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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-16
STATE HOUSE,
Automobile Registration
Indicates Close Of Season,
Number Of Fatalities During
Hunting Season Was Nine.
Of These But Four Were Killed
While Hunting.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR,
Next Meeting Of Governor and Council
Friday, Dec. is, at 10 A. M.

The automobile business for the
month of December, which month is
now half gong, bids fair to be very
light. That Of the month to date has
shown q falling off compared with the
business Of the preceding month Of
November, the receipts from the auto
mobile department of the office of the
secretary of State during the first Is
days OF December being but $50.
Tn" records of the clerk in charge
of this department show that from
the time that the law went into effect
IN 1905 up to Dec. u of the current
year the number of automobiles reg
istcred was 1888; that the number Of
licenses issued to operators was Sl52;
that the number of motor cycles reg
istercd was 624, and that the number
of licenses issued to dealers was 165.
The total amount received in fees
from these sources during that time
was $o3,76S. which was divided as fol-
lows: From registration of 2utomo-
biles, Si4,J56: from licenses issued TO
operators, $l6,30+; from registration of
motor cycles, SEAS. and from licenses
ISSUED to dealers, $l6c0.
, Regarding the business of the cur
rent year to date the books show that
the number OF automobiles registered
WAS c423: that the number of licenses
issued to operators WAS 2565; that the
number OF motor cycles registered was
15-, aud that the number of licenses
issued to dealers was IL. The total
amount received in fees from these
sources was $10,s90. divided as fol-
lows: From registration Of automo-
biles, SiS46: from licenses issued to
operators, $3.50: from registration OF
motor cycles, $30i, and from licenses
issued to dealers, $4lo.
For the first half Of the month Of
December the records show that the
number of automobiles registered was
eight, the fees from which amounted
to SIG. The number Of licenses issued
TO operators was II. the fees therefroln
being S34. one dealers license was
issued during the period and the fee
received WAS So making the total re-
ceipts in tees for the first malt OF the
month $50.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-16

Moving into the new State House
has now begun to take tangible FORM
and within q short time many OF 'ii'
departments viii be established j."
their new quarters. one OF tle~e 10
the executive department, which ms
since the remodeling of the State
House began been located at tio
H,,ine house. Men are at Work put-
tinr down the carpets in the new quar-
tors. which includes the Governor >
rno,, the Council chamber and an
anteroom, and the department VIII DC
ready for occupancy WITHIN
f,ay ,lays. The desks Of the lno''ioei7
ipt; tie lower branch of tnc hcei'.o
tnrc are in position in Represents
,i,.o., ha,l and those of the senate
chamber are all ready to put IN p'ace
Everything is going along ~, llsm. I
resent and the end of another "eeA
, ~ make :, big difference in the ap-
,aar.nce Of things about the ne"
Capitol.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-16

Mars Hill View-Miss Shaw. who has
heen teaching the upper school at
Parkhurst, has resigned her fosltloi'
and the scholars Will be hauleo 10 the
lower schoolhousc. and IT thcN Don
behave they will be skinned anu tier
hides tackled up ON the woodsAed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-16

A notice which has been iileu q. 1922 NV
,rce of the secretary of state cer,'-
ons mat 1T a meeting of the STOCK
holders of The Kimberly CorIora.io,''
no,d -, the company's Office IN f'ort-
land on Monday, Dec. H. ~ ,he
solved that the capi'al s'ooN ooo ooo
corporation be reduced from siU '.o,~e
divided into shares Of the par ;n.o
If 81 each. to 100000 dlv,aeu INV
shares of the par value OF - eaei'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-16

ONing to the fact that tile income
from the Lucinda Bailey fund given
for school purposes jim Bath has
amounted to SS6l54 for thespast year,
The school board IS considering the
ady:sa hilitv of engaging an Instructor
-, domestic science and the committee
on manual training Is making lhVesti-
cations - N''a-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-16

