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The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-06-18
DELEGATES NAMED
IN GRANT
Republican Central Commit.
tee Does Away With
Convention.

Quincy, Wash, June 18.-Pursu-
ant to call, the Grant county repub-
lican central committee met at Eph-
rata yesterday. The following was
introduced and passed:
Resolved, That the central COM
mittee of Grant county, in conven-
ton assembled, do hereby agree that
they will not call convention in
Grant county for the purpose of Sc
| lecting delegates to attend the re-
publican state convention, but will
appoint said delegates to attend said
state convention"
The following telegram was
placed by order in the record:
Seattle, Wash, June IA.
&c. c. Davis: Selection of dele
gates by committee approved under
circumstances you recite, including
unanimous action of committee and
no contesting delegation to state con-
vention.
Jas D. Lodge, Chairman.
a. w. Lyeson, Secretary
A committee of three drafted the
following platform for the republic
can party of Grant county, which was
adopted:
"First-We hereby reaffirm our al
legiance to the national republican
party and we hereby indorse the adj
ministration of public affairs by the
republican party, both national and
state; and we further especially in
dorse the administration of the bust
ness of Grant county and highly
commend the officials of said county
for their wise and economical admin
istration of said affairs which has
resulted in a material decrease in
taxation and by reason of which
Grant county now enjoys the lowest
percentage of taxation of any coun-
ty in the state of Washington.
Indorse Postal Banks.
"Second-We hereby indorse the
law which has been enacted by the
national congress providing for pos
tai savings banks.
"Third-We are in favor of the
enactment of law by the state legis
LOT hn IF int
which may be charged upon money
in this state to per cent and pro-
viding suitable and effective punish
ment for the violation of same.
"Fourth-We favor a strict re-
grading of all lands in the county of
Grant for the purposes of taxation,
with a view to more equitably dis
tributing the burden of the mainten-
ance of the government.
"Fifth-We hereby indorse the ac-
ton of the agricultural interests of
the county looking to their better
protection and enabling them to Sc
cure a more generous benefit from
their labors, and we pledge ourselves
to heartily support this movement"
Delegates and alternates were Sc
lected as follows:
Delegates-D. T. Cross, Ephrata;
G. NJ. Stapish, Hartline; S. G. Scheu-
erie, Quincy; J. w. Brewer, Wilson
Creek; E. H. Brownell, Beverly; E.
c. Davis, Ephrata; w. l.. Box, Cou-
lee City; H. c. Erickson, Krupp; w.
D. Van Slyke, Trinidad; w. D. Cas-
we'll, Morrison; w. E. Southland,
Wilson Creek.
Observation-Disclosures Staten, High
Hill; J. J. Peters, Warden; T. J.
Jones, Low Gap; A. Poggensee,
Wheeler; Louis Townsend, Red
Rock; D. Ferguson, Low Gap; w.
G. Mathews, Ephrata; T. S. Pierce
Stratford; E. w. Morris, Trinidad;
J. T. Young, Stratford; R. Widmer,
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weapon that will be sure as *
is awful in its effect upon any form of
organized gambling toward which it
may be aimed is now being forged by
some of the nations lawmakers. 1t is
another of those potent instruments.
like the pure food law. which gets it's
power from that tremendous central dy-
namo, the Interstate commerce clause
With this instrument the monster will
re paralyzed and from it's bloated body
will be uprooted those nerves and ar
teriej upon which it depends for it's
action. its very life. In other words,
professional gamblers will be excluded
from tho use of the interstate telephone
and telegraph lines of the country.
they are from the use of the mail and
express business.
Four days after the general bucket
shop raids the House committee on ag
riculture favorably reported a bill to
thus close the telegraph and telephone
services to gamblers in cotton options
The father of this bill is Representa-
tive. Charles F. Scott (Kansas), chair
man of the House committee on agri-
culture This is but one of thirteen
bills aimed a gambling in agricultural
futures which now upon the
House calendar
Race gamblers are likewise excluded
from use of the telephone and tele-
graph by a bill introduced by Senator
Burkett (Nebraska), upon which the
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PULASKI AND KOSCIUSZKO

little hope of an army of 1000. He
entered Warsaw armed with dictatorial
powers With the help of Gen. Wod-
zlcki he succeeded in bending the Of
ficials to his will. He was received
with reclamation.
