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The Detroit times., 1910-08-18
DELAYED NEAR END
OF RECORD FLIGHT
Spanish American Aviator Who Set
Mark by Carrying Passenger Across
English Channel Stops for Repairs.

LONDON, Aug. 1S.-John B. Mois-
SAINT, the Spanish-American aviator
met with two mishaps today in at
tempting the last stage Of his Paris
to London aeroplane flight the last
of which badly damaged his Bleriot
monoplane and will necessitate his
remaining at Upchurch until tomor-
row.
At Upchurch, which is 20 miles
from London, one OF the stays OF
Moissant's machine broke, disabling
the engine. The delay was slight and
the accident easily repaired, but In
alighting the propeller and part or
the chassis were also broken and the
machine narrowly escaped crashing
II to a tree as 1t was brought down
from a height OF 400 feet. Moissant
landed In an unused brick pit The
daring aviator Immediately wired TO
Paris for new propeller and other
needed parts, but 1t will be impossi-
BILE for these to arrive before tomor-
row. Moissant and his mechanlcian,
Albert Fileux, whom he was carrying
with him, were badly shaken up IN
the abrupt landing, but neither VIII
be prevented from continuing the
trip tomorrow.
The Detroit times., 1910-08-18
ELLIS SUGGESTS CLEANUP DAY.
Acting Mayor Has Plan For Keep
ina City Spotiess.

cit would be a grand good thing
for Detroit to emulate Chicago, when
had a cleanup day Tuesday, and
get rid of all the refuse in It's back
yards and alleys" said Aid. George
ELLIS, who will be acting mayor OF De
troit for the next few days in the
absence of both Mayor Breitmeyer
and Aid. Gilman. president OF the
council.
ct clear out my own back yard once
a week, Just before the alley cleaners
come, and try to get all my neigh,
bors to do ii. 1t would be a great
thing II such a plan were followed by
the citizens generally. Cooperation
of the citizens with the department
of public works would accomplish
more In day than the d. P. w. could
do alone in weeks"
The Detroit times., 1910-08-18
POSSES sC0UR COUNTRY
FOR DARING BANuEk
Sheriff Is Fatally Hurt, One outIa4
Is Dead and Another 10 Seri-
ousIy Wounded.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark, Aug. 16.~-5
Sheriff Jake Houpt, Of Garland c0u0
ty, is fatally wounded, his brother G14'
Is In a serious condition from gun
shot wounds and Geo. Shitwood ~
dead, while all officers In this soctt00|
and possess of citizens are scOur1u0
the mountains for Chitwood's brothGr
as result OF battle In the cent?
of the city yesterday.
The shooting was the boldest a.
this section since the days Of t.
James Boys. The Chitwood broeher
are alleged to have been horsos
thieves and Chitwood has be-
searching for them for monthR Th14|
morning the brothers heavily arme4
entered Houpt's office, leaving tho1I
horses outside.
The Chitwoods told the sheriff thoy
understood they were wanted ~
gave themselves UP. but as the tvV
were being led toward the jail d.
ed toward the stand opened fire VII
their revolvers. The street w.
crowded and panic followed. ~
the excitement Geo. Chitwood LEAPS
into a buggy keeping I'D . stsak
fire ON Sheriff Houpt shot the horoo.
iust Young Chitwood shot the shoI>'
iff.
sheriff Houpt continued to fire o.
spite his wounds and George On3S
wood was killed.
The surviving Chirwood then dae4'
cd down the street ON horseback r10
ing over pedestrians and disappeox
ing into the mountains.
The Detroit times., 1910-08-18
TURNS DEs0LA7E
FARMS TO RICHES
New England Man by Scientific
Methods Wins Wealth From Stony
Soil of That District.

