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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-04-16

Single makes a good chairman of
an inquisition. He got the reporters
to promise that, inasmuch as the
House graft" investigation commit
tee is as a court, only facts brought out
in evidence would be reported, conf
ment being reserved TIL ,ne report OF
the committee is made, but it is not
breaking the rule to say that Single
makes a good chairman. 1t is also
within the facts-as brought out in the
evidence to state that the graft charges
made by the Bulletin against certain
members of the House have absolutely
failed so far as the first days inves-
tigation is concerned, and there APP
pears to be little or nothing LETT to
investigate, unless a surprise is In
store.
The Bulletin on March ID stated
that there was graft on the part OF
some of the members in the matter OF
the translation of bills into Hawaiian,
that members were drawing down
money under assumed names, for
! translating, and intimated other
things.
The investigation shows so far, that
no Representative received any money
That no Representative used an as
sumed name.
That there was no graft.
1t has also shown that the remarks
of Representative Long inspired the
story in the Bulletin; that, perhaps
there was some excuse for the publica-
ton of the story on the basis of Long
talk, but that there was no good basis
for what Long had to say
The investigation committee, Shin
gle, Coney and Kawewehi, sat at
o'clock yesterday afternoon in the
Speakers room adjoining the Hall OF
Representative Witnesses called
we're Mr.. Irwin of the Bulletin and
Representatives Long, Kaleiopu, Smell
don, Furtado and Castro. The inqui-
sition resumes at 10 o'clock this morn
ing.
; Irwin stated that he did not care to
, revel the name of his informant WITH
out consultation with that gentleman
but that this informant had told him
: that Long had stated that there was
: something in the nature of irregularity
: with the color of graft, going on. sc
/ it came down to Long.
Long, it developed, knew just TWO
: things in re translation doings. he
( thought he had heard Sheluoh Say
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-04-16

Swift are the feet of the runners
Clean are boys who run
Born at a breed that knows no greed
They are doing it just for fun.
Sportsmen from every nation
Race in a kindly cline
All bets I'll call that they'll beat them
all
Including Olympic time.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-04-16

of the features that go make the evening paper
the predominating factor in advertising campaign:
delivered the home each night when the whole family has
plenty of ZINE to read it
1t is carried home by he when his days
stays morning paper usually carried down
town by the head of the family and hurriedly read
The evening paper not read hured but thoroughly thai
all the advertisements their share of attention.
presents the little ahead. giving the prospective
purchaser plan shopping tour for the next morning
The evening paper presents the the day happens Th
morning paper the day after.
The evening paper presents the 6 The morning paper
merely Celebrates it.
The evening paper prints daylight The morning paper takes
what is lefE
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-04-16
YOU wan
The News
First.
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You Want Your Ads Read
..
Mere Tc Some MNVicQA&1
Here Is Some AdViCe4--

n6EG ID 0Om6 AUXICGA~%
Honolulu more than any other
city in the World, is place
where the Evening Paper gets
the news first. The clock here
is over two hours behind the
clock at San Francisco, four
hours behind New York and ten
to eleven hours behind the
clocks in the European capitals.
This means that when The
Star is going to press The Day
Is Closed in Washington, Chi
cago, New York and Europe
and almost over in San Fran
cisco. The news Of the day is
here for The Star.
Under modern conditions it
takes practically no time to
prepare and transmit news and
The Star gets every evening
the cable dispatches giving
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-04-16

Prepared BY Or. c. Aver & Co., Lowell Mass, u.s.A
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-11-18
LABOR DELEGATES
QUESTION TARIFF

Toronto, Nov. 1.-THE executive
council of the American federation Oh
labor yesterday decided to petition
congress to appoint a committee to
investigate the methods employed by
all the great steel corporations. Ii
it is found tha- the tariff is used to
maintain profits rather than benefit
ing general industrial conditions the
federation will recommend that the
tariff on steel be suspended.
The council also was authorized TO
levy assessments when necessary to
pI-yi.a Tllds Tor assisting strikes
against the United States steel cor
Doration.
The federation convention endorsed
The proposal to change the date OF
the Inauguration of the president Of
he United States; and it was decid-
ed 20 designate the Sunday preceding
tho first Monday in September each
year as labor Sunday, and request the
churches To present labor questions.
A resolution favoring the erection
of labor temples in every industrial
center was referred TO the various
central bodies.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-11-18
RATE FIxERS IN
MISUNDERSTA NDINC

