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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-07
Ler i. BADLY Gashed.

Savannah. Ca, November s.-Etienne
Blanche, OF New York. co-designer OF
the Roebling- Blanche car entered In
the Grand Prize. had his leg badly
gashed this afternoon when his car
collided with street car
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-07

that these influences were backing his
election. Or. Wilson said the charges
were utterly false" He said he never
chad any connection of any comedy.
able sort with Wall Street"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-07
Day OF Quietude.

Trenton. N. j.. November s.-Th!s was
day OF quietude for the politicians.
and the situation is the same as last
nlght. when the campaign practically
closed
United States Senator Frank o
Sr1ggs. chairman of the Republican
State Committee, said tonight that he
saw no reason to revise the figures
given out by him previously. in which
ne claims that Vivian NJ Lewis, the
| Republican candidate for Governor.
would be elected by plurality OF
The Democrats are sanguine of a
, landslide and consider the election or
Dr. woodrow Wilson as certain. DR..
Wilson tonight said that his attention
! had been called to the distribution OF
circulars In South Jersey chargins that
MS nomination had been brought
about by Wall Street influences" and
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-07
THE WEATHER.

:, Forecast' Virginia and North Caro-
warmer; light west winds.
CONDITIONS YESTERDAY.
Fair. Thermometer at midnight SO.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-07
.GAYN0R AGAIN
TURNS THR UST
while the Lamp Holds Out to
Burn the Vilest Sinner May
Return"
p r EN- IC E HAD EXPLAINED
Said He Took Newspaper Re
ports About Mayors Advocacy
OF keogh.

New York, November 6.---More notes
were exchanged between Mayor Gay
nor and Ezra P. Prentice, chairman OF
the Republican State Committee, yes
terday. Mr.. Prentice started off by
making public the letter which he sent
to the Mayor in reply to the latter's
letter advising Mr.. Prentice to pray
every morning for God to direct you
TO tell the truth and see what fruits
It will bear" This letter cxhorting
Mr. Prentice to pray was in reply to
that the Mayor favored the nomination
Of Judge Keogh at Rochester. and not
Mr.. Dix. Here is Mr.. Prentice's reply
TO Mayor Gaynors first letter:
November 4. 1910.
Hon. William j. Gaynor, City Hall.
New York City:
Ny Dear Sir.-Your letter of Novem
Der 3. given to the newspapers a day
before Its receipt by me- reached me
this morning.
I never understood that Judge Keogh
was candidate for Governor, but ]
am reliably informed that Judge
Keogh said that you favored his nom
nation.
The point OF my interview was tho
Inquiry whether. when you wrote In
lthe letter to Herman Ridder. refer.
ring to Mr.. Dix. Ibis associates also
measure up to those who are run
ming against them" you were ia
miliar with the record Of John }.
Kennedy the Democratic candidate
for State Treasurer To that you
do not reply, and 1 now ask you
the question directly.
Very respectfully yours.
EZRA P. PRENTICE.
| The Mayor quickly came back with
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-07
City Of New York.
Office of the Mayor.

OnCe OIL tne Mayor,
November 5, 1910.
Sir,-I am glad to perceive from your
letter of November A. just received,
that I have already so far cured you
of that propensity to make false state
nients that you drop your forged quo
tation from my letter to Mr.. Ridder,
and use the correct quotation. While
the lamp holds out to burn the vilest
sinner may return. Sincerely yours.
w. j. GAYNoR.
E. p. Prentice. Esq. Chairman.
The Mayor was evidently anxious to
find out just what Mr. Prentice wou!a
have to say to this communication,
for he sent a messenger to Mr.. Prem
tees headquarters to wait for an an
swer. Mr.. Prentice kept him waiting
for about two hours. and then sent him
to the City Hall with this:
My Dear Sir.--I beg to acknowledge
Your letter of November 8, in which
you are unable or unwilling to reply
to my inquiry about John j. Kennedy
Ny quotation from your letter to Mr.
Rtdder was taken from the newspa-
pers. Yours very respectfully.
EZRA P. PRENTICE
The Hon. William j. Gaynor, City Hall
New York City.
! Asked if he expected to get another
reply from the Mayor. Mr. Prentice
said he thought not. as he did not
see how Mr.. Gaynor could possibly
answer him after he had evaded the
question in his first letter. He said
he was prepared to keep up the epls.
to!ary duel as long as his inkwell held
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-07

