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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
NEW ORLEANS ROARS
WELCOME TO taft
The Deep Waterways Convention
Opens with the President
as HeadIiner.
OTHER BIG ONES ARE PRESENT
Hundred Thousand People Cheer
When the Little Oleander Arrives
-Athenaeum Is Packed.

To the roar of guns from the war
ships at anchor in midstream, saluted
by the deafening shrieks of sirens, the
changing of bells and the shrill cheers
of one hundred enthusiastic citizens
who lined the banks of the Mississippi,
President Taft arrived at New Orleans
shortly after noon Saturday, bringing
TO a successful conclusion his long trip
down the river from st. Louis. II
was a reception well worthy of the
big President and that he enjoyed it
was very evident.
Standing on the bridge of the trim
and speedy little Oleander, marked
among the group of his personal en-
tourage by his immense size, clad in
the now familiar silk hat and frock
coat, he bowed and smiled happily at
the enthusiasm of the throng. turning
now and then to whisper to one of his
party. AS the salute guns of the bat
tleship Mississippi ceased splitting out
their noisy greeting. and while Cap
tain Marshall, in command OF the
squadron, stood on the bridge, the
Oleander rounded to and crept up to
the wharf at the foot of Canal street.
Plenty of water here, Mr.. Presi-
dent" remarked the pilot, I'VE have
now nearly two hundred feet beneath
u.s." A moment later the reception
committee was on board and the Pres
ident was escorted to the landing.
The delay in the arrival of Presi-
dent Taft, which also delayed the
starting of the parade, postponed the
opening session of the lakes-to-the-
gulf deep waterways convention. But
as soon as President Werlein's gavel
fell the prearranged program moved
with celebrity. Following Mayor Behr-
mans address of welcome, William K
Kavanaugh, president of the water
ways association, delivered his annual
address Immediately following came
the appointment of committees, the
address of the secretary, F. w. Saun-
ders, and the introduction of resolu-
lions, followed by an adjournment un-
til the afternoon, when Mr.. Taft ad-
dressed the convention.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
CRAFT OF PRESIDENT
TAFT IS BEH|NOHAND
Gets an Object Lesson on the
Difficulties of Navigating
the Mississippi.
IS WELCOMED AT vICKSBURG
Other Officials Take to Railroad and
Beat Chief Executive to
Mississippi City.

President Taft and his party moved
on Vicksburg, Miss. Thursday by land
and water. The executive steamed in
at night several hours behind time
and found that his escort of Cover
nors, Senators and Congressman had
beaten him in by the base ruse of TAX
ing to the railroad.
When the 0leander whistled for the
Yazoo Canal it was $50 o'clock at
night, but as the President alighted
from the vessel half an hour later he
found the steep streets of Vicksburg
lined with people who had been wait
ing since early afternoon. Mr.. Taft
made brief speech, in which he did
not touch on water ways, and then
went to the public dinner which had
been waiting for three hours. The
President left On the Oleander at
1885 p. m. for Natchez.
When the sailing orders were chang
ed the previous night and each boat
was told to steam along as fast as it
could, the days of steamboat racing
on the Mississippi were suddenly re-
yived. Each captain tried to crowd as
much out of his boiler as he could,
and the sparks spouted from the
stacks as the boats flew along. The
state fish boat Illinois, commanded by
Captain Nat Cohen, showed a clean
pair of heels to the others and easily
followed close astern of the Oleander.
the Presidents craft.
When the Governors and other dig
nltaries woke up Thursday morning
and peeked over the rail they discov-
cred that they were left hopelessly be-
hind. 1t looked as if they would reach
Vicksburg long after the President
had left the town. There was much
roaring. Officers of the Lakes-to-the-
Gulf Deep Water Way Association and
of the Business Mems League of ST.
Louis, under whose auspices the river
trip is being given, came forward with
explanations that they were not re
sponsible for the change in sailing or
ders
In order that the Governors and
otner nonored guests might not be de-
prived of the trip over the battlefield
and through the national cemetery,
which had been looked forward to as
one of the big features of the voyage,
President Smith of the Business Mems
League sent the steamer Alton ahead
to Greenville to charter a special
train. Shortly after noon the boats
that had been left at the post drew
up ct the rivers edge at Greenville
and disgorged more celebrities than
that city had even seen before.
While the difficulties of getting to
Vicksburg appeared to chase water
way talk to the woods for the time
being they have given the travellers
an excellent object lesson of the trou-
bles in navigating the Mississippi in
its present unimproved condition. 1t
took the Presidents boat, the Olean-
der, one of the fastest on the river,
over twice as long to get from Green
vile by river as it did the others by
train, and at that the train did not
fuse the rails by its speed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
AS IT COMES TO US FROM ALL
CORNERS OF THE EARTH.
Telegraphic Information Gathered
by the Few for the Enlightenment
Of the Many.
Say Peary Found Pole.

