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The new era., 1909-09-30
THE LATEST IMPORTANT Dis
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT.
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN NEWS.

Right Rev. William George McClos-
key. bishop Of Louisville. KY. and the
Oldest living prelate In the United
States. died. aged eighty-five years.
The $4,000 ton battleship to be built
by the New York shipbuildipg COM
pany will be known as the Arkansas.
and that by William Cramps Sons &
Company as the Wyoming The con-
tracts for these ships were let several
days ago.
Attempting the part Of peacemaker
between w. o. Terry and John Shan
non at Tyrone. N. NJ. Grant county
mining camp. Thomas Burch received
two bullets and died soon after. Terry.
who fired the fatal shots, Is in jail at
Silver City.
Walter l.. Fisher of Chicago, presi-
dent of the Conservation League of
America, announced completion of
walton Association with former Presi-
dent Charles w. Eliot of Harvard as
president.
Eugene Pearson, former chief clerk
In the depot Quartermaster's office >of
the United States army in San Fran
cisco. was sentenced to one year and
one day in the San Quentin prison.
for embezzling $1.14O from the govern
ment. A motion for a new trial was
denied.
The T. H. Bunch company, a large
grain concern, at Little Rock. Ark.
has filed petition In bankruptcy. 1t
is reported that local banking institu-
tions are involved to the extent Of
100000. The annual business Of the
concern, 1t is said, has ranged between
$4,000, 900 and 100000.
The Standard Oil Company has a
deal pending which is recognized by
financial interests as the beginning Of
movement to gain control Of the en-
tire country's production Of natural
gas. This deal. which will go through
within . short time, will give to the
Standard Oil Company entire owner.
ship OF the Reserve Gas Company.
which controls the gas output Of West
Virginia.
Plans and specifications practically
have been finished and the contracts
will be let in few days for new
office building for the Atchison. To
peka & Santa Fe Railroad Company
at Topeka. The new building will lie
erected Immediately south Of the pre-
sent office building. 1t will cost about
100000. The structure will be six
stories high and 75x152 feet In dimsn-
sions. 1t 1t TO be fireproof, construct
ed of steel and concrete. 1t will &C.
commodate 900 clerks. The Root &
Siemens firm OF Kansas City designed
the building.
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NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

Treasurer Charles H. Treat has re-
signed. to take effect in October No
successor has been chosen so far an
known.
Secretary Ballinger emphatically de-
MES that he intends to resign. Ball
niger Is confined to his room on ac-
count of throat trouble.
The application of J. w. Caudill.
Oscar Thompson, r. Wright. R. F.
Love and A. ]. Scaff to organize the
First National Bank of Lovington, N.
M, with $4,000 capital, has been ap-
proved by the comptroller OF the cur
rency.
Acting Secretary of the Treasury
James B. Reynolds has telegraphed to
President Taft his acceptance of the
appointment os member of the tariff
board. No date has been fixed for Mr.
Reynolds retirement from the assist
ant secretaryship. nor is it known yet
who will succeed him. The arrange
ments for the meeting of the tariff
board are still incomplete, although
the first session may be held for pre-
liminary Organization within a few
days at the Treasury department.
With a full.fledged forest expert
ment- station high up on Pixies Peak.
in addition to the one at Flagstaff.
Ariz., the forest service will endeavor
to minimize the injury resulting from
mistaken practices in its domain. An
outline of the proposed work at these
stations was made public today. Al
ready the feasibility of artificial re-
generation of pine forests by planting
and sowing ts being tested. de-
tailed study of natural and artificial
regeneration Of such trees as Douglas
fir, Englemann spruce and the tuni-
pers Is planned, also. Tests will be
conducted with view Of Introducing
trees superior to the native growth
in various sections.
According to Judge 8. H. Cowan Of
Fort Worth. Texas. attorney for the
National Live Stock Association and
the Texas Cattle Raisers' Association.
the country is confronted with unheard
| Of prices for beef this winter Judge
Cowan says the cost Of living will
show continued increase next winter
and points out that the cattle market
is now short . million head of cattle.
"The price Of beef. said he. will in-
crease the coming winter to point
now unheard Of, tor the demand 10
] much greater than the supply"
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GENERAL NEWS.