Glnsscock Hopeful.
Wheeling, w. Va. November O.
Governor William E. Glasscock pre-
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-09-28
Important Legislation.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.-The postal
savings bank law is given second
place among the important acts of
the Sixty-trst congress-" which are
reviewed in the republican campaign
committees textbook. The railroad
law Is mentioned as of fret and great
est Importance and in the perfecting
of this legislation Senators Dixon and
Carter were prominent, Senator Dixon
securing the incorporation of the long
and short haul provision and the in
clusion Of telegraph and telephone
companies under the law.
The bureau of mines bill, which
Representative Pray facilitated in the
house and the reclamation bond issue
measure, drafted and passed by Sen
ator Carter, are also mentioned. The
public lands withdrawal bill, which
Senators Carter and Dixon gave q
push along, is also referred to.
A long article is given outlining the
administr ATOMS conserv alton policy
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-09-28

but this theory is vigorously assaulted
by Prof. Willis L. Moore, chief Of
the United States weather bure au.
The professor admits the value of
conserving the forests, but declares
that the doctrine that they are neces-
sary to protect our climate is false.
"The flow of our rivers is prscti-
cally what IL has always been," says
Prof. Moore, "snd the records of the
height Of rivers of the United States
would not bear out many of the state
ments that have been 90 broadly pub.
lished. The American people have
been taught that floods have markedly
increased in the past fifty years; that
low water is lower in the streams, and
high water higher. Such q propa.
ganda is proved false by the recorde.
1.-THE depletion of Jul forests has
had no practical effect upon the low
OF Jul streams. The main reason is
that the broken, permeable soil of the
husbsndman is not as good conserver
OF moisture as q forest. Furthermore,
the people have been taught that cut
ting away the forests has brought
drought upon the nation and q long
train of evils.
snow, the weather bureau has in
its possession the records of New Eng
land for fully 100 years, and these
show that If there has been any change
10 the precipitation of water there has
been q slight gain since the forests
were cut down. The came thing is
shown by the records for the Ohio
valley, which We have for the past
fifty years."
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-09-28
Etiquette and DANCER,

etiquette 4 Danger.
"Ezra," said the farmers wife, "
wish you wouldn't lean your ELDERS on
tn table,"
Huh" sneercd the farmer, 'gettin'
fastderous, amt you? Mebby you'll
be warnin' me next to keep my knife
outen my mouth an tellin' me not to
cool my tea in my 8 But my
granther KEEP his ELDERS on tn table,
an SO did my father. an, by heck, I'm
goin' to lean on 1t "a hard an as long
as l dun please, so there!"
Whereupon he leaned hard, 80 hard
that the ancient table suddenly col.
lapsed and sprawled out its legs and
went down with q frightful crash Of
%crockery.
"Well, you've gone an done it now!
screamed the old lady. that's a pref
ty mess, amt it? Ell you'd had TIL
sense Of a chipmunk you'd have know
ed tn reason I didn't want you to lear
on tn table wuz cause tn legs wui
rickety. An l guess a little etiquette
wouldn't hurt you none anyway, Ezra
Doolittle. to say nothin' Of savin' s.
wuth Of family crockery."
And the disguised farmer stumbled
out from the e Of wreckage and
chased a harmless tramp three miles
down the road with an az handle
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-09-28
THE STATE ASSESSMENT.
Has Passed Amount That Calls For
Lower Tax Lew.

HELENA, Sept. 20.-The state of
Montana has psssed the mark set by
the trainers Of the constitution as the
point where the state tax levy should
be reduced from 2a mills to II mills,
According to figures announced by
Secretary j. ]. Ryan, of the state
board OF equalization, the total as.
sessed valuation of Montana 10 $780,
673, 699. When the constitution was
adopted It provided that the state tax
levy should not exceed 81 mills until
the states assessed valuation was
equal to $500, 600, 900, and that then it
should not exceed II mills. As that
point has o been reached, the tax
levy will automa ticslly drop to II
mills next year unless the people of
Montana at the coming election adopt
q constitutional amendment providing
for the maintenance of the present rate
until the valuation Of the state reaches
$500, 000, 900. A similar amendment to
the constitution was voted down at the
last election.
Silver Bow is the only first class
county In the state, while there are
now three second class counties-Lew.
ts and Clark, Cascade and Yellow
stone. The total valuation OF each
county including both railroad aud
h -
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-09-28
Congressman Who Have Been In Jail

