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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-03

from Georgia. and settled in what is now
known as Gainesville. in Alashua county,
Fla. Of course it was wild country at
that time. Indians were all around us.
I'VE lived in camps made of palmetto
blades and pine tops, same as Indians.
was married at the age of twenty-five, on
the site above stated At the uprising Of
the Indians my husband was mustered
into the service and served through the
war. We still lived at Gainesville when the
war was over and raised a family of five
children. My husband died In Gainesville
and I with my family moved to fernando
county, in South Florida, the day after
my husband was buried.
Il did not stay there long. and moved
north to Marion county, where / have
lived for the past fifteen years. The
only way / can account for my long
life is that We lived-much as the In
dams did-on gofky,' i.e.. mutton, corn,
honey. venison, bear meat and fish, and,
of course. plenty of fresh air.
According to Mrs. Sparkman's estimate
Of her age she was born while George
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-03

= = IL kA 10 GIL oto
saying that nothing
prolongs longevity
like a pension.
I find upon the
government rec
ordS that three of
our pensioners are
over one hundred,
256 are in their
nineties and 1885
are in their eigh-
ties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-03

of the corridors he fell and fractured his
right thigh. At first his life was de-
SPARED of. but within a few days to
visitor who found him propped up
clear. but my pins gave out. Broken bones
don't bother me much, sonny. I'm too
old for that. Now if they didn't let me
have my old pipe l might be suffering
some. But me and my old pipe have
good time whenever we get together
The last remaining veterans of all four
wars have passed the century mark. Dan
iel +. Brakeman, the final survivor of
the revolutionary war, died at Freedom,
Cattaraugus county, New York, April ),
1850, aged 100 years months and days.
and Hiram Cronk of Ava. N Y, the last
surviving pensioned soldier of the war of
1872, was los years and IS days old when
finally mustered out by the Great Com
mander On May Is, 1905.
Rakeman who is remembered by many
men still young today was born back in
1853, when we were still content with
the yoke OF England He was a lad Of
seventeen when independence was de-
clared and when the Liberty Bell pro-
claimed the freedom of the land. When
the war of 1912 broke out he was mid
dle-aged man of fifty-three, considered
too old for active service and when the
Mexican war was fought he was an aged
man of eighty-seven. looked upon by his
neighbOrs as ready for the grave. Yet he
lived twenty-five years more and upon
his hundredth birthday the civil war had
not yet come. When its first guns
were heard he was 102 and no
one dreamed that he would it's
end. But still he fought the last foe as
tenacously as. under the command of
Washington, he had battled against
his first enemy and when Lee sur
rendered he nearing 106. Then
he remained on the lighting line until
after Johnsons administrator had gone
and Grant had been inausurated, and
Grant had served in the White House
more than year and a month when
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-03

OLD Saying That Pensions
~ Increase Life Appears
True-Near $1,000 Octoge-
narians and Over $50 Mona
genarians on List-Two Rea!
Daughters of the Revolution
Survive Some Remarkable
Cases Where Present Time
Is Linked With Colonial Days
by Two Lives - About 400
War-of-1812 Widows Survive.
lCnnxricht LOO hI John E.lfreth Watkins !
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18

years, minister, author and teacher,
died last week at his home in Rox-
bury, Mass. He was 81 years old
The steamer Tanana has arrived
at Dawson with 100000 worth Of
Fairbanks gold-dust, making a total
OF $2,000,000 received so far this
season, en- route to Seattle.
Two $50 gold pieces struck from
the United States mint at Philadel-
phia in 1877, have been sold to a
wealthy New York collector for $10,-
900 each. They are the only $50
pieces ever minted by the govern
ment.
Secretary of the Interior Balm
ger has just designated $4,000 acres
of land in New Mexico and $4,000
acres in Montana as coming within
the provisions of the 320-acre home
stead Law. These lands are semi
arid and must be farmed according
to "dry-farming" methods.
An additional $4,000 was sent to
the American embassy at Constnti-
nople Saturday by the American Red
Cross Society for the relief work
among the destitute people in Tur-
key. This makes $4,000 sent by
this society.
The petition of the prosecution for
a rehearing in the case Of Louis
Glass, vice-president of the Pacific
States Telephone Company, who was
convicted of bribery by San Fran
cisco jury in 1907, has been granted
by the supreme court of California.
Attorney General Mullens has
commenced suit against the Western
Union Telegraph Company to COM
pel the company to Ale articles of
incorporation with the state of Wy
oming or suspend operations within
its borders.
Monday was the 1920 anniversary
of the adoption of the American flag
by congress, that important event
having taken place June ID, 1777.
While not a legal holiday, the day is
generally observed throughout the
United States by the raising of flags
on all public buildings.
Anthony Meyer, a Brooklyn, N.
Y, iceman, on the same day sold an
interest in an oil we'll, which had
cost him 500, for $4,000 and re-
ceived letter from long lost
brother in Seattle saying he had
made 100000 in Alaska, and in
viting him to go into partnership.
He will live in Seattle.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
SHORT NEWS NOTES.


