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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
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FitZherbert, 3-year-old. easily won
the recent suburban handicap in New
York.
Umpire TRULY, of New York. has re-
tired from the staff of National
League umpires.
Mrs. Ramsey and three companions
of New York are crossing the CONT
nent to San Francisco in a motor car.
Reports from Sheephead Bay are to
the effect that it's racing programs are
being increased. The tracks are all
said to be making money since the
public has grown accustomed to oral
betting.
Jay Eye See, known the country
over as the first 2:10 trotter. died of
old age near Racine, Wisconsin. He
was born in Kentucky thirty-one years
ago. His grave will be marked with a
granite shaft
Newton Colver, seasoned sports
man of Spokane, suggests that the eli
matte conditions in and around Seat
tie are conducive to extraordinary run
ming records such as have been made
at that city during the past few years.
At the conclusion Of the Paducah
(Ky) Fair Associations exhibit, there
will be a race meet. Over 300 horses
are expected at the tracks of the Pa
ducah Fair Association. These entries
will represent Oklahoma, Missouri,
Kentucky and other States
Again has King Edward broken all
traditions by winning the James Pal
ace stakes. for 3-year- olds, at a mile.
with Minoru, who won the Derby.
Among the many New Jersey farms
where trotters and PAGERS are bred and
reared is the place owned by Geo.
Stengle, who raises horses for the
pleasure he derives from the pursuit
The greatest crowd that ever wit
messed the historic annual contest be-
tween Harvard and Yale watched the
crimson triumph over the blue on the
Thames at New London, Conn. Har-
ward was the victor in three events in
spite of the heroic efforts of her rival.
Manager Sullivan of the Chicago
White Sox fell while chasing a foul
fly in the game with ST Louis and
sprained his wrist.
The Berks County, Pennsylvania,
annual horse show was an event that
appealed strongly to the gentler sex
and they outnumbered the masculine
spectators in attendance.
Reports of fast miles are coming in
from the training camps 1t is a sim
gular fact that it is the Northern
trained horses, especially the trotters,
which are showing the sensational
speed. In years past all the early
speed reports came up from Memphis,
but all this is changed this summer.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
4 DESPISED WEED
Which Will Bring Millions to Land
Owners of Southwest.

The discovery by Oscar Pacius, of
Monterey, Mexico, of process for ex-
tracing wax from the candelilla plant
has created a new and important in
dustry in Mexico, Texas, Arizona and
New Mexico. The candelilla plant is
a desert weed, which grows abundant
~ upon many million of acres of
semi-arid land in northern Mexico and
parts of Texas, Arizona and New Mex
leo. 1t is one of the types of vegeta-
ton peculiar to the southwest which
long had been looked upon as useless.
1t was despised by cattlemen because
it has the faculty CT forming such a
dense growth upon lands as TO shut
out Tie grass and thus injure the
range for grazing purposes. Land own
ers who formerly despised the weed
now find themselves In a fair way to
reap a fortune from the utilization of
the plant. This already is being done
in Mexico. and steps have been taken
in Texas to carry on the manufacture
of wax from the plant.
When it was discovered a few years
ago that a gooe grade of crude rubber
could be manufactured from the quay
ule shrub experiments were begun by
sir. Pacius and others with various
other kinds of wild vegetation. Mr..
Pacius found that the candelilla con-
tanned wax TO the amount of 31h to 4
per cent. He perfected a process Of
extracting the wax, and 1t Is in prac-
teal operation in several factories
that have been established in northern
Mexico
The new industry is having a rapid
growth It is predicted by men who
are familiar with the different varie-
ties of commercial wax that it will
not be long until the principal source
of supply of that product will come
from the candelilla plant. 1t means an
enormous increase of wealth to the
people of Texas, Mexico, Arizona and
New Mexico. where this plant is found
in its native state. The demand for
the product comes chiefly from Ger
many, and the factories which are in
operation are making regular ship
nlents to Hamburg. The present price
IN Mexico is 5000 gold per ton 1t is
said that about thirty tons of the weed
are required to make one ton of the
crude wax. The same factory that
manufactures the crude wax from the
plant also puts the product through
the refining process.
The cost of producing a ton of the
wax is SIS gold One important and
valuable advantage of the new indus
try is that the refuse of the weed is
available for fuel for the factory.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
NEW YORK.