Congressman Who Have Been In Jail
When Caleb Powers, nomin ated for
congress by the republicans of the
eleventh Kentucky district, takes his
seat in the house. his district being
overwhelmingly republican, he will
not be the only man in high public
position in Washington who has been
in jail for alleged crimes. Powers, as
Is we'll known, al for. years in prison
charged with completely In the murder
of Governor Goebel, and later par.
doned by Governor Wilson.
Justice Horace 81. Lurton of Ten.
nessee, was imprisoned at Columbus,
Ohio, during the Civil war. He was
one of Gen. John II. Morgan's raid.
ers, with whom he was captured on
their rash venture intol Indiana and
Ohio.
Gen. George w. Gordon, represen-
tative from the tenth Tennessee dis.
trict and commander of the United
Confederate Veterans association,
spent some time in q northern prison
after his capture at the battle Of
Franklin, where, leadingNhis brigade
10 q charge on the Union breastworks.
his horse carried him far in advance
of his men and into the arms of q
merciful enemy, who might have slain
him, but spared him for a rest from
his impetuosity in a secure northern
prison.
Congressman Richardson of the
eighth Alabama district, was in 1863,
a Confederate prisoner in q Murfrees'
boro, Tennessee Jail, under sentence
to hang as q spy. He says he would
doubtless have met such fate, but TO,
the fact that General Forrest surprised
the Federals and rescued him.
So there will be two members of the
next house who have had to suffer The
agony OF sentence to death, wher
Caleb Powers takes his seat.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-09-28
Suit Against Ballinger.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.-Secretary
Ballinger was sued in the superior
court of the District of Columbia yes
terday by Emerson B. Smith, a realty
oper ator Of New Mexico, who asserts
that after giving q final decision in
his favor in a case involving valuable
land adjoining the town of Clovis, N.
NJ, acquired by Smith at a cost of 3d.
600, the secretary reopened the case
without authority of law and awarded
the land to another who seeks to Dust
Smith on q technicality.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-09-28
MORE CONSUMERS THAN
PRODUCERS.

The increase in the price of food
has its close relation to the growth o
cities. The more people there are IL
the cities the less people there arr
raising food and the more people there
are eating food, but not raising it
says the Phil sdelphis Press.
A century ago nine people out o.
ten we're on the farm raising food fol
themselves and for the tenth person IL
the small cities of . century away
Food was cheap. All else was dear.
Today the returns for population
for cities thus far indicate that fou,
people out of ten are in the cities,
raising no food, but eating it, and on,
of the other elk, at least half, in 1900,
we're not raising food, but making
things of all sorts, though in some
cases, a very few preparing food.
About three people out of ten are
growing food now for themselves and
seven others, where, q century ago,
nine people out of ten were doing 1t,
and fifty years ago Eve people out of
ten.
Naturally, the fewer people there
are growing food the dearer food will
be. Agricultural labor.saving nipple.
ments have enabled one man to do the
work of several in the past. Trans
portation is cheaper. Minnesota
wheat is ground, barreled and laid
down in Philadelphia for less than l,
could be brought here from the Ches.
ter valley.
But the real fact remains that ii you
begin with nine people raising food
out of ten, go OF in fifty years to only
five people out of ten and reach three
people raising food out Of ten, the
other seven will have to pay high. and
ii over half OF the seven choose to live
in cities where they cannot raise even
Q yardful of garden truck, they will
have to pay higher yet for dear food
When the food gets so dear that
they have to economic In shoes,
clothes, railroad trips, amusements
and general goods, some of the people
who make these things will have to 60
back TO raising food until the balance
is restored.
This is going on now. Farms are
raising less per acre. Food Is higher.
People are using less of other things
beside food.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-09-28
Requires Apportionment.

Census Requires Apportionment.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.-One of the
fret questions with which the sp.
preaching session of congress will be
called upon to Rrspple will be to de.
termine when the next apportionment
Of members of the house OF represen.
tstives under the recent census shall
be made.
The constitution requires that q re.
spportionment shall follow each de-
cennial enumeration of the people,
and accordingly q redistribution OF
seats In the house membership has
taken place heretofore soon after the
conclusion OF each census.
Before the time for the meeting OF
congress the result Of the November
elections will have become known. II
the democrats should come into con.
troll of the house for the SD congress
they would naturally resist any effor,
to have the change made by the pre-.
sent republican congress, while the re.
publicans would be as anxious to have
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-09-28
LESSON IN FREIGHT RATES.

