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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-17

part.
Music Lillian O'Sullivan
Song Choir Girls
Recitation Juel Young
Song Charles Ryan
Recitation Tom Jacobs
Song Choir Girls
The following is the cast of
characters of the comedy:
Patrick McNoggerty, a handy
servant John Dunn
Major Puffjacket. on half
pay Frank Stuhlman
Charles Livingstone, poor, but
ambitious Charles Ryan
Laura, niece of Puffjacket, and
in love with Chas. Eta Duffy
Nancy, her maid, in love with
Pat Ethel Ducett
An admission of 25c will be
charged, the proceeds to be
used for the purpose of purchas-
ing a new organ for the church.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-17

AN IRISH COMEDY
To be Put on by the Young
People at the st. Louis
Hall Tonight

Great preparations have been
made by the young people of the
st. Louis Catholic Church for
thier Irish Comedy entitled "That
Rascal Pat' which will be staged
at the st. Louis hall tonight.
This play is farce comedy and
will furnish a laugh from start
to finish. The play will be pre-
ceeded by a short program in
which the following will take
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-17

The action of the county board
decreased the amounts of the
state and county tax for the fol-
lowing towns:
Arizona republican., 1910-10-12
GRAHAM COUNTY MAN
 ADJUDCED INSANE
Committed to the Asylum by Probate
 Judge Phillips of Marieopa-

Andrew J. Johnson was yesterday
 adjudged insane by the probate court and committed to the territorial hospit- al for the insane. The case is rather
 an unusual one.
 MT Johnson is a resident of Bonita, | in Graham county, and last spring he suffered a nervous breakdown. About three months ago on the insistence of his business partner MT. Johnson went
 to California in the hope of regaining his health He did not improve but on the contrary became worse in re- spect of his mentality and his physi- clans finally declared him to be insane. at least to the degree that he was not in a position to care for himself.
 It was quite necessary that he should be taken to some institution for the feeble minded but the California au
 thorities, knowing he was from Ar
 Zona, did not want to be burdened with the expense of his care. so they sent him to Phoenix under the care of an attendant. In strict accordance with custom he should have been sent to Graham county and there committed to the asylum, but it would have involved additional expense to somebody as he WOuld nave nad 10 come to InOenlN eventually. Yesterday he was ar raigned before Judge Phillips. who said it was not a Maricopa county case. but regarding it as entirely proper to de- viate from the custom for the benefit of those concerned he conducted the examination and committed MT. John son. It was only question of wheth- CT Maricopa county stood the small expense of the commitment or wheth- CT a larger bill should be created by sending Johnson to Graham county, to say nothing of the fatigue and trou- ble of the double trip.
 Johnson is not wildly insane or dangerous, but is merely feeble minded, | or rather his mind is more nearly q blank. He does not seem to care what happens to him or anybody else, and | is content to merely exist.
Arizona republican., 1910-10-12
CONSULAR NOTES.

1 At Guaymas the federal government | of Mexico will expend $3,500, 900 gold l in building a sea wall to enclose the ! inner harbor.
 l The canal system of the Plinjab. h. dia, is not only opening up that prov | ince to profitable cultivation and thereby making homes for millions of | people, but it is a source of revenue to 1 the government to the extent of 121a per cent on the capital invested The l mileage is i,95, irrlgating an area of 6,749,607 acres.
 Asia Minor abounds in opportunities for the installation of electric power plants. As yet the water powers re- main entirely undeveloped. In allprob- ability there will be great progress in | this direction in the near future. All
 the important electrical apparatus fac
 tories of Europe now have permanent agents in Turkey awaiting the boom.
 The municipal electric railway of
 Moscow. Russia, made a net profit of
 s1. .000.0 900 in 1909. against one of s300.-
 900 in 1908. The city has 1.424 fac
 tories employing 27,163 hands.
 London is the largest and most i'm
 portant distributing point in the world, followed in order of importance as named by Leipsic. Mini Novgord. Irbit, Kasan. Kiachta and AStrakham. Rus sia's large fur trade with the United States is done through German and English commission houses In 1909 fiscal year the government of Italy made a profit of sS,933. APO out of it's lotteries, the receipts of which were SIG, 6,4O4, ,S06.
 Telephouic service is now open be- tween Moscow and Mini Novgord, a distance of 275 miles.
 Guatemala imports china and glass ware. coal. cotton goods, drugs and medicines, flour, groceries, hardware, leathergoods, linen and hemp goods. lumber. machinery. petroleum. railroad material, silk goods, stationery, wines and liquors and woolen goods.
 Since 1908 the Canadian Yukon dis trict has produced value of s150,000,- 900 in gold, and there is as much more in sight. One of the ten principal min ing companies there has s17.000,OOO in- vested in the district. Rich deposits of copper ore have been discovered in the district. Coal is also being mined there. Two-thirds of the mining com panies are American concerns and four fifths of the capital invested in mining is American.
 Paris and north French and Belgian cities are now in. telephonic communi- cation with London. The next are to be Marseilles and London and Berlin and London.
 The government of Hayti is buying rifles in the United States instead of In Europe. The first order for 1000 is to be followed by another order for 1000.
Arizona republican., 1910-10-12
'DR0UTH AND HARD
 TIMES GRIP EAST CHARLES koRRIcK SAYS ARI- ROMANS SHOULD BE
 THANKFUL.
People Alarmed by High Cost of Living and Business Condi- tions Are Not What
 They Are Here.

