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The Detroit times., 1909-06-14

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, June T. e.
S. Ricketts, was spading his onion bed
in his back yard last week when his
shovel hit something hard. He I'M
earthed a tin can. rusty and moldy
with age. Although his home Is small,
It is built on what his neighbors call
haunted ground" and rumors OF an
old miser named Warren who once
lived there was recalled by Ricketts,.
Older men than he remembered quite
we'll the stories told of the miser; how
re used to meet robbers at midnight
end OF the dark doings that went on
then.
Mrs. Ricketts, wanted 90 open the
ran at once, but her husbands counsel
carried. 1t was after banking hours,
The Detroit times., 1909-06-14
AUTO CRASHES INTO
POLE; DYING, 8 HURT
John Gleason, 20, is Taker to Hospital
Fatally lnJured-Others Escaped
| With Bruises,

NEW YORK. June 14.-John
Gleason. %, OF Isl East One Hundred
and Seventh-st.. is dying in the Ford
ham hospital and Harry Yorkel and
two girls are badly bruised as a result
of an automobile accident early today
The four were thrown from a big tour
Ing car when II crashed into a trolley
pole In the Bronx while going at "A
high rate OF speed.
Gleason was thrown under the car
az 1t skidden into the pole and he sus-
tanned internal injuries that the doc
tors say will prove fatal. The others
escaped with bruises.
The Detroit times., 1909-06-14

Gerry McClosky smiled as she hand.
ed Geo. Kuepper. long distance walk
er, second cup of coffee at break
fast
We'll. I've got to go now" said
Kuepper.
And Uerty smiled.
But must go, I've walked 500
miles. I have TO walk $500 more and
win $4,000"
Gerty smiled.
I'D like TO stop right here" said
Kuepper. 81 like this old farmhouse,
and you people have been very hos
pitable. letting me stop over night.
and giving me such a good supper and
breakfast-but I have To- go now.
And Gerry still smiled.
ooh. well, darn IL. I'll stop over
another day, II youll let me. The
rest will do me good"
This time the smile was so beaming
and sunshiny. that right away the
young walkers heart gave funny little
Jumps. Kind OF ticklish.likc
you know" he said and II was the
man who smiled this time. "one con.
ditlon of my wager was that | should
meet some girl on my walk. one I'd
never seen before, and marry her"
This time Gerry blushed little and
retreated 10 the kitchen.
Tho result-what has always been
the result when the right girl smiled
then blushed2 Geo Kuepper stayed
two days, then three. during which he
forgot all about long walks and rich
prizes. and he decided and Gerry de
cided that happiness--at once-was
dearer than all the two thousand dol
lars I'm the world.
So, OF course, they were married.
And the Shamrock Athletic club OF
Chicago got a wire saying all bets
were OF.
The Detroit times., 1909-06-14
No More Warshlps for Lakes.

WASHINGTON. June 14-Secre-
.tary of State Knox has notified the
navy department that ii must send
no more warships to the Great Lakes.
The Canadian government went as far
as conditions would allow when the
gunboat Nashville was sent for the
use OF the Illinois naval militia. and
when Toledo asked for a new warship
TO replace the ancient Essex. Canada
drew the line.
The Detroit times., 1909-06-14
New Y. M. c. A. Dedicated.

ISHPEMING, MICH. June 1.-THE
new Y. NJ. A. c. building. which cost
over $4,000. was formally dedicated
yesterday afternoon. The speakers
included G. u. McDll international
secretary OF the Industrial committee
OF the association; W. G. Mather,
president of The Cleveland Cliffs Iron
Co; James l.. Smart and G. l.. Park
er, OF Detroit; l.. L. Buell., OF Ann Ar
Dor. state secretary Of the association,
and Charles Burt and J. l.. Bradford,
local officers.
The Detroit times., 1909-06-14
New Store on oratIot Ave.

