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New-York tribune., 1909-04-11
TO KEEP TREATY
Intention to Break agreement 7cith
EngIand Denied.

Toxic April 10.-A report from Vienna that
Japan intends to inform Great Britain of her
purpose to terminate the British-Japanese ALL
ance are without foundation. The alliance has
ten years to run from 1905. and there has never
been the. slightest evidence Of discomfort on the
part of Japan with the terms of the treaty
New-York tribune., 1909-04-11
FROST NIPs EARLY VEGETABLES.

Norfolk Va April l0.-A heavy frost tn the Nor
folk County trucking belt ami the Eastern shore ct
Maryland last night did great damage TO straw
uerrcs cucWubers and beans This is the third
time that Strawberries have been injured by frusts
this scasu~
New-York tribune., 1909-04-11

DEWEYS SAuTERNE AND NOSELLE.
Exceptionally hue Table Wine
n. 4 Dewey Sons CO.. I%S Fulton ST. New ! ork
AdVt.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
CANNOT HOLD Up
PUBLIC BUSINESS
DRY TRUSTEES MUST SERVE OR
GO TO JAIL, SAYS THE
JUDGE.
TREASURER is MISSING
Happenings, Incidents and Troubles,
Gathered Here and There, OF Major
and Minor Importance.

Judge Frank e. Knappen, Of Kala-
mazoo, Saturday afternoon issued an
order which will compel the three dry
trustees OF Climax, who have been
staying away from the meetings. to
attend the village board sessions or
go to Jail.
BY the election of a wet president
last spring, the element in favor Of
the saloons in the village controlled
that body, so the three trustees rep
resentative of the dry element decid-
ed 20 stay away from all meetings,
allowing no quorum at any session.
Meanwhile all village business has
been tied up and two saloonkeepers
seeking admission TO the village have
been prevented from doing business.
The three drys say thai they will
appeal the case to the supreme court
at once. This is the first case of the
kind that has ever been heard by
Michigan court.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
Treasurer Is Missing.

The books of James s. Tozer, treas.
urer of the Modern Brotherhood OF
America, of Sault Ste. Marie, are be-
ing investigated. They are reported
to be short 5000
Tozer has disappeared and is sup
posed to be in Canada
For years before coming to the 500
Tozer was politician in Kent county,
leaving there, it is alleged, because of
family troubles.
Tozer claimed to be a boyhood
chum of Thomas c. Plat and an init
mate friend of the late David Wilmot,
the Pennsylvania jurist and politician,
whose proviso, attached in 1876 to an
appropriation bill for the purchase of
Mexican territory and prohibiting
slavery therein, made him famous.
The bill, by the way. with the pro-
viso, passed the house, but failed in
the senate.
Tozer's home and mail are being
watched by detectives.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
NEWS OF A WEEK IN
CONDENSED FORM
RECORD OF MOST IMPORTANT
EVENTS TOLD IN BRlEFEsT
MANNER POSSIBLE.
AT HOME AND ABROAD
Happenings That Are Making History
Information Gathered from All
Quarters of the Globe and
Given in a Few Lines.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Senator Hepburn spoke for a high
duty on lumber and Senator McCum-
Der for free lumber in the tariff bill
debate.
Secretary of War Dickinson, who
was forced to cut short his inspection
of the Panama canal because of i'll
ness, returned to Washington.
The treasury officials have found a
new counterfeit two-dollar certificate
bearing the number ITO.
The building program of the United
States navy for the fiscal year 1911
will call for two battleships of the
most advanced Dreadnaught type, also
five torpedo destroyers and one mod
ern repair ship for the fleet.
Owing to the illness of Mrs. Taft,
the president abandoned his proposed
trip to Hampton, Va.
Senator Aldrich surprised his col
leagues by admitting that he had
been justly criticised by Senator Till
man for letting the tariff legislation
drag along.
Republican and Democratic senators
engaged in a spicy debate on the tariff
bill
Senators formed a new combination
TO fight for an income tax, which. they
believed. would bring 100000 rev.
enue yearly.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
Two Months, Bride Shot pess.

