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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-01
100000 DAM Is COMPLETED.
Structure Spanning Colorado River
Ready for Opening.

The last carload of rock has been
dumped into the apron of Laguna dam,
and the great diversion weir is being
cleared of all its construction equipment
preparatory to the opening celebration
Laguna dam extends across the Colorado
River and is located about fourteen miles
above the city of Yuma, Ariz. 1t was
built by the United States reclamation
service at cost of more than a million
dollars. Work on the dam was com
menced in July, 1903. Tie dam is Alto
feet long.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-01
Havana Has a Million Dollar Fire.

The two piers of the Havana Central
railroad, in the upper part Of the har-
Dor. weres totally destroyed by fire. 1t
cendiary origin. The total damage
done is estimated at 81, 900, 900, which
Is covered by insurance.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-01
Thirty-one Doomed to Death.

Twenty-Five death sentences passed up
on political prisoners were confirmed by
the supreme military court in ST. Pc
tersburg. Fifteen of these were convict
ed of an attempt to escape from the ir-
kutsh prison when a prison guard was
l. ll1,d
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-01
Canada's Immigration Half Less.

The total immigration into Canada for
the eleven months of the present fiscal
year up to the end of February was $780,
444, as compared with 247,O56 for the
same period in 19O7-OS, a decrease of AZ
per cent.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-01
Woman Poisons 300 Person,

dispatch from st. Petersburg says
that woman named Popova has been ar
rested at Samara. charged with having
poisoned at least 800 persons during the
last thirty years. She made a business
of Kidding wives of their husbands for a
small fee.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-01

The Ashikaga. japanese organization
Of weavers. have retracted the resolution
which they adopted several weeks ago
not to participate in the Alaska Yukon
Pacific exposition. TO be held at Seattle
this summer.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-01
Children Die of Poisoning.

Two children of Hosea Webster, a mer-
chant of Deals Island, Nd, are dead as
a result, it is thought. of ptomaine poi
soning. caused by eating canned ham. and
other members of the family are in a
critical condition.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-01

John Rieger, formerly well-to-do
manufacturer of billiard tables, commit
ted suicide in Boston by hanging. Bust
ness and domestic troubles are assigned
as the cause for suicide.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-01
Hold Up n Pullman, Get $500.

Two bighwaymen held up the occupants
Of Pullman car in The Denver and Rio
Granda yards at West Denver, Col. and
after securing about $500 escaped.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-01
Man SHOT by Son Dies.

ORC Smith. who was shot by his son.
William. "a Dornell, n. ", is dead. The
SON killed himself after shooting his
father.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-01
Death of French Auto Maker

A private cable dispatch announces
the death, in Paris, of Ferp aud Re-
nault. one of the two partners of Re-
nault Freres, the head of the Ame-i-
can branch of that automobile In
dustry.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-01

The American Iron and Steel Company
posted notices in Lebanon, Pa, hat, be-
ginning April 8, puddlers will receive
$40 per ton instead of Si.5O, the present
rate. About 800 men will be affected.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-01
corteIyou Lands In Good Berth.

George B. Cortelyou, former secre-
tary of the treasury, has been elected
president of the Consolidated Gas COM
pany, of New York City.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-01

Poisoned wheat is to be used as bait to
kill off the prairie dogs that now infest
Arizona and &ew Mexico and have be-
come a menace to the forest rangers there.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-01
SOWING Oats in Newton county. ind

Spring seeding has become general
In Newton county, and by the end Of
the week three-fourths of the oats
crop will have been sown. The price
of seed oats is unusually high, rang.
ing from SAC to SIC a bushel.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-01
ABDUCToRs OF BABY sPURN $50.

"Just Think of kidnapping I'm sha-
roa," Brooklyn Parents Are Told.
A letter from supposed kidnapers, in
which the Whitla case is mentioned, has
been received by the family of 4-year-oid
Tony Rebes, who mysteriously disap-
peared from in front of his home in 9TH
avenue, New York, Feb. 13. This is the
letter: Just because you have that fool
ish, stubborn character and offered $50
for your boy, you never will see him
again. Think little of that kidnapping
in Sharon. After this you will hear
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-01
RICH MANS BOY MISSING.

