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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03

The meanness of the short-measure
trick is conspicuously exemplified in
the report that consumers in New
York city alone are annually cheated
out of 100000 quarts of milk for
which they pay-and. according to re-
cent evidence, pay exorbitantly-but
which they do not receive because the
bottles in which the milk is delivered
are under full size. The milk sold in
this manner goes for the most part to
poor persons and furnishes large pro-
portion of the sustenance of children.
Short measure in this instance there
fore means robbing those whose lot is
already hard enough and who have to
pay heavily for every necessary of life.
If there is not method of reaching
the constituencies persons who perpe-
trate such despicable frauds certainly
the law should remedy the defect.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
TRAMP GETS BIG REWARD
Saves Rancher's Daughter from Being
Run Down by Train-ls
Wealthy Now.

Galveston, Tex. = The filing OF
documents for record transferring
half interest In the big Valvedere
ranch, in Jeff Davis county, from Sam
Jennings, the cattle king, to Francis
r. Strome brings to light an interest
ing incident in which Strome, who Is
stranger in this section, was the
hero, and little May Jennings, the six
year-old daughter of Col Jennings,
was the heroine. She was saved from
death beneath an engine, and Strome
is the man who rescued the child from
the railroad tracks. AS reward for
his bravery he is given half interest
in a property said to be worth any
where from 100000 to $1,0O0,000.
Strome is about fifty years old, a
machinist by trade, and for many
years a resident of small town in
Illinois. He met with reverses and,
at er the death of his wife, took to
drink and had been leading shift
less life for several years. He was
beating his way westward trying to
make California, and was hanging
around Alpine trying to catch train
when the incident happened that
brought him fortune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
Weak Spot in His Defense.

A religious worker was visiting a
southern penitentiary, when one pris-
oner in some way took his fancy. This
prisoner was a negro, who evinced a
religious fervor as deep as it was
gratifying to the caller.
"Of what were you accused?" the
prisoner was asked.
"Dey says l took a watch" an
swered the negro. II made a good
fight had a dandy lawyer, and he
done prove an alibi wifi ten witnesses.
Den my lawyer he shore made a
strong speech to de jury. But it want
no use, sab! I get ten years."
Il don't see why you were not &C.
quilted said the religious worker.
well, sah,' explained the prisoner,
"dere was shore one weak spot bout
my defense-dey found de watch in
my cket."-Tit-Bits
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
A Pause in Devotlons.

Mabel" called her father, outside
her bedroom door. There was no an
swer, so he called again. Still no re
ply. He pushed open the door, which
was not completely shut, and reach
ing for the button, turned on the lights
Then he saw Mabel. She was kneel
ing at the side of her bed in her night
gown, in the attitude of prayer-the
attitude, that is, as to kneeling. But
she had raised her head at the inter
ruption and paused in her devotions
to blaze at him with a face flushed
with impatience:
Gee whiz, daddy! Can't woman
say her prayers?"
Then she bowed her head again,
piously, and daddy, properly rebuked,
slipped noiselessly away.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03

A. Russian bank has been started a.
Buenos Ayres, the capital of Argen-
tina, and line of steamships from ST.
Petersburg to South America is pro-
jected, owing to the large and increas-
ing trade of Russia with that country.
All the other leading European nations
have an important commerce with
South America, which is pushed with
all the energy possible and with the
application of every practicable meth,
cd, including subsidized steamers, lib
eral exchange arrangements and the
maintenance of well-stocked agencies
in South America, with employees care
fully trained for their duties, and with
strict regard for South American
tastes and desires in the character and
quality of goods.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
A GOOD CHANGE
A Change of Food Works Wonders.

