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The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1909-09-24
LIST OF CENSUS ENUMERAToRs
Estimate Of the Number for Each State
Next Year.

About $4,000 enumerators win be
needed for the thirteenth deeennial
census Of the United States, and also of
Hawaii and Porto Rico, according to es-
Inmates prepared for Census Director
Durand by Geographer Chas. s. Sloane
Of the census bureau, in whose division
the enumerators' districts are defined
and fixed. This IS an increase of about
1000 over the number of schedule
carriers in the census of 1900.
Director Durand points out that the
per diem enumerators in 1900, accord
ing to the provisions of section 16 of
the act approved March 3, 1899, were
required to work ten hours q day, but,
in the act providing for the thirteenth
and subsequent decennial censuses the
time is fixed at eight hours a day. This
reduction in the daily hours will re-
quire an additional number of enumer-
atOrs in the portions of the country in
which the per diem rates will prevail.
The present census law requires that
the enumeration of the population shall
be taken as of the fifteenth day of
April, 1910, and the enumerators must
forward their returns to the super
visors within thirty days from the COM
mencement of the enumeration, except
in any city having 5000 inhabi-
tants or more at the preceding census
enumeration shall be completed
two weeks.
In looking into the details of the
estimates, Oklahoma and Washington
IRE conspicuous, as they will call for
bout a 300 per cent increase over the
900 force of enumerators.
Washington 397 in 1900 completed
he work in II days. 1t is estimated
hat in 1910 it will require at least 900 !
o%unters, owing to the great increase
4 its population.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1909-09-24
APPRAIsE HARTMAN ESTATE.
Few Multi Millionaires Have Left En-
tire Fortune to Wife.

Mrs. Edward H. Hartman, who, by
the terms of her husband g will, prob.
ably becomes the world IS richest won.
an, is expected to ask for an official
appraiSement of the fnancier's estate
within two weeks. Until this appraise-
ment is made, nothing definite will be
known as to the amount of wealth &C.
eumulated by Hartman, but in Wall
street 1T is the common opinion that
1T will be close to OO,OOO,O 900.
Among women who have inherited
most of their husband s estates NAV
be mentioned Mrs. Russell Sage, who
received practically all of Mr.. Sage's
fortune of $64, 900, 900; Mrs. William X.
Thaw, who inherited more than 80.
0 100000, and Mrs. Morris K. Jesup. who
received $10,OOO,OOO of her husband s
$13, 100000 estate.
Women who did not share so extern
sively in their husbands estate are
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, ST., who was
gwen 100000 outright and an an.
nuity of $250,OOO out of an estate val.
ued at $125,OOO 900; Mrs. Marshall
Field, VINO received SO, 00O,O 900 as a
wedding present in lieu of dover in
in a fortune of 5000, OOO, 900.
Mrs. James Henry Smith, who re-
'eived 100000 in lieu of dover in
crest In her husband s fortune of $780,
700. 900.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1909-09-24
MONTANA NOTES.

This month has been the wettest
September ever experienced in the vir
ginia section of the state. Heavy snow
has accompanied almost daily rains
causing immense damage. Fields OF
grain in the Madison and Ruby val.
legs have been crushed to the ground
District Judge Webster of Missoula
has decided that the playing of the
card game of solo in a saloon is an
Otense against the law, even if il was
not shown that the game was for
money, chips or other articles of value.
The roundup of the remainder of the
Pablo buffalo herd on the Fathead res.
ervation, which has been purchased bv
Canada, was resumed this week bv
Michel Pablo and his IL riders. This
last spring, after weeks were spent in
a vain effort to corral the monarcbs of
the plains, dispatches announced hat
the last shipment had been made 70
Canada and that the remainder of the
herd would be presented to the United
states by the Canadian government
This was erroneous. The Canadian GOV.
m does not own the herd; il paws
Tor only those animals delivered across
the line in sound condition.
Seventy thousand acres of land near
Conrad, placed under irrigation bv a
private corporation in accordance with
the provisions of the Carey act and nm.
der the supervision of the state land
board, is about to be thrown omen 70
settlement. The land will be sold m
the settlers at so cents an acre. and
perpetual water rights, which must he
bought from the corporation irrioat.
ng the land, will cost 40 per acre. In
accordance with the Carey act. This
and can be obtained by a residence of
20 days, providing the purchaser en-.
ages some one else to build a house
nd improves at least one-eighth of his
during the two years following
ne placing of water upon the land.
This land win be distributed to pros.
settlers in the same manner as
re the government reservations-bv '
'ttery. Registration for this drawing
nj be from October 1 to 6. The draw. !
lg will begin on the following dav q
will be directly under the suner. I
sion of the Montana state land board
hese 10000 acres are a part of the
100000 acres which, under the Carey +
I, the government turned over to v
Leh state which contained semi-ari5 h
nds. I
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1909-09-24
ARE FARMERS IN GRAIN TRUST?
Coast Shippers Say Union Violates
Sherman Law.