HARTFORD, Conn, Aug. 18.-John
Howard Hale, OF South Glastonbury
Conn, Is harvesting his peach crop
He's getting big prices for the fruit
because he is the only extensive rails.
er Of peaches in Connecticut. There
Is no flooding" and prices stay high
Hale Is the moet-extensixe- raiser
or peaches in the United States His
500acre tract on the Connecticut riv-
making the Nutmeg state the rival OF
Delaware in the peach market. But
Hale's Connecticut farm is small com.
pared with mis- 2,100-acre tract near
Macon, Ga. That Is the largest sin.
gle peach orchard In the world.
Hale made his great success start
ing with no capital and WORKOUT
New England farm. He has solved
the problem of the abandoned farm
With intelligent farming the soil does
not wear out" but increases In fer.
tility. Intelligent farming can re-
store fertility to WORKOUT soil.
II am making an acre Of land today
produce 20 times as much food for
the human family as my ancestors
could with the same acre when II
was virgin loam,' said Hale to a rep
resentative of The Times.
This master farmer believes all
New England can be reclaimed and
brought to the fertility of his magnid-
cent orchards. New England now is
sprinlzled with deserted houses and
rotting barns. mute monuments of
pitiful struggles lost to unfriendly
nature.
Worker as Conductor.
The pioneer Hale went into Con-
necticut soon after Roger Williams
and took up river farm--a half
mile frontage on the river, running
back three miles. When John Hale
was born, there was but a lean 90
acres left.
John went to New York and work
ed as conductor on the horse car
The Detroit times., 1910-08-18
B0URASSA WAS WRATHY.
Objected To His Bill For Expenses a
Constable BEING Cut.

constable befng Cut.
Alex. Bourassa, the picturesque
one-armed constable of Ecorse. made
a stormy scene In Auditor Buhrer's
Office Wednesday when the guardian
of the county finances took out his
pruning knife and began operations
on one of Bourassa's expense &C.
counts. Auditor Buhrer has been lop-
ping off a number of things that the
constable regarded as lawful charges
such as livery hire. carfare In add
ton to mileage, and mileage for each
individual served when service Is
made on several persons at one ad
dress. Bourassa's bill, which had
looked reasonable enough to himself
had dwindled materially when Audi
tor Buhrer was through with 1t.
"You give me no more than that p
exclaimed Bourassa In rage.
That's all / can see. Alex" re.
sponded the auditor.
"If my bills are cut like that III
resign. | do not want the Office" And
pourassa stalked out vowing that he
would get even the next time Buhrer
was IN for election.
ct know Alex. pretty well, and
don't think he will resign" said Audi
tor Ruhrer. "He Is a frst-class cff
Ger. but these bills Of township Off
GERS have bee nallowed to run toe
free. and the men need a little edu
eating. We have done some great
pruning in some of the townships, and
the men aer not complaining any
NOR"
The Detroit times., 1910-08-18

growing "air plants"-clover, COW
peas and vetch--arOund his trees and
blowing the plants under when they
had gathered their quota of the i'm
pcrtant plant food. Potash and phos
phorus were cheaper. He bought
these chemicals.
1t was this sort of luck" that made
the original homestead produce such
profits that Hale could buy up the
500 acres OF barren hillside, now one
OF the most productive orchards In
the world. He sold his first peaches
from a pushcart In Hartford. In July
he paid out $4,000 freight charges
on his Georgia crop alone.
Hale says Connecticut will raise as
flne apples as Oregon.
1T Is all matter Of spraying" he
said. THE western apple grower
sprays a dozen times during the grow.
ing season. The eastern farmer
thinks he does we'll to spray the
trees once"
PeFo- Is Hale.s Italian fore
man, Luigi was a waiter at the Wal
dorf until he went to pick peaches
for Hale one season. He never left
He is skilled farmer In the inten.
sive methods Of Italy.
why don't you plant apple trees
alternately with the peach trees?''
he asked Hale once.
"why, they'd choke off the peach
es,' said Hale. Neither would
grow"
"You give-a me interest in that or
cbard. Meester Hale, and I make-a
dem trees grow fast"
Both Trees EIourIshlna.
Hale laughed, but he decided to
take him UP. Now, both sets Of trees
are fiourishing, and the peach trees
will produce crop this FALL
at will take 10 years for the ap
pies to bear, but they will keep on
bearing for >country. The
peach trees life is only 10 or Is
years." said Hale. $50 I call the
peach trees my common stock, but
the apples are the gold bonds. When
It comes time to clip bond coupons
wen retire the common stock
Hale is as kindly a philosopher as
he is a good farmer. He loves COM
mon things and his speech Is plain
and homely. There are no automo-
biles in his barn, though he could
we'll afford them. He prefers bis
team of black mares He loves flow
ers and birds. No matter where bus
mess takes him during the week, he
spends his Sundays going through
his orchard, which he calls his
church. His optimism for the future
of American farming is contagious.
His dream Is to see the abandoned
farms of New England reclaimed and
fiourishing.
The bright new houses, with their
green surroundings OF peach trees,
that have begun TO dot the hills firing
ing the Connecticut valley, show that
his words and example are having
their effect.
The Detroit times., 1910-08-18
REV. ). PERCIVAL HUGET.

