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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-23

Toledo October H.-The Blade today upon information said to be authentic publishes the statement that merger of the independent telephone interests of the middle west with the Bell com- rs "'-rost completed.
 The statement Is to the effect that the Aas secured options upon
 epanies which James c. Bradley of Toledo and his associates con- trol or of which they recently secured control. and that the deal Is expected to be consummated within day or two.
 This would end the war between the Bell company and it's rivals in this sec ton.
 These properties are the United States Telephone company (the independent long distance line), the Cuyahoga Telephone
 the Home Tele- phone company of Toledo. the Indianap- uhs Telephone company QocaD, and the naw long distance telephone company at Indianapolis.
 Neither confirmation nor absolute de- nial could be obtained here today. President Bradley has been in Indian apolis for several days. Clarence Brown, attorney for the Bradley independent in-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-23

are supremeiy confident of victory, and only day or two ago I saw wager made of 5000 to 5000 that Gaynor would get more votes than Barnard and Hearst together"
 When Justice Gaynor's candidacy for the New York mayoralty was first talked of the objection was interposed that he would be opposed by the Catholic church, of which he Is member There seems to be little likelihood. however of any s,sfvsi6erafic ,1oftters az fhis vote going against him..
 A Catholic paper printed in Brooklyn. and approved by Bishop O'Connor and Bishop McFaul, prints this; '1t is un- doubtedly true that some Catholics would take an adverse view of Gaynor and his nomination. But we think they are mis- taken who imagine that the great bulk of the Catholic vote would be hurled against Judge Gaynor. Nothing of the kind would take place.
 "The Catholic voter, we feel convinced, will judge Gaynor by the ancient Amer ican standard: Is he able? Is he honest? Is he true to the constitution. No one doubts his ability. No one questions his honesty There Is not a Catholic in all New York city but believes him faithful to the constitution.
 From our way of looking at things, we can see no reason, other things being equal why JdfSe Gaynor should not re- ceive the support of loyal Catholics if nominated for mayor of New York or any other high office.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-23
SIX MEN KILLED
 IN TRAIN WRECK

Richmond. Ind. October 22.-Six persons were killed in a wreck on the Panhandle division of the Pennsylvania railroad near Collinsville, O., at 4:30 D. m. today when southbound passenger train No IS ran into a freight train on an open siding. A relief train with medical aid has been sent from here to the wreck.
 The passenger train. which does not stop at Colinsville, was said to have been running at a rate of 50 miles an hour when the crash came. According to re- ports reaching here. the switch was open and the passenger and freight trains col lided head-on.
 The list of known dead are:
 D. c. Webb, Richmond, fireman on the passenger.
 O. O. Raines Knlrorno r~a mail clerk
 c. A. Jol Ha- aa p il clerk.
 Louis M, Ri onf glneer on Ssi, freight
 E. HH \ 5sia Green -ssE nd. mau clerk
 Elmer B n sasaast ,< engj- neer on DE 1eaf
 It Is said t sa rsazsraal5 s ere Killed but that s ai fr ff hs sro oling car were injui
 The force af the cliafea u-a- 20 great that the Anes demelisied The wreckage frsaiRat aa-s s4s strewn along the ciss te 5ars=af.a and mail cars were iHteaaA ana e~s sE press and smoking ci wefe isr He'd.
 Collinsvil sosi 9iIes setttheast of Richmond.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-23
DAUGHTERS ELECT
 OFFICERS FOR YEAR

