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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-10
RANDOLPH WOMAN DIES.
Mrs. Elijah Flint Dies After Long
Illness, Age 81.

Randolph, Feb. 6.-Mrs. Nina
(Loveland), wife of Elijah Flint, died
Saturday morning after long ill
ness due to nervous prostration and
ending in spinal meningitis. Mrs.
Flint was a native Of Northfield and
fhad reached the age of 81 years. Be
sides her husband she left son and
daughter and is survived by her
mother, Mrs. Rose Loveland of North
field, three sisters, Mrs. Arthur c..
Cook and Mrs. Fred Royce of North
field, and Miss Carrie Loveland, who
teaches in Oakdale, Mass, and a
brother. George Loveland of Hines
burg.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-10
SKULL CRUSH in
Miss Irene Farrar Dies In Hospital
After Injuries Received on Street.


| One girl is dead at the City Hospi-
tai in Barre with her skull crushed
and two other girls miraculously es-
capped a like fate, when portion of
the brick cornice on the top of the
four-story B. Tomasi block at the
corner of North Main and Seminary
streets in that city fell off and crash
ed down to the sidewalk at 7:45
O'Clock Monday night. The injured gir!
is Miss Irene Farrar, aged IA years,
daughter of Mrs. Nellie Farrar, who
is employed as cook in the old North
ern Hotel building. The other two
girls are Miss Pearl Stone, who re-
sides at the Northern, and Miss Lot
tie Gibbs, who is employed at the
same house.
The Northern is the next building
on the south side of the Tomasi
block and the three girls had just left
the house to go up street and were
passing the Tomasi block when they
were startled to hear a rafting noise
above their heads and before they had
time to move the bricks showered
down upon them. The Stone girl
was walking ahead of the other two
and was close to the building, so that
the bricks did not strike her. The
others were a short distance behind
in the middle of the walk where the
most of the bricks landed.
When the girls heard the rafting
as the bricks started to fall, they
parted from each other a short dis
tance and the Gibbs girl who was on
the inside of the walk, ran towards
the building. Her dress was badly
torn on one side, as the bricks struck
her clothing and her left shoulder
and right leg were bruised. No
bricks happened to strike her head
and she was not so badly injured but
that she was able to WALL back to
the house. The Farrar girl was
struck on top of the head and she
fell in her tracks, partially buried up
in the bricks.
The screams OF the girls quickly
brought people to their assistance and
Miss Farrar was taken into j. B. San
guinetti's store in the building. Drs.
E. G. Ghidella, w. D. Reid and F. j.
Stephenson were called and after a
hasty examination, ordered the girl
taken to the hospital B. w. Hooker
& Company's ambulance responded to
the call. The physicians found that
a hole had been broken in the skull
on the back side near the top of the
head and that pieces of the skull were
resting on the brain. An operation to
remove the pieces of bone was per-
formed, but she lived only few hours
expiring early Tuesday morning.
1t is said that a section of this cor
nice on the building has been cracked
for some time and it is supposed that
the frost of the winter caused it to
crack more until it finally fell off.
The building is brick veneer and the
cornice at the top is only a slight pro-
lection, one brick thick out from the
main wall. The cornice fell off for a
distance of about 20 feet on the mid
die front of the building and peeled
down from the top about two feet.
Miss Farrar was a half sister of
Waldo H., Moses H. and Clyde Farrar
of this city
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-10
SUSTAINS FRACTURED SPINE.
Man Attempting to Steal Ride on a
Freight Train VIII Not Live.

Essex Junction, Feb. S.-While JOS
eph Cram of Lockport, N. Y, at
tempted to steal a ride on passing
freight train this afternoon, his shoul-
der struck a brick wall and he was
thrown to the ground. His clothing
was caught on a truck and he was
dragged several rods and finally hurl-
ed into a snow drift.
1t was found that the man had sus-
tanned a fractured spine, his limbs
being paralyzed and at late hour
tonight he was not expected to live.
Cram is about 40 and has brother
at Lockport. He has union quarry
men cards, was dressed well, but had
no money. He was trying to get to
Barre to secure work.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-10
TWO SALES PROVEN.
Italian Arrested on Charge OF Selling
intoxicating Liquor Held for COun-
ty COurt

