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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12
TRADE REPORTS ARE
 STILL |RREGULA AR
East and South Are Sections
 Showing Up Poorly
STAPLES IN DEMAND
Uncertainty as to Continuance Are Barriers Against Trade
 Expansion

New York, March 11.-Bradstreet's to- morrow will say:
 Trade reports continue to display a certain degree of irregularity. a ten dency particularly noticeable in the east rarts of the nearby south, and in scat tered sections of the west Yet on ba. ance trading at a majority of points is better than 1t was last week, the south | as a whole reporting improvement, the | northwest showing up in good shape. the far west good, with the southwest sat isfactory, though house sales there are lighter, while the west, except Ohio and parts of Iowa, reports progress.
 More favorable weather conditions ap- pear to be the chief influence making for improvement, but on the other hand the poor condition of country roads tends to deter anything like a free movement Staple lines are in chief request, and as matter of fact buyers continue back ward as to future commitments except where price conditions favor them.
 High prices of manufactured goods and uncertainty as to their permanence are the principal barriers against expansion in trade, but as the situation stands, | manufacturers find it difficult to reduce prices on a larger scale, because raw materials are so high and business profits now are only normally remunerative. Summed up, the turnover is larger than it was last year, but the point is that trade does not measure up to anticipa- tions. which are keyed up to a high point
 Retail trade has improved at a few points, hut while the weeks developments have not been especially satisfactory, prospects of a very early Easter trade not having naterialized. Collections are slow.
 The labor situation is, if anything, more unsettled than it was week ago.
 Business failures for the week ending March 10 were 250, against 1S4 last week, 2,4 in the like week of 1909, 27S in 1908, 1Sd in 1907 and 1S7 in 1906.
 Wheat. including four exports from the United States and Canada, for the week ending March 10 aggregated 1,679, 459 bushels, against 1,S45,S07 last week, and .2S9,S47 this week last year. For the SG weeks ending March 10 exports are 110,6o5, 713 bushels against 149201,1S4 in the corresponding period last year.
 Corn exports for the wek are 1,022, ,S96 bushels, against 733, 466 last week, and 93O,S4S in 1869 For 36 weeks ending March 10 corn exports are 5S3 bushels, against q 762, ,So0 last week"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12

Total .................. 48O,633.08 The state of Alabama, Jefferson coun- ty: Before me came Al c. Garber, cash fer of Merchants and Mechanics Trust and Savings bank who, being duly sworn, says that the above and fore- going statement is a true condition of said bank as shown by the books on file in said bank.
 AL c. CAREER, Cash fer. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 10th day of March, 1910.
 IVEY F. LEWIS.
 Notary Public. Attest:
 F. D. SMITH,
 II. c. ABBOTT.
 J. K. WARREN,
 Directors.
The new era., 1910-12-15
FOREIGN.

The latest election results in Lon
don merely confirm the opinion
formed that as the results of recent
contests the Unionists have now no
possible hope of replacing the Liberal
government In power.
Six new cases of cholera have been
reported from Palermo, Italy, all be-
ing among the patients in the asylum
for the insane. One death has also
occurred there. Two cases are report
ed from other districts.
AS the result of the extraordinary
agitation in recent months by Chi
nese anti-opium societies, in Pekin,
the imperial senate almost unanimous
ly passed resolution looking to the
determination Of the drug.
A balloon owned by the Interna-
tional Ballooning Club of Munich,
which rose from that city and moved
first in the direction of Switzerland.
landed near Kirkwall, in the county
Of Orkney, Scotland, after q wild
flight across the North sea, during
which one Of the three aeronauts,
Herr Metzger. lost his life.
The new era., 1910-12-15
FROM TELEGRAPHIc REPORTS
THAT COVER THE WEEKS
EVENTS.
OF MOST INTEREST
KEEPING THE READER POSTED
ON MOST IMPo TANT
CURRENT TOPICS.
WESTERN.

