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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-07-01

Pap Mohler, came in this week
with Jake Kolb, both called in on
the News folks and had a pleasant
chat.
Job work and advertising coming
in this week made it necessary for
the News to have additional help at
the cases.
Mr.. Helm of the H. G. Marshall
Mercantile Co. while over at Plains
setting up headers, was taken sick
and confined to his room for some
days, but is again at the store.
Final settlements were made in
the matter of the estate of George
Friemouth deceased and of Isaac
Low decea- ed this week in the Pro-
bate court.
We must urge our correspondents
to be more prompt with their COM
munications. 1t is impossible to
get stuff received after Tuesday at
noon of the week the items should
be published.
The Fowler Gazette says Fowler
will have the great fourth of July
celebration. Stanton is mistaken
this time. Fowler will have a great
celebration on that date, and Meade
is going up to help make it a sue
cess, but the great fourth of July
celebration will be at Meade and we
hope that Stanton and all Fowler
will come down on the 5th, and be
of those making it such.
Prof. Won Prosky has organized a
band made up of about Is of the
energetic young men of Meade.
They held business meeting on
Wednesday to arrange for instru-
ments, and Immediately upon re-
ceipt of same will begin practice.
Prof. Won Prosky is musician of
more than ordinary ability and of
wide experience, having been leader
Of the saith, u. S. Regt. band in the
PHILIPPINES, and later~of the Midland
band of Colorado. The latter com
peted at the carnival in Kansas
City and took second prize. The
Prof. expects to have the boys out
in 80 days for street practice and
a concert. Meade has at various
times in the past had a band and
always a good one. But the re-
moval of leader or scattering of
the members to different parts
would disorganize them. This be-
ginning is made under very favor
able conditions and with a larger
number than formerly and from it
we expect that there will come as
good performers and as fine a band
as the southwest has anywhere.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-07-01
lodge Directory.

A. F. & A. M.--Webb Lodge No. Dts meets the
Saturday night before the full moon of each
month. VIM. BAcKE, W. NJ.
Geo. w. Gdett. Secretary.
R. A. M.-Meade Chapter No 46 meets the End
and 4th Tuesday nights of each month
NJ. S. GillIdett, H. P.
W. T. Gray, Sec.y
WEBB CHAPTER-Eastern Star-Meets the
Thursday night on or before the full moon of
each month. Mrs. W. T. Gray, w. NJ.
Mrs Florence Harper. Sec'y.
[. o. o. F.-Meade Lodge No. 523. meets on Mon
day night of each week in I. o. o. F. Hall. Wis
iting brothers cordially invited.
IRA SCOTT, N. G.
RALPH SMITH, Sec'y.
1. o. o. F. Meade Encampment No. 13S meets
first and third Wednesday evenings in each
month at the 1. o. o. F. Hall. Visiting pa
triarchs will always find this hospitable tent.
F. c. udd. C. P.
o. R. Stevens Scribe.
1. o. o. F.-Canton Meade No. Sheets the
second Friday night of each month. Visiting
Chevaliers welcome.
Capt. William Jobling, Commandment.
John D. Wehre, Clerk
L. ". -
1st and 3rd Tuesday nights of each month in
l. o. o. F. hall.
LILLE BRADEN, N. G..
MRS. LUCY BUNCH, Sec'y.
P. E. O. Ssterhood, meets every two weeks
Tuesday night
Mrs. Kate Curl, President.
Mrs. Abbie Bods, Cor Secy.
NJ. w. A.-Meade Camp No. 173s, meets on the
2nd and 4th Tuesday nights of each month
over Bank Sam Conger, VIC.
w. S. Martin, Clerk.
r. N. A.-Middlemarch Camp No. 622, meets the
End and 4th Thursday afternoons of each
month at hall over bank.
Mrs. Ruah Mars, Oracle
MRS. ADAH MARTIN. Recorder.
\. o. U. W.-Meade Center Lodge No. PAT meets
on second and fourth Tuesday of each mt nth at
the bank hail. w. H. FINKLE, NJ w.
w. w. PREssLY, Recorder.
S. and d. of MEADE Council No. Us Meets
on the 1st and the 3rd Thursday night of each
MONTH ANNA c. WEHRLE, President.
Jessie E. Wehr1e FInancier
Genevleve McMeel, Sec'y
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The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-01-21
TRAINS COLLIDE:
EIGHTEEN DEAD
Denver 4 Rio Grande Scene of Dis,
asirOus Crash.
Thirty Persons Are Injured--passen-
ger Train Dashes Into Moving
Freight Train - Special Loaded
With Doctors and Nurses Hurried
TO Scene of Accident.

