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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-19
Assistant Secretary of State
Is Mentioned for the
Place.
FIGHT IN SENATE
OVER CONFIRMATION
Cranes Friends Are Expected to
Object in Case Name Is
Suggested.

Huntington Wilson. First Assistant
Secretary of State, is now among those
mentioned for the position OF minister
TO China.
Mr.. Wilson is one Of a long list OF
persons to be talked about in connection
with this appointment since the recall
of Charles r. Crane.
1t IS learned Mr.. Wilson is an aspirant
for the place and some of his friends
have given it out he would be glad to
receive the appointment. Mr.. Wilson
was formerly attached to the American
embassy at Tokyo. He speaks the Jap
anese language and he is familiar with
Tar eastern problems.
The appointment of Mr.. Wilson
would stir up no small amount of in
terest for several reasons. One of them
IS that 1t is likely his selection would
stir up trouble over confirmation in Il e
Senate. Mr. Wilson is the official who
is alleged to have made repeated ap-
pOintments with Charles r. Crane and
kept him waiting for hours and then
failed to keep the appointments. 1t NAV
be expected that II Mr.. Wilson Is named
for the Chinese post, The influential
friends of Mr. Crane will have some
thing 70 say that will be worth listen
ing to
Mr.. Wilson's selection would leave a
vacancy Of high grade in the State De-
paTtment for which there would be
many aspirants. Gossip Is that Mr.
Wilson would be glad to have the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-19
LIEUTENANT MISSING.
POST NURSE ALSO
Army Officer Leaves His Regiment
and Employe at Fort Crook
Goes at Same Time.

OMAHA, Neb., oct. l9-Ldeut. Dan
iels Shean, of the Sixteenth Infantry,
u. S. A, has disappeared from Fort
Crook, Neb., where his regiment is sta
toned leaving behind him a wife and
two children. Mrs. Helen Buckliu. a
trained nurse connected with the army
post, Is absent. Lieutenant Shean Is
believed to have gone TO Mexico.
Explaining TO his wife that he was
going TO 81. Louis on business, Lieuten-
ant Shean left the post October with
a ten-day leave of absence. Mrs. Buck
lin left the fort about the same time
Mrs. Ruckliu arrived at Fort Crook
three years a. go and later was engaged
in nursing Mrs. Shean who was IN. She
remained in tile Shean home for more
than a month and since then has nursed
several times 10 the Sheau family Or
iSinally Mrs. Buckln came from Mont
pclier, VI.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-19
CIVIL WAR PENSIONERS
WILL LAST LONG TIME
Likely That Last Veterans Name viii Be Stricken
From Rolls in 955, But Widows and Children
May Live Until the Year 1000.
By JOHN SNURE.

Somewhere between the year 1851 and
i'50r the las survivor of the great civil
war may be expected 10 pass 20 his re-
from the rols2 Some index 10 this is
tacle of an aged veteran, vino is able
to say that he marched ard fought as
one of the great armies that followed
Grant or Sherman or Lee or Johnston,
will be a remarkable rarity.
ward Forty years hence the spec
the veterans of tine civil war be stricken
The question is often asked. When viii
given by references made i'm the re-
port of the Commissioner OF Pensions,
Nespasian Warner, which has just been
made public. This reports shows that
the last survivor of the war of the Rev
oIution was Daniel r. Bakeman. who
died at Freedom, CattaraU gus county.
y. y. April s. 1859, aged 109 years six
months and eight days.
Brakeman lived for eighty-six vear rs
after the close OF the Revolution He
was about fifteen years Of age when
the Revolution broke out I3ighty-six
years after the close of the civil war
will be 1851
The last surviving Densioued soldier
Of the war OF 1872 was Hiram CronK,
OF Ava, n. y, who died May 13. $780,
aged lo5 years and sixteen dave. This
was ninety years after the close of the
war Of 1872. which ended in 1915. Ninety
years after the civil war would carry
the date to 1885. Cronk was a moro
youngster when the war of 1912 broke
out, being only about twelve years of
age. and barely arlc 10 sight a rifle.
without resting Il ol d rail fence Or a
stump.
In the cases of these two men. Cronk
and Brakeman. there is a striking SINH
larity. Both were young soldiers and
each lived for about the same length
OF time after the close Of the war in
which he was engaged. Their cases
would seem to afford a pretty clear in
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-19

