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Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-31

There; now 1t Is all done.
Mann Chloe could not
have done it better,
and"
"Why; Percy dear;
You're unbattoned al OF
them!"
"And you owe me a
round dozen kisses,
which I proceeded at
once to collect.
"And now Percy dear,
Just one more favor.
There isn't room for me
to sit down on the floor
in here. If you don't
mind, will = will you
please unite my shoes?"
1.-TWO more favors; to
unite my Dorothy's shoes;
Just about what ! am
worthy to do for her"
Sitting down before her,
taking one foot after the
other upon my knee, I
united her shoes, and col
lected the toll. rs there
anything else? This
seems to be my busy
day."
Thank you. Nothing
else. Good night! t!"-As
If / a1ere her maid!
And / a1Gs dismissed!
A little later, when l
returned, l found my
Dorothy covered up head
and ears, upon the mar
row lounge ON one side.
Sweetheart, swe t.
heart" l called softly.
No answer.
Sweetheart. You have
taken my bed"
Still no answer.
Kneeling beside her,
trying to uncover her
face, / said: Dorothy
dear, this will never do.
You have made a mis-
take. This lounge was
made up for me-" By this
time l had succeeded in
uncovering the tip of her
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-06-12
In the House Of Commons.

In the days of Burke. Pitt and Fox
members of the house of commons
used to relieve the tedium of debate
by sucking oranges and cracking nuts
while lying full length on the benches,
and Brougham made his great six
hours speech on law reform in 1928
with a hatful Of oranges by his side
for refreshment. Joseph Hume found
solace in pears, which he took from
his bullying pockets and munched by
the hour, leaning the while against his
~favorite post. No wonder oranges were
so popular, since their vender Zone of
them, at any rate) was a picturesque
girl who used to sit with her wares in
the lobby, attired in a 'sprigged mus.
lin gown with a gauze neckerchief' or
in the glory Of "clean white silk stock
ings, Turkey leather shoes and pink
silk petticoat, becomingiy short
Westminster Gazette.
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POLITICAL NEWS.

The Taft forces won the first pre-
liminary skirmish before the Repub-
lican national committee at Chicago
by a so bold that the "allies"
we're taken by surprise. Briefly
stated, the manager of the Taft cam
paign and two employees of the Taft
campaign headquarters secured seats
on the national committee and they
will have a voice in the settlement of
every one of the 229 contested seats
in the convention.
Iowa Republicans nominated Will
lam B. Allison as their candidate to
succeed himself in the United States
senate. His majority is about 10000.
B. f. Carroll was nominated for gov
ernor over Warren Garst by a major
ity of about $4,000. George w. Clarke
was nominated for lieutenant gov
ernor over B. Murphy by 10000 or
MORE. Chairman Hull Of the house
committee on military affairs narrowly
escaped defeat.
Two sets of delegates to the national
convention were elected by the Demo-
SldI0 VI xud1lO 40 lAC 4CSu1k VI a
breach between the Dubois and anti
Dubois factions over the Mormon Ques.
ton. Both delegations were instruct
ed for Bryan.
The Democratic state convention of
Nevada adopted a platform which in.
structs delegates to the national con-
vention at Denver to vote for William
Jennings Bryan for the presidential
nomination first, last and all the time.
Governor George E. Chamberlain,
Dem, is the choice of the people of
Oregon for the United States senator
ship to succeed Charles w. Fulton,
Rep, and a Republican legislature has
been chosen to elect him.
After consideration of the sugges-
tion of his Western friends John Hays
Hammond, the mining engineer, has
decided to enter the contest for the
nomination Of vice president on the
Republican ticket.
The Arkansas Democratic state con-
vention elected delegates to the ma
tional convention and adopted a reso-
luton binding the delegates to the
support of William j. Bryan as the
party's nominee.
Democrats OF Denver county, Colo,
elected Mrs. Ruth Leavitt, daughter of
w. j. Bryan, a delegate to the state
convention, which meets at Glenwood
Springs on June Is.
Joseph NJ. Brown defeated Hoke
Smith for governor in the Georgia
Democratic primary by a majority of
I'VE 1900.
Maryland Democrats named sixteen
uninstructed delegates to the Denver
convention.
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NORTHWEST REPRESENTED
President Names National conserva-
lion Commission.