Fear Son of Lima Brewer Has Been
kidnaped-Hunt in Vain.
Hugo Mickenfelder, the 11-year-old fos-
ter-son of the wealthy owner of the Lima
Brewing Company, Lima. Ohio. is he
lieved to have been kidnapped. Returning
to his home last Wednesday evening, the
boy said that a stranger had invited him
to attend a vaudeville performance in the
Orpheum Theater and later asked him to
run away with him. He was warned
against accepting favors from strangers
but it is feared the man succeeded in
Turing him away
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-01

shoots Father-in-Law and HimseIf.
Lynn Hodges shot his father-in-law
A. p. Anderson, at Youngsville, Pa. A
few minutes later Hodges put a bullet
in his own head. Both men will die.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-01
senator severidqe Leaves the HOSPITAL

Senator BeVeridge Eeayes the Hospital
Senator Albert ]. Beverage has left
the Johns Hopkins hospital in Balti-
more, Md, after having been patient
Tor several weeks.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-04-01

ENF. NJ. q L Q. AN. NJ. N F. Q.
W 5th. Z 18th. V-I19th " 9th
The Detroit times., 1909-06-04

race so intimately connected with
them that Mr.. Dawson cxcels.
But almost equally good rs the
study OF the northerner who dwells
south who has made a real business
success, who Is, In his own fashion de-
voted To the interests of the people
with whom he has spent his life, but
whom they at bottom never cease 10
regard rs an interloper..
Il have no intention of writing a
criticism of Mr.. Dawson's books, but
II is worth while calling attention Of
the fact that this author who writes
with power and interest OF vital home
matters has his critics and his audi
ence abroad. but has neither critics
nor audience al home. He should
have both.
Although Col Roosevelt had never
met Dawson until the beginning OF
the present trip. the personality and
painstaking accuracy OF the young
ewspaperman, in the statement oil
facts regarding the hunt attracted his
attention. AS bond of friendship oe
tween the two spraug up. Col Roose
Welt gradually lowered the censorship
he had sought TO throw around the
news of his trip until when he started
north today for Kijahe. Dawson ac
companied the party at the invitation
of Col Roosevelt.
Warrington Dawson has for a mum
Der OF years been the Paris manager
of the United Press
The Detroit times., 1909-06-04
BLAMES TEA LEAVES
FOR WIFE'S QUARRELS
Husband Says the Fortunes They
y Told Made Her Jealous-Home
Toe Hot for Him.


NEW YORK. June 3.-Tea leaves
and their fortune-telling properties
have made things SO hot at home TOT
George Wall. OF the Bronz. that ne
says he would rather work on To-
minute shift under a hot boiler tnan
spend an evening at home with Mrs.
Wall He was defendant In the Nor
risania court on complaint OF his wife
Madeline. She accused him OF non
support. Wall told such n pathetic
story OF what he has suffered since
Mrs. Wall began attending tea'leal
seances that Magistrate Crane dis
charged him.
Since this fortune-telling business
began il has been hotter for me al
home than ever IL is when ! am work
ing beneath a hot-water boiler, ne
said. Everything was all right ~
our home until my wife went 10 tea
party two months ago. After the tea
had been drunk the women began tell
ing fortunes with the tea leaves. one
" the women told Mrs. Wall the
leaves showed had date that after
noon with a pretty blond. When gov
home from work that evening my wire
was ready for me. | tried TO convince
her that tea leaves knew nothing about
any ~ my dates She stood by the
tea leaves, and finally we had a quar-
rel.
other tea parties followed. and the
tea leaves continued to tell Mrs. wall
of legendary dates. he declared. There
was quarrel after each tea party,
and finally the court trouble came.
The Detroit times., 1909-06-04
|sEvELT LAUDS
aTER FOR TIMES
~ Literary Prowess Of War
ION Dawson, staff Correspond
} ID nfricx OF United Press.