Prosperity is not found east of tue
 Mississippi river according to Chas.
 Korrick, proprietor of the New York store. who returned yesterday from
 two months buying trip in eastern
 centers of the drygoods trade. Every body in the east is alarmed, prin cipally at the high cost of living, and as a result conditions are very | unsettled, with times much harder than they were year ago. The farther west he came the more pros perity Mir. Korrick saw, and Phoenix is more prosperous than any place he visited in his travels.
 Those who imagine that living Is cheaper in the east than it is here are much mistaken MT. Korrick declared. Everything is higher back cast. particularly in the big cities where it costs so much to conduct business. It is the high cost of liv- ing that has so alarmed all east erners. Other conditions combine to make them feel exceedingly uneasy and times are harder. Conditions are worse by fifty per cent than they were year ago.
 Tn the middle west things look a little better while Arizona is far more prosperous than any of the eastern states. We should feel very thankful that we live here and not in the east.
 The east is interested in the new state of Arizona and nearly every one I met asked me questions about 1t. Arizona has received a vast amount of advertising through the passage of the statehood bill. On the day that delegates to the constitu tional convention were elected. all the New York papers had front page stories about it. The convention it. self will be watched with the deepest interest
 At the present time the east is in the grasp of great drouth: In New York city there has been no rain for six weeks and in other parts of the state no rain has fallen for three months or more. And in that country a drouth of three months means more than fifteen months without rain out here. In some places the schools have had to close on account of a lack of drinking water. all the springs and wells hay ing dried up"
 MT Korrick left Phoenix August 14 and went first to San Francisco. After a short stay there he went east and before he came back to Phoenix he was in New York. Bos- ton. Philadelphia and Baltimore, not to mention scores of smaller places Much of his time was spent at Massachusetts points. where he went. to look over the cotton mills. He also tarried long in the New York state centers of the underwear man ufacturing industry. All the mills. he says are curtailing production. sine. the unsettled conditions make Is im- possible for them to dispose of their full output.
 During his travels MT Korrick bought many thousands Of dollars worth of goods for the New York store. Some of the goods reached Phoenix ahead of him.
Arizona republican., 1910-10-12
CITIES WANT TO BE BIG.

This is census year. Everywhere I go l hear people bragging about the growth of their home cities. On many faces and in many newspapers I see the signs of pride over popula- ton. A middle western state capital is thrilled over the fact that since 1900 the number of it's inhabitants has jumped from 125.000 to 1S1,000. or A per cent. Although nobody claims that the population of our country as a whole has increased more than 20 per cent since 1900, it will be found before this year is over that many of our cities have grown %. 40 or 90 per cent in the same period of time And for this piece of news many will be glad.
 But I am not glad. And for the simple reason that I live in the pooh-bah of all our big towns-New York. By a simple process of the mind I dread to see other communi- ties marching rapidly on the way to become great centers of suffering and misery like New York. To me. news of the growth of a city of 125,000 in 1900 to a city of 1S1.000 in 1910 brings the thought that more people in that city are without good air and comfortable quarters than ever before. had much rather hear that 5O,0OO people had left such city and taken to the outlying farms and villages.
 suppose that Peoria's bosom will swell with glory if the census of 1910 shows it to have one-fortieth of the population that New York has. But let me tell you two very little things about New York that fell across my way yesterday And when they are told, thousand men will rise up and say that they can tell worse things. But let that go All that I intend is to start the inn agination of readers in the right di- rectiOn
 Tn the first place, my wife went into the butcher shop yesterday. and, while there. saw two little children One that was in the care of the other could scarcely hold up it's head, and walked weakly like an old wo- man. My wife asked the butcher about the children, and the butcher, when he had a minute to spare, walked around the counter and said. in a low tone:
 The fact is that those kids are underfed. They do not have enough | to eat. There are seven children ir the family and the father is a sober. l hard working. laboring man who l earns small pay-a dollar and a half | day or so. That father comes in | here every Saturday night. late, just |
 