Washington, Nov. 1.-THE cOnten-
ton of many members that an at
tempt is being made TO limit the pow
er of the state railway commission
ers. caused an acrimonious discussion
at the opening of the convention Of
the national association railway COM
missioners yesterday. It arose over
the recommendation that the COnven-
ton indorse the idea of a federal law
giving the interstate commerce com
mission authority to prescribe unitor-
nifty in classification for interstate
traffic, and urging state commission
ers to make exceptions sparingly.
Commissioner Gothlin of Ohio, and
others contended that those who
voted for the report bound them
selves to maintain the classification
fixed I,y the commission on interstate
shipments.
Commissioner Clark, of the inter
state commission, declared the Oh1oan
unfair in placing such an interpreta,
ton upon the recommendation.
Gothlin wanted the convention to
reject the recommendation. He was
voted down Is to 80 and the recon-
mendation was adopted.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-11-18
SUDDEN DEATH OF
DR.. O. @. SUTHERLAND

GAINESVILLE, Wis, Nov l7.-Dr. O. o.
Sutherland, a member of the state
board OF health, and a brother of Poor
Commissioner Henry ]. Sutherland
and Mrs. George e. Gill of Madison,
died at his home here yesterday from
heart trouble. He was about 60 year
old.
Dr.. Sutherland's early home was
near Madison. He was born and
reared on the old Sutherland home
stead at Syene. He attended the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, graduating in
1871, and then attended the Hahne
mann medical college, Chicago, COM
pleting the course in 1873. He had
been a member of the state board of
health since 1895, when he was ap-
pointed by Governor La Toilette His
present term would have expired in
1914. For two years he served as pres
ident of the GAINESVILLE school board.
He leaves, besides his widow, two
sons and a daughter. The sons are
both physicians, practicing in James
vile. The daughter. who was Miss
Ella Sutherland, U. W. '06. is Mrs.
Frank McEIdowney of Chicago. A
brother, George sutherland, is an at
torney in this city.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-11-18
THAW BECOMES NOISY
OVER DINING PLAN

New York, Nov Hilary X
Thaw, who was brought here yester-
day from the Matteawan asylum for
the criminal insane to testify in the
suit of Dr. A. Mel. Hamilton to re-
cover from Mrs. Mary COpley Thaw
81. 600 for professional services, Gre
ated a scene at the courthouse over
the question as to where he should
take luncheon.
The officers in charge were taking
him to a restaurant near the court
building, but Thaw insisted upon
going to a place in the financial dis
trict where he had gone frequently be-
fore the killing of stanford White,
Thaw became so noisy that a largo
crowd collected and DR.. Baker of the
asylum was obliged to interfere.
Shortly after the beginning OF the
trial clerical error in the papers to
the suit was discovered. This caused
a mistrial. The court ordered the
trial stopped and a juror Withdrawn
Thaw was not called to the stand
He will be returned to Matteawan asy'
INN
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-11-18
POSTAL ALSO IN
PHONE BUSINESS

Columbus, o. Nov. 1.-THE an
nouncement that the Bell Telephone
company had obtained control of the
Western Union, makes it certain TO
the minds of local Independent tele-
phone men that it is the Postal Tele-
graph company for which James S.
Bradley purchased the United States
Telephone company, the Cuyahoga
Telephone company and the new long
distance telephone company of In
diana.
AS the Bell company announces
that a holding company be formed
TO merge telegraph and telephone
companies, it is believed here that q
similar announcement will be made
by the postal officers. The purchase
of the Independent long distance com
parties give the Postal 1000 miles of
new line in Ohio and Indiana, and
makes it as formidable a competitor
of the Bell in the telephone as in the
telegraph field.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-11-18

nation concerning the sugar frauds.
Anderson filed claims for cOmpen-
aation. therefore, which he estimates
will reach $1,OOO,OOO. For two years,
he says, he has been furnishing EVIL
dence, and it was through him that
Richard Parr gained his information.
Anderson declares that Reynolds
was enthusiastically for prosecution.
Anderson says that the American
Sugar Refining company requested his
resignation after Mr.. Havemeyer's
death on the theory that ''he knew
too much" He had then been in the
company's employ tirty-two years. AS
a result of his Investigations he says
he found the government was beng
defrauded at least 100000 a year at
a single refinery where he had been
employed.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-11-18

