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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-08

newly organized unlicensed companies
as coon as they Begin manufacturing.
There are now about IA unlicensed
companies doing business In Michi-
gan, and most OF the companies are
located in Detroit.
From thoroughly reliable sources II
IL learned ulat the defendants In The
initial batch bf suits will be the Owen
Motor Car Co., the Abbott Motor Car
Co, the Demot Car Co, the Warren
Detroit Motor Co. the Paige-Detroit
Motor Co. and one other. The list does
not include the Ford Motor Co, the
lsrgest OF the independent concerns
and the only one that has taken a
stand against the A. l.. A. Nj
Mr.. Whittemore explains that .
suit started against the Ford In New
York Ave years ago by the Electric
Vehicle Co., then owner OF the patent
Is still pending. and that final de
cree against the Ford Co., In favor OF
the Columbia Motor Car Co.. the pres
ent owner. Is expected the last OF thtS
month. In this event, Of course, an
immediate appeal would be taken by
the Ford Co, which would put up q
bond and continue manufacturing
Nevertheless, some significance ia
placed on the fact that the A. l.. A. NJ
Is not proceeding against the Ford
CO.. Notwithstanding the New York
suit.
Aside from the concerns mentioned
the unlicensed companies doing bust.
ness In Detroit are the Kritt Motor
Car Co., the Anhut Motor Car Co., the
Watt Motor Co.. the Beyster-Detroit
Motor Co., the Van Dyke Motor Car
Co., the Carhartt Motor Car Co. ana
the Michigan Six.
The threatened litigation, which
comes as a sequel TO the campaign
OF education" instituted b" the Assoc
citation OF Licensed Automobile Manu-
facturers a few weeks ago. will In
volve property running up into mil.
lions OF dollars, and will be followed
with the deepest interest by auto
users, dealers and makers In all parts
OF the country. The patent In ques'
ton expires in about two years. but
II the A. l.. A. NJ. succeeds in putting
the unlicensed manufacturers out OF
business for that length Of time the
field now open TO the smaller com
panies will have been appropriated by
the licensed companies by the time
the patent expires.
The local litigation will be under
the direction OF Mr. Whittemore.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-08
SWINDLER AT WORK.
"stings" Merchants by Representing
He's o. M. Ferry's Chauffeur.

The police issue a warning TO the
public, to beware of smooth young
swindler. for whom they are looking,
and who has obtained goods from
severa, merchants by representing
himself as chauffeur for ID. NJ. Ferry,
Jr., and for Kurt Killing, Of the Killing
Brewery Co.
Mr.. Ferry visited police headquac-
tiers, Wednesday, with three large
bills from downtown haberdashers.
When he had asked for an explanation
Of the bills. he was told by the mer-
chants that his chauffeur had Gale !
at the store, and taken the goods for
him.
Thursday morning, Kurt Killing mott
fed the police that he had also re-
ceived several bills, charged to his
account by young man who posed as
HIS chauffeur.
The stranger gave his name to the
merchants as Frank Schwartz.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-08
LONG THREATENED
WAR AMONG AUTO
MAKERS STARTS
Licensed Association To Bring Suit
Against Detroit and Michigan Man
ufacturers, Alleging Infringe
ment of Selden Patent.
Litigation Is the Most Important IN
History of Industry-Ford Com
pany Not Included.

BY far the most important litigation
In the history of the automobile In
dustry will be started In Detroit dur
ing the present week. according 10
present plans. by the Association oil
Licensed Automobile Manufacturers
against several Detroit automobile
manufacturers who are making cars
not licensed under the Selden patent.
The purpose OF the litigation Is to en-
Join the further manufacture OF cars
not so licensed on the ground that all
are heterogeneous on the Selden pat
eDi.
According TO advices received by
Attorney James Whttemore, the A.
l.. A. Ms local legal representative.
suits are TO be started against all the
unlicensed companies in Detroit AMI
Michigan actually engaged In turning
out cars. and suits will follow against
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-08
ETHEL STEVENS ARRAIGNED
Husband, Whom She Shot, Swears GU
Warrant Charging Assault.

