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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-25

world ever had a salesman such as
Caldwell. and he must not be per-
mitted to retire. II his health was
breaking he must have the care of the
greatest of specialists to fit him to re-
turn to his work. If he was dissatis-
fled a new contract more liberal than
the old one would be drawn.
But John Caldwell was not in wan
ing health, and he was not dissatisfied
with the contract. His health never
was better.
The president asked him what was
the reason for his announcement.
II have had ten years of business"
replied CALDWELL 1T has been glor-
ious ten years. have won great
fight, and l am proud of myself 1
have prospered amazingly. In the ten
years I have had golden stream
pour In upon me. To-day / am worth
$500, 600.
II have come to know the power
and the joy of the possession of money,
but ] am not satisfied. The city, with
Its wealth of color, It's multitudes. it's
theatres, its shops, its fine hotels and
Its gaieties, has its charms, but some
how crave something different. Per-
haps you will think / am queer, but
] have been longing for year or more
to do what am going to do now.
II have bought place in the coun-
try. It's a pretty little place, and the
family and / plan to stay there most
of the time. In the winter we'll come
to town. But in the spring and sum-
mer. Why. man, | have a little patch
of ground that I'm going to look after
myself. I'm going to have my own
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-25

strawberry patch and raise my own
garden truck.
I'm fifty years old, and want once
more to know the JOY of living"
Copyright, 1910, by Richard Spillane)
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-03-29
Attention.!

We, soldiers three, a drummer and bugler
and proud standard bearer, wish to call
your attention to the first special prize dis
tribution, a week from Saturday evening,
April 9. See page 10 for full particulars re-
garding this.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-03-29
Eight Grand Prizes

S6OO-Dfning Room Set at ckie-FoIey's
S5OO-Bar1k Account Oil ard Metals Bank
S3OO-DoubLe Trip, Honolulu via Mdtso" Nav Co..
S266-DOubIe Trip, Alaska via Pac Coast S. S. Co.
S204-AnOtter Double Trip via No. Pacific Co. TO
Seattle and Alaska S. S. Co. Seattle to Skagaody
S26O-AnOther Double Trip to Honolulu via
Oceanic s. S. Co.
S25O-CoIunlbia GraphanoIa from Ffsger0ids
S22O-DOubIe Trip TO Mexico City via National
Railways of Mexico.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-03-29
S. s. PRESIDENT (PAc. COAST SIS. COZ
ALI Aboard for Alaska!
"The Trip That's Different"

to ooao
the close OF this
double Skagway Alaska and Seattle Either the
The Hads the winner Of this the Fifth Grand Prze anu
will
will board either the Cottage City or City OF Seattle and pro
wonderful
villages villages and all under the
entirely dHerent
of
sink apparently within few minutes
boats being large
passenger The City of Seattle and Cottage
especially They comfortable and vetable floating
Imagn sitting exqusltey tunshed
gazing immense mountains OF cegs
candidate will to
imagine this trip 1t to the candidate standing fifth
amor district leaders,
the Pacific Steamship
about this Ask him The Her
be will
will be this Someone get it
you?
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Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-01
JUDGE LANDS QUASHES
BEEF TRUST INDICTMENT
Frees National Packing Company and
Subsidiary Firms by Sustaining
Demurrer of Defense.

Chicago.-The indictment against
the National Packing company and it's
ten subsidiary concerns charging them
with conspiracy to restrain trade in
violation of the Sherman antitrust
law, was knocked out Thursday when
Judge Kenesaw NJ. Lands in the
United States district court sustained
the demurrer filed against the indict-
ment by the so-called beef trust.
A special venire of rs men was Or
dered called for July Il. From this
venire a grand jury will be drawn and
second investigation of the packing
companies begun.
In his decision sustaining the de-
murrer to the government indictment
Judge Lands said:
"The most painstaking search of
this indictment fails to disclose the
presence of charge that during the
statutory period the defendants have
engaged in, or had anything to do
with Interstate commerce, or that
they have done anything having any
effect upon such commerce, and the
court is not clothed with authority to
supply, entirely by inference, the COM
plete omission of such a fundamental
element of the offense.
This fatal weakness might have
been obviated by including the charge,
had the evidence warranted it, that
the defendants, or their respective of
ficers or agents, did something, as,
for instance, fixed prices, controlled
output, divided territory, or the like,
which effected a restraint Of inter
state commerce being carried on
within the three years period.
"The general averment that the de-
PENDANTS engaged in combination in
restraint Of interstate trade is, of
course, a mere conclusion, and there
fore insufficient. The demurrer must
be sustained"
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-01
TAFT AUTOMOBILE RUNS
OVER MAN AT BEvERly
Street Laborer's Skull Believed 70
Have Been Fractured by Me-
chine Robert Was Driving.