Brattleobro, Feb. AS the result
ia liquor raid made by the police
on the premises of Andrew Amate in
Elliot street Saturday evening, Amate
was arraigned before Judge E. w.
Gibson in the municipal court today
charged with the illegal sale Of intox-
icating liquor and three cases of
beer were seized. Two sales were
proven against Amate and probable
cause was found against him. He
was held for the April term of the
Windham County Court in bonds of
5000, which were furnished.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-10
TO TEST THEIR COWS.
Farmers of Franklin County to Form
Cow Testing Association and Get
Many Signers.

st. Adams, Feb. S.-Between 40 and
80 farmers met here this afternoon
for the purpose of forming a COW test
ing association. w. X. Warner pre-
sided and read an article by Prof.
Ribard on the advantages of an as
sociation of this kind A general
discussion followed this paper, and
when the constitution was passed
around for signatures, 16 of those
present affixed their names to the
paper. Twenty-Five names are nee
essary to form an association, but
the farmers are confident of getting
the remaining number of signatures.
The 16 signers represent total of
750 COWS.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-10
SOLD 0LE0 FOR BUTTER.
Rutland GrOcers Must Answer Charge
Preferred Against Them.

Rutland, Feb. 7.--State's Attorney
j. c. Jones is getting ready to prose-
cute the Rutland grocers who are
selling oleomargarine for butter. He
recently sent several samples of the
so-called butter to the State Labora-
tory. Two of the samples were found
to be oleomargarine
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-10
THERE PROBABLY NEyER

was discovered by mortals a great
er means of contentment, apart
from a faith than life annuity and
when such a contract is bought
where it is solid and sure, even
the life annuity is entitled to res
pect in the comparison. 61st year
National Life Insurance Company,
Montpelier, VT (MutuaD. s. S.
Ballard, General Agent, Montpe-
lier, VT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-10

Through the courtesy of Hon.
William p. Dillingham;, and
with the consent of the author,
the Journal is able today to pre-
sent to it's readers a letter on
the proposed amendment to the
Constitution of the United
States, granting the power to
Congress to impose income
taxes without limitation. The
full text of the letter is given
herewith:
Aiken, South Carolina,
January IA, 1910.
My Dear Senator:
Your kind note of 18th ulti-
mo suggesting that | state more
fully the views that l express
ed to you and Senator Page
last summer on the subject OF
the proposed Constitutional
Amendment giving Congress
complete power to impose in
come taxes without any limita-
ton whatever, was duly re-
ceived.
This proposed amendment, of
course, embraces the income
from every species of proper
ty, whether national bonds,
State bonds, municipal bonds,
the income of churches and
charitable institutions, as well
as savings banks and all the
other earnings of labor. In
considering this subject in an
orderely manner l shall state
much that with you and Sena-
tor Page and many others goes,
as the common phrase is, with
out saying.
The Power of Taxation.
The power of taxation is the
fundamental power of govern
mental life: on it all the other
powers and functions of gov
ernment depend for their exc
cution. The builders of our
States and the creators of the
Government of the United
States knew this and felt it
deeply. They knew and saw,
perhaps more clearly than we
do in these times of generous
enthusiasm and excitement, the
danger to the people of the diff
ferent States, in their different
situations, necessities, occupa-
tions and internal policies in
the possible unequal and injuri-
Gus exercise by Congress of the
tremendous power of underlined
and unlimited taxation. They
saw that the inherent sover-
eighty and security of each
State must be absolutely pre-
served except so far as power
should be definitely granted to
common Government exercis-
ing only the powers necessary
to the safety and common de-
fence and general welfare of all
the States and people as finally
described and specified in the
Constitution of the United
States.
The grants and limitations of
the power of taxation and the
raising of revenues by Congress
were set forth in the Constitu-
ton as follows:
"All bills for raising revenue
shall originate in the House of
Representatives; but the Sen
ate may propose or concur with
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-10