Ethel Stevens. who shot her hus-
band, Howard Stevens. as he lay in
bed In their apartments over a livery
stable, was arraigned before Justice
Stein Thursday on a warrant sworn
out by Stevens and charging her with
assault with intent to kill
Mrs. Stevens. being mute, written
communication took place between her
and the Judge. and the case was finally
set for April 10. Stevens left Red
Cross hospital Thursday morning tc
swear out the warrant. He was shot
twice. One bullet inflicted a flesh
wound in his back, and the other
erazed his chest They had quarreled
ON account of jealousy, Mrs. Stevens
alleging that he was consorting with
other women.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-08
DRY VICTORY, SAYS HUDSON.
Declares Anti-Saloon League People
Won In Mondays Election.

il. Hudson is inclined TO feel that
the Anti-Saloon league won consid'
cradle victory in the elections Of this
week.
There is no doubt but that under
the Warner Cramton law. saloon con.
ditions are better" stated Mr.. Hud'
son, who is vice-president of the Anti
Saloon League. we have made q
gain in several ways. II was un
doubtedly a mistake to go into Kent
county. Under present conditions o:
public feeling there is no use In try
ing to do away with the saloon In
large cities"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-08
j. C.. BleiI Gets Berth.

Henry Barneskan clerk in the offlce
Of Register of Deeds Otto Stoll, hand
cd In his resignation, Thursday, TO
lake effect May L. He will engage III
the insurance and real estate bust
ness. Mr.. Barneakan will be succeed
ed by John c. Bleil, former alderman
and a candidate for county auditor 1T
the last election.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-08
Aupraise Mrs. eaIsIey's Estate.

A commission consisting Judge w.
F. Connolly. II. =. Hetherington and
Fred Licnterberg. appointed by the
probate court to appraise the estate Of
Mrs. Elizabeth Balsley, reported Thurs
day morning that her share in the De-
troit Pottery Co. was worth S31, 200.
This will be divided among Florence
u. Hazard, Philip II. A. Balsley and
George s. Balsley In equal shares.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-08
Won't Close seventh-St.

In the meeting of the council com
mittee on street openings Thursday
morning, 1t was practically decided
that the committee will report ad
versely on the petition of the Wabash
railroad for the vacation of Seventh
St. between Fort-st., and West Jeffer
sCn-ave.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-08
Sue. Farmer For Eight Years Pay

Claiming that she worked for eight
wears In the home of Charles Kalies.
a Romulus township farmer, with
out pay, Arnestine Heizfeld brought
suit for $4,000 In Judge Mandelrs
court, Thursday morning. Kalies
claimed that she came into his home
to live, and that the work she per.
formed was in return for her keep.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-08
w. r. kaIes Fined For Searching.

w. r. Kales, president of the pub.
lie lighting commission. was fined
$40, by Justice Jeffries, Thursday
morning on Motorcycle officer Tut
ties complaint that he drove his auto
mobile at the rate OF % miles an hour
out Jefferson-ave.. March 81.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-08
Forty.Four Would BE Citizens.

Special nearing of applicants for
citizenship papers will be held In
Judge Donovan's court, Friday. Forty
four applications will be heard.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-08

Business-iike Printing. No fuss and
no feathers. The plain, neat kind that
looks right. Times Printing Co., rs
John R.-st Main 149s. or City 33sS.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-04-23

rather for his unloving heirs. As his
salary grows he saves and invests
more. and still more. Probably he Will
see frequent chances of prof1taDie
usury. But he viii never take a risk
He is a faithful and Trustworthy
though not brilliant employe. He does
not become d~issipated nor gluttonous
and so has no use for Doctors. His
employers appreciate him and ne
coins their appreciation into more liv'
ing, growing gold.
or course he never marries. He
spends nothing on enjoying or self
culture or travel. In the end he dies
a lonely death, and from the famous
win case hat follows the lawyers
profit nightly.
There are probably a few boys in
New York today who will do this very
thing. 1t Is in them to do it. But is
It worth while?
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-04-23
FOOD PRICES LOWER
General Advance Now in Progfess
Aggregates Big Sum-Half Mil
lion Men Affected.

