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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-12-23
p. j. GIBBONS ON TRIAL,
Man Accused of Staying His Wife and
Priest.

Hastings, Dec 22-The trial of P. J..
Gibbons, indicted for the killing of his
wife, Mrs. Nancy Gibbons, and Rev.
E. J. Walsh, at South st. Paul, on
May 20 last, is on here. Judge Albert
Johnson, of Red Wing, presiding
Three jurors were selected out of ten
put on the stand: P. w. Mullaney, a
barber of Hastings; George Valentine,
of Randolph; and julius Schmidt, of
Inver Grove, both farmers The Off
GERS in charge were Acting Sheriff A.
G. Merits, ]. M. Wasser, of the Hast
ings court, w. w. Carson, of Hastings,
and J. J. Mccormack, special deputies
in charge of the prisoner.
The defense will entertain the claim
that the defendant was of unsound
mind at the time the alleged crimes
were committed. Gibbons, it will be
remembered was a well known COM
mission man of South st. Paul and
formerly chief of police.
On the day Of the tragedy he re-
turned from the Lawrence sanitarium
in Minneapolis, where he had been re-
ceiving treatment, and, going home,
is alleged to have shot his wife in the
head while she was cooking supper and
then drove to the house of Rev. E. ].
Walsh, pastor Of st. Augustine church,
whom he also shot and killed. He
gave himself up at the police station
and was taken to st. Paul for safe
keeping.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-12-23
FOR THE BUSY MAN
NEWS EPITOME. THAT CAN SOON
Re COMPRISED.
MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED
Home and Foreign Intelligence Con-
densed Into TWO and Four
Line Paragraphs.
Washington.

An appropriation for the Missouri
river may be inserted in the river and
harbor bill when it goes to the SEN
ate.
The legislative, executive end judd
cial appropriation bill was cut to $685.
325,219 by the house committee which
reported it to the house.
Several state democratic delega-
lions have Endorsed Champ Clark of
Missouri for the speakership OF the
next house and his friends now claim
his nomination will be unanimous.
The name of George A. Foster, OF
Perry, Ok, was presented to the pres
ident with the recommendation OF
Representative Mcguire of Oklahoma,
for the United States marshalship
made vacant by the resignation OF
Jack Alternately.
If the republican leaders in the
house carry out their present plan of
re-appOrtionment Nebraska will only
have five members in the house in
stead of six as at present. The plan
is to increase the ratio to one mem
Der for each $4,000 of population.
Senator Warren of Missouri, offer
ed resolution in the senate calling
for a report of the board of three en-
gineers appointed to recommend the
most economical method of dredging
a six foot channel in the Missouri
river from Kansas City to it's mouth.
Declaring that exaggerated &C
counts Of the revolutionary move
ment in Mexico had magnified it's i'm
portance in the minds of many Amer
leans, Senior De La Barra, Mexican
ambassador to the United States,
said that the trouble had at no time
approached any significance.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-12-23
Personal.
Dec. % both houses of congress ad.

Dec. % both houses of congress ad.
journed to Jan. 5, 1911.
In an address at Chicago, Governor
Stubs scored the railroads and the
trusts.
Judicial appointments made by the
president have been confirmed by the
senate.
Champ Clark favors depriving the
speaker of the power of appointing
committees.
King George may be forced to
choose between the two contending
forces in Great Britain.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-12-23
General.