to impose one kind of direct
taxation without regard to the
fundamental safeguard of pro-
portional numbers secured to
the several States as establish
ed in the present Constitution
and, indeed, in so sweeping and
unlimited form as to grant to
Congress the right to tax the
very States themselves by i'm
positions upon their bonds and
other sources of revenue. 1t
would be a less evil had the
amendment provided for COM
plete annulment of the restric-
tive safeguard as applied to di-
rect taxes of every kind.
For what reason is this great
and radical change and surren-
der proposed?
Has the safety or common de-
fence or general welfare of the
people of the whole Union ever
been endangered, or even in
juriously affected, by the consti-
tutional requirement as it now
exists? We all know that they
have not.
Provisions for War Revenues.
But it is said that in the fu-
ture some vast war may arise
when every financial resource
of our common country must be
available by taxation inaugural
ed by the House of Representa-
tives. The Constitution provides
this already. But the represen-
tation from each separate State
in that House is based eXclus-
lively upon the numbers of it's
population. Then in the dread
full extremity foreseen by the
prophets of today let the House
of Representatives impose it's
direct taxation by the same con-
stitutional rule and proportion
that gives the States great in
population a complete domina-
tion in the House of Represen-
tatives, which alone has the
power to originate tax bills. So
said the great statesmen and
patriots who formed our Con-
stitution and who knew the
evil history of the Capitalization
of power, both in monarchical
and republican forms of gov
ernment, exerting it's malign in
fiuence as well from the fiery
heat of great popular emotions
as from the cold tyranny of a
single despot.
A Strong BuIwark OF Safety.
At the present time the vast
mass of the money wealth
C'The' sinews of war; of the
whole Union exists, with per-
haps one or two exceptions, in
the more populous States; and
it will naturally continue to be
so.
We can not know what COM
binations of powerful interests
or of powerful States may come
into existence, perilous to the
freedom and equality of the
weaker communities or States,
through the absorption, by what
we call the general Government
of more and more of the func-
tions that have always belonged
and still belong to the people of
each of the several States, and
on the retention of which by
each State rests the very eX-
istence of our Union as it is.
This great and strong bulwark
of the safety of each State
against the oppression of any
State or number of States by
majority of numbers once
thrown down Is lost forever.
Plausible as some of the argu-
ments advanced for such
changes of power may be |
would, as a lover of my whole
country and especially of my
own dear State, resist them all.
Respectfully yours,
GEORGE f. EDMUNDS.
To Honorable William p. Dill
lingham, U. S. S., Washing
on, ID. c.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-10
MACHINIST UNDER ARREST.
Charge Against Him of Stealing
Trade Secrets From His Employ

Rutland, Feb. S.-James Schu-
much, aged 30 years, a machiniSt, OF
the American Fork Hoe Company 5
Wallingford plant, was held today
under $1,000 bail by Justice of the
Peace j. d. Hopkins for stealing val
liable patterns from the same con
Germs plant at Geneva, Ohio.
Schumuch was arrested on the
nominal charge of a breach of the
peace so that he might be held for
the Ohio authorities. 1t is hinted
that he stole the trade secrets for an
other concern.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-10

Amendments as on other bills"
Art. l. Sec. Z, pr. 1.
The Congress shall have
power to lay and collect
taxes, duties, imposts, and eX-
cises to pay the debts and pro-
vide for the common defence
and general welfare of the
United States.' Art. /, Sec. S,
pr. l.
"No capitation, or othec O.
rect tax shall lie laid unless i'll
proportion to the cen sus Of
enumeration herein before Ill
rected to be taken.
No tax or duty shall b, laid
on articles exported from any
State Art. /. Sec. 8, prs. As.
Thus it will be seen that two
explicit and fundamental rules
governing the imposition by
Congress of burdens upon the
people of the several States
were established; first, that
taxes upon persons and proper
ty must be apportioned among
the several States according to
their respective populations and,
second, that the impositions
arising from duties, imposts
and excises must be uniform
throughout the United States.
Different Kinds of Taxation.
The difference between a tax
upon property of any and every
which is, and must be,
inherently direct-and taxes
imposed in the form of duties
and eXcises is obvious in pIfn-
ciple as we'll as in fact. The
first kind of tax is and always
must be upon things and
rights, while the second is and
always must be upon the doing
of something which each per-
son may do or refrain from do
ing at his own will and pleasure.
The land, the goods or the
money of member of the COM
munity can not escape taxation
by a change of ownership, for
the tax adheres to the thing or
right: and whether one person
or another has it is of no con-
sequence whatever. But with
the tax in the form of a duty
or excise it is very different.
In the case of a duty it is the
voluntary act of the importer in
bringing into the country the
goods that fixes the tax upon
him; and it is the same with
excise taxes.
No one is compelled by law
to engage in the business of
buying and selling merchandise,
stocks, operating railways or
in any particular business what
ever. If he chooses to do so
he submits himself of his own
choice to any excise tax that
may be uniformly laid upon
that particular kind of business.
The trainers of the Constitu-
tion clearly understood these
distinctions and provided for
the security of the internal
rights of the people of the sew
eral States accordingly, by re-
quiring that in the imposition
of poll and all other direct
taxes they should be appor-
toned among the several States
according to population; thus
securing to the minorities of
the people equality with the
majorities of the people elect
ing the House of Representa-
tives and thus controlling the
kind and amount of the levies
made.
Rights of the States.
Now, after one hundred and
twenty-one years of prosperity
and vast increase in wealth and
population, and, consequently,
the vast increase in the num-
bers and power of the House of
Representatives, it is proposed
that the several States shall
surrender to Congress the right
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-10
EX-SEN. G.. F. EDMUNDS
ON THE INCOME TAX
Famous Statesman Opposes Proposed Amendment
To United States Constitution
A POWERFUL ARGUMENT

