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The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-10
No Tidal Wave.

Galveston. Feb. 1O.-Panama
cables today fan to confirm the re
port that a tidal wave visited Point
LAmon. Costa Rico. Wireless efforts
from Panama TO substantiate the re-
port are frMtless.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-10
COUNTY JAILER EAKER
RECEIVERS FROM GRIP

Mr.. James w. Eaker. county jailer
has resumed his duties after two
weeks Illness with an attack of grip
and rheumatism. AS soon as Mr.. Ea-
ker returned to the jail Joe Purchase
deputy county jailer. became III Of
grip and he had to go to his home.
Mr.. Purchase Is better today.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-10

Last year heavy raises were made
in the assessment Of property In the
county. and the news that no adj
vances were made this year viii be
welcome 10 the county property
holders.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-10
Taft Nearing States

New Orleans. Feb. lO.--A wireless
from the North Carolina says the
Taft party will reach the mouth OF
the Mississippi about 10 O'Clock to
night. Fears were entertained yes
terday that the cruiser might suffer
In the severe storm which swept the
gulf.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-10
Rar 10 Knox.

Washington. Feb. lot Is pro
posed by senators today to reduce
the salary OF the secretary of state &c
$4,000. This is done to remove the
constitutional bar, preventing Knox
becoming secretary. The salary re-
Gently was increased to $1,000,
Knox voting for the increasing. THIS
bars him. n : n =
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-10
Jap Press Aroused

Toxic, Feb. 10.-The sensational
press of Japan is discussing the Gala
fornia attitude towards Japanese in
hostile terms. Even Buddha loses
patience If his face is slapped twice"
is the conclusion of one lengthy edi-
toriai.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-10
is PUERTO LnION DESTROYED?
Panama Hears Rumor of Town Over
wheImed by Tidal Wave.

Panama. Feb. 10.-There is a ru-
NOR here that Puerto Limon has been
destroyed by a tidal wave. The wire
less telegraph has been used to in
quire. but no one has been able to
find out the truth.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-10
Gregory-wcller Case.

Frankfort. Ky., Feb. 10.-Gregory
Vinegar company vs.. J. S. Weller &
company. from McCracken. is at
firmed by the appellate court.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-10

Springfield, H., Feb. TO- One
vote was taken in the senatorial con-
test this afternoon. Hopkins. 73;
Stringer. SO.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-10
Panama Canal Bill.

Washington, Feb. 1O.-The house
today passed the bill giving the presi-
dent complete control over the Pan
anna canal work.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-10
Fiemen Overcome.

New York, Feb. 10.-Nineteen fire.
men were overcome by gas escaping
from a main while fighting fire in a
tenement today. They were hauled
out OF the cellar. Physicians worked
over them and one probably will die.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-10
Ranks Blown I'm.

London, Feb. 1o.-Reports from
HAYES. Senegal. a French possession
in French Africa. says the Maurel,
Prom and Peyrissac banks were
blown up with gunpowder and sew
eral killed. l..s., 4,
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-10
EDWARD is GUEST
OF MUNICIPALITY
OF BERLIN TODAY

Berlin. Feb. lO.-King Edward to-
day Is attending reception at the
city harl as the guest OF the munici-
pality. This is the first time a visit
ing monarch ever was recognized by
the civic authorities. He talked with
tradesmen i'm Democratic way,
which is now the talk of the city.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-02-10
"Good Morning.

London, Feb. 10.-Andrew Pears,
president OF the Pears Soap company
died suddenly today. He was worth
many millions.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-08
Investigating Sugar Frauds.