wv YORK. June 3.--With char
letic enthusiasm Col. Theodore
welt In the current number ci
Outlook, issued today, devotes an
loorial column OF praise to the liter
prowess OF Warrington Dawson.
Gtaff correspondent OF the United
1oo and Detroit Times. whose splen-
stories OF the doings OF the Roosc-
party In Africa. have attracted in
national notice. He says:
~ seems rather queer TO go abroad
~ discover an American author.
NJ books have appeared in England
Ming the last year or two, named
~ Scar aud the The Scourge.
NJ have been success, not only in
4lond but on the continent. Yet
nv are by an American, Mr.. War,
1Gton Dawson. of South Carolina:
NJ they deal with localities. the types
~ questions exclusively and typical.
american. IL Is not very credit.
~ TO as that this American, writ.
u With unusual power OF American
u6s and problems, should have an
(uDively European audience.
%. Dawson's stories are laid In
inia. In each volume a northern
40 thrown into intimate contact
fhe members OF a proud cast of
<1pcial aristocrats. who have been
My sinking under the burden of
nding poverty. II is In his study OF
ne active whites--both men and
men. both those who are struggling
Yards and those whom an iron fate
slowly forcing downwaris-and in
studies OF dark-skinned alien
The Detroit times., 1909-06-04
SOPHIE LYONS sTIRs EN-.
Plans TO Establish Home For colored
People Rouse Neighbors.

The efforts OF Sophie-Lyons Brady
10 establish a home for aged and or.
phan colored people at Nos. 1929
Twenty-second-st., has aroused the in
dlgnation or the residents in that
vicinity. and Wednesday afternoon
they asked Judge Hosmer for an In
junction restraining her from going
ahead with her plans. Judge Hosmer
The Detroit times., 1909-06-04
TRIES THRICE FOR DIVORCE.
Mrs. Nettie McMillan's Third Suit Il
Filed

Among the suits for divorce filed
Thursday was one by Mrs. Nettie Nc
MILAN against her husband. Alexander
This ia the third suit Mrs. Mcmillan
has instituted. One was discontinued
when the parties made up their differ.
ences, the other came TO a trial and
Mrs. Mcmillan was granted a divorce
By Judge Donovan on May s, 1907,
After obtaining the decree she return
ed TO her husband. and they lived to-
gether again until recently. Other
cases started Thursday we're: Thomas
q VS.. Edna Adams. Elsie VS.. Harry
Davidson Gertrude VS.. Samuel Brow,
Samuel VS.. Anna Waldorf, and Jose
phine VS.. Henry J. Kamman.
The Detroit times., 1909-06-04

refused TO grant the injunction. but
lid grant an order To show cause why
the injunction should net issue. This
will be heard next Monday. The petit.
TONERS are headed by Capt Harris
w. Baker. They say they have offered
TO buy the property and have offered
Mrs. Lyons.Brady more than II Is
worth. but she Is determined to be-
come a philanthropist.
The Detroit times., 1909-06-04
Maehinlsts To Strike.

BALTIMORE. Md. June Am or
der has just been sent out by officials
Of the International Machinists' union
for a general strike of machinists en-
ployed by the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road
The Detroit times., 1909-06-04

no feathers. The plain. neat kind that
looks right Times Printing Co.. No.
rs John R.-st Phone 1925.
The Detroit times., 1909-06-04
For Friday and Saturday at
BIessed's ! H5x
Cor. Woodward and Henry 10 y. rE5SNEs

Fresh Dressed PouItry--nnest cornfed
stock
Noiu slieed Roast Beef. -....... doc III
Jelly Tongue. Try H. Live by
itself sliced Boiled Ham. see III
SLICED Breakfast Bacon. in glass lars.
our own Cooked Corn Beef ....i 4c In
Brlsket and Plate Corn Beef s-Ioe Id
Our own pure Pork Sausage
Our celebrated Hampshire Sau-
Fancy Farm Creamery Butter 3oc Ib
our Best Creamery a2c IN
Fresh Cottage Cheese ......ioc In
All kinds Cheese
Hekman's Dutch Cookies. Is in
Sedieu package ...-....,.......... Toe
Ginger snaps, &c lbI 4 for ...,... q, zoe
Special prices on Cigars Friday and
Saturday.
Orders must he In on Friday for
place ns early m possible.
The Detroit times., 1909-06-04

Watermelons. whole or one-haif
ZEN Melons MISUNDERSTANDING. 1oc each
Ripe Strawberries. California Cherries.
Pineapple. special. lie each. $50 dos
Grapefruit. and for. ........ 2sc
California Jams. all kinds and
Marmalade. lib Csc jars for. lie
CANDIES-All kinds Special low
prices.
SPINACH .................... Zoe peck
Round Radishes ...........5c bundle
CuCumbers .......s.... No each
Pieplant Young Onions Wax and
String Beans, new Beets Turnips, etc.
Long Green Asparagus. Toe bunch
New Potatoes. &c at ........ soc pix
CauIitiower. Egg Plant. Celery.
morning delivery. Please
The Detroit times., 1909-06-04

