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Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-07-16
LEDGER'S BIG
VOTING CONTEST
Grand piano and 6 Free Trips
to Successful Candidates
Great offer of Ledger TO It's Many
Readers.

Great interest is being aroused all
over the county as the news of the
contest is circulated, and some of the
ladies are securing the field for votes
and subscriptions.
There is coupon published in each
issue of the Ledger, which counts for
10 votes for the contestant whose
nameEmay tie on it, but by far the
hest way to roll up q large score is to
get all your friends and relatives to
subscribe for the paper and to give
theiv votes to you.
The lirst count of the votes will he
made on the 22nd and every week
thereafter until the end Of the CON
test, the counts to he published in
the next issue of the Ledger. See
page for full particulars of this
great offer.
THE rrERED VOTES.
Subscribers are calling at the Office
every day TO pay on their suhscrip-
tions. SO don't let any time go
by without seeing your friends and
having them save votes for you or
when they pay their subscriptions TO
give you the votes due them. The
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The standing of the candidates so
far entered in the Ledger contest is
as follows:
Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1909-07-16
LIST OF CANDIDATES
Nominated to date

Nominated to date
District No l. including city of
jackson: votes
Rose Ratio 5000
Ida Smith 5000
District 3 Townships and
% Carrie Canvan. Sutter Creek 5000
'' Elsie Chitwood, lone 5000
e" Lucia Kerr, Amador 5000
District Townships and
Miss Mary Grillo. Volcano 5000
Mrs @ 3 Calvin, Pine Grove, 5000
Miss May Easton, Plymouth 5000
The Yale expositor., 1909-08-06
Situation Is Grave.

Reliable news regarding the situa-
ton in Spain received from San Sc
bastian represents conditions as very
grave throughout the northern part
OF the country, where all the trades
unions have given notice of the be-
ginning of general strike.
The government has seized all the
telegraph and telephone wires in the
affected provinces TO prevent the
leaders of the strike movement from
communicating with each other. The
transmission of newspaper dispatches
has been stopped entirely, forcing a
suspension of a majority OF the jour
nails
The greatest excitement reigns
among the working classes. Reports
received here direct from Madrid say
that King Alfonso is greatly de-
pressed over the interior situation.
He desired to throw his personal
popularity in the scale, and it was
with difficulty that he could be dis
suaded from going to Barcelona in
person. Premier Maura told him it
would be equivalent to death to enter
that hotbed of anarchy.
The Yale expositor., 1909-08-06
NexIean cities Wrecked.

With the peope of the earthquake
zone in Mexico trembling in terror
from their experiences in Fridays
earthquake shocks, five distinct
shocks were felt again Saturday, and
the previous damage is said TO have
been light compared to the second
days. All communication was cut off
from Chilpancingo, Acapulco and sur
rounding towns by the quakes, after
it was restored following Fridays
shock, but information OF the serious
nature OF the shock came through be-
fore the wires went down.
In every instance the frightened OPP
orators at the keys in the stricken
towns, talking to the equally fright
ened operators in the city of Mexico,
declared 'The town is completely
wrecked" or words to that effect. The
towns where operators reported that
everything has been destroyed" be-
fore the wires went completely are
Chilpancingo, Acapulco, Chilapa and
Aguala, all in a direct line south of
this city, Proyidencia is right be-
tween Chilpancingo and Acapulco;
and in Rio Balsas, Telopan, Cocoula
and many other smaller towns be-
tween Chilpancingo and Aguala IL is
certain the damage has been great.
The shocks in the city of Mexico
Saturday were more severe than Fri
day, and not an American and few
foreigners remained indoors there at
night. At IL o'clock Saturday the
shock was so severe that all clocks
in the City of Mexico were stopped
and the street cars were derailed in
several localities.
The great cathedral is damaged be-
yond repair.
The damage from the quake in and
around the City of Mexico is the heav
lest experienced in a decade
The Yale expositor., 1909-08-06
a
SUMMARY |
OF A
WEEKS EVENTS +:
Latest News of Interest
Boiled Down for the
Busy Man.
PERSONAL.