Cincinnati, Nov. 17.-Pleas for gov
eminent regulation of monopolies were
voiced last night before the conven-
ton of the National Municipal league
and the American civic association by
former Secretary of the Interior Gar
field and President Emeritus Eliot, of
Harvard
Mr.. Garfield asserted that the coun-
try's natural resources were in i'm
minent danger Of exhaustion, and the
interests which develop this source of
national wealth must be regulated
upon the lines already adopted in re
spect to railroads. Said he:
Exactly as railroads are regulated
because they are public utilities so
the interests that develop the natural
resources must be regulated because
they deal with public interests. The
unfair use or monopolization Of either
is intolerable.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-11-18
POLITICIAN GETS
HIS DANDER UP.

Manitowoc, Wis, Nov. 17.-News-
paper attacks which have been made
against him and which he resented re-
suited in Robert Hampton, alderman,
administering a beating to Henry
Bruins, editor of The Daily Tribune,
a socialist newspaper.
Hampton slapped Bruins in the face
and following with clinch of the two,
a police Officer was called by the may
or to separate them.
Hampton, VINO is a prominent poll
tician. bolted his party ticket last fal1,
when he was defeated for the nomina>
ton Of sheriff and since that time he
has been the victim Of more or less
notoriety in the papers
Hampton served formal notice on
the editors of two papers last night
ard said that he would take the law
in his own hands if these attacks did
not cease.
The incident was the most sensa-
tional which has ever characterized
council chamber sessions.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-11-18
REGULATION NECESSARY
To CONSERVE RESOURCES

Mr.. Garfield also maintained that
the interests of the people are not
properly safeguarded in the Alaska
coal fields and that legislation on that
subject is urgently needed. He added:
The people will not tolerate any
backward steps. They demand, and
will see that their demands shall be
needed, that the great policy OF con-
servation may be carried on in the in
terests of the public welfare"
President Eliot said
"The sentiment for preserving our
resources has gone like wild fire
throughout the country. The people
have reached positive convictions,
ard mean to have conservation. 1t is
the experience Of the American peo-
pie that, when monopoly establishes
itself, whether of labor or capital, it
is time for government regulation.
Many monopolies are inevitable; when
such is the case, proper supervision
is essential"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-11-18
DILLON DOLLAR COMBINE o.
WESTERN UNION AND BELL
CONCERN
TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE
BUSINESS IN HANDS OF
ONE CONCERN.
POSTAL COMPANY INDEPENDENT
BUT MAY BE BOUGHT
UP,

New York, Nov. lit was an
nounced in Boston and confirmed in
New York that another billion dol.
lar merger became reality vester-
day, with the practical absorption OF
the Western Union Telegraph com
pany by the American Telephone &
Telegraph company. The Western
Union, one of the pet properties of
Jay Gould, has been in the Gould fam
lily for a generation, and by the sale
OF the Gould stock yesterday the
merger was accomplished.
George J. Gould, chairman Of the
executive committee of the western
Union, said last night:
1T is a fact we have sold large
part of our holdings in the Western
Union to the telephone company.
believe this will inure to the benefit
Of both the public and the Western
Union stockholders, as the business
OF both companies can be handled SO
that they will form a complement to
one another, thus giving to the full
est extent n prompt and satisfactory
service. They should be worked in
harmony, which would be to the great
advantage of the public, as wen as
to the mutual interests of both com
panies."
While the report was current that
the Macllay companies, controlling the
Postal Telegraph company, ultimately
VIII be included i'm the reorganization,
no confirmation of this was obtained.
Officers of the Postal emphaticaIlv
stated that the company would remain
Independent.
The acquisition of the stock Of the
Western Union by the Bell company
has been quietly in progress for six
months. Only a sufficient amount to
insure control, said to be 81 per cent.
was taken over.
The officers of the Bell company re
gard the step as one of economy sole
ly, since the telephone has been a
factor it had to compete with the tele
graph. Lines have been paralleled and
immense amount of duplication result
ed. The officers believe that the
merger will save the Bell company
$75,000,00O in new construction and
enable the utilization of the wires for
both telegraphing and telephoning
The history of the Western Union
antedates the civil war. The Bell
company is comparatively of recent
origin. Both pursued the usual meth
cd of absorbing smaller companies
Those acquired by the Western Union
were lost in oblivion. The majority
of the stock Of a dozen large tele-
phone corporations and many smaller
ones, rests in the treasury of the pa
rent concern.
The telephone system annually
transmits 5,956,8O0,OOO messages, the
Western Union handles 68,053, 900
The. telephone system has 8,098,67
miles of wire, the Western Union,
1 ,382,5O9. The total property value of
the telephone company is $545, 045, 500,
that of the Western Union 1924 ,086,9 20.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-11-18
TO DEATH
IN EXCAVATION