Orders must he In on Friday for
place as early m possible.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-03

with them-left to develop a crimial class?
 We are told that out of 1.6O0 arrests for drink in Portland there are not over 400 individuals. We are inclined to believe the figures of the latter too small; but there is force in the dis tinction. Here in Lewiston and Au- burn we have a class of habitual trunks, who are arrested in October, serve 30 days; come out; are rearrest- ed in a week and go back again for 30 days. over and over again is this done. Some practically live in jail; with intermittent sprees. These per- sons are diseased. They are victims of pronounced dementia, or whatever it may be called.
 Suppose, for instance, we had as has been suggested by others, state or a county place of detention for these unfortunates. Suppose they could be sent to this farm Gas it should bel until by treatment and ed- ucation and by the recreative process es of outdoor life they were benefited and cured. Society would be the gain CT and the product of their labor on the soil would be to the benefit of society and not in competition with the trades as it Is now. The jails of today are plenary, not educational Prisoners come out rebellious and dis graced. The simple drunk is thrown into the society of other criminals. He learns their ways frequently and loses his sense of-.right and wrong as he
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-03
FRANKS.

That this country is too tolerant of pranks cut up by boys and half grown men to celebrate certain events and holidays no one will venture to deny whether it is done by barrel raiders for Thanksgiving, or Halloween cru saders who. are still more senseless and vicious. Norwich iias reason to be glad that Halloween has never become a popular damage-day in the name of sport.
 There are complaints from all parts of the country about the vicious meth- ods of the Halloween celebrators. who were guilty of all sorts of vandalism. It is said for truth that the joke has been eliminated from the doings and that the disposition to do damage to property was everywhere the rul- ing spirit In Illinois they invaded a cemetery and did damage to 100 monuments, and in Vermont city they removed the marble coping of a handsome wall. doing serious injury to private property.
 What excuse is there for tolerance under such circumstances? When boys or youth so far forget themselves as to act in such criminal and of- fensive manner it is time to make them answer for the violation of law. That appears to be the only speedy way of calling halt upon such bar barous conduct.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-03
SHOES AND MEAT.

We are told that a decrease in the demand for meat for food by the peo- pie means decrease in the supply of hides for the shoe factories and dearer shoes for the people The Bookkeeper considers this matter of vegetarianism and it's bearing upon the shoe market as follows:
 There are six really big shoe fac- tories in the United States. These turned out 25,000,000 pairs of shoes last year. Shoes to the value of $10,- 100000 were sent abroad, and the re- mainder, valued at $340, 100000, were used in this country. Although the trade in rubbers increases every year, only s70,000,0o0 were spent for such things last year. We are told that the practice of vegetarianism inter feres greatly with the shoe business. Last year Germans took a notion to eat less meat, and the shoe manufac- turers in the land of the Kaiser were in despair. It is necessary to sell a great deal of meat in order that hides may be obtained without loss. This is another instance of the need of cooperation between manufacturers of all kinds. Unless Swift and Ar mour and the other packers are able to sell their goods the factories in the east must do with less leather. When the factories are forced to get along with less leather the world must get along with fewer shoes, and must also pay a higher price for those it does buy. It is interesting to know that the foreign shoe trade is. con- stantly increasing"
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-03
FARMERS AS BooKKEEPERs.

It is doubtless a pity that all farm srs are not bookkeepers, but it is a fact that the few who have had good business training, do not find time to devote to account keeping such as they might do for a salary for any merchant.
 It would be q great help to the government enumerators to have ex- act accounts to report and the results of census would be very much more satisfactory to the government, hence the request that American farmers in future keep books and strike trial balances. Perhaps those who make such requests are wholly unaware of how few farmers know what a trial balance is, and how few of the re- mainder, who do know, would care to hunt for a lost cent or two in the account for week or more, of nightsi
 It is not likely that a very large per cent. of the farmers will honor this request. To keep a set of farm books properly is as difficult as to keep a set in store or factory. There would be a debit and credit account for very field, every wood lot, every orchard, every potato and turnip patch, charging each with labor, fer tilizer and seed and crediting each with the yields at constantly chang ing market prices. The poultry and animals would have to be charged with feed and care and credited with work or products. If farmer does his own work and hires labor in addi- tion, rising at a. m. and quitting only at dark, it is easy to see that he would have very little time to write up set of books.
 He has not the cash to employ a bookkeeper, and if he had, the looking after this accountant would add one more to his hired-man troubles.
 The American farmer will have to be permitted to remember and to guess and to reckon, just as he has done since the government was found ed and the figures will have to be accepted by the government for what they are worth.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-03

