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The Yale expositor., 1909-01-01
The oompers Case.

II | am forced to go to prison T.
Will demonstrate to the laboring peo
pie of America that there is need OF
an anti-injunction law" said Samuel
Gompers.
There is real danger in our courts
as they are at present cnrs tut d ~
workingman being robbed OF his
rights through the operation Of the in.
junction. If 1t be necessary for me to
serve this sentence to demonstrate
this more fully, | am willing to suffer
Il am deeply sensible OF the expires.
sions OF sympathy have received
from all parts of the United States"
The Yale expositor., 1909-01-01
THINGS AND
LEGISLATION
THAT SPECIAL TARIFF oEssIoN
AoITATEs coNoREssMEN
JUST NOW.
GOMPERS' SENSIBLE VIEW.
Matters Of Note and Comment From
the National Capital and Other
Sources Of information.

II leaders in congress Of both 20
litical parties are able to bring suf
fcient influence upon President-elect
Taft, the special session to revise the
tarif will be called almost immediate
ly after inauguration. The purpose
Will be to cut the special session as
short as possible and secure an ad
journment before the extremely hot
weather. Ordinarily a special session
is not called until after some time has
elapsed after the adjournment of the
regular session to give members OF
congress an opportunity to go to their
home and transact personal business
and return to Washington for a long
stay.
The Yale expositor., 1909-01-01
Tho Glnsenu Crop,

Eaton county has become one OF the
principal ginseng producing counties
in the state. and this season the rails
ers of this valuable product in this 10.
cality have marketed an extraordinar.
lily large quantity of the roots, all of
which are exported to China The In.
dustry is in It's infancy here, but the
Eaton county producers have harvest
ed total Of about $4,000 worth this
year, and next season, which will be
the regular f1ve-year harvest, the yield
will be more than four times that
much. The demand for the roots is
much greater than the supply and there
Is always a good market for all that
is raised, at upward of IS a pound.
The Yale expositor., 1909-01-01
MICHIGAN BREVITIES.

A COW stepped upon the chest OF
Myron Harcourt, a Morenci farmer,
and killed him.
Otto Gillespie. aged 80, of Bay City.
died Tuesday from injuries received
last September. He was struck on the
head by falling iron rod.
The Michigan Central has added
three new locomotives to the Bay CITY
division, capable of hauling 20 loaded
cars up any of the steep grades of
this line. Each weighs ITO tons.
Mrs. Sarah j. Clark, % years old,
was killed while crossing the Michigan
Central railroad tracks near her home
in Grand Rapids shortly after o'clock
Thursday night. Her body was fright
fully mangled.
Yeggmen broke into the Grass Lake
postofiice and blew the safe early Sun
day morning. They secured a quantity
of stamps and $25 in money People
living in the village heard the explos-
Ion but did not dare venture out.
Mrs. James Calhoun. wife of farm
er living near Kalamazoo. narrowly
escaped death while interfering in a
quarrel between her husband and Joe
Scott, negro. Scott, Il is alleged
swung an ak, cutting a cash on Mrs
Calhoun's arm.
William II. Powlus, OF Saginaw, has
started suit In the circuit court against
August Golowbesky TO recover posses
sion of his 5-year-old son. Lee. He
says that he put the little fellow with
the Golowbesky family to board and
that they now refuse to give him up.
The sentence of Sherwood Clemens,
bookkeeper, yho confessed to burning
the Grand Trunk depot in Bay City
TO hide defalcation, has been de-
ferred pending the checking over of
his accounts, in which he is assisting
under guard. His shortage is alleged
to be 81 LOO.
Judge Loyal E. Knappen in the Unit
ed States district court Tuesday de-
MED the motions of the Pere Mar
quette railroad for new trials in two
Of the three cases brought against the
railroad by Nels Jensen and wife, who
were injured In the Salem wreck. The
lower courts award of 5000 TO Jensen
for damages arising from the loss of
companionship and the services of his
wife. however, is declared excessive.
A new trial is ordered unless Jensen
Is willing to accent an award of 5000.
John Stafford. So. a farmer, came to
the police with a tale OF woe Wednes-
day that a newly-made friend had rob
had him OF his suitcase and clothing.
The Yale expositor., 1909-01-01
THE ANSWER.
President Keeps Cool and Makes Dig.
nlfied Reply.