Leslie M. Shaw, former secretary oil
the treasury, in an address at Chau'
tauqua, n. Y, said the people had
made towards of their congressman
and that Hearst would beat La Fol
lette for the presidency if Roosevelt
Taft and Bryan should die.
Gov. John A. Johnson OF Minnesota
was the orator and central figure Oh
Swedish day" at the Alaska-Yukon-
Pacific exposition at Seattle. Tnou-
sands of Swedes from all parts OF the
country took part in the festivities.
John Calvin, vice-mayor OF Cincin-
natl, took the oath as mayor, succeed
ing the late Col. Leopold Markbreidt.
President Reyes of Colombia re-
signed and his successor will be elect
ed August 3.
Prof. Charles Zubelin, sociologlst OF
Boston, in an address at Cahutaugua'
N. Y. called Z. II. Hartman imam
cial pest.
Representative Tawney OF Minneso-
ia, replying to a magazine article. as
sailed DR.. Charles Richard Van Hlse'
president of Wisconsin university.
A report was received in New YORK
that Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the
suffragist terror of England, is COM
ing TO this country to stir up the
women.
The Yale expositor., 1909-08-06
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

Grant Starks 13-year-old son OF a
Marengo farmer trying to ride a COW,
was thrown and badly cut about the
head.
William Lozenby found dead on the
farm on which he lived in Marion
alone is believed to have been struck
by lightning
Henry Chapman, arrested in a
street brawl in Flint, was recognized
as a regular army deserter from Fort
Wayne and will be returned to De-
troit.
The capital stock OF the New Ha-
ven Coal Mining Co, which is COM
pleting its railroad from Owosso TO
the mines at Six-Mile creek, at a re-
cent meeting OF the stockholders, was
increased to $4,000. The railroad
will be finished within a month and
the force OF men increased from 90 to
200.
The officers at Jackson prison state
that Convicts Noyes and Sullivan, who
escaped from the hospital ward in
their underwear and were later cap.
tured in Chicago, had help from out.
side the walls. When arrested both
the men were clad In good suits CT
.lothes.
The Yale expositor., 1909-08-06
ANOTHER MAN
THEN A TRAGEDY
DOMESTIC TROUBLE OF FAMILY
ENDS IN SHOOTING THE
AGED HUSBAND.
SHOOTING FOLLOWS ROW
After Twenty-Five Years Of Welded
Life, Woman Kills Her Spouse
and Scandal is Revealed.

In the Clinton county jail. barred
from any communication with the
outside world by order of the sheriff,
Mrs. John Haker sits almost a ner-
vous wreck waiting the next scene
in the tragedy in which she shot and
killed her aged former husband IN
his farm at Laingsburg, Friday. The
murder formed the climax to a bitter
quarrel between the Hakers over The
alleged attachment of the wife for a
man other than her husband. They
had been married 22 years and had
eight children. Haker was 81 years
old and had several grown children
by a previous marriage. Mrs. Haker
is AZ. They had lived together hap
PLY until the appearance of the 9th r
man in the little drama drove them
apart. Ten days ago the husband
secured a divorce and ordered the
woman to leave the house. She had
no other place to go and refuse3, in
sisting that her husband divide his
property with her to assure her a
means of existence.
Haker had refused to divide his
property with the woman, and with
her stepchildren in the home male
existence most unpleasant for her,
according to the statements of the
neighbors. A day or so ago she be-
came respondent and purchased re-
volver with which she declared she
would end her own life
After supper Friday night the I'll
vorced pair again discussed their af-
fairs, the man insisting that the wo-
man leave the farm at once and she
repeating her demand for a share OF
his property. After a bitter argu-
ment on the rear porch the old man
turned to enter the house, when the
woman produced the revolver and
fired one shot. The bullet catered
his back. and he died within an hour.
The Yale expositor., 1909-08-06
Preferred Death to Disgrace.