Washington, June 10.-1n accord
ance with the suggestion made by the
governors at their conference at the
White House in May the president
has appointed a national conservation
commission to consider and advise
him on questions relating to the con-
servation of the natural resources of
the country and to cooperate with
bodies which may be designated by
the several states.
The Northwest is we'll represented
on the commission. On the lands
committee Senator Knute Nelson is
chairman, with j. j. Hill also a mem.
Der of that branch of the commission.
Congressman Philo Hall of South Da-
kota and Professor c. R. Van Hise of
Wisconsin are among those named on
the division for minerals.
William Irvine of Wisconsin is on
the forest committee and w. B. AL
lison of Iowa is named with the group
of men who will look after the water
WAYS.
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WASHINGTON NEWS.

The supreme court of the United
States has afirmed the decision Of the
United States circuit court for the
Eastern district Of Missouri in the ex-
tradition of H. Clay Pierce Of the
Waters.Pierce Oil company Of st.
Louis. holding him subject to extradi-
ton to Texas, where he is under in.
dictment on q charge of perjury in
swearing that his company had not
entered into a conspiracy in restraint
of trade when the company made ap.
plication to do business in Texas.
The fact that Chairman Payne Of
the house committee on ways and
means, which is to inquire into the
subject of tariff revision, does not in.
tend to call his committee together
during the recess Of congress is at
tributed to a desire not to encourage
tariff r%evisionists.
Postmaster General Meyer an
nounces that an agreement has been
reached with the British government
providing for a letter postage Of 2
cents an ounce between the United
States and Great Britain and Ireland,
to become operative Oct. /. 1908.
Secretary Taft has announced the
appointment of Lieutenant Colonel
Harry F. Hodges. corps of engineers
and chief purchasing officer of the
isthmian canal commission, as a mem.
Der Of the commission. vice Jackson
8. Smith, resigned.
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secretary himself has declined to make
any move in the matter, but his
friends have not felt restrained by
that fact and already they feel that
they have received such encourage
ment that they r now preparing to
move in force upon the convention
delegates at Chicago.
One reason for their confidence is
asserted to be their belief that the
strenuous opposition offered by the
Fairbanks contingent to the recogni-
tion OF Southern Taft delegates in the
battle before the national committee,
now in progress, makes the coupling
Of the names of Taft and Fairbanks
on the one ticket impossible.
Therefore Secretary Cortelyou's
advance guard will start for Chicago
at once, led by Assistant Secretary
Louis Coolidge, a Bostonian of long
experience in public affairs and with
wide acquaintance with the various
boom manag ,rs now in Chicago. Cor
nelius N. Bliss, one time member of
the Mckinley cabinet and treasurer of
the last Republican campaign commit
tee, also lis said to be bound for Chi
cago in Secretary C%ortelyou's interest,
while among other political leaders
expected to espouse his cause is said
to be Senator Murray Crane Of Mas
%sachusetts, whose support is most
anxiously desired by the administra-
ton forces.
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NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS

President Roosevelt narrowly es.
capped serious accident. perhaps death.
when a new saddle horse he was rid
ing fell backward from the bank Of
the stream after fording Rock creek.
But for the presidents quickness in
throwing himself from the saddle and
for the fortunate circumstance that
the animal in regaining his feet turned
away from and not toward him Mr..
Roosevelt might have been killed, or
at least terribly crushed. AS 1t was he
received q number of bruises and feels
rather lame "in spots"
Important significance in connec-
ton with President Roosevelt's deter
mination against a third term is con-
tanned in the admission made for the
first time that the president is max
Ing definite plans to leave the United
States in April next year for Africa,
where he will spend a year hunting
big game.
Oliver H. P. Belmont is reported to
be dying at his home in Hampstead.
L. l. An operation for appendicitis
was too late, 1t IL said, to be of ben
eft.
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BREWERS IN CONVENTION. IN.
Prohibition to Be Discussed 2 ~
Every Standpoint, ssss

milwaukee. June 1O.-What Is
earded as the most important convenl-s
ton in the history, of the brewing IN
terests of the country opened when
the members of the United States
brewers association met at the Ter;
miral building in this city for the for
ty-eighth annual meeting. During the
convention the prohibition question is
exnected to be discussed from every
standpoint.
Mavor David s.. Rose of Milwaukee,
who has started a war against the
dive saloon in Milwaukee, made an adj
dress of welcome and in the course OF
his remarks made reference to the
warfare being made against all sa-
looms which do not come within the
decent class. The mayor and chief
of police of Milwaukee, in a petition
to the common council, have placed
the ban on about fifty saloons of the
class considered as "low" and recon-
mended that no license be granted to
these contained in the list. The step
taken by Milwaukee's executive is be
lieyed to be in line with the policy
of the Brewers association of the
country.
President Julius Lehman of the
association followed with his annual
address,. in which he referred to the
regulation of the saloon and advocated
the spreading of the conviction that
the brewing industry stands for tenn
perance in the best sense of the word.
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DECREASE IN IDLE CARS.
Slight Improvement in Business Con
ditions Shown.