Winston-Salem, N. C., Nov. 17.-Ter
or perhaps twelve men, the exact
number Of which cannot yet be ascer-
tanned, were smothered to death yes
terday in an excavation near Salem
Greek, near here.
Five bodies had been recovered yes.
terday afternoon. A rescuing gang
was working its hardest in order 10
try to reach others before they per
ished
The victims were at work digging
for new railroad, which Is being con
structed south from here Al wer.
Italians or negroes.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-11-18
O'Brien to Re-enter Politics.

Belfast, Nov. lit is stated that
William O'Brien, the former Irish
leader, is about to re-enter political
life. Twenty members Of the Irish
party have promised him their sup
port and a number of seats now held
by followers of john Dillon will be
contested. The followers of O'Brien
say they believe that indignation over
the budget, combined with what they
call the subserviency of the Nation
alist party to the Liberals, will assure
their success.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-11-18
CHARLES N. CRITTENTON.
PHILANTHROPIST. DEAD

San Francisco Nov. 17.-Charles N.
Crittenton of New York. millionaire
founder Of the Florence Crittenton
rescue homes for girls, died last night
OF pneumonia, aged 76. Mr.. Critten
ton founded 73 rescue homes in this
country and several in Japan and
China, in memory of his daughter He
has been visiting the homes through,
out the country.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-11-18
GREAT ROUNDUP
OF BOOZE SELLERS

BeIvidere, H., Nov. 17-Seventeen
keepers of soft drink places were
fined an aggregate of 81, 425 an0
sentenced to thirty to ninety days i'll
Jail yesterday for selling intoxicating
drinks. The Jail sentences VIII be
suspended if the fines are paid, but
only six took advantage of this ana
eleven we're Jailed. The city voted
dry eighteen months ago but this is
saiG to be the first day it has been
absolutely dry.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-11-18
DISASTER
SECOND GREATEST

Washington, Nov. 17.-According to
the records of the technologic depart
ment, the Cherry disaster will rank
as second greatest in this country.
Only that at Monongah, West Virgin
ia, in which $50 miners lost their
lives, furnished a greater deathlist,
It was stated at the department
that the death rate of miners in the
United States until 1908 increased
faster than the production of coal.
During 1907, 5000 men persisted in
mine disasters. That year congress
appropriated $4,000 for educational
experiment work among the miners
and after a years work along these
lines the fatalities in 1908 were
2,450.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-11-18
GOVERNOR APPOINTS
THANKSGIVING DAY

Governor Davidson yesterday, in &C
cordance and in harmony with the pro-
tlamation of President Taft, designat-
ed Thursday, November %, as Thanks
giving day. Following is the text of
the document:
1T is well to have rich, full life,
and for its attainment il is good now
and then to pause and consider our
{. rcumstances, to review our re-
sources, and to plan for their greater
effectiveness. In the province of Ma
ture, we are now rich in the fruits or
the year. Commercial and industrial
prosperity have returned. Peace and
good will toward each other abide
with us, and we are working harmOni-
Cusly together for the realization of
cur material, social, and spiritual
ideals. 1t is fitting that we should give
y day 70 the appreciation of what We
have. and to planning for the future.
Therefore by authority of law, and
in harmony with the proclamation of
the president of the United States, l,
y o. Davidson, governor of the state
of Wisconsin, degignate Thursday, No
vember %, as Thanksgiving day, and
recommend mat its usual customs be
observed throughout the state.
In testimony whereof, I have here.
INTO set my hand, and caused the
great seal of the state Of Wisconsin
to be affixed Done at the capitol, IN
fine CITY of Madison. this fifteenth dav
OF November, in the year Of our Lord,
ne thousand nine hundred and nine.
James 0. Davidson.
By the governor,
A. T. forge,
Assistant secretary Of state
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-11-18
SUSPICION RESTS
ON MANY WEIGHERS
TWENTY-FIVE IN NEW YORK
CUSTOMS HOUSE
IMPLICATED.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONERS
PROTEST THEY DID FULL
DUTY.