Th wrong food and drink causes a
lot on trouble in this world. To
change the food is the first duty OF
every person that is i'll, particularly
from stomach and nervous troubles.
AS an illustration: A lady in Mo. has,
with her husband, been brought around
to health again by leaving off coffee
and some articles of food that did
not agree with them. They began u.s.
ing Postum and Grape-Nuts food. She
says:
For a number of years 1 suffered
with stomach and bowel trouble
which kept getting worse unutil was
very i'll most of the time. About four
years ago 1 left off coffee and began
taking Postum. My stomach and
bowels improved right along, but 1 was
so reduced in flesh and so nervous that
the least thing would overcome me.
"Then I changed my food and be-
gan using Grape-Nuts in addition to
Postum. l lived on these two prin-
cipally for about four months. Day
by day 1 gained IN flesh and strength
until now the nervous trouble has en-
tirely disappeared and 1 feel that l
owe my life and health to Postum and
Grape-Nuts.
Husband is 73 years old and he was
troubled for a long time with occa-
sional cramps, and slept badly. Finally
I prevailed upon him to leave off coffee
and take Postum. He had stood out
for a long time, but after he tried
Postum for a few days he found that
he could sleep and that his cramps
disappeared He was satisfied and has
never gone back to coffee.
81 have a brother in California who
has been using Postum for several
years; his whole family use it also be-
cause they have had such good results
from it."
Look in pkgs. for the little book, "The
Road to MELVILLE" There's Reason"
Ever read the above letter! A new
Que appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
ASKS FOR BIGGEST WARSHIP
SECRETARY MEYER IN FAVOR OF
32,ooo-ToN FIGHTER.
States Leading Navy Power
of World.

Washington. The building of a
world record breaking battleship of
no less than $4,000 tons displace-
ment at a cost of approximately $751;
900, 900, and the making of the United
States the leading naval power of the
world, are planned by Secretary Of the
Navy Meyer.
This was what Secretary Meyer is
said to have told the members of the
house naval committee was his ulti-
mate plan, and what he would ask con-
gress to authorize next year. The
members of the committee stated that
the secretary's radical plans for naval
advancement were favorably received
by the committee.
At the session of the committee
even the stenographer was barred, and
the secretary discussed freely with
the members his plans for the navy
He said that 1t was his purpose that
the United States should not follow
in the wake of any other nation in
naval advancement.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
PAROLE WRIT Is STAYED
Supreme Court Justices Announce Pro-
ceedlngs Under Decision Be
Stopped Until April Term.

Chicago.-The justices of the su-
preme court of Illinois, at meeting
in Chicago, issued an order directing
that all further proceedings in the
Joyce case, which resulted in the
parole law of 1899 being declared in
valid, be stayed until the April term
of court.
It also was announced that the de-
cision in the Joyce case shall not be
acted on as a final judgment until the
petition for a rehearing is disposed
of. This means that attempts to Sc
cure the release of prisoners in the
state penitentiaries on the theory that
the parole law of 1899 is void will be
Intellectual until the supreme court is
again heard from.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
TAFT WAS DECEIVED.
PlNCHOT AT HEARING CHARGES
BALLlNGER WITH DECEPTION
AND DISLoYALTY.
SAYS HE is UNFIT FOR JOB
Ex-Forester Declares He Will Show
That Secretary Entered Office with
the Avowed Purpose of overturning
Roosevelt's Conservation Policies.