April Kosciuszko's one brilliant vic
tory was fought: the battle of Racla-
vice: Poland was electrified by this
brilliant stroke. Warsaw arose en-
masse, and drove out the Russians, and
Prussia and Austria Joined with Russia,
of Russia. KosciusZko was taken
prisoner. and for two years languished
in a Russian cell.
When the Emperor Paul succeeded
Catherine he visited him and said:
have come, my general. to give
you liberty
At Koscuszko's request he liberate ed
$4,000 Polish prisoners in Siberia. He
clothed him properly, and supplied his
purse by gift of 5000 ducats.
KosciusZko determined to return to
America. His journey was one con-
tinuous ovation. AT Stockholm states
men, ambassadors and people from all
parts of Europe came to pay homage
papers announced: THE hero of liberty
is coming" The harbor was gayly deco
rated and when he sailed for America
many small craft followed the boat for
miles. escorting him with honor
When he arrived his welcome was
most enthusiastic.
II consider America my second father
land" he said.
Congress voted him grant Of land
and pension.
He was the trusted friend of Thomas
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low-gambler with whom he had had a
dispute. For this he was twice tried
one jury disagreeing and the other ad-
judging him insane. He was sent up to
Harry Thaw's retreat, Matteawan Asy-
lum. but had better luck than Thaw. and
shortly afterward he was with bucket
shop that was raided in New York. Two
other milionaires caught in the raid are
the brothers Louis and Angelo Celia
noted from their headquarters In St
Louis to the eastern coast, although the
network Of wires which they operate are
thickest through Illinois, Iowa Indiana
established free tracks, to which
passes were given in the saloons, and
where the very poor were encouraged 20
make bets in sums of % cents and a
half dollar This business fourished I'M
til the then district attorney and present
after threatening to call out the militia
against them The two other indicted
millionaires are Leo Mayer. a well known
bOokmaker of the race tracks. and George
Turner. broker said to have once been
expelled from the New York Stock Ey
change. Turner, when taken In the
Philadelphia Con" Exchange, suddenly
tore them to shreds, but they were later
patched together by the authorities. To-
gether with these five millionaire gam
blers a couple of dozen smaller fry were
taken in the government nets. One of
the three bucketing concerns figuring in
$1,000 and the others between $4,000 and
$4,000 a day, while each was paying
100000 year for leased wire service.
What a bucket shop really is remains a
mystery to many good people. The differ
ence between its methods and actual buy
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ATToRNEYC LIBERALS OFFICE VJASHnzGToN For WHICH
The ATTIC Ar1BLMdk WAX I5BE;NcIWAGE

solicitors go out and solicit bets from
working men and women and from clerks
and people in office who cannot find time
to visit the handbook maker or poolroom
personally. There are at present in the
United States siXty-one poolrooms and
253 landlords in twenty-nine of our
cities. In New York alone there are
10oCJ0 handbook and poolroom players. at
low estimate. and the evil is growing
do not care how honest police official
may be, il is impossible account of
politics for him to obtain the information
necessary for handbook prosecutions.
There is no chance for the officers of the
law to get into a pooiroom that runs I'M
der cover unless they are introduced by
some of the fraternity. Handbook pro-
prietors accept bets from minors of both
sexes; messenger boys are used to a
great extent in this business. and there is
only one remedy-one way of putting this
evil out OF business. That is by the
United States government enacting a law
prohibiting the transmission Of poolroom
and race ira * information over tele-
graph or telephone wires. either openly
or in cipher, and by having those laws
enforced after they are passed
JOHN ELFRErH WATKINS.
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SENbyEN'TT NEn) lATEER
OEbHL TORAR RACE Track
DATAER01DELEGRAPFLnIES 81

interstate telephone or telegraph lines.
The nerves o. this monster are thou
sands of miles of wire leased by one of
the great telegraph co:,n2 mes; 20 a syndi-
cate which poses as a r.eWS company and
which has executive Offices in Buffalo and
New York. This concern runs a wire into
each of the Doolrooms scattered over the
country, and for this serv &c the rooms
pay each $40 Il da;-el0 TO the race track
owners and 500 10 the news company"
According to evidence given to the COM
mfttee there were in New York city at
the end Of last year fifty pooirooms where
one may bet from one to fifty thousand
dollars a day. These poolrooms are not
to be confused with the places where the
game of pool is played They are rooms
where gamblers congregate in the after
moons to bet on horse races run on distant
race tracks. The equipment consists of
telephone: also a blackboard upon which
is written .ist of the horses. the jock
eyS, the weights the horses are to carry
and the odds of the coming races as tele
graphed from the tracks. The pooroom
proprietor allows from twenty to thirty
minutes between races for his patrons
to gamble.
