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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
ROOSEVELT vETOES CENSUS BILL
Sends Message Urging Appointment
by Competitive Examination.

The President sent a special message
to the House Friday vetoing the census
bill. The message said in part:
II herewith return without approval
ii. X. 1884, entitled An Act to Pro-
vide for the Thirteenth and Subsequent
Decennial Censuses.' 1 do this with ex-
IRENE reluctance, because | fully real
iZe the importance of supplying the d.
rector of the census at as early date as
possible with the force necessary TO the
carrying on of his work. But it is Of
high consequence to the country that
the statistical work of the census shall
be conducted with entire accuracy. This
is as important from the standpoint Of
business and industry as from the sci
entific standpoint. 1t is therefore, in
my Judgment. essential that the result
should not be open to the suspicion of
bias on political and personal grounds !;
that 1t should not be open to the rea-
sonable suspicion of being a waste of
the peoples money and fraud.
Section of the act provides in eff
feet that appointments to the census
shall be under the spoils system, for
this is the real meaning of the provis-
ion that they shall be subject only to
non-competitive examination. The pro-
viso is added that they shall be selected
without regard to political party afiil-
iation But there is only one way to
guarantee that they shall be selected
without regard to politics and on mer-
it, and that is by choosing them after
competitive examination from the lists
OF eligibles provided by the Civil Ser
vice Commission"
There is unquestionably large and
influential sentiment i'm favor of pass
ing the bill over the Presidents veto.
If the veto were overridden the bill
would, of course. remain as it is and
appointments outside of civil service
rules would stand, which would be a
very grateful condition to many men,
bers OF Congress, who believe in as
many personal appointments as pos
sible.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
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/. In basket ball game the University
of Chicago won from the Iowa Univer-
sity by a score of % to 10
At Glasgow the Canadian curriers' de
| fcated the Glasgow province players in
twelve-rink match at Cress Myloff. The
score was 219 TO 152.
Mason City. Iowa, will have horse rae.
ing next season. \ number of the lovers
of harness horses got together and guar.
anteed purse of $1,000 for races.
The Milwaukee club is negotiating with
| St Paul. and il is practically settled that
Jack Flynn, who played field and first
base for the Brewers last year, will come
to St. Paul
Once again is George Slosson the cham
pion 1871 billiardist of the world. The
old master defeated George Sutton 500 to
! 32S and for the tenth time in his life
holds worlds title.
Jimmie Potts, of Minneapolis, defeated
Percy Ballard. Of Grand Forks, in a
wrestling match at the latter place. He
| took the first and last falls in 23 and l.
| minutes. Ballard got the second fall in
17h minutes.
Oscar Gunderson, of Chippewa Falls
| established new American ski jumping
| record by making 125 feet. which is three
| feet better than the previous record. Gun
| derson also made one jump of 126 feet
but failed to stand up when he landed.
| Jack Barry, outfielder. with New York
and st. Louis National League base ball
teams last year, has been purchased by
the Milwaukee American Association
| team.
w. II. Lyon. with Mccarthy up, maie
new track record for five-eighths of a
allie at the Thunderbolt track, Sayan-
nah. Ga. He did the distance in
| O3 -.
At Grand Junction, Tenn. Manitoba
Johnson of Winnipeg, Man. was de-
clared the winner of the championship
stakes of the United States field trials,
the national championship of the year.
1t is now practically assured that St
Paul is to witness the only Marathon
race run in the Middle West. The Roose-
Welt Club has secured an option on the
services of Dorando Pietri. the famous
Italian runner. and he will appear in St
Paul in a race against Corey, Longboat
or Shrubb.
High-class light harness horses for rae.
ing purposes and development are a
scarce article this winter. \ visit to The
Kentucky Horse Breeders Association
track will show that there are not as
| many horses in training there now as
there usually are at this season, and the
/ trainers. as a unit, complain tina; Sood
horses are scarce.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
NOTES OF CURRENT EVENTS.