Mrs. John Atkinson, a bride Of two
months, was accidentally shot dead b..
Arthur Merritt, aged 10, of Flint, Sun
day.
Mrs. Atkinson and her husband were
walking along the east bank of the
Flint river, to a point where they ex-
pected to fish. John Kinney and his
stepsons, Arthur and John, were prac-
ticing shooting at targets with their
rifles on the opposite bank. Arthur saw
a white cloth fiuttering across the
stream among some bushes and fired.
Mrs. Atkinson fell over with the bullet
through her forehead, dying without a
word
Young Merritt is so wrought up
over the accident that he had TO be
restrained. He declares he will kill
himself.
Mr. Atkinson, who was only three
feet away from his wife and heard
the whizzing of the fatal bullet, says
his wife was wiping her face with her
handkerchief at the time. This was
the white cloth at which young Mer
rift aimed. The fishing pole Mrs. At
kinson carried was still clasped in
her hand when she died An adopted
6-year-old son had been playing near
by. Mrs. Atkinson came to Flint last
March from London, Ont. She was %
years old.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

Matte Sampson, Sc, or Mareh 81
township, fell few weeks ago, and
injured her head. Later, a hemorrhage
developed, and she bled to death.
Tommy, the 3-year-old son OF John
McGury, a Pere Marquette fireman
felul into an open cistern at the fam
lily home in Saginaw and was
drowned.
Herman Hodges, who was sentenced
to 30 days in Port Huron county jail
and fine of $20S by Judge Law on a
charge of selling liquor to minors, has
been released.
A petition received by the council,
asking that the Ann Arbor five-cent
theater be permitted to show on Sun
day, was turned down by unani-
nous vote of the aldermen.
George Yeomann, from whom his
wife Susan secured a divorce in Port
Huron, stated in court that he had
three wives who received divorces
from him, and another who died
The resignation of Bert w. Cole. as
captain of Co. l., Second Infantry,
Adrian, made necessary by his con-
templated removal from the state. has
been received by the military depart
ment.
Mrs. william DeCoste, aged 80, and
the mother of six children, the young
est of which is but three weeks old,
cut her throat with a razor while tenn
porarily insane from ill-health. Physi-
clans say the wounds will prove ia
tai. The family lives on a farm at
Lotto.
John Borowiak, aged So. OF Bay City,
and having a large family, tried in
vain to get Sunday drink. He came
home in an ugly mood and going into
the cellar he swallowed several spoon
fuls OF Paris green and then raped on
the floor to attrack his wife's atten-
ton. She went to the basement and he
babe her goodbye. Two Polish physi-
clans were unable to save his life.
Thomas Miller, a Bay City miner,
is in a critical condition at Mercy
hospital with fractured skull and
may lose his life because of his anx-
iety to indulge in Sunday drink. Mil
Ter went TO a west side saloon and
finding that the Sunday closing was
In force there as well, assembled an
outside stairway leading to rooms oc-
cupied by the proprietor. At the top
he leaned against a rail, lost his bal
ance and plunged headlong to the
ground.
Friends OF James H. Wade. former
secretary OF the University of Michi-
gan, have presented him with a low
ing cup, one side inscribed, ITO James
H. Wade, twenty-five years secretary
of the University of Michigan, with
the affectionate remembrance OF uni
versity friends. May 81, 1909" Upon
the reverse side is the monogram OF
the university.
Anna Christensen, the young girl
who had both legs broken in a run
away accident in which her sister was
killed last February, returned recent.
ly from the hospital. and Monday fell
on the walk in Au Sable, fracturing
one OF the legs again.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
THE SESSIONS
CLOSING HOURS
GOVERNOR PATS LEGISLATORS
ON BACK FOR WORK THEY
ACCOMPLISHED.
TEN MILLION BUDGET.
Members Pack Up Things to Send
Home and Indulge in Horse Play In
Closing Hours.