A dispatch from Washington, d. c.,
states Commander Robert E. Peary
practically was Endorsed as a discover
er of the north pole by the National
Geographical Society. Every indication
points to the fact that Peary's per-
sonal statements before the sub-com-
mittee OF the society convinced its
members that he had set foot on the
top of the world. The explorer has
been invited to deliver the first of his
public lectures before the society there
on November u, and it was pointed
out that had the proofs been open to
the slightest question he never would
have been asked to appear. 1t was
announced at the home of Rear Admit
raj c. H. Chester. retired, that a pub
lie statement of the findings of the so
ciety would probably be forthcoming
In the near future.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04

Judge Pritchard. at Asheville, N. c.,
signed the final decree terminating the
receiverShip of the Seaboard Air Line
Railway and the delivery of the prop
erty in accordance with the plan of
reorganization.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has pur-
chased a fifty -acre farm near Bacon.
Del, which is to be worked as an ex-
pertinent station, the object being to
demonstrate what may be done by
scientific farming in that section of
Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.
Four great American railroad sys-
TENS have reported their operations for
whole year without single passen-
ger killed. These were the Pennsyl-
vania. the Burlington, the Northwest
ern and the Santa Fe. During the
year ended June 80, these systems car
ried 100,000,000 passengers. The one
most important factor contributing to
this result in addition to the latest
safety devices, is the enforcement of
rigid discipline All devices depend at
some point on the faithfulness of an
employee.
The Alaska Central Railroad was
sold recently under foreclosure by
United States Marshal Sullivan of
Spokane for 100000 to F. G. Jemmett,
the only bidder. This means that the
road has passed under control of an
Eastern syndicate for which j. p. Nor
gan & Co. are agents.
The report of the Erie Railroad
Company shows a decrease of 10 per
cent in the ratio of operating expenses
to revenues. This had left the COM
pany with surplus of s2.565,O0O, as
compared with a deficit of s2,199,OOO
the wear before. The gross earnings
were S5O.441 900 and the operating ex-
penses were $4,000 900.
report for last year is one of the best
the road has ever issued The total
gross earnings were s7,494,354, the op-
Grating expenses being $5,094,5O7
The Great Northern Railway has put
into operation it's announced daily mail
and express train on a schedule which
will cut eleven hours off the former
running time between St. Paul and
Seattle, and will make it possible to
deliver mail from the East in Puget
Sound cities twenty -four hours earlier
II is now the fastest long distance
train in the world. 1t covers the 1,S14
miles from ST Paul to Seattle in forty
eight hours of actual running time.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
CHICAGO.

The weekly review of Chicago trade,
published by r. @. Dun Co.. says;
Favorable developments are sustained
In the flow of new demands for raw
and finished products, and in the high
aggregate of solvent payments through
the banks. and increasing use of money
for manufacturing and mercantile pur-
poses, which impart further firmness
to current discount rates. A healthy
situation in commercial credits is in
dicated by lower trading defaults. Con-
ditions generally favored wider activ-
ity, and with tie more settled weather
movements of grain. live stock. factory
outputs and general merchandise be-
came heavier. The markets for crude
materials reflect unusual absorption,
and this causes increased efforts to &C
cumulate supplies for the winter con-
sumption.
Retail trade here tnd at the interior
brOadens under seaSonable weather in
fuences and strong demand for neces-
saries. Satisfactory mail and road or
ders maintain good volume of BUSH
ness in the wholesale branches of dry
and fancy goods. holiday novelties,
footwear. clothing and food products.
Bank clearings, 1868, ,679, exceed
those of the corresponding week in
1908 by 16 per cent. and compare with
s236,701, 075 in 1907.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number 81. against IA last week;
As in 1908, and 81 in 1907. Those with
liabilities over $4,000 number 6, against
last week, 13 in 1908. and In 1907.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
FIGHT SALAM|S AGAIN
IN REVOLT IN GREECE
Government Defeats Rebels on
Scene of ThemistocIes'
Victory.
CLAIMS TO HOLD ARSENAL.
Government May Be Overthrow, but
King Georges Position Is
Thought to Be Secure.