Beverley, aMss. = Robert A Taft.
son OF President Taft, while driv-
ing his automobile in COMPANY
with two companions, ran into an
Italian laborer near Pride's Crossing
knocking him down, causing a frac-
tured skull and other injuries.
4 physician was summoned and the
injured man was sent to the Beverly
hospital, while the presidents son and
his friends followed soon after.
At the hospital no one would give
the presidents son any assurance that
the injured man would recover. They
said that the skull appeared to he
fractured, while there were cuts and
bruises on other parts of the BODY.
none. OF which, however, was of a seri-
Gus character
All those who saw the affair said
that it was purely an accident, that
the automobile was going slowly. and
that the man stepped directly in front
of It,
The affair has caused a hurried
change in the plans of the Taft family.
The Tafts were planning to depart on
the yacht Sylph for New London to
witness the Harvard-Yale crew races.
Unless there is an unexpected change
for the better in the mans condition
the man Will remain in Beverly. Rob
ert Taft was badly broken up over
the accident and has spent the day
at the hospital
The president was Immediately mott
fed at the White House of the acct
dent in which his son had figured SO
prominently. He at once sent a long
telegram to his son, ordering him to
secure the best aid possible for the
injured man.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-01
American Is Held Guilty.

Blueields.-William Pittman, the
daring American, who was captured
by the Madriz army during the fight
month ago, has been found guilty by
a court-martial Of conspiracy against
the government, according to dis
patches received here Monday. Pitt
man will be sentenced to at least ten
years in the government prison at
Managua. An effort will be made at
once to induce the state department
at Washington to check the execution
of sentence.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-01

One of the weakest points in the
Chinese imperial government has been
Its management of the finances. There
has been deplorable lack of enlight
ened system, and, according to conf
dent report, a still more deplorable
excess of squeezing" and other forms
of dishonesty. 1t was therefore to be
desired that fiscal reforms should oc
cupy large place in the reorganiza
ton of the government on a const1tu
uonal basis, and it is now gratifying
and encouraging to observe that sucr
Is the case. Various imperial DEGREES
have emphasized the necessity Of fiscal
reform and have indicated on general
lines the manner in which it is to be
effected, and there is ground fol
hoping that these will be obeyed as
the other DEGREES relating -onstitu
Gonal matters have been.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-01
AMERICAN VICTORY IN GERMANY
Prosecutor Finds Oil Company Has
Committed No Wronq.

Berlin.-The long and venomous
pers and rival industrial interests
against one of the German branches
OF the Standard Oil company-the
Deutsche Vacuum Oil company-has
just been brought to victorious. end
Tor the Americans involved.
A well-known Hamburg newspaper
for months printed such series of
attacks on the American graft meth
DDS" alleged to have been practised
by the vacuum company in the Con-
duct Of its German business that the
public prosecutor of Hamburg felt
constrained to make an official inves-
uga1on with view to eventual in
d1ctments. The prosecutor has now.
concluded his investigation, especially;
of the work of E. L. Quarles, Ameri-
can manager of the German COM
pany's sales department., and an
nounces that no necessity exists for
pursuing the inquiry further.
No evidence of anything warranting
prosecution was found against Mr.
Quarles, and the costs of the entire in
quiry will be borne by the state.
The result of the investigation con-
stitutes a notable triumph for Amer
lean interests in Germany
1t is not the first time that Germans,
hndlng themselves unable to compete
with Americans on ordinary terms,
have resorted to SANDER.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-01
CHARLTON INSANE, SAY EXPERTS
Alienists Declare SeIf-Confessed Wife
Slayer Is irresponsible.