Gov. Warner sent his closing mes
sage TO the legislature Wednesday
morning. In IL he reviewed the work
OF that body. and complimented mem
Ders on what had been accomplished.
He regrets that no anti-lobby bill has
been passed, but declares that the agri-
tatlon for such a law drove many no
torlous lobbyists out of Lansing.
He especially commends the ad va
loren tax. ng of telephone and tele-
graph companies, perfected primary
law, abolition of fellow-servant doc
trlne on railroads, improved highway
laws, anti-stock watering BILL and the
home rule law for municipalities.
Regarding appropriations the mes
sage says:
While the appropriations of the
present legislature are necessarily
larger than those made in previous
years, | believe 1t will be plain to any
fair minded citizen that, If our state
institutions, especially those of an
educational and char table nature, are
10 be properly maintained, these APP
preparations will never grow less"
AS you all know, much of the rev.
enue from various sources, which in
other states is issued to meet the
general expenses of the state govern
ment, in Michigan goes into the pri-
mary school fund, and is distributed
over the state to relieve local taxa
ton. But even under these conditions
the increase in the rate Of state taxa
ton has been no greater than the in
crease in the rate of local taxation for
which the people are themselves di-
rectly responsible. The rate of state
taxation in 1907 was 1921 per 1000
OF assessed valuation. This year it will
be 1925 In 1908 the rate was $2,41,
while IN 1910 it will be $3.50. The in
crease, therefore, per 81 200 assessed
valuation this year will be only 54
cents over the corresponding year OF
1907, while next year the increase will
be but Is cents over the correspond
ing year, 1905"
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
PERSONAL.

Vice-President Sherman, in an ad-
dress to the National Good Roads con-
gress, declared himself in favor of
Letter public highways.
DIR. Paul Ritter, newly appointed
minister of Switzerland to the United
States, and Amos p Wilder, United
States consul general at Shanghai, ar
rived in San Francisco from the ORR
ent on the Nippon Maru.
DR.. James NJ. Barkley of Detroit was
elected moderator of the Presbyterian
general assembly at Denver.
Miss Helen Taft has promised to un-
veil a monument to regular army SOL
diers at Gettysburg on May 81.
WI Ting Fang, the Chinese minis
ter, addressed the Lake Mohonk
peace conference, declaring that
China hopes the day soon will arrive
when compulsory arbitration will be
the law of nations.
John Kirby, Jr., was elected presi-
dent of the National Association of
Manufacturers
President Taft spoke in Charlotte,
N. c., at the celebration of the Neck
lenburg declaration.
Charles w. Eliot, after 40 years
service, retired as president of Har-
ward university.
Gen. Stoessel, defender of Port Ar
thur, and Rear Admiral Nebogatoff,
who were imprisoned for surrendering
TO the Japanese, have been pardoned
by the car.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
Work and Waves.

Whether or not the adoption of
Miss Margaret Bucholtz into the fam
lily of the late John A. Dratz, of Mus
kegon, invalidates her claim for $50
weeks Of servant work is a question
that the probate court will have to
decide in settling up the affairs of
the DratZ estate.
Mr.. Dratz was a wealthy Muskegon
merchant. Miss Bucholtz, who was
left an orphan at the age of IL, was
taken into the Dratz home and
worked for the family for 20 years,
leaving in 1906. During this time she
received no pay except her main
tenance.
At the eleventh hour, during
the hearing Of the claims on the
claims on the estate, Miss Bucholtz
put in an appearance from Chicago
and presented a claim of $2,S59, valu-
ing her services at SO a week. The
heirs will contest her claim.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
Prisoner Picked the Locks.