Almost 1000 years after the day
when Themistocles gained a memora-
BILE victory over the Persians, Salamis,
Greece, again Friday was the scene OF
a naval battle.
The correspondent has just return.
ed to Athens from Scaramanga,
whence he witnessed twenty minutes
of fighting between field batteries and
big war ships on the one side, and the
mutin0uS band Of naval officers which
quilted the capital Wednesday, with
torpedo boats, on the other.
The first shots were fired soon after
4 o'clock and a sharp exchange OF
shell followed. Some of the projectiles
struck the arsenal buildings, but the
correspondent saw only one shell hit
a torpedo boat-the Sphendona-
which Immediately was enveloped in
a cloud of smoke.
During the action the torpedo boats
gradually retired, steaming backward
until they obtained the shelter of the
headland. when the firing ceased. The
rebel vessels, while the engagement
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
NEBRASKAN WINS LAND PRIZE
Choice I'm south Dakota Drawing

Choice I'm south Dakota Drawing
Goes to Butte, Neb., Farmer.
With 1920 names announced the
first day Of the drawing for lands on
the Cheyenne River and Standing
Rock Indian reservations closed at
Aberdeen. S. d. Stepping out upon
the platform of the Auditorium, which
was filled with cheering. expectant
home-seekers, the little Misses Jose
phine Burke and Alice Jackson drew
the name of William Jengel. farmer,
of Butte, Neb., for No. /, and Calvin
Bowdry, negro. of Bismarck, ~ D.,
for No. 2. Jengel is entitled to select
any quarter section for his own out of
2,250.0 900 acres. He will file by April
1, 1910 The first choice may be worth
$4,000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
FOOTBALL KILLS THREE.
West Point Schedule Called Of After
Death Of Cadet.

Football caused three more deaths
Sunday in the United States, making
total of eleven for the season of 1909.
Eugene A. Byrne. the West Point ca
Diet who was injured Saturday in the
game with Harvard, succumbed early
Sunday morning. Col. Hugh l.. Scott,
superintendent of the military acad-
envy, announced that there would be
no more football at West Point this
year. The other victims were Roy
Spybuck, an Indian boy 10 years old,
playing on the second eleven of the
Haskell University, and Michael Burke
of Shenandoah, Pa, Il years old, a
player on the team of the Medico-Vhi-
rurgical College at Philadelphia. Spy
bucks injury was received in a game
at Buckner, Mo-, and he died at Kan
sas City,
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
GENERAL O. O. HOWARD DEAD.
Last of Union Commanders of Civil
War Succumbs to Heart Disease.

War Succumbs to Heart Disease.
General Oliver o. Howard, last of
the Union commanders of the Civil
War, died at his hone in Burlington,
VT, Tuesday night. Heart disease was
given as the cause of the noted SOL
dier's death. He was 80 years old.
The previous week General Howard
was in Ontario delivering his lecture
on Abraham Lincoln" His last pub
lie appearance was at London on Sun
day night. Monday he returned to his
home in Burlington and was apparent
ly in his usual good health. Tuesday
night, while sitting in a chair at his
home, he was attacked by heart dis
ease and was dead when a physician
reached the house
Including General Towards services
in the Indian wars, he was probably in
more engagements than any other Off
Ger in the United States army. Cen
eral Howard, besides having been an
able and efficient commanding OFFICER,
who had the friendship and confidence
of Lincoln, Grant, Sherman and Sheri-
dan, was known as the religious gen.
eral. He was known in European
army circles as The Havelock of
America"
In 1865 General Howard was ap-
pointed head of the Freedman's bu-
reau. various societies having been or
ganized under this name to help the
emancipated negro. He established
schools of general learning and also
Sabbath schools during the nine years
he continued at the head of the bu-
reau. He received the degree of Ii. ID.
from no less than four colleges and of
late years. since his retirement, has
written many books. He was also a
writer of magazine articles on mill
tary subjects and addressed many re-
ligiOuS meetings
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
GAMBLERS HURL TWO BOMBS.

More Spectacular Outrages in Chi
cago's Long Series Arouse City.
Bombs No 33 and No. "a, fired with
in twenty minutes of each other,
wrecked two buildings in the loop dis
trict of Chicago Sunday night, caused
nearly $4,000 damage, frightened hun
dreds of citizens and served notice on
the people of Chicago that, in the face
of the oft-repeated denials of the po-
lice, open gambling is still going on in
the city. The two cases Sunday night
left no chance for the police to ascriDe
the outrages to anything but a gam
blers' war. Each of the places blown
up sheltered gambling establishments.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
SEER ANTICIPATES CONFESSION
KANSAS Man Tells of Triple Murder
as Strange Letter Is Received.