Mrs. Emma Michels. OF Chicago,
killed her two children and herself
Saturday when the story of her past
was resurrected by her husbands
family in a supposed effort TO dis
grace the mother before her children.
Meta, 10 years old, and Gustav, IL,
were suffocated with gas as they lay
In bed When the mother had waited
outside their tightly closed room until
she was sure they were dead. she put
the tube from the gas stove in her
mouth and died as she sat in chair
by the kitchen door.
In her farewell letters Mrs. Michels
told the story of alleged persecution
by her husbands family and con-
fessed her girlhood sin. She made
her will in preparation for the triple
tragedy and showed that she had
carefully planned the crimes.
The Yale expositor., 1909-08-06
FOUND AN ALLEGED
JOKER IN BILL
TAFT SAYS THERE rs NOTHING
TO 1T AND THAT ALL is
RIGHT.
FREE HIDES AND SHOES
Some Say II Is a Betrayal of the
President, Who Explains Matters
TO His Callers.

With the tariff conference report
facing threatened defeat in the SEN
ate on account of an alleged Joker
in the hide and leather compromise
II YVES decided to reassemble the con.
ference committee for the purpose 81
preparing an official explanation The
alleged Joker" which a number OF
the progressive Republicans in the
senate are said to have discovered
and which some of them have been
quoted as saying constituted a be.
trayal of the presidents confidence
brought the declaration by Mr.. Taft
TO callers that the language of the
amendment as to boots and shoes is
exactly as agreed upon by him, Sen
ator Aldrich and Rep. Payne. IL has
been claimed by the progressives
that the language of the amendment
reducing the duties on boots and
shoes was made TO apply only to
shoes manufactured from hides duti-
able under the Dingley bill, and did
not apply to shoes which are made in
part of kid, thus violating the agree.
ment for a general reduction on all
shoes.
President Taft told his callers that
the talR of a Joker" in the leather
schedule was absurd. The president
said the distinct understanding was
that in consideration of free hides
previously dutiable, all articles in
which such dutiable hides were com.
ponent parts of chief value should
have & reduction even below the rates
fixed in the house bill, except sole
leather itself, which in the house bill
has been reduced from 20 to 5 pei
cent, that being considered low
enough
The Yale expositor., 1909-08-06
storm Was a HowIer.

The electric storm which ragged
over Detroit and vicinity from 10 p.
m. Wednesday until a. m. Thursday
was one of the worst in the history
of the city. In one way IL was
record breaker, the rainfall being
the heaviest Detroit has ever
experienced. The battle OF the
elements appeared to eclipse all for
mer engagements for fury, but there
have been fiercer electric displays
and more violent thunder. AS mat
ter of fact, the lightning didn't DO
much damage Some trees were
struck, but no buildings suffered from
bolts so far as is known. The great
flood was too much for the sewers in
different parts of the city, and many
cellars were flooded, causing much
damage to household effects. The
storm was entirely local. While the
rain came down as it never did be-
fore, not a drop fell at Grand Haven,
Mich. At Grand Rapids only frac-
ton of an inch fell; Port Huron got
but half an inch, and Toledo the
same.
The Yale expositor., 1909-08-06
WIRELETS.

That Rev. James Burks, Presbyte-
rian field missionary, was robbed and
murdered is the belief of friends, who
are securing the country in the vicin-
ity of Howe, Okla, in a search for
the missing man.
The last chance of escape from a
sentence to the chain gang passed
from William H. Mitchell, for years
one of the most prominent men in
south Georgia, when the state court
of appeals affirmed the lower courts
sentence that he must serve a year
for assault and battery upon Miss Luz
cile Linton
The instant that Harry Thaw OBJ
tains his freedom, providing Justice
Mills decides he is sane, he will in
stitute proceedings against Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw for absolute divorce,
that he may avoid further support
of the woman. Several conferences
have been held between Mrs. Thaw's
attorneys and the legal representa-
tives of her husbands family. The
one subject has been the monetary
consideration.
The Yale expositor., 1909-08-06
Who Is the Woman?