Portland, Ore.-Evidenee is now be-
fore the interstate commits
sion, the coast grain combine and
transportation companies would have
one believe, which tends to show that
the greatest Farmers trust" in the
northwest exists in violation of the
Sherman antitrust act. This evidence
IS so strong, say corporation LAWYERS.
who represent that they succeeded in
elieiting it at the present hearing on
the Astoria grain rate case, that thew
assert it to be substantial basis for
criminal procedure against the Off.
GERS and directors of the Farmers Edu.
cational Cooperative union, one of the
complainants in the issues now before
Commissioner Clark.
These attorneys of opponents of tb.
farmers union allege that according TO
the testimony of members of the union
the organization is a secret society and
ITS purpose is to control the price, sale
disposition and movement of grain.
1t is the e~learest case of violation
of the Sherman act / ever saw com.
George T. Reid, general west
ern counsel for the Northern Pacific
one OF the defendant corporations. eff
anybody wanted to prosecute the union
| believe it could be dissolved in a min.
ate and the members punished under
ne provisions of the Sherman law
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1909-09-24
IDAHO ITEMS

Frank Adsitt of Standpoint accident
ally shot himself in the left wrist srn.
DAY on the county wagon bridga
Young Adsitt, in company with sew.
erai companions, was returning from a
hunting trip. The wound. which was
nnieted with a shotgun, tore about
three inches of the wrist bone and
sinews away. ""u
REGISTER T. Fl. Bartlett and Re-.
B. c. Barber of the Ton;.."-
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1909-09-24
Gov. johnson
Died Tuesday

Rochester, Mimi, Sept. %. - Gov
ernor John A. johnson, three times
elected governor of Minnesota and a
candidate for the democratic nomina'
tlon for president of the United States,
looked upon by many as the possible
democratic candidate in 1912, died
early Tuesday morning, following an
operation a week ago.
Governor johnson was born of Swed-
ism parents AZ years ago. But as that
nrst event took place in the little town
OF st. Peter, Mimi, he was a native
american. More than that he was the
nrst native son of Minnesota to be
governor.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1909-09-24
GETS CONTRACT, R. R. SUPPLIES
Steamboat Company win Garry Outfit
for Brewster Road.

The Columbia & okanogan Steamboat
company has entered into a contract TO
carry all the supplies and outfit TO
Brewster for A. W. Guthrie & ca.
minneapolis contractors, who have the
contract for the construction of the
Oroville-Brewster railroad.
j. c. O'Brien, foreman for the com
oany, says that the contract price is
100000 and the contract was award.
for 20 miles of road.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1909-09-24
LATE SPORTING NEWS