The operetta. "Hiawatha," was pre-
scented Dec. &. by the students of New
bort High school. odd Fellows hall
was crowded, The leading parts We're
taken as follows: Hiawatha, Marion
Eensou. Minnehaha. Hattie fushor:
Nokon,is, Hazel Soper: ancient arms
maker. Maurice Libbey; Chibrabis,
walter Libbey; Paupukkeewis, Periey
Nelson.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-20
{. M. F. co. WILL
NOT COMP PROMISE
REFUSE OVERTURES MADE BY
STUDEBAKERS
PLAN TO HANDLE PRODUCT IN
OWN WAY
President Flanders Declares Concern
VIII Be Sold for Nothing but
Cash-Stock in Right
Hands

'There are not now, nor have there
been at any time, any negotiations be-
tween the EMF company and Stude-
bakers with a view to effecting a recon-
Ciliation or a compromise says Walter
H. Flanders, president and general
manager of the EMF company. Il
hope this emphatic statement will set
at rest once and for all those foolish
and utterly unfounded stories to the
effect that the differences between the
two companies will be patched up.
Before resembling the sales agree
ment between this company and the
StudebakerS the EMF directors care
fully considered and canVassed the en-
tire matter. We were convinced that
StudebakerS, with their organization
and peculiar methods, could not be en-
trusted with the marketing of a product
as great as ours, amounting as it does
to over $30000,000 per annum. We have
found no reason to change our minds
on that subject since.
ALSO before taking the important ac-
tion of resembling the sales contract
under which Studebakers were operat-
ing, we took the best legal advice OBJ
tainable and were assured that Stude-
bakers had broken the contract not
only in spirit but under the law. That
and that plan has not, nor will it be,
deViated from in the slightest
Nor is it possible for anyone, at any
price, to buy sufficient stock to gain
control of the EMF company, as GER
tain parties have intlmated they hoped
to do. The Detroit stockholders are a
unit. They concur in every move that
has been made, and none would sell
unless all sold together. OF course that
runs into millions-for EMF stock is
worth many times par at the present
time; and while there are many who
talk millions, there are few who can
control them in actual cash.
No Suit Expected
80 far as any action for damages, as
has been talked of, is concerned, we are
prepared for that also. We know ex-
actly where we stand, and that there is
no foundation for damages, though of
course anyone can bring an action on
any old ground if he wants to and has
the money to pay the lawyers bills.
However, that's a game two can play
at.
"The EMF company is today the
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-20
McLAIN INvENTs HORN

The new auto horn invented by ].
C. McLain, president of the NJ. &
M. co. of Cleveland, was exhibited for
tho first time at the Chicago auto show
and orders have already been taken for
more than 1000 of them. The horn is
of the type Of the Klaxon, but much
simpler I'm mechanism. It's tone re-
sembles a low toned steamboat whis-
tie, penetrating but more musical
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-20
WELCOMES A NEW TENANT

The new garage at 959 South Olive
street of the Newell Mathews com
pany, who handles the Westcott and
Whiting cars, has just received its oc-
cupants. The public is showing a great
interest in both these cars. The West
colt 40 at $2150 has created quite a stir
and the Whiting Roadster 20 is show
ing up as a reliable car with a low
expense for upkeep.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-20

largest manufacturer of automobiles in
the world. Our product commands the
greatest demand. Our only problem is
to get them out fast enough. b1nan-
cially no other concern occupies so en-
viable q position. In short, we are in
a position where we need ask odds OF
no one. We would have nothing to
gain by a compromise or a reconcilia-
tion, and certainly we would not for
moment consider again placing the
sale of our product at the mercy OF
people who. made so miserable failure
of it when they did control its sales.
"All question as to the correctness
of our position in resembling the con-
tract with Studebakers and marketing
our own product of EMF go and
Flanders 90 cars direct through deal
ers or otherwise was set at rest by the
important decision handed down by
Judge Swan in the United States circuit
court. Judge Swan not only refused
the Injunction asked for by Stude-
bakers to restrain us from selling our
product direct, but in an able opinion
the Judge stated that Studebakers had
no right to come into q chancery court
on they grounds they did. That was
the sixth consecutive victory, every
one of them decisive, for the EMF
company The most desperate event
ually comes to a realization that he Is
licked
Consolidation Not Probable
Concerning those other reports that
have been current during the past few
weeks. intimating that negotiations
were on foot to absorb the EMF COM
pany by the United States Motors
company, President Flanders had this
to say: 1.-THE whale might swallow
Jonah, but I don't believe you could
! reverse the story and have Jonah swal-
low the whale.
'I won't deny that overtures have
been made by different people inter
ested in forming big consultations
Had we been in need of money, or had
anything we wished to dispose of, some
of the propositions might have been
fattering. But we haven't. L don't
know of anv other investment that Is
quite so profitable, certainly none that
is safer, than EMF stock Despite
the high prices that have been offered
for small blocks or large during the
past few months, / don't know of a
share that has changed hands. We
would be more interested in buying
than in selling were we interested in
either
Besides" continued Flanders, "any
one who would absorb or merge or buy
the EMF company would have to
come UP with the real cash-not stage
money or pretty stock certificates. And
he would have to come with more
money than any one has yet been able
to offer. No, I don't think there is any
| imminent danger of Jonah swallowing
the EMF whale"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-20