Glenwood Springs, Colo, Jan. 49,
In collision between Denver g. Rio
Grande passenger train No. s, west
bound, and eastbound freight No. 666,
at Dotsero last night, Is persons were
killed and 30 injured. SO far as known.
AS soon rs the information reached
here that wreck had occurred, O
special was made up and all the avail
able doctors and nurses in the city
pressed into service and carried to the
scene of the accident This train, 1t
was expected, would bring the injured
back, and possibly the dead, last night,
but it was not expected to reach here
before z o clock.
Meager details of the wreck are to
the effect that the freight train was
attempting to take siding to let the
passenger pass, but had only partly run
off the main line when the passenger
train came tearing along and crashed
into it. The chair car of the passen-
ger was torn in two and one tourist car
teescoped. The passenger train was
well filled with passengers, most of
whom We're asleep.
1t Is feared that the list of dead will
be greatly augmented when full details
are received.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-01-21
oENoUNcE FOREST SERVICE
Woolgrowers Say Pinchots Subordi-
mates Have Too Much Power.

Woolgrowers Say Pinehots Subordi.
mates Have Too Much Power.
Pocatello, Idaho, Jan. 16.-The sec
ond days session of the convention OF
the National Woolgrowers' association
in this city was marked by another at
tack on the forest service. s. Gosney,
Of Flagstaff, Arizona, in an address in
the afternoon, declared that justice to
the sheepmen Of the West demanded a
change in the present methods of adj
ministration of the range control.
Mr.. Gosney asserted that he could
cite numerouss instances in his own
state where favoritism, prejudice and
graft have figured in the administers
ton Of the national reserves.
After the election of officers and Sc
lection of the place of meeting for
1910, the convention will adjourn.
Salt Lake has withdrawn in favor OF
Ogden, which city is now in the lead.
Contending that any change in the
existing protecting tariff on wool
would work great injury on the sheep
industry in America, G. III. Harding,
of Philadelphia, ex-president of the
National Association of Wool manufac-
turers, addressed the convention. He
compared the recent hearing before
the house committee on tariff revision
TO minstrel show, with some of the
congressman as end men.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-01-21
|WOOLMFN TO TALK
OVER WAREHOUSE
PinChOt Sends Causilc Letter Which
Bears on Grazing Question.
Association Not Favorable to Exist
ing Rules of Governmert-Ques-
ton of Tariff on Wool Viii Cause
Shrrp Debate-Some VIII Want 1t
Increased.

