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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-11-24
7. N. Wallis Great Triumph.

The purchase OF the Western Union
Telegraph Co. by the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company is the consum-
nation of an immense project that has
long been the aim of some of the great
capitalists of the country. In a state
ment announcing the deal T. \. Vail,
president of the telephone company said,
ut seems not only to be good policy but
duty to increase the service and ad-
vantages to the public by utilizing
present untitled possibilities, and at the
same time benefit property and increa
revenues" So far as the combination is
able to secure these results it will be
endorsed by the general public.
This deal is also an important step in
the telephone and telegraph
companies of the country into a corpor-
alton with a capitalization of nearly
81, 900, 900 with Mr.. Vail at its
head. 1t secures for him a financial
position that is scarcely out-ranked by
such men as the late E. H. Hartman
and J. Pierpont Morgan. The magni-
tude of the enterprise is indicated by the
fact the system will have SS+2 900, 900 |
Of assets, over $175, 900 900 of present
gross earnings, 9,481,188 miles of wires
and between $4,000 and 10000
employees.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-11-24

Throwing a Misrepresentation. so
strong and unexcusable that some
people call it a lie, at Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor Mead who is candidate for
governor, and not retracting or
acknowledging the mistake, Is hardly
deliverable of such excellent papers as
the Mortified n WIS and the St. Tohns-
bury CALIFORNIAN and their estimabie
editors. Yet such is the case. Both
papers made the fiat and unqualified
statement that DR.. Mead had never been
connected with progressive legislation in
Vermont with the exception of possibly
voting for it, The Monitor showed b tn
papers that Dr. Mead originated and
iostered the weekly payment law, an
acknowledged progressive and important
act, and asked each and both if it were
not true. Neither paper has had the
courtesy or courage to answer, thereby
throwing their influence in a direction
absolutely untrue.-[ Barton Monitor.
Having had charge of the publication
Of full report Of the proceedings of the
Vermont legislature for over a decade,
the editor of the CALIFORNIAN again
asserts that Lieut.-Gov John A. Mead
is not and never has been recognized by
the law makers OF Vermont as a leader
or strong influence in the constructive
legislation Of this state This statement
is made notwithstanding the claim that
he Originated and fostered the weekly
payment law" Will those of the audi
ence who realized at the time that DR..
Mead was such leader please raise their
hands.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-11-24
Gavel Presented the G. A. R.

Chamberlin Post No. /, G. A. R. at a
meeting held at Odd Fellows hall 90
Railroad street last Saturday voted to
meet there for the present. 1t was also
voted to hold their meetings on the
second and fourth Saturdays Of each
month. The next meeting will be in the
evening Saturday, Dec. II, at 100
A new gavel was presented the post
Saturday, to take the place OF the one
destroyed in the recent fire. by H. S. Hin.
man, the presentation speech being made
by Commander D. P. Celley. Tie post
extended vote of thanks to the donor.
The gavel is made of orange wood made
by hand. The wood on the front side
has been cut away so the letters &c, 4.
X. J." stand out in raised letters.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-11-24
Boys Held for Burglary.

L. Francis Deyo, aged 10, and George
Fecto, aged 16, of Brattleboro, living on
Elliott street, were arrested Monday
Nov. Is, charged with an attempt at
burglary at the store of Jason Bushnell
on Flat street about nine O'Clock Sunday
morning. They were given a hearing in
the municipal court before Judge r W.
Gibson and bound over for the April term
of the Windham county court in S30V
each. r. c. Deyo, father Of Francs
recognized for his sons appearance
while Carl Schorling recognized ioF
Fecto. The defense in both cases at
tempted to prove an abb, While tu5
state presented witnesses who claimed
to have seen the boys in the act OF tore
ing an entrance into the store. Ing
attempt is one more in the long series Oh
petty burglaries which have been gong
on in Brattleboro for nearly two years
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-11-24