KANSAS Man Tells of Triple Murder
as Strange Letter Is Received.
While James Mcmahon was sitting
in the sheriffs Office at Kansas City,
Kan, telling how he murdered his two
sisters and his brother-in-law the pre-
gious week, letter was delivered to
the county prosecutor which advanced
the theory that Mcmahon was the
slayer The letter was dated Oct %
and signed l.. w. Chelley, Frankfort,
Kan. 1t gave nearly the exact details
confessed by Mcmahon. Several of
the officers assert it is an example OF
clairvoyance. In his confession James
Mcmahon exonerated Patrick McMa-
hon. Joseph Taggart, prosecuting at
torney of Wyandotte County, said that
charges would be placed only against
James.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
.k%Rg1j0lza/

Chicago-Cattle. common to prime.
$500 to 1910; hogs. prime heavy, $3.50
to $500; sheep. fair to choice, s4.e5
to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, s1.1S to s1.20;
corn. No. 2, sec to Gle; oats. standard,
SIC to 39c; rye. No. 2. 72c to 73c; hay,
timothy, $500 to s14.5O; prairie. $500
to $500; butter, choice creamery, &c
to SOC; eggs. fresh, &c to 26c; pota-
toes. per bushel, 40c to 4Sc.
napolis-Cattle, shipping $500
to $3.50; hogs. good to choice heavy.
$3.50 to s7.95; sheep, good to choice,
$3.50 to S4.25; wheat, No. 2. s115 to
SLIT; corn, No. 2 white, SIC to 5sc;
oats. No. white, 39c to 40c
st. Louis-Cattle. $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to s7.S7: sheep. $500 to
s4.25; wheat. No. .. s12O to s124:
corn, No. 2, Coo TO Gle; oats, No. 2,
CSC to Sec: rye. No. 2. 74c to 7ec.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $500 to $3.50;
hogs. $500 to s7.S5; sheep. $500 to
$500; wheat. No. ?, s122 to SLIPS;
corn, No. mixed. Gle to 62c; oats,
No. 2 mixed, Ale 20 42c; rye, No. 2,
nc TO 7Sc.
Detroit-Cattle. $500 to $3.50; hogs,
$500 to s7.65: sheep. $3.50 to $500:
wheat No. 2. $1.22 to S1.23; corn. No.
2 yellow, CSC to, 64c; oats. standard,
40c to 42c; rye No. /. 75c to nc.
Milwaukee-Wheat. No northern.
s1.O5 to s1.OS; corn, No. 3. SIC to sec;
oats. standard. 4Oc to 42c; rye. No 1.
73c to 74c; barley, standard, &C to
&c; pork. mess. s23.75.
Buffalo = Cattle. choice shipping
steers. $500 to $500; hogs. fair to
choice. $500 to $500; sheep. common
to good mixed, $500 to $3.50: lambs.
fair to choice, $500 to s7.25.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed. s1.21
to s1.23; corn, No. mixed, &c to
63c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 40c to 42c;
rye. No. 2, 75c to nc; clover seed,
$500.
New York--Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs. $500 to $500: sheep, $500 to
s4.25; wheat, No. red, s1.21 to s12s;
corn, No. 2, Csc to 69c; oats, natural,
white, 43c to &c; butter. creamery,
&c to sic; eggs. western, &c to
CSC.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
leaped to Her Death.

Believing that the automobile in
which she was riding with her nus
band in Chicago was about to collide
with a rapidly moving taxicab, Mrs.
Mary Blake jumped to the pavement
and was run over and killed by the
wheels of the taxicab. Mr.. Blake avoid
ed the collision by a quick turn to the
side of the street. Before she made
the fatal plunge Mrs. Blake threw her
baby boy who was in her arms to the
side of the street and tne little one
escaped injury.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04

removed James Mcmahon, the con-
fessed slayer of his two sisters and
brother-in-law, from the county jail in
Kansas City, Kan, to the city Jail on
the Missouri side. Patrick Mcmahon
accompanied his brother and remained
at police headquarters in Kansas City.
Mo-, all night. Patrick was told he
might have his liberty, but he said he
preferred to remain under police pro-
lection for a while.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
LOSES THREE CHILDREN AT ONCE
wyoming Mother Find. Snake KILL

Wyoming Mother Finds Snake KILL
ing Two-Baby Falls Into Well.
Distracted over the death of her
three small children in one day. Mrs.
Lent Henderson, of Sundance, is I'M
der the constant care of physicians.
While Mrs. Henderson was in the yard
with the baby Sunday she heard the
two older children scream, and, rush
ing into the house, she found that
both had been bitten by rattlesnake.
faint cry from the baby. Answering
this she saw the child fall into a well
and drown. The other children died
from the effects of the reptiles poison.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
Dig. Mothers Grave, Faints.