Pocatello, Idaho, Jan. 14.-QuestiCns
of great concern to the sheepraisers OF
the United States and especially of the
Western range states will arise at the
three days convention of the National
Woolgrowcrs' convention, which will
begin here today.
The storage warehouse plan, which
IL, in brief, to place the bulk of the
wool crop in the hands of co-opera-
tive selling agency, to hold for what
is considered fair price, meanwhile
borrowing money on the stored pro-
duct, will be the principal subject at
issue. A committee has been busy for
several months securing pledges Of
wool and arrangements have been
made to lease warehouse in Chicago
or some other center as soon as the re-
quired $4,000, 900 pounds of wool is
guaranteed.
1t IS not thought that much opposi-
tion will develop, but the details of
the plan may be criticised and its feas-
Utility ques toned.
Government regulations in relation
to grazing on forest reserves will I'M
doubleday be attacked. 1t was the
known attitude of the association on
this point that prompted the chief for
ester, Clifford Pinchot, to decline an in
vitation to the meeting in sharp note
which further strained the relations
between the Forestry department and
the woolmen.
In his letter Mr.. Pinchot advised the
secretary Of the association that he did
not care to attend the convention until
it should show by its action that it was
prepared to view the grazing question
in more liberal spirit.
While all the delegates will be in
favor of tariff on wool, there may be
debate as to whether the present
duty is sufficient. Utah woolgrowers,
and perhaps others, have adopted reso-
lutions asking that the present duty be
increased. In other quarters the pre-
vailing tariff is regarded as ample for
the needs of the industry.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-01-21
OPIUM CAUSES SUICIDE.



Cleveland. o., Jan. 10. "0pium
causes half million suicides year, Z
declared Rev. A. s. Gregg, Of the In
ternational Reform bureau today, with
reference to the opium conference call
ed by President Roosevelt, which be-
gins its session at Shanghai February
4. The statement la based on letters
and reports from Or. r. w. Thwing,
special secretary Of the reform bureau
who has been sent to Shanghai by the
bureau to attend the opium conference.
DIR. Thwing will ask the conference
to lake action that will hasten the de-
struction of the opium traffic through
out the world. DIR. Thwing says he has
obtained statistics from four Chinese
provinces with population Of $780,
600 in which he says the proportion of
the population using opium is from 30
to 80 per cent, and the amount Of NOR
ey spent for the drug Is 5000, 900, 900
a year.
President Roosevelt called the OPT
um conference Mt the suggestion of
Bishop Brent, Of Manila, and delegates
have been appointed by China, Japan.
SIAM Persia, Russia, Germany, Great
Britain, France, Italy, Holland and the
United States.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-01-21
SECOND MINE HORROR.
At Least One Hundred Men Caught
in CollierY by Explosion.

WEIGH, w. Va, Jan. 12.-At least
100 miners were trapped by an ex-
plosion in the Lick Branch collierv
today, marking the second disaster in
the mine within two weeks.
Relatives of the victims of the pre-
vious explosion, when so men were
killed, are known to be in the mine to-
day.
The explosion this morning occurred
Just after the full quota of the dav
Shift had gone to work and it is known
positively that $50 men were in the
mine at the time.
A relief train with surgeons and SIM
plies was rushed from Bluefeld and
the buildings about the shaft have
been turned into hospitals.
The state mine inspector and four
assistants inspected the mine lust he
fore the previous explosion and nro-
nouneed 1t one of the safest and best
ventilated in the region. Another in
sSpectlon was made after the explosion
but did not reveal the cause.
Switehback, the scene of the disas-
tiers, is in Mcdowell county, in the
center of the Flat Top coal fields.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-01-21
NEW RECORD SET.


Number of Mine Accidents Increased
uring Past Year.
Pittsburg. Jan. 10. The year 1908
was marked by more mine horrors and
by more loss of life underground than
any other year In history. And the
year 1909 apparently IL going after
l908's record. Only last Tuesday 100
lives We're lost in an explosion in a
model mine near Bluefied, w. Va,
and on the Sunday before death exact
ed another heavy toll In the Letter
mines at Zeigler, III.
Science, " said a mining engineer
today, "has not yet solved the problem
of preventing the formation Of gas.
We recognize three kinds of mine gas
es the fire damp, after damp and
white damp.
Fire damp is the only one Of the
trio that is explosive. 1t Is a gas Civ
en- off by coal under the influence Of the
heat Of the earth. When Davy invent
ed the miners safety lamp IL was
thought that all danger of mine expo-
sions was over. The lamp has the
flame surrounded with metallic screen
which does not permit the passage of
the flame. But the screens burn out
after long usage and the miners grow
careless.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-01-21
PORTLAND MARKETS.