That there HAY have been a wo-
man in the Rosenberg murder affair
at Joe Bedore's summer hotel, ST.
Clair Flats, is the surprising sugges-
ton raised for the first time by the
testimony at the hearing of Samuel
Frisbie, held for completely in the
crime
Charles Felt, bartender at the For.
ster hotel on nearby island. was the
witness who injected the new ele-
ment of surprise into the justice court
hearing, and he did it by testifying
that he had heard a woman scream
and then heard her plead: Don't
hit him any more" Then, added the
witness, he heard a man reply, He's
dead now"
The Yale expositor., 1909-08-06
Shot Anarchists.

A special dispatch received in Lon
don from .Cerbere, on the Spanish
frontier, says the reports that 119
anarchists of Barcelona were SEN
fenced by court-martial to death and
executed by shooting at the fort of
Montjuich have been officially con-
firmed
A special dispatch received from
Gibraltar says the British cruisers
Lancaster and Suffolk, together with
four torpedo boat destroyers, have
sailed for Moroccan waters.
The Yale expositor., 1909-08-06
boy City, at charlevoix.

The national boy city," established
at Charlevoix each summer under the
direction of Judge Willis Brown, Of
Salt Lake City, the famous Juvenile
court head and friend Of the boys. is
now under full swing. Several hun.
dred of the little citizens are domi-
ciled in the camp, from many cities.
The election of the mayor, alder
men, Judge and sheriff by the boys
was held Wednesday, and the inau-
guration ceremonies that night were
attended by Gov. Judson Harmon, OF
Ohio, and other men of wide reputa.
ton.
The Yale expositor., 1909-08-06
Saginaw Valley Isolated.

The attempt of Saginaw valley bust
ness interests 10 secure reduced
freight rates from the Atlantic coast,
has been turned down by the inter
state commerce commission.
The commission holds that investi-
cation fails to reveal discrimination
against Flint, Saginaw and other
points in the valley. The Saginaw val
ley lies well TO the south of the
through lines between Chicago and
New York, which Detroit and Toledo
get the benefit of. This comparative
isolation cannot be ignored by the
rate.maker, the commission holds.
The Yale expositor., 1909-08-06
Killed in New Runabout.

Driving toward home in the new
Brush automobile he had just pur-
chased in Detroit, John Hause.
grain dealer of Clinton, was instantly
killed by a collision with an express
car on the d.. Y, A. A. e. j. electric
line near Dearborn. Chester Dwyer,
a Detroit demonstration. who was in
the car, escaped with slight injuries.
The Yale expositor., 1909-08-06
The State Treasury.

The state treasury has Just been
enriched by $5,11719, the proceeds
from the sale OF the Michigan build
ings at the jamestown exposition.
Wednesday morning $25.171.40 was
paid by the Detroit, Grand Haven e.
Milwaukee railroad as back taxes, but
this amount will be turned into the
primary school fund, which at pres
ent contains s60S,000. The general
fund contains $4,000.
The Yale expositor., 1909-08-06

Eden Brisbois, aged 10, OF Cadillac,
was caught In a shaft at the turpen.
tine factory there, and for nearly 20
minutes hung suspended by his cloth
ing. His father entered the room AM
shut off the machinery. The boys
right leg and hand were broken. He
will recover.
The crop of ginseng in Eaton Rap
ids and vicinity the present season
will be more than double what II was
in 1908, and the amount. Of this rave
product that was harvested then
brought much money. All Of the gir-
seng growers report remarkable
growth this season.
The Yale expositor., 1909-08-06

Farm values in the vicinity of Flint
are shooting skyward at a remarkable
rate and the country and city are ex'
cited over the discovery of coal.
The Yale expositor., 1909-08-06
Wriaht's FLIGHT.