Richard Swineford. aged II, collaps-
ed at the grave OF his mother, Mrs.
Octavis Swineford, in Colorado
Springs, while filling the grave that
contained her body. He dug the grave,
being without money to pay for the
work Mrs. Swineford. who came from
Owosso, Mich. died of tuberculosis.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
LEAVES FORTUNE TO AID POOR.

Caroline PheIps-SfOl<es Gives Bulk of
$5,OOO,OOO Estate to Poor.
Caroline Phelps-Stokes, who died on
Aug. 26 last at Redlands. CAL, left
the bulk of her big fortune for the
building of model tenements in New
York City. Her will, giving sums
ranging in the thousands to her rela-
tives and the residue of her $4,000, 900
estate to the cause of better homes for
the poor and the education of negroes
and Indians in the United States was
fled with the surrogate in New York.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
$4,000 Fire at Cromwell, Indiana.

Fire of mysterious origin, which
broke out in Cromwell, Ind, caused
losses to the amount of $4,000 and
laid the entire east side of Main street
a total ruin. The fire started in Chas
Slaybach's general store. The city has
no system of fire fighting and the cit
liens, seeing that the building already
on fire could not be saved, turned their
attentions toward saving adjoining
buildings. The fire badly crippled tele
phone service and all direct commune
cation has been cut of.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
More Trouble for srandenburq.

Broughton Brandenburg, the maya
zine writer, acquitted in New York
City not long ago OF selling to the New
York Times a spurious article credited
to Grover Cleveland, was hauled into
court again by his wife, charged with
abandonment and non-support He
was held in $500 bail. Brandenburg
said that he was anxious to return tc
St. Louis, where charges are pending
against him for enticing away his STEP
SON
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
ALL LAND APPLICATIONS IN

Total Number Received Reported
from Aberdeen to BE s1,456.
The last of the letters sent by land
seekers in the Cheyenne River and
Standing Rock reservations have
reached Judge White in Aberdeen,
s. D. All the 81 LASS letters received
are stored in great black iron cans.
Following are the final figures for the
registration: Aberdeen, 55,364; Bis
marck, 10.106; Lebeau, 1923; Lem
mon. 2,606; Mobridge, 2.C64; Pierre.
$3.50. Grand total, S1,456.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
Disastrous Blaze in Cincinnati.

FLAMES which threatened the de-
struction of many stables at Latonia
race track, Cincinnati. Ohio, ragged for
an hour. The elevators of the Cincin-
natl Grain Company adjoining the race
track were destroyed, entailing loss
estimated at 100000. The stables at
Latonia were filed with dozens of
horses brought there by the fall meet.
ing now in progress. and all of the
available fire apparatus of the Coving-
ton (Ky.) department was brought into
use in fighting the blaze
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
Robbers Shoot Marshal.

the general merchandise store of Brad
shaw Brothers at Lenexa, Kan, twelve
miles west of Kansas City. shot and
mortally wounded w. ID. Haskin, the
town marshal, after an exchange of
shots. One of the robbers was also
shot, but all four escaped.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
Masked Men Hold Up STAGE.

Two masked highwaymen held up
the Cariboo stage at Northumberland
fifty-mile House in Cariboo, b. c., and
stole several sacks of registered mail.
1t is believed they obtained four or five
thousand dollars. The robbers were
armed with rifles and met with no re-
sistance from driver or passengers.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04

The treasurer of a circus which
showed in Pine Bluff, Ark, recently,
was found, bound and gagged in his
private coach of a circus train on the
way from that city to Fordyce, Ark,
and claimed he was robbed of $4,000.
The robbery is said to have occurred
just after the train left Rison.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-04
S457,OOO SHORTAGE IN BANK.
REGULATIONS of Wisconsin Financiers
Grow Under Investigation.

Every conceivable form of irregu-
larity has been turned up" is the way
treasury officials describe the develop
ments in the investigation of the Min
eral Point, Wis, First National Bank,
which closed it's doors Oct. II.
The reports reaching the Office Of
the comptroller of the currency in
Washington continue to increase the
amount involved, and to show the re-
markable nature of the transactions
that led up to the placing of the in
stitution in the hands of Receiver
Schofield.
The latest information is that the
loss from forged paper and embezzle-
ment reaches s457, 900. There were
many deposits made that were never
entered on the books of the bank, 1t
is alleged.