Barley Feed, s27@27.5o per ton;
brewing, S2s.
Wheat Bluestem. sl.05; club, 92c
fife. 92e: red Russian. zoe; 40-fold,
e6c; valley, 95e.
Oats No. ] white, sS3 per ton.
Hay Timothy, Willamette valley.
$l% per ton; Eastern Oregon. $l7mls
elovFe. Sl2; alfalfa. sl2W13; grain
hay, sl2Ml3.
Fruits Apples, 75cM$3 per box
pears. $lMl.75 per box: ounces, sl01
I.25 per box; cranberries, Sl4. 50Il5
per barrel; persimmons, $l6t1.25.
Potatoes 50Ml.e5 per hundred
sweet potatoes. 254c per pound.
Onions Oregon, $3.50 per hundred.
Vegetables - Turnips, S.150M1.75
per sack: carrots, $i.25mI. SO; par
ships, Sl.50ml.75; beets. 81. 50M1. rs /:
horseradish. sMl0c per pound; arti-
ehokes. x1.40 per dozen; beans, ~ Ne
per pound; cabbage, 2hc per pound /;
caulihower. $3.50 per dozen; celery.
s4.50M5 per crate: eucumbers, si.75
H2.Z5 per box: eggplant, lie per
pound; lettuce, slMi.25 per box; par
sley, soc per dozen; peas. zoe per
pound; peppers, i5M20c per pound I:
pumpkins, 1eBl Ne per pound: radishes,
Doc per dozen; spinach, &c per pound I;
sprouts, Zoe per pound squash, 1mI &c
per pound; tomatoes. Sl.76M2.
Butter-City creamery, extras, 36Gf
Bic; fancy outside creamery, 321kG35e
per pound; store, 1Sm20c.
Eggs = Oregon ranch, 47km5Oc;
Eastern, 371ket40c per dozen.
Poultry - Hens. l5e per pound !:
spring, large, l4M15c; small, I6M17c I:
mixeds l4mi45zc: ducks. 10 "a zoe I;
geese, i0M1le; turkeys, lS@20c.
Veal-Extra, l0Nl0Ac per pound /:
ordinary, 7Mse; heavy, &c.
Pork-Faney, s1Se per pound; large,
lark
Mutton-e@se per pound; lambs, 8
tus%c.
Hops-i90s, choice. 75Se per pound [;
good prime, e1km7c; fair prime, ca
exc; medium, skate; 1907, 2m2 re;
1906, lfG15zc.
Wool - Eastern Oregon, average
best, 10MI4e per pound, according to
shrinkage; valley, l5M1e11e; niohair,
choice, ISag19c.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-01-21
A NTI-JAPANEsE BILLS.
Measures Before California Legsla.
ture Attract Attention.

Sacramento, CAL, Jan. is. - The
three anti-Japanese bills introduced in
the assembly by Grove l.. Johnson, OF
Sacramento, and the one by A. M.
Drew, of Fresno, prohibiting aliens
from holding land In the state, have
attracted such wide interest that the
] 900 copies Of each ordered printed
are already exhausted and there is a
demand for more.
The Johnson bills are designed to
prevent Japanese being members of
corporations; to segregate all Japan
csc by defining the limits within which
they must live. The two first named
We're introduced last session by Mr..
johnson, and action upon them was
suspended at the telegraphic request of
President Roosevelt during the diplo-
matte negotiations between the United
States and Japan over the action of
the San Francisco school board In ex-
GLIDING Japanese youths from public
schools and assigning them to the in
stitutions set aside for Mongolians. I"
The japanese claimed they were not
Mongolians, and AssembIyman John
son introduced an amendment specify
ing Japanese" in the law. 1t was
this measure to whose enactment the
president objected, and it was killed.
The bill relating to directors of cor
porations prohibits aliens from being
members Of such boards, and its pur-
pose IL to prevent competition of pow
erful Japanese concerns with Ameri-
cans.
The third johnson bill is new. 1t
gives municipalities power to pre-
scribe the limits within which s'unde-
sirable, improper and unhealthy per
sons, or persons whose practices are
dangerous to the public morals and
health Of community" shall live.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-01-21
FLAY FORESTRY POLICY.
Work Is Total Failure, Gooding Tells
Sheepmen's Convention.