Seattle is first and Spokane second
the Northwestern league.
Pittsburg won the pennant in ~.
National league. 's
San Francisco leads the Pacific coos,
league. Quasi
Detroit and Philadelphia are sob.
ing hard for first place in the Amor;s..
league.
Newark, N. J.-At the velIodrom.
track here Sunday the one.miIe nrofoa
slonal national championship bicvcI.
race was won by Frank Kramer of Eost
Orange, N. j., in 3 minutes, % secondo
New Orleans.-Packy Mcfarland
and Ray Bronson fought 20 rounds 70 :
draw in McDonoughville, across tbs
river from New Orleans, Sunday after.
noon.
Fred Tenny, veteran baseball plava,
of the New York Nationals. has tol5
Manager McGraw he had PLAYED his
last game in the major league. lie then
left for his home at Winthrop biOb.
lands, near Boston. He has been in.
Jured several times this year and ia
convinced hat he is practicable
through with baseball playing.
Allen of Seattle is leading the pitch.
ers to date in the Northwestern leaoue
Frisk is still best at bat, and Peproll
is the "iron man." while Altman Is
leading the hunters and Campbell fast.
est on bases.
With the laundering hoofs of eight
painting, excited horses, eight
abreast, and the rousing cheers of the
spectators Professor Davidson and Herr
Henschell will combat for supremacy
the entire one-half-m mile track at
the Spokane Interstate fair every aft.
ernOon this week.
At the New York state fair recently
Barney Oldfeld, on a one mile circular
track, went rs miles in a gasoline stock
Ear IN 25:40. He asserts this is the
record for a stock car.
Whitman college is to have a nam.
moth stadium for the accommodation
If the crowds at the fall football
James to be played at Walla Walla.
Jack Johnson and Stanley Ketehell
AVE decided to try conclusions at the
motor racing game.
The University of Washington is
Manning to take on two post.season
'ames this year. The Iowa State col
eye team of Ames, Iowa, is negotiat-
ng for a game, and the southern Cali.
ornia university is ready to take the
huskies on after the close of
regular season.
George j. Higgins of Boston has
cen secured by the athletic committee
Oregon Agricultural college to
the boxing, wrestling and fenc-
lg teams this year.
Bowling in Spokane seems to be on
3 boom.
The work of the Palouse towns in
'ganizing the Trolley league for next
Ear is a good boost for the game.
This week the football teams will
work in earnest for the season
1909.
II. L. Wilson, the big $50 pound
exile of Whitman college last fall, is
elk with the missionaries and will be
I every night for regular practice.
The drafting season is over for Spo-
ne this year, and Manager Brown
n now figure out where he will be
lie to start next season. Holm, Kill
ny and Burnett will be taken from
, Indians by the draft route, and
egg will go to Cleveland by sale.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1909-09-24
Sovereign Grand Lodge 1. o. o. F.

The sovereign grand lodge of the In.
dependent Order of Odd Fellows of the
United States and Canada is in session
TINS week at Seattle in Odd Fellows
temple, at which $4,000 members of
the order are present, coming from
every state in the Union.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1909-09-24
OUR PRODUCTS GONE TO o,,u,-
Liner Minnesota Takes Heavv
From Seattle "sO

The Great Northern liner Minu
which recently brought from tbo oss'a'
the most valuable cargo tLo orient
crossed the Pacific, sailed for ~. ever
east Saturday with a heavy load la
eating improved trade with Asia 'Hui'
The cargo includes 100000 foo
lumber for Manila; 100000 saoLs u
Hour, most of which is for China, oO oa
bales of cotton and 23OO case, g.
canned salmon for China, as well
general merchandise. as
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1909-09-24
INTERSTATE FAIR
A GRAND SUCCESS
Exhibits Larger and Better Than Ever
While the Attendance Is Beyond
All Expectations.

Inc spokane Interstate fair opened
Monday with the largest number of ex.
hlplts IN every department on record
ana with one of the best amusement
pire. EN-
The Commercial Travellers initiated
thousands into the mysteries of their
eaillng by a parade of floats and an
industrial display, which terminated AZ
She Ialr grounds, and it was one of the
Iohgest and most interesting proeessions
seen for many years. 1t introduced AZ
original store of the Hudson Bav com-
pany, the old stage coach of the Mon
lana Bad Lands, driven by w. w TIT
Tie, former mayor of Fernie. r q ga
a veteran of the stage box; hotel lie
OF the drummer, the dining roow os
fouaiEy tavern, a country depot scene
FAMILIAR to travellers, and . s1o GOO
on5 TOO moeauty riding on a camel
costumes. !" 10
mere was a water wagon, with a life.
I. 61o squad, a kangaroo court and
90 MARIA for prisoners. scores
- Roman chariots, wild ami.
@ ~ cages, and the entire eouin.
nrIi . farker's Circus
wn5eh is exhibiting in Fun Lane. as t5e
named this year. mas Oeen
Inc parade wound up with nearly 9oo
ioats n automobiles, representing al
mes of trade in Spokane. al
Inc afternoon at the fair grounds
vas gwen over to sports for the cbiI
rem ana to pacing and running races
.nu a nne vaudeville program. Tbero
vas also a thrilling four horse Romap
marriott race of One-half mile betvaam
ayidson and Henschell, and a b%aiIoon
va" lour con-
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1909-09-24
Brooms TO Cost Mnra