A London editor charged that war
scares were created by armament
makers.
The charge was made in the house
that the navy department has eX-
ceeded it's authority.
President Taft has authorized cabi-
net members to require longer hours
of work by department clerks.
Omaha and Denver each want to
be made headquarters for the new
division of the railway mail service.
Sixty insurrectos were killed and
many wounded in a battle with Mex
lean troops in the state of Chihuahua.
Victor H. Olmstead, chief of the
bureau Of statistics of the department
of agriculture, in his annual report
says the high cost of living has
helped farmers greatly.
Samuel insult, Chicago financier,
who departed to spend the holiday
season in England, carried two tur-
keys with him for his Christmas din
ner.
John r. Walsh's application for
pardon is marking time in the de-
partment of justice, while a dispute
over the state of his health is being
settled
John Porteus, q years old, who
won the prize for being the tallest
and "skinniest" Elk at the national
convention at Dcnver in 1907, is dead
of tuberculosis in Paducah, Ky.
The police of Havana raided house
in Vodado, a suburb Of Havana, and
arrested an Italian named ROca and
five others, who were engaged in
counterfeiting American treasury
notes.
Mrs. Ada F. C. Adriance of Pough-
keepsie, n. Y, must pay $4,000 for
a pearl necklace, worth only $4,000,
because she attempted to smuggle it
into this country from Europe last
August.
The measure locating the perma.
nent capital of Oklahoma at Oklaho.
ma City and the resolution favoring
the northeast site for a capitol loca.
ton were passed in the senate and
in the house.
Reports received at Jerusalem from
Assyrian villages say that the threat
ened revolution has become serious,
that Turkish officials have been mas
sacred and troops at military posts
have been annihilated.
A report from the war department
showing how the country is made
Quately protected against invasion
from foreign governments was sent to
the house and was returned to the
war department because the house
could not receive a secret report.
Champ Clark favors the house Sc
lecting it's own committees
A postmortem examination of the
body of Mrs. Charles P. McKenna
who was found dead in her home at
st. Paul, showed that the woman had
been murdered.
The Farmers and Merchants Ma
tional bank of Arson, Tex. has been
closed by it's directors and national
bank examiner placed in charge.
Announcement is made at the war
department of the selection of several
general officers of high rank and their
nominations will be submitted to the
senate to confirmation soon.
Shake well after using" is a
motto some men might adopt in deal.
ing with their friends.
When a man. calls himself fool
the public suspects he has inside in
formation.
Broad hints are wasted on narrow
minded people.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-12-23
Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago, Dec. -Cattle-Market
10c higher; beeves, s4.e5@7.30; west.
ern steers, $4.1oQ6.oO; stockers and
feeders, $3.45@5.80; cows and heifers.
$2.50@625; calves, $7.2509.25.
Hogs-Market 10@15c higher; light.
$7.5O@7.S5; mixed, $7.65@7.ee; heavy,
$7.50@7S5; rough, $7.50@7.s0; good
to choice heavy, S760Q7.55; pigs, $40
@7.S5
Sheep-Market strong to Loo higher;
native, $26004.z0; western. $1,000
4,4O; yearlings. s4.75G6.0o; lambs. n1
tive, $4.50@670.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-12-23
STREET CARS ARE ATTACKED
Winnipeg Strikers Club Breakers ane
Stone Vans in Riot.

Winnipeg, Dec. pa number of
street cars have been damaged in all
parts of the city by striking street
car men or their sympathizers. At
the Fort Rouge car barns a crowd
of SO strikers and sympathizers made
a demonstration and were attacked by
about Is strikebreakers, who used
clubs and switch irons. Several strike
ers were hurt, but no arrests were
made by the police when a riot call
was turned in.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-12-23

Tioga; South Dakota-Avon, Bison,
Estelline, Oelrichs, Oneida, Piereponr,
Wall
Appointment FOR Winona.
On the recommendation of Repre-
sentative Tawney, DR.. L. H. Munger
has been appointed pension surgeon
at Winona, vice DR.. L. A. Kelley, re
signed.
New Commander at Fort Smelling.
Lieut.. Col. Francis Fl. French of the
inspector generals department, now
stationed at San Antonio, Texas, will
succeed Col. r. K. Evans as com
mander of the Twenty eighth infantry
now stationed at Fort Smelling.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-12-23
DAILY MARKET REPORT.
Twin CITY Markets.

Minneapolis, Dec. 22.-Wheat, May,
$1.O9; July, s1.03B; No. 1 northern,
$1.O2; No. 2 northern, $1.O0h; No. l
durum, S41ac; No. 8 corn, 41Ac; No. 8
white oats, 30Ac; barley, soc; No. 2
rye, TIC; No. fax, s2.34.
Duluth, Dec. %. - Wheat, May,
$1.04as; No. northern, $1.01%.
South st. Paul, Dec. 22.-Cattle-
Steers, s3.O0@3.75; cows, s3OO0425;
calves, s3.100700; hogs, $7500770;
sheep, yearlings, $4.50@580.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-12-23
No Coadjutor Archbishop,

Dubuque, Dec. 21. - No coadjutor
archbishop will be appointed for the
Dubuque archdiocese, the health of
Archbishop Kean being improved to
such an extent that the holy see de-
clines to give him an assistant.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-12-23
Bark Wrecked; All Escape.

