that he would go to the Pa
ciflc coast 10 meet the battleship feet
upor its arrival at San Francisco. the
latter part Of April or the FIRST OF May.
No date has been fixed for the Sec
retary's departure. as that viii depend
entirely upon the date Of the arrival OF
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THE WEATHER REPORT.

-'E storm Of the last few days HIS
ror ched The eastern Maine coast. hut
s7e y SIN persists in the Ohio valley.
to lower lake regions. New England
and along the Appalachians from north
eastern AlabamS TO New York. In the
anterior the weather has cleared, anG
j n9s Siso remained fair west OF the
Rocky mountains, except over northern
districts.
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OF cred TO FORT LEAvENwoRrH

Second Lieut.. Ralph w. Drury. now in
this city being examined for promotion.
has been ordered "a Fort Leavenworth,
IL
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II. THE SENATE.

Immediate adjournment was taken out
OF respect to the memory OF Senator
LatimeT.
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Senate Adjouins.

When the Senate met this morning.
Senator TIllman, colleague of the dead
Senator, offered resolutions reciting that
fact Of Senator Latime-'s death and
expressing tho sympathy of the Senate
with his family on his motion the
Senate then adjourned A COMMITTEES
was appointed from members of the
Senate to accompany thu remains TO
BeltOn
The Vice President chose for this
committee Senators THIman, Proctor
Frazier, Foster. Overman, Johnston.
Carter. Dillingham;, Dixon. and Smith.
Action by the House.
The House adjourned out OF. respeet
to senator Latimer at i:15 o'clock this
aftercoon on the motion of Represent
ative Finley of South Carolina.
The Speaker announced the following
delegation from the House TO Attend
the funeral: TheAentire South Carolina
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Action by the House.

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The Arizona sentinel., 1908-08-05
Plea for Tore Coquetry.

1t is no more d WOman'S pri- mary instinct to coquette than it is a mans if coquetry is to mean simply the desire to attract; and the more that men and women attract each other, the better for the world and for society at large. A little more coquetry- in it's best sense-would not be amiss. The Lady.
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-08-05
Ready to GO.

An old Scotchman who was threatened with blindness con. suited an oculist,
 "Will you have little stimu- lant?" inquired the doctor.
 The old Scotchman smackod his lips in eager anticipation.
 "Ou, aye, I'll talk drink O anythin' yon have handy" was the quick rejoinder.
 "Ah, that's the trouble," ex- claimed the oculist. "You'll have to stop drinking or you'll lose your eye-sight."
 The old chap pondered mo- ment.
 "A', weel, doctor, it doesna much mrtter. 1 hae seen every thin that's worth seein', any, way. Success.
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-08-05
From a Philosophers Notebook

''Go in for all you are worth is bad advice to give to a young man who is playing with the stock market.
 Millions are the green trading stamps which attract bankrupt nOblemen into investments in the American matrimonial mar ket.
 Foresight is a very valuable trait to possess, but when winter comes it is not to be compared with couple thousand dollars.
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-08-05
Whats in a Name?

A physician in a small town in Northern Michigan got himself into a serious predicament by his inability to remember names and people. One day, while making out a patients receipt, his visit OTIS name escaped him. Not wishing to appear so forgetful, and thinking to get Q clue, he asked her whether she spelled her name with an or i. The lady smilingly replied: "Why, doctor, my name is Hill"
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-08-05
A Proposal.

Sydney, I'd like you to go to church with me some time this month.
 Maxine. Certainly. I'd be de- delighted.
 Sydney. Good! But can you have your trousseau made in time?-Pick -Me-Up.
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-08-05
Woman.

A Japanese saying saying rms: "WOman is an unmanageable creature; fatter her, she is elated; thrash her, she weepeth; kill her, her spirit haunts you" We would suggest that the best rem edy is to love her.-London News.
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-08-05
Peach Sherbet.

Boil tagether for twenty min utes one quart of water and a pound of granulated sugar. Cool, add a scant pint of peach pulp, a teaspoonful of gelatine, softened in cold water, then dissolve over the tea kettle, and the juice of 2 oranges and one lemon. Freeze.
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-08-05
GOOseberry Sauce.

Boil one quart of gooseberries with one-half cup of water until tender. Strain, add three table spoonfuls of sugar and four table spoonfuls of freshly grated horse radish. Serve hot.
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-08-05

prevailing in the winter months, chickens are free from the disease that make their raising difficult elsewhere. There is no spot in South ern Illinois or Missouri so adapted to the pro- duction of corn as this valley along the Cobra do River. With alfalfa and corn, the butter
 cheese, eggs, poultry and pork to be raised on a twenty-acre farm will amaze those who have the experience in American agricultural affairs
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-08-05
The Only Thing.

"So your wife is an authoress, Binks. Does she write for mon- ey?"
 "I never had a letter from her yet that she wrote for anything else. "-Baltimore American.
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-08-05

NTUMA LODGE NO. 2 A O. U. w. MEETS 1 every Tuesday evening at o'clock. Visit ing brrthren in good standing are invited to attend. Yours in C. H. and P.
 F. L.. EWING, M. w.
 ED. NAMES. R.
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-08-05

WANTED: A good hustler Tn every town to sell our perfect water filters, retailing from &l.50 to $500, 100 per cent profit to agents; exclusive terri tory.-Seneca Filter O., Seneca, Mo
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-08-05

A TO- meets every Sunday at ElllS' hall, D.. M. MANUEL MoNRoT, Pres. J. L. REDoEDo, Secretary.
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-08-05
PROFESSIONAL CARDS:

TNtANK BAXTER, Attorney at Law and N Notary Public. Will practice in all the courts of the Territory. Special attention to Mining and Land Laws. F. O. Box 40l. First Street, South Side, Yuma, Arizona.
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-08-05

"IRST BAPTIST CHURCH.-SERVICES I1 on the fourth Sunday in each month at s:3O 8. m. Prayer meeting on Friday night of each week. Eugene Keen, pastor in charge
 unday Scheoi every Sunday morning at To-
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-08-05
CUT SEVEN CROPS YEARLY.

