Semi-weekly herald., 1909-04-05

OUT oI party pieuBeS IOr lower uutleSs
may secure tax on dividends OF cor
porations.
Michigan state treasury is about
bankrupt and unless legislature au-
thorizes loan state officers will have
to go without salary several months
until taxes are paid in.
Walter Wellman says Republican
leaders, realizing that the party faces
disaster If 1t sticks to the present high
tariff plans, are talking of having the
senate help out the consumer.
Haste in passage of the tariff bill is
urged by President Taft. but Speaker
Cannon finds himself in an embarrass
ing position because of the "jokers"
in the Payne measure, and IL is feared
the present proposals cannot secure
support of the majority.
Col. w. C. Greene gave out state
ment Wednesday that a new corpora
tion is being organized to take over
all of his properties with the exception
OF his ranch in Mexico. The new syn
dicate will have s40,00O,0O capital,
and Is headed by DR.. F. $. Pearson OF
New York and Montreal.
1t is apparent that the industrial
insurance companies of the United
States are preparing to meet the grow
ing demand for sickness insurance and
old age pensions, which follows the
general adoption of such methods
abroad. The Metropolitan has an
nounced its intention 10 ii dude sick
ness and old age insurance.
The first year of the commission
plan of government in Des Moines
was completed on March "a, on which
date there was in the city treasury a
surplus of $4,000. In the preceding
year, under the old system. there was
deficit of $3.50. SO that the advocates
of the commission system are claim
ing that the city has saved s200,000 in
the first year by the new plan.
| Puzzled over the case of Michael
Riscicio, who died during an operation
at the German hospital in Brooklyn
| for supposed minor Intestinal NAL
\ ady. an autopsy was performed by DR.
Charles Wyerst, and the entire staff
of the institution was In attendance
The surgeons were amazed to find that
the mans heart was on the right side
of his body, and that stomach and di
gestive organs were on the left side
In place of his heart. All of the or
and II was evident that the man was
born in that condition.
The state board Wednesday cancel
ed two sales OF land made in Janu
ary because the men who purchased
the land admitted to the board tina,
they gave another man $500 not to
bid against them. The two men were
Adolph Raedel, who in January, gave
little over $500 for 100 acres Of
land In Rio Grande county, and C. W
Russell, who in January gave practi
cally $4,000 for 320 acres of land in
Rio Grande county. Shortly after tho
sale the board understood that com
petitiye bidders had been bought of
and today Raedel and Russell admit
ted they had given John Wertz oi
Monte Vista $500 not to bid.
In the opinion of Dana Estes, the
well known Boston publisher, who ar
rived in New York on the st. Louis
after 25,000mile journey in Europe
Asia and Africa, former President
Roosevelt Will find hunting big game
in East Africa like shooting cows IL
the back yard" THE antelopes ant
animals Of that kind are so tame,
he said, that they Craze along the
railroad track and scarcely look III
as the train goes by. saw thousand,
of zebras, antelopes, ostriches, etc
They were within few hundred yard,
of the train, and most of them never
even SO much as lifted their heads a.
we went by" Mr.. Estes visited Ugan
da, circled completely around Lake
Victoria Nyan2a, and pushed ir
through Rhodesia to Capt Colony. His
travels in Africa took him inland as
far as the Victoria Falls, on the Up
per Zambesia.
In the United States district conri
at Salt Lake Judge Marshall fined the
Union Pacific Railroad company, tue
Oregon Short Line, the Union Pacific
Coal company and ]. NJ. Moore. mana
ger OF the Union Pacific Coal com
pany. $4,000 each. Everett Bucking
ham, division traffic manager of the
Oregon Short line. was fined 81 900
| These fines are the result OF suit
against the coal company and two
| railroad companies by the D. j. Sharp
| Coal company of Salt Lake, which al.
| legged that the defendants had con
| spired and had refused to haul coal
previously purchased by the Sharp
company. A jury found the defend.
ants guilty Of conspiracy in restraint
OF trade and inyiolation OF the anti
trust law.
Society-at least that portion of II
seeking freedom from calling marital
bonds-has ordained that Reno. New,
is the proper temporary abode In
liCh IN obtain a 1ivprna NTH tla