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-The fruitful
opportunity for fraud in the hustle of
the enormous business done daily on
the Williamsburg docks of the Ameri-
can Sugar Refining company was wh at
the government sought to bring out
today in the trial of the six former
employees of the company charged with
defrauding the government by under
weights.
David Fragner, a customs inspector
and once an assistant government
weigher, testified that at a busy time
two trucks minute passed over a
single set of scales, or eight 20 the
minute on the four sets in use.
Each truck weighed half ton, and
each half ton, the government will
contend, was weighed 13 pounds
short, by the secret manipul alton of
government employees, who, it is
charged, were paid cash by the sugar
company for the evasion of customs
duties. If the game ran properly the
government stood to lose its duties on
$3.50 pounds of sugar every hour.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-08
Will Not Enlarge Tariff Board.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.-There will
be no enlargement of the mem bership
of the tariff board nor any Legislation
looking to the creation of tariff
commission with broad powers If the
National Association of Manufac-
turers and the National Council for
Industrial Defense can control the
m after.
These two wings of the business
mems organizations of the country
got together in Washington this week
and decided to accept the present tariff
board as a sufficient fulfillment of
their demand for tariff commission,
for the present, and to rely on the
promises made by President Taft that
the tariff board would have it's field
of activity enlarged and be gradually
developed into board of great pow.
ers in handling tariff matters.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-08
Experiments In Fruit Growing.

BOHEMIAN, Dec. 4. - Prof. o. B.
Whipple. head of the department of
horticulture in the college, has just
announced that it is planned to es.
tablish many fruit experiment stations
in different parts of the state next
spring. Some of these will be main
tained in cooperation with the ex.
perimental farms of the agronomy
department. There are to be about 20
of these next year. Dry farm tests
will be made with the fruits expert.
mented with. The main object of the
fruit tests will be to determine what
varieties can be grown in different
sections OF the state. These stations
will be widely separated, 80 that prac.
tically every part of the state can be
tested out, to find where the best fruit
growing sections are. Some definite
plans have been made for stations In
Fergus county. One at least will be
located at Philbrook, the present
place of the experimental sub. station,
now maintained only for the purpose
of performing grain tests.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-08
Strike Affects Business.

GREAT FALLS, Dec. 2.-There is
apparently no change In the strike
situa alton in this vicinity other than
through the gradual addition to the
unemployed by the closing down or
the curtsiling Of industries. At the
Boston & Montana smelter this after.
noon all oper ations ceased, and 1000
smeltermen are tonight out of employ.
ment. 1t was announced tonight that
the Royal mills would be compelled
to close tomorrow. Nearly every sort
of business is being affected and it is
expected that with the loading of cars
on hand the coal mines of Belt, Stock.
EFT and Sand Coulee will be compelled
to shut down. A meeting of the busi-
ness men of the city was held tonight
In the rooms of the board of commerce
at which measures we're considered in
regard to meeting the situation.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-08
Opinions BY Attorney General.

HELENA, Dec. 2.-In an opinion
given today by Attorney General
Galen, it is held that q state bank
cannot organize a branch in this
state, as the law makes no.sprovision
for it's establishment, nor is there
anything to guide as to the amount of
capital stock. The law fixes no re.
serve fund and makes no provision
for reports. It is held that branch
institutions must be incorporated un-
der different corporate name.
In another opinion. dealing with the
filing of certificates extending the COR
por ate existence of domestic corpora
tions, it is held that corporations or.
ganized prior to the adoption of the
codes in 1895, as we'll as those orga
ized since, are governed by the provi-
sion of said sections In extending the
term of their corporate existence.
In another opinion it is held that
cities engaged in litigation must pay
the same filing fees to the clerk of the
court as an individual.
In another opinion it is held that
county superintendents have the power
to appoint deputies. but the deputies
cannot draw any salaries. The deputy
can perform all the duties of the prin-
ri nal
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-08
Montana Woman Loses Husband.

