Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-27
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

left Rochester. Mimi. Wednesday Tor
Madison, Wis. their home Senator
LaFollette has completely recovered
from his recent operation for gall
stones.
The Tariff Boards experts are busy as
sembling the data which they recently
gathered on the pulp and paper schedule
1t is said work on that schedule has ad-
vanced to a point where it seems certain
that it will be the first presented to Pres
ident Taft with the boards recommends
tions and findings. Experts are WORKING
on four oher schedules and making
steady progress.
a dispatch to the Cologne Gazette
from Constantnoplc states that III
view of the developments in Persia
the government has under discussion
the plan to send into Persia troops
equal III number to those sent into
that country by Russia and Great
Britain in order to protect Turkish
subjects 1t is also affirmed that Turk
ish interests are disincIined to toler-
ate II division of Persia between Rus
| STA and Great Britain.
The inventory of the estate of the late
Samuel Clemens Mark Twain) filed in
the probate court at Redding, CT ,
Wednesday shows the valuation as made
| by the appraisers, Alfred B. Payne. Mr..
| Clemens literary secretary, and Harry
| Louisbury, superintendent of the estate,
! as $6l1 1886. Mr. Clemens home, Storm
| field, and the 80 acres surrounding it
| are valued at $4,000. The approximate
value of his stock holdings are given as
| $45o, 600, of which 100000 is in stock of the
| Mark Twain Co.
Within a half hour after Arthur =.
| IIeinze convicted Of obStructing the
| administration of justice, surrendered
to United States Marshal IIenkel
| Wednesday at New York, he was in
| the Tombs prison. ready to serve a
| 10-daNs sentence. The convicted man
| is d brother Of f. Augustus Heiinzc.
| He was convicted in the United States
circuit court on oct. 26, 1909, for as
| sisting Tracy buckingham, a witness,
| wanted by the federal grand jury, to
| go to Canada. He was sentenced to
| 10 days i'm prison and ordered to pay
u fine of $3.50. Immediately after the
| conviction HeinZe took an appeal and
days ago the United States supreme
court affirmed the conviction.
Iowa is prosperous in agriculture
| because Of the labor of the farmers
| children" was the burden of the tes-
| timony given Wednesday at Chicago
| before the Interstate Commerce Com
| mission by Henry q. Wallace. farmer
and editor .of, HeS MQines. in the hear
ing on the proposed freight rate adj
vance. Drawing q picture Of the Iowa
| farmer clad in cheap clothes and own
| ing an automobile and aided by the
| labor of his offspring. Mr.. Wallace de-
tailed statistics of the grain crops of
the state. concluding by showing an
apparent loss of about $4,000 per year
to the renter of an 160-acre Iowa
| farm.
ogden Mills and Phlio T. Dodge of
New York aud Herbert A. Wilder of
Boston, Mass, were reelected dircc-
| tors "Wednesday at the annual meet
ing of the stockholders Of the Inter-
national Paper Co, ut the Office of the
company in Corinth. n Y. Albert II.
Virgins and William u. Russell of
New York were also elected members
OF the board. The new board of di-
rectors deferred the election of officers
until later meeting to be held in New
York The stockholders made an in
Spection Of the plant. which is now
running on full time. 1t was officially
announced after the meeting that the
session had been harmonious and that
no opposition to the directors who
were elected had developed