Chicago, June 1O.-A slight improve
ment in business conditions is indicat-
ed by the fortnightly report of the
committee on ear efficiency of the
American Railway association. The
number of surplus cars on the rail
roads in the United States and Can
ada is given at 3S1,9o4, a decrease of
22,630 in comparison with the num-
Der on May 10.
The bulletin says that the improve
ment, as reflected in the smaller num-
Der of idle cars, seems quite general
throughout the Eastern, Central and
Southern sections of the country. but
there is practically no change in the
Southwestern and Pacific states.
The demand for box cars has appar-
emily increased in Iowa, Illionis and
Kansas, northward to Wisconsin and
the Dakotas, and Westward to Mon
tana and Colorado.
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GUILD A CANDIDATE.
Massachusetts, Governor After Second
Place on Ticket.

Place on Ticket,
Washington, June 10.-It has been
determined by the friends Of Governor
Curtis Guild of Massachusetts, that his
name shall be presented to the Chi
cage convention as a candidate for
vice president.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Mas
%sachusetts, who is to be the perma-
pent chairman of the convention, will
leave the chair during the proceedings
to present to the convention the can
didacy of Governor Guild. The nom.
ination, 1t has been arranged, will be
seconded by Chase S. Osborn of Sault
Ste. Marie, Mich.
Governor Guild, who is in Washing.
ton, had the following to say regard
ing his candidacy:
Some discussion has appeared in
the newspapers concerning my can.
didacy-if so 1t may be termed-for
the nomination for vice president. AS
] have said all along l am merely in a
receptive mood. My name probably
will be presented to the convention,
but I am not in Washington for the
purpose of promoting my political in.
terests. l have not discussed the
matter with Secretary Taft and do
not expect to-"
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FOR VICE PRESIDENT
George B. Cortelyou Favored by
Roosevelt and Taft Forces.
ACTIVE CAMPAIGN STARTED

1OvdUSS 1u0sN
Leave Washington for Chicago at
Once, Led by Assistant Secretary
Coolidge Of Boston,
Washington, June 1o.-Indicattons
are multiplying that Secretary Cor
telyou will be advanced by the Roose-
volt and Taft forces at Chicago as
their candidate for vice president.
Secretary Cortelyou himself naturally
declined to discuss the matter OF his
candidacy because his native state al
ready has in the field a possible candl'
date for the presidency in the person
Of Governor Hughes.
That fact has SO far operated to
prevent any open exchanges between
the friends of Secretary Cortelyou
and Secretary Taft's managers. But
it can now be stated as a fact that IN
the opinion Of his friends the time has
come when Secretary Cortelyou should
be placed in a position to be recog-
nized as New York's candidate for the
vice presidency in the event OF the
elimination of Hughes from the presi-
Dental race.
AS a necessary step to a successful
campaign in that direction there had
first to be ascertained the attitude
that President Roosevelt and Secre-
tary Taft would assume towards Sec
rotary Cortelyou's candidacy. The
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-06-12
FORAKER SLATED TO SPEAK
Big Mass Meeting Of Anti-Taft Ne
oroes at Chicago.