The population of Nevada is S1,S75,
sn increase Of 39,540, over 1900.
The population of Idaho is 325,5s4,
an increase of 259.229. over 1900.
The population of Oregon is 72,765,
an incsrease of 259,229, over 1900.
Fort Riley. Kansas. is to have a
wireless telegraph station, which is
rapidly nearing completion.
The War Department will sell the
old Fort Mckinney military reserva-
tion near Buffalo. Wyo., containing
10000 acres.
Cesario Sanches and Rafael Barela
were hanged in the penitentiary in
Florence, Ariz-. for the murder of
Gregorio Conejo. an aged Mexican,
near Bellemont. September 27.
During the past year there were fif-
ty-one fatal accidents in Montana
metallurgical mines, according to the
annual report Of State Mine Inspector
William Walsh, submitted to Acting
Governor Allen.
While he was frolicking with other
boys who worked with him in a fac
tory in New York, Louis Scheerer fell
into a vat filled with a solution of
cyanide Of potassium. He opened his
mouth to scream, swallowed some of
the solution and died Immediately.
The Seattle board of education put
an end to negotiations that have been
carried on between Chicago and
Seattle promoters for a football game
Christmas between the Oak Park
tChicago) and the Lincoln (Seattle)
high school teams, by passing a rule
prohibiting the holding of such a
contest.
The new era., 1910-12-15
WAS JEALOUS;
HE KILLS TWO
GRAND VALLEY MAN SHOOTS
WOMAN AND KILLS
SELF.
MAN so YEARS OLD
HAS WIFE AND DAUGHTER liV.
ING IN COLORADO
TOWN.

San Francisco.-Stopping the ele-
Notor midway between TWO floors of
the hotel which they conducted as
partners, James Whitley fired four
bullets into the body of Mrs. Julia
Bartley and then cut his own throat
and immersed himself in a filled
bathtub. Both will die.
Whitley was prominent citizen of
the Grand valley, Colo. where he still
owns large orchard. He was a dep
uty sheriff OF Mesa county at one
time
His wife and daughter in Grand
junction have been in regular cor
respondence with him. He was about
sixty years old.
Mrs. BARLEY, who is thirty-five, is
the divorced wife of Benjamin S.
Barley, wealthy grocer of Oakland.
Shortly after her divorce she met
Whitley here. The police say Whitley
had deserted wife and daughter in
met Mrs. BARLEY. From this city the
two went to Salt Lake, returning with
q stable full of racehorses. Returning
here last August they purchased the
hotel in which the shooting took
place, and conducted it under the firm
lame of Whitley G. Webb. Mrs. Bart
ley having resumed her maiden name.
The police say Mrs. BARLEY was out
today and Whitley awaited her return
IN the elevator after relieving the op-
orator. Without noticing that her part
FER was operating it, Mrs. BARLEY en-
tered the elevator, which was brought
to a stop between the first and sec
ond floors.
Telling her to kiss him goodbye.
Whitley drew revilver, and on her
refusal to comply fired five times.
three bullets striking her in the abdo-
men and the fourth lodging In her
chest. The fifth shot went wild.
Leaving the elevator, Whitley sent
it with it's bleeding burden to the
top of the shaft and rushed to Mrs.
Bartley's room, where he cut his
throat with paper-knife. Hotel en-
ployes and a patrolman forced open
the door of Mrs. Bartleys room and
found Whitley trying to drown him
self in a bathtub.
The new era., 1910-12-15
WASHINGTON.

A fashionable wedding Of interest
to both naval and diplomatic circles
took place in Washington, when Miss
Eleanor Terry, daughter Of Rear Ad-
miral Terry, became the bride Of
Lieutenant Filippo Camperio, an Of
ficers of the Italian navy.
The President appointed Fred w.
Lehman Of st. Louis solicitor general
to succeed Lloyd W. Bowers.
Holding that the Circuit Court Of
the United States for the Southern
District Of New York had erred. the
United States Supreme Court at
Washington reversed the lower court
and held sufficient various counts of
indictments charging F. Augustus
Heinze with the misapplication Of
funds Of the Mercantile National Bank
OF New York City. Of which he was
president. Further proceedings must
now be AIKEN In the lower courts.
The new era., 1910-12-15
Many Hurt in Riot.

Toronto, Ont.-A riot, remarkable for
its spontaneity and for its fierceness
while it lasted, resulted in the injury
of eighteen men, the complete wreck
ing of eleven street cars and the shat
tering of the windows in over 100
more. For two hours mob Of sever
al thousand people surged back and
forth on the principal business thor
oughfares, demolishing every street
car that came within reach and com
pletely tying up traffic. The trouble
started when the street car company
installed pay-as-you-enter cars.
The new era., 1910-12-15
SPORT.