New York-Porter Charlton, self
confessed slayer of his wife, Mrs.
Mary Castle Carlton, whose body,
stuffed in a trunk he tossed into Lake
Como, Italy, may escape punishment
for his crime.
Powerful influences were put at
work to save the prisoner, now
locked up in the Hudson county jail
at Jersey City, from being extradited
to Italy.
Judge Charlton, the mdrderer's ia
Their, consulted with r. Floyd Clarke
of this city and former Senator Will
liam D. Edwards of Jersey City, whom
he retained after getting word
at Washington of the arrest of
his son as he stepped from the steam
er Princess Irene at Hoboken. At
this conference it was decided to fight
the extradition proceedings urged by
the Italian charge d'affaires in a cable
gram to his government at Rome.
The murderer's counsel have de-
termined upon a defense of insanity
to keep him from being removed from
this country. Four alienists visited
Charlton in his cell and watched him
for five hours. When they emerged
they said that he is without doubt
insane and that his particular species
OF insanity is incurable.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-01
WILL PROBE BURNING OF BOAT.
Reported Death of Man in the J. SIS
Lookup May Cause Inquiry,

La Crosse, Wis.-Failure to find
trace of Jack Plein, said to have
been burned to death while a
prisoner in the hold of the steamer
j. S., which was burned to the waters
edge Saturday night near Victory,
Wis, after 1900 passengers had been
spectacularly rescued, induced Mayor
Dunleaver of Lansing, Ia, to turn an
investigation of the case over to the
officials of Houston county, Mime
sofa, in which the accident occurred.
1t is claimed Plein was not released
from the hull prison and died like a
rat in a trap. If these charges are
substantiated prosecution of the boat
owners is certain.
The hull of the boat is guarded by
five officers, and government steam
boat inspectors are on their way from
Dubuque to make Investigation of the
cause of the disaster Fire started in
the hold Of the boat near the front
hatchway. possibly from waste and
Oil.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-01

The remarkable exploit of Louis
Paulhan, the French aviator who made
a flight in an aeroplane from London
to Manchester, England, in record
time, has had the inevitable effect of
stimulating interest in that class OF
flying machines. Wilbur Wright, the
American inventor whose work has
been directed to the perfection of the
aeroplane, declares there is no longer
any reason why an aeroplane cannot
fly across the ocean. Without ex.
planning the idea in detail, Mr.. Wright
expressed the belief that it would be
practicable to construct an airship OF
this class with sufficient gasoline an0
other capacity to make the distance il
question. Of course, despite this OPP
timistic opinion, there will be skepti.
cism on the subject. But every ex-
plot like that by Paulhan will strength,
en- belief that mastery of aerial navi-
cation is drawing steadily and rapidly
nearer.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-01
With frightening days, and the a

With frightening days, and the ap.
proach of summer, approaches also the
day of the lend seat hog" Already
the execration of him has begun. Il
will wax throughout the season and
only begin to wane when the frost is
on the pumpkin and the public begins
to kick because the elevated doesn't
put on the closed cars. The lend seat
hog" let it be explained for the benefit
of any strangers to America who may
read this, is a person who, having Sc
cured the most attractive seat in ar
open car, keeps it This makes hin
unpopular with his fellow-passengers
each of whom thinks the hog should
have moved along and allowed him tc
have-and keep-the seat.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-01
YOUTH NOT FLEETlNG.

Wonderful are the achievements
the so-called old men and women O
today. But their cases are by NJ
means exceptional, as some aver
There were mighty old people in Bible
times, says Boston Globe. Their do
ings once seemed mythical to some
critics, but in the light of what the
aged are known to have done in his
toricai times, statements that once
were accepted only on faith can now
be accepted without a strain. Pagan
traditions also seem nearer the truth
than they formerly did. The achieve
ments Of that noble Roman, Cato, who
learned Greek at 80 and commanded
an army when older than that, have
been equaled, if not surpassed, by
some modern venerables. Their name
is legion, but the world knows only
the conspicuous ones, such as Mrs.
Eddy, Mrs. Howe and Weston, and re.
members Pope Leo and Gladstone. Pa
triarchs and matriarchs like these
need not say with Adam in CAS- You
lusty winter, frosty but kindly. Age
for them is really an Indian summer
Youth is not feeting. 1t may be pro
longed much further than is imagined
Even now a French scientist is at
work on a theory that life may be
heightened far beyond the years OF
thuselah.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-01
"T'M COMING BACK" SAYS CANNON
"But Rabbit Must Be Caught First"
Is Speakers SAGE Remark