The Greenwich, England. observatory
has succeeded in taking photograph of
the eighth moon of Jupiter.
Fire in fve-story brick building on
Pearl street. New York, occupied largely
by tobacco dealers, caused loss of $780,
600. The heaviest loser is the American
Tobacco Sample and Supply Company.
The reports of President Il. l.. Lewis
and other officers of the United Mine
Workers of America, read at the conven-
ton in Indianapolis. referred to internal
dissensions, decrease in funds idleness of
workers and other troubles of the past
year.
No trace has been discovered of First
Lieut.. Edward Gottlieb, coast artillery
corps, L. $. A., who disappeared while
his court martial was in progress at Bos-
ton, but the government will not abandon
the electrical inventions upon which he
was engaged.
The large glass case containing the
model of the old frigate Constitution and
the engrossed petition signed by more
than 10000 citizens asking the preserra-
ton of the old warship, has been removed
ton room to the museum at the Wash
ington navy yard.
A woman of New Orleans has inform
ed the Mayor of that city that she knows
the whereabouts of the death masks of
Napoleon, which disappeared mysterious
ly from the city hall about 81 years ago.
Commander Jefferson Brown. engineer
corps. L. s. N, retired, who served during
the Civil War under Admiral Farragut.
died of pleurO- pneumonia at his home in
Brooklyn, \. Y, at the age of 81 years.
Proceedings we're begun at Pittsburg
by the federal authorities to annul the
naturalization papers of Councilman Ed
ward Shevlen on the ground that he per-
jured himself in taking out his first ma
pers.
New York police dispersed number of
prominent suffragists, headed by Mrs
Boorman Wells, when they attempted TO
hold a street meeting without a permit
in the theater district.
Fire, believed of incendiary origin,
threatened the town of Kiefer. in the oil
belt. eighteen miles south of Tulsa. Okla.
The town was saved by bucket brigade
Three business houses were DESTROYED.
The Chinese harbor guardboat Samstui
at Hongkong, China, fired two shots al
the British steamer Chenpo for fouling a
wood raft, whereupon the captain of the
Chenpo arrested the commander of the
Samstui and turned him over to the
captain of the British gunboat Robin.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
FANS THE JAPANESE DANGER.
California Lower House Passes Meas
ure Providing for Separate Schools


The lower house of the California
Legislature by a vote Of 46 to % passed
Grove L. Johnson's bill compelling Jap
anese to attend separate public schools
the one measure of all those proposed
most calculated TO arouse the ire of
the Japanese-and within an hour Gov
ernor Gillett had received a telegram OF
protest from President Roosevelt.
What is this rumor that the Cali
fornia Legislature has passed bill ex-
Guiding japanese children from the
public schools?" the President tele-
graphed This is the most offensive
. bill of all. and in my judgment is clear
ly unconstitutional, and we should at
once have to test ii in the courts. Can
it be stopped in the Legislature or by
veto?"
Governor Gillett at once telegraphed
an answer to the President, but he re-
fused to make its contents public.
The bill passed, which was one of
three anti-Japanese measures intro
duced by Assemblyman Grove L. John
son, places the Japanese I'm the same
classification with other Asiatics and
inserts the word japanese" in the
present State statute providing for the
segregation in separate schools of
''Mongolian'' children.
BY this action the lower house of
the Legislature has taken the step
which the Board of Education of San
Francisco intended to take two years
ago, but which was abandoned after
the board and former Mayor Eugene Z.
Schmitz were called to Washington and
had had several conferences with Pres
ident Roosevelt.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11

The Senate Committee on Natural
Resources agreed that the Pearson bill,
which relates to the protection of min
eral wells. should be reported for pas
sage This is the bill which prohibits
the owner of well OF mineral water
from forcing an unnatural flow Of the
water. so that the quality or quantity
of mineral water In some other well
will be affected. 1t was framed with
view TO protecting the Pluto spring
water at French Lick. Two or three
years ago a man who had control Of
a well near the Pluto supply forced an
unnatural flow from his well in such
a manner that Pluto was affected. The
case got into the courts and caused o
lot of trouble.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
TWo-CENT FARE LAW HELD UP
south Dakota Act Waits Hearing for
Temporary Injunction.

south Dakota Act Waits Hearing for
Temporary Injunction.
Judge John r. Garland. in the United
States District Court. in Sioux Falls. s.
D., granted restraining order preventing
the 2-cent passenger rate law, signed by
the Governor the same day, from going
into effect pending hearing before him
March for a temporary injunction. The
order was granted at the instance of the
various railroad lines in South Dakota.
The bill as finally passed by the Legisla-
ture contained an emergency clause max
ing il effective Immediately. While the
railway companies were obtaining a re-
straining order from the federal court at
Sioux Falls to stop the 2-cent rate law,
the attorney general went before the
State Supreme Court in Pierre and got
an alternative writ of mandamus. return
able on March g. The question now to
be settled is which court shall take juris-
diction of the matter.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
Foreign Voter Hill Passed.