Houston, Tex, October 22-With the se- lection of Little Rock. Ark, as the con- vention city in 1910 and the election of the general officers for the year, the sixth annual convention of the United Daughters of the Confectionery adjourned sine die tonight, closing the sessions in Houston an hour before midnight. The following officers were elected:
 President general, Mrs. Virginia Me- Sherry of West Virginia first vice pres ident general, Mrs. L. c. Hall of Ar kansas; second vice president general, Mrs. Nj. E. Bryan of Texas third vice president general Mrs. Thomas T. Ste vens of Georgia recording secretary gen eral Mrs. A. l.. Dowdell of Alabama corresponding secretary general Miss Childress of Louisiana. treasurer general, Mrs. C. B. Tate of Virginia: registrar general. Mrs. James B. Cant of Mis- souri: historian general, Mrs. l. Endois Robinson of Virginia; custodian of cross of honor. Mrs. L. H. Raines of Geor- gia; custodian of flags. Mrs F. A. Walk of Virginia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-23
GIVES ADVICE TO
 BLIND STUDENTS

Boston, October 22.-"Ask no quarter and ask no favor" was the advice which United States Senator Thomas F. Gore the blind statesman of Oklahoma, gave to the pupils of the Perkins blind instl- tuition in an address today.
 "When you go out into the Worid' he said. you will find that struggle for existence is fierce. Qualify yourselves Tor this battle and fight 1t honorably.'
 Senator Gore was warmly applauded by several hundred blind boys and girls
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-23

picturesque figures in the political history of Greater New York. No leader was ever more roundly condemned, yet at the close of 61 years of his life he was prob ably the most strongly entrenched leader in New York state, and had even wielded some influence in national politics
 Physically Senator McCarren was very tall and lank. His face was almost funereal when in repose. In manner ne was courteous and generous of attention, but niggardly of speech. The qualities which, in the opinion of his friends, con tribut most to his success in politics. were keenness. tenacity of purpose. per sonal fidelity, perfect self-control and pa tienoe He was sometimes called a hard man. devoid of sentiment.
 'I had a romance once," he said to & close friend. When l was young man I fell in love with a girl and We were married. We lived very happily. We had five children. When l was 3l had buried my wife and five children
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-23
COOL2B WAITER TO FOLLOW STORM

Washing # 3esap. 8 ltered in it's intensity s' iff ho. g storm of well denne nce5n ,anied by strong vii alana f1r sfs east to- night, acct stinl l4 tr1f f Cox the forecaster st te lnitsd s3ass. weather. bureau he eisth ham vill sweep across the a'sy as .sa leave in its patn tit W be dan gerous for sH HoalnH ln AAa4 Ia so,th ern Michie efa Huron form sir- nals have eet alsriH Lf those re gions.
 fhe tem s0rHs e tonight is very hi and is aawf sA4t n in otb CT portion of sa saetH
 The stor VIII Hpi sast soutb ax- cept possi Y 70 owe- s,lperature It will be omrsrati9e sssss., in Ten nessee ovt ttuorraw g. 5av
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-23
Cleared for Nicaraaua.

New Orleans, October 22.-I'pon receipt of authority from Washington by the col lector of customs here late today to issue clearances to vessels for Atlantic ports of Nicaragua. declared closed by Presi- dent Zelaya, the steamship Dictator of the Bluefields Steamship company is tonight being loaded with general cargo of sup plies and will sail for Bluefelds al noon tomorrow. Every safeguard has been adopted to prevent the shipment of muni- tions of war on the vessel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-23
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 Allan f HhSE sNA Atlantic fighi aE eH4rt rIR N of way betv a s.eSfaa. md Hessemer Eryto iilers dur ing haat
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-23
Nor pasife :.

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 NeW iol e nnual re- Por' or -Netsi'''H faa Railway company sF tae ysat alrs June 30 last shows total uraa trsa favenue of $oo' o'4oo,f4i, tn es .a previous year or sz lses were $5S,VO'oo4, es-t s1 The net income W 3Laa,35n ee se of s1 . 276,232
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-23
Plans for lrrioatIon Dam.