deX 10 Wha'- may be exp cted to Ia ppen
in the case II The veterans Of the civil
war. The viii not all have passed
FOR years from now, but It may
be expectaJ that only here and there
about the country can a gray-haired
and bowed centenariaa be round who
VIII be able 20 say lie was a. Shiloh
or Nicks,.Jlg G. atlanta, or in the des-
perate struggle ga the Wilderness
But lOa@ Oefe-1 that. of course. the
number 81 civil war survivors viii be
growing scarce Ten years from now
even. the Grand Army viii have a rapid
~ thlnbng membership. Inc number
Of survivors Of the civil war on the
pension roll al the close Of the last
nScal year was 593 96f. The number OF
survivors of the civil war whose names
were dropped from the roll on account
Of death In the fiscal year that closed
las. June 80 was g, S3I. Should this num-
Der be dropped from the rolls each year
Tor the next ten years, there would be
z0o.VVV SURVIVORS, OF thg men VINO en-
listed from the Union ride in the civil
war and later received pensions. IT is,
or course, not accurate - calculate the
death rate for a term % years from the
rate or the year 1lSSt passed. While
the death rate per thousand VIII in
crease, yet TIE diminutiOn of the total
OF the surviving will tend TO lessen the
sregate.
Long after the last veteran has been
dropped from the rolls by death, the
widows viii survive. The records show
that the last widow of the Revolutionary
War was Esther $ Damon, of Plymouth
Union. Vermont. who died November L.
1905, aged ninety-twO years She was
not born until 1914, or thirty-OUe wears
after the revolution ended. At that rate.
the widow of some veteran OF the civil
war may be alive in the year 2000. The
names of 395 widows Of the war of 1912
remained on the pension roll June
30, 1893
On the pension roll is still one child
of g soldier of the Revolution Mrs.
Phoebe NJ Palmeter aged lightweight
years. Of BToOkdeld. y. Y. pensioned
by special act Of Congress as the
daughter Of JOnathon WooIey. who
served in a New Hampshire company.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-19
RATES FOR FREIGHT
CAUSING PROTESTS
Shipping Interests to Have
Delegates Meet at Gin
cinnati Tonight.

Appreheuding the railroad magnates
are contemplating an increase in freight
rates east of the Mississippi river great
shipping interests meet tonight in Gin
cnnau TO discuss ways and means for
lighting such an increase.
There have been rumors of such an
increase for some time. Railroad pres
idents have announced that the increase
lu prices has come TO every business
except the railroads. Other strong hints
have been thrown out ana the great
shippers believe the increase Ia rates
is surely contemplated.
That such an increase in rates would
not only be iuequitables but Is entirely
uucalied for, Is the declaration or the
frightened shippers IN letter sent 10
the presidents of the New York Central,
the PENNSYLVANIA, and the Baltimore
and Ohio railroads today In this let
ter, it is pointed out that the increase
iH business for the raIlrC ads has been
enormous and their profits have grown
Based on figures furnished by the In
terState Commerce Commission, the
shippers maintain.
That tine net income per mile of road
Of the railroads in the United States for
1907 exceeded that for 1897 by 81 .534, an
Increase OF $40 per cent.
That the net income of III the rail-
roads I'm the United States for 1907 was
Sf49 46l,1SS, and for 1897, 81, 20 500, an
increase of f5S per. cent.
That the surplus from operations of
al the railroads in the United States for
l991 exceeded the net income for 1891 by
That the amount of railroad stock
paying dividends increased from 81, G03. -
5ig,97S I'm 1887 10 S4,94S, l56,203 in 1907, an
increase of SS.345. 206. 225. The rate of div
ideud on stock increased from 5.43 per
cent TO 6.I5 per cent Tn 1901, an increase
Of ff7 per cent.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-19
DEPARTMENT HOLDS
GOODS ARE FREE
lnterpretates Paragraph IN the
New Tariff
aW


In interpreting paragraph 1875 of the
new tariff law, relating to packages and
other containers, the Treasury Depart
ment holds that paper, cardboard, OF
pasteDOaTd Wrapplngs, or containers, re-
CARELESS OF capacity, if filled with free
goods. are free of duty. II filled with
merchandise subject purely 10 ad vaIor-
en- duties, they are not sepa rately
dutiable under this paragraph, but are
dutiable under the provisions of sub
section IS of section .
A duty Of 4 cents a pound and 35 per
cent al yaloTem is imposed by para
graph l95 on cans, boxes, packages, and
other containers. except when hermati-
cally sealed, composed wholly or in
chief value of metal Iacuuered or print
ed by any photographic process. II filled
OF untitled. and whether the contents be
dutiable or free
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-19
SEARCH FOR LOOTERS
OF GOOD LUCK SHOP
Detectives Have No Clues on
Probable Robbers on Seven
teenth Street.