Sheriff Henry Kinney and Deputies
David Wright and Hugh Doyle, of Bay
City, brought batch of seven con
victs to Jackson prison Friday. The
prisoners were shackled together, but
when they were turned over to War.
den Wenger, the Bay City officers dis
covered they had left their keys at
the jail in Bay City, 125 miles away.
Every effort was made to find keys
in Jackson to fit the handouts, but to
no purpose. Then it dawned on War
den Wenger that he possibly had q
convict who could unlock the hand
cuffs and release the seven convicts
without key. A convict was called
in who, by means of piece of wire,
promptly picked the seven locks.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
The Lax BUDGET.

The $10.313,4 1891 budget for the
next two years. beginning July 1, re-
ceived the approval of both houses.
The amount to be spread on this
years tax rolls is $5,S12,319.73 and in
1910, $4,500,1201S. This years bud
get shows an increase of $1,234,464.31
over that of 1907. The distribut on Of
the large sum to be raised is as fol-
lows:
State university, $1,3O9,575; Agricul-
tural college, $346,S20; Ypsilanti nor
NAL school, S308,000; Mt. Pleasant
normal, $154,000; Marquette normal,
$1O2, $50; Kalamazoo normal, $174,500;
College OF Mines, $131, 900; state IL
brary, $4,000; Soldiers home, $780,
OO0 home for the feeble minded at
Lapeer. $500; state public school at
Coldwater, $S4,700; state school for
deaf, $165,000; school for the blind,
$l23,250; employment institute for
blind, $51, 100; Kalamazoo asylum,
7,27S.80; Pontiac asylum, 1885,
613.77; Traverse City asylum, $780,
9S4.O2; Newberry asylum, 1926 .672. 20;
lonia asylum for criminal insane,
Sis, 700.48; Wayne county asylum.
sos, 173.43; Jackson prison, $133, $50;
Ionia reformatory, $1,000; Marquette
prison. $S4,495; industrial school for
boys, $17S.000; Industrial school for
girls, $685. state fish commission.
$76,910; military fund, 1868, 601 92;
naval reserves, $50, 600.30; state sani-
tarium, $4,000; Dairymen's associa-
ton, $500; Pioneer and Historical as
sociation, $4,000; geological survey,
$4,000; biological survey, $4,000 ad-
jutant generals department, $500;
dairy and food department, $4,000;
forestry reserve, $4,000; Michigan
state fair, 100000 West Michigan fair,
$4,000; board of library comm ssion-
ers, $4,000; Mackinaw Island park,
$4,000; legislative reference depart
ment, $4,000; good roads department,
100000: labor department, $4,000;
inheritance tax examiners, $4,000: re-
duct.on of an old state bond, s1,735.71;
Custer monument, $4,000; pure drug
commission, $4,000; Menominee agri-
cultural school, $4,000; meteorological
department of the state board OF
health, $4,000; furnishings for Ionia
armory, $4,000: fire sufferers relief,
$4,000; general purpose tax, $780,.
600.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
ReauIsition for DAILY.

Requisit'on has been granted by
Governor Warner for Milton ]. Daily,
of Chicago, wanted in Jackson county
on a charge of bribing Warden Arm
strong, of Jackson prison, in connec-
ton with the contracts to furnish sisal
for the prison binding Irvine plant.
The requis.tion granted was made by
Prosecutor Reese, of Jackson. Daily
has been arrested in Chicago under
the indictment returned against him
by the grand jury and released on bail.
Charles W. McGill, of the attorney
generals department, who aided in
the presentation to the grand jury,
will accompany the officer to Spring
field to aid in securing Daily. 1t is pre-
sumed that even If the requisition is
approved by the governor OF Illinois
that Days friends will make fight
in Chicago to prevent extradition TO
this state.
Ex-Warden Armstrong has made a
sensational affidavit to be used in con-
nection with the requisition papers.
In his aff1dav.t Armstrong says that
DAILY. who was the agent of the Hoov-
er & Gamble Co., of Miamisburg, o.,
which installed the machinery, ap.
preached him and frankly told him
the machinery he had in view was
old; that IL he would help him put
through the deal he would make him
handsome present-at least $1,000
Armstrong AYERS that the deal went
through all right and that ON May 13.
1908, DAILY gave him $1,000.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
GEN ERAL NEWS.