orville Wright travelled 47.431 miles
an hour in his fight Friday in return
ing from the Alexandria end OF the
course to Fort Myer This is the
official report made by the trial board
at the war department.
His speed to Alexandria from the
Fort Myer end OF the course was
37.735 miles an hour, making the av-
erage 42.5S3.
The Wright brothers will receive
$4,000 for their aeroplane. $4,000 OF
which is the bonus for excess In speed
over the contract requirement.
The Yale expositor., 1909-08-06

tsrhtus ETC.
Detroit--Wheat-Ca No. 2 red,
s1.1O: July opened at $1.0S% and ad-
vanced 10 $40; September opened
with decline OF &c at s1.07A. de-
clined to s1.oe%, advanced 70 si.07&
and dropped to S1.07h; December
opened at s1.07%. lost Nc, advanced to
si.OSA and declined to f1.07h; No. 3
red. s107; No. 1 white. s1.1O.
Corn--Cash No. 2, Tao; No. yellow.
75hc.
asked; standard. 4shc; September,
Rye-Cash No. 1. soc: August 76c.
Beans-cash s2.20; October. 81.
Cloverseed-Prime March, 100 bags
at $500: prime alsike, 1925; sample
alslke s bags at ss.75. 5 at So, IL at
S7.25. 5 at f715.
Feed-In 1OO-lb sacks jobblng lots:
Bran. s2S; coarse middlings, s29: fine
middlings. ts1; cracked corn. S32:
coarse cornmeal, sSl; corn and cat
FiourEBest Michigan patent. ss.75;
ordinary patent. $3.50; straight $40
clear se;2s: pure rye. $3.50; spring
patent. $685. per Dbl In wood, iobbing
lots.
The Yale expositor., 1909-08-06

His mind supposedly unbalanced by
constant reading of the testimony OF
the Thaw hearing, Edward Cordin, a
New York bookkeeper, became vio-
lent and wrecked his apartment.
Armed with knife. the man defied
his neighbors to come into his rooms.
After being put in a straight jacket
Cordin snapped the straps and had
to be bound with ropes before he
could be taken to hospital
John w. Heron, father-in-law of
President Taft, who suffered mild
stroke OF paralysis at Cincinnati, is
reported much better
The Yale expositor., 1909-08-06

Harry Edwards, brakeman. run over
by a South Shore locomotive. was
hurried to a Bessemer hospital on
SPECIAL train, but died an hour later.
The Yale expositor., 1909-08-06
THE MARKETS.

Observation-Disclosures dry-fed steers
and heifers. $1,000; steers and heif-
and hefers. 500 to 1000 lbs, 1913 a
$50; grass steers and heifers that are
fat. 500 TO 1000 lbs, $3.50 $50; grass
200 lbs, sS.5O@3.75; choice fat COWS,
common cows. s25O9s; Gamers. 81;
boiognas. bulls. s$.5O@$.s5: stock bulls,
S3@3.25; choice feeding steers. 500 to
1000 lbs, s4@425; fair feedin gsteers,
stockers. 500 TO 700 lbs. $S.50@3.75;
stock heifers, s2,75Q3; mixers. large,
young. medium age, $4,000; common
Veal caives-Market steady last
weeks prices. Best. $I50qS; others,
Mich cows and springers--steady..
Sheep and lambs--Market 50@75c
lower than last week. Best lambs
light to common lambs, s4.5o@i5; year
lings $4,000 $50: fair to good sheep,
$1,000; culls and common: s250Q3.
last week. Range OF prices: Light TO
good butchers. $7.5067.60: pigs. $675
az; light workers, $7Q7.50; stays, 1-3
East Bunalo.-Cattle-Mar dull
and Csc lower on common grades: best
export steers. s6.25 @6.50; best 1.200 to
1.SOO-lb shipping steers. s5.75@6; best
1000 to 1,l06-lb shipping steers. $3.50
@5.75;. light butcher steers: $4;25@
s4.75; best fat COWS, s4.2S q 40; far <, TO-
best fat heifers. $5.25@5.50: fair to
good, s4@A5o; common heifers $3.50
stockers. s3,2563.50; light stockers, SO
@3.25; best bulls. s425@4.50 bologna
bulls. sS.50Q3.75t best fresh cows and
springers, s40M50; medium. s25q35;
common, S20M25.
Hogs-Receipts. 60 cars: market Sc
lower medium and heavy, :s.59@S.60;
y yopkhs sfG7Soc: Closed STEADY iV~S'1V'
sheep and lambs-Receipts, 20 cars:
slow; best lambs, Sf@7.25: fair 10
lings. s5.26@5.75; wethers. s5G5IO;
caives1siow; best. s7.75@s; heavy.
s4@5.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-04-06
BY PAUL II. BRUskE.