The first process Of making soda on
an extensive scale was discovered by
Nicholas Leblanc, a French chemist,
in 1891.
Ohio produced ce,270,6Ss short tons
Of coal last year, . decrease from the
previous years output Of about 1927
per cent.
In some Of tho. public schools OF
Connecticut a course Of agriculture
has been introduced in some Of the
higher grades.
During the last year the population
OF Germany increased by $4,000 per
sons. to 63,S86.000. according to Off.
cial statistics.
SKINNED milk has been proved q
valuable food for laying hens. accord
ing to experiments of the Virginia ex-
pertinent station.
Tigers american breed) are said
to have eaten up two naturalist ex'
plorers in Costa Rica. II the polar
bear were anthropophagous like the
Central American tiger. civilization
but why pursue the subject?
Another great millionaire has fol
lowed Russell Sage's example in trust
ing his widow with his whole fortune
In each case the decedent knew his
residuary legatee well enough to be
sure Of making no mistake-which Ia
. real advantage.
In tearing down the old house built
by William Whipple. pioneer lumber
man who died twenty years ago. Con
tractor William Jackson at Bay City
Mich, found musty pillow slip which
aroused his curiosity because 1t was
80 heavy. Ripping open the slip with
his jack-knife. he found $4,000 in gold
coin mingled with the feathers. The
money was turned over to Frederick
Whipple, q son, who is preparing tC
erect a new house on the site.
1t is well known that the long arc
tic winter, with its depressing effects
on body and mind. often upsets the
best balanced nervous system, even 0.
the natives. But this hysteria vanishei
with the summer. Explorers have
suffered in the same way. and two
committed suicide. In summer Eski
mos get 70 full blooded that nose
bleeding Is very common.
Minister WI says he expects to set
war abolished. In his country the tax
payers evidently have NO song with I
line equivalent to '"The army and nav
forever"
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Younoest Of the spectators.

William Howard Taft Wilsbury.
aged twenty-eight days, was among
the spectators Of the presidential pa
rade yesterday. He lay snugly in his
grandmother's arms near Seventeenth
and lawrence streets and didn't seem
much interested In the proceedings.
John Wilsbury. William Howard's
father. is an. admirer Of the President
and yesterday morning, but q few
hours before the parade. the young
ster was christened with the name OF
the nations chief executive.
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10 0StlmAteO tu6t 1lS,UU 4QUlS
males in New York City make . liv-
Ing by their Wits" without In any
sense being an economic factor aiding
In production or distribution
j. e. Sayre. merchant. Racket
Richie county, was arrested at Harris.
vile. w. Va. on the charge OF having
murdered his seventeen-year-old wife
on the day he married her In that
city.
King Edward is a clergyman. al
though few people seem to be aware
Of the fact. He Is prebendary Of st.
David's. in Wales. and gets salary
of IS year. He is entitled to preach
one sermon year in the cathedral.
He Is also member of the English
and Irish bars and a member OF the
Royal College of Physicians.
King I>eopold's latest whim, prao-
tically completed, is a private railway
leading from the Brussels suburban
station at Laeken to the palace, about
mile away. This railway. altogether
hidden from sight, is luxurlously ap-
pointed: from 1t his majesty steps In
to an elevator which conveys him d.
rect to his apartments. The railway,
tunnel and fittings cost $1.200.O00.
Eskimos are all children, contented,
peaceable, honest and hospitable, with.
out rulers, and without ambition for
fame or power. They live almost entire
ly on raw animal food. and this explains
the absence OF number of diseases
which are common to civilization. Salt
water contains iodin, and all sea an.
imals. as well as all who eat them un-
cooked. absorb more or less Of this
tickle chemical substance.
The Spanish bark. San Antonio,
with $4,000 bags of salt aboard. has
sunk in Havana harbor. No one can
truthfully say that this salt is lost;
it has emerged its individuality with
that of the capacious deep. All the
owners of this salt need do to re-
cover their property is to await the
slow but sure evaporation which sci
entists tell us is drying up and disin-
tegrating the earth quite after the
manner OF the shredded Goldfish of
commerce.
One of the reforms which have
been placed to the credit of the
Young Turkish party In the Ottoman
empire is the abolition of the red
ticket regulation" Until this took
place red card was issued to lew
on arrival in Palestine. the possession
Of which entitled the holder to a three
months residence. II the red ticket
man wished to remain longer the Gre
dental had to be renewed, and this
naturally led to abuses In the nature
OF graft. The abolition OF this re-
strictive measure was urged upon the
authorities by Israel Zangwill
Twenty-Five thousand Chinese Cool
les are wanted to finish the Canadian
Grand Trunk railway at 50 day and
board. Chinese cooks get SIS month
in New York. as against $50 to $45
paid to Japanese cooks. Chinese
laundrymen make $1S week here. A
Chinaman will do as much in one day
in house as the average servant girl
does In six. The wages which the
Chinamen's untiring industry. honesty.
intelligence and loyalty command are
the measure Of the yellow peril we feel
when he is here stealing our job. By
offering this work and big wages to
coolies the officials of the Canadian
Grand Trunk are discouraging that
American labor which Is inclined to
turn over on the park bench for an
other snooze until 1t Is time for the
bread line to form.
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Has He Got III