CHICAGO, Dec. 1.-How James Nor.
rison, ranch owner of Harlem, Mont,
disappeared in Chicago while his wife
was asleep in Pullman car at Polk
srteet station was told by her today to
the police ut the Harrison street eta
ton. She awoke at Cincinnati, Mon.
day morning, to find her husband had
not been seen since he left the train
for q walk in Chicago the night previ.
Gus. Mrs. Morrison, who is 10 years
old, returned to Chicago to find him.
HE never left my side until we got
to this horrid town." she sobbed.
1--WE left Harlem last Friday to visit
friends in Cincinnati and got into Chi
cago Sunday night. Our Cincinnati
train did not leave until 11:30, so
Jimmie and I walked around look.
ing at the sights until train time.
Finally, when it was II oclock, "Jim.
mie' got the grips and the porter
showed US to our berths. was so
tired I went right to bed, but Jimmie
remained up to smoke awile. He said
that he was going out on the platform
to finish his cigar and the next thing
I knew was in Cincinnati and Jim.
mie' was not with me-"
Mrs. Morrison was placed on a
train by policeman and started on
her way back to Montana.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-08
President Completes Message.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3-Sixteen hun.
dred copies of President Taft's annu al
message were delivered at the white
house at 9 O'Clock this morning and
were Immediately turned over to press
associations for distribution to daily
newspapers in the country. All night
long the government printing office
rushed work to get the message print
ed. 1t was not until midnight that the
white house turned over to the print.
ing Office the last corrected pages of
the proof sheets that had been received
from that office and the public printer
put large force to work. making the
corrections in the message and then
having the copies printed.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-08
Offer Fortune For Big Fight.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-The world g
championship fight between James j.
Jeffries and Jack Johnson will be held
in San Francisco before club or
ganized by "Tex" Rickard of Ely,
New, and Jack Gleason, the fight to
take place probably July 4, 1910. The
bid made by Rickard and Gleason of
q purse of S101 900 and the contestants
to take 66s per cent OF the moving pic.
ture receipts was accepted by repre-
sentatives of johnson and Jeffries this
afternoon.
The successful bid provides that the
fight shall take place in California,
Utah or New ada, on q date to be Sc
lected later, but it was stated that
without doubt the contest would take
place in San Francisco.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-08
Manipulated Customs Scales.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-The govern.
ment encountered check today in the
prosecution of the American Sugar
company when it developed that docu.
mentary evidence and many witnesses
to the government cases have disap.
peared. But, although tally sheets
were missing. the government was
able to introduce testimony showing
that every scale on the WILLIAMSBURG
docks of the company had been tam
pered with.
Conrad Reller, carpenter, testified
to cutting out q portion of the wooden
stanchion of one of the scales.
Through the hole thus cut, the gov
ernment contends, was operated the
steel spring that manipulated the
weight recorded on the beam.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-08
New Rule For Bank Directors.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3O.-All the
$500 national banks in the United
States which now hold board meetings
at irregular and infrequent intervals
must have monthly meetings OF their
directors, must appoint examining
and discount committees and all 10 ans
and discounts of each bank must be
approved by the directorate board at
the monthly meeting, such approval
to be recorded in permanent form.
This was the pronunciamento of
Comptroller of the Currency Murray
today.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-08
Da tagged BY Floods.

BELL1NGHAM, Dec. 2.-For three
days northwest Washington has been
cut off from quick commune alton with
the outside world, boat service alone
furnishing a connecting link. Twenty
miles of railway track in Sksgit and
Whatcom counties have been de.
stroyed. The loss to railways will
exceed 100000. Whatcom county
lost 500, 600 in bridges alone.
About forty miles of the Rockport
branch Of the Great Northern must be
reconstructed. The right.of-way be-
tween Lyman and Hamilton must be
relocated for a distance of FIVE miles.
Laconner is under seven feet of
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-08
WomanlWalks On Wager.

CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 4.-Footsore
and frostbitten, but game to the core,
Mrs. Arizona Ovens, who is walking
from shoshone, Wyo.. to Denver, on .
wager, left here this morning for
Denver. She staggered into Chey.
enne shortly before midnight last
night after q thirty.dve hours battle
with the severest storm of the year,
during which she had walked 120
miles without sleep.
Mrs. Owens left Shoshone twelve
days ago determined to walk the 435
miles to Denver in seventeen days.
Small, almost frail, garbed like .
gypsy, she plowed pluckily through
snow above her shoetops through
much of her journey of the last few
daVs
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-08
Busy Session Of Congress.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 4.-Congress
will assemble Monday for the "lonR
session." which probably will run
we'll Into the summer. Senators and
representatives who have arrived In
town express q determin alton to take
up the work of the session vigorously
at the beginning with the hope of hsv.
ing it we'll advanced before the holi.
days. The honse is already organ
ized by the election of speaker and
officers at the extra session and the
appointment of committees, 80 there
will be no excuse for that body not
getting down to business at once.
The appropriation bills are to be
given the right Of way at both ends of
the capital and pressed through with
all possible haste. The appropri alton
committee of the house has been at
work for more than q week. When the
appropriation bills have been disposed
of congress will turn it's attention to
more interesting II not more important
measures. There will be plenty to en-.
gage attention. Every important COM
mittee of the house has calend ar full
of bills, introduced in the extra ses-
sion, and food of new measures,
cooked up by ambitious members dur.
ing the recess, is expected at the out
set
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-08
'PINCHOT ON CONSERVATION.
Chief Of Forest Service Urges Need
Of New Legislation.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3d. Clifford
Pinchot, chief of the United States
forest service, has again thrown down
the gauntlet to Secretary Of the 1nte-
rior Ballinger in regard to the con.
servstion policy.
He declares that congress- will have
to decide At its coming session wheth.
.er the great coal fields of the country
shall continue to remain in the hands
OF the people or be gobbled up by
monopolies and whether great water.
power. sites shall be given away to
special interests or be controlled by the
people. Mr.. Pinchot makes known
his views upon these two "chief sources
of power of the present and future"
in letter to DR.. Lyman Abbott of
New York in response to series of
questions asked by the latter.
Referring to the development of
water power and coal fields, the gov.
ernment chief forester declares that
in most cases the actual development
of the former can be done by priv ate
interests acting under public control,
but that sit is neither good sense nor
good morals to let these valuable
privileges pass from the public own.
ership for nothing and forever"
In explaining what conserva alton
means, Mr.. Pinchot declares that 1t
stands against the waste of natura
resources that cannot be renewed j,
such as coal and iron; it stands for
the perpetuation of the resources that
can be renewed; and, most Of all, it
stands for an equal opportunity for
every American citizen to get his fair
share of benefit from these resources,
both now and forever.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-08
CAUGHT IN THE ACT.
Government Official Tells Story OF
Crooked Customs Work.

~~'S' "''V'S OubNsot OllS 0lOTy VI
Crooked Customs Work.
NEW YORK, Dec. 3.-The storm cen.
ter OF the sugar trial today focused
upon Richard Parr, special agent OF
the treasury department, who was
foremost in discovering and exposing
short.weight fir uds on the Williams.
burg docks of the American Sugar
Refining company.
Parr rehearsed once more his story
of how he caught Kehoe, a tally clerk
r" "antpul lating crooked scales: how
Oliver Splitter, one of the six company
employees now charged with cospiracy,
offered to let him name his own price
for hushing the thing up, and how
Spitzer's partner hooked him by the
elbow and asked him anxiously,
"Dick, this fellow says you are all
right. Does that go?"
Nothing goes with me-" Parr tes-
titled he said.
The wire, with which it was shown
at a former trial the scales were ma.
nipulated, was produced in court
again today and identified.
The most sens ational moment in the
trial came when Parr detailed his dis.
covery of the steel wire which manip.
ulated the scales. He had observed
kehoe STOPPING over in q peculiar DO.
sition, he said, and investigating, dis.
covered the steel spring.
"After I came on the DOCK" contin.
ued Parr, "Spitzer met me, took me
by the arm and said, "This thing must
be fixed up" said there was no
fixing up to be done. Splitter said we
were all Masons and this would make
trouble for every one around. I said
l couldn't help that; they had made
the trouble themselves"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-08
MAY BREAK STRIKE.
Railroads Attempt To Resume Traffic
With New Men.