Despite irregularities in crop and
weather conditions. midsummer influ-
ences in trade and industry and con-
servatism in placing orders ahead,
business is of fairly good volume for
the season of the year and shows
perceptibly steady advance toward nor
NAL proportions. In retail trade clear
ance sales are universal, but there are
numerous reports that reduced pur-
chasing power offsets the stimulus Of
fered by this means of inducing buy
ing Wholesale trade for immediate
delivery and jobbing business in sum-
mer goods is of light volume. Fall
trade reports are still relatively the
best of any branch. Still, there are
reports of quiet in the Southwest, and
Chicago seems to be the most active
market in the country, with the North
west coming next as regards favorable
reports.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending with July
Is were 206. against 1872 last week.
215 in the like week of 1908. III in
1907, Is in 1905 and 165 in 1905. Ca
madam failures for the week number
SO, as compared with q last week and
% the corresponding week of 1905
Bradstreets.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
BIG ARMY ON STRIKE
AS INDUSTRY REEVES
Twenty to Thirty Thousand Men
in Pittsburg District Quit Work
as Resumption Comes.
MINE AND MILL ARE CRIPPLED
Disorders at McKee's Rocks Quelled
by State Police After Thirty
Men Are Injured.

Between $4,000 and 10000 workmen
coal miners, tin and sheet plate
workers and members of various steel
crafts-are on strike in western Penn
sylvania, eastern Ohio and West Vlr-
ginia. A majority of the idle men are
in the Pittsburg district. Except the
strike at the plant of the Pressed Steel
Car Company at McKee's Rock, where
rioting resulted in the shooting and
beating of thirty persons, the strikes
are orderly.
The conflict between capital and la
Dor in the Pittsburg district is unique,
coming, as it does, at time of re-
turning prosperity. Assumptions nave
been ordered in all trades, and men
who have been without work for many
months are being afforded employ
ment On the other hand is the pres
ent unrest of the workmen. Solutions
of the causes leading up to the strikes
are varied. In several instances the
men claim that their employers, TAX
ing advantage of their recent prolong-
wages for their work. The officials as
sert conditions do not warrant higher
remuneration at this time. Other
grievances are the alleged violation of
the eight-houd workday, recognition OF
organized labor, a controversy over
the use of so-called safety powder
for coal mine blasting and better
working conditions generally. In the
strike of the United Mine Workers
against the Pittsburg Coal Company
over $4,000 miners employed in the
mines in the Pittsburg district are
out. The men claim various violations
of their working agreement.
Steel workers unorganized, to the
number of about $500, are in conflict
with the Pressed Steel Car Company.
The men say the wages paid are too
low. Rioting and bloodshed has re-
suited during this strike, and further
trouble is feared. The Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers is engaged in strike
against the American Sheet and Tin
Plate Company, subsidiary of the
United States Steel Corporation. Over
1000 men, it is estimated, are out.
The trouble is over the "open-shop"
policy recently declared by the COM
pany. Three thousand members Of the
Tin Plate Workers Association en-
ployed by the American Sheet and Tin
Plate Company at New Castle quit
work to-day. The wage scale expires
at midnight and the men will join the
strike of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton. 1t is said that the tin plate
workers strike will affect plants in
different portions of the country, add
ing from 5000 to 10000 to the ranks
of the strikers. The trouble is spread
ing to the Independent sheet and tin
plate plants, and from present indica-
tons there is apparently no hope or
effort toward an adjustment.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
BREAK COL. SMELLS WILL.
Jurors for Second Time Set Aside
Last Testament of Millionaire.