TTcbiocUt Noepe Cool anu Makes Di8-
nlfied Reply.
President Roosevelt has completed
the draft OF his answer to the request
OF the house OF representatives that
he give the basis of his assertion that
cogressmen themselves do not wish to
be investigated by secret service
men"
Mr.. Roosevelt worked day and night
to get the answer ready before Christ
mas, for he wished to have his desk
clear for the holidays. Members of
congress who are looking for an ex-
plosive document will be disappointed.
The presidents answer is calm, con-
sentative and even judicial. He names
no members of the present house.
The president will convict the mem
bers out Of their own mouths. that
they really feared the secret service
would be used to investigate congress-
men unless the field Of its activities
was restricted
In the answer the records OF the de-
bate last May when the secret service
limitation amendment was before the
house will be used to show that the
members themselves were responsible
for the belief that the fear of being
looked into" was the reason they
wanted the operations OF the secret
service restricted to the detection of
counterfeiting and the protection OF
the person OF the president. In the
course OF that debate there was plenty
OF material upon which the president
has been able to base his assertion.
In the hearings before the commit.
tee prior to the time the matter
reached the floor there were state.
ments which. 1t will be contended,
bore out the fear theory.
The Yale expositor., 1909-01-01
BOY BURGLAR
WAS A SLICK ONE
LOOTED BOXES IN MT. CLEMENS
PosToFFlcE AND SEVERAL
DWELLINGS.
HE HAD $4,000 IN CHECKS
Forgery Led to Suspicion, Capture and
Confession and Recovery Of Most Of
the Stolen Property.

To the chief OF police of Mt Clemens
and Postmaster Frank Z. Nellis, John
Upleger, 15 years old, tonight con-
fessed to having Systematically rob-
bed local postoffice boxes of checks,
certificates of deposit and money or
ders to the face value of $3.50 or
$4,000.
This confession was supplemented
by a second in which the lad admitted
that he had plundered several houses
in Mt. Clemens last summer, and that
he had also stolen various sums OF
money from his grandmother, his
mother and his sister.
From his employer, Upleger told the
chief OF police, he had stolen a bank
check book. He declared he had filled
out three checks, each for SIS, and
had cashed all OF them. II was while
he was cashing the third check, drawn
on the Citizens Savings Bark OF this
city and signed with the name of E.
ID. Milton, photographer in the Den
yer building who employed Upleger
that suspicion was drawn to him. The
bank officials notified Milton, who
promptly pronounced the checks for
geries. The police authorities were
also notified
When the boy was confronted with
this evidence, he is alleged TO have ad-
mitted his guilt and the officers
searched his room on Miller street,
where a great number of checks,
drafts, certificates of deposit and
money orders were found In an en-
velope bearing the address OF the Mt
Clemens Savings bank.
Since November, local banks have
complained of the loss of large num-
Der Of letters containing remittances
through the postoffice, and while a
diligent search was made for the thief,
all efforts proved OF no avail until to-
| day. When the finding of the papers
In Upleger's room was made known to
him. he said that he knew nothing of
them except that another boy had
given them to him, but vigorous ques-
tioning brought out the fact that the
lock boxes of three Mt. Clemens saw
ings banks, Harlo Widrig, insurance
agent, and James Watson had been
| frequently robbed of their contents
and that the boy had destroyed the
envelopes and hidden his plumber, to
the face value of $4,000, in his room.
| The money orders were taken in
charge by Postmaster Nellis. while
the checks and certificates are held by
the police department, awaiting fur
Their developments.
The Yale expositor., 1909-01-01
Gomez Gets BUSY.

Passengers from ports in Venezuela
report that Acting President Gomez
has taken drastic steps to suppress
friends and supporters Of Castro. In
order to check any possibility of a re-
bellion on behalf of the overthrow
executive, Gomez Is having every
prominent sympathizer of Castro
placed under arrest. The jails are thus
being filled to overlooking with polit-
ical prisoners.
The leading followers of Castro will
be deported as further precaution
against a revolutionary outbreak. All
of the soldiers in the Venezuelan army
who sympathiZe with Castro have
been discharged and the ranks filed
with supporters OF Gomez.
The Yale expositor., 1909-01-01
Endanaers a Town.

