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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07
A New Pacific State.

The promoters Of a brand new state
to be carved out Of old settlements on
the Pacific coast have already christen-
ed the new idea "Siskiyou," which is
easily recognized as an Indian name.
1t is proposed to include in the limits
Of. Siskiyou portions Of northern Cali
fornia and southern Oregon, a second
proposition to slice up California with
In a short time.
It is claimed that the new state will
constitute a vast empire, with ocean
harbors and greater natural resouces,
greater timber and mineral wealth and
scenic attractions than any (other) Sec
ton Of the globe" It is possible that
greater and better political divisions
can be created than some Of those In
existence now. AS a rule, primitive
states grow '.any old way" like most
roads. Yet 1t is q bold and to many
It will appear an amusing proposition
to cut out from their time honored
relations the most attractive sections
and leave the neighboring regions to.
fare onward alone. A Caesar might
set about building new empires in that
way. Majority rule would be likely to
find the task impossible.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07
Schooling Grownups.

Schooling Grownups.
The national forest service has been
experimenting with a school for ran
gers, and good results are reported. 1t
might be supposed that forestry could
be learned only in the woods, ak or
spade in hand, cutting out OF planting.
The sessions Of the first forestry
school held in this country took place
in September and October. The train
ing consisted Of lectures In the morn
ing and field work in the afternoon.
Rangers from four different forest sys-
TENS attended.
The idea Of practical training for
adults who might be supposed to be
proficient in their calling is growing in
this country. Even commercial drum
mers modestly take points from past
masters on the road" although their
gatherings are called conventions. Ac-
tivities SO overlap at present that 1t
becomes more and more difficult for
MI. Know-it-all to make good. The
school for grownups is often only an
organized effort to do what has been
done at random all along. But there is
inspiration in a crowd filed with the
same idea, and the most resourceful
man never admits that he sis too old
to learn"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07
The b D

The Rubber Supply.
Washington statistics indicate that
the importations of rubber Of all kinds
in 1909 were far beyond any previous
record. The total is placed at $75,OOO,-
600. More than one-half Of this total is
imported from our neighbors on the
south, Brazil being by far the largest
contributor. The new uses for rubber
in this electrical and motor age have
developed a demand which is likely to
increase in spite Of the rapid rise Of
the price.
All the rubber trees in the world are
In the tropics, and a large part Of our
supply comes from the Kongo by the
way Of England and Germany. There
is very little replanting done. and the
conditions under which the rubber is
gathered tend to quickly exhaust the
life Of the tree. In the Kongo natives
are forced to bring in sc many pounds
4 trip, and they have no interest in
conserving the resources for the fu-
ture. Adequate regulation Of the rub
Der forests will have to be made speed
ily3if the future is to be saved from a
rubber famine.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07
MORGAN RULES
MONEY WORLD
Latest Coup Said to Give
Him Absolute Control.
FIGURES ARE APPALLING

List Of Banking Institutions and In
dustriaI Concerns Under His Sway
Have Combined Resources Of More
Than Ten Billion DoIIars-WaII
Street Wondering Where Aged RI
nancier Is Going to Get OF.
New York, Jan. 5.-Business circles
are catching their breaths and recov
ering from the announcement that
Morgan interests have captured Levi
P. Morton's trust company, in which
Thomas Fortune Ryan, the dethroned
street railway king of New York, was
q powerful factor; the Fifth Avenue
Trust company and the Guaranty
Trust company and that they are to
be relegated into oblivion, while in
their stead is to be erected the new
Guaranty Trust company, the second
largest trust company in the world,
with a total capitalization Of $4,000.
600, but with of $17O, O0O, 900.
Levi P. Morton, once vice president
Of the United States, is to be the
chairman of the board Of the new
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

trust company, but the company will
be essentially a Morgan company, with
all that that implies.
A list of the banks, trust companies,
insurance concerns and railroad and
Industrial corporations owned or con-
trolled by Morgan shows a total of
more than $40 1000, 000, 900 in resources.
With these back of him Morgan, it is
felt certain in financial circles, can
do about as he pleases with the
finances of the country, no matter
what monetary legislation is enacted
by congress, and there is a general
feeling of wonderment in Wall street
as to where the aged financier is 60
Ing to get of. It is known that his
recent activity in assuming control of
the big banks, trust companies and
insurance companies is all part of one
general plan that was decided on by
Morgan and his advisers following the
panic of 1907.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07
GIFT FROM JAPANESE RULER
Mikado Sends Hundreds Of Cherry
Trees to Mrs. Taft.