Chicago, June Ex-senator Joseph
B. Foraker is scheduled to lead a final
assault against the Taft stronghold
Monday or Tuesday night as a cul-
mination of the anti-Taft propaganda
being carried on by the "allies" and
negro delegates who claim to have
been Disseminated against by the Re
publican national committee.
Tattersall's or the First Regiment
armory will be secured for the meet
ing and the leaders in the colored
anti-Taft movement claim it will be
the biggest mass meeting of negroes
ever held in Chicago.
In the meantime a strenuous effort
to add impetus to the fight will be
made by the holding of a mass meet
Ing at Zion church, at which Southern
white Republicans will be the chief
speakers. j. c. Manning Of Alabama
and E. T. Blodgett of Mississippi, both
~unseated delegates, will make ad.
dresses. Other meetings are being ar.
ranged for every night of the week.
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news OF THE WORLD
Important Events Of the Week
in Condensed Form.
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

With crop losses estimated at from
two-thirds to total destruction in sew.
eral of the rich valleys, with damage
to railroad lines estimated at more
than 81. 900, 900, with from 5000 to 49,
900 passengers stalled with little hope
of immediate rescue, Montana is e.
%periencing the worst flood in the his
tory Of the state.
Six men were killed and ten injured
on board the armored cruiser Tennes-
sec, at sea of the California coast,
when a boiler tube broke, hurting frag-
ments of iron about the engine room
and filling 1t with scalding steam.
The cruiser was steaming at full speed
when the explosion occurred.
Eugene Jepson, aged fifty, Of New
York, leading man in a vaudeville
sketch at Keith's theater at Cleve-
land, dropped dead Of heart disease in
his dressing room when an alarm of
fire sounded. The audience filed out
without any one sustaining injury.
Six men are dead, eight others are
In a dangerous condition from breath
ing foul air and twenty-five more are
temporarily confined to their homes
from weakness due to contact with
the poisonous air in the Gold King
mine, located at Gladstone, Colo.
A tornado struck the farm Of John
Dalton, a well-to-do farmer living
about four miles south of Mauston,
Wis, demolishing his fine farmhouse
and barns and killing Mr.. Dalton and
his twelve-year.old son Phillip.
Three persons were killed and twen-
ty others were seriously injured in a
collision between an Elgin, Joliet and
Eastern freight and an Aurora and
Joliet electric car at Big Slough,
seven miles west of Joliet, Ill.
Eight dead and nearly a score badly
injured Is the result of a collision on
the Annapolis branch of the Wash
ington, Baltimore and Annapolis Elec.
trio railway, which occurred a few
miles outside Of Annapolis.
At least five persons we're killed,
four fatally hurt and several others
seriously luJuIeu III d lolllduo "HASA
swept across Fillmore county, Neb.,
and destroyed everything in its path.
A cyclone struck Charles City, Ia,
demolishing about 200 houses and
barn, killing one man, W. r. Beck.
and one child. The path of the cy.
clone was about ten rods wide.
Fifty houses at Enid, Okla, were
swept away by a flood, the water
reaching a depth of twelve feet on the
main street of the town.
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FOOD RUNNING SHORT
Marooned Passengers in Montana
Face Actual Want
LITTLE CHANGE FOR BETTER

Oregon Short Line the Only Railroad
Operating Trains Out Of Butte, the
Tracks Of the Other Companies Be-
Ing in Very Bad Shape. M
Butte, Mont, June 10.-Five hun.
dred passengers stalled at Garrison on
a Northern Pacific train now face
actual want.
A courier arriving at Anaconda re.
ported that food is running low and
the passengers are given only two
light meals a day.
The Boulder river at Basin has
reached the highest stage in sixteen
years, washing out three steel bridges
on the Great Northern and carrying
away the big dam of the Basin Re.
duction company, together with a
number of residences.
The Boston and Montana smelter
at Great Falls is flooded. More than
1000 lei are employed in the smell.
ter.
IL 10 d4SO AC01 uVu IAldI lA0 Ud1QdSc
to the Great Northern tracks near
Great Falls is such that no trains can
be run between Helena and Great
Falls for several weeks.
The Oregon Short Line is the only
railroad operating trains out of Mon
tana from this point, though the
Northern Pacific is expecting three
trains in from the East.
The washouts 1t Jefferson island
were repaired and all was in readiness
to send trains owe the line into Butte
when a rockslide occurred almost
within sight of the city, blocking the
line for a number of hours.
Further information from the West
is to the effect that five miles of track
of the Northern Pacific are out be-
tween Butte and Missoula, and ma
rooned passengers at Drummond will
not be able to get out of that place
for a week, according to the railway
people.
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THE TURNED UP MusTAcHE,
It Originated In Spain at the Court OF
philip Nv,