and was transferred to the insane asy
lum on December IA, 1874.
Thomas Cook was gwen life sentence
on October 3, 1855. He died November
%. 1859.
Arial Martin, convicted March %
1859, thought at first that he would die
on the gallows, but life sentence saved
him and on April Ia. 1860, he passed
away.
On October 4, 1862, Vim. Barnett was
sentenced to be hanged, and this was
carried out January 20, 1864.
Sandy Kavanagh on October f, 1862,
was sentenced to die on the gallows. He
was executed January 20, 1864.
John Ward followed, being executed
March 20, 1868.
William Randolph was committed for
! lite, and transferred to the insane asylum
on March 20. 1869.
Next came Hiram Miller. He was exc
cuted June IS. 1869.
Horace X. Plumlev was committed for
life November Is. 1869. He was after
ward pardoned.
Henry Welcome met the limit of the
law January 20. 1871, by hanging.
Then came Henry Gravelin, who was
hanged March IA, 1879.
John P Phair was next, he being exc
cuted April 10, 1879
Asa Magoon, convicted November II,
1877, was executed on November IS,
1879.
Edward Tatro, 1878, was sentenced
to die. and his life passed away on the
gallows on April 2, 1880.
Edwin c. Hayden was the next to be
executed, February %, 1881.
Lewis Almon Meaker was little more
fortunate than the six who preceded
him, and he was given life term after
having been sentenced to die.
The first woman to expiate the crime
OF murder on the gallows in Vermont
was Emeline L. Meaker Her life was
finished by the hangman srope in March,
1883.
A long period lapsed before the SEN
tence of death was again carried out.
When next it was put into effect, S. H. |
Bell, in January, 1892, passed to the
great beyond by ignominious death
Then period OF life sentences reigned |
until Mrs. Mary Mabel Rogers was exc
cuted in 1906.
1t has seemed strange that the spirit of
the law should, down the span of years
between 1899 to 1906 be upheld in such
a vacillating fashion as the records of
punishment show. The explanation of
his may be that one class OF authorities
wish that the law shall be carried out to
he letter, while another believe that cir
should govern the applica-
ion.
The attitude the law has taken thus
ar is somewhat devoid of consistency,
md in order that its purpose be applied
With perfect fairness there should be no
deviation from the way the law reads.
shifting from one method of disposing of
nurderers to another in the case of muir
er in the first degree is bound to causea
ertain amount of disrespect for the law.
md it is no wonder.
State after state has tried to correct
S methods of dealing out punishment
murderers of the first degree, only to
nd public sentiment just as strong one
'ay as another. On this account one
lethod should be adopted and adhered
81 Vermont Journal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-11-24

L. P. Thayer, the most widely known
newspaper publisher of Vermont, has
purchased all the stock of The Vermont
Newspaper Union and leased the business
to the Essex Publishing company of
which NJ. c. Reynolds, for the past five
years a partner of Mr.. Thayer, will be
business manager, and Franklin Fisher,
newspaper man of wide experience, the
editor. Mr.. Thayer will continue to
manage newspapers in Vergennes and
Middlebury, and place his son, Harrison
5. Thayer, on the Morrisville Messenger
L. P. Thayer's past record guarantees
that new life and prosperity will come to
the extensive newspaper interests involv-
ed in this deal-in a word new strength
to some of the weak spots in Vermont
journalism.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-11-24

There seems to be a tendency in some
quarters to belittle State Superintendent
Mason S. Stone. We are not surprised
at this for nothing so much disturPs the
ordinary Vermont community as really
live man. And certainly Mr.. Stone is
very much alive and with a knowledge
of the states possibilities and conditions
such as is possessed by very few. He has
had the courage and the ability to pre-.
sent the truth which has not always
been fattering to those addressed and
we believe that as the years go by his
work will be the more generally appre-
ciated. - Springfield Reporter.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-11-24

weak picking away at the earth's sur
face will not prove profitable. The
quarrying of Barre granite did not take
its stride until the work was attempted
on large scale Neither will the slate
industry of Montpelier or Mortified.
Some day man OF faith may arise to
reopen the old Sabin quarries on Semin-
airy hill and make money out of them"
On the West side of the state there are
good oppportunies to open up new slate
and marble quarries. and they will be
opened when Vermont is fully aroused
and convinced that it is better for the
state and its citizens to invest money at
home rather than place it in Western
mortgages. Bellows Falls Times.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-11-24