At each race track the syndicate has a
track correspondent and telegraph oper-
ator. The correspondent watches the
race from the press stand and telegraphs
the information needed for the poolroom
blackboard-the names of the jockeys and
start that day., etc. and. finally, the Of
fetal description of the race. The oper-
ator takes the correspondents copy as It
is turned out and reduces it to cipher.
Thus bread may indicate Jack Atkin,''
a horses name, or chain may mean II
to T. and so on. This cipher is employed
as a protection against overlapping pool
rooms stealing the information and using
it without paying its tribute to the syndi-
cate
Sixty race tracks have closed as the re-
suit of state legislation forbidding race
track gambling. These laws have rid
these states of the bookmaker, because
he can do his gambling only at the track
side. But they have not freed the states
from the clutches of the big track-gam-
bling octopus, which can keep alive
long as ii has wires connecting with
tracks in distant states foreign coun-
tries where racing is still allowed. Cut
these wires him and he is as dead as
a dog whose spinal cord has been severed.
And this is what the Burkett bill does.
ThirteeH tracks still supply the pool
room octopus his strength with which to
suck the blood of the country's youth.
Maryland Montana and Virginia supply
each one track; Oklahoma Nevada and
Florida, two each: kentucky, three; Can
ada, two, and Mexico. one. OF these.
however. Florida has abolished betting
after this year. Montana has limited 1t
to one month year, while Kentucky
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1t reads: Il, ThaddeuS kosciusZko,
being just in my departure from Amer
lea, do hereby declare and direct that
should ] make no other teSta entary
disposition of my property in the Unit
ed States, hereby authorize my friend,
Thomas jefferson, to employ the whole
thereof in purchasing negroes from
among his own, or those of any other
gentleman. and giving them liberty in
my name; in giving them education in
trades or otherwise, and in having them
instructed for their new condition in
the duties of morality which may
make them good neighbors good fathers
or mothers, good husbands or wives,
and in their duties as citizens, teaching
them to be defenders OF their liberty
and country. and of the good order Of
society. ard in whatsoever may make
them happy and useful. And l make
of this. Thaddeus Kosciuszko. 9TH
day of May. l73S.'
Seven years later a school for negroes
was founded in Newark, n. j., named
for him. Kosciuszko left $4,000 for
its benefit.
After his return to Europe he used his
influence in Paris for this country in
diplomatic relations. which were some
what strained at that time. never for
getting the land of his adoption.
After long illness in Vienna Kos
ciusZko, now broken old man, retired to
a little farm in Solothurn, Switzerland,
where for two years he lived quietly, dy-
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tory and drawing Among his pupils was
the lovely Parma Ludwika Sosnowska,
the daughter of his former benefactor.
who had risen to the high position OF
wojewoda. The inevitable happened. ana
Tina ddeuS fell in love with his pupil she
returned his love. but young artillery
captain was no match for the daughter
of n Judge, SO he was banished from her
presence.
He was fearless in love in war, and
appealed TO the king, who PROMISED 10
help him. but informed the WoJewoda,
and the lovers were separated, never 10
sneet again. The beautiful suo"lka
was married to prince, but she always
held him IN her heart. and wrote nm
one letter When he returned 10 PoldHu
she fnterceded for him with the king ana
had him appointed to the army
or A melancholy turn of mind. ne could
no longer stay amid the scenes or MS
love but went to Paris. where ne hearo
Of Americas struggle for freedom. There
he met Benjamin Franklin. who declared
he had never met more noble, uhseihsii
spirit Franklin gave him letters OF III
PRODUCTION to Gen. Washington. ana ne
landed on America soil in the summer Oh
11T6.
For eli ght long years ne SefNeu Will ui'-
daunted courage amid deprivations such
as only great souls can endure without
murrnur France sent Lafayette, Ro-
chambeau and others; Germany. Dehaip
and Won StelIben, and Poland the noble
KosciusZko and Pulaski. No pr1ghter
names have been woven into the warp OF
The history of the American revolution
than these
Kosciuszko was the scientist of the ar
nv He was commissioned colonel OF
aSt,t m
He taught the armies the science or lort
construction. and was the principal engl.
neer of West Point. He planned Gates
fortified camp at Bemis Heights, and was
the leader in the executive part OF
Greenes southern campaign.