ThA--Dutch Sundae, on Gratiotave.,
betsEHnr Dubois and chene-sts., is the
nama az a very pretty ice cream par
lor that was opened for business a
few dayS-ago The manager of the
store, II. c. Ewald, certainly showed
excellent taste in the selection Of
fixtures and decorations in general.
Last evening the mission tables were
taken by patrons who desired ice
cream and soda water with regular
ity The service is about perfect
cleanliness seems TO be the watch
word. II is hoped that the store Will
he fully appreciated by the public and
judging from the amount OF patron
age 1t received last evening, they are
doing so.
The Detroit times., 1909-06-14

so they decided to wait till the next
day and take the can, treasure and all
TO the bank If any Of the musty old
money was torn by the can opener.
Ricketts, wanted the bank 90 do the
tearing
The public by this time bad be.
come aroused and neighbors flocked
In TO see the can and have a cigar
on MIR. Ricketts, All night long they
guarded IL and the next day the bank
opened an hour earlier TO receive the
buried treasure.
Mr.. Ricketts, took the can and Mrs.
Ricketts, a can opener TO the bank
and the lid was lifted.
A bundle Of aged yellow newspapers
was found inside, but no money.
The Detroit times., 1909-06-14
Steamer Released; One Drowned.

NEW YORK. June 14-Fred Stew
ard, a member- Of the wreeking crew.
fell overheard from barge and was
drowned during the fight 10 olease the
Spanish steamship Antonio Lopez.
which went aground of Point O.
Woods Afesaving station Wednesday.
The Lopez was released early yester-
day morning. The lifesavers reported
the steamer was in good shape.
The Detroit times., 1909-06-14
Michigan Runs Aground.

WASHINGTON. June 14.-An Off
cial report issued by the navy depart.
ment says the battleship Michigan,
which went aground off Cape Cod dur.
ing her trial trip last Friday. was not
seriously damaged. The vessel which
is still In the hands OF her builders
the New York Shipbuilding Co. was
foated with little difficulty.
The Detroit times., 1909-06-14

A London scientific Journal that
analyzed samples OF snow taken from
the roof OF its building found that
weekday SHOWS contained about five
times the impurities OF those gathered
on Sundays.
The Detroit times., 1909-06-14
THE WEATHER.

Detroit aud vicinIty-Mondny night
md Tuesday, Partly cioudyg cooler to-
nIghtg light 90 moderate northerIy
winds. becoming variable.
Lower MlchiEani Partly cloudy to-
night and Tuesdays cooler In southeast
portion tonight.
The Detroit times., 1909-06-14

a novel potato digger invented by
an Indiana man man loads the tubers
by an endless chain into the wagon to
which the machine is attached.
The Detroit times., 1909-06-14

job Printing done right. Times Print.
Ing Co., 10 John R.-st, Phone 1923.
The Detroit times., 1909-06-14
Bullets Found in Raid.

MARION, Ohio. June IA raid
was made on the shop of Sam Lima.
the Black Hand suspect. yesterday,
and hundreds OF shotgun shells con-
tanning cross-marked bullets were
taken. The shells and eross-marks
were identical to those found in other
towns visited by the officers. Lima,
who is out on bail, succeeded in de-
laying the raid until one of six Italian
women escaped. II Is believed this
woman carried with her, documentary
evidence and clews to the where
abouts OF Sebastian Lima, brother OF
Sam. who is sought by the authorities.
The Detroit times., 1909-06-14

CALL DETROIT TAxICAB CO.,
Main $500 City $500. Park "a
The Detroit times., 1909-06-14

Commercial CredI, Co. Collections
The Detroit times., 1909-06-14

BURNS HOTEL CAFE.
Lunch, 35c. Dinner, Zoe
The Detroit times., 1909-06-14

A new burglar alarm. the invention
of a Dresden engineer, consists of
curtain containing numerous wires.
Any movement OF IL breaks a circuit
and rings a bell or switches on lights.
The Detroit times., 1909-06-14

AIe1a.der. Umbrellas. 40 noaro.
The Detroit times., 1909-06-14

job Printing done right Times Print
Ing Co., I ) John R.-st. Phone 149s.
The Detroit times., 1909-06-14
Cupid Halls Long Walk for Wager;
Wedding Bells Ring and Bets Are off

GIBSONBURG, O.. June U.--Pretty
Gerry McClosky smiled as she hand.
ed Geo. Kuepper. long distance walk
er, a second cup of coffee at break
fast
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-03