Paddy Lavine of Buffalo and Buck
Grouse o. Pittsburg signed article to
fight twelve-round bout at Akron,
Ohio, on New Years Eve.
Young Miller of st. Paul retained
the welterweight wrestling champion
ship of the world by defeating, in that
city, Eugene Tremblay, of Montreal.
The business men of Colorado
Springs showed their appreciation OF
the splendid record made the past
season by the Colorado Colleger Tt
gers and the high school Terrors, by
giving an elaborate banquet.
The new era., 1910-12-15
Ballinser-Pinehot Investigation.

Washington.-The Ballinger-Pinchot
investigating committee, after eleven
months work made its final report to
Congress. In the opinion Of seven Re-
publican members, majority of the
committee, Secretary Ballinger hon
estly and faithfully performed the du-
ties Of his high office whit an eye sin
gle to the public interest" In the
opinion of the four Democrats Mr.. Bal
linger has not been true to the trust
reposed in him as secretary OF the in.
terror and should be requested by the
proper authorities to resign"
The new era., 1910-12-15
TImeIlness.

All measures Of reformation are ef.
fective in exact proportion to their
tmeliness; partial decay may be cut
away and cleansed; incipient error
corrected; but there 10 a point At
which corruption can no more be
stayed. nor wandering recalled. 1t
has been the manner Of modern phil
anthropy to remain passive until that
precise period. and to leave the sick
to perish. and the foolish to stray.
while 1t spent itself in frantic exer-
tions to raise the dead. and reform the
dust.-RuskiR
The new era., 1910-12-15
Mrs. shont,' JeweIrv ueId.

New York.-Jewelry said to be
worth 100000 the property of Mrs.
Theo. P. Shonts of New York, wife of
the president Of the Interborough
Rapid Transit Company. was retained
by customs officials when she re-
turned from Europe on the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse.
The new era., 1910-12-15
Thinks Report. Not True.

Washington. = Attorney General
Wickersham, after an investigation of
reports that four wealthy cattlemen
convicted of illegal fencing were liv-
ing in luxurious quarters and being al
lowed special privileges in the jai' at
Hastings. Neb., believes the reports
untrue.
The new era., 1910-12-15

Women Didn't Vote; Bonds Invalid.
Albany, N.Y.-Because women tax
payers were denied the right to vote
at special election, procee ings in
stituted by the village of Seneca Falls
to issue $4,000 in bonds for water
works improvements have been de-
clared invalid by the Court OF Appeals.
The new era., 1910-12-15
Snow In Nav York.

New York.-Nearly five inches o..
snow has fallen In New York and it Is
still showing. The weather bureau
says Snow"
The new era., 1910-12-15
NEW ERA IN FINANCE
ACCURACY AND PUBL LlCI1Y
PROVES TO BE A POPULAR
MOTTO.

Prompt Response to Bold Move Of
President VaII-"Aceuraey" Reduc
cd Western Unions Surplus $13,-
900, oo,ooo.-"PubIieity" Restored Con-
hdenee and Its Stock Went Up.
The new era., 1910-12-15
Benny on senevoIence.

Benevolence Is a great thing. When
you have benevolence you cannot rest
until you do something to make other
people feel grateful to you. The other
day my mamma went up into the attic
to find a lot Of old clothes to give
to poor people who could not afford to
buy any clothing for themselves.
While she was hunting around she
found gold-headed cane worth $25
that grandpa had put up there IS
years ago. and forgot all about. Thus
We see. dear friends, benevolence
brings its own reward.-Benny.
The new era., 1910-12-15
AM UnmIstakabIe Hint.

An UnmistakabIe Hint.
Young staylate got a delicate hint
from the young lady hs was calling
on the other evening"
"What was it7"
"She found looking at the clock and
other familiar devices useless, 90 she
ordered some refreshments an her
mother sent her Q plate of brS2 S2kfast
food"
The new era., 1910-12-15

The humble man never believes he
IL worthless or he would have moth
ing worth being humble about.
The new era., 1910-12-15

MIS-. Farmer-Say. did you say you
rasn't goin' to do no work for dat
inner?
Boston Billings-Ahl ma'am, as
sure you the double negative is .
solecism I've never been guilty of.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-01-19
A Full Stomach Verdict.