part Democratic. This year the DEM
ocrats Are hopeful-even confident,
and have decided to put up one of
their strongest candidates-Judge III.
l.. Buck, of the probate court. Judge
Buck lives in Winona, where he has
been In practice for the last Is years.
Born In 1861, educated in the local
schools and Wisconsin university,
Judge Buck began his public career
in the Office of city attorney. He
was then municipal Judge for -four
years and has been Judge OF probate
for 10 years. He is friend and fol
lower Of Bryan, and was In 1901 chair
man OF the state central committee
The judge is a good campaigneI
and is preparing to renew the figh'
which he has made at every election
against Mr.. Tawney.
The Detroit times., 1910-08-18
Z SWORDS HANG
OVER TAWMEY
If Minnesota Stand-Pat Congressman
Escapes Insurgent Wave He Must
Contend With Democracy.
BY gibson GARDNER.

WINONA, Mimi, Aug. 1S.-Even In
Winona, the home town of Congress
man Jas. A. Tawney, | find insur
gency has feared It's head.
There is trouble in store for Jim.
Tho fact that President Taft came
here year ago and put his o. K. on
Tawney's back. has only made things
worse.
Jim is part of that fine Tef. ma
chine say his fellow townsmen
Like enough Aldrich ana Cannon
too, would say Jim is all right--and
maybe Guggenheim and John n. But
these are not the recommendations
We are locking for. We like Girls.
tow's credentials best"
So the insursents have brought out
a young man named Anderson-Syi /.
ney Anderson Of Lansboro--ro con-
test the nomination.
1t Is sort CT David and Goliath
fight Tawney is the big man here In
Minona. Hc owns the principal
newspapers in his district, controls
the Republican machine, has stock liz
the brewery and most OF tbs local In
dustries, and altogether is mighty
and feared man.
Anderson is young lawyer with
more law than practice, and hardly
enough money to pay next week.
laundry bill. He sleeps in his Office
and eats where there happens to be
something cheap and nourishing. AL
together he reminds one Of the late
Gov. Johnson in his early days. He
Is a Norwegian, and what Is more
important, he Is real insurgent. He
knows the difference between laws
made for the special interests and
laws made for the people, and he says
he would like to go to congress and
help make laws on the peoples side
So the insurgents in the district
have started In aud hope TO round
up a majority Of the votes at next
months primaries.
Tawney's anti-conservation record
Is being used against him. 1t was
Tawrey's amendment to the sundry
civil bill OF March, 1909, which pu,
an end to the national conservation
commission. President Roosevelt
wrote a special message on the sub
feet. II WIS his last official utteranct
and appears as a memorandum ex
planning why, on March 3-the day
before Taft was inaugurated-he die
not veto the sundry civic bill. The
out -going president discussed Taw
ney's work In very vigorous Ian
guage, not forgetting Tawney's othel
amendment, limiting the PRESIDENT
use OF the federal secret service-ar
amendment which he characterized
as drawn Gin aid OF the criminal class
es.''
II has lately come to light that sew
eraI members OF the house OF repre-
sentatiyes were being investigated a
the time, which may have Furnished
motive for the legislation.
Tawney has been in congress abou
16 years. During his younger day
he was himself '1nsurgent," and a
one time he was SO successful an In
surgent that he and his following de
feated the program OF Speaker Can
non and the regular house leaders
II was then decided by Cannon tina
Tawney must be taken In and mad
a part Of the organization.
And IL was so.
There are two swords hanging owe
Tawney's head If he escapes TIL
sword OF Insurgency there is stil
the sword OF Democracy hanginl
above by very slender thread Tw
years ago Tawney won by a smal
margin-about $500 votes. The OF
position was In part insurgent and 1
The Detroit times., 1910-08-18