The state Board OF Assessment is
supposed to be graphing again with
the question how 70 distribute the
mileage values OF the railroads for
taxation in the different subdivisions
Of the state and to be contemplating
making branch lines equal for taxa
ton mile for mile to main lines.
Our whole theory OF taxation is to
tar property wherever it may be To-
Gated, and the exception made for rail-
roads to permit Of valuine them as a
whole and a~pportioning the value by
mileage was never intended to make
a spur track pay the same taxes as a
trunk line, or to take away from the
counties. which contain valuable rail-
road property, the right to tax it,
merely In order to give counties that
contain less valuable railroads d
chance to get more taxes out of them.
The same argument that would sup
port a uniform mileage valuation,
irrespective whether branch or main
line, would support the valuation of
all railroads in the state at a lump
sum and It's apportlonment per mile
over all the railroads. irrespective or
who owns them, or whether they are
operated by the Union Pacific or the
Missouri Pacific.
What the State Board Of Assess
ment should do is to arrive at a fair
valuation Of ell the different railroads,
and this cannot be done except by CIV
ing different values to different parts
OF each system. And when 1t comes
to a~pportioning the mileage values the
same relative differences between the
value OF q branch line and OF the
main line should again be observed.
So Ions as the railroads pay local
taxes on the value Of the property
within each county and other local
subdivision, the mileage values as
signed should be as close to their real
values as can be approximated from
the information at hand as to cost
and volume of traf1c.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-03
Americanizing Europe.

Volumes have been written about
the effect OF immigration upon Ameri-
can life, but little thought has been
given to American influence reacting
through II upon the old world. Inter
change OF business and the American
tourist have carried to certain classes
and sections a modicum of American
ideas, but IL remained for the business
reverse of 1907 to make itself felt
among the masses. Following that
period 100000 laborers, mostly from
Italy, Poland, Austria Hungary and
Russia, went back to their native lands
and carried with them what of
American ways they had acquired.
What a tremendous effect upon their
countrymen their return has had
may be gathered from an article
in the current Review of Reviews,
by Edward A. Steiner, which will re-
pay reading.
A Polish manufacturer is quoted as
saying that, while wages had increased
so per cent, the greater efficiency OF
labor, due to the leaven of the re-
turned emigrant, had more than
evened matters up. Everywhere that
Mr.. Steiner rel he found evidences
Of greater energy, and efficiency
which these men had learned in
America and carried back to their
countrymena They had gone to the
United States originally to better a
condition which seemed hopeless in
their native land and they returned
with a knowledge that energy and
an honest effort would accomplish re-
suits at home. Their example has been
Infectious and whole communities
where there are large numbers of
these returned emigrants, have been
revolutionized industrially.
Socially Mr.. Steiner found the effect
no Less marked. He quotes q Hungar-
Ian pastor as saying, The returned
emigrant 10 a new man. He carries
himself differently. he commands the
respect OF his fellows. he treats his
wife better, and he keeps the windows
Of his house OPEN II industrially the
prodisals have assisted in elevating
their associates they cannot but have
influence in raising home and social
ideals, which IN poverty-stricken sec
tions are always at q low ebb.
II IL also noticeable that the re-
turned wanderers invariably bring
money saved in America. and often
purchase land and induce their friends
to do likewise, paying for It in Install
ments.
The changes wrought In many sec
lions Of Europe by this A-mericanizing
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-03
II GUESS 1 WOULD
+. NJ. Lewis in Houston Post

]. NJ. Lewis in Houston Post. :
I've had some days of storm and stress,
I've had some days knee-deep In clover,
But If 1 could do 1t l guess
I'd choose to live my life all over.
I guess / would! There have been times
When / have felt a little weary,
When life's path seemed to be all climbs,
But most OF II has been quite CHEEKY.
When father waloped me, oh then
/ didn't think life worth the living;
But night meant cuddling in my cot
And mothers kisses and forgiving;
And so I'd choose to live again,
Take ups and downs and hits and misses,
The smuggling up at night and then
The tucking in with mothers kisses.
Ia like the shady wayside trees,
The lazy days knee-deep in clover,
Songs Of birds and hum Of bees.
But / don't care to live life over
Till my two babies are grown up
With all their smuggling and tSelr
laughing,
Right now nfe's effervescing cup
Is worth the lingering in quaffing.
But after, when they both are grown,
That's the time for II, I am thinking;
When I am old and all alone
And I have finished it's sweet drinking,
ia love to go away, way back
Adown the path to life's beginning,
Way back adown the dwindling track
And start In at another inning.
And il dad walloped me sometimes
I'd come back quick with my forgivins;
I think perhaps my 5boyish crimes .
Made his life hardly. worth the living, h
And mothers kisses and the cot '"
I slept In then-live my life over?
I guess l would! They're worth a lot,
Boyhood and kisses, love and clover.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-03
PERSONAL NOTES.