Washington.-"God willing I'll be
back here at the next session of con
gress to do my duty as / see it.
Whether l shall be high private in
the rear rank or an officer in the flu
ture will be determined by the Re-
publican party, provided l am elected
in November. The receipt for rabbit
is, first catch your rabbit"
These were Uncle Joe' Cannon
words to the reporters at the White
House.
''Out in my district the people I'm
derstand. But 1 don't think that the
country would go to ruin if l died or
if I were defeated for congress or the
speakership. l am not one of those
who believe there would be chaos if
certain things did or did not happen. -
About fifty members of the house
and senate called on Uncle Joe to say
good-by. -
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-01
GEN. FUNSTON DANGEROUSLY
Army Officer Near Death OF Heart
Disease at LeavenWorth

Leavenworth, Kan.-Gen. Frederick
Funston, commandant Of the army
service schools here, is dangerously
at his home here.
General Funston's condition is such
that the post army physicians and
the best trained nurses in the hos
pital are in constant attendance upon
him. Mrs. Funston, who is in Cali
fornia, was notified Of the generals
condition Friday.
General Funston is suffering from
angina pectoris. It was learned that
he has been subject to slight heart
trouble for some time and it is be-
lieved that the heat Of the last week
brought on the present severe attack.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-01
The mayor of New York has ordere,

The mayor of New York has ordered
the keep off the grass signs removed
from 80 New York parks. He thinks
the children should be allowed to romI
on lawns and grassy hillsides. This is q
sensible order Grass is rendering the
best service it can give city when il
is utilized as an outdoor carpet fol
children to play upon. 1t can stand a
great deal Of that without being seri
ously hurt. The light weight Of chill
dren does not injure grass unless the
ground is wet or the grass is so fresh
from the seed as not to be fairly root
ed. Playing on the grass should be
regulated, but not prohibited
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-01
MOVING PICTURE COSTS EYE
Omaha Attorney Partly Blinded by the
Pickering Liqhts.

Omaha, Neb.-Over-indulge in
moving picture shows may cost At
torney G. w. Britt Of Omaha his eye
sight He went to Clarkson hospital
where an operation was performed on
his eye by DR.. Harold Clifford Sunday
Pickering of the moving pictures at
tended almost nightly for two months
by Mr.. Britt and members Cs his fam
lily is said to have aggravated former
eye trouble. A growth under the lid
of the right eye resulted. Mr.. Britt
was totally blind in the right eye be-
fore going to the hospital, but hoped
that the operation would restore the
sight.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-01

form all the virtues and values of Mum
yon's Paw-Paw Tonic and are made
from the juice Of the Paw-Paw fruit.
/ unhesitatingly recommend these pills
as being the best laxative and cathartic
ever compounded. Send us a postal or
letter requesting free package OF
Munyon's Celebrated Paw-Paw Laxa-
tive Pills, and we will mail same free
of charge. MUNYON'S HOMOEO-
PATHTC HOME REMEDY CO, 53o
and Jefferson SITS, Philadelphia, Pa
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-01
Storm Makes Many Homeless.

Whitesburg, Ky.-As the result OF
the worst storm which has ever Wis
tied southeastern Kentucky, over a
hundred people were Monday rendered
homeless and when a full report is
made of the storm it is feared that
several persons have lost their lives
in the food. The middle fork of
Beaver creek overlooked it's banks fol
lowing the storm and swept away
more than a score Of homes of the
farmers living along its banks. The
loss 1t Is estimated will run into mil
lions Of dollars.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-01
CORN PLANTING is
OVER
THAT CANADIAN TRIP SHOULD
NOW BE TAKEN.