ST. FAUL, Dec. 2.-With the impor.
tation of strikebreakers from Chicago
and other points and the pressing in.
to service of other employees of the
roads, the railroads of the northwest
that were affected by the strike of the
Switchmen's Union of North America,
which went into effect Tuesday even
ing, began their first real work today
in trying to restore normal traffic con-
ditious between here and the Pacific
coast.
Local warehouses were open today
and the roads accepted limited freight
shipments to points in Dakota and
Montana.
Despite the efforts of the railroads
there was no noticeable improvement
in business conditions in the Twin
Cities this morning. In Minneapolis
all of the -four mills, with the excep-
tion of one of the smaller ones, we're
stopped and the cess alton of this in
dustry alone threw about 5000 men
out of employment.
1t is stated that the mill men will
lose S75, 900 a week in wages while the
mills are closed and that the loss of
business to the milling concerns will
amount to $500, 600 day.
At the head of the lakes, where the
most important industries are chiefly
dependent upon traffic conditions. q
continu alton for few more days of the
present congestion will force 10000
men out of employment.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-08
Political Crisis In England.

LONDON, Nov. 30.-The house of
lords tonight, for the fret time in 300
years, refused its formal assent to the
budget, thereby making it illegal for
the kings agents to collect taxes with
which to carry on the government.
The budget will now 60 before the
country for approval or rejection,
that is, the crown, through the minis.
try, will dissolve the house of com.
mons and order q general election.
Whether the present liberal house and
ministry shall be sustained in insist-
ing on the budget will be the Issue in
the contest at the polls.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-08
Would Arbitrate Strike.

ST. PAUL, Dec. 3.-When Governor
A. O. Eberahrd arrives today from
Chicago, State Labor Commissioners
w. r. E. McKewen will recommend
that he take steps to org ganize an in.
terstate board of mediation to be
composed of the chief executives of
Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana,
Idaho and Washington, for the pur.
pose OF bringing about q settlement ot
the strike.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-08
Harriman's Immense Fortune.

New YORK, Nov. 30.-According to
a report published here today, E. H.
Harriman's estate at the time of his
death was valued at S149, 900, 900. This
is said to be shown in the appraisers
estimate as fled with the surrogate.
On this valuation the state of New
York should receive an Inheritance
tax of 81, 400, 900.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-08
Woman Agitator Arrested.

SPOKANE, Dec. 1.-Five leaders OF
the Industrial Workers of the World
were arrested last night under war.
rants charging conspiracy to tncite
riots. They we're held In the county
Jail, bonds for release being placed al
Is, 900 In each case, none of which has
been furnished. Among those arrest.
ed is Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. q woman
orator, who has been particularly
active. Warrants are out for the ar.
rest of several others on conspiracy
charges under state law. It con-
victed they may be imprisoned for two
years.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-08
Morgan Controls Equitable.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-Control of the
Equitable Life Assurance society, Sc.
cured by Thomas F. Ryan soon after
the insurance scandals q few years
ago. has passed to j. Pierpont Nor
gan, with the S472, ,000, 900 of assets
which the company declared in it's last
statement. The transfer, apart from
ito magnitude as q chapter in the his.
tory of finance, marks q complete re.
versal of the old order under which
insurance companies controlled the
destinies of banks and trust COM
panies,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-08
Millions From Sugar Beets.

DENVER, Dec. 3.-An estimate com.
pleted today makes the income to
Colorado farmers from sugar beets
this year 100000, an increase of q
million dollars over the product of
last year. This, it is claimed, makes
Color ado the leading state in the I'm.
ion in the production. The acreage,
it is asserted. has increased little, the
increase being due to larger crops.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-12-08
6allinger's Record Approved.

WASHINGTON, Dec. l. - Attorney
General Wickersham has made an
exhaustive report after thorough
investig gation of the administr alton OF
Richard A. Ballinger, both as land
commissioners and as secretary of the
interior. The report, which is now in
the hands of the president, completely
exonerates Ballinger OF any improper
act, either in Office or during the brief
time be was a private citizen, after
leaving the land Office and before he
returned to Washington as secretary
of the interior.
The president did not ask for the