Fl Paso. Tex October 22.-The United States reclamation service has ordered the attorney general of New Mexico to con- demn the land necessary for the Ele- phant- Butte dam, which is to irrigate 225, 900 acres above ana below Fl Paso Papers will he filed at once and as soon as the land is securen the work can be carried on.
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-08-14

This paper wants items for publication. It wants small gossip of the clean It would like to print every day in the community that you talk about with your neghbors Great events only incl dents that happen but few and then only life time It is the small things that fill up the of stence and the telling of them pictures life it s there marriage in your home tell about before the honeymoon is with A news item does not improve with age like hooch In order make it interesting the notice of birth should before the child has assumed whskers rat" as the case may be- If you have birthday party let know that your friends who were invited may hear about it and comment your uncertain age. When your friends gather and you show them your post cards and the family album and you fill them up layer cake and chicory the incident is not thrilling nor unusual others like read about it and you it duty to the community to keep them in. formed. Do not wait until you get in jail to have your appear in print Now is the time before your sins have found you out.
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-08-14

special services the same as any other person who is employed under con- tract. The attorney general asked my permission and was granted it to make my connection with the government clear, and copies were furnished the Calhoun people and others, showing itemized accounts of services under contracts as special prosecutor. There is no excuse for any individual com pany or newspaper not setting this matter right, and understanding it. Every attorney knows. moreover, that even supposing drew salary as a government employe and special prose- cutor at the same time, and indict- ment were returned against parties, it would not make a particle of differ euce in their cases. The Calhoun peo- pie are simply trying to throw dust in the peoples eyes when they state any thing different.
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-08-14

silver coinage coming for discus devote considerable time examination of the subject and suggest plans by which general of the white the coinage systems of the world They present intention of opening the sixteen ag which the country excited dozen but they will work toward considerations of its claims usage money metal Magazine writers again touch subject tmd and several writers in mining pub
 boldly with schemes for the reinstatement basic metal The subject has been tabooe several and those who honestly believed in unlimited coinage eectuay queched by majority opinion to the contrary that they have not had the to make on the subject
 A suggestion has been made in the Mining and Scentfc that the United States resume the coinage of silver collect all duties in gold place prohbory import duty with Mexico Peru and Bolivia likewise Another writer thinks the situation under those controlled entirely But he foresees the diff cuy getting congress- which busy in arranging the tariff oothpicks important subject His conclu the country will to the coinage of silver rapidly approaching the point where the free coinage such quantities the world that its purchasing declining money absolutely devoid of intrinsic value and based wholly the goal toward which civilization swiftly and inevitably tending
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-08-14

The that mines double its force and night will be received with pleasure by all the be- levers this district There time when things brighter right Today when other sending their unemployed of the country provd able bodied this district of employment who wants work There many people and the city does present busng appearance because the fisheries and mills getting his three dollars day The prospecors searching the hills for gold copper and the agents drop every get line the wealth that the mining world is learning Men of experience here and marvel that the country further developed Today successful mining ketch visit of curiosity and remain beyond their time limit simply because of the revelation of
 mining possibilities which this presented them
 The of earlier mining has been haphazard Now the skilled miner going down after the deposits in cen tefc and he is finding them every time.
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-08-14

Francis ]. Heney, graft prosecutor, when asked recently about the report from Washington, which stated that the had received s23, GOO from the gov ernmept last year and altogether s69, : GO replied that he had not received 6 cent of money from the government for salary.
 ''I have explained the matter so often to the press," he said that there should pc no misunderstanding on that score. l never received a sal ary in my life from the government What did receive was money for
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-08-14

An order has been issued forbiddng the practice of using grapnels gs for taking fish in Ketchkan river and from humanitarian point of view is of the best orders that have been issued by anyone connected with the fish supervision The process extremely cruel and unsportsmanlike. By it the salmon hooked in the body and in their struggles to get away huge gashes made through which the blood spurted in streams If all the fish thus wounded taken and killed, might be had for continuing the practice but eighty per of them get away only to suffer and slowly de
 The humanitarian instinct ought to be sufficiently de- veoped in mankind So that such laws need be sary person who inict torures upon the helpless who listen the tremuous vail of starving cat the almost human expression in the of beaten dog without feeling that is something of himself that is be- ag tortured something of himself that is being starved and beaten not far removed from the wild beast and yet has long travel before he reaches that perfect hood which is created in the image and likeness of God
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-08-14
Torn and Mangled
 By Cinnamon Bear