Halifax, N. S., Dec. 21.-The snow
storm and gale which swept this coast
caused the wreck of the big Norwegian
bark, Petra, bound from Rio Janeiro
for Halifax. All the crew reached
shore safely.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-12-23
New York Life Savers Drown.

New York, Dec. 21.-Two members
of the volunteer life-saving crews at
Rockaway Beach, Long Island, are
missing and believed to have persisted
when the new boat they were trying
out upset in the surf. Three others
of the crew Of five made their way
ashore
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-12-23
Torpedo Boat Destroyer Launched.

Torpedo Boat Destroyer Launched.
Bath, Me-, Dec. 81. - The torpedo
boat destroyer Trippe was launched
and christened with champagne. The
Trippe must average at least 295
knots an hour for four hours on her
official trials.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-12-23
Brooklyn kidnaper Convicted.

New York, Dec. 21.-Justice dealt
the black hand quick blow in Brook
Ign with the conviction in less than
six hours of Maria Kappa, for kianap
ing. The jury was out ten minutes.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-12-23
JUDGE in Critical Condition.

Rochester, Mimi, Dec 21.-Judge
Walker of Chattanooga, Tenn, is in
| a critical condition, as result of a
recent operation.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-04-08
TAFT AGREES TO
SELL COAL LANDS
Policy Expected to Meet With strong
Opposition From Certain Repub-
liean Senators.

Washington, April 2. - Secretary
Ballinger. after conference with
President Taft, has told members of
the Oklahoma delegation that the
president is anxious to have the af.
fairs OF the Five Civilized Tribes clos.
ed up speedily, and would have the
bin provide for the disposition OF the
segregated coal lands somewhat like
coal lands are now disposed of by the
general government In the west to
the best bidders-with the Limitation
that one man shall not control more
than 1850 acres. The presidents
idea, it is said, is to dispose of the
matter speedily and in a business-like
way, yet at the same time with am.
pie protection to the Indians and with
"a provision limiting the holdings in
order to keep the coal from falling In
to the hands OF monopoly.
IL is expected that Secretary Bal
linger will shortly recommend to the
house committee on Indian affairs the
passage of the Creager bill with Ger
tain notifications of the provision
for the sale Of the coal lands.
Such a bill, it is understood, would
meet with strong opposition from Ger
tain republican senators. LatollettC
and Curtis both favor the sale of the
coal to the government for the better
control Of its sale to, the consuming
public, while all of the progressiyes
are expected to resist any effort to LEI
this vast supply of fuel fall into the
hands of private individuals without
ample safeguards TO prevent com
bination among the operators and
consequent exorbitant high prices tc
the consumer.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-04-08
ORDER TIES UP
100000 TAXES
Practically All 1908 And 1909 Assess.
ments Are Resisted And
Contested.

Guthrie, Okla, April 4. - "At the
present time $S,O00,O00 or more in
taxes, levied and Justly due the state
and its local divisions for 1908 and
1909, are being withheld, or are re-
strained of collection and disburse-
ment, by suits In the federal courts
filed by the railroads and other large
corporations, is an excerpt from a
public statement issued today by
State Auditor NJ r. Trapp. to state
and local public officers.
The statement follows the filing here
last night of suits by the Frisco and
Katy resisting portions of 1909 taxes,
in eight counties and by 16 suits filed
in the United States circuit court here
today by the Santa Fe, resisting pay
ment Of s11,07S taxes in Garfield,
Cleveland, Alfalfa, Oklahoma, Lincoln,
Usage, Pottamatomie Ellis, Grant.
Woods, Kay. Payne Noble, Wood,
Logan and Pawuee counties. The "a
suits, filed within "a hours, tie up more
than a million dollars of 1909 taxes
in "a counties alone, and attack as
absolutely illegal s159,921 of taxes In
these counties, and also attack as H.
legal the state quarter mill levy for
common schools. which makes s2t7,-
600 more.
Similar suits will follow other coun-
ties. and the Rock Island and other
railroads viii join in the anti-taxation
fight In the eastern district similar
suits were filed at Muskogee, March
81 and 1t is estimated on a conserva-
tive basis that probably 100000 Of
taxes is already being attacked as
Illegal, Of the 1909 tax. and though
the railroads are Offering partial pay.
ments. practically the entire taxes
due by railroads from 1908 will be
tied up pending termination Of the
suits.
Practically al Of the railroads, also
the Pullman and Western Union com
panies are resisting payment OF a
large portion Of their 1908 taxes, due
"a year ago, with the result that sew
eral million dollars Of 1908 taxes are
still unpaid or unavailable. The 1908
tax cases have been pending in the
federal courts more than a year In
addition to the cases involving ad
valorem taxes practically all Of the
large public service corporations Of
which the railroads are chief, are re-
slsting the gross revenue tax for 1908.
Judge Cotteral Of the federal court
issued temporary injunctions in the
cases filed here today and last night
restraining the local officers from col
lecting the disputed taxes, and grant
ing a hearing April Is.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-04-08