Work Is Total Failure, Gooding Tells
Sheepmen's Convention.
Pocatello, Idaho, Jan. 49, One thou,
sand sheepmen attended the opening
session of the National Woolgrowers
convention in this city yesterday anc
listened to bitter arraignment of the
Federal forestry bureau by President
f. w. Gooding, of Shoshone. Declar-
ing that the government in its admin
istration of the national forests and
the reclamation service has failed woe
fully, President Gooding urged that
congress be asked to name commit
tee of Western men to intesvtigate and
report any needed changes in the rules
and regulations governing these two
bureaus.
From nearly every Western state
delegates are present. The biggest
single delegation arrived from Boise.
Idaho. 1t included Governor Brady
and number of state officials, also
about half the members of both houses
of the state legislature.
The forenoon session of the conven-
ton was devoted entirely to the mid
winter sheep show. More than 600
sheep are entered.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-01-21
READY FOR CALHOUN
Heney Thinks Trial viii Be Shorter
Than Ruef's Last

San Francisco, Jan. lS.--Patrick
Calhoun, president of the United Rail
roads. aanked by his corps OF attor-
neys. faced Judge Lawlor today at the
opening session of his trial on charge
of offering bride of Sd, 600 to Super
visor Fred r. Nicholas.
Assistant District Attorney Francis
| J. Heney, standing at the prosecution 3
desk for the first time since he was
shot down during the trial Of Abe Ruef,
began the preliminary motions OF what
promises to be the most renowned trial
in the history of California.
Twenty months have elapsed since
Calhoun was first indicted on charges
of Offering brides to the men who COM
posed the boodling board of supervis-
ors under former Mayor Schmitz.
During that time three supplemented
indictments were returned against the
traction magnate and on one Of them
he now faces the bar of justice.
The courts ban has been placed on
delays. The prosecu ion has announc-
ed that no further continuances will be
asked and the defense has profcssed
itself ready for trial for several
months. Calhoun, in his desire for
speedy hearing, has instructed his at
torneys to lay aside all technicalities s.
Attorneys predict it will take but
two weeks to secure jury and but
another two weeks to put in all the
evidence. Should this be the case, the
hearin will not equal in length the
Ruef trial, which consumed four
months.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-01-21

Boston, Jan. 10. The most extern
sive automobile storage and repair
plant in the city burned today, destroy
ing 3a8 automobiles, valued at $780,
600. The fire spread to the old train
shed Of the Park Square railroad sta
tion. formerly used as the terminal of
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad, and destroyed the bicycle
track and large pavilion used for ex-
hibition purposes. The damage to the
building will bring the total to $780,
600. There were six garages In the
storage station.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-01-21

Washington, Jan. l5.-"The time is
coming in this country when trees will
be as scarce as diamonds, unless inn
mediate steps are taken to preserve our
forests" This was the dark picture
painted in an address by Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson at the 29th annual
meeting of the American Forestry as
ISOLATION. The secretary declared our
forestry growth is getting scarcer and
scarcer and we are using three times
IS much wood as we are growing.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-01-21
No Prodigals Admitted.