Lumber production in the United
States was less in the calendar year
1908 than the preceding year. The
decrease amounted to 1913 per cent.
Sovereign Camp, Woodmen of the
World. has appropriated $750,000 to
be used for the erection of a head
quarters building at Omaha.
Organization of the Sen Sen Chicle
Company, with a capital of $4,000
900, which will take over the bust
ness of six of the largest chewing
gum factories in the United States
and Canada. has been completed in
New York.
Two hundred pounds of dynamite
mysteriously exploded at Fredericks-
burg, Iowa, wrecking the business
district Of the town and injuring a
score of persons. The shock was
felt IL miles away.
During the year 1908 the steam
and electric railroads of the United
States purchased more than 49,
100000 cross ties, costing at the
point of purchase, over $50, 900.
The call for the forty-first annual
convention of the National American
Women's Suffrage Association has
been issued. The convention will be
held at the A.-Y.-P. Exposition at
Seattle on July Z.
Edward Everett Hale, chaplain of
the United States senate for many
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18
Probe to Enter Sugar.

Washington, June 14.-The de-
partment of justice has assigned two
agents to duty in New York with
instructions to examine into the con-
ditions under which the recent COM
promise was affected between the
American Sugar Refining Company
and the Pennsylvania Refining Com
pany. The agents are to examine
into the allegations that the COM
promise disclosed conditions involv-
ing a violation of the Sherman anti
trust law.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18
LEADERS Of JAP
STRIKE ARE HELD
RIOT CHARGE AGAINST IL, MUIR
DER FOR THREE.
ABUNDANT EVIDENCE FOUND
Strikers Had Planned Campaign of
Intimidation and Violence to
Control Sugar Industry.

Honolulu, June 15.-Fifteen of
the Japanese strike leaders arrested
upon indictments returned by the
grand jury were given preliminary
hearing. District Judge w. l.. Whit
ney held IL of them for trial on
charges of conspiring to riot and
three for conspiracy to murder.
The energetic action taken by the
territorial authorities, 1t is believed.
will make military interference and
declaration of martial law in any
part of the Hawaiian islands unnsc-
essary.
The authorities declare the svt-
dence adduced before the grand jury
and the papers seized Friday, wher
the offices of the Jill, japanese
newspaper, and those of the Japan
ese Higher Wage Association were
raided, furnish abundant grounds
for believing the strikers intended
from the beginning to resort to In
timidation and violence In their sf-
fort to control the sugar industry
and eventually the internal affairs OF
the territory.
Senichi Uyeno, the Japanese con-
sul-general, has advised his country
men against the men who led the
strike movement from the beginning
of the agitation. He expresses ap-
prevail of their arrest and prosecn-
ton.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18
CHINESE COOLIES FOUND
tmuggled SILK and Cigars Also DIS
covered In Liner Minnesota.

tmuggled SIX and Cigars Also Uss-
covered In Liner Minnesota.
Seattle, June 14.-Tmmigration
officials, after picking up on the
wharf a stray Chinese, who admitted
he came over as a stowaway on the
Great Northern liner Minnesota,
searched the vessel and discovered
nine more smuggled coolies and a
quantity of silk and cigars.
Inspector Keagey. who is a heavy
man. stepped into the sail locker of
the steamer and fell 20 feet through
q hole in the floor, alighting square
ly on top of nine naked Cinnamon.
Further investigation brought to
light several leather sacks, resem-
bling government mail pouches Allied
with raw silk and number of boxes
of Manila cigars. The bags OF silk
are supposed to have been taken
aboard with the mail sacks.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18
COMMITTEE PUTS
HIDE DUTY BACK
LEADERS VOTE TO CUT DOWN
TARIFF ON WINDOW GLASS.
CHANGES IN STEEL RATES
Beef Trust Gets Benefit of Is Per
Cent Rate on Hides Fixed by
Dingley-Admit Art Free.