DALLAS, Tex, April 5.--lf Charlie
Schmidt wins a single argument on
the Detroit baseball club this season
II won't be because of the assistance
he will get from any of his team
mates who In former years have sid
ed with him. His return to the club
will, on the contrary. be featured by
a series OF hectorings that will strain
even the nonchalant bearing OF the
phlegmatic German backstop.
The "kidders" of the club are lay
ing for" Schmidt.
Round the hotel Hobbies in the even
ings: In the jumps across the south
west on the Pullmans; right In the
midst of the activities OF the practice
games, fellows have stored VI
thoughts to be vented on Schmidtty
when he appears, as appear he surely
will
A ball player who signs has no sym
pathy with holdout. He reasons
that, as the club have treated hin
fairly. it is treating the other fellow
Just as we'll And the other fellow has
no right TO skip the arduous sprins
training which nobody ever enjoys
and for which there Is no pay-envelopt
attached. Most OF all the man who
has signed is an exponent OF the opin
ion that no other member OF the clut
has a right to do anything which vii
hamper the club in its campaign FOL
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-04-06
rs ATTEND Y. M. c. A.
BASKETBALL BANQUET
John A. Tory 10 Toastmaster, and
lauds Oetroiters-Figures on
Gambes In Basketball

Seyenty-five persons attended the
annual basketball banquet at the Y.
NJ. c. A. last evening. John A. Tory.
well known in Detroit through his eff
forts to build up the Y. VI. c. A., was
the POSTMASTER. He paid a glowing
tribute to the Detroit people In erect
ing the new Y. NJ. c. A. building.
which, he said. stands as a monument
to the enterprise Of the city. He urged
that the membership be made 5000.
w. II. Ball. physical director OF the
local association, spoke on The ANA
teur Athlete" urging clean-cut sport
In professional and amateur circles.
AL G. Huebner spoke on From Within
Our Camp" referring to the compile
ton OF the fourteenth successful year
by the Commercial league basketball
team. There was selection by Mrs
Scarlet after which DR.. Studer re-
sponded to the toast, Clean Sport.
The other speakers OF the evening
were DR.. John III. Boyd, Relation OF
Athletics TO Every Day Life Presi-
denth Howarth, The Champions c.
A. Grinnell OF Grinnell brothers, Z.
r. Gilbert, OF the Michigan Bolt and
Nut works. Ollie Baxter. the veteran
basketball player, and w. +. Cary.
According to the figures furnished
by Mr.. Gray. the representative team
played IA games and won 10 OF them,
scoring 426 points TO the 29S for their
opponents and scored 149 field bas-
kets in the IA games OF which Capt.
Frank Branston scored 40. The team
was fouled 144 times and their oppon-
ents 214 times and loo Of the LA
chances were scored from the foul
line.
In the Commercial league. Monohan,
OF the Cadillac team. lead in field bas-
kets with 60 in Is games. with Tyler
OF the same team second with 90 and
the Cadillac team also led In the num-
Der OF points scorel during the season,
though the Harry J. Dean team, Com
mercial league champions. scored just
one more point than their nearest
rivals. Cadillac, In the three game
series between the pair and were
stronger on foul shooting.