Meteorologists of the leading ma.
lions of the world are to meet in Lon
don next month and will devise plan
to obtain wireless weather and storm
reports from the ocean.
The trial of Patrick Calhoun, a San
Francisco millionaire charged with
bribery, grows more bitter as it nears
its sixth month.
Bandits held up a Union Pacific
train near Omaha and stole several
registered mail pouches, said to con-
tain 100000.
The National Association of Harry
ard Clubs will hold its annual meeting
in Cincinnati, May 1929.
Following a quarrel with his wife
over a fiopeared hound, Henry Traue.
a farmer living near Fairfield, ILL.,,
took the dog and disappeared.
The police of New York would not
let Emma Goldman, queen of the an
archists, speak in that city.
Vespasian Warner, United States
pension commissioner, was sub
poenaed to appear as a witness in the
The Lakes-to-the-Gulf Waterways
association wants President Taft to
make trip on the river from St.
Louis to New Orleans.
The Gilbert block, seven stories
high, containing the Ira M. Smith de-
partment store and scores of office
suites, in Grand Rapids, Mich. was
practically destroyed by fire. with a
loss estimated at 100000.
Former President Roosevelt killed
his first rhinoceros on his hunt in
Africa. seven shots being required to
STAY the beast
Boards of arbitration of six states.
including Illinois. met in Detroit to
confer on the marine strike on the
Great Lakes.
Attorney General wickersham
stopped the grand jury inquiry into
Oklahoma land frauds when charges
OF unfair tactics were made against
government attorneys.
A factory at Waukegan. Ill, is gal
vanizing horned toads as ornaments
for women's hatpins.
Hopes were entertained at St
Johns, N. f., that the liner Mon
golian could be released from the ice
jam, in which II was held three days.
without loss of life.
Sultan Mehmed v. said he would
see that the massacres In Asiatic Tur.
key are not repeated.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
ROGERS is DEAD.
The Great Standard Oil Magnate's
Career IL Ended.


Career ls Ended.
II. II. Rogers, the Standard Oil cap
italist, died suddenly Tuesday morn
ing. In addition to being vice-presi-
dent of the Standard Oil Co. he was
president of the Amalgamated Copper
Co. and In many other great corpora
lions.
Mr.. Rogers died in his house, 3 East
Seventy-e. ghth street, about o'clock.
He arose about and about $50 he
began to feel i'll, complaining of numb
ness and nausea. Before anything
could be done he sank and died. He
went on Friday last to his country
place in Fair Haven, Mass, and re-
turned Monday.
ApopleXy was the cause OF death.
Thls was second stroke. Following a
seizure in 1907 Mr. Rogers began put
ting his affairs in order and he has
Deen out of the stock market entirely
for months. II S interests in all OF the
corporations with which he had been
Identified have been placed in other
hands during the past year. This step
was taken in order to safeguard his
properties in the event of sudden
death
Henry Haddleston Rogers was the
originator of the powerful Standard
OH Co. He was the man behind" 1t
was in his brain the .dea o. COM
bination originated, his idea the
branching out that brought 70 the
Standard its present throttle hold on
the oil industry OF the world, his
scheming that led the corporation safe
ly through the attacks in the courts;
1t was he who defied the federal gov
eminent.
But through it all the name of Rog-
ers seldom appeared. With all his abil-
ity. John d. Rockefeller was really the
figurehead.
Beginning as a newsboy and rising
first to clerk at SO a week and board,
Rogers accumulated a fortune esti-
mated at more than $100000,000.
II. II. Rogers was born in Fair
Haven, Mass. At 16 he graduated from
the Fair Haven high school and ped
died papers until he obtained the po-
sition of delivery boy for a grocery
at 50 a week and his board He
worked faithfully and finally became
head clerk at IS. He saved his money
and accumulated $500.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28