lators have to deal with in connection
with conservation are embodied in
bills on the following:
Withdrawal and classification Of
public lands
Conservation of coal lands.
Conservation OF water power.
Conservation of oil lands.
Conservation of phosphate lands
The arst four will receive serious
and earnest consideration. The bills
on the last named one are likely to
be lost in the general fight on the
others, There are any number OF bills
pending in congress upon all of these
subjects, and now best TO harmonize
them and arrive at some mutual basis
is the question.
President Taft win be drawn into
the fight, and Saturday he informed
some of the members OF the commit
tee he desired to talk with them In
the interest OF harmony.
In the committee the republican
members are split upon the question
of whether to validate all past with
drawals of public lands, about which
there is a doubt of legality. or TO leave
that to a future determination by the
courts.
Representatives Pickett OF Iowa,
Parsons of New York. and Gronna of
North Dakota, all republicans, are
standing firm for a validation of past
Withdrawals Chairman Mondell of
the committee, and Representatives
Smith of California, Morgan Of okla
homa and Pray OF Montana are op.
posing the effort to validate past
Withdrawals
The democratic members Of the
committee say the republican mem
bers who want to qualify the valida.
tion are not for rest conservation at
all, but are merely aiming at a white.
washing" of the administration on this
question. They have introduced a bill
of their own on the subject
Altogether the conservation ques-
tion is said TO be rock road for the
Legislators 10 travel There is great
misunderstanding OF conditions, II is
stated, and few Of the members are
fully acquainted with the vast detail
OF the subject. Eastern members are
unfamiliar with conditions in the west
and the representatives from the lat
ter section encounter great difficulty
in explaining the actual meaning Of
conservation, as It relates TO the peo.
pie of their districts. Nobody ap-
pears to be opposing conservation,
but the question is how to conserve.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-04-08
CANEY CITIZENS
HAVE A HOLIDAY
Breaking Ground For cherryvale,
Oklahoma g. Texas Big Event
for the Kansas Town.

Caney, Kans, April I Thursday
was a holiday in Caney Every store
in the city was closed and breaking
OF ground for the construction Of the
Cherryvale, Oklahoma & Texas rail-
road was made the occasion of a big
event At noon there was a banquet
and at 9 o'clock a procession was
formed and the people Of Caney and
the surrounding country proceeded to
point just over The state line in okla
homa, a mile and a quarter south of
Caney where construction Of the
ssoutheast branch to Wann Nowata
and Fayetteville, Ark, will begin.
When an automobile bearing Sena-
tor s. NJ Porter, who sold bonds IN
Paris to the amount Of $4,000 to fin.
ance the road, President Brewster OF
Independence, Secretary Dale Of Perry
Okla, and the speakers arrived at
the comp in Oklahoma the last car
riage Of the longest parade the town
ever had Speeches were made by
President Tuskett of the Caney Com
mercial Club, the Rev Mr. Haines OF
the Christian church and Judge ]. r.
Charlton OF Bartlesville.
After a furror was turned over by
s. c. II. Baker, President Truskett
presented Senator Porter with a gold
headed walking stick as an expression
of esteem from the people Of Caney
II Is expected to have the road 10
Wann, Okla, completed I'm four
months. After the Fayetteville
branch viii be constructed to Perry,
Okla. and El Paso. Tex. The com
pany plans to build eventually to
Cherryyale and Kansas City
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-04-08