THE Good Luck shop" jeweiry and
novelty establishment conducted by
Mrs. H T. Olcott, at S13 Seventeenth
street northwest, is anything but what
the name implies.
While Mrs. OIcott is endeavoring to-
day to reconcile herself TO the loss of
jewelry and unset semi-precious stones
valued at more than $500 detectives
from the central office are making
every effort to get some clue to the
identity OF the thief or thieves who
executed the robbery in SUCH clever
fashion that the gumshOe artists have
nothing tangible on which TO work
The robbery occurred some time be-
tween closing time Saturday night and
yesterday morning, when the store was
opened, but il was not until late in the
afternoon that the loss vas discovered.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-19
J. E. MADDEN SUES
HIS FORMER WIFE
Declares She Is Not Properly
Treating Children of
Couple.

NEW YORK, oct lg-Jouu H. Mad
den, the wealthy horsemsu. has brought
suit against his former wife, Mrs Louis
i. Bell, and her brother T. o. Megrue,
asking for an accounting Of the money
deposited by them for his two sons
now fifteen and ten years Of age
lie claims he has given them a great
deal OF money for the boys, and the
amount on deposit iu the Seaman's
Bank Is small In his complaint, Mr.
Madden asserts his former wife is in
solvent and irresponsible and not 4
proper person 10 have charge OF the
property or his children.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-19
HUNDREDS STRIKING
AT MAINE UNIVERSITY
Members Of Football Team Only
Students Who Are Attend
ing Classes.
ing Classes.

ORONO, Me. Oct. 19.-With only the
members of the football sluad attend
ing classes. the strike Of 500 students at
the University of Maine. here, rs sim
in force. All the students are out TO
force the faculty to Teinstate eight soph-
ignores, suspended for violating an anti
hazing pledge
President FelloWes has as yet given
no sign OF weakening and the routine
Il the university is going on whether
there are students to attend the lee
lures or not.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-19
BLADDER TROUBLES NEED
PROMPT ATTENTION

Perhaps you don't know how Hl1i1h
work is required Of your kidneys and
bladder or of how much Importance they
are. Do YOU know that on these impoT-
tant organs hinges good heslthP NAM
an apparently strong. healthy man o.
! woman has been stricken without notice
by serious kidney and bladder disease
only to realize too late what might have
been prevented with proper care and
attention
Some OF the early symptoms OF weak
kidneys and bladder are lumDagO.
rheumatism, catarTh of the bladder.
pain or dull ache in the back joints, O.
muscles. a times have headache OF IN
digestion, dizziness. you may have
sallOw complexion. puffy or dark circles
under the eyes, sometimes feel as
though YOU had heart trouble, may
have plenty of ambition but no strength,
get weak and waste away.
If you md you have some of the symp-
toms mentioned, you need then a remedy
that will reach the seat Of the disease
and at the same time build up the sys-
tenn generally.
such a remedy is Swamp Root. the
great kidney, liver and bladder remedy.
In thousands of cases il has accomplish
ed just the WORK you need performed
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-19
DEPARTMENT STORE
IS LIKED BY LONDON
American Says He Has Been Most
Successful With His
Venture.
Venture

NEW YORK. oct Ie.-H. Gordon
SeIfrdre. who introduced the Amcri-
can department store into London,
and who returned 90 America OH board
Ile Celtic. brought with him q refuta-
ton OF Ode charge OF "oId foEyism
against the English
My store has been "a big success. "
He declared. "L0udoncrs have taken
90 n just IIke Americans do their de-
Hartment stores, and L have had TO in
crease the number OF ms clerks from
I.-Go jo 1000. Z have more business
than ] can handle"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-19
Arraigned at Ann Arbor.