Eat at the Angeius grill.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-05-27

the asking, and such letters are
really of little value.
once knew a young lawyer who
went into a law office in Kansas
City in search of desk room with
perhaps a small salary if he could
get it. The old lawyer whom he
interviewed had no room in his
o ce, but he was attracted by the
earnest manner of the applicant,
and told him to leave his letters,
and he would see what could be
done later. The young fellow re
piled, al have no letters. | have
done nothing as yet that will justify
any one in giving me letters. /
could get you bushel of letters If
you want them, but l would prefer
to have you try me and see If |
am worth anything"
His honesty appealed to the old
lawyer, the lad was given an
opportunity, and of course he made
good.
Within the last thirty days a new
mayor in Kansas City has had
several thousand men seeking po
lltical jobs. The applicants could
fill the small places, the jobs where
ard unimportant wsrk was
to be done, but the important
positions, the places where men of
the highest efficiency and the
greatest reputation for integrity
were essential, went begging. Al
least half Of them were filled by
citizens who accepted them under
protest, and only from a sense of
public duty. Men who have the
ability to fill the best public po-
sitions can receive higher compensa-
tions in private work.
When you are trying to carve out
your position in life, try to remen-
Der what you yourself would want
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-05-27

in another perssn from whom you
were seeking similar service. If
you want carpenter to build you a
house, you want skillful carpenter;
a preacher for your church, you
demand a devout and enthusiastic
preacher. The world is seeking,
is demanding increased efficiency
in every vocation ef fe. Me
sklllful physicians, better architects,
abler lawyers, more scholarly
teachers. You in your student life
demand the finest athletes, the
ablest baseball players, and the
best football players so that you
may beat Missouri. That is right,
and no one shouts louder than | Go
when you are victorious; but you
must remember that athletics is
your recreation and not your life
work.
Down in Kansas City there used
to be sign on a saloon opposite
the city hall that read: "If business
interferes with drinking, stop
business"
Now, like to see a man enthusi-
astic in all that he undertakes, but
don't like to see him too enthusi
astic. So conidentially and strictly
c0nhdentlally | say to you that If
your school work intefferes with
football, don't sop school work,
ard to that extent l would beg you
to temper your enthusiasm, for you
are coming here to get an education.
In your education the state is
making an investment. 1t is eulti-
waiting manhoSd and efficiency in
the worlds work, cultivating ire
finest aud most profitable crop that
can be produced in the world. and
the state gets its seed from the best
blood, the most virile manhood IN
the world, the youth of the great
Missouri valley.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-05-27
and Carriage Paints Phone $685. Street No. Ill w Main

the management of the department
has been very much improved even
with the scant funds we have had to
use.
Now Mr.. Wagstaff, for almost a
year the men who are promoting your
campaign, including Senator Curtis,
who opened this controversy, have
been making grave charges ofextrava-
gance and wastefulness against my
administration. | have repeatedly
asked them, and now l demand of
you, that you abandon the policy of
glittering generalities in your state
ments and come down to practical
business statements and show what
payments have actually been made
for either material or labor or sup
plies that were not necessary and
useful to the state.
The books of every department and
institution of this state are open to
your inspection. Unless you can
show specifically where extravagances
and wastefulness prevails in some
institution or department your
general charges are unworthy OF
further consideration or reply from me.
w. r. STUBBS.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-05-27
1t Prepares the Ordinary for
E.minence.