II you had intended going to Can
ada for the purpose of purchasing
iano on which to establish home and
accompanying some land company,
whose holdings you proposed to look
over or to go up on your own account
10 select one hundred and sixty acres
OF land free, you should delay no
longer. Complaining Is over, your
wheat crop is we'll ahead. and YOU
nave few weeks time before you are
required in the fields again. Now
make your intended trip. Reports
az hand show that the crop prospects
In Canada were never better than
tney are today. The cool weather has
not aHected the crop, but If anything,
1t has been a benefit. There has been
plenty Of moisture and those who
nave had their land properly prepared
look upon this year as likely to be ons
OF the best they have had. A great
many are going up this season who
expect to pay two or three dollars an
acre more than they were asked to
pay last year sOthers who wish to
homestead are prepared to go farther
from the line of railway than would
have been necessary last year. Still
1t is worth it. So it will be with YOU.
Next year lands will be higher-priced
and homesteads less accessible. There
is wonderful tide of immigration to
Central Canada now. 1t is expected
that one hundred and fifty thousand
mi
will be numbered by the end of the
present year, an increase of fifty per
cent over last year. In addition to
this there will be upwards of one
hundred thousand from the old coun-
try, which does not include those
who may come from the northern
countries of the Continent. These all
intend to settle upon the land The
reader does not require an answer to
the questions, why do they do it?"
why are they going there in such
large numbers?" Western Canada is
no longer an experiment. The fact
that one hundred and fifty million
bushels of wheat were raised there
last year as against ninety-five mill
the tiller Of the soil in Central Canada
is making money and it is safe to say
that he is making more money than
can be made anywhere else on the
Continent in the growing of grains.
He gets good prices, he has sure and
a heavy crop, he enjoys splendid rail-
way privileges, and he has also the
advantages of schools and churches
and such other social life as may be-
found anywhere. It is difficult to say
what district is the best. Some are
preferred to others because there are
friends already established. The
Grand Trunk Pacific, on it's way
across the Continent, is opening up a
splendid tract Of land, which is being
taken up rapidly. The other railways
the Canadian Pacific and Canadian
Northern are extending branch lines
into parts inaccessible a couple Of
years ago. With a perfect network
of railways covering a large area Of
the agricultural lands it is not diff
cult to secure a location. Any agent
of the Canadian Government will be-
pleased to render you assistance by
advice and suggestion, and a good
plan is to write or call upon him.
The Government has located these
agents at convenient points through
out the States, and their Offices are
maps and literature.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-01
BOLD BANDITS HOLD UP TRAIN.
Rob Passengers, Compel Express Mes
senqer to Deliver Contents of Safe.

Ogden, Utah-Three masked ban
dts held up the second section of
Oregon Shore Line train No. 1, north
bound, which left Ogden at 100 a. M,
in the northern part of this city. All
of the passengers were robbed OF
their valuables and the express mes.
senger was compelled to deliver the
contents Of the safe. The exact amount
the robbers obtained has not been as
certained. Two passengers and two
trainmen were injured.
After the train had been robbed the
bandits fired into the air to fr1ghten
the passengers, got into their buggy
and drove away. Sheriff Wilson gath.
cred a small posse and started in pur.
suit.
Nearly 100 passengers were on the
train and every one of them lost
something.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-01
Standard Reduces Oil Prices.

New York-The wholesale prices
for refined oil have been reduced from
1 IL cents to 1 cent a gallon by the
Standard Oil company, making the
prevailing price throughout the coun-
try now 71a cents g gallon. The
Standard controls more than 20 per
cent of the refined output of the coun-
try and it can be seen what such a re-
duction in price means to the great
corporation
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-07-01
MISS ROOSEVELT NOT ENGAGED
"Story ScandaIous Infamy of a
ScoundreI," Says Father.

New York-When former President
Theodore Roosevelt mOtOred to town
from Oyster Bay he was not in
the best of humor. A story had
appeared in print to the effect that his
daughter Ethel was engaged to James
Thompson Williams, Jr., who was a
recent visitor at Sycamore Hill. This
the colonel denied, characterizing the
report as the "scandalous infamy Of a
ScOundrel"