lines, and clerk in a store. After
seven years the aged father sent for
him to come home to work the farm.
John Hale, twenty-three years old
went to Connecticut and took up the
burden Of the mortgaged, stony patch
Of land.
He remembered a solitary peach
tree OF his 5oyhood days, and deter
mined to plant the whole 35 acres
to peaches. The neighbors world
lean on the fence, shift their cuds
of homegrown twist and wink sol.
emnly at each other. The third year
when the orchard was to bear, there
came a great drouth.
Young Hale worked all the harder
but despair was heavy on his heart
The wire grass, which thrives In
drouths, was choking up the lanes
between the peach trees. Hale spent
weeks while the rain was withheld
hoeing and blowing under the wire
grass.
The result was that, while the to.
bacco withercd in the fields, Hale got
a fair crop of peaches. He had
stumbled upon the principle OF dry
farming-the dust mulch, which he
had secured IN his efforts to kill out
the wire grass.
After that the neighbors spoke OF
the Hale luck"
other farmers bought prepared fer
tilizers at high prices. Young Hale
pored over the agricultural books
and government reports. He found
that the principal and costliest plant
food was nitrogen. The other farm
ers bought nitrogen by the pound
Hale learned of the great reservoirs
of free nitrogen In the air. He began
to take tons Of this limitless supply
The Detroit times., 1910-08-18
DETROIT IS DARK
As NIGHT At 8 Nm.
Lowering Clouds Brings Alarm To
Timid Citizens, But Only Result
Is Much Needed Shower.

Dark, lowering clouds passed over
Detroit and vicinity about s O'Clock
Thursday morning, bringing genuine
alarm to nervous and timid citizens.
For 10 or Is minutes the streets were
almost as dark as night, and the store
keepers we're obliged to turn on their
lights. Street cars also had to be
lighted.
The clouds, however, finally began
to leak and a good. healthy shower
followed, causing the darkness to dis.
appear. The weather man said the
rain would not likely continue
throughout the day.
The Detroit times., 1910-08-18
RULES ON PRIMARY LAW.

LANSING, Mich, Aug. 1S.-(Spe-
cial)-In an opinion rendered yester-
day, Attorney-General Kuhn holds
that candidates for Office under the
primary law are prohibited from US
ing metal discs for advertising pur-
poses and places where this system
has been used the candidates will be
notified to discontinue the practice.
In districts comprising one county or
less than one county candidates for
the legislature must file petitions the
same as county officers.
The Detroit times., 1910-08-18
BREACH I||II|
MAY F0BcE:
T0ENTEn||
Col. Roosevelt PurposeIy A
Griscom To LEAD Hin HI
Slaughter.