In the October number of Hampton's
Magazine Charles E. Russell gives
many instances of unjust and arbi.
trary freight rates and overcharges
by railroads.
"You can ship some kinds of
freight" he says, ''from an Ameri.
q port to a European port and back
for the cost of moving the same freight
from q ship in San Pedro harbor to
Los Angeles, twenty-five miles. The
freight rate on iron from San Pedro
to Los Angeles is 50 q ton; on other
commodities it ranges from 1920 to
90 q ton. In addition there ia q wharf
age charge of fifty cents q ton.
"On some kinds OF freight and in.
GLIDING wharfage, the rate is $3.50 a
ton from q ship 10 San Pedro harbor
% miles r to Los Angeles,
and it is $3.50 q ton from Antwerp to
San Pedro-l6,Q00 miles or there.
abouts.
1.-THE present railroad freight rates
from Sacramento, CAL, to Reno,
New, are higher than the freight rates
in the old days OF mining before the
railroad vas built, when all freigh,
must be dragged over the mountain by
mule and OK teams.
"Yet the Southern Pacific, it mus,
be confessed" concludes Mr.. Rus
sell, has no monopoly of such mons
trOsities.
"At the mines in West Virgins
soft coal is worth 81 a ton. When II
has been transported to the city oil
Washington, 400 miles, it sells fol
$3.50 q ton. At Scranton, Pennsyl
vania. q car is loaded with anthracite
coal worth less than two dollars 9
ton. The mex morning 1t 10 In New
York and worth s6 a ton. Apparently
the cost of transporting coal 100 mile,
is greater than the cost of mining it,
In California, coal is now 90 dea1
that for the poor 1t must seem like
luxury; and yet there are in the noun
tatns In Colorado, New Mexico ant
Utah, and in the North Pacific states
great coal deposits that might affort
q cheap supply II reasonable freigh
rates could be had. Az they cannot
coal 10 regularly brought to So,
Francisco from Australia.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-09-28
He Was Visiting the Sick.

When the Office boy came ia the
stern old broker looked over biz
glasses with q frown.
"Young man." he said, slowly
"why were you absent from your
work yesterday afternoon"
"Went to see the ball game" con
fessed the lad, fumbling with his cap
"You did, eh?"
eyes, sir: you said the only occas'
ion l could take an afternoon of
would be to visit the sick"
"And what has that to do with it?'
"Well, sir, this was one of those
occasions. It was the sickest bunch
of ball players that ever came dowr
the pike. We got whi:ewashed to tn,
score of II to O."
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-09-28
Famous Will Case Settled.

SALT LAKE, Sept. 20.-After three
years the contest of Mrs. Anna Brad
ley, instituted after she shot former
Senator Brown of Washington in
1906, has been settled out of court.
She gets s12, 500 for the two children,
of whom Brown ia the father.
Before his death Brown willed
800, 600 to his sons by his fret mar.
risge and not q cent to the children
by Mrs. Bradley. Mrs. Bradley then
brought the suit. Mrs. Bradley lives
on q farm outside of Salt Lake.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-09-28
CONSERvATlONlSTS DISAGREE,

There ia . difference of opinion
among conservationists a. to whether
the federal or the state authorities
shall be vested with control over the
disposition of natural resources.
There is also q conflict at views as to
how the waste or preservation of some
of these resources will affect the vel.
fare Of the community.
It has been alleged, for instance,
that the destruction of forests results
in climatic changes that may bring
disaster and ruin to certain localities,
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-09-28

M1ssouLA. Sept. 2a-Burglars last
night forced IN entrance into the
freight Office OF the Chicago, Milwau.
kee & Puget Sound railway and utter.
~ demolished the safe by the use of
dynamite. Cash amounting to about
600 was taken together with about
$500 In checks.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-09-28

The WEEKLY RIVER PRESS is q good
newspaper TO send away to your friends
In the east. It will save you the trou.
BILE of writing letters
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-05
Fort Dodge
Packing Plant Fire
House Which Began Operations Tues.
day After Being Rebuilt
Loss is Total.