DETROIT, Mich, Oct IS.-Dr
George A. Fritch was arraigned today
on a warrant charging him wi,h man
slaughter in connection with the death
OF Maybeile Millman, the Ann ArbOr
girl whose dismembered body was found
I'm Ecorse Creek early in September.
Fritch gTae held IN $1,000 bail. The pre-
liminarv examination VIII be held later
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-19
HUNDRED YEARS OLD,
GOES AUTOMOBILING

PROVIDENCE. r. J., Oct 19.-AIrs
Phoebe Raymond Irish is the last OF the
eight real daughters Of Pawtucket
Chapter, Daughters OF the American
Revolution. Mrs. Irish has just cele-
brated her Tooth anniversary. She Oh
served the day by going for an automO-
bile ride with friends
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-19
ROBBERS CLUB VICTIM.

MAHANOY CITY, Pa, Oct. 1s-wbiIe
returning home to New Boston on a
lonely road. Tessa Eyrus was dubbed
almost 10 death by highwaynen. vTf7e
robbed him of $50 and escsped.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-19
DEPUTIES IN SESSION
WITHOUT EXCITEMENT
French Legislators Reassemble for
Their Autumn Meet
ing

PARIS. oct. ls-The chamber Of den
uties reassembied for tre autumn leg
isIatfve session today
The usual ceremonies marked the
opening of the session
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-19
TWOMBLEY UNABLE
TO ATTEND OFFICE

NEW YORK. Oct l9-H Nick.
IWombley. borthcr-in-l5W Of William Is.
Vanderbilt. Is fll and has not been al
Als desk 30 the Mills building since early
ItiE friends say he is suffering from
kldney trouble. but that the real cause
nf Els illness was tho shook received
: hen he heard OF the drowning of his
san, ln 1905 SIT TWomblcy's ill health
la gwen as the reason for William Is.
Nauderbilt's greatly increased activity
In the AFFAIRS Of thc New York Central
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-19
Sample Bottle Of swamp-RoOt Free By Nail

ton, n Y. for a sample bottle. Tt viii
convince anyone. You viii also receive
a booklet Of valuable information tell
ing all about the kidneys and bladder
| When writing, be sure and mention The
Washington Daily Times For sale at
all drug stores. Price hfty-cents and
1 ona-dOIlar-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-19
IN BALTIMORE.

baltimore has three saloons to one
policeman"
That gives YOU three guesses as to
where the policeman is p~frrefan
7 ger
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-19
MARRIED LIFE.

HeWitt-IIow long have you been
married2
Jewitt-It seems so long that I some
times think ] was married before I WIS
b0rn.-NeW York Press
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-10-19

Chinese mission for the reason that he
finds his duties in the State Department
less cOngenial since the advent of Henry
NJ HOyt, former Solicitor General Of the
department OF Justice and now counsel
Tor for the State Department.
Mr. Hoyt and Mr.. Knox are old friends
and were associated together in the De-
partment of Justice, and Nh. Knox is
now said to place large reliance on Mr..
HOyts which tends to lessen the relative
Importance of Mr.. Wilson al factor in
State Department affairs.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-08-25
UNIONS TO PARADE HERE
ON LABOR DAY
Street Demonstration In the Morning
With Picnic and Speeches In AIT
crnOOn and Dance In Evening.

Organized labor of North Yakima
is preparing to commemorate Labor
Day, September 6, in public manner.
1t is probable that there will be a
parade in the morning, picnic in the
afternoon and a dance in the evening.
At the picnic there will be number
Of speeches. Committees from among
the labor organizations of the city are
now at work in preparing a program
which will be submitted for approval
at a meeting to be held at an early
date.
Organized labor, as has been sew
eral times demonstrated by street
parade and otherwise in this city, Is
a strong and vital element in the
community. 1t proposes this year to
recognize in a substantial manner the
day set apart by the federal govern
ment as labOr's special day. 1t is pos
sible that in the parade an attempt
will be made to make something more
than mere showing of numbers. 1t
is possible that something in the way
of an industrial parade will be under
taken or a parade representative of all
the activities of this section of the
state and union.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-08-25
MORE EUROPEAN
APPLE DEMANDS
Advices Point Also to Demand for
American Product.

SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. 20.-Ren
H. Rice, secretary manager of the Ma
ton Apple Show, Inc, has received
advices from London, Liverpool, Dub
lin and Hamburg, which indicate that
because of the shortness of the crop in
Europe there will be large demand
for American apples the coming fall
and winter, with the promise of better
prices than in former years. The APP
pie crop in England is reported to be
far below the average and there is an
increased demand, not only for fancy
fruits but also for medium grades.
Robert P. Skinned. United States con-
sui writes from Hamburg, there is a
larger demand in Germany for Am
erican apples, adding that this Euro
pean business can be increased by
sending only the best fruit and honest
packs. Growers in the northwestern
states and provinces are preparing to
send large consignments of fruit
abroad this season.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-08-25
WANT STANDARD BOX
AT THE APPLE SHOW.
Yakima Horticultural Union Formally
Asks That Package Now i'm Use
BE Accepted.

Acceptance o. the standard apple
box of the Pacific northwest as the
standard size for boxes at the National
apple show is to be formally asked by
the Yakima Horticultural Union of
the management of the apple show at
Spokane, Nov. Is to 20 next. A resolu-
ton to this effect was passed by the
trustees of the union Saturday and the
secretary was instructed to forward
a copy to the secretary of the Ma
tional show at Spokane. 1t will be
remembered that there is nov a fight
on in congress over the apple box
standard and all the northwest asso-
Citations have stood together as favor
al lc to the box at pre- ;art ill use. h
lceway is now giycl by tbs National
spple show of boxes ranging from 40
t, 60 pounds. No box, of proper siZe
runs as heavy as the maximum limit
set and that leeway is I'm ,cessary. 1t
is the opinion of the local Horticul-
tural union that if the growers in this
part of the countrv are to ask con-
gress for a STANDARD box, such stand
ard to be that now in use in this coun-
try, good argument can be made by
beginning now AMI having home
standard. Hence il is that tho rcQucsf
is made as announced above of the
apple show folk.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-08-25
e. A. X. LEADER WELL PLEASED.
Commander VanSant Makes a Trip
Over Orchard Country and Likes it.

Commander-in-Ch Chief VanSant of
the Grand Army of the Republic
travelled some As miles through Yaki-
ma county by automobile Friday. He
went up through the Cowiche and into
the Tieton, saw all there is of the
Naches and took in some of the coun-
try south and east of this city. He
inspected some of the Mob Hill or
chards, saw the raw land, looked at
the kind of farming in progress by
the men who are not growing fruit,
and generally got good idea of this
irrigated section. Mr.. VanSant and
his wife, and Messrs. Bull and Allen of
the local post of the G. A. r. COM
posed the party The trip was made
at the earnest desire of Mr.. VanSant
who is a member of a Minnesota De-
velopment company. His partners had
asked him especially to investigate in
and about Yakima and it is probable
that the company will invest in this
section, as the trip of Friday imprs-
sed every member of the party.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-08-25
DENOUNCE BURBANK
As NATURE FNKER
Pasadena Gardeners Association
Adopts Singing Resolutions Allud-
ing to the Wizard"

Los ANGELES, Cal. Aug. 2O-"Be
1t resolved, That the Pasadena Gar
deners association hereby strongly
condemns the nature taking methods
and the exploitation of alleged but
false creations by Luther Burbank,
and deplores the fact that false i'm
preston has been given the public
concerning plant breeding by Burbank.
II is the sense of this association that
this impression should he corrected"
Criticism of Luther Burbank and
his methods, which has been going
on among southern California horti-
culturists for many months, reached
a climax when the foregoing resolu-
ton was unanimously adopted at the
close of discussion of Burbank and
Burbantism before meeting of the
Pasadena Gardeners association, at
tended by upwards of 100 florists and
gardeners.
The meeting was held in the as
scmbly rom Of the Pasadena board Of
trade and was attended by members
of the association and large delcga-
ganization, some of whom took part
In the discussion. The discussion oc-
cupied the entire evening and the fea-
ture of it was "A report made by u
personal representative of the south
ern California Florists and Gardeners,
who was recently sent to Santa Rosa
to investigate Burbank and his claims.
b. ID. Barnhart, editor OF the Pacific
Gardener of Los Angeles, and former
curator of the botanical museum OF
the University of southern California,
was the man commissioned by the as
ISOLATION to investigate Burbank.
Barnhart said he visited Burbank at
Santa Rosa in July and was handed
a card which stated that Burbank's
time was worth so an hour.
Barnhart said Burbank Informed
him that he was buster man than
President Taft and was doing more
than all the government bureaus in
the world to produce new fruits and
flowers.