Captain W. H. Roydon of the hali. but schooner Wabash came into port this morning from Seattle. He is or his way north to get in readiness for the season's catch.
 MT. Roydon is gentleman who excites more interest wherever he goes than does the governor. It was he who had the famous encounter with q huge cinnamon bear on Admiralty island g year ago. The bear attacked him in the woods about four miles from camp and Mir. RoydOn's gun failing to work he was soon at the mercy of the beast. She struck him
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-08-14

Today the Alaska eating sourdough pancakes and
 fried salmon Seattle They doing with appetite and
 ceerfuness which might surprise of their husbands who remember the warfare these gentle when they up here. Then they wanted right back Now they posing high grade mushers with the red blood Of their chns When the prpo cabin they the arpuln table cloth because it stained with ham fat and tobacker the dear little dreamed that they would day be pamng themselves of thoroughbeds making outsiders believe they liked the Perhaps they did like it. Liked it better than they knew tramped hs urged the gambling fever of hope the expectancy of wealth. the trobbDg instinct of discovery awakens pusaton Of the blood thrill
 throb of beside which the orrnates of society like touch of death The things that humanity diversion pals Natures alone Dances The brook babbes with increasing oveness Theaers for night The entertain always These will angels curtains life;
 freedom of action and liberty of mind These found only artifciaty has They will back stained tpun and the bacon the land that makes where they felt the calm of solitude and the heahful vgor that passeh understandings back to Alaska
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-08-14

The recent reforms introduced by the New York Metal exchange brought about largely by the threatening lan- gusge of the Governor Hughes com. mission. appointed to investigate Walls street specU Ulasion, have excited a good deal of discussion as 10 the establishment Of a central market place in the United States for the making of prices on he metals, more particularly the price of copper. Com modity exchanges already exist, espec- iaIly in the grain trade, and it has been argued that 1t would be bene6c- iaI to the copper trade if a similar market place ezhisited here. London metal brokers are far more infuen- Itial than those on this side of the water, notwithstanding America pro- doces the bulk of the worlds copper.
 
 It is also interesting to note that the price of silver is made in London, not HithstandiDg the western hemisphere is sbe chief source of this matel.
 One reason why copper brokerage is not thriving and influential business in America IS perhaps the high degree of ntraIization prevailing in the Iro- duction of the red metal in this coun- try. The large producers are not only few in number, but closely allied, both among themselves and with the market agencies. Consumers do not go into any broad and open market to
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-08-14

The Mining aud Scientific Press prints this about the ketchikan dis trict in it's last issue.
 The IL mine is shipping 800 tons of copper-gold ore per month which nets s20 per ton. There are 200, 000 tons of ore blocked out in the mine. gravity tram and railroad have been constructed from the Goodroe mine to the harbor at karsa bay. The ore is bornite ard chalcopyrite carrying from s2 to B gold per ton of limestone contact. ct.-The latest discovery in this district is 3-fs. vein of galena that can be traced for lO00-ft. on the surface. There is some silver associ- ated with the ad.-M D. lckes and ". L. Poison are developing vein of laad-copper-gold ore at Aallard bay. 4 cross-cUt al depth of 3 1t. cut a : fs. vein of good shipping ore.-The Victory Copper Mining Co.,, operating F miles southeast of Ketchikan are driving an 1lOO-ft. cross-cut adit which is in DOW 6O0 fl. Three, veins have been intersected. Patrick Heany is in charge of ths work.
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-08-14

and tore off half his ear and then followed by tearing his flesh and biting him until she left him for dead.
 He recovered and attempted to reach his gun when the bear heard him and returned to the attack, biting through tne muscles of his leg and breaking his shoulder bone. For twenty four hours the bear with two cubs kept the man there before she left.
 Royden, unable to walk, had to crawl four miles over stones and fallen trees back to his camp. For three days and nights the wounded mar crept on. No food, no shelter and snow falling part of the time.
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-08-14