The third contest over the will of
Col. Thomas Smell, of Clinton, Ill,
the eccentric old man who died leav-
ing an estate of S2,000.000 and cutting
his only son off with an annuity OF
$50. was ended Friday when a jury
decided that Col. Smell was insane at
the time he made the will. This de-
cision sets aside the bequest of sew
eral thousand dollars to Mabelle Smell
Mcnamara, the aged colonels affinity.
The jury was out a little more than
an hour and took but one ballot, which
resulted eleven to one for the contest
ing son, Richard Smell. The dissent
ing juror changed his vote without the
formality of a second ballot.
The first trial of the contest result
ed in verdict that Col. Smell was
insane. but higher court set aside
the verdict and remanded the case for
another trial. If the Will had stood
the legal heirs would have received,
all told, annuities aggregating $4,000.
and not exceeding $1,000 in any sin
gle case, while the residue of the for
tune would have been held in weird
trust agreement for heirs yet unborn.
On the date set for a final distribu-
ton, in the terms of the will, the es-
tate would have grown probably to
s1OO,eOO,OOO.
The Smell will case will go down in
American court annals as furnishing
one of the most amazing instances of
the depths to which women have de-
scended to gain money. The most
sensational feature of all three hear
ings of the case was the introduction
of letters from nearly a score Of wo-
men, young and old, all of whom pro-
fessed to love the aged millionaire
madly. To cater to a degenerate ten
dency which appeared to be one of
Col. SHELLS senile vagaries, the women
interlarded their letters with imprint
able obscenities. The more vulgar the
tone of the letters the better pleased
the old man appeared to be, and it
was found when the letters were eX-
posed that he had formed the habit
of marking them with his impressions.
Scarcely a letter was written to the
doting old man by any of the women
which did not demand gifts and
money.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
NEBRASKA ELECTION LAW VOID
Superior Court at Lincoln Gives De-
cision in Test Case.


In Lincoln, Neb., the Superior Court
handed down a decision declaring the
Donohoe nonpartisan judiciary cleo
ton law invalid. TIE decree says: The
majority of the court holding that
the act is void. the judgment of the
District Court is affirmed" This
means that the election of judges Of
the Supreme Court, District courts, re-
gents of the State University, county
judges, and county superintendent by
use of separate ballot, cannot take
place. The old law will continue to
hold. The chief objection of the court
was to the provision requiring that
for 1000 names to be on a petition
for judge, not more than 500 of which
could come from one county. They
declared that it was a hindrance to
the free exercise of the franchise, and
was repugnant to the constitution OF
the State. Four of the six members
sitting believed this provision formed
the chief reason for the passage, and
thus invalidated the whole act. The
entire court declared the provision de-
nying the right of party conventions
to indorse candidates for the offices af-
fected by the act was without force
and void.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
CHICAGO

The usual induces of trade activity
continue to reflect accommodating
strength and better disposition toward
increasing active capacity in manufac-
lures. Weather conditions favor the
growing crops and marketings of farm
products are we'll sustained, those OF
live stock showing considerable in
crease The markets for breadstuffs
remain quiet, but packing is more ex-
tended. and there is good absorption
of provisions for both domestic and
export consumption. High tempera-
lures stimulated demand for season
able needs in the leading retail lines
and there is ample reduction of mer-
chandise stocks here and at interior
points
Wholesale trade in the principal sta
pies promises to show expansion. Buy
ers come forward in large numbers,
and the demand is strong in textiles,
clothing, footwear, fod products and
furniture. Compared with this time
last year, there is larger forwarding
VI SOouo " tOuutls otOACos NhhO WI
rent bookings indicate gain in deliver
les to be made of fall and winter
lines. High prices and reasonable as
surance of great crops make remark
ably prosperous position in agricul-
ture. and this encourages more effort
in the distribution of finished prod
ucts and farm needs.
Bank clearings, 269,236,32S, exceed
those of the corresponding week in
1908 by 14.7 per cent and compare
with s243. 4s3,5 $50 in 1907.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number 80. against 90 last week,
80 in 1908 and u in 1907. Those with
liabilities over $1,000 number Il.
against last week, 10 in 1908 and
in 1907"-Dun's Weekly Review Of
Trade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
EblRbe[MDo'a