Because the walls of the building
have become so badly cracked it is i'm
possible to heat the structure suf.
ficiently, the Columbia hospital at Nor.
way has been closed
The trouble is due to a settling OF
the ground, caused by the mining op.
erations at the United States Steel
corporations big Aragon property, the
workings Of which extends under the
city. The caving system is employed
the surface being permitted to sink
as the iron ore is removed beneath,
with the result that a large area of
the town has become affected and
there is in progress a wholesale re.
moval OF the business district to a new
location.
The Yale expositor., 1909-01-01
Held for Trial

The burglars detained for the Hills
dale postoffice robbery Wednesday
morning were arraigned before JUS
tice Charles NJ. Weaver Thursday
afternoon. Their examination was
fixed for January IL, and bail settled
at $4,000, which is yet to be secured.
The case is taken from the hands Of
the federal court as the sentence
under the charges would be but FIVE
years. while the Michigan statutes
provide for a term of Imprisonment of
II years.
The Yale expositor., 1909-01-01

The G.. A. r. encampment Is to he
held in Kalamazoo June %. % and "a.
About 5000 members and their friends
Of the Michigan division are expected.
Robert Fogarty, 10. shines in a
hero's role. The boy ran two miles
through the deep snow and woods near
Suttons bay. TO bring men with
sledges and doctor to the aid of Her
bert Hart his fathers hired man, who
had been pinned under falling tree.
The man may recover.
Before ending her life early Sunday
morning by sending a bullet into her
brain, Mrs. James w. Searles. wife
Of wealthy mine owner OF Grand
Rapids. placed diamonds valued at
several thousand dollars beneath the
corner OF rug in her home for safe
keeping. They were founi after a long
search.
The Yale expositor., 1909-01-01
The Pittsburs Graft Cases.

The councilmanic graft case expos
ures which have startled Pittsburg.
took on new interest Saturday when IL
became known that IL additional coun-
cilmen had been notified officially by
officers not to attempt to leave the
city, for IL they did II would mean
their immediate arrest This comes
direct from the Voters league head
quarters, and is taken to mean that
these additional councilmen are vir.
tually prisoners within their own city.
A story has been printed that Il is
the Pennsylvania railroad and the
Pittsburg street railways companies
that are after the grafters in Pittsburg
and that these two corporations are
putting up the money, not from a
standpoint OF morals, but for self-pro-
lection. They are said to believe II is
cheaper to send a few dozen grating
councilmen to the pen than to pay out
each year the many thousands OF dol
lars which they have been forced to
do to prevent themselves being legis-
lated against
The Yale expositor., 1909-01-01
Proves a Good Crop.

AS result OF experiments conduct
ed the past summer, farmers in the
southern part of Alger county intend
to embark in the business OF raising
peas on an extensive scale. Seed was
furnished them gratis. and their entire
crop was taken by a Northport mich. }
cannery at $1.25 per bushel The av-
erage harvest was 20 bushels TO the
acre. Peas of the Alaskan variety
were used, and they ripened six weeks
after planting.
The Yale expositor., 1909-01-01
GENERAL NEWS.

Tortured by lighted matches ap-
piled to his bare feet, II. A. Schabow,
a farmer near Curtice, o., turned over
to robbers $3.50 belonging to an in
surance company
Because Julia Pice, aged II would
accept neither as her husband, Powell
Formich and Michael Milanovitch of
Cleveland, o., fought duel with short
knives in a darkened room Formich
was killed after he had buried his
knife in the neck of his opponent.
President Clement Armand Fal-
Heres of France was attacked in a cafe
in the Place de l'Etoile by politician
named Mappis. The aged president
grappled with his assailant and was
severely bruised.
In a game for the high-school cham.
pionship of the United States, the
Longmont high-school team of Long
mont. Col, defeated the team from the
Englewood high school of Chicago, 10
20 o, at Denver.
The Salvation Army prepared Christ
mas dinners for about 100000 poor
people throughout the country.
The United States Steel Corporation
is planning to build a $4,000. 900 town
at the head of Lake Superior. about
six miles from Superior and Duluth.
similar to Gary, Ind.
Gov. Hoch of Kansas pardoned John
Collins. serving a life sentence in the
Kansas state penitentiary for the muir.
der OF his father, j. s. Collins, well.
TODD real estate and insurance man OF
Topeka. in 1898. One of the witnesses
against Collins has admitted his testi.
mony was perjured.
The Yale expositor., 1909-01-01

Thomas F. Ryan, the noted New
York financier, has resigned from 81
directorates on the advice OF his
physician, who told him he must get
out OF harness.
Dividends, interest disbursements
on stocks and bonds OF the banks,
trust companies. railroads, Industrial
and other corporations of New York
city for January. 1909. will exceed
$40 900, 900, an increase OF approx
mately $1I000,000 over the disburse-
ments of January. last year. The In
crease is generally attributable TO the
extraordinary amount Of securities Is
sued during the year.
The Yale expositor., 1909-01-01
THE MARKETS.