NEW YORK, Aug. 18.--sta&
spondents Of the World. 4rn
Herald unite today In their dinp
es from Oyster Bay In declar1n9
an open rupture exists between
ident Taft and Col. Roosevelt.
Herald says: " III
Theodore Roosevelt win not
dorse the Taft administrators.
hnal break between the president
his predecessor came with the r.
ton by the Republican state con
tee OF Vice-President James ].
man as chairman OF the aax&
convention. These assurances
tonight from an absolutely auth
source. There will be no peace III
between Sycamore Hill and BoV
Those close 10 Mr.. Roooo
make the startling charge thGt
political deal was entered into
tween Mr.. Woodruff, VIM. Ward,
publican committeeman, and w
President Sherman on one hand M
the close political advisors Of IN
dent Taft on the other, whereby!
woodruff was to be ro-elected G&
chairman and Mr.. Sherman ton1
airy chairman of the state cOnvontI
Mr.. Woodruff has pledged to Pr
dent Taft the New York doaeGot1
to the national convention in 1914
return for the presidents support
The erstwhile president will IN
NO word criticism Tor rn6 ~
whom he chose as his successor
the White House. 1t will not be =
prise, however, to those who are
| close touch with Mr.. Roosevelt X u
finds himself placed In such Z ~
ton that he will be forced to booo1
an avowed candidate for the preston
tial nomination in 1872"
| The Sun says:
| 1T can be positively stated that =
Roosevelt and Mr.. Taft have brok1
From trustworthy sources It can
stated that the turning down Of nod1
welt Is the result of q deal betwoo1 Z
administration and the couxx11<(
whereby the government II % ~
over Ito delegates to taft in 1914 q
turn for the adminiStraticns -
In the forthcoming campaign. CA
ferences between the president &
! Woodruff Ward and Sherman follow
the defeat Of the direct nominatio
bill, which Roosevelt indorsed.'
The World says:
| Between President Taft and @
Roosevelt, who made President II
there Is complete break that appeG
so wide that no bridge can be throy
across II.
with his eyes open Col. Roosev<
Is said by his friends to have let OR
com lead him to the slaughter. L.:
understood that he knew at the tn
that some of the New York state Iee
ers had promised President Taft "a
II he would stand by them In the ST.
fight this fall they would stand by n
when 1t came to question Of &C.
gates for the national convention
1912. This argument Is said to ho'
so appealed to the president that
expressed appreciation of Woodrui
work in New York"
The Detroit times., 1910-08-18
NEW coRPoRATIoNs.

LANSING, Mich. Aug. lS.--Ine
Lind Phonograph Company or Detroit
capital $4,000. has filed articles OF
incorporation with the secretary OF
state. Samuel f. Lind and Z. A. Girar'
din principal stockholders. The Tai
bot Coal Company. Detroit. has IN.
creased it's capitalization from $lo,ooo
TO $4,000: principal stockholders
Cash w. Talbot and Fred n. Talbot.
The Krit Motor Co, Detroit, has also
Increased it's capital stock from slOO,'
600 TO s150,0OO; stockholders, William
8. Piggins and B. c. Laughiin-
The Detroit times., 1910-08-18
10 INJURED AT FUNERAL.

MONROE, Mich, Aug. 1S.-While
acting as a pallbearer at the funeral
of DR.. J. j. Valade at Newport, DIR. p.
s. Root, of this city, surgeon for the
Lake Shore railway. was thrown from
n carriage end sustained fracture of
the right collar-bone. He was brought
70 this city.
The Detroit times., 1910-08-18
Ex.MAYoR SWEET NRAcE.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Aug. 49,
After spending the last two months
principally denying rumors, Edwin f.
Sweet, former mayor and a political
power In western Michigan, an
nounced his candidacy for the Demo
cratic congressional nomination In
fifth district. The announcement.
The Detroit times., 1910-08-18
REPORTS ON POWER FIRMs.

LANSING, Mich, Aug. 1S.-(su4|
cjaI)-Prof. NJ. z. Cooley has mo10
his report to the state railway co..
mission. on the valuation Of the &C.,
eral power companies who are So
ing bond issues. The report shoU
that the value Of the properties g.
nearly % per cent OF original CO.
and the value placed on four Co.
panies is given at $s,s21,651 shovi1
a depreciation Of only s313,099 slnc
the properties were erected.
The Detroit times., 1910-08-18

Job Printing Done nagnt. Times
Printing CO., Is John R--st Call Main
1tes. or City 388b.
The Detroit times., 1910-08-18
TWO MINERS ENTOMBED.
There 10 Little Hope OF Rescuine
Them Alive From Yale Mine.

BESSEMER, Mich, Aug. 1.-two
Firms were entombed by big cave-in
in the Yale mine yesterday. Efforts
are being made to reach them, but
there IL little hope OF rescuing them
alive.
The Detroit times., 1910-08-18
Canadian National Exhibition,
Toronto, Ontario.
Grand Trunk Railway System.
Special Round Trip Fares.