Baltimore, Jan. 5.-The emperor of
Japan's remembrance of President
sTaft's great enjoyment of the cherry
blossom festival season when in Japan
has taken the graceful form of the
presentation to Mrs. Taft of three a r
leads of young cherry trees and they
are now, en- route to Washington.
The greatest care has been taken
all the way to keep the temperature
ct an even stage that the trees may
not be harmed. Mrs. Taft has ordered
the delivery of the trees to the Dis
itrict commissioners and rows of them
lining the Potomac boulevard will be
- beautiful feature of that imposing
thoroughfare.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07
WELL KNOWN AS
PH|LANTHR0PIST
Death Of D! 0. Mills, Prom.
inent Financier.
END CAME UNEXPECTEDLY

Although Deceased Was Eighty.four
Years Of Age and Had Been In Poor
Health There Was No Indication
That His Demise Was Imminent.
His Holdings in Numerous Corpora.
lions Said to Total Many Millions.
San Francisco, Jan. 5.-Darius Og.
den Mills, one of the most widely
known 1nanciers and philanthropists
in the United States, a pioneer of Cal
ifornia and father of Mrs. Whitelaw
Reid, wife of the United States am
bassador to Great Britain, died at his
winter home near this city. He was
e~lghty-four years old.
Death was due to heart disease and
came SO suddenly that his physician
was not with him at the end, although
he vas summoned at the first sign of
collapse.
Mrs. Reid, who came to California
with her father a few weeks ago to
spend the winter months, was at the
bedside. His son, Ogden Mills, and
his wife left for the East Monday,
thinking that Mr.. Mills was in his
usual health.
He he'd suffered with heart disease
for several years and had virtually
withdrawn from his many business
responsibilities, but there was no in.
dication that death was imminent.
Mr.. Mills was born in West Salem,
Westchester county, N. Y, in 1925. He
was educated at North Salem and at
Mount Pleasant academy, Sing Sing,
N. Y.
Began Life as a Clerk.
Starting his business career as a
clerk in New York city he became
cashier of the Merchants bank of
Erie county at Buffalo in 1S47. Mr..
Mills came to California in 1849 and
took a large part in the development
Of the Golden state.
The greater part of his time since
1880 was spent in New York city.
where he built a system of hotels and
lodging houses for the poor, founded
q training school for male nurses and
was active in many other charities.
He was president of the Bank of
New York, the Morton Trust company
and the United States Trust company.
He was a trustee of the Atlantic
Steamship company, chairman of the
Fordham Home for Incurables and
trustee of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, the Carnegie institute of Wash
ington, Lick observatory and the
American Geology society.
Mr.. Mills had a prominent hand In
the building of the Southern Pacific
and for many years was a member Of
its directorate.
His holdings in upward of thirty
corporations, in whose affairs he once
took an active part, are said to total
many millions of dollars.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07
STORMS COST EIGHT
LIVES IN THE West
Billiards and AvaIanches Do
Immense Damage

Denver, Jan. 5.-Eight persons are
dead, railroads blocked and enormous
damage has been done throughout the
state by the snow storms, billiards..
floods and a%valanches, according to re
ports received here.
Four men r reported to have beel2
killed near Shenandoah, Colo, by a
snowslide; one man is dead at the
Iowa mine as the result of being
crushed in the snow and one man and
two boys were frozen to death in New
Mexico. Telegraph and telephone
wires throughout the Rocky mountain
region are Frustrated and forty snow
slides from fifteen to twenty-five feet
deep block the Denver and Rio Grande
railroad between Durango and Silver
ton, Colo. There have been no trains
on that section of the road since last
Thursday and it is likely that the line
will be tied up for several weeks.
Tram lines and electric plants at
several mines in the mountains near
Denver have been wrecked by ava
lanches, causing thousands of dollars
damage.
A blizzard is sweeping Northern
Colorado and hundreds of head of cat
tie and thousands of sheep have frozen
to death.
Ice gorges in the Arkansas river
have caused dangerous floods. Much
farm land is inundated and it is feared
that detailed reports will show. heavy
property damage with the possible
loss of life.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07
HAS GOOD SUM TO HIS CREDIT
~. Cook Did Not Take All His Cash
When He Disappeared.