Washington Clifford Pinchot, TAX
ing the witness stand at the Bal
linger-Pinchot inquiry, Saturday read
a statement to the committee, before
giving his testimony, in which ne
charged Secretary Ballinger with
falsehood and disloyalty to president
Taft and declared that Mr.. Ballinger
should be dismissed from the service.
The Introduction of Mr.. Pinchots
sensational statement was followed by
the swearing of the former forester
as a witness.
The statement which Mr.. Pinchot
read with dramatic effect outlined the
story which he expects to relate In
detail before his testimony is COM
pleted.
when this story has been told,
said Mr.. Pinchot without raising MS
voice or indicating that he regarded IT
other than a mere matter-of-fact
preface, "and the witnesses whom l
shall ask you to call have been heard,
you will realize that the interests CT
the people are not safe in Mr.. Bal
linger's hands, and that the country
will demand of this committee YER
dict in harmony with the general con-
viction that the secretary OF the in
terror has been unfaithful both to the
public, whose property he has en-
dangered, and to the president, whom
he has deceived"
Pinchot declared he would show
that Ballinger entered office with the
clear purpose of overturning the
Roosevelt policy of safeguarding wa
ter power sites and spoke of the I'M
perative duty of getting rid of an I'M
faithful public servant"
The conservation movement begun
under the administration of President
Roosevelt was progressing splendidly
up to the time that President Taft and
Secretary Ballinger came into office,
declared Mr.. Pinchot He charged
that in less than a month thereafter
Secretary Ballinger had practically
broken the backbone of the central
idea of the conservation movement by
restoring previously withdrawn water
power sites to the public domain and
laying them open to private appropria-
tion and monopolistic control.
The restorations by Mr.. Ballinger
were made without any investigation
of the subject whatever, said Mr.. Pin
chot, and he charged the secretary
with having deliberately ordered the
officers of the reclamation service,
against their will, to recommend that
some of the restorations should be
made.
Concerning the CLAWS charges in
the Cunningham coal cases Mr.. Pin
chot said:
II shall show you how the forest
service became involved in these
cases and how CLAWS submitted facts
to me. I believed then, as l believe
now, that he told the truth.
81 am convinced now, as 1 was
whea he came to me, that CLAWS was
a faithful public servant and that the
facts which he presented prove that
Mr.. Ballinger has been unfaithful to
his trust as a servant of the people
and as the guardian of public prop
erty of enormous value"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
AMERICAS TOBACCO TRADE
Uncle Sam Leads the World IS an
Exporter of the wholesome In.
teresting Figures.

Neutrality-suspicious. than one billion
dollars worth of tobacco and
manufactures of tobacco have passed
through the ports of the United
States since 1890, the value OF
the export from the country dur
ing that period having aggregated
S646, 100000 and the imports into the
country $386,O00,OO0. These figures
are exclusive of trade passing be.
tween the United States and its non
contiguous territories, which showed
in 1909 alone cigars and other to-
bacco brought in from Porto Rico val
ued at $5,750,000 and shipments of to-
bacco to Alaska, Hawaii and Porto
Rico valued at nearly $2,000.000.
The United States leads the world
as an exporter of tobacco, having sup
piled over SAL 100000 worth in a total
of approximately s15O,00O,000 worth
of tobacco and manufactures which
entered international markets last
year.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
PACKERS UNDER INDICTMENT
CONSPIRACY is CHARGED BY NEW
JERSEY JURY.
Six Corporations, Including the Ne.
tionaI Packing Company and Fl
Directors Are Named.

New York.-When the grand jury
of Hudson county filed blanket in
dictment in Jersey City Friday charg-
ing a criminal conspiracy in restraint
of trade, the heaviest blow yet struck
against the beef trust by way of pun
ishment for arbitrarily raising the
price of meat and poultry was admin
istered.
Six corporations, including the
parent organization, the National
Packing Company and FL individual
directors, were named in the con-
spiracy charge.
Most of the individuals indicted are
millionaires of Chicago, Kansas City
and ST. Louis. Many of the names
best known in The packing industry
are included in tire conspiracy
charged. All will be arrested as soon
as the authorities can locate them
unless they surrender Of their own ac-
cord. They will be extradited to Jer-
sey City and held on bail for an early
trial
The corporations indicted are: The
National Packing Company, Armour
& Co., Swift & Co., Morris & Co., the
Hammond Packing Company, the G..
H. Hammond Company.
The individual directors indicted
and liable on conviction to heavy
fine and Imprisonment are:
J. Ogden Armour, A. Watson Ar
mour, Louis f. Swift. Edward F..
Swift, Charles H. Swift, Edward H.
Morris, Ira N Morris, Arthur Meeker,
Edward Tilden, L. A. Carter, Thomas
E. Wilson, Thomas ]. Connors, F. A.
Fowler, L. H. Heyman, James E. Bath
gate, Jr.; George H. Edwards, F. v.
Cooper, Henry P. Darlington, D. e..
Hartwell, L. B. Peterson, A. A.
Fuller.
The grand jury is continuing its in
vestigation into the storage of impure
food in Jersey City cold storage plants
and a large batch of indictments for
that crime will probably be handed
up next Tuesday.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
He Had No Objection.