The drift is steadily towards Mr..
Fleetwood. This is the almost univer-
sal testimony of men who are travelling
over the state on business, not the
opinion of the editor, colored naturally
by local pride. 1t is the opinion of men
who are not interested in the contest.
The more the people consider the special
qualifications of the two candidates,
and those whose names have been
mentioned, the more they come to the
conclusion that Mr.. Fleetwood is the
best man forgovernor in 1910 Morris
vile Messenger.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-11-24
An Increase in Pension,

An increase in pension has been allow
ed Robert S. Kelley, of McIndoe Falls at
the rate OF SIS per month from October
20, '09.
An increase in pension has been grant
ed Aaron Witham of Lower Cabot, at
the rate OF SIT per month from Septem-
Der 10, 1909.
A pension has been granted Mrs. ElTi-
ra +. Badger widow of Charles Badger,
of Passumpsic, at the rate of Sl2 per
month from July %, 1909.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-11-24
Judge Stafford to Publish Poems

The New York Sun says that a volume
OF poems by Justice Wendell P. Stafford,
OF the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia, is to be published soon under
the title Dorian Days" This title is
chosen because the beauty of ancient
Greece is in great measure the inspiration
of the volume.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-11-24

The Citizens Municipal League of
Boston has named James ]. Storrow, a
banker and practical business man, as
its candidate for mayor. Ex-mayor
John F. Fitzgerald is the democratic
candidate and if the fight is confined to
these two candidates there would seem
TO be reasonable hope that Boston
will get its municipal government on a
sound basis. But the persistence of Nav
or Hubbard in running again he regards
the cause ofgood government.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-11-24

W. H. Bishop, editor of the Essex
County Herald, was in St. Johnsbury,
Saturday. He was making his 3Oth
annual tour over the territory covered
by his paper to visit his subscribers and
customers. Mr.. Bishop is one of the
hard working country editors who lives
a modest and sacrificing personal life in
order to give his readers the best news
paper his territory will support.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-11-24
ST. JOhnSbury'S Business.

The following figures give approx
mately the volume of business done
among the wholesale and manufacture
ing concerns of St. Johnsbury.
There are produced yearly 1900 car
loads of scales, receiving and sending out
10000 tons of freight from the Fair
banks plant with a yearly pay roll of
100000
Fifty carloads of hoes and forks.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-11-24
Vermont Capital for Vermont DEVELOPMENT

We have devoted considerable space
of late to the subject of the develop
ment of Eermont's natural resources and
the Improvement of the business oppor-
tunities opening in different communi.
ties. There is one phase of the situation
which has not received sufficient atten-
ton, and that is the matter of capital
for the prosecution of local enterprises.
The history of various financial dis
asters in different parts of the West
and South has demonstrated in the past
that not few people rather send their
money away from home. where they can
not keep track OF it than to loan it right
at home. This is probably true of some
OF the banking institutions in different
parts of Vermont
1t goes without saying that credit is
tar-reaching and important factor in
the development of a community, and
when men allow their funds to be gather
ed together and sent out of the state
instead of being loaned whenever Dos
sible, at home in and of local develop-
ment, they are in reality working against
their own community.
We protest against people who do not
patronize home merchants and help to
keep up local business enterprises. There
is just as much reason why a bank
should patronze home industries and
business enterprises as why people should
patronize local merchants, and deposit
ors as body have it in their power to
insist upon the. adoption of this policy
in their respective communities.
Vermont capital tor Vermont develop
ment. whenever possible. should be the
watGhword of Vermonters.-[B urling-
ton Free Press.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-11-24
~ - DISQUALIFICATION
Internal CatarriI,

Miss Nora Kelley, R. r. /, Box III,
London, Ohio, says:
81 write to thank you for the wonder
full good your Peruna has done for me.
az was a sufferer from kidney and
other internal trouble for twenty-five
years. Two years ago began to take
Peruna and only took about three bot
ties and to-day 1 can say am well
person"
Could Not Eat Without Suffering.
Mrs. H. A. Weaver, Somerset, Ohio,
writes:
81 can safely and truly say that Peru
ma has been blessing to me.
81 had catarrh so badly that had lost
the sense of smell and taste.
"I had stomach trouble so bad that
could not eat anything without suffer
ing afterwards.
"My friends advised me to try Peru
ma. ! bought one bottle and was greatly
benefited by it, and so / bought one-half
dozen bottles, and will say that 1 am
completely cured of stomach trouble
and catarrh.
81 cannot say enough for Peruna."
Peru-na Brought Appetite.
Mrs. Selma Tanner, Athens, O., writes
that Peruna relieved her of stomach
trouble and brought her good appetite.
Pe-ru-na An Homes
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-11-24
Judge Martin to Preside.