Arizona has established an experiment station in the heart of this big valley, which is some twenty-four miles long, and in spots ten 10 twelve miles wide, down on the lower level. The results are wonderful. Last week they were cutting a crop of alfalfa on this ex- perimental farm, and for seven consecutive months they will cut succeeding crops. The only months when the crop IS not cut here are December and January.
 Cotton and tobacco grow with the greatest luXuriance, and this rich alluvial soil will be noted in a very few years the ideal spot in the whole country for dairying hog raising. the production of poultry and vegetables, which one hesitates to call early or late, as they will be perennial. New potatoes will be produced in the middle of January, tomatoes will be ripe by the first of March, ripe grapes will be gathered in the early days of May, and april cots by the middle of the same month Chic llenS and turkeys flourish there in the winter time beyond all experience anywhere else.
 The rainfall is exceedingly light and comes only three or four times in a whole winter With an abundance of green alfalfa and veget- ables the dry aud not Ovcrheated climate
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-08-05

POSTOFETCE HOURS: Mail open on Sundays from s to 9 a. m. Week days, 6 a. m. to 6 D. ID. No Money Order business on Sundays. Mail (EaSt and WeSt) closes every day at z p. m.
 k. H. Chandler P. M.
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-08-05
RICHES OF SOIL WONDERFUL

But the object of this story is to call atten- ton once more, and for perhaps the thou Sandth time, to the riches of the soil along the Colorado on both sides, incident to the depoSitidg of this mass of debris during all the past ages. Going through the country on the Arizona side of the river, for several miles below Yuma, one encounters the same type of country and soil that is found in the Imperial Valley country around Brawley, CaieXicO and other points west of the river The fertility of the black prairie soils of Illi- nois has astonished people engaged in agri- culture for nearly one hundred years. The fertility of the valleys of the Nile has been a matter of history for at least 60C0 years. Those who are familinr with Illinois prairie soil. and those who know what the valley of the Nile is for agriculture. khow that this lower Colorado River region surpasses both ofthem.
 If you ask farmer along this stretch of country if the soil is six feet bis eyes will open with astonshment ai your ignorance He will tell you no one knows whether it is 50 feet, 60C or 5000 feet deep. It is practically without bottom. It is so thoroughly we'll mixed with sand, disintegrated granite and other rocks that it never breaks. It is as easily worked as heap of ashes, and re- spends to cultivation in a way that is mar VelouS
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-08-05

n METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH M Preaching every other Sunday morning at II o'clock and Sunday night at 7:30 by the pastor, J. NJ Ocheltree. Sunday School every Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, r. T. Robertson, Superintendent.
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-08-05
INCREASED ASSESSMENTS

At the July meeting of the Equalization it. with te information then possessed by it. believed that the following the following property are too small namely:
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-08-05

ISealI
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1908-10-08
CHAIRMAN MACK coLLApsEs.
Fatigue and Severe Cold Get Best Of
Democratic Manager.

Chicago, Oct. Norman e. Mack
chairman Of the Democratic National
committee. collapsed Tuesday night as
a result Of fatigue and a severe cold
and is under the care OF a physician
and trained nurse. The illness OF
Mr.. Mack came suddenly and alarmed
fellow members of the Democratic
National committee. Mr.. Hammond,
of the Auditorium hotel was sum-
moned and he said MIR. Mack was suf-
fering from overwork and nervous ex-
haustiOn. He did not believe the III
ness was serious and intimated that
the patient would be able to resume
his duties in few days Chairman
Mack arrived in Chicago from New
York Monday afternoon.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1908-10-08

stomach troubles would more
quickly disappear u the idea of
treating the ca use, rather than the
effect. would come into practice. A
tupV. iuside. hiddeu nerve, says DR..
ShoUp. governs and gives strength
t. The stomach. A branch also goes
:" he heart. aud Que 20 the Kidneys.
When these inside nerves" fail,
then the organs must faltpr. DIR.
ShuOp's Restorative IL directed
specifically to these failing nerves.
Within iS hours after starting the
Restorative treatment patients say
they realize gain.
sold by st. Bernard Mlning Co.,
Incorporated. drug department.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1908-10-08

When an article has been on the
market for years aud gains friends
every year, it is safe to call this
medicine worthy one. Such Is
Billiards. HorehOund Syrup. 1t
positively cures coughs aud all Pull
monaFy diseases. Que of the best
known merchants in Mobile, Ala,
says: "FOr five years my family
has not been troubled with the WIN
ter coughs We owe this to Billiards.
Horehound Syrup. / know it has
saved my children from many sick
spells"
Sold by St. Bernard Drug Store,
Incorporated.
The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1908-10-08

Peter Fry, Woodruff. Penn, writes;
After doctOriug for two years with
the best physicians III WaynesburR,
and still getting worse, the doctors
advisad me " had any business TO
attend 20 I had better attend 90 1t at
once. az l could not possibly live
another mouth as there was no cure
for me. FOley's Kidney cure was
recommended to me by friend aud
I Immediately sent my son to the
store for it, and after taking three
bottles began to get better and
continued To improve until l was
entirely we'll. Sold by st Bernard
Mining Co., Incorporated, Drug De-
partment.