The Strickland bill. intended 10 make
more difficult abe growing practice OF
voting unqualified foreigners, passed the
House by party vote. the forty Repub-
Iican members voting against ii. The
Republicans made ore last effort TO
amend the measure 20 make 1t less
drastic. but failed. i'm spite of several
Democratic votes that were cast in sup
port of the amendment. The debate on
the bill was lively one while it last
ed. being cut short by the majority
Leaders,
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11


Senator Kings bill to increase mort
gage exemption to $1,000 ELECTED much
discussion. and several attempts were
made by Senators to reconlmit the bilf
TO the author for amendments. All
such motions were voted down. IF we
are going to kill the bill then we had
better kill it in a decent manner" said
Senator Springer. When vote on the
bill was called several Democrats lined
up against il, because they saw a
scheme TO embarrass the Democratic
administration by decreasing the
amount of taxes on mortgages through
out the State. The present mortgage
exemption is 500. They said by in
creasing the exemption to $1,000 thou
sands of dollars in taxes would be lost
The bill passed by vote Of 20 to 20.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
FARMERS TO RAISE PRICE.
Form an Association to Make Chi
cago Pay Well for MIX.

Five hundred milk producing farmers
Of Illinois. Indiana and Wisconsin. the
men who supply Chicago with milk. rails
ed the devil and the price of milk at a
meeting in the Sherman House in Chica-
60. TO say that they raised the devil
is to quote their own words and 10 typi'
fy tie meeting which eventually resulted
in the organization of the Milk Pro 1uc-
ers' Protective Association. This body
viii serve notice on the people or Chicas 90
that if they insist on having expensive
absolutely pure sanitary milk. according
10 the requirements of the new milk or
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11

dinances, they must give the farmer a
profit for il. There were present 20S del
egates to the convention, called by COM
mittee of Lake County, Illinois. milk pro-
ducers and 300 other milk farmers. The
prospect is that Chicago consumers will
face an increase in the retail price Of
milk and cream in the immediate future.
According to the plans the price of milk
per quart will advance to s cents before
long and eventually to 9 cents.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
Inrx mn Annrnxed.

At a recent meeting the Senate Com
mittee on County and Township Bust
ness decided to report for passage the
Cox bill, which relates TO the drawing
of grand and petit juries The bill pro
vides for a single jury commissioner
in each county, and sets out the meth
DDS by which the drawing of juries
shall be carried on. IL is designed to
remedy the jury evils which exist in
some counties under the present law.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
Three Liquor Bills introduced.

Members of the House the other day
put ir three bills dealing with the
liquor traffic Gauss introduced the
German Alliance higher license bill and
Tomlinson introduced a duplicate of
the Senator Proctor higher license bill,
each of them containing repeating
clauses for the county local option bill.
Madigan introduced bill to enact a
township and ward local option law.
without repeating the county local op-
ton bill.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
ASKS s3,7oo,oOo; GETS $4,000.
state of Texas Compromises Cases
Against American Book Co.

Against American Book Co.
When the cases of the State of Texas
against the American Book Company of
New Jersey and the same company of
New York. which charged an infraction
of the antitrust laws of the State and
asked an custer order. as well as penal
ties aggregating $3,700O00, was called
for trial in Austin. Texas, it was an
nounced that an agreement satisfactory
to all parties to the suit had been reached
and an order dsmissing the litigation
was entered. The State gets $4,000.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
SUICIDE CALLS WORLD DEBTOR.

Decent Grave Asked by Unidentified
Man tn square Accounts.
THE world, debtor, in account with
Edward Melian, creditor. To one life,
ruined; TO carbolic acid, 10 cents, 20 hell,
one eternity. This account may be
squared by giving me decent grave.
This is all that remains to tell of the
identity Of man who died by his own
hand in clearinghouse in Cleveland.
The inscription, written on a torn and
dirty scrap of paper. was found on a
chair in the suicides room. The man
who died was not of the lodging-house
type. He was fairly well dressed. His
thin face was that of a man of refine
mont
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11

Among the bills introduced recently
is one by Ratliff. which is designed to
take the power of dairy inspection from
the State and place IL in the hands of
county boards OF health. The bill came
from the dairy.en Of the State. who
object to certain regulations prescribed
by the State Board of Health, where
the power now rests.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
More Frauds in Oklahoma.

Alleged timber frauds and theft OF
gigantic proportions are said to have
been unearthed by the Government
timber inspectors in Southeast Okla
homa and are under investigation by
the Federal Grand Jury. II is learned
that several large timber companies
are said to have been cutting fine hard
wood timber ON Indian lands for years.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
Blanche Walsh Stricken,

Blanche Walsh, the actress, was
taken to Kansas City, Mo-, on special
train from Fort Smith. Ark, where she
was taken i'll while filling an engage
ment, and was placed in the Univer-
sity Hospital. She is suffering from a
complication of stomach and liver trou-
bles. Her physician said: Miss Walsh
is dangerously ILL.,
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
KANSAS IN MACHINE TRADE.
Decree Entered Makes State Partner
af International Haryenfer Co