We've want you to marry us,
said the blushing young man, indica-
ting young woman with downcast
eyes and smiling face who stood step
behind him.
Come in," said the minister, and he
endeavored to ease their embarrass-
ment for a moment; but he soon de-
cided that it was useless to try.
will you be married with ring?'
he inquired.
The young man turned helpless
gaze on his companion, and then
looked at the minister.
eff you've got one to spare and it
can come out O. the two dollars,
guess she'd like it, he said at last
National Food Magazine.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
BANK BOOKKEEPER is HELD
George w. Coleman Arrested In Bos-
ton Charged with Looting Cam
bridge Bank.

Cambridge, Mass. Along with
the discovery that George W. Cole
mans populations from the Ma
tional City bank would be at least
100000, information came to the au-
thorities that the young boolykeeper
was contributing literally to the sup
port of at least six women and had
been the victim Of a clique of New
York gamblers.
Coleman was arrested upon his ar
rival here and is locked up in the po-
lice station, being unable to furnish
$4,000 bail.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
WHAT is HAZING7

A bill has been framed in the senate
committe on military affairs prescr1b-
Ing regulations that shall govern the
dismissal of West Point cadets for the
practice of "hazing," and defining In
explicit language what is meant by the
term itself. 1t seems that the diction-
airy definitions have not proved salts
factory either to the senate commit
war department, and in lieu of salts
factory translation of the comprehen-
sive term it becomes necessary for the
law givers to frame one for them
selves. 1t is in many cases easier to
offer an example than a synonym, says
Philadelphia Ledger. Anyone knows
"hazing" when he sees it, and every
thoughtful person deplores the brutal
disregard of another's feelings that is
involved in the reprehensible practice.
No definition would be complete that
failed to take into consideration the
fact that mental anguish is sometimes
much more painful than physical SUI
Eerings. A man's-or boy's-m1nd
may be hazed not less effectually than
his body. In order to haze" success
fully it is not necessary to use instru-
ments of torture. Some of the most
brutal instances Of hazing on record,
have been those in which the magma
ton of the chosen victim has been in
geniously assailed by the soul-harrow-
ing dread of things that did not hap
pen.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
To Safequgrd Depositors,

Washington.-A bill which would
enact into federal law the provisions
of statutes of several states, ma
king it a felony for officers or en-
ployes of national banks to receive
money on deposit when the institu-
ton was in an insolvent condition,
was favorably reported by the house
banking and currency committee.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03

Even in this rushing age you cant
blame a man for standing still when
he is in the storm center of such for
whirl of automobiles, part of the fly
ing squadron of motorcycles, trucks,
carriages, bicycles and express wag-
ons. Then to be ordered to move on
by big policeman with stuffed club.
the stufting being of lead assaying bet.
ter than 90 per cent, excuses thought
confusion.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
a Natural Question,

James j. Corbett, in the smoking
room of the Mauretania, praised the
style of Jim Jeffries.
tits a neat STYLE" he said; meat,
quick, to the point. 1t gets there like
the remark of a little girl who said
to the minister in the course of a
quite interminable call:
"'Did you forget to bring your amen
with you, dOctOr?"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
Ex.soIdier to Hang for Murder.

Ainsworth, Neb.-District Judge
Harrington Saturday sentenced Wal
ter Riefenberg, convicted of the muir
der of Joseph Davis, to be hanged
June II. Riefenberg was formerly 9
soldier in the regular army.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
SHOOTS MAN IN COURTROOM
Henry L. Diedrichson Probably Fatal
Iy Wounds John Barry as Result
of Political Feud.

St. Louis-John Dad Jack)
Barry, was shot, probably fatally. In
Justice Reichmann's courtroom by
Henry L. Diedrichson. the courts
clerk. Diedrichson claims Barry had
knife open in his hand and had
started toward him saying: Nov
I'm going to kill you as l ought te
have done a long while ago."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
Boy Punished; Found Dead,

Providence, R. I.-For some fault
ten-year-old Gerald Guinness was on
Saturday locked in a room by his
mother, and when she went to liber-
ate him she found him dead. The lad
had accidentally turned on the gas
and asphyxiated himself.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
Motorman ParaIyzed at Post.