Washington The Republican
members of the senate committee
have agreed that q rate of 3-8 of
cent should be placed on beams and
structural steel valued at less than
SIS ton and A of cent on such
steel valued at more than $18; 3
cents pound instead of Q cents on
ooracic acid; $3.50 ton on barytes,
the same as fixed by the house, and
that no change from the house rate
would be made in sulphate of am
monia.
1t was decided to continue the
Dingley duty of Is per cent ad va
loren on hides.
No change was made in the plate
glass schedule, but the McCumber
amendment, materially reducing the
rates on common window glass,
probably will be adopted.
In completing the second reading
of the bill, number of items in the
free list were disposed OF. Works
of art over 20 years old and collec-
tons illustrating the progress of art
over 100 years old, were retained in
the free list by vote of SO to Is.
This amendment will permit the
great art collection made by J. Pier
pont Morgan at an expenditure of
many millions of dollars and now
stored in London, to be brought
here.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18
LAKE WHERE TOWN STOOD
Great Body of Water Forming as Re-
suit of Roosevelt Slide.

Spokane, Wash, June 14-Where
the town of Roosevelt. Idaho, once
stood, posterity will see large lake.
formed by the damning of Mule
Creek at it's confluence with Monu-
mental Creek, the result of the de-
structiye work of the massive slide
of tale and earth, rock and timber
that wiped out building sites and
property ON May 81. Between 10
and 20 feet of water covers the fat
where the town once stood. Houses
In the mining village are being float
ed near the hillside to clear the old
channel Of debris.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18

Washington. June 14.-Represen-
tative Hamer. of Idaho, has intro
duced a bill permitting Western
states to make immediate selection
OF school lands in satisfaction Of
grants from the federal government
inside forest reserves. He says that
Idaho, which is entitled to 100000
acres. has been unable to make Its
full selection because the remaining
desirable lands are tied up in re-
serves, and similar situation exists
In other states.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18
Idaho Land to BE Opened.

Washington, d. C.-About $4,000
acres of Lemhi Indian reservation
In Idaho, not included in the school
grant, will be thrown open to set
Element under the homestead law
July Is, and to entry and filing Au-
gust 16. The school plat will be
sold at public auction September l.
Indian lands containing improve
ments Will be subject to presence
entry by purchasers of such i'm
provements.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18

Cairo, Egypt, June 13.-Moham-
medan women of Egypt, including
members of the Kedivial, or reign
Ing family, have started campaign
to win for their sex the right to have
a voice In choosing husbands, to put
aside the veil which hides their
beauty and to pass at will the doors
of the harem. Conservative leaders
are agitated and the native press is
discussing the movement as of para
mount Importance.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18
Taft Agrees to Speak.

Washington, June 15.-President
Taft, after a conference with John
Mitchell, Samuel Gompers, John
Hays Hammond, Prof. J. w. jerks
and r. M Easterley, representing
various interests, accepted the invi-
tation to address the national con-
ference to be held here in January
to aid uniform legislation by the
states on pure food, child labor, rail-
way regulation, divorce, taxation and
other subjects.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18
TO HUNT DOWN MUTlNEERS
Examples to Be Made of Men of Gen.
stabulary Who Seized Post.

Manila, June 15.-Brigadier-Gen-
eral Bandholtz, chief of the Philip
pine Constabulary, who is at pres
ent on a tour of inspection In the
island of Jolo, will at once proceed
to Davao, Mindano island, the scene
of the mutiny of the second company
of Constabulary on June 6. The in
sular government is determined to
make an example of the mutinous
men who fed to the mountain with
their rifles and equipments, and the
pursuit will be pressed with the ut
most vigor until the last one OF the
mutineers has been captured.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18
THE MARKETS
Portland.