Congress gave him vote of thanks.
brevetted him a brigadier general ana
made him a member of the Order OF the
BILE character, fine military ability and
patriotic zeal. and always trusted him i'm
plictedly-
He wrote a book on horse artillery.
which was a great favorite in this coun-
try. and used as a textbook at West
Point
At the close of the revolution he re-
turned TO his native land with liberal
ideas and patriotic zeal. In 1879 he was
made major general of the army at War
saw. In 1871 Russia. Austria and Prussia
sent large armies into Poland. Most of
the officers fled They were marked men.
But Kosciuszko resigned and remained to
tight for Poland 5 liberty. Russia at once
signal ed him as a dangerous man. He
was known to he incorruptible. and Po-
lands ! ST stand was called kosciuszko S
Instruction"
He wore The garb of peasant in this
var, and peasants formed his torlorn
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The Common Accident.

A PROPOS of the season of Atlantic
travel, Capt. Simon p. Lea OF the
Carlinia said the other day in New YORK:
"Yes, what with these wonderful new
ships-the biggest. the most palatial. and
the fastest that the world has ever seen
an Atlantic passage is now a real joy.
"A steerage passenger from the Maure-
tania the other day was met at the dock
by cousin.
well, man. said the cousin to the i'm.
migrant I'm glad to see We. Did We have
o safe passage?
"'Oh yes, very safe, very pleasant.
assure ye,' the immigrant answered. The
t!.'v accident | heerd IF was that the ship
had broke her record.
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Deemed 1t a Tongue.

9ITHE self-made man is splendid.
said Andrew Carnegie at a dinner
in Washington, IF he makes himself a
mental and spiritual no less than finan-
cial success.
Too many self-made men neglect the
intellectual side. This sometimeS-at COM
mencements, for eXample-puts them at a
disadvantage.
Il know self-made man who said al
a commencement to his nephew:
We'll, Tommy, my son, what do they
teach you here?'
Latin and Creek the boy replied
and German and algebra
Dear mel! cried the self-made man
And what's the algebra for turnipT"
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stay indoors and force the unwilling
housekeeper to bear them company while
waging war to the death.
The campaign methods of the twentieth
century housekeeper, however, are far
cry from those of the ancients; and sac
rifices to the god of flies has given place
to active and intelligent warfare against
the offenders themselves, without refer
ring the matter to the gods.
Preventive Measures.
In the matter of flies and mosquitoes,
though early and complete screening of
doors and windows will do much to keep
them at bay, 1t should be remembered
that it is easier to keep out a few than
thousands. The only way to prevent
swarrns of either is to cut off their food
supplies and prevent reproduction. For
flies, this requires special attention to
stables and streets, wherever horses are.
and the sanitary disposal of all garbage
and bodily excreta. AS flies are great
transmitters of the most loathsome and
infectious diseases, we can not be too
particular about keeping all liquid and
food supplies carefully covered, to pre-
vent their becoming infected with eggs
OT ulStdSc StIuiS AIuOUS oQOi dlSllhSu
by flies are eucalyptus. ngnonette, cas-
tor oil plant. lavender, pennyroyal and
even rose geranium.
A Homemade Fly Poison.
Boil for three minutes half pint of
milk four ounces sugar and two ounces
black pepper. Cool pour in saucers and
set about the room.
Rules to Follow in Fly Time.
Advice offered by Merchants Associa-
ton:
Keep the flies away from the sick, espe-
cially those i'll with conta gious diseases.
Kill every fly that strays into the sick
room. His body is covered with disease
germs.
Do not allow decaying material of any
sort to accumulate on or near your prem
iseS.
Keep all receptacles for garbage care
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WAR ON SUMMER INSECTS

fully covered and the cans cleaned or
sprinkled with lime oil.
Pour kerosene into the drains.
Cover food after a meal: burn or bury
table refuse
Screen all food exposed for sale.
Screen all windows and doors. espe-
cially the kitchen and dining room.
Don't forget that if you see flies their
breeding place is in nearby filth.
To Fight the Mosquito.