It is estimated that the general ad-
vance now in progress in the wages
Of railroad employees will amount to
s35, 600, 900. On account of the var
ious forms in which the announce
ments of increases have been made,
it is impossible to arrive at any def.
mite figure. but the above may be
taken as a moderate estimate.
The new schedules offered by the
Baltimore and Ohio, New York Cen
trail, the New York, New Haven and
Hartford, the Boston and Albany and
the Pennsylvania involve an aggre-
CRATE increase OF nearly $4,000, 600
annually and there are only four OF
the railroad upon which advances
have been announced.
Most of the advances granted since
the first of the year have been per.
centage increases. Some. however,
are in the form Of so many cents an
hour, and still others in the form OF
so many dollars a month. Two OF
the roads have simply announced the
annual otal which the advances grant.
ed would cost their treasures with.
out giving details.
The number Of men benefited by
these advances has ranged from a few
hundred, in the case of some com
panies, to as many as zoe, 900 i'm the
cas- of the company with the largest
payroll. The number OF employees
who have received wage increases
since the first of the year will not fall
short of half a million.
The principal advances so far an
nounced have been made by the fol
lowing roads:
Delaware. Lackawanna and West
ern.
Baltimore and Ohio.
Western Maryland.
Lehighi Valley.
Chicago. Indiana and Louisville.
Chicago and Northwestern.
Pennsylvania.
New York. New Haven and Hart
ford.
Philadelphia and Reading.
Norfolk and Western
New York Central and allied lines.
Boston and Albany.
Erie.
Atlantic Coast Line.
Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn.
This general advance in the wages
of railroad men is the second in a
period of four years. The last prev
ious raise came i'm 1906-1907. Soon
after, in the fall of 1907, came the
panic, but the railroads. despite the
falling off in business, did not reduce
the wages then. Thus the present in
crease comes on the top of the one
TOUR years ago.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-04-23
S35,OOO,OOO MORE
Is Said That in New York Decreases
Have Already Set in-Eountiful
Crops the Cause.
Crops the Cause

Close observers Of the food prod
ucts markets in New York yesterday
expressed itself in the probable set
Ting in Of an era Of lower prices for
foodstuffs.
The wish may in some degree be-
father OF the thought said one pro-
vision man, "as lower prices would
help us as well as the consumer. but
the tendency of prices is just now
Enthusiastically downward. 1t seems to
me entirely reasonable for the people
to look for a drop in the retail prices
of beef and pork in a short time. The
plentitude of grain has compelled the
farmer to feed it to his cattle. which
are waxing fat, and which must be
put on the market"
Other provision men expressed SIM
liar views, based largely upon the de-
cline in the grain markets and pre-
dietions of bountiful crops both here
and abroad
The American Agriculturisrs for
April 20 will say:
"a marked decline has occurred in
the prices of certain food products.
If this decline continues much longer,
the commissions that are Investigate
ing high prices will find themselves
out of a job.
Compared to the high point in
wheat last year, the present market
at Chicago shows a decline of II cents
a bushel. The decline in corn from
the high point of last eyar is 10 cents
and oats 20 cents. In other words,
the present wholesale price Of oats is
80 per cent below the highest prices
of hast year, corn is off "a per cent
and wheat, IA per cent.
'@These declines in grain are reflect
ed in mill feeds. Wheat bran is low
selling in the West at S. or Sc a ton
less than previous highest quotations,
a decline of 81 per cent while mid
dlings have declined at New York
points about SO a ton, or II per cent.
Even cottonseed meal is of So to So
or s to 10 per cent. Cottonseed itself
is a fraction of a cent a pound less
than in January, showing a decline of
about 5 per cent
Potatoes have not been so low IN
years, wholesale prices at present be-
ing at 40 to so per cent lower than
in November last. Vast numbers of
farmers held on to their potatoes un.
til the later Winter or Spring mar
kets and are now glad TO get rid of
their stock at % cents a tushel,
whereas a year ago they were whole
saleing at Chicago at 81 a bushel at
this time.
Butter has declined 6 per cent,
eggs have gone off as usual in the
Spring. Even beef cattle have no
more than held the high quotations of
March. and hogs are a trif1e off, al
though still very high and prices Of
sheep and lambs well maintained.
There has been a break in the price
of hay at country points in the West;
beans are also cheaper"
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-04-23
LEST WE FORGET.