He'll Gate will be bridged over by the
great span of the New Haven and Penn
sylvania railroad systems. but 1t will stlll
be possible to drop in as before.
A Chicago plumber won 5000 as a result
OF the Patten wheat operations. What the
plumber loses by dull business in the sum
mer. luck cheerfully makes up for him,
apparently.
Joaquin Miller, poet and farmer. has just
delivered himself Of an attack upon collie
CLANS. Mr.. Miller is g~uiltless OF any dlplo-
ma, and in this circumstance takes an al
most undue pride.
Count Zeppelin has broken all records
with his airship again. This will be sad
news to the British taxpayers, inasmuch
as II is likely to cost them the price Of
another Dreadnought.
Pstten comes out OF his wheat deal with
profits of |. 100000 and the proud conscious
ness that the people who abused him for
his method of making the money will kow-
tow to him for having the money.
Avoid so-called regular habits as you
would the plague says a Chicago physi-
clan. There is one charming thing about
medical advice; just keep going, and you
will ultimately get the variety you are
looking for.
Alert correspondents cable tha meat Is
getting to be a luxury in Germany. II IL
is any comfort to the hungry Germans to
know it, there are plenty Of families on
this side where meat has passed the stage
mentioned, and become a curiosity.
A Chicago man goes the Baltimorean
admirer of Adam, one better by rearing
a heroic statue of the first mar chiseled
by a gravestone artist. Drawing on the
poetic license of art, the sculptor dis
carded the fig leaf and dWuted our dis
tinguished ancestor with an imitation fur
boa.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-03
A MILLS RUSHED.
Force Of the 'BuiIdinE Boom Felt at
ann the Factories.

BlttSDurB Dispatch.
What has happened in the nail and wire
business during the last few weeks is little
short of marvellous. Six weeks ago that
industry was langulshing, with it's ware
houses stocked to the utmost. Today It is
working, regardless of the holiday, trying
to keep up with its orders. The surplus Is
all gone, the sales having been beyond all
precedent.
The warehouses of the American Steel
and Wire company have a capacity equal
to three months output Of the mills. All
this and more has been sold In less than
half of that time. There are orders ahead.
And there is three months work assured,
to restock the warehouses, even II not an
other order came during that time.
These are the facts. 1t requires no
prophetic vision TO foresee mills of all
kinds striving their utmost to meet orders
next fan. The depression has passed. The
oncoming wave will be higher than the
last. There are greater opportunities in
the future than any that have been real
lied. There will be greater industry and
under better, conditions.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-03
Too Early for Apprehension.

hSAiSA NOpubllSahs
The cause of the numerous alarmist dis
patches concerning Cuba is not easily faith
omed. If the insular treasury has. a de-
ficit, it is we'll to remember that Governor
Magoon left less than $4,000 in the Cuban
treasury when the American government Of
Intervention ended early in the spring.
When the Palma government was over
thrown in 1906, the republic was over s1S,
OOo, 200 to the good; and there is no doubt
that the Magoon regime was costly to the
island, However strong and efficient it was
in administration 1t seems too early for
the United States government to become
apprehensive of another Cuban breakdown.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-03
The Size of the Lemon.

The World-Herald undertakes to
identify me as the editor Of the lead
ing republican newspaper in his state"
referred to by Senator Burkett in a
colloquy on the tariff. l admit the
allegation.
formation, Senator Burkett, replying to
a question from Senator Flint of Cali
%fornia, said he had received two tele-
grams asking him to vote for the pro-
posed increase in the tariff on lemons
and added, but from one of them /
also received a letter that | need NOT
take too seriously the fact that he
had sent me such a telegram" He
later said the letter was from the
editor of the leading republican news
paper in his state.
| failed to preserve a copy of the
telegram, which was presented to me
by the representative of a local fruit
commission house, already signed by
six or eight we'll known republicans,
asking that the tariff be made IN
cents a pound l said | was in favor
of protecting the citrus industry, but
did mol know whether the tariff asked
was the proper amount, but on being
further urged to attach my signature
in order to impress the senator that
the Industry was entitled to protec-
ton, l affixed my name to it under
the others. A few days later l re-
ceived this letter from Senator Bnr-
kett:
WASHINGTON, April %, 1909.
Hon. Victor Rosewater,
Omaha, Neb.
Dear Rosewater: I have your telegram
of the 9th inst, referring to the tariff on
lemons, and thank you for II. 1t has
seemed 10 me that what the California
people are trying to get is a prohibitive
tariff and | have been rather against II.
However, 1 am glad to have your Judgment
in the matter. Yours truly,
E. ]. BURKETT.
Addressing again to Senator Bur-
kett a letter, which also included an
other matter, l wrote under date of
May 4, 1909;
1t was hardly necessary for you to ac-
knowledge the joint telegram about the
tariff on lemons. The amount Of the tariff,
/ believe, you folks at Washington are bet
ter qualified to gauge. You must not take
a joint telegram like that too seriously.
The correspondence speaks for itself.
VICTOR ROSEWATER.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-03
HNTAILING Big FORTUNE.
Henry Rogers Millions Conferred I'm
n Trust.

Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
The late Henry II. Rogers did not go
quite so far toward tying up his great
property in a more or less perpetual trust
as did the late Marshall Field OF Chicago,
but he took some long steps in that direc-
ton. All Of the principal of the estate will
remain intact until the children begin to
reach their 10th year, and then half OF It
will so remain for the benefit of their chill
dren. and they can devote their half to the
same purpose and for the grandchildren, IL
they choose. This seems to be about as
much of the policy Of entail as American
law will allow, but the Rogers will, as
also that OF Mr.. Field, shows that 1t can
possibly be carried to almost any limit for
all practical purposes. These sons OF coun-
try-town New England have shown a dis
position to entail their great properties for
family use and enjoyment above that mani
tested by the average multimillionaire of
the time.
This very wealthy child OF New England
had the light 10 make such a narrow and
family aggrandizing disposition of his
property, supposed to exceed $500 900, as
he has. He gave generously 10 a few good
causes in his life time-particularly for the
relief Of the people of his native place from
a measure of those common public burdens
which are to the citizen or social man what
the necessity Of earning a subsistence Is
to the natural man. Endowment Of special
Institutions like advanced schools OF in
struction or hospitals is one thing, and en-
dowment for the relief Of a community
from the ordinary costs of its ordered ex-
istence seems TO be something a little diff
ferent. This partakes Of the nature OF
making requests to the United States
treasury, as another son OF New England
once did. and thereby brought upon his
memory a charge OF insanity. But in view
Of the ruthless manner in which this great
estate was built up It might have been
supposed the possessor would have striven
to make amends with society. as II were,
through a freer distribution to more gem
eral public causes. No doubt the public
causes are as we'll off ina sense without
the distribution. but II may not be so
readily said that the moral requirements
OF the situation have been as well satisfied
or that the industrial system which made
possible such an accumulation In such a
manner has been strengthened.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-03
SOME iNHERITANCE FIGURES.
Rogers Wealth Suggests Possibilities
of Federal Tax.
baltimore SIM.

DdlliIlhOI6 sun.
Probate Of H. II. Rogers will offers a
fairly clear idea of the money lost to the
national government by the want of a fed
eral inheritance tax. The will leaves trust
funds totaling $3.50, 900 to relatives outside
Of Mr.. Rogers personal family. New York
Will tax these 5 per cent, or $27, 500. or
$4OO, 900 bequeathed to the members of Mr..
Rogers brothers family. the executors will
pay the state 5 per cent, or 5000 The
$40, 0O0, 900 investment In building the Vir-
ginia railway. and the 500, 900 given the
town OF Fairhaven, Mass, for public pur-
poses are exempt Subtraoting these four
items already noted, the residue passed to
Mr.. Rogers widow, son and daughters, and
taxable at 1 per cent. will be about $5O,OOo.-
900, and the taxes payable mostly to New
York state. but a little TO Massachusetts,
will be 100000. Thus the total inheritance
tax due from this monumental fortune is
s547, 900, the two states cited, New York and
Massachusetts, receiving all.
Had Mr.. Rogers lived another year and
had the senate accepted the provision for
a federal inheritance tax in the Payne
tariff bill. the presidents approval Of this
feature becoming a certainty last March,
the national governments levy upon the
Rogers estate would have been $500, 900.
This is an averaged charge of 2s per cent
on an assessed valuation of 500, OOO, 900, the
basis of~the foregoing figures.
Double taxation in name truly enough It
would still be no exceptional hardship to
let the states collect their share and also
lay the government taxes. Mr.. Rogers
heirs would then forfeit S2,047,00O Of $780,
900, 900. The Morrison heirs in England will
pay the imperial treasury 5000 900 out Of
$5O.OOO,OOo.