The transfers of Peekskill, N. Y.
have organized a union.
The gravediggers have organized
union in New York City.
Cincinnati will get the next conven-
ton of the American Federation OF
Musicians.
There are 10000 members of the
Transfers Union in the New York
City district
Representatives of nineteen typo
graphical unions in Michigan held q
convention in Jackson recently.
1t is announced the organized work
ers of Superior. Wis, are to build
$4,000 labor temple and clubhouse.
Plumbers, painters and plasterers
threaten to go out in sympathy with
the striking carpenters at Edmonston,
Canada.
The trade unionists of Nebraska re-
Gently held a convention in Lincoln
for the purpose of organizing State
branch of the A. F. of L.
In the South Wales and Monmouth
shire coal fields an award was recently
given for a ~ per cent reduction. in
spite of the protests of the men and of
the National Federation, to which they
belong.
The Grand Trunk Pacific and Cana
dian Northern men who wish increased
pay, among other things, have applied
for Cancellation.
Montana laboring men have sixteen
card men in the House of Representa-
tives and two men carrying union
cards in THE Senate.
By referendum vote Metal Polishers,
Buffers. Platers and Molders and
Brass and Silver Workers Interna-
tional Union has decided not to hold a
convention this year. The majority
against holding the convention was
6S7.
In Scotland it is reported that the
mine owners have broken away from
the Cancellation board. being fully de-
termined to enforce the reduction in
wages which they demanded.
A local unto nof motion picture op-
orators was installed recently at
Washington. d. c., and affiliated with
the Theatrical Stage Employees Union
OF the O0lIeO anu
Under a rule adopted by the Okla
homa State board of public affairs
only union labor will be employed on
all public buildings. No contractor
who is not willing to stipulate that he
will employ union labor need bid on
State work.
The ordnance factory workmen have
been negotiating with the British sec
rotary of war for pension scheme. II
is stated that the men are hopeful of
success.
A lodge of the Brotherhood of Rail-
road Clerks has been instituted i'm
Concord, n. H., to be known as Merri-
mack lodge. 1t is expected that lodges
will soon be instituted in Manchester.
Dover and Worcester This will prac
tically complete the organization on
the Boston and Maine system.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
TWO PUMPKINS WORTH $4,000
Resurrected Invalid Debt and Bring
About It's Collection.

Two pumpkins were worth $4,000 to
DR.. ]. F. Keith of Sturgeon, Mo-, last
year, and the purchase of them was
one of the cleverest bits of financier-
ing that has been recorded thereabouts
for many moons. Thirteen years ago
DR.. Keith loaned a considerable sum
of money to a farmer near Sturgeon,
and he was never able to collect it.
The obligation ran on until the statute
of limitations made the claim invalid
Last fall, which was the thirteenth
year after the debt was made, Dr..
Keith happened to be at the home of
his debtor and saw some very fine
pumpkins Ee purchased two of the
finest ones that he could select out of
the pile and told his man that he
could apply .he purchase price to the
amount that he owed him, which at
that time was about $4,000. This ar
rangement was satisfactory to the
pumpkin raiser. BY the purchase of
the pumpkins and the Endorsement of
the note the obligation was renewed
and the doctor was able to get his
money through the courts.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22

Hundreds of Pedestrians Have Mar
row Escapes When Building Falls.
In one of the busiest sections of
Philadelphia and at time when thou
sands of pedestrians were passing, the
five-story brick building at the north
east corner of 18th and Market streets,
which was being reconstructed for the
United Gas Improvement Company.
collapsed with a terrific roar early
Thursday afternoon, burying or pin
ming beneath the ruins thirty-two per-
sons, seven of whom are dead, one
missing, one fatally injured and TWEEN
ty-four more or less seriously injured.
Those killed were workmen employed
by Sax & Abbott, contractors. The two
lower floors of the building had been
torn out and the three floors were
shored up by heavy timbers. Steel
Orders were bracing the snoring. 1t
is supposed that by moving one of the
Orders the entire structure was loos-
ened
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
RICH WOMAN A SMUGGLERp

Indictment Returned Against Mrs.
Fremont ID. ChesbrOugh..
An indictment for smuggling was
handed down by the federal grand jury
in New York against Mrs. Fremont B.
Chesbrough of Detroit, owner of the
Chesbrough coastwise line of steamers
running out of Boston. The true bill
was due to the discovery of a double
bottom in one of the trunks which
Mrs. Chesbrough brought to this coun-
try with her on the Kaiser Wilhelm
III. last May. Wearing apparel APP
praised at several thousand dollars
was found in this hidden compartment.
A $4,000 necklace was turned over
to the customs officials by Mrs. Ches-
brough's attorney. The woman is i'll
in a sanitarium.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
BIG CONTEMPLATING PLOT.
Secret Service Men Say Gang Has
Operated for Years.

Secret Service Men Say Gang Has
Operated for Years.
What the secret officers declare Is
an international counterfeiting plot
with agents throughout Italy and the
United States was revealed the other
day when operatives arrested two
Italian women and two Italian men in
Chicago. A fifth arrest is expected.
The officers refuse to divulge the
names of the prisoners. According to
the secret service men the gang has
been operating in this country for
four years. The plant where the coun-
terfeits are made is in Italy. they de-
clare, and is under the eye of the Ital-
ian police. The operatives say thou
sands of dollars OF boguss5 and SO sill
yer certificates have been passed which
were so well made that even experts
had difficulty in detecting them. Sc
cret Service Officer Richie recently To-
Gated members of the gang at Warren.
Mass, it is said. but made no arrests.
hoping by following them to locate the
plant. The Italian police later discov-
cred the plant in Italy
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
LAND FILING IN WASHINGTON.
100000 Applications Expected for 3
Indian Reservations I'm West.