OF InfernntfOnuI kfhrVeFter Co.
In the decree 70 be entered by the Kan
sas Supreme Court against the Interna-
tional Harvester Company, Kansas will
be a partner in the harvester company's
business in Kansas The company has
agreed with the Attorney General and the
Supreme Court that in addition to the
100000 fine and the limited custer to be
issued against it, the company will agree
to the public control of its business in
Kansas and regulation of prices by the
Supreme Court or utilities commission.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
cnrteIyou Gets Nav Work Inh

1t is well understood among promi-
nent officials in Washington that Sec
rotary of the Treasury Cortelyou has
accepted the presidency of the Consol-
idated Gas Company In New York City.
Mr.. Cortelyou has declined to either
affirm or deny the statement, but there
does not seem to be any doubt as to its
truth.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
Dry Veto Voted Down.

A new victory for prohibition was won
when the Tennessee State Senate, on the
Governors veto, passed by a vote of 20
10 II the bill prohibiting the manufac-
ture of intoxicants in Tennessee after
Jan. 1, 1910 The house the next day
took the same action and overrode the
executives disapproval.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
Author Commits Suicide

John Gilmer Speed, the author and
journalist. committed suicide by shoot
ing himself in the head while in his
bedroom at the Phoenix House in
Mendham, N. j. He left no explana-
ton of his act
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
Both Engines Smashed.

A head-on collision occurred on the
Nashville, Chattanooga C ST. Louis
railway between passenger and
freight train near Mckenzie There
was no loss of life, but several people
were bruised. Both engines were de-
molished and the combination Express
and mail cars were telescoped. The
engineer saved his iifs by jumping.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
WANTS Mileage Graft stoned

Representative Cox (Ind) proposes
that the mileage. at the rate of 20 cents
mile. now allowed to United States
Senators, Representatives and delegates
in Congress, shall be withdrawn. BY
means of a bill introduced by him Mr.
Cox desires TO have the mileage section
of the statutes repealed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
Shooting Caused Panic in Theatre.

Confusion bordering on a panic en-
sued in a crowded five-cent theatre on
Halstead street, Chicago, ILL.,, when a
patron quarreling over a seat drew a
revolver and shot man. Two more
shots fired by the escaping assailant
put stop to the show and caused the
crowd TO rush to the street The
wounded man is Daniel Zincarelli. who
probably will die from his injuries. His
assailant escaned.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
Makes Large Live Stock Shipment.

Ed v Hauss and Stevens & Filler
shipped four carloads of live stock
from Brownsville, Ind, including 10S
head of cattle and ninety-eight head of
hogs, valued at $4,000. This is the
largest shipment for some time from
that CITY
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
work for 5000 Men Assured.

Employment for 5000 men will be pro
vided within the next two weeks by the
Pressed Steel Car Company near Pitts
burg and the Standard Steel Car Com
pany at Butler. Pa The former will give
employment TO 5000 men, while the
Standard will employ 5000 men.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
VIRGINIA Town Has sio Fire

The most disastrous fire in Char
lottesville, Va, in twenty-four years
destroyed property valued at 1920, 900.
The blaze originated in the building
of the Charlottesville Hardware Com
pany on East Main street.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
WHOLE VILLAGE TO BE MOVED.

Canadian Town to Have New Home
Two Miles from Present One.
Cowley, a small Alberta town on the
Canadian Pacific Railroad, will be moved
bodily to a new site two miles south of
its present location. The railroad will
begin putting into effect its regrade
scheme on the Crows Nest pass line this
spring and this regrade plan requires the
moving of the town. The railroad will
pay the entire expenses of moving. I'm
portant changes will be made by the rail
road between Frank and Mcleod in Al
berta when the regrade takes place.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
100000 FOrger Pleads Guilty

Fred b. Signor, accused of forging
notes amounting to 100000. with the
name of James A. Murray, the Monterey,
&C pitalist, pleaded guilty in Oakland, Cal
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
MINI md Wife Die I'm Street

While summoning aid for his. wife who
had dropped dead in the street from
heart failure in st. Louis, Sebastian Stoll
81 years old, died beside the body of his
helpmate of fifty years. Mrs. Stoll was
&C wears old
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-11
MAN AND GIRL SLAY IN COURT.
Texan and Sister shoot Merchant
She Accused and Three others.

James Smith, one of four men shot in
the District courtroom at Gatesville, Tex,
by Miss Verna Ware and her brother,
is dead James Ross. another victim of
the Wares bullets. probably will die. The
men were shot with steel-clad bullets.
John Hanes, who was shot at the same
time. died on the spot Hanes, who was
merchant, was charged with betraying
Miss Ware. The feeling at Gainesville is
reported as running high.