Two hundred dollars a ton for broom
corn is now predicted by men in the
trade. Wisconsin farmers are refusiDo
$3.50 for broom corn in the field. Buv.
ers are frantic, while the farmers are
standing pat.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1909-09-24
Livestock Exhibits

Inc attendance was large througbort
the afternoon, despite the tbrestsniUn
weather, and all the special exbibigf
nails; stalls and tents were thronno5
livestock exhibit from the Nigpa
SOFA state fair en- route to the A.Y ne
eNI ositlon at Seattle, Comprising II o.
ioads OF the finest selections from ar
nerds OF the middle west. attraot tns
Iueh attention, while the swine "a
sueep exhibits of eastern Wasb;rntnu
were declared by all as unexcelIed III
poultry show had some 500 birds in me
ana cages under a huge canvas ten.
the opening day, with bnndrnI
more on the way, and this departmeut
Was the finest ever seen. The m;na-u,
'Anloit occupies double the space of anH
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1909-09-24

Estimates have been laid before the
freewater council by G. H. Sutherland
OF Walla Walla for a system of water.
works for that city.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1909-09-24

English agricultural societies have
started a sparrow crusade. Bounties
ars paid for birds and z
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1909-09-24

Efforts to utilize the spider web for
practical purposes were made as early
as ITO in France.
The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1909-09-24

Magic lanterns were invented in the
seventeenth century.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-17
MANY Roaers and Her HANGING.
WARRANTED SOX-

Here is a good example OF what the
yellow journals did by their distorted
stories of the Mary Rogers execution
One. DR. c. T. Rowell of Stamford,
Conn, appeared recently before the
judiciary committee OF the Connect
cut legislature in favor of bill abol-
ishing the death penalty. Dr. SIAM
ford said he once was proud of COM
ing from Vermont but after he read
of the strangling of poor, degenerate
Mary Rogers at the end of rope with
three brutes of men holding the other
end so that her feet might not touch
the floor he did not pride himself upon
his ancestry. -Brattleboro Reformer
Not so fast neighbour Are you
quite sure that the information on
which Dr. Rowell formed his opinion
was the jaundiced product of sensa-
tional Journals Mary Rogers has been
long time dead and any discussion
now of the scenes surrounding her
execution may seem untimely. There
are. however, several good newspaper
men who spent some days in and
about Windsor during the week of the
execution still troubled with ranking
memories. They feel that they were
not given a square deal and that in
stead of giving all the facts the state
officials suppressed a few which the
public was entitled to know
A local man who represented lead
ing Boston paper at the hanging puts
his hand on the Bible and in a sol
emn voice says that the following the
facts. After much pickering it was
agreed that F. l.. Greene, editor of the
st. Adams Messenger, F. e. Howe,
editor of the Bennington Banner and
f. H. Clark, representative of the AS
ISOLATED Press, should represent the
80 or 40 newspaper men in Windsor at
the hanging. This committee of three
agreed among themselves in advance
that the report of the hanging to be
given to the press should be agreed
to by all and that what majority
should agree upon should be binding
upon the third man
The hanging took place on schedule
time and report of some so words
saying that the execution was success
ful and without incident was passed
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-17
AlexanderDrys &Son

out to the eXpectant newspaper men
who were waiting on the grass out
side the prison walls. The report was
at once wired to the Associated Press
and state and metropolitan dailies.
All the papers had the same story
with the exception of the Boston Am
erican On the strength of statements
made to its representative by a son of
Deputy Sheriff Kiniry of Windsor who
was present at the hanging that paper
contained a sensational account to the
effect that Mary Rogers feet touched
the floor after the trap was sprung
and that she was held up by three de-
puties until pronounced dead by the
attending physicians. This OF course
gave the Boston American scoop,
and representatives of other papers
began TO get anxious enquiries from
their home offices. The editor at home
who was handling the story of the
hanging wanted to know if the Boston
American story was true, and If true,
why the reporter had been asleep
The reporters then began to get mad
and say things, and the more they in
of them cornered up Clark, who was
one of the three newspaper men who
witnessed the hanging and he admit
ted that he refused to agree to the re-
port which was given out but explain
ed that he was bound by the agree
ment that the majority should rule.
The reporters then wired in all they
could get hold of, and the result was
lurid reports the next day which would
never have appeared if the official re-
port given out at first had given all
the details accurately.
1t is said that the facts are these
The sheriff miscalculated bit on
Mary's height and weight. When the
trap was sprung Mrs Rogers neck
was broken and the neck elongated
some. The tip of one or both feet
brushed the floor slightly. Three de-
puties were on the platform surround
ing the trap and when they noticed
this in their excitement they grasped
the rope and by muscular force held
the bordy suspended until the doctors
said that life was extinct
It is not claimed that there was any
necessity for holding the body up.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-17