 fifty or sixty cents and asks us for | as much meat as we can spare for | the money he has. We give him all | we can afford. and on Sunday the | family has the only square -meal it | gets in the week. The children look sick through lack of food and fresh | air. and they ought to get away: | but, oh, my God, what can they do? |
Arizona republican., 1910-10-12

This is a terrible life, lady. for a lot of these people that I know wedged in tOgther and nearly starv- ing"
 This was the story that I heard in the evening, after which I told my wife a very little thing that had seen during the hot day. It was this: A woman was sitting on a little wooden box in the street, try- ing to get a little air for the baby she held in her arms. She was sit ting with her back to one of the pillars that support the elevated rail- road. The narrow pillar protected her from being run over, but of course the traffic of the surface cars and street vehicles reared past her on both sides. and over her head rushed the great squeaking elevated trains. l may be wrong, but l am willing to venture that the whole peaceful state of Iowa does not con tain q noiser or more cruelty. busy spot than that which this poor wo- man was forced to occupy as the only available place where she could be outdoors and breathe She prob ably lives in a tenement near by perhaps in a room without any ven tilation. (There are 100000 such rooms in New York.)
 It may be that these cities are the pride of civilization. But where in civilization can one find more des- olation, disease, and downright un- happiness than in these same great cities? There is no more solemn news in the world today than the news of these great and dispropor- donate increases in our city popula- tion that is coming from the census bureau in shingtOn-American Mt, lzine.
Arizona republican., 1910-10-12

a resolute purpose to bring about her fathers nomination in 1884, and per
 haps her infleunce held her father to his oppsition to. Lincoln. Indeed. this remarkable woman was generally considered to be political force of magnitude, and she is the only wom- an in the history of the United States who has had such influence. She felt keenly indignant with Lincoln for let ting her father leave the treasury and jokingly accused Sumner on the day of the nomination of the chief justice of being in a plot to "shelve her father" The influence and spirit of his daughter again held Chase up to his strife for the presidency in 1868 She was virtually his manager in New York and competent judges have believed that had she been able to go into the convention and make her own combinations on the spot she would have secured his nomination.
Arizona republican., 1910-10-12
A WOMAN'S PLATFORM.

Mrs. Kate Williamson. who is run ming for congress in Colorado, has an- nounced her platform as protection of six millions of working woman, re moval e: the blot of child labor. con- trol and regulation of the food supply, looking for its purity and cleanliness; lifting the burden of the tariff from the people" If the suffrage movement has no other immediate gain than that of bringing the condition of working women into consideration it will have accomplished wonders. Women have paid little attention to this matter
Arizona republican., 1910-10-12
KATE CHASE IN POLITICS.
A Beautiful Woman Who Managed Her Famous Fathers Presi-
 dential Ambition.

No~aceount of MT. Chase would be complete which ignored the remark able connection of Kate Chase, later Mrs. Sprague with her fathers pub lie life Young, remarkably beautiful
 regal and captivating, she made it her business in life to establish cor dial relations with his political friends, and she was a gracious host ess for the hospitality which her father enjoyed giving; ambassadors. senators and politicians were eager for her good will and willing to promise her aid, and Mrs. Lincoln had battles royal with her for Gas he said) coming to the receptions at the White House as a guest and holding court on her own account. She had
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-04

Excellent service an AdnIIrrr Credits %
Thls IbriJI.h Institution.