Tickets will be on sale August 9th
to September 10th, inclusive. at 1925.
Special excursion fares August 31st
and September 7th for s4.45. Return
limit September 13th.
City Ticket once, 124 Wood
ward-ave. Telephone Main 80.
The Detroit times., 1910-08-18

Joh Printing De.s Rieht; H. -
f,s'' or c Ss ass. 81
The Detroit times., 1910-08-18

The finest arabian horses are foo1
In the vicinity OF Beersheba- /.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-21
Wholesale Grocery
at Columbus Burned
Sunday Morning
Building and Stock of H. W. Abts &
Co. Damaged Twenty Thou
sand Dollars.

COLUMBUS. Neb.. Nov 2O.-Cspecial
Telegram,)- which was discovered at
o'clock this morning damaged the stock
and building of H. W. Abts & Co., whole
sale grocers, of this city, to the extent of
$4,000. From appearances the fire had
been smouldering for some hours and was
probably caused by mice and matches.
When discovered the flames were bursting
through the roof
The east portion OF the firms double
building was practically destroyed, the
stock on this side being almost a total loss.
In the other portion of the building the
loss is from smoke and water. and espe-
cially in the basement, which was flooded
to a depth OF over two feet
The firm carries a 100000 stock OF staple
groceries, including large supply of sugar
the latter being soaked with water. H. w
Abts, the senior member of the firm, dis
covered the fire as he was coming to the
building.
This is the only wholesale house in the
city and 1t is making arrangements to open
Monday morning and take care OF the
business as usual and will probably occupy
the Rickert building opposite the present
location. The firm carried ample insur-
ance and expects to have the loss adjusted
during the present week
Omaha daily bee., 1910-11-21
TAFT TO TALK ON WATERWAYS
President VIII Make Opening Address
TO Rivers and Harbors Congress.
HARMON WILL ALSO MAKE TALK
Governor of Ohio IL Leading Advocate
of the Doctrine that United
states should Improve In
terstate Streams.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.-(special 1.-THE
seventh convention Of the National Rivers
and Harbors congress. which will be held
in this city December 7, 8 and 3, next 1t
is expected will bring to the national capl-
tai the largest gathering Of waterway
enthusiasts ever assembled in this country.
President Taft, who will deliver the open
ing address to the delegates, said in the
course of a speech in Chicago that trans
portation was the question of the hour and
that the only solution Of the problem was
recourse to the waterways of the United
States.
Probably next in Importance to the ad-
dress Of the president of the United States
will be the speech OF Judson Harmon OF
Ohio, who has for years been a close stu
dent OF the question OF improved water
ways and at the very meeting held in Gin
cinnatl seven years ago when 1t was deter
mined TO organize the National Rivers and
Harbors congress, Governor Harmon com
pletely refuted the idea in his address to
the delegates at that time that the different
states through which interstate waterways
run should be called upon for a pro rata
sum for their Improvement, insisting that
the jurisdiction belongs entirely to the
federal government. whose duty Il is "a
improve such streams for the benefit Of all
the states through which they flow
Two Foreign Visitors.
| In addition to these distinguished citl.
zens others quite as well known in Their
| several vocauons will deliver addresses
! during the days OF the convention, includ.
/ ing the Hon Clifton Seton, chairman Of
conservation OF the Canadian government
the Mexican ambassador; General W. II
Bixby, chief Of engineers; Governor Horac,
White Of New York, Representative ChamJ
| Clark Of Missouri, Colonel William /.
Sihert, member Of the Panama Canal com
mission. who VIII speak on The Panama
Canal as a Connecting Link Between Ou
| Coasts" Walter s. Dickey OF Kansas city
| the chief promoter OF the Missouri rive
steamboat line; f. w. Crandan, nationa
chairman Of the railroad committee OF IN,
Travellers Protective Association Of Amer
lea; Robert J. MacFarland OF Brooklyn
(Continued on Second Pace,