Former Vermont Senator Describes Power of Taxation and De-
fines Difference Between Property Taxes Duties and Imposts
Importance of the Rights the States Are Asked
Surrender Congress Now Has Sufficient Power
Raise Revenue for Financing a Great War;
Dangers Of Capitalization
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-10
Rights of the States.

Now, after one hundred and
twenty-one years of prosperity
and vast increase in wealth and
population, and, consequently,
the vast increase in the num-
bers and power of the House of
Representatives, it is proposed
that the several States shall
surrender to Congress the right
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-10

Direct nominations and referen-
dms supplement each other. The
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-17
DEVELOPMENT OF ALASKAS GOLD DREDG|NG|

districts handoperao
look The for districts that yield
nus the MINER aud he unnotced the
grounds that rich a,vess for the dredges There
officials with dredging Alaska thought
restoring surface operations
calculations
The character of of the gravel the Nome makes it
ideal for either dredging or hydulking is almost entirely free Of
large bowde clay substances which might otru the
workings of the dedge sucing The placer lands lie for
he part valleys between sopng hills This land covered
with i'll the early fall and thus hard freezing As
salt dredging begin early the first half June and continue
for about days This the dedges
operations for the long like short
proves very profitable
Before is made dredge this character the
placer ground carefully investigated probable output
mad Thus before the first dede shipped Alaska upwards
of holes sunk depths ranging from feet and the
lowest yields ou, be $3.50 cubic yard viii i'll the
beds the gold often high per pan than $40
per cubic yard.
great of ordinary placer claims renting
their land dredging and others organizing the
purpose installing their ddge Taking the for
Rod FIVE the profits OF dredging infinitely
higher which depends entirely upon making
gathering surface gold for quick Dredging Alaska
infant but usy industry and its growth the
will be phenomenal and steady
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-17
am a poor blind old man
returning home from Alaska;
please feed and water me;

then paid the express company $50 to
take the poor dog to his home in Phil
adelphia, where it was tenderly cared
for until it died. 1t now rests in Il
box four feet underground, instead of
enjoying the fortune it helped his
master to find.
Some readers may pass this as a
hoax; but every Alaskan pioneer loves
the dog that often saves his life by
keeping the trail during and after a
snowstorm. When it is impossible for a
man to find his way something tells a
dog in Alaska when he is nearing a
cabin, which are often so and 100
miles apart; and good dog will take
you to it when you little dream you
are near one. Mr.. Eiffller naturally
believed his dog was the best leader in
Alaska; but the writer has seen hun
dreds of the best leaders. A traveller
in Alaska puts the most intelligent
animal in front Of his dog team and
calls it leader.
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-17