Judge James L. Martin of the Vermont
district OF the United States Court has
been assigned to preside at the criminal
cases IN the Sugar Trust prosecutions,
which will begin in New York the 3Otb
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-11-24
Cures Remove Doubt
About Eczema cure
Read What Your Druggist Says About Va
of Wintergeen Compound.

Druggists c. c. Bingham of St. o ms.
bury, and o. B. Cutting & Son OF O u.
cord, VT. submit the following TO 'H'
readers of the CALIFORNIAN: i
For several years we have announce ,od
with our recommendation, that we na'
found positive cure for eczema; a slm ,,
pie skin W sh, oil OF wintergreen, Con. Con
pounded with other healing ingFe.dSstttiTn
Yet we know there are people rgnI 4 If
this town who have eczema, ana ''"
have never tried this remedy. .., +he
We have, therefore, arranged VIII J.. -"
D. D. D. Laboratories of Chicago lo n,ts
special offer Of a trial bottle at 70 T i,rv
instead of the $1.0O bottle as reSui"''
sold. 90.
We offer this trial bottle with ou' nst
commentator and assurance that .I;no
as soon as the patient washes MS ~, 'N' ;trR
skin, this mild liquid will take the ~
away instantly.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-11-24
When ubbers Become Necessary

And your shoes pinch, Aliens Foot Ease.
powder to be shaken into the shoes. is
Just the thing to use. Try it for Break
ing IN New Shoes. Sold Everywhere,
25c. Don't accept any substitute.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-11-24

Try to give thanks tomorrow or the
things you really have and not be
gloomy because you can't rejoice over
the possession of things ONE other
fellow got and that you would like.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-11-24
Catarrh for Several Years.
Pe-ru-na An Honest Family Medicine

that she had seen them counting til.
stamps which were placed high on a
table.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-11-24
Now Has Best of Health.

Mrs. Victoria NJ. Pckel, 100 Z. Mound
ST., Columbus, Ohio, writes:
~ have been using Peruna for catarrb
having had very aggravated case. 50
bad that it clogged the nasal organs
When did get the nasal organs opened.
the mucus would drop into my throat
and make me very sick.
"a friend advised me to take Peruna
and after using four bottles | was cured.
II have no trouble now, and am happy
to say that Lam enjoying the best o.,
health and attending to my lodge du.
ties, being a member Of the Rebecca
Lodge of Odd Fellows.
~ would recommend Peruna to those
suffering with the same obnoxicus
trouble"
Catarrh for Several Years.
Mrs. Alice Boyle, SOB Clinton St.
Circleville, Ohio, writes:
II want to inform you what Peruns
has done for me.
~ have been afflicted with catarrh for
several years. l have tried different
medicines and none seemed to do me
any good until l used Peruna. have
taken six bottles and can praise il, very
highly for the good it has done me.
~ also find ii of great benefit 10 M
children"
It Family Medicine.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-11-24
TERMS OF THE cALEpoNIAN.