In the minds of some Republicans
1T seems more important to get con
troll OF the party machinery and nom.
mate certain candidates for office
than ii does TO secure their election
afterward. This sentiment is encour-
AGED by certain Democrats in this
county who nearly always take a sec
ret part in helping to nominate Repuh-
Iican candidates and then fail
to do all they can to defeat them. The
result is apparent when we see how
many of the best Offices in this coun
ty are filled by Democrats in spite OF
the fact that the Republican majority
is at least 400 in the county. At the
coming election we are to elect three
members of the House of Delegates
1t is certainly the height of folly to
let the selection of a candidate for
United States Senate cause the de-
feat of the Republican candidates for
House of Delegates. What would it
profit either Senator Scott or Hub.
Hubbard to carry the county in a pri.
mary and then the Democrats win the
members of the House of Delegates
And that is what will happen as sure
as fate If the Republicans don't bury
their differences and quit fighting
among themselves before and after
the primary election. As We see it,
there is but one way out of the diff
Guilty: Put the names of Mr.. Hubbard
and Senator Scott on the ticket and
let every republican agree to stand
by the nominees regardless of who
wins. The West Virginian stands
ready to support with might and main
every Republican nominated for
House of Delegates regardless of who
carries the county for United States
Senator. But let us have fair dealing
among Republicans. We will con-
tinue to lose by fighting men because
they don't belong to "our crowd" 1t
is vastly more important that We have
a Republican legislature elected than
that either Senator Scott or Mr.. Hub,
bard win the primary in Marion or
any other county, Let us be Republt
cans now as we'll as after the primary
and avoid the shoals of defeat.-Fair
mont West Virginian.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-04-23
A TRIUMPH FOR OEcENcY.

The result Of the election for Con
gress in the Thirty-second New York
district is another notable triumph
for decency. The only issue was the
moral one. It is idle 10 attempt to
attribute the overturn of a RepubLi-
can plurality of more than 10000
eighteen months ago to any PARTISAN
or political effect when the actual and
ruling cause is so plainly apparent,
as it was in this case.
Aldridge, for twenty years the boss
Of Monroe county and a power among
the "black horse cavalry" at Albany,
representing all that was detestable
in machine politics, formally branded
and admitting the taking of a $1,000
check from an insurance lobbyist,
sought, through his control of the
party organization in the district, to
procure a "yindication'' by having him
self nominated and elected to Con-
gress in the place of the late James
Brock Perkins, The nomination was
within his power by his domination of
the county organization, but the cleo
ton was beyond him. The Democrats
nominating the law partner OF the
late Congressman, aided by the
aroused sentiment of independent Re-
publicans attracted by the opportun-
ity to rebuke a conspicuous abuse of
their party name, made the fight on
the personality Of the candidates and
Havens was elected by a plurality of
5000, a turnover of $4,000 Republi-
cans achieving hat exemplary re-
suit.
Ravens Is a Democrat and for tar
if reform" but it is plain from the
vote that he was elected in spite of
his political views rather than be-
cause OF them. The 10000 Republi-
cans who voted for him simply took
the course that any honest voter
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-04-23
Republican District Goes Demo-
cratic By Large Majority.
FIRST TIME IN MANY YEARS
Not in Two Decades Has That District
in New York State Been Represen-
ted at Washington BY a Democrat
Many Of the Republican Reverses in
Residence Districts.

Rochester, y. Y, April 20.-Moce
than 10000 voters of Monroe county,
changed from the Republican TO the
Democratic column and elected the
first Democratic Congressman that
has represented the Thirty-second dis
triet in twenty ears. James s. Hay-
ems, a Democrat, running on a tariff
reform platform, defeated George w.
Aldridge, for a score of years the ruler
OF the county Republican ~organiza-
ton by $500 votes.
Normal Republican Majority 5000.
Monroe county, which comprises
the Thirty second Congressional dis
trict. is normally Republican by about
5000. James Brock Perkins whose
death in the middle of his third Con
gression term necessitated a special
election yesterday carried the district
in 1908 by 10,167 votes.
Ravens had arrayed against him
one of the strongest political crgani-
cations in the State. Yet in a cam.
paign lasting but seventeen days and
with hastily constructed machinery.
he accomplished one of the most re
markable o%verturns in political his
tory.
The result of yesterdays election
takes its place beside the Democratic
victory in the Fourteenth Massachu-
sets district where Eugene n. Foss
was cent 10 Congress from a district
supposed to be as rock-ribbed Repub-
lican as this one.
The overturn in the city was from
a Republican plurality of 6,125 in the
last Congressional election in 1908 10
a plurality for Ravens of 3,746. The
towns, which in 1908 went Republi-
can by 1912, gave Ravens a plurality
of 2,154.
Residence Districts Heard From.
The most remarkable Republican
~reverses occurred in some of the resi-
dence wards. The Twelfth turned a
Republican plurality of 1862 into a
Democratic plurality of 700.
The success of Ravens probably
means that he will be a candidate to
succeed himself when his present
term expires at the end of the year
The Democrats declare that it can
the end of Aldridge's hopes for cleo
tive Office; but are not so sanguine
OF their ability to shake his hold as
political ruler of the county in local
affairs.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-04-23
is 1T WORTH WHILE D.?