The continued exploitation gold by big gold
ddges pats the world has this industry
which the taking advantage
great gold dredges i'll successful
operation California Alaska both of the former
places the wholesale dredging of the ground by the mammoth g
ships has caused trouble with the authorities and the question
restoring the dedged something like their former condition
has been adudicated in ii
Australia retaining dredged ground has been
accomplished by advance stripping of the surface o that this
be from the sand and silt from below George
i'll the Scientific American The soil surface is first stripped
deposited places before the gravel touched; and then
after the dredging completed the OF the soil replaced
ground other purposes In California where
gold ships interfere rivers how the ddge
have been compelled by the authorizes the ddged land i'll
localities that the normal flow will not be interrupted
No one found Alaska where gold dredging has been
carried extensively the Alaska is suited
this form gold mining than other and stretches
of river sell await the dredgers When the first big gold dredge
shipped then assembled looked
investment Owing the short
machines could be worked and the getting the
dedges the distant mining it looked with
favor by capitalists
Subsequent experience have changed this the first
place. gold suitable dredging
possible operate indefinitely without being
transported regions The field is
quenty the investments anything but profitable if
for the first they could make little But with the
comparatively short when the ground is frozen hard
the gold ships have proved extremely profitable and the fleet has stead
lily increased.
dredgs operated year around
ground yields average only per cubic yard
yield profitable On hand the fields
of Nome yield from 81 $40 yard which for the fact that
the dredes make their short than the California
in the wole year. 6voo bucket dredg
accomplish by hand and consequently
profit dirt low hand washing impossible
There than dozen dredges operating the Nome dis
c and of them earning profits The Guggenhem
have been operating three years.
being
1t costs about 81 to get one OF these dege ready
Alaskan districts, but dredge will yield
nearly dozen such dredges
atng Alaska yield annually several million dollars worth gold
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-17
The Sad Death Of
an Alaskan Pioneer
A TRUE STORY
(Contributed)

Philip Eiffler and his faithful dog
Spot were among the first to take the
trail to the Klondike, and after various
ups and downs-( mostly downs are the
common experience of prospector)-
Phil finally landed on the paystreak on
Nolan creek in the Koyukuk in the
spriug of 1908. Believing that he and
his best friend were entitled to a
change OF climate, they started for
home; but the faithful animal that had
been his companion during the lonely
years among the hills and Wales of the
frozen North became blind soon after
arriving in Seattle. Mr.. Eiffler then
had a cage n ade about four feet square,
put the animal into it. put big card
on the cage which read:
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-17
See US for Cloth Posters.
NOTICE

All persons having claims against
the Tanana School Board will present
same in duplicate to the clerk of board
for approval on or before the end of
each month. All approved claims will
be paid ON 2nd day of each month by
the treasurer.
A. J. CAMPBELL, Clerk.
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-17
ST. JAMES, CHAPEL

First Sunday in each month, Holy
Communion IL a. m. Other Sundays,
Evening Prayer. 1870 p. m. Friday
evenings, during Lent, Evening Prayer
and Litany at 1880.
..-. WINTHROP PEABODY,
- Priest in Charge.
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-17
GRANT CREEK PEOPLE
SURPRISE MINING men

GRANT CREEK, March 10, 1910.
Messrs. Shaw Brothers & Adams,
who are operating on this creek, were
favored with genuine surprise party
this afternoon, consisting of twelve
members, some of whom carried mu-
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-17

steal instruments. 1t appears that
Messrs. Shaw Brothers contemplated a
little dinner to a number of lady Wis
itors and others; but, the news becom-
ing public, the party was augmented
by the entire remainder of the popu!a-
ton. While the boys are admitted to
be admirable hosts, we fear they did
not fully appreciate being honored by
so large force. Fairbanks papers,
please copy.] xxx
Tanana leader. [volume] (Tanana, Alaska) 1909-1910, 1910-03-17
Harry Durett Dead

Skagway Alaskan: Harry Du.
rett, we'll known in Skagway
where he was stage manager for
the Grand and Clancy's theatres
in the early days, died recently
at Seattle. Mr.. Durett was stage
carpenter at the Grand theatre
in Seattle when he died. He left
Skagway about six years ago.
1t takes half again as long for
freight to go. from our Atlantic sea-
boasd to the west coast of South
America, by way of the'IsthmuS of
Panama-5o to 60 das as for it to
go from Europe, by way of the
Straits of Magellan 80 or a days.