Columbus, O.-Motorman Joseph
Fuller became paralyzed and speech
less while running a street car on
High street Saturday. The car ran
wild for three blocks and the passen-
gers became panic-stricken. but none
were hurt.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
MOB ASSAILS DALLAS JAIL
500 Men Attempt to Get Negro AS
sauIter and Lynch Him-Struc-
ture Strongly Guarded.

Dallas, Tex.-A mob of 500
men have gathered at the Dallas
county jail to lynch Allen Brook, the
negro who assaulted a little white
girl. The mob has a 30-foot steel rail
and declare they will batter down the
jail DOORS A strong force of deputy
sheriffs are inside the jail and Chief
of Police Ryan has been called on for
help.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
SAYS HELPED KILL EMPRESS
Man Surrenders to Police Asserts He
Took Part in Assassination of
Austrian Ruler.

misunderstanding that he took
part in the assassination of Elizabeth,
empress of Austria, Christian Keep
pier surrendered to the police of Gin
cinnati. The empress was killed in
1902.
Tactics of a former convict who
compelled him to steal and then ex-
torted money from him, drove him to
surrender, Keppler said.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
EIkhart Gets 100000 Car Shops.

Elkhart, Ind.-O. M. Foster, master
mechanic of the Lake Shore & Mich
igan Southern railroad at this point,
announced Friday that the work of
breaking ground for locomotive and
car shops to cost 100000 will be
started Immediately in this city.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
Charity Gets a Crumb.

Troy, N. Y.-The will of Mrs. Han
nah M. Earl, widow of William s.
Earl of Troy, founder of Earl & Will
son. collar manufacturers, has been
filed for probate here. The estate is
valued at 100000. Only $4,000 is
left to charitable institutions.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
wall Falls on University Men.

Minneapolis, Minn.-A wall OF NIL
lard hall. a building of the state uni
yersity recently destroyed by ire, was
blown down Friday and Prof. Moore
and six students buried under 1t. They
were rescued by other students.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
Omen Land to Settlement.

Neutrality-suspicious. 60,320 acres of
lands in Wyoming were designated by
Secretary Ballinger as being subject
to disposition under the provisions of
the enlarged homestead act, granting
800 acres to each individual.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
RovaI Flush Kills Man.

Carbondale, Pa Overpoweringly
excited by drawing a royal flush in
a poker game Thursday Frank Con-
stantine of Carbonate died soon aft
erward from what physicians de-
scribed as over-exertion of the heart.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
woman's Club Leader Drops Dead.

Cincinnati.-Mrs. Emma Clenden-
ming Perkins, former president of the
Kentucky State Federation of Wom-
ems clubs, dropped dead Wednesday
in the dining-room of the Burnet
house here. She formerly lived in
Coyington, KY.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
His IandIord's Reply,

"This appears to be pretty slow
town. You have no pay-as-you-enter
street cars here"
mo, but we have pretty good line
of ay-before-you-leave boarding
houses"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
Asbestos Mercer Contemplated.

Denver, Col.-Deals are being nego
tiated in Denver which are expected
to result in the completion within a
few DAYS of a merger which will con-
troll 80 per cent of the asbestos out,
put of the world.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03

A fish with legs has been discovered
at Pittsburg. Put it in alcohol and
wait. Interest in natural science is
just now mainly confined to the study
of beef critters with wings.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03

Still, staying of of trains is no in.
surance. An Illinois woman never
took railroad ride in fifty years, but
death overlook her just the same.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-03-03
WHERE GYPSY SMITH WOULD HAVE FAILED.

EveIeth, Mimi, Jan. "a new Kind
of revivalist seems to have been dis
covered by Mrs. L. E. Harris, the
well-known church-worker of this
city. During the winter of 1906 she
couldn't appear in any company, even
to go to church. She herself says:
"Ny face broke out with eczema and
II was just like a piece o. raw beef.
I went to see doctors time and time
again. None of them could help me.
l commenced to think l was never
going to be cured. Finally heard of
Stub-Roo Liquid and the many cures.
used it, and just as told l Was Well
In Four Weeks"