The teacher called the new pupil to her desk.
 Why she asked the small coiored girl, didn't you enter with the rest of the class at the beginning of the term?"
 "Ah'm very delicate-like. teachah," explained the child My maw. she don't nevah expect to raise me, no ma am" She rolled her great eyes affeetedly. "So An ain't nevah ben to school much. De teachahs all has took mighty good care of me in the schools Ah've ben at; Ah've ben to five already.s De las teachah she always called me 'angel-chile.' She suah wuz a nice lady, she wuzl"
 What is your name?' asked the teacher.
 ~Gloryannah Annabel Snow. Yes, ma'am. An was named for nah two aunts. Dey wuz very beautiful ladies' Nah Aunt Gloryannah ned the mos beautifules' long yellah hair an' white skin an blue eyes. Nah muthah says An take after nah Aunt Gloryannah terrible close"
 The teacher looked at her round chocolate face and kinky little braids and could not conceal a smiles
 An nah oddah aunt-Aunt Anna bel, that wuz-hed the most beauti- fules red hair, long an straight
 The teacher felt called upon to in- terrupt this romance.
 What is your fathers name?"
 "Ah ain't got no fathah. Nah muthah's widow lady. Hits awful stylish to be widow ladies an weah long black veils. An don't nevah re- member nah fathah, but nah muth- ah she got herself a long veil last wintah an she suah does look fine. When Am growed up Am goin' to be a widow lady, too"
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-03
THE PRISONERS AT WETHERs.
 FIELD

When Thomas Dudley Wells talks of Wethersfeld he brings to the task a master mind familiar with the in- stitution in all its workings and his address on Sunday afternoon last to the Y. M. c. A. of Hartford was en- tightening from all points of view.
 Mr. Wells took occasion to show how the foreign population there had steadily increased. Of the sos con- victs, 160, or 27 per cent. of the total, are natives of Connecticut; 214, or 35 per cent, were born in other parts of the United States; while the birth cer- tlhcates of 231, or 3S per cent, were recorded under alien flags. Steady and marked has been the expansion of the percentage of foreign prison- CTS during the last half century, Tn 1853, 21 in each 100 convicts at Weth- ersfeld were immigrants; in 1909 the ra,ic has swollen to 3S in each 100. It was not until 1863 that native of Poland was put under lock and key At WetheI sfield, and it was not till twelve years later that a Russian born offender was committed; now 24 representatives of those countries gre registered. The first time that native of Italy was condemned to put on rrison garb in Connecticut dates back only to 1860. and the larg- est number of Italians undergoing im- pIisonment at any period up to 1892 was (: now the, number foots up 12o anl exceeds by 15 the combined total of all other foreign nationalities.
 In concluding his address he said that "of the 685 prisoners at Wethers- field at the end of the fiscal year, 3S were inmates of the insane ward. The record is not abnormal or startling, although pathetic. Insanity is some times an incident of crime; crime is sometimes an incident of insanity. It isn't always easy to tell where sanity leaves off and lunacy begins. Various criminals have wobbly minds. and the reason of many convicts, at the time If their admission to prison, is in a condition of unstable equilibrium. l. isn't strange that the ratio of insan,ty among life prisoners is about four times as great as among other con victs. for the tension and oppressive ness and haunting hopelessness inc; dental to life sentence naturally tend to knock some of the props iron. un- Ger the wits. The proportion of lUnacy among the foreign porn con- victs is two and a half times as great az among the native-born.
 Touching only a few points and emitting many minor aspects of the problem, this analysis of the sort of folks who get into prison has been carried far enough to show that the average felon at Wethersfeld is unoer 30 years of age; that he is one and two-thirds times as likely to be na- tive as an immigrant; that the prob ability of his being white is nine times as great as that of his being black; th.' there is one chance in seven that he is serving a life sentence; and that :here is one chance in 16 that he may ultimately have to take a course of treatment in the insane ward. I am glad to add that many fellows who went astray yesterday and are in con- vict suits today are likely to become decent citizens tomorrow or the day after"