Detroit-Cattle: Extra dryfed steers
and heifers. $5.35@$5.5O: steers and
heifers 1000 10 1900. s4.50@ So:
steers and heifers 500 TO / 900. $425 "a
500 to 700 SS.5O@SS.75; choice fat
cows, $3.50: good fat cows. s3@$3.25;
common cows, $2Q$2.50; Gamers. 81 az
$3.50: choice heavy bulls $350MS3.75:
fair to good bolognas. bulls. s3Q$3.25;
stock bulls. $2@$2.75.
Veal calves-MsTket steady at last
weeks close; best. $A756S5.25; others,
S3.75G$4.50.
Sheep and lambs-Market strong at
Wednesdays prices: best lambs, 1915
6$6.1o; fair to good lambs, So $3.50:
fair to good butcher sheep $3@S3.50;
culls and common, t2@s3.
Hogs-Market steady with Wednes-
butchers. s5.25@s5.50: pigs, ts50@$4:
light workers.. t5@s52s; roughs. $40
$3.50; stays, Ia on
The Yale expositor., 1909-01-01

Judge Crane. in probate court, or
dered 20 Saginaw boys to pay 10 cents
pane for breaking III panes of glass
in one Of the Pere Marquette Railroad
Co.'S building. The lads were then
marched in a body before the general
manager OF the company and roundly
lectured.
The remains OF Scotch collie that
had belonged TO the Tonner family,
two OF whose children were burned
TO death at Interlochen Saturday, was
found in the ruins of the house The
dog was outside when the house was
burning, but entered. apparently, TO
save the babies.
The Yale expositor., 1909-01-01
Norwealan Industries.

Notwithstanding the great reputa-
tation OF Norway for fishing. only
about eIk per cent. OF the population
of that country live by the fisheries.
Nearly one-half are supported by ag-
riculture and the forests.
The Yale expositor., 1909-01-01

Detrolt-wheat No Withdrawals
stocks are 737,2S9 bu., compared with
Detroit market a year ago were 81 O3 v
for No. red wheat. 5Sc for No. 3
corn and SAP for No. 3 white oats.
Receipts OF coarse grains are light.
No Withdrawals. Stocks are S,s7s
bu: OF corn. i7O.33s bu. OF oats and IA
512 bu OF rye.
oats are firm and unchanged. Moth
ing doing
Rye is STEADY and trading light.
There Is nothing doing In the bean
market. May is freely offered and the
other deals are not mentioned
Cloverseed II active and steady. De-
mand Is good and offerings fair.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-06-03
ODE Jeffersonton

funce, fur Bill he had good deal at
stake, an you bet I was with him.
Wall, we got thar at last an found
out Whar the governor roasted, an
we went thar. I was sorter skittish,
but brother Bill he want. for he
walked right up and aXed a niger
whar the governor was. Then the
niger he grinned an wanted to
know our names, an then Bill showed
him aside and walked right in, an
went with him, for | was with Bill
world without eend. We found the
governor a-settin' with his feet up
on the table, an as soon as I laid
eyes on him I seed that a mistake
he'd been made, fur he was lean an
dried-up an want a patchin' COM
pared ter Bill, an he looked like he
was sorry fur it, too; but that didn't
make no diffunce to Bill, for he says,
says he, Governor, I Farm through
the papers that you air the strongest
governor the State ever had, an
don't believe it, an I stand here to
take the part of old Governor Full
ton, that was the friend of my gram
daddy, an you bet he could lift more
at handspike than you can any day.
an | want you to understand it, an,
furthermore, I want you to know that
[ am after you right now Wall, the
governor sorter laughed, an says,
Bill, | know you air a putty good
man, an I'll try you a few falls put
ty soon, but before we go into it let's
try little of this juice, the Oldest
you ever seed Wall, Bill he took
his tobacker outen his mouth, an the
gov'nor tuck down a jug, an then we
all hit it, an we KEEP on a-hittin' it
till after while me an Bill found it
as much as we could do to stand up.
But the gov'nor KEEP on a-smilin' an
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PAGE THIRTEEN