Silas Frey, aged 70, and almost a
lifelong resident of New Haven town
ship. d.ed and was buried last week
in Oregon. About two months ago
Mr.. Frey was persuaded by his grown
sons to move to the western state
where they own farms. though he pro-
tested, saying that ne had a PRESENT.
ment of death and wished to die in
the old home here.
A cornoer's jury called in Owosso
to investigate the death of Glen
Knickerbocker, aged 10, who was
killed by a Grand Trunk ira n last
week, has returned a verdict holding
the train crew responsible, as it found
that the train was running 25 miles
an hour over the crossing when the
statute calls for a maximum speed Of
20 miles an hour.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
Horse PLAY and Gifts.

The house had a great tine Tues
day preparing for the close of the ses-
sion today. The members were pack
ing up their stuff all day and many
and wondrous were the things which
found their way into the boxes. One
prominent member from Detroit car
ried of two cuspidors and a gentle
man from up state bemoaned the fact
that IL was impossible to put his
leather-seated chair in a box
during the time the house was in
the committee of the whole the air
was filled with files, books and papers
which we're hurled about from all di-
rections.
Rep. Baker assembled to the gallery
and carefully poured a glass OF water
over Rep. Field, sitting below.
The senate was not quite so frisky,
but also INDUCED in horse play.
Senator Fox was very conscientious.
He refused to allow his desk stun to
be packed until he had secured an
opinion from the attorney general that
IL was proper for him to take Il home.
Lieut.. Gov Patrick II. Kelley was
given a scathing arraignment in the
senate by Senator MacKay, and Just
as his uninitiated friends were gasp
ing with surprise and anger. r.. ".
Chilson got box and Senator Mortar
ty made a presentation speech, giving
him, on behalf of his friends and col
leagues. handsome chest OF silver.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
Threaten Dynamite.

The game warden's department n y
have to equip the department tug with
appliances TO discover submarine
bombs.
Last summer the tug ran into a
small northern town and caused some
OF the fishermen who were game law
violators, lot of trouble.
Now comes a threat from the burg
that If the boat comes into that har-
Dor, this summer, ii will be dynamited.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
The Second Death.

Sheridan ]. Colby, one of the promi-
nent figures in the Michigan legisla-
ture ever since 1899, died from tuber-
cular trouble at Harper hospital, De-
troit, Tuesday. He is the second rep
resentative who has died during the
session, Rep. Agens being the first.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28
Offers Reward

W. X. Morley. general manager of
the Grand Rapids, Grand Haven &
Muskegon railway, has offered a re-
ward of 500 for information as to
the identity of the person or persons
who placed tin can containing sand
on the interurban tracks yesterday
causing the wreck of the work train,
in which two men were killed and a
third was fatally injured.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28

Hit by a rock which fell 500 feet,
Delore Lacross, a miner, is dead at
Champion.
American millionaires, according to
Guglielmo Ferrero, the Italian histo-
rian. who is now in Paris after a visit
in this country, are the prototypes of
the ancient Greeks. They feel them
selves surrounded by public hostility
and are bound to assume public re-
sponsibilities and vindicate them
selves. He attributes much Of the hos
tility to John ID, Rockefeller to the
fact that he denied himself so thor
oughly to the public. Carnegie is pop
uIar for the opposite reason.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-28

Mrs. Frank Wattles, OF Alpena. came
to Port Huron in search of her hus-
band. who she believes left home with
another woman. She has five children
at home.
Ontonagon has a murder mystery.
The finding OF the body of lumber
jack few days ago under peculiar
circumstances led to an investigation
which resulted in the locating of a
bullet hole in the mans head, evil
dence, IL is believed, that the man
was murdered.
State Fire Warden Pierce has re
ceived his first report OF forest fire
for the present season. A settler in
Antrim county burned some waste
timber and the flames spread. destroy
ing several cords OF wood belonging
to a neighbor. The man who gave
the fire start paid damages amount
ing to $3.50 and will not be prosec'-'-'