Fheat-Track prices: Club, $1.18;
red Russian, $1.15; bluestem, 1927
Q1.30; Valley, SLIT.
Barley-Feed, 1874; rolled $3.50
81.
Oats-No. white. $40; gray.
$50.
Hay-Timothy Willamette Valley,
fancy, $40; do. ordinary. SIS; East
ern Oregon, mixed. $16@17; do.
fancy, SIS; alfalfa, $14; clover, $12.
Butter-Extra, zee; fancy, $50
23@25c; store, so zoe.
Eggs-Choice, 23Q 24c.
Hops-1sOs, contract. SC per ~;
1908 crop, 6@7c; 1907 crop, 8 q &c.
Wool-Eastern Oregon, 1870 22c
per pound; Valley. medium, $50
25c.
Mohair-24@ 25c 10.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18
MAY Be a PriVateer.

Edenton, N. c., June 13.-The
presence here of the steamer Nanti-
coke, which mysteriously changed
hands recently at Elizabeth City af-
ter having been put In thorough
readiness for sea service, has arous-
ed the government to activity. under
the impression that a filibustering
expedition is organizing. A revenue
cutter Is looking after the expedi-
ton.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18

Lewiston, Idaho, June 15.-Under
the new plans of administering the
affairs and education of the Indians
on the government Indian reserva-
tions. the interests of the redmen
are being rapidly merged with their
white neighbors, and when patent to
the Indian allotments is issued, 1t Is
expected the Indian allottee will be
fully capable of transacting his own
business.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18
Market Their Own Grain.

Lewiston, Idaho, June 15.-Farm-
ers of the Inland Empire are rapidly
freeing themselves from the grain
companies and subsidiary organiza-
lions which have brought immense
wealth to many concerns. The work
is being effected through the agen-
cies of the Farmers Educational
and Cooperative Union, an organi-
cation introduced about two years
ago, and which now enjoys men,
bership of approximately 10000
farmers In the Inland Empire.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18

Lewiston, Idaho, June Upper
alton of the Independent steamers
between Portland and Lewiston,
which has brought about a 20 per
cent reduction in freight charges has
also resulted In the railroad COM
panies taking steps to meet the cut
On a number of commodities.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18
Kansas Wheat Crop Large.

Topeka, Kan, June 14.-Farmers
of Kansas will this year harvest
100000 bushels of wheat. This
is the average estimate placed on the
probable state yield by men who &C.
eompanied the great wheat special
through the Kansas wheat belt.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18
Famous Women in Session

Toronto, June 15.-More than T.
100000 women, living in all parts
of the world, are represented at the
fourth Quinquennial meeting of the
International Council Of Women,
which began Its sessions in this city
today. The council will remain in
session two weeks.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18
CANADA ANGER AROUSED
Retaliation in High Tariff Is Being
Urged by Commercial Bodies.

HttaIIhtIOn III FIgH IHT1H Is bcrHg
Urged by Commercial Bodies.
Ottawa. Ont, June l4.-That the
new American customs tariff when
finally revised will further increase
the tariff against Canada, is the rep
resentation made by many CONNER
cial bodies to the Dominion govern
ment. Inquiries are also put as to
what course the government is like
ly to pursue In the matter. In some
quarters tariff retaliation is being
urged and Ottawa authorities are be-
ginning to give their attention to the
situation which the Payne tariff Is
likely to create.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18
Seattle.

Wheat-Bluestem. s1.3O@1.s6.
Oats-S41.
Barlsy-$34.
Hay-Eastern Washington timo-
thy, S21@23 per ton; Puget Sound
hay, SIS per ton; wheat hay. $16@
IS per ton; alfalfa, $1SQ19 per ton.
Butter - Washington creamery.
soc 10; ranch, 19c 10.
Eggs-Selected local, Csc.
Potatoes-White River, $3.50 40
per ton; Yakima. t40042 per ton.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18
walks Four DAYS on Broken Leg.

Portland, Or, June 14.-His leg
broken four days ago, VIM. Young.
Al years old, benumbed by the ex-
cessive use of intoxicants in the in
term. was not conscious of his in
jury until Sunday afternoon. when
he fell to the street, the fractured
limb finally failing to withstand the
weight of its liquor-laden possessor.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18
SPAIN is PRESSING CUBA
Demands Payment OF Debt, Now
Sovereignty Is Assumed.