Redding, CAL, Jan. 15.-Because an
applicant for citizenship papers who
has lived in Modoc county six years
and earned $35 month during that
time admitted to the court that be had
saved nothing, but wasted his sub
stance in riotous living, Judge Raker,
of Alturas, has refused to grant him
the right to become an American. The
applicant was fully qualified in every
other way, but told Judge Raker that
he had spent his earnings on liquor and
gambling, whereupon the court reject
ed his petition.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-01-21
RESUME OF THE
WEEKS DOINGS


The father Of Mrs. Corey died Ii
poverty, ignored by his daughter.
The lid has been put on In the fam
GUS mining town of Deadwood, s. d.
The Nevada Legislature has broker
It's rule and will ALLOW female clerks.
II Ia undarssooud that Taft has moi
yet selected his secretary Of treasury.
Emma Goldman has been basled out
Of the San Francisco city jail by East
ern friends.
Another blizzard is raging In the
East and all railroads are tied up In
the Dakotas.
The government arsenal near phiia-
delphia il running day and night maxi
ing cartridges.
The American Red Cross fund for
Italian earthquake sufferers has reach.
cd nearly 81. 900. 900.
Igorrotes of the head hunting tribes
raided village and succeeded In get
ting three heads before driven off.
The Federal Supreme court uphoIds
Governor Peabody's act In arrestinq
Meyer during the famous Colorado
mine war.
Roosevelt has asked Governor Gil
lett. of California, to hold up anti
Japanese bills, lest national interests
be injured.
The American consul estimates the
dead Mt Messina at 30. 900.
Hartman says college graduates 90 a
rule make good railroad men.
An anti-gambling law Is expected
to be enacted by the California legisla-
ture.
President-cleet Taft will install au-
tomobiles instead of horses and car
riages.
The house proposes to investigate
Rooseveit's barber drawing govern
ment pay.
Bonaparte has been summoned be-
fore senate committee 10 tell what
he knows of the steel merger.
The storm in California has abated.
With the exception of the Sacramento,
which IL still rising, all rivers are fall
ing.
Governor Stubs, Of Kansas, refuses
10 live in the executive mansion. Sim
Pile life on farm appeals more 10
him.
Railroad officials place the blame for
the wreck at Dotsero, Col. with the
engineer. as the train was nine min
utes ahead OF time.
Three bankers and q business man Of
Pittsburg have received penitentiary
sentences for wrecking bank. Each
will have to serve five years.
Separate statehood for New Mexico
and Arizona seems assured.
The Hughes direct primary bin in
New York will probably fail.
Three jurors have been Professionally
accepted in the Calhoun case.
Thornton Hams has been acquitted
Of completely in the Annis murder.
A fire at Fort Omaha DESTROYED all
supplies. the wireless apparatus and
two balloons
The United States and Great Britain
have entered formal protest against
the dismissal Of Yuan Shi Kai.
w. l. Buchanan, special agent of the
United States, will soon have terms Of
settlement arranged with Venezuela.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-01-21
ONE JUROR PASSED.
Difficulty of Securing TaIesmen to Tr,
United Railroads Official

San Francisco, Jan. Patrick
Calhoun, traction magnate on trial for
alleged giving of bride, adopted his
expected defense today, when Attorney
Stanley Moore, by his questioning OF
August Hansen, attempted to show
that the indictment was the result of a
plot Matched by Rudolph Spreckels to
make out case against the head of
the United Railroads. Other frag-
mentary evidence of Calhoun's scheme
of defense has been brought out in the
examination of prospective jurors,
touching on the late car strike, the
granting of immunity, and the juror s
general sentiment in the matter of
unionism.
The third day of Calhoun's trial saw
the first juror in the case temporarily
passed. He is Joseph Dixon, a sales
man for Marcus Hart, haberdasher.
He sits subject to peremptory chal-
lenge. Dixon was passed by the de-
Tense last night, and after brief ex-
animation this morning was accepteud
by the prosecution. During the exam
ination the clerk said he could try the
case thoroughly and squarely.
The juror said ne knew Abe Ruef,
but did not care to comment on his
conviction, that he favored Calhoun's
stand in the last car strike, and that
ne was at one time union man, but
withdrew because of the hours he had
to work.
Before the prosecution finished the
examination of Dixon the juror made
complaint to Judge Lawlor that an
agent had approached his wife yester-
day afternoon and questioned her in re-
gard to her husbands feeling in the
graft cases. Mrs. Dixon said the man
claimed to be real estate agent.