Warden McClaughry of the federal
penitentiary tells story of the first
time that he served on a jury.
1T was back in 1854" he sail
recently, telling of the incident to a
friend. Il had just come home on
furlough from the army and it was
the night before Christmas, a cold.
bitter night. A school teacher out in
the country, where the snow was
inches and inches deep, was to be
tried for whipping a boy student.
There were six of us impaneled and
all rode out together in big sleigh
to the home of the Justice of the
peace where the trial was to be held
After a vigorous lecture from the
honorable justice and good deal of
testimony on both sides, we were
asked to adjourn to the kitchen. the
room next to where the trial was he.
ing held, to deliberate on our ver-
dict. As | said, it was the night he
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-01-19
The Menace OF Child Labor.

''Oh for a Lovejoy, Lincoln and
a Grant, to emancipate the two mil
lions of child workers whose practical
enslavement deforms their bodies,
stunts their minds and destroys their
moral nature" pleaded the Rev. John
Johnson of the Baptist church in his
sermon Sunday evening as he told OF
the individual and social evil of chilli
labor. The capitalists, he declared.
have taken the machines which were
meant to free men from labor and
with these they have enslaved in
mines, in cotton nils and in factories
the children of the poor. while men
with out jobs are forced into bread
lines as result Not only is the child
robbed of it's happiness, 1t nppor-
tunities for healthfuI mental, physi-
cal and moral growth, but the system
of child labor is economically waste
full to society in the present and dan
gerous to the future children of those
thus employed.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-01-19
BOY INDIAN
LANDS
1 400, 600 ACRES OF EASTERN
MONTANA LAND TO BE OPENED
TO SETTLEMENT ON MARCH
4, 1910.

By order of Richard A. Ballinger,
secretary of the interior, about l.
400, 900 acres of land in Valley coun-
ty, eastern Montana, known as the
Rocky Boy Indian lands will be
thrown open to white settlers March
II, 1910, and will be subject to both
settlement and entry March 31st
and thereafter.
The order of Secretary Ballinger
provides for settlement and entry of
the lands under the usual homestead
laws There will be no registration
and no drawings. First to come will
be able to make their selections and
know to reasonable certainty that
they will be able to secure the land
filed upon All the expense of 60
ing out to register, the delay of wait
ing several months for the drawing
and the additional delay of waiting
several months before making entry
are done away under this system.
Those who have made settlement
on this land prior to December 10,
1909, (the' date of the secretary's Or
der), or who may make settlement
between March / and March 81, will
have a preferred right to make entry
on the lands covered by their settle
ment at any time within three
months after March 81, 1910.
Filings must be made at the Unit
ed States land Office at Glasgow,
Mont, on and after March l.
The lands to be opened are bound
ed by the Missouri river on the south,
by the international boundary on the
east, by the Fort Peck Indian reser-
walton and range 81 east, on the
west.
The lands can readily be reached
from Culbertson, which has good
hotels accommodations and livery
outfits 1t can also be reached from
Bainville
Most of the land is rolling prairie
The soil is unusually fertile and
where farming has been carried on,
unusually good yields of all kinds of
grains, grasses and vegetables are re-
ported
The opening of this land is really
Of more Importance than any of the
big reservations that have been
| opened the last few years.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-01-19
Heiress Pays to Stop Suit

New York, Jan. 19.-Miss Antoin-
cite GaZzam, heiress to 100000
charged by Mrs Marshall Clark with
alternating the affections of her hus-
band, known as Professor Niblo,' q
palmist and astrOloger, has settled
the suit out of court. Miss Zazzam
who met Niblo during a visit to Los
Angeles, paid Mrs. Clark $4,000 tC
drop her suit Frank Comeford, the
plaintiffs attorney, who is in Chi
cago, confirmed a report that no fur
Their action would be taken. Besides
being an heiress to millions, Miss
Gazzam is wealthy in her own right
and lives in magnificent palace al
Cornwall, n Y
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-01-19
Tri-State Grain Growers.

Fargo. N. D., Jan. 1S.-With ]
J. Hill. Senator McCumber and other
men of note among the scheduled
speakers, the Tri-State Grain Grow.
ers' association assembled here today
for its twelfth annual convention Al
the initial session. following an ad.
dress of welcome by Lieutenant Gov
ernor Lewis, the convention listened
to addresses on various phases OF
scientific agriculture delivered by
agricultural college instructors End
others. The convention, which is
largely attended by prominent grain
growers of Minnesota and North and
South Dakota, will be in session three
days
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-01-19
STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE
Why He Used Disinfectants.