a-pourin' it out, an finally brother
Bill he says, Governor, | reckon that
thing they printed about you was the
truth. | am your friend, for I reck-
on you air stronger'n me- And Bill
he drapped, an [ drapped, an the
governor he smiled and said he reck-
on it was about time he was pardon
in a Teller that had stold a set of
harness. An SO he did. Me an Bill,
soon as we was able, come
What became of that remarkable
MANI" the Englishman asked.
Wish you hadenter axed me that,
fur it makes me sad. He fell in a
sink-hole, an me an pap found him
shortly afterwards. The hole was
putty deep, but down thar stood
Bill
"You got him out, of course" said
the Englishman.
wall, let me tell you. AS [ tell
you, me an pap found him, an was
just about to let down a rope to
draw him out, when one of the dogs
freed coon. Wall, we lowed that
Bill would stay thar, an we didn't
know whuther the coon would er
not; so we went after the coon, an
when we come back we found that
the sink-hole had caved in on Bill.
We would "a dug him out, but pap
a mighty smart man, too-lowed
that it want no use to dig him out
jest ter bury him ag'in, so we let him
stay. Say, stranger, you axed me eff
would tell you the way ter one of
them mills. Wall, you keep on
a-goin', an eff you don't come ter
one of them you come back here an
call me liar, an I'll take it like a
lamb takin' tender grass in the spring
of the year. Good-by."
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-06-03

On February II last there was in
United States the Interstate Liquor
Shipment Bill, introduced by Repre-
sentatives Humphreys, of Mississippi
pi, and Miller, of Kansas.
1t is considered by many the
most important temperance legis1a-
ton since the passage of the Wilson
law in 1890. This bill does three
things: CD 1t prohibits G.. o. D.
shipments; CD it prohibits delivery
to fictitious consignees; co it re-
quires that all packages of liquor
for interstate shipment shall be
plainly marked, designating the con-
tents and consignee. The bill was in
grave danger, and would have been
killed in the committee had it not
been that Speaker Cannon obstinate
ly demanded it's passage, and then
voted for it upon the floor a This
law, while it will not do all that the
friends of temperance might desire,
will go a long way toward correcting
the abuse that the liquor dealers
have practiced upon the citizens of
the State that have prohibited the
drink traffic, and will pave the way
for further relief which the people of
the States may demand in the flu
ture.
The Saloon 'Figf1ting for It's Iife."
Almost all of the legislatures meet
ing during the present year have had
bills relating in some way to the
liquor traffic. Very few Of these
bills showing any friendliness to the
saloon have been allowed to become
laws. A recent editorial in Benfort's
Wine and Spirit Circular, written by
T. M. Gilmore, the president of the
National Model License League, ex-
presses the opinion of many liquor
dealers upon the present temperance
revolution. It says:
The Anti-Saloon League is backed
by able men and plenty of money
In the last eighteen months the bust
ness we represent has been outlawed
in the States of Oklahoma, Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina
and Tennessee, and it is now facing
destruction in West Virginia, Texas,
Kentucky, Arkansas Utah and Idaho.
The saloon is fighting for it's life in
practically every State in the Union.
The liquor dealers strenuously in
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sist that prohibition does not pro-
hibit, and their literature, which is
scattered broadcast among the
church people, as we'll as others,
claims the failure of the prohibitory
laws in the States having tenn. They
insist that the more the traffic is pro-
hibited the more liquor is consumed.
and that hypocrisy and disrespect for
law are fostered, and yet the States
that have adopted prohibition seem
to be very we'll pleased with their
legislation, and none of them have
surrendered to license, and other
States in pretty rapid succession are
joining their ranks. In Maine, Kan
sas and North Dakota at their last
election governors were chosen on
platforms not only declaring for
Statewide prohibition, but for a
rigid enforcement of the prohibitory
law; while in Georgia, Oklahoma and
Alabama the anti-saloon forces have
held their own, preventing legislation
which would in any way weaken the
State prohibitory laws.
Strength of Economic Argument.
No great result can come from a
causes that are putting the saloon
out Of business. More and more the
economic argument is influencing
voters to abolish the saloon. The
man who frequents the saloon is not
so strong in body nor Intellectually
so keen, nor professionally or indus
trialiy SO efficient as the man who
does not. A man who has no scru-
pies on the subject, but has good
common sense soon discovers that he
is Handicapped in the heated compe-
titiOn of life when he becomes a pa
iron of the saloon.
The New York Central, the Lacka-
wanna, the Pennsylvania, the Balti-
more and Ohio, the Wabash, the
Rock Island, the Great Northern, and
other railroad systems have adopted
the following rule: 1.-THE use of in
toxicants by employees, while on du-
ty, Is prohibited. Their habitual
use, or the frequenting of places
where they are sold, is sufficient
cause for dismissal" The Michigan
State law will not permit a man who
is not total abstainer to have any
thing to do with the runnig of trains.
The premium on temperance in rail-