To TuE Enron oF IUT SJNH Si-. lilo
Radicals are very ardent IN their demand
az TO the reduction u the House OF ords
II not the abolishinR Of IL Altogether. but
seem to FORGET that since i-3D NOT less tina
$50 OF the go peers created acre made by
the Liberal PARTY. the late Mr. GladstonS
In wing = record IN that 30 cr.a tsi ninety.
A. a matter Of fact Mr. A-gd'h m his first
year OF ONCE as Prime Minister created not
less than sixteen new pe-rs. while Ia the
second. third and fourth year. he sent
eighteen u hi- supporters 20 the House Of
Lords. This makes a good deal u the loud
talk that "" hear from the Eadical lgItltOrs
look foolish
The sections % The Radical par'v that
cry the loudr-t for the uholj-hiuy 81 The
House Of Lords ani the retaining 81 only
one governing chamber. the House 81 tom
mons, -e"m io hty" overlooked M" fact
that the countries that or. governed by on.
cha mber are hardly 81 such q ,htri,f-r -
tho British people voYld care 20 follow
he-s are the Countries with one ,hamh.r
Andorra. B,Ilxaril. Grreo~ Afrhtui-' IN. Mo-
d qua. Costa Rioa. Honduras. Abys~Iula,
salvador. Morocco and Corra
None % the hove Is enumerated among
the great countries Of the world. AMI they
offer nut Iittls tnducenent 70 to initiated
Other Radicals hay" suggested that
senate somewhat on tho lines oT what W.
] ave IN W ash s'0n should De- created. but
forget that the senate b. not The safeguard
~ responsibility here but thar thIs h The
supreme tOgrt. for which uo provision ~
made by the BHtirnls Who zlrze-f aifsra-
tion IN the fng't-h form ~ government
What l. the lie 10 tho Hou~a ~ iords7
10 Champion The people against arbitrary
~ Commons 20 c0rrer' the errors 81 the
HouAe Of Commons Influenced a. h IL ~
every gust 81 passing or,ni2n. "a, protect
the people from laws passed by n HOUSE ~
'ommons thar does not represent their
wishes. 20 carry our the ~iN ~ the nation
" hen the HOu~e % Commons Wilfullv or
m stAkenly acts contrary 20 ". 20 balance
the caprices ~ The House ~ Con mons 10 nd
- cuunterucr the fre.IIenf rsysr<sls ~
policies. which would otherwise happen
sNsry few Years. hen q Oh nRe 10 Govern
rsent took place
what IL the work ~ the House 81 Lords
amending and recon @idarinK
he bills that are either origin ted In the
~ use Of Lords or ONE W from Tho House
n Commons. all involving continual and
tedious drlIdRegy q. ARMsTnoNg.
I'll
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territory in the Congo region which Bel
GUM claims. The title. IL would appear,
IL Belgian. To settle the difficulty Ger
many. with the consent Of Prussia, sur
renders half a share in the t1o square
miles Of Moresnet for a full share in
thousands of miles in Africa. The COM
parative value Of real estate in the two
continents il thus established.
The real regret at the fate Of Moresnet
IL sentimental. however. IL had one
unique curiosity. a house that stood
in three countries and divided its
burden of taxation between Moresnet,
Prussia and Belgium. As for the pco-
pie II Moresnet. they seem nowhere 90
have been consulted, hut as they are
chiefly Belgian and Dutch. with only
slight German sprinkling, perhaps their
protest will he merely formal.
The incident. however. may well ex-
cite apprehension in Andorra. Monaco
and san Marine, which also offer attrac-
tive Quid pro quo for African acCommo-
dations
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THE ~ tGIE or Laws.
How the American CitIS~n's Liberties Are
tIlppesi "a Every Turn.

To rHE EDIroR oF THE SUN-Sir. Are
We 20 lose tho liberties which such hard
fghting was done for little over q hundred
years ago. This - question I often ask
myself when { read Of the msny laws which
are being enacted by Congress and the
various State Legislatures. have recantIy
returned from a trip of two months which
took me over a great part Of the country
and my experiences on thst trip were GER
tAinly enough to discoura &c q lover OF free
dom In personal ma tiers
In Alabama I was not allowed 70 drink
even In the strtctest moderation = bevera se
which doctors the world over believe il
good for tho health Of most people. in Indi-
ana and In Washington { was forbidden
TO smoke tobacco II wrapped in "a Der
~ Wrapped In a tobacco leaf or put In a
pipe could smoke all wantecD, Ia kansas
the drinking cups IN the Pullman and other
cars were lOck KIDD up 80 that they could no,
be used and u hadn't provided myself
with . glass Of nyy ONn I should have hsd
to suffer for the want Of drink Of water. M
Oklahoma they told me that II I deeired
To open a cigar stand I could not legally
put a wooden Indian. which has long been
rerognized a. cigar store emblem. IN th~
front 81 my place Of business. and IN or,snsd
q hotel the law would regulate the Iengt6
Of the sheets on my beds
What are No coming to-
NEwaRK. y. =. April ?
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Tai. /. walk Down EI.., street..