Chicago.-Is the figure sc" lighter
than the figure "9"? Or, to put 1t
another way. is the figure 80" heavier
than the figure "6"? Still again, will
figures. 30 placed on the spokes Of q
wheel that such figures will be "9s''
going down and "6s" going up.
keep the aforesaid wheel revolving
continually without any motive
power7
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Old Time Defendant Pull. TAFT.

Toledo, Ohio:-James Lennon. To-
comotive engineer, who, fifteen years
ago was one of the targets Of the
famous injunction issued against rail-
road employees by Judge Taft. then on
the United States Circuit Court bench,
but who later became . supporter of
Taft. was at the throttle Of the loco
motive that pulled the train bearing
the President from Toledo-to Elkhart.
The new era., 1909-09-30

! A woman doesn't seem to worry as
much because her husband samb0
The new era., 1909-09-30

"Cohen's Ill in bed. I hear
"Yes, he smoked q cigar from the
wrong pocket PUCK.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-06-18
Juniors Banquet Seniors.

The annual reception of the junior
class of the Owosso high school for the
graduating class and members of the
school board was held at the First Bap-
tlst church last Friday evening, the
banquet being served by the ladies of
the church. The officers of the class,
President, Eric Kohler, Vice President,
Ada Gerow, Secretary, Lois Whipple
and Treasurer Howard Rollo, acted as
reception committee to one hundred
guests.
After the reception all the students
seated at tables arranged around the
the side of the basement room, the
superintendent Of schools high school
faculty, the members of the board and
their wives at round table in the cen
ter and were served by twelve sophmore
and freshmen girls with a delicious and
hearty repast.
Miss Myrtle Walker acted as toast
mistress for the program of excellent
talks that followed. Principal F. E.
DeYoe gave very impressive and
cultured response on the subject, The
Powers to Be" Superintendent Sim.
mons spoke in a reminiscent strain, re-
ferring to events of the past twenty
years covering his connections with
Owosso schools, the graduates and their
successes and the disappointment and
sorrows that had marred the period.
Eric Kohler's subject was To-day,
E. p. Sherman's Tomorrow" and w
E. Halls, Yesterday" and all were ap'
propriate and well received toasts
Miss Blanche Kerwin pleased with the
subject, idle Dreams" rs did Howard
Rollo on Midnight OIL and Beatrice
Andrews on the Powers That Be-
Miss Jean Hurst closing the program
entertainingly with The Garden
Scene"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-06-18
Rural Carriers Meet.

A meeting of the Shiawassee County
Rural Carriers Association in Foresters
hall in this city, Saturday evening, was
largely attended, fifty including the
ladies partaking of the banquet.
Officers were elected as follows
President, Fred Lewis, Byron; vice
president Leon Cobb, Perry; secretary
and treasurer, Clifford Lewis, Byron
delegate to state meeting, Ray Reed,
Vernon; alternate d. Reed.
A literary and musical program in
Guiding recitations by Henry Sheffield,
John Kelly and Mrs. Sayers, piano solos
by Mrs. Clifford Lewis followed by dis.
cussion of business matters made full
an evenings work and play. The next
meeting will be in Byron Feb. 90, 1910.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-06-18
Summer at Bay View.