Hon. Edwin Meservey-of Kansas
City, a graduate of the class OF
1882, addressed the students of the
University of Kansas May 6, 1910.
ollowing is part of what he said;
Kansas University and Missouri
University are making and sending
out into the world real men and
real women, and the best of all is
that they are making them out of
students who come here with no
more than ordinary capacity.
Kansas University has been a sue
cessful institution because it has
cultivated industry, patience and
courage, and taught its students to
think, and it is this fact which
offers hope and inspiration to the
humblest student who comes here.
Right here l want to offer word
OF hope to the young man or young
woman who feels that he or she is
lacking in natural ability. Too
many students who are slow of
speech or whose brains are naturally
sluggish become discouraged and
quit because they feel that they
have not an equal chance with
others more favored. l believe
this disheartment is the cause of
many failures.
But say to you that no matter
how slow a student is, how difficult
it may be for him to learn, he can
make equal progress with the pest
one here if he will square his
and face the world with
his fist clenched and his teeth
pressed firmly together with
determination to attain success in
whatever he undertakes, honestly
and fairly. Many of you may not
fully realize this until you have
finished your work, but it is thing
which you must recollect if you
wish to lead a successful life.
More to those who are soon to
graduate, and are seeking an
opportunity to get a start in life's
work, remember that although you
are getting along in years and have
a college education, you are still at
the beginning. 1t will probably
shock some of you to learn how
little you know. But you are well
quipp d indeed If you possess the
ability and Witness to work in the
light way. To many Of you it will
be difficult to obtain an opening.
You will be obliged to go out and
make application to strangers for
IN opportunity to work iu your
chosen vocation. When you aP--
,roach a man on this errand, don't
20 into his Office with your pocket
stuffed full of Recommendations
rom your college instructors. from
roGr pastor, or from the banker
where your father has kept his
iePosit. Sometimes a letter from
one personal friend to another is of
ZONE value, but business men know
hat any Incompetent weakling can
usually get recommendations for
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-05-27
Gov. Stubs Reply to
Wagstaff.

Topeka, May 1S.-Gov. w. r.
Stubbs today sent the following open
letter to Tom Wagstaff, his opponent
in the race;
Hon. Thomas Wagstaff.
Candidate for Governor,
Independence, Kas.
Dear Mr.. Wagstatf:-On account of
engagements which have made it
necessary for me to be absent from
Topeka, have been unable to give
attention to the charges you made
against my administration in your
keynote speech at Independence.
No conscientious man who aspires
to hold the highest office within the
gift of the people of this commonwealth
would make such positive statements
about matters of such great Importance
to the state as you made at Independ-
ence without having definite, reliable
information which would sustain and
prove the truthfulness of his state
ments In the first place, you charge
at Independence that have increased
the state taxes more than $1,000, 900,
and since the Independence speech
you have increased the amount to
81, 100000. Will you please state
publicly what authority, or power,
under the law the governor has to
increase state taxes? Can you, as a
lawyer, cite one single line or sentence
from our state constitution, or
statutes, that gives the governor any
authority or power whatever to in
crease state tax levies?
Do you not know as a lawyer and a
citizen that taxes are levied by the
state tax commission for the sole
purpose of meeting appropriations
made by the legislature?
UP TO LEGISLATURE.
Do you know of any way that the
governor can expend one single dollar
from the state treasury until it has
been appropriated by the state
legislature?
Do you not know as a matter of
fact that it is crime punishable by
Imprisonment for the governor or any
other state official to even make a
contract binding the state for any
sum OF money not authorized by
legislative enactment?
If not, Cite you to Sections 1864
and 1906 of the general statutes of
1899.
You say the governor has power to
veto appropriations bills: Will you
name specifically what appropriation
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-05-27