Sovereignty Is Assumed.
Paris, June 15.-It is stated here
the Spanish minister to Cuba has
handed the Cuban government q
note concerning the payment of a
share of the Spanish debt 1t is
pointed out In the note that the
American plenipotentiary at Paris
in 1899 refused to decide this point,
holding the suzerainty had descend
ed on the Cuban republic and not
the United States. The Spanish gov
eminent now considers the time has
arrived to press the claim, the re-
public having assumed sovereignty.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18
Hogs Highest For 81 Years.

Chicago. June 1.-THE highest
June price for live hogs since 1882
was established today, when the best
porkers sold at So 100 pounds.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-06-18
AMBASSADOR JEAN JULES JUS.
SERAND,

Representative to the United
States from France. who, with his
wife, 10 making a tour of the Pacific
Coast. They were extensively enter
tanned at the A.-Y.-P. Exposition.
this week
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

An experiment which will be watch.
ca with much interest by all New En-.
gland, and which may be the means ot
reyolutionizing the present method Of
farming here, is about to be tried nv
the Maplecrest Stock and Poultry Farm
Association, Springfield, Mass
The association is planning to bring
LOCO sheep from the western part of
the country and put them on farms in
and around MiddleGeld aud Backe+
The sheep are merinos and will he
mated with dorset rams Of local ex.
traction
Some Of the reasons which promnfe6
the association to bring the sheen are
the decreasing ratio Of the meat sun.
ply and the constantly increasing popu.
lation Of the country.
Scotch herders viii be brought here
with the sheep and will be used in.
stead Of dogs or fences to keep them
from straying, as It is claimed that
more care can be given by professiona,
hprdprg
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19

Ever know that q COW is a pretty
good barometer? Wen, she is. Cows
always check up on their milk flow
just before a decided change from fine
weather to storms They also become
nervous just before a storm. and by
watching them closely one can tell ev.
cry time when bad weather is coming
As soon as the storm breaks the cows
again become normal. their nervous.
ness disappears and the milk flow re.
turns.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19
Educate she Boys and Girls.

Farmers should assist and encour-
age the study of nature in our coun-
Try schools. It Will encourage the boys
and girls 10 love their home and farm
life, and the city win have less attrac-
ton for them. They viii be educated
to a prosperous and higher plane and
be better able to keep In step with
the progress and change in civilization
and be better prepared 10 undertake
their business among the professions.
The time is past when the term "cIod-
hopper OF "hayseed" should be ap-
oiled to the successful farmer.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-02-19
THE LARGEST BAROMETER.
Liquid Column Stands Normally at
About Thirty-seven Feet.

a huge oil barometer has been con
structed in the city of Faenza, Italy, as
a monument to its distinguished citizen,
Torricelli. the inventor Of the barometer.
the tercentenary of whose birth is Cele-
brated this year. The liquid column in
such a barometer stands normally at
about 81 feet, and its fluctuations are
read in feet, where those of the ordinary
mercury barometer are in inches. This
is due, of course, to the fact that as oil
is much lighter than mercLry it requires
a much higher column to balance the
pressure Of the atmosphere
1t was at first intended to use water
as the liquid, in which case the column
would have stood normally at about 81
feet; but this plan was abandoned ow-
ing to the ease Of evaporation, Glycerin
was next tried, but the normal height
Of the column was only p feet, and II
was desirable to have il much higher
Olive oil was finally chosen aud is quite
satisfactory.
The tube, which is of iron. except at
the top, where the height of the column
must be observed, is supported by a
monumental pillar Of stone. This is
doubtless the largest barometer that ever
has been constructed, although 1t had
some famous rivals even during the life
time of Iorricelli.
Pascal, a French philosopher, made
barometers Of different liquids, including
one Of mixed wine and water, in Paris
Zophar Mills of New York set up il
glycerine barometer in his house in 1887
and several water barometers have been
built, of which the most notable was
probably that set up in the town Of
ST jacques in Paris by NJ. JaLbert il
1890
The olive oil barometer Of Faeuza will
continue to hold the record for size until
some one succeeds in using a still lighter
liquid, in which case the height Of the
barometric column will. Of course, be
greater.-New York Herald.