The rise of the summer city of Bag
View in Northern Michigan has long
attracted much attention. 1t is town
of hundreds of summer homes and
hotels in the groves by the shore OF
Lake Michigan; the seat of an Assem-
bly, and Summer University of grest
reputation and draws people from all
parts of the land There, recreation
are organized and promo ted, and q
$4,000 swimming pool and bowling
alley are now building. Much is done
for the children, and this year a sum
mer school of Domestic Arts and Sci
ence, in charge of women of the high
est reputation; also Bible Conference
conducted by DR.. w. F. Sheridan, oE
Kansas City, in which participate con
spicuous church leaders, governors and
judges, are among the new featured,
All the summer announ cements are ouS
and fill 4S beautifully illustrated pages
in the Bay View Magazine for May.
If you write j. M. Hall, Boston Boule-
ward, Detroit, Mich, he will send you q
copy.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-06-18
Local News.

Memorial Day observance cost the
city but $49.71, the bills being allowed
by the council Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Comstock left
Monday for Park Falls and Milwaukee,
Wis, and Chicago to be gone two
months.
Miss Belva McCreedy has returned
home from Albuquerque, New Mexi-
co, where she has been teaching, to
spend the summer.
The Lambda REQ Tan Sorority gave
six o'clock dinner Monday evening, in
honor ofMiss Frances Devereaux at the
home f.Cleo Carmody.
Notices are being served on property
owners who have not properly trimmed
the shade trees near their property to
do so or pay the cost with their tax
payment
o. A Shadbolt returned Monday
evening from Saginaw. He has been
very busy lately putting down test
wells for coal at several points in
Midland county.
Announcements of the marriage of
Miss Grace Hopson, formerly of this
city, to I'M. D. Pinkenton of Salem
Oregon, have been received by Owosso
friends. They will reside at Salem.
Capt. and Mrs. J. w. Angel will give
a reception at their home on Genesee
street, Thursday evening June "a for
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Angel, who
will be married June % at Mt. Clemens.
w. B. lService of the Union Tele-
phone Co., was recently bitten three
times nlione hand by copperhead
snake while directing the loading of
poles at Farewell. Prompt medical at.
tention brought him through safely.
H. w. Mann of Detroit, was in the
city Friday representing the Detroit
Supply Co. With Mrs Mann he will
leave shortly for Seattle, Washington,
to visit his son Ernest W. Mann, who
mas responsible position with a large
firm in that city.
Over $50 taxpayers have signed pc.
titions asking the council to provide q
site for new armory to be erected by
the state. Some persons, unwisely it
would seem, suggested Fayette square
as location but few would agree with
this suggestion even tho the city could
use this ground for that purpose. But as
the Williams family decided it with the
provision that it should always be used
as park, there is no danger of it's be-
ing used as an armory site. 1t is hoped
however, that some way may be found
to secure good site and the necessary
money to make the states $l5, 900 avail
able.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-06-18

date any campaign card, banner, hand
bill, poster, lithograph, halftone en-
craving. photograph or any adyertis-
ing matter. A candidate cannot cir
culate any printed matter or advertise
ment about himself larger than two
and quarter inches in width and four
in length, excepting postal cards and
letters. No lithograph or such print
ing containing likeness of the cSndi-
date larger than one and half inchee
in width by two inches in height NAV
be circulated, excepting in newspapers
OF bona fide publication and circulation
three months prior to the date of the
advertisement, where a cut of the same
size may be run, provided that not more
than ten per cent of the accompanying
printed matter is in larger type thar
regularly used by the newspaper in It's
editorial column, excepting therefrom
the name of the candidate and Office
for which he aspires. No rate shall be
charged higher than the regular high
est rate on the newspapers card. Nc
advertisements shall be printed in any
publication except newspaper.
The new measure makes it unlawful
for candidate to "treat" to any intoxi-
eating beverage after he has announced
himself or filed his petitions or to allow
any of his political friends or associates
to ''set 'em up on him or in his In.
terests, a provision decidedly unique
the operation of which will be watched
with interest
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-06-18
Flag Day Observed.