FORT DODGE, la. Aug. A-(special
Telegram.)-The Fort Dodge Corn Belt
Packing company's plant, which began OPP
GRAFTON Tuesday after rebuilding when the
plant was destroyed just after completion
last Christmas, is again burning. The To-
cation OF the blaze cannot be found and
the fire is gaining great headway, aided
by strong wind. The plant is valued at
over S5,0OO. The cause may be incendiary.
At 1 o'clock the fire had spread to the
entire plant and the whole is doomed. The
loss will be total. Two theories are ad-
vanced for the cause of the fire. One is
faulty insulation and the other spontaneous
combustion in air felt In the cooling room
An inspector says the latter IS fs'iu1probable,
as air felt is used in'all such plants without
danger.
Dynamite was used twice unsuccessfully.
The Fort Dodge fire department with a
chemical engine is working desperately. but
without avail. The plant is two miles from
the city.
The office at the opposite end of the
doomed property now is burning and Pres
ident ]. j.. Ryan states he is certain the
fire there is incendiary in origin and this
makes suspicion greater about the rest OF
the plant. The matter will be Investigated
thoroughly Mr.. Ryan says little thins
like two fires will not prevent rebuilding
The insurance Is $4,000.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-05
BROWNE MUST STAND TRIAL
Court Denies Motion of Illinois DEM
Ocratic Leader to Dismiss
Case.

CHICAGO, Aug. 4-Judge Kersten today
refused to quash the indictments against
Lee O'Neill Browne. democratic minority
leader of the Illinois legislature. charging
him with purchasing votes for William
Lorimer for United States senator. The
court deferred judgment on the plea of
Brownies counsel that the testimony of
Representative Link Myers and Beckmeyer
that they had been paid or offered money
for voting for Lorimer be barred from this,
the second trial Of Browne. The first trial
resulted in disagreement after the jury
had been out lis hours.
Judge Kersten later announced that his
decision regarding the testimony of the
other legislators would be rendered when
the prosecution sought to put them on the
stand.
The first 100 veniremen appeared in court
today.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-05
Omaha Creamery
Registers Kick
on Fuel OIL Rate
Fairmont Company Alleges Unjust
Charge is Made by Several
Railroads.
crrom a staff correspondentl


WASHINGTON, Aug 4.-1'he Fairmont
Creamery company Of Omaha today flied
a complaint with the Interstate Commerce
commission against the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy;
Kansas City & Southern; Miss Pacific
and st. Joseph & Grand Island railroad
companies, alleging unjust charges by the
defendants on fuel oil shipped from Sugar
Creek, No. to Omaha, Crete and Grand
Island, at which points the creamery COM
pany maintains plants and operates them
with fuel oil.
The secretary of the interior has awarded
contract to the Pittsburg Valve Foundry
& Construction company Of Pittsburg, Pa,
for furnishing nine 5s-inch balanced valves
for use in regulating the discharge Ut
water from the reservoirs under the North
Platte irrigation project, Nebraska Wyom-
ing and the Belle Fourche irrigation pro-
iect. South Dakota. The contract price
for each valve is 1880, the total for the
nine being S35010 (. o. b. cars at Pittsburg,
Pa. and with the cost of transportation
added, the cost delivered at the projects
will be about $37 $50.
Postmasters appointed: Nebraska-Em-
pire, Sioux county, David X. Merwin, vice
c. y. Cunningham resigned.
Iowa-Ashton. Oscoola county, Edawrd
Caster vice f. W. jameson, resigned.
Rural carriers appointed: Iowa-Maple-
ton. route 4, Louis l.. Bridges, carrier; no
substitute ..~
South Dakota--Huron, route 2, Ernest j.
Pickell, carrier; d. A. Pickell, substitute
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-05
Mrs. S.McMahon and
Mrs. Hanify Held
Slayer of David P. Thomas of Sturgis,
S. D., and Woman with Her Are
Charged with Murder.

STURGIS. S. d., Aug. 4,-(Specal Tele-
gram.) .)-Charges against Mrs, Nellie Nc
Mahon, who shot and killed David p,
Thomas Saturday morning, were dismissed
by the state this morning and Immediately
thereafter new information filed and war
rant issued charging Nellie McMahon and
Mary Hanify Jointly with murder. Mrs
Hanify, is a niece of the late Michael
Mcmahon. Defendants were Immediately
arraigned and the preliminary hearing Sc,
for 2 clock this afternoon. The state was
represented by w. NJ. Kasher, states at
torney by special appointment, assisted By
Robert Stewart of Deadwood, and the de
fense by Harry p. Atwater and A. X
Gardner.