Water is an essential for the breeding
of mosquitoes and anything from a sau-
cerful to stagnant pond will provide its
quota for the annoyance of a whole
neighborhood. The eggs are deposited on
the surface of the water, either brackish
or fresh, 300 OF them in the space of a
quarter inch. 2oO of which are found TO
be female-which by the way, are the
only ones that bite.
For this d:spersement neighborhood CO.
operation is essential. After each house
holder has looked after her own yard.
making certain there is not single
empty tin can nor flower pot, not an I'M
covered cistern nor rainwater barrel. a
defective roof leader or ground depres-
sion to hold even a few inches of stag
nant water. let them unite to look after
adjacent dump grounds, vacant lots and
standing pools. Here kerosene is the
great remedy. The crude petroleum is
superior to the refined oil. and should
be used in the proportion Of one pint of
oil to a water surface of about twenty
feet in diameter. A less amount of oil
will still be effective, as just a scum of
oil on the surface obStructs the delicate
respiratory apparatus of the larvae and
quickly suffocates them. The oiling of
pools or other standing water should be
repeated every few weeks. In the pretty
village of Montclair where mosquitoes for
merly maze lie almost unenoura hle and
malaria was rampant, the citizens joined
forces with the health board in breaking
up the larvae breeding grounds, until to-
day the village is practically immune
There were fourteen ponds and pools in
the most of these have been drained and
dried. and the rest are kept oiled About
one barrel of oil is used in five weeks and
the simple manner in which the work is
carried on makes the work inexpensive.
Carrying the oil II pals, man with his
feet incased in high rubber hip boots
sprays the oil over the surface of the
water by means of a small pump. AS it
strikes the water the Oil forms a blush
ecum completely covering every inch of
the breeding grounds \ neighbour God
boys brigade might be organized for this
crusade. the youthful heroes getting
plenty of fun and doing efficient service
at the same time.
To Circumvent Nine. Moth.
Holland, in his recent book on Moths,
says that the depredations of the clothes
moth annually cost citizens of the United
States enough to pay the interest on the
national debt. AS is well known, this
destructive creature multiplies rapidly,
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SrAr1LEYMFMcH, CHEF Or
ThENEMDWI5IofOF
hWESTIdATIoN

ing and selling of stocks on margins was
Budd. president of the Consolidated
Stock Exchange of New York. when he
was in Washington In the interest of
anti-bucket shop legislation.
We will assume said he, that a
customer goes to Il legitimate stock
broker and gives an order to buy 100
shares Of Reading at 104. The customer
may not want to pay all the money for
that Reading then and there, and take
it up. but he deposits part payment. a
credit, a margin, sufficient to satisfy the
brokers' requirements, and the broker
proceeds to fill the order.
How does he do it? He must actually
go to his exchange and buy the stock:
there must be a purchase made or there
is no bona f1de contract. If the Gus
toner wishes to pay the balance due on
the stock he can at any time receive the
actual certificate from the broker and
have it registered in his own name; but
whether he pays in full for it or not or
whether the broker keeps it for him, the
essential difference between that trans
action and the so-called transactions in
bucket shops lies in the fact that in the
real brokers Office bona fide purchase
of the stock is actually made from some
other party. If the purchaser merely
puts up his margin and is not prepared
to take the stock the broker has to sup
ply the money in amount between the
toner and the price of the stock. If the
purchaser never asks for actual delivery
the broker either keeps the stock in his
box or he takes it as collateral to bank
and borrows money on it, or loans it to a
fellow broker.
but in the bucket shop there is no
actual purchase or sale made; it is simply
a bet on the part of the keeper of the
bucket shop against or in favor of the
fluctuations of the market, and money
put up in the hands of bucket shop
keeper by customer is in no sense OF
the word really credit or a margin. 1t
is a limited liability on bet"
The legitimate stock exchanges, Mr.
to keep a record of persons from whom
each share of stock is bought and to
whom it is sold States which have set
the pace for bucket-shop legislation have
passed laws requiring that any person
employed to buy and sell stock must. on
demand from the customer, furnish him
the name of the party from whom the
stock was bought or to whom it was sold
Such a test determines whether one is
dealing with a bucket shop or a legiti-
mate broker and aids in the prosecution
Of a man charged with bucketing.
That the turf-gambling octopus is even
fatter than that which bleeds the callow
youth of the country through the bucket
shops has been revealed through the re-
cent hearings on the Burkett bill before
the Senate judiciary committee. This is
the bill forbidding the transmission of
race gambling bets or racing odds over