The citizens of Owosso remembered
the flag of their country and made it
apparent in displaying the star span-
gled banner in all sizes on every street
in the city Monday. On Sunday ex-
ercises were held in the churches and
largely attended, patriotic sermons were
preached and much to stir the patriot
ism of the people occurred.
Owosso Lodge of Elks accepted Rev.
c. H. Hanks invitation and in large
number attended the Congregational
church morning service, and listened
to an eloquent sermon on the flag and
and its significance.
Owosso and Colfax Lodges of Odd
Fellows, the Rebekah Lodges and the
Patriarchs Militant Canton were at the
Baptist church where Rev. Geo. Laugh
ton reminded the visitors of the great
work done under the banners of fra
ternalism and of the greater and grand
er work done under the flag of this
great republic. In the Baptist church
in the evening Uuon flag day rally
was presided over by Rev. CHI. Hanks
the program being prepared by the
Daughters of the American Revolution
Revs Hanks, Laughton, Polly; Mrs.
E. Fl. Jacobs, representing the w. r.
G; G. G. Duff, the G.. A. R; Capt. j. O.
Parker, Co. H, and j. w. Simmons for
Owosso Lodge of Elks were on the plat
form. The w. r. c., G. A. r. and
Co. II. were present in bodies. Music
was furnished by scholars of the third
and seventh grades of the city schools,
under the direction of Miss Gertrude
Smith. c. c. Duff told of the comfort
and cheer "the old fag2 was to the
men of the civil war, how it led them
to victory, cheered them in sickness
and warmed their hearts and stirred
their memories whenever it was flung
to the breeze.
Mrs. Jacobs gave history of the w.
r. G. and its devotion to the flag
Capt. Parker affirmed that the young
soldiers were ready to defend the flag
with their lives at any time and main
tanned that all should interest them
selves in securing new and proper ar
mory for military and other uses
Prof. Simmons compared our flag will
that of other nations and gave the
Elks tribute to the flag.
Rev. Laughton spoke for the Daugh
ters of the American Revolution. H,
said the American flag stood for his
tory that was unparalleled in the an
mails of the world; it stands for a belize
in God as the moral governor of tn,
Universe. and for a true pat triotism-
one that carries conscience for coun
try's sins as well as her triumphs
one that this nation has been rich in.
The meeting closed with a patriot,
hymn sung with fervor that mad
glad every listener and participant.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-06-18
The New Primary Election Law

At its recent session the legislature
passed new primary election law
which will be operative when the elect
ions are held next year. 1t differs in
many essential features from the law
now on the statute books and the fol-
lowing are among its most important
points of interest:
The adoption of the direct primary,
system is made mandatory upon all
parties as far as the nomination of gov
ernor, lieutenant governor and United
States senator are concerned. Primary
day is the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in September the day after
Labor Day. Enrolment day is here
after to be the first Monday in April in
stead of Just before the autumn pri-
mary as before.
SUBMIT PRIMARY SYSTEM IN APRIL.
The new law requires the submission
of the primary system to voters
throughout the state generally in April
next or any time subsequent on a Pc
tition of 90 per cent OF the qualified
voters, of the question of the nomina'
tion of party candidates for city off ces
in cities of less than 10000 population.
An election shall be held the first Mon
day in April to determine whether the
system shall apply in the nomination of
circuit judges and all county officers.
The law is mandatory upon all par
ties in these provisions:
Nomination of governor, lieuten ant
governor and United states senator.
Nomination of congressman.
Nomination of senators and repre-.
sentatives to the state legislature.
Delegates to the county conventions.
CANDIDATES MUST SECURE PETITIONS.
Names of candidates printed on the
"official primary ballot may only be
placed there after the candidates haye
secured petitions sufficiently signed.
For governor not less than 2 per cent
nor more than four per cent of the
party votes cast for secretary of sta tie
at the preceding fall election is neces-
sary. The same provision obtains as
to congressional nominations. Where
there are two or more candidates for
the legislature not less than per
cent nor more than per cent is is suf
ficient to qualify for the primary. For
county and city offices the provision is
the same as for state and congressio nal
nominees.
A voter may sign but one nominating
petition for any Office, and these pc
titions must be filed fifteen days before
the September primary and eight days
before local primary. All coun ty
conventions of any one political party
to nominate delegates to state conven
tions shall be held on the same day ant
these conventions must be held within
fifteen days after the first Wednesd
in September preceding the Novemb e.
election. All state conventions mus
be held within 40 days after the Sep
tember primary.
RESTRICTIONS OF CANDIDATES.
The law places some novel and pc
, culiar restrictions upon candidates il
. the primary. The candidate may no
, post or cause to be posted within tn
territory within which he is candi