It Originated In Spain at the Court OF
Philip w.
The German emperor, William H., is
generally regarded as the inventor Of
the turned up mustache. This is true
only as far as introducing it as a fash
ion. 1t was invented at the court of
Philip w., about 1925. That monarch
was the first to wear his mustache
turned upward. From the Spanish
court the fashion spread owe all Eu-
rope. Charles l. Of England. Philips
brother-in-law, and many members Of
the Austrian Hapsburgs adopted it. 1t
came to Belgium and was introduced
into Germany by the Spanish soldiers
during the Thirty Years var
1t was also found in Sweden as well
as in France under Louis XIII. Under
Louis NV. the beard went out Of fash
ion, and during the time of Rocco the
elegant world knew only clean shaven
faces until the French revolution
brought the mustache again into use.
But nowhere except in its Spanish
home did the mustache rise SO extrava-
gantly as with the German emperor
and his imitators.
In Spain all kinds Of artificial means,
such as bandages and coverings, were
employed to compel the mustache to
keep this unnatural upward position,
and in looking at the paintings of We
lasquez or Murillo one can easily un-
derstand that without such coercive
measures a true full blooded Spaniard
could never have realized his ideal
Observation-Disclosures Journal.
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CRIMINAL NEWS.

A. p. Camden of Chicago, superin-
son & Co., elevator builders, was shot
dead at Minneapolis by an insane boy
giving his name as James Montague
and his age as sixteen. The man and
boy were total strangers and the muir
der was plainly the conception of u
craZed mind.
The conviction of DR.. Walter R. Gil
lette, formerly vice president of the
Mutual Life Insurance company, on
the charge of perjury and his sentence
to six months in the ~Ienitentiary was
set aside and the indictment against
him quashed by q decision of the ap.
; pellate division of the New York SUI
preme court.
For the em~bezzlement of s1,105,00O
from the Farmers National Deposit
bank of Pittsburg Henry Reiber and
John Young, former paying teller and
auditor, respectively, were sentenced
to serve ten years each in the peni-
Tertiary.
In a fit of supposed insanity Bert
McMillin. foreman on a ranch near La
Belle. Mo-, shot and instantly killed
his wife and his two small children
and then sent a bullet crashing
through his brain.
Congressman j. F. Laning, formerly
vice president and a director of the
defunct Ohio Trust company, was in
dicted at Norwalk, O., on seven counts
charging embezzlement.
CASTOR p. Philip. civil engineer and
clubman of New York and Washing
ton.' was acquitted at Washington Of
the murder Of Frank Macaboy, q cab
driver. ..
Four men robbed the State Bank Of
| Cuba, Kan, and escaped with be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 after a light
With citizonS.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-06-12
GROWING IN THE SOUTH.
Congressman Hammond Talks Of
johnson Sentiment.

JOHNSON SSNIIWSOIs
Chicago, June 10.-Congressman w.
s. Hammond of the Second district of
Minnesota, who will deliver the
speech nominating Governor johnson
for president at the Denver Demo-
cratic convention unless present plans
are changed, was at the governors
headquarters at the Grand Pacific ho-
tel. He was on his way from Wash.
ington to Minnesota.
I'VE are feeling pretty good over
the action of the Democrats in Mary
land and Louisiana in naming unin'
structed delegates to the Denver con-
vention," said Congressman Ham
mond. Apparently this reflects the
sentiment of influential Democrats In
the South who are convinced that 1t
will be party wisdom to nominate
Governor johnson.
There is no question that the john
Bon sentiment in the South is steadily
growing"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-06-12
Many Farms Buried in Sand.

La Crosse, Wis, June 10.-Farm
lands Of La Crosse county have been
damaged to the extent of $780, 900 by
the foods of the past three weeks.
In various sections of the county huge
gullies have been washed in hillside
farms and while this loss is severe
it is insignificant as compared to the
damage to fields in the valleys below,
which have been covered by sand and
debris washed down from the hill
sides to the depth of four and five
feet in some places. Some lowland
farms have been entirely ruined by
these deposits.
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The TarantMa.

Whether the tarantula Is ever a
death dealer or not is a disputed point.
However, there seems to be no doubt
that the bite Of this spider-like crea-
ture inficts one Of the most painful
wounds that the human body can en-
dure. Stolid Indians who have borne
the tortures of the sun dance without
flinching have been known to roll upon
the ground and shrek in agony when
bitten by a tarantula, which leaves q
livid scar that ever grows dim. It Is
possible that the tarantula bite some
times proves fatal. although it Is diff
cult to find a well authenticated in
stance Of this kind. Chicago Inter
Ocean.