An old confidential clerk in a bank
ing house has just died leaving an es-
tate of between 81, 100000 and $4,000.
600, all saved out of his wages and ac-
quired by Investments. Far from being
a difficult feat, this is rather easy.
Any bright boy who fancies such a
career can repeat it., says the New
York World.
Suppose an office boy of sixteen has
in two years saved by pinching self
denial 500. He can loan it at legal in
terest on good personal security or in
vest il to yield 5 per cent. In the for,
mer case if the yield is kept %reinvest-
ed it win grow to $4,000 by the time
he is seventy-fve; in the latter case
to S2,100.
But the boy keeps on saving, His
wages are -aised from time to time,
and as his second, third, and succeed
ing 800 come more quickly, each in
turn to set on its way to grow into
thousands. At thirty-fve he has a sal
airy of perhaps s ,5O0 a year ana saves
$500 Of it or more. The savings of
that single year, kept invested at le-
gal interest, viii grow to $4,000 in
forty years. But already he has MANY
other dollars at work for him-or
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-04-23
REV. EDGAR WOODS DEAD.
He Served Charlottesville Church For
Years, Then Taught.

~ ~
Charlottesville, Va, April 20.-Re0.
DR.. Edgar Woods, SO years old, died
late yesterday afternoon. He was
born at Wheeling, educated at Wash
ington College University, of New
York, and Princeton. After several
years at the bar he entered the min
.stry. A p~astorate at Wheeling was
followed by one in the First Presby-
terrain Church, of Columbus, Ohio. and
eleven years in the church al Char
lottesville. His health failing, he
bought Pantops, and founded Pan
tops Academy and also ministered to
country churches in Albermarle, He
declined many calls to churches and
educational institutions.
He married Maria Cooper Baker,
of Martinsburg. NV
Five children and 90 grandchildren
survive. His children are Mrs. Annie
e. Sampson, Samuel B. Woods, ex-
mayor of Charlottesville; Rev. DR.. H.
NJ. Woods, DR.. Edgar Woods, and DR..
James b. Woods, the last three being
missionaries of the Presbyterian
Church in China.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-04-23
Valuable Book Loss

At the school exhibit at the Apple
Carnival in Martinsburg last tall a
book on exhibit was accidentally
lost. 1t is supposed the book was TAX
en- through mistake. 1t was d text
book on geography and history. com
ibined and contained the name OF
Eveline McKown. Persons having had
books on exhibit will please examine
the list to see if this book is among
them. If ii is found please send it to
me by mail and I will refund postage.
WILLIS F. EVANS,
Il County Superintendent
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-04-23
WE'D ON RAILROAD TRAIN
Couple From Big Pool Have Knot
Tied in Romantic Way.

From The World of Wednesday:
Miss Laura Merle Tice and Ray
mond J. F%unkhouser of Big Pool, were
married on a Western Maryland pas
senger train between Big Pool and
Hagerstown, by Rev. L. A. Miller. The
minister, who was called aboard the
train, performed the ceremony while
the train was running 40 miles an
hour. The couple remained en- the
train going to Baltimore. The groom
is a son of n. e. Funkhouser, a for
mer member of the Maryland Legis-
lature.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-04-23

must have taken when confronted
with so fragrant an outrage as Aid
ridges threat to "vindicate' himself
as the nominee of the Republican par
ty. Instead OF p~resaging defeat for
the Republicans in New York State
next fall the vote in Monroe is a
practical demonstration of the warn
ing Of Governor Hughes and senator
Root that the party must remove the
barnacles before the voters become
so enraged that they will not pause
to discriminate between the barnacles
and the party to which they cling
'Pittsburg Dispatch.