The reduction in the price of fourth
class or wholesale liquor dealers IL
censes seems to have justified itself
as revenue measure. The whole
salers have sold their goods and ship
ped them here in the past without TAX
ing out a state license or through sew
eral of them clubbing together and
having one man represent many firms
and the result has been that the state
got little revenue from the wholesale
dealers. This year the wholesale IL
cense for out of the state firms has
been reduced to $500 and, in case only
malt liquors are sold to $780, The
result has been that thirteen firms
have already applied for licenses,
whereas during some past years there
have been only two or three taken
out The former price was $3.50 in
all cases.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-17

I especially among the deputy sheriffs
in charge
Two of the deputies sprang up on
the gallows TO try to shorten the rope
but the gallows provided no method.
They took hold of the rope and drew
up the body several inches, but could
find no way of hitching it there. But
even as they did so the doctors came
forward again and after an instant's
delay pronounced the woman dead.
No further effort was made to shorten
the rope and within a brief space the
body was cut down.
The incident had no actual bearing
on the execution. Some may say that
the rope should have been shorter but
on the other hand it was perhaps just
as important that the drop be as great
as possible to insure breaking the
neck of the victim as the most hui
name way of producing death. OF the
two wasn't it even better that her
toes should have scraped the floor at
the end a trihe rather than she should
have been hanged higher and left to
strangle?
Slight and unimportant as the in
cident actually was, it was used by
the sensational New York and Boston
papers and by one Vermont paper TO
make a yellow tale that was practical
ly all lie in its general effect
All this happened three years ago
last December If at this late day the
Times or any other Vermont paper
or Vermont citizen wishes to accept
and believe the account of the exc
cution of Mary Rogers as written by
the scandal mongers and sensation
sharks of the Boston American and
New York Journal in preference to
the story as told them by the repres-
entatives of the Vermont press, they
have the undGubted privilege. Far be
1t from the Banner to object
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-17

The feet did not touch enough to in
any way effect the result, and the ac-
tivity on the part of the deputies was
gratutitious The contention is that
the feet did touch the floor and that
the deputies on the platform did grab
the rope and hold the body suspended
1t is said that Messrs Greene and
Howe have never denied this and that
they will not now make denial in their
respective newspapers.
The only question that can interest
any of us at this late day is whether
on occasions of this nature the news
papers and through them the public
are entitled TO all the facts. We pre-
sumo that the Brattleboro contempor-
airy will incline to the opinion that
public officials where they give any
report should give an unvarnished
tale.-Bellows Falls Times.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-17
ELECTRIC SHOCK BY UMBRELLA
Man Tells of Getting ii When Riding
in Broadway Car.

Mount Kisco. April 17.-When Geo.
Halstead a New York business man.
and a member of the Board of Edu-
cation of this place got home from
the city. he told of strange expert
ence he had in New York last night.
He boarded a Broadway trolley car
TO go up town, as he had an engage
ment to dine with friend in a hotel.
He dropped his dripping umbrella
on the floor When he took hold of
the umbrella to pick it up he got a
severe shock and was unable to drop
the umbrella. He says he felt the
current pass up his right leg and side
and down his right arm. The tips of
the fingers of his right hand were
slightly burned The car had to be
stopped and the circuit broken before
he could pick up the umbrella and re-
sumo an upright position. He was
not hurt except for the slight burns
on the finger tips.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-17

The ladies of the w. r. c. of Ben
nington county are planning to pre-
sent the name of Mrs. Laura B. Cole
of Bennington for Department presi-
dent at the coming state convention
to be held at Burlington. Mrs Cole
has been a tower of strength to the
w. r. c. in this section and if the
state department wants an active and
progressive woman at its head there
will be no opposition to her election.
1t has been a long time since Benning-
ton county has been favored in this
way and it will be no more than fair
if the other counties fall in line for
the promotion of Mrs. Cole.