100000 Applications Expected for 3
Indian Reservations I'm West.
Twenty-Five thousand mer and wom-
en- are expected to file applications for
lands in the Occur d'Alene, Spokane
and Flathead Indian reservations. In
Spokane alone 1000 applications are
expected, while the list at Occur
d'Alene. Idaho, may exceed that num-
ber 1t is estimated that 100000 men
and women VIII file for lands, many
applying for all three reservations,
making a grand total of 100000 appli-
cations by August 5. From $4,000 to
10000 applications from veteran SOL
diers and sailors are expected. 1t is
believed that one applicant in fifteen
will be able to secure homestead
worth taking up.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
N%RE5EsjNzzx

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $3.50; hogs. prime heavy. $3.50
to 1892; sheep, fair to choice. s4-25
to $40; wheat, No. 2, $1.25 to s1.30;
corn, No. 2, Tic to 72c; oats, standard,
soc to sic; rye, No. 2. Sic to SIC; hay,
timothy, $500 to $500; prairie, $500
to S14.00; butter, choice creamery, &c
to 26c; eggs, fresh, lie to 21c; pota-
toes, new, per bushel, 65c to SIC.
apolis-Cattle. shipping, $500
to $3.50; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to $50; sheep. good to choice,
$3.50 to s615; wheat. Nd. 2. sl.27 to
s1.31; corn, No. white, 74c to 75c;
oats, No. white, SIC to sac.
st. Louis-Cattle, $500 to Sis;
hogs, $500 to ss.25; sheep. $500 to
s4.4O; wheat, No. 2, s1.27 to s1.30;
corn. No. 2. nc to FAC; oats. No. 2, SOC
to sec; rye, No. 2, soc to SIC.
Detroit-Cattle. $500 to $500: hogs.
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No. 2. S1.29 to s1.40; corn. No.
yellow, 75c to 76c; oats. No. white,
53c to SOC; rye. No. l, SIC TO SIC.
Milwaukee-Wheat,N No 2 northern,
$1.31 to s1.35; corn, No. 3. 66c to 69c;
oats, standard, SOC to SEC; rye, No. 1,
79c to Sic; barley, standard, zoe to
72c; pork, mess. 1885.
Buffalo - Cattle, choice shipping
steers. $500 to $500; hogs, fair to
choice, $500 to $500; sheep, common
to god mixed. $500 to $3.50; lambs,
fair to choice, $500 to $50.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, S1.37
to s1.3s; corn, No. mixed, 74c to
75c; oats, No. 2 mixed, sic to SIC;
rye, No. 2, zoe to Sic; clover seed,
$685..
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to s6.25;
hogs, $500 to sS15; sheep. $500 to
s4.25; wheat, No. 2. s120 to s1.30;
corn, No. mixed, 73c to 74c; oats.
No. mixed, 53c to SAC; rye, No. 2,
SAC to SEC
New York-Cattle, $500 to $500:
hogs, $3.50 to $50; sheep. $500 10
$500; wheat, No. 2 red. s1.40 to s1-42;
corn, No. 2, nc to 79c; oats, natural
white, SAC to Sc; butter, creamery,
21c to 23c; eggs, western. lie to
DC.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-07-22
SAFE-CRACKERS ROB PoSToFFICE
HuntIey, ILL.,, Strong Box Looted of
$500 in Cash and Stamps.

Huntley, Ill, Strong Box Looted of
$500 in Cash and Stamps.
Safe-crackers blew open the safe OF
the postoffice at Huntley, ILL.,, on the
Northwestern railroad, some time in
the night and escaped with about $500
in money and stamps. The robbery
was daring one, the interior of the
store being wrecked by the force of
the explosion. Postmaster E. H. Cook,
of Huntley. was the first to discover
the theft when he went to his drug
store in the morning. The postoffice
was located in the back of the store
and the robbers had been thorough in
their work of looting. No one. appa-
rently, heard the sound of the explo-
sion and the men worked with little
fear of discovery. The robbers stole
a horse from the barn of John Kelly
and drove about three miles east,
where they tied the animal. No further
trace of them was found.