bill passed by the last legislature you
would have vetoed if you had been
governor?
Will you not be fair enough to
state the real reason why the state
tax commission increased the tax levy
nearly 81, 600, 900 when the legislature
only increased the appropriations for
the same year approximately 1925, 900?
And will you say that the state tax
commission misrepresented the facts
in the following statements which l
quote from a letter received from
them under date of September 2S, 1909,
and which were published at that
time:
LEVY INSUFFICIENT.
"Early in January of the present
year it became apparent that the levy
for 1908 had been insufficient to meet
current expenses. The in
creased levy for 1909 was not made
because of increased appropriations
nor the present biennial period of
1910 and 1911 over the biennial period
of 1908 and 1909, but was made for the
sole purpose of placing the treasury,
as above stated, on solvent basis.
You stated in your Independence
speech that there was no deficit at the
beginning of my administration. Hon.
James M. Nation, auditor of state,
made the following statement to me in
letter signed by himself under date
of October ,, 1909;
''In answer to your inquiry concern
ing the condition of our finances at
the commencement of your administra-
tion, willsay that on the first day of
December, 1908, we had in the general
revenue fund about $4,000. At that
time the expenses of the state for
November had not been paid. All
the taxes of 1907 on which the state
relied for the payment of expenses up
until January l, had been drawn. AS
the running expenses of the state at
that time approXimated $500, 600 a
month, it is apparent that there was a
deficit of about 5000, 900 which had to
be paid out of the 1908 tax levy"
Will you, Mr.. Wagstaff, state
publicly that Mr.. Nation made false
statement about this matter, or will
you claim that he did not know what
he was talking about when he
furnished me the above information?
TALK CALLED RIDICULOUS.
Do you know, Mr.. Wagstaff, that
all this talk about revision of taxes
downward is ridiculous without you
have legislature pledged to reduce
the appropriations for state institu-
tions and the general purposes of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-22
NO GROUNDS FOR PROTEST.
Court Martial Sentence Not Double
Punishment in Robnett Case.

An examination of the precedents at
the Navy Department has convinced the
officials that there can be no ground for
protest by counsel for Passed Assistant
Surgeon A. III. Robnett against the SEN
tence of the court-martial in his case.
based on the plea that this constituted
double punishment. in view of the repri-
mand previously administered to him by
the Navy Department. In 1906 sailor
was accidentally killed in a launch in
Cavite bay by some one the cruiser
Charleston, then engaged in subcaliber
practice. The executive officer Of the
Charleston received a formal letter OF
reprimand from the naval commander of
the station. When the records reached
Washington the Secretary of the Navy
ordered the trial of the officer by court
martial. The same plea of double punish
ment was set up by the officer, but June
10, 1906. the Attorney General of the
United States rendered decision. which
has since been accepted without question
by the Navy Department, that such let
ter does not constitute a punishment in
the sense contemplated by the naval reg
ulatiOns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-22
CONGRESSMAN GUESTS
OF PRESSMEN'S UNION
Representatives Gillespie of Texas
and Sherwood of Ohio Deliver
Addresses at Banquet.

Representative .. w. Gillespie of Texas
and /. r Sherwood of Ohio were the
guests of honor last night at the annual
banquet of the Washington Printing
Pressmen's Union, No. 1. held at the
Riggs House Both made short addresses
Other addresses were delivered by F.. NJ
Pierce. president of the union, John p
Vail, Frank Kidd and William d. Leiss-
Ter.
Following the banquet and between
courses an interesting musical program
was rendered by the unions male quar-
tet, composed of Messrs. Galbraith
knight, Bugden and Perry and Harry
Tanner. f. A. Lang, Thomas Young, o.
car Robinson and Joseph Norris. F. B
Clarkson acted az POSTMASTER.
The officers of the union are:
Everett NJ. Pierce, president; G.. H
Evans. vice president; William H. Weber,
treasurer; Daniel 1-eane, recording secre-
tary: DIR. George Francis Peck. financia
alarms. Executive committee. c. II
Evans, c. v. White. John Vail. f. NJ
Pierce, II. Gilbert. +. B. Clarkson. Will
liam Weber, Daniel Leane and G. F.
Peck.
The banquet committee was composed
of William Dooley, William A. Jones
James III. Galbreath. H L. Montague. A
j. Hartley, E. r. Melton. N. c. Sprague
Charles Richardson, o. C. Carver, David
Walsh and William H. Dikeman.