Rumors of consultations of copper properties are heard on all sides. The advantages Of union of the Utah Copper and Boston Consolidated are being debated at Salt Lake, while the British Columbia Copper and the Dominion Copper companies are also coquetting, says the Mining and Sci entifc Press. Since the LewIson interests secured control of the Brit ish Columbia there is already some community of interest between these two Canadian companies. Both consol- idations have much to commend them and seem likely to be brought about now or later.
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-08-14

has adjourned Dear, old cobwebbed finishing the nothing it started has at last got through with For than four months has kept all holding breahs fear might be tackled onto and thus destroy the buger cheese industry Aye for nearly half year business has been held and sand bagged until could be determined whether axle should be classified under schedule which includes dairy products U where the Fifty Seven Varieties under the plr food laws of June 30 1905 After all the fuss and lobbying and wind tanning and baseball there change enough make pcayunes difference to any of
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-08-14
Competition Lowers
 Price of Copper

Hiram ". Hixson in the Engi neer- ing and Mining Journal has the follow. ing article on the selling of copper.
 "When there is large number of producers all trying to sell their cop per independently of each other, it results in competition and price cut ting and wider huctuation of prices than when the copper is marketed by fewer sellers.
 This tendency to have common sell ing agents has been delevoped to a point of practical monopoly by agree ment among the several agents, and for some time past the metal quota tiops on the Yew York market have been simply the price at which the agents agree to sell.
 Signs of frictions ard disagreement have recently become apparent, and the announced intention of Amalga- mated to enter the field of the Amer lcan Smelling and Refining Company indicates that it is war 10 the knife over the selling of the copper pro- duced by the Smelling Company and it's allied mining companies. Appar- ently the 4 malgamated, through it's selling agents, wishes to be able at any time to advance or break the price O i copper for the sake of the effect it might have on the price of copper shares
 Since the Smelling company is rap- idly becom ing a large producer of cop- per, it threatens the supremacy of Amalgamated in that respect. This ID ay or may not be the motive behind the International Smelling Company, but any person who is up on the his tory of the American Smelling and Refining Company knows that it has only recently dismantled several plants in the West and also that there are more plants than there is ore to smelt. It is quite evident that the business is not so fourishipg that new con- petitor is going to have rosy time of it.
 No one has yet written a book to prove taht the Amalgamated people are lot of frenzied philanthropists, and it is not doing justice to their business ability to think that they would be content with beggarly 2 per cent. in dividends on the stock when they might rig the market by manipulating the price of copper and the shares so as to sell the shares when the price of copper is high and buy when they have put the price of copper down few points.
 I should like to know what sort of chance the tendefoot mine investor would have against such com bina- tion as that. No more than an oyster would have against dredge. Any security or stock in any company that depends upon the mining and smelting of ores for it's income is bound to be highly speculative.
 The cyanide process has cut the heart out of the smelting business by taking away the margin on silicious ores and the price of silver is so low that the production of ores has greatly diminished. AS result of these condi- tions it is difficult to see how two smelter trusts are going to make living unless they divide the atom and pay dividends in electrons.
The Ketchikan miner., 1909-08-14

Fever came on and he licked up the snow from the leaves and deleriously crawled on. When he reached camp he was a maniac and could only bab-
 hle.
 They took him to Juneau and he partly recovered and was sent to a Seattle hospital. There are seventy
 distinct scars on his body made by the teeth and claws of the beast, but with the exception of constant pain and difficulty in the free use of his right leg he has fully recovered. Mir. Roydon is going back up there
 to catch halibut and kill bear. He
 has the latest pattern of high pressure
 guns and intends to kill off everything that looks like bear that he can iiu1.