To TIVE EDIrOH OY THE Sun !sfy. MAY .u~
gezt that those Of your readers Who may yi.l,
London the coming season should lust tai. I.
walk down Fleet street and study the nunor. az
the place. for neat tsss oil historic tborouh
fare w!n - s!1sacs. % both si,ir~ And IN. FIrr,
street OF DR.. Johnson. Oliver Goldsmith ana
So sS-ias RsS ns'i.i- siii Ne no more IA.
Flesi street whirh the great man thought m.
very crntre Of civiilKa ton aud - superior a
Greenwich Park will have departed Numb.r.
and were the places In which he wrote his
wOvhs and uttered mO-t OF hi- memorable aaytnw.
tablet sui marks the site Of Bolts court IN.
Congregational Memorial Hall stands on the
Fleet Prison Nlte Of Mr.. PickVirks tiIne. and
sewer from liOlborn 20 the river Il an that 70
mains % the histori~ Fie-s bF0ok
what q crowd Of As=oriatiOns arise a. IN.
Traveller with Bo-wrsi~ johnson IN hand strolIs
from Ludgale Hit 10 ~ Clement Danes which
Carlyle said he always passed With reverence
for % Vas there that Johnson worshipp-d IN
the err Of NOltare
u was In fiert street that Boswell tells us a
E~ntiru oman borg-i that DR. Johnson would
give her MT and then taking him for the
nirht vatchman offered him = shilling
Temple Har. Whirh I remember veil On Fleet
street has hrrn mo, - - the Thames FmhanE
ruent. and II. Clements church. whirh mas hern
allowed IN stand In the midst % many Improve
nents. y almost the only historic moaurnent
between 81 Paui's and Charing Cross.
RsooELHE. April = BnzIaRA
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Thoughts Inspired ny the Experscnee &C .
Psurky Wosnan.

To rHE EDtToR oF rHES J-N- SIR. Martha
Met ulloch Williaina's writing on Fire Is
cape- il interesting. I noticed q former
letter from her year 20 on tho same sub
iect. when she VAS made the victim In a
holdup. or rather attempted holciup. for Ia
spite 81 her childish Innocence she seemed
To have been more than a match for her
visitor from the Fire Depa rtmsnt Indeed
she seems To have made quite a stir In the
are zone
Mr. McCulloch williams ma y not he up
on our little games and time honored in
stitutions for sinking down the unWnry
citizen, for all her spirit aud sdrneN M {
long reSideuC" near the throne Of graf
Has she never uotio~d that perhaps one
house on block will have IRE e-sap he
while all around houses exactly ike ~ are
devoid % ~" uEly encumbrsuca and are IN
many case- actual FIRE traps Has she ever
wondered Why thi- should be. why one
landlord should 10 obliged to pay for FIRE
e-oBp. and y hundred ~ her- go scot free
Al down along he West aud Eas' sides
IN" ire ESCAPES are loldei 10 The tops 81 the
rails with furniture. bedding. 81. anything
he family ha- no present need for Did
~ ever occur 10 Mrs McCulloch williams
that perh1p- this might he because ~ the
utter u--l"-anes- 81 a call az any Of th..-.
poverty Hats The time Of the Inspectors
j. much too valul bite 10 waists. on such
Did she ever eNamin. one OF these So
called nre "-'ape-. and consider how small
e ,hsu"" any BODY hi- Of ever getting out
- % burning building alive nv such means
Notice how the hdder- all CToz- dire,tly
iu front % the windows beautifully plarad
80 a. 20 roast any unfortunate fOoIha r,iv
enough iO Use th"tu. Aud what sfod-aud
they ar. 10 the sneak thief How sasy Tor
him 10 climb lrtsuTely 10 any nat he NAV -..-
lsct. or any dozen rats -~le,.t his Flund..r
and as lei-urcly retire without lea wing "A
frac" WHIT Tsrfec' instrument this
same nrs r-'1D@ j. 10 pry dollars loose
Much hsttsr than Dri'king a safe or even
finding money.
Almost any householder will be ner
~ def 20 come up re Their thl n b~ bot hsr..d
with a useless ITO HIM enCumbrn me-. ON
2 he front Of hts house How MA nv are there
liz" Mrs Mctulloch williams who would
- nj up for their rights even IL they knew
10 hxesi
Bully for this determined citizen nd ma v |
Their" be NOR" ~ her kind
NV YORK. April >.