DR.. Charles Page, at a dinner in
Boston, adverted to his recent attack
on the over-numerous operations for
appendicitis.
Too many of these operations are
the result of fad" said DR.. Page.
They are as useless and a million
times more harmful than the opera
ton that a new resident of Glouces-
ter performed the other day.
This chap moved into a dilapidat-
ed cottage near the beach and set
to work at once to whitewash it in
side and out While he was swing
ing the wet brush on the exterior a
passerby said approvingly:
I'm glad to see you making this
old place so neat and smart. It's
been an eyesore to the neighborhood
for years.
. 1T amt nothin' to me about eye
sores, was the reply. The reason
why I'm whitewashin' is because the
last couple wot lived here had twins
twice. | understand lines good
disinfectant. Ye see, we've got ten
children already Louisville
Times
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-01-19
[0URbARREL GET.
TING SMALLER
FIGURING FROM THE RISE IN
PRICES, THE BARREL HAS
FOUR YEARS.

The flour barrel is getting smaller.
or, in other words, the price is get
ting bigger, which amounts to the
same thing There are still 1876
pounds in a barrel, but the barrel
costs s21O more than it did four
years ago. In 1906 the price was
$3.50; now it is 500.
The family flour barrel has shrunk
about one-third. Not much like the
widows meal-every time she took
out a handful there was just as much
left. The family that had $4.60 to
spend for a barrel of flour four years
ago, ana whose pocketbook has not
grown larger in that time, now gets
about 81 pounds less for the $3.50.
That means about so fewer loaves of
bread.
What can the family do? Eat less?
There are more little mouths to feed
in that family than there were four
years ago When the child cries for
bread, will the father give him a
stone?
What is the answer to the problem
of the increased cost of living? How
are people going to live on the
wages of four years ago and pay a
third more for what they must buy?
Here are few figures in the flour
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-01-19
COMPLETE BIG DAM IN WYOMING
Said to Be Highest Structure of Its
Kind i'm the World

Cody, Wyo., Jan. 19.-The last
bucketful of cement to complete the
big government dam to impound the
flood waters of the Shoshone river,
eight miles above Cody, was put in
place today, and the event was cele-
brated in true style.
The dam is the highest structure of
its kind in the world-32S feet. 1t is
So feet long at the bottom and 200
feet long at the top. 1t is designed
to hold back flood waters of the
Shoshone, which will form an arti-
fetal lake 10 miles square. This is
expected to furnish water for the ir-
rigation of $4,000 acres.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-01-19
IN "INCUBATOR BABY" TEST
Woman Involved Appears at Trial OF
Gentry and TillOtson.

Topeka, Kan, Jan. 19.-Mrs. Stella
Barclay of Buffalo, n. Y, was in
court here today at the trial of Gen
try and Captain Frank Tillotson, who
are charged with helping her kidnar
Marian Bleakley, the incubator
baby" in Topeka last August.
An attorney said an effort was be-
ing made to have Mrs. Barclay plead
guilty on the kidnapping charge and
Immediately be paroled by the judge
Mrs. Barclay is the foster mother OF
the child. She and Gentry were ar
rested in Kansas City with the baby
after an exciting chase.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-01-19
Coming Events

Jan. 21-W. H. s. VS.. Davenport
H. S. debate
Jan. 24-Superior court.
Jan. 26-Superior court.
Jan. 2S-County teachers in ses-
sion at Leavenworth.
Feb. Superior court.
Feb. County commissioners in
session.
Feb. 11-Commercial club ball.
Feb. 18-County teachers meet in
Entiat.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-01-19

fore Christmas. and the kitchen was
full of good things that go to make
up real good old-fashioned dinner.
I'VE organized at once to do justice
to that fine line of provender. A
serving committee was appointed
and / was made member of it. We
served all right For three-quarters
of an hour we did glorious justice
to that food. Finally we had dis
posed of everything in sight.
Then we returned to the court
room Immediately and with solemn
faces announced that our verdict was
that the boy had not been whipped
enough. kansas City Journal.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-01-19

view points OF insurance departments
which will be presented by Alfred
Hurrell, counsel of the New York in
surance department. Following the
delivery of the formal papers on each
OF the three main subjects there
will be general discussion, in which
all present will be invited to join.