This paper is entitled to q place on the
Printers Ink Roll of Honor.
THE CALIFORNIAN co.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-05-29

Jaunary and February, but refused to sell. About the middle of February they all got frightened and started to sell, whereby they put the prices down by bidding against each other, until the price reach s1O per ton.
 During the time these farmers were cutting prices, there was no other hay coming Into the market ex- cept from Imperial Valley, and there would have been just as much used had the market remained firm at higher prices.
 "The market on Imperial Valley hay at the present time has settled down to fair basis, and is bringing at this time from SIS to s13.5O for No. barley hay, and $12 to s1250 for No. 1 alfalfa.
 When farmers throughout the val ley market their hay in proper man. ner, and have good cured hay, there is no reason why they should not receive fair price for their entire crop"
Imperial Valley press., 1909-05-29
FLOWERS TOR rHs GRAVES

The committee in charge of ar-
 rangements for Memorial Day, next Sunday, announce that any person having flowers they desire to have used in the decoration of graves at the Imperial cemetery, should have the flowers delivered to the Meth odlst Church. at Imperial before 2 o'clock next Sunday, when they will be taken to the cemetery by the con-
 mlttee. The graves of veterans will be marked with flags, 30 that any who wish to visit the cemetery direct may know where to place their offerings.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-05-29
RIVER cREEPs UP TO Towsl.

County Superintendent J. E. Carr has returned from a visit to the Palo Verde school district, lying in the extreme northeastern corner of Im- perial County, along the Colorado River He went by way of Glamis and thence by automobile stage to Palo Verde. Prof. Carr says that the spring rise of the Colorado River has brought the waters close to the town and that but a slight increase in the flood will carry the water to. the buildings. Last year, during the high waters, the residents of Palo Verde had to move out and up onto the Mesa, and 1t is likely that they will have a similar experience this year W. H. Goodrich, formerly in the fur niture business in Fl Centro, has be- come the possessor of 800 acres of bottom lands at Palo Verde, and it Is reported that he has plans made for the construction of a dike to hold back the river each spring
Imperial Valley press., 1909-05-29
MINING MAN HEHE.

J. M. Mendivil, a mining man from the Picacho district, was an El Gen. tro visitor Monday, with Frank Dostal, from Potholes, Mir. Mendivil has had a highly interesting life, and can tell many stories of his actual experience which would rival books of fiction He was captured when a lad 12 years old by the Apache Indians. and was held prisoner by them for over sev- en years. He finally escaped and served the United States Army as a scout through Arizona. and along the international line.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-05-29
HELD TO GRAND JURY.

Judge Jones, at Yuma, has held James Lano in the sum of $500 bail, to answer to the Yuma County Grand Jury on the charge of forgery. Lano was captured by Deputy Sheriff Mea- dows on a' ranch about four miles from Fl Centro, and was taken to Yuma for preliminary trial. Lano forged the check of his employer, Val entine Westfall, for $18.50. Westfall lives near Antelope and Lano was working for him. Lano came to Yuma and made a small purchase from the Toggery and paid for 1t with the forged check, revceiving some ten or twelve dollars in change. He then proceeded to disappear. He left with the postmaster at Wellton an order to send his mail to El Centro and that was his undoing.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-05-29

r~zAs Dmegsllas. BAAsAASsFtea aAA AB ct YnspSssAl vai1sy Nuswssy. M CsaeyU. A4-tl.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-05-29
CONTEST NOTICE.
Department of the Interior, United States Land Office, Los Angeles, Cal ifornla, May 21, 1909.

A sufficient contest affidavit hav- ing been filed in this office by Peter ]. Storms. contestant, against Desert Land Entry, No. 4027, made Septem- Der IS, 1907, for the SE. quarter and E.. half, NE. quarter of Section 15, Township 16 south, Range 12 east, San Bernardino Meridian, by James M. Silcox Contestee, In which 1t Is al- legged that the said James M. Silcox has not within the first year of said entry made any expenditure of any moneys in preparing said land for ir- rigation nor done any work on said land with a view to it's reclamation from its desert condition; that said entryman has not within the first year of said entry submitted any proof of having expended any sum of money whatever in the matter of the recla- nation of the land embraced in said entry. Said parties are hereby noti- fled to appear, respond, and offer evil dence touching said allegation at 10 o'clock a. m. on July z, 1909, before the Register and Receiver at the Unit ed States Land Office in Los Angeles, California,
 The said contestant having, in a proper dLludNit, Ileu Mdy Il, lJUJ, set forth facts which show that after due diligence personal service of this notice can not be made, it is hereby ordered and directed that such mo- tice be given by due and proper pub lication.
 FRANK c. PRESCOTT,
 Register.
 o. R. w. ROBINSON,