Guthrie, Okla, April /. - Reports
from all counties indicate that farm
conditions this year are better and
more promising as a whole than they
have been any season for the past
twelve years"
This is the statement OF the stats
board of agriculture In its March crop
report issued yesterday. Prospects
also are fiattering for full fruit
crop" says the report.
: The growing condition of winter
wheat is 92.5 per cent compared with
91.s last month, and 1871 for March a
year ago. The report shows that only
very small percentage of the wheat
crop has been abandoned because of
winter killing, dry weather, late SOW
igg and heavy pasturing, sixty-two of
the seyenty-two counties making re-
turns, reporting none at all. The max.
imum damage, per cent is reported
from Grant county, one of the leading
wheat counties. Kay reports per cent
and Dewey per cent. No damage
whatever is reported to growing crops
from insects.
The report states that March pre-
sented the most favorable growing
weather in years, there being little
wind and many exceedingly warm
deys. The season is from three to four
weeks earlier than common with all
farm work well advanced. The rainfall
for the month is reported much below
the normal for the season. Soil condi-
tions as regards moisture, however,
average for the state 90.S per cent,
showing in many counties 100 per
cent twenty-one counties falling be-
low the general average. McCurtain
and Seminole, with moisture condition
of 70 per cent, are lowest while Bryan
Cimarron, Custer, Marshall, Murray,
Okfuskee, Pontotoc, Roger Mills, Tex
as and Woodward report 100 per cent
as coisture condition. In most of the
counties last named seasonable rains
have fallen lately while local rains
have fallen within the past two weeks
in southwestern Oklahoma, where
crops were so badly damaged by
drouth last year. The report states,
however that general conditions are
dry with rain needed at an early date
20 maintain the present excellent
growing condition of all crops
Most corn is planted in the southern
portion of the state. with much of IL
up and doing nicely, while in other
sections corn planting is well under
way with the ground in excellent con
dition.
The condition of alfalfa has been inn
proved materially and is 1913 per cent
as compared to 904 last month and
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-04-08
NONE OF THE LAND BILLS
SUIT MEMBERS OF HOUSE

Washington, April 4-Members of
both the house and senate are strug-
Cling with the question Of framing
laws to further the cause OF eonserva.
ton Up to within the last two or
three days both houses Of congress-
have been so occupied that little at
tention has been paid the subject
Since Friday, however, efforts have
been made to get some OF the admin
istratlon measures dealing with CON
servatlon into shape for presentation.
The public lands committee of the
house has gone to pieces on the pro
posed law to authorize the president
10 make Withdrawals and classihca-
tions Of public lands. and the mem
bers are now divided into several
groups, each pulling In a different
direction.
The chief question which the legis-
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-04-08
CROP REPORT SHOWS BEST
/. PROSPECT IN TWENTY YEARS

79.4 April 20, last year, The condi.
tion of spring pastures is 92 per cent
and farm work stock 94.S with a scar
city of feed in some localities,
Almost every county reports 100 per
cent on its fruit crop damage by win.
ter freezing being reported only in a
sew counties. Much damage was
done to orchards and small fruit crops
by the protracted drouth of last July
and August The average condition on
the principal fruit crops ranges from
96.7 to 99.2 per cent.
In conclusion the report states that
the present outlook is for a record
breaking production Of all classes OF
farm products, and a very large in.
crease in the amount of land put un,
der cultivation in the state.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-04-08
KING VICTOR EMANUEL
RECEIVES ROOSEVELT
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
Rome Italy, April liking Victor
Emanuel received Col Roosevelt at
the cuirinal today The distinguish.
ed guest was escorted to the kings
apartment which when thrown open
revealed his majesty standing with
arms outstretched and with a smile
upon his lips, King Victor Emanuel
and Roosevelt shook hands heartily.
The monarch inviting the former pres
ident to sit at his side. The door of
the apartment then was closed and
the two remained in private conyersa-
ton for about forty-fiye minutes.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-04-08
vetoes AntI.plspensary am.

By Associated Press.
Guthrie, Okla, April 4.--Goyernor
Haskell today vetoed the bill, abolish
ing the state dispensary The COVER
nor said the bill contained Joker"
that gave free rein to liquor dealers.
He also said he believed the bill un.
constitutional.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-04-08
HENRY LAIR SECURES
WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
BY Associated Press.


Leavenworth. Kans, April Henry
Lair, of San Francisco, after serving
thirteen months of a two years SEN
tence in the federal penitentiary here,
imposed by Judge Lands, OF Chicago,
for engaging in the white slave traffic.
was released today, on a writ Of
habeas corpus, issued by Federal
Judge Phillips. Phillips in a decision
sustained the contention Of sair's at
torney that Judge Landls had no
jurisdiction IN the case Lair was
convicted Of importing Marie Penroy
from France and selling her in Chi
cago. while on her way home TO San
Francisco.