Washington, Nov. 17.-Twenty-two
assistant weighers in the New York
customs house are known to have
been implicated III or are under posi-
tive suspicion in the so-caIled sugar
rust frauds.
This was stated last night by Chair
man Black and Messrs. McIlhenny and
Washburn, Of the civil service com
mission, in answer to charges to the
effect that appointments and remOP
ais in the New York customs house
were made at the dictum Of the trust
The statement given out by the
commissioners is largely argumenta
tive. designed to show the care taken
in the preparation and rating of eX
animation papers; how, under the
me hOds in vogue, it is practically
impossible for the commissions eX
aminer in Washington to show favor,
itism in the rating; the authority
given the appointing officers to exam
inc thoroughly into the antecedents OF
he eligibles and their power of re-
moVals if he believes he has grounds
therefor
Information regarding the twenty
two assistant weighers came from
the New York customs houses. Two
of the assistants were appointed
without certifcation by the commits
sion, the remainder by certifcation
from 1885 to 1907. There are now
employed in New York 1875 assistant
wcighers
The examinations by which they
were chosen we're prepared and rated
n Washington. The examinations
themselves were conducted by local
boards in New York and elsewhere.
The commission sets forth, how
ever. that the questions concerning
the personal character of the appll-
cants and their previous careers, hav-
ing been satisfactorily answered, the
| eligible lists were prepared and GER
tifications made from these 0 secure
consideration in the order in which
| they were qualified The appointing
officers were authorized to file obJec-
lions to eligibles and to make any.
investigations desired Then the Sc,
lections We're made and at The enc
Of the probationary period of SIX
months the appointee's services were
Ncontinued or discontinued, according
! 70 his worthiness.
The commission concludes:
THE commission desires to empha-
. size that it used not only all the pre-
cautions possible in the selection of
eligibles. but left in the departments
an unimpaired power of sitting such
appointments and exercising the pow
! er of removal whenever the interests
; of the service required"
Anderson Wants Pay.
! New York, Nov. 17.-Edwin Ander
son, former superintendent of docks
F.! for the American Sugar Refining COM
paEy and close friend of the late
i Theodore Havemeyef, announced last
night that he is the man referred 10
! by former Assistant Secretary of the
/ Treasury Reynolds as the one who
gave the department the first infor-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-11-18
RAID BUCKET SHOPS
IN BUCKEYE STATE

Cleveland, Nov. 1.-THE offices OF
the R4x Commission company, one OF
the largest brokerage houses of ONO,
was raided at midnight by the pros
ecuting attorney and sheriff and the
accounts of the local branches also
those operated in Pittsburg and other
cities were seized. The primary
charge is the operation of bucket
shops.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-11-18
Barn and Granary Burn.

Manitowoc, Wis, Nov. 11-Michael
Wellner. a Franklin farmer, lost his
barns and gTanary with contents in
FIRE, the origin Of which has not been
explained. The loss is $4,000 and
there was little insurance. A high
wind prevailed 1T the time and Well
ned and his neighbors had hard
fight to prevent the spread Of the fire.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-11-18
/. ]. DUNN DISCARDED.
Lawyer Who Made Rryan's Nomina
ton Car No Longer Practice.

Lincoln, Neb., Nov. Ill. J. Dunn
assistant attorney of Omaha, was yes
terday adj4dged guilty of contempt
by the Nebraska supreme court and
was Indefinitely disbarred from prac-
ticing in that tribunal. Mr.. Dunn's Of
tense consise ed in language used in a
brief in which he criticised decision
by Justice Rowe. Mr.. Dunn made the
nomination Of w. J. Bryan for presi
dent at the democratic convention at
Denver,