New York, Jan. 5.-Dr. Frederick A.
Cook has v made use of the SIS;
900 letter Of credit he obtained from
the Carnegie Trust company just be.
fore he disappeared about q month
saeo, according to q statement made by
pr. B. Moorehead. secretary Of the
banking institution.
The explorer also has q large cash.
credit with this trust company which
sUannot be Withdrawn before Feb. i. as
5ftsis what is known in banking circles
time deposit.
AZ the time OF his sudden departure
rs withdrew all the money to his
credit In his checking account, which
ID said to have been approximately
$4,000.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07
SEEK WAGE READJusTMEN1

New England Railroad Employees Meet
With Officials.
Boston, Jan. 5.-Asking for q new
schedule of hours and wages which
will result, if granted, in practically a
10 per cent reduction in working hours
and a 10 per cent raise of wages, rep.
resentatives of the conductors and
trainmen met the officials of the Bos-
ton and Maine, New York, New Haven
and Hartford and Boston and Albany
division of the New York Central rail-
road.
At the same time Fred McGregor,
system chairman of the firemen and
engineers employed on the Boston and
Maine, asked for a new wage scale for
his road.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07
Valuable Papers stolen.

Chicago, Jan. 5.-Central station, de-
tectives are searching for a thief who
stole q sheet metal box twelve inches
long and four inches wide from a vault
IN the ONCE Of the Cree Publishing
company. The. box contained stocks.
bonds. life insurancepolicies and 9th
er papers belonging to. Dugal Cree,
president Of the company. II also con.
tanned $4,000 in stocks Of the Cree
Publishing company.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07
LINER RuDDERLEss
Princess Irene Steering Her Way
With P%ropeIiers.

New York, Jan. 5.-Oficials of the
North German Lloyd received q wire
less telegram from the captain Of the
company's steamship Princess Irene
stating that the liner had lost her rud-
der and was continuing the voyage to
Bremen, steering with propellers.
The message says all r well on
board. The Princess Irene sailed from
New York Dec. 80.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07
SON Of A NOBLE FAMILY
Holdup Man Slain. at Chicago Member
Of English Peerage.

Chicago, Jan. 5.-The Chicago po-
lice have received a cablegram from
a we'll known London solicitor, whose
name they refuse to reveal, corrobo-
rating Miss Emma Featherstonhaugh
in her statement that her brother,
Harry B. Featherstone, the holdup
man who was killed here by q police
man. New Years morning in the rob-
berry of a saloon, is a disinherited son
Of a noble English family and the
rightful bearer of the title Lord
Featherstonhaugh."
Miss Featherstonhaugh and her
mother, both of whom have lived in
Chicago for several years, told of the
bandits fall from wealth to poverty.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

Women fought at Rama, SO 1t is evil
dent that the modern woman can make
good as a soldier. But, anyway, war
is not a normal condition of civilized
society.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

The separate republics Of Central
America will have to prove their abil-
ity to maintain stable governments in
their own countries before It can be
hoped: that united they can uphold a
central government.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07
Blizzard Worst Of Winter.

Omaha, Jan. 5.-The worst blizzard
OF, the season is raging in Northern
Nebraska. In Omaha the weather bu-
reau reported the temperature as 2
degrees below zero at Z a. NJ. A heavy
snowfall in the night tied up street
car service and crippled railroads in
this section.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07
BALANCE ON THE RIGHT SIDE
Government Surplus of Over Two Mil.
lions in December.

Washington. Jan. 5.-December's
fiscal operations of the national gov
eminent showed a balance on the
credit side-the first time during the
fiscal year 1909-191O, and the first
time since the Payne-Aldrich tariff law
went into effect. The receipts aggre.
gated $59,S27,536 and the disburse-
ments $~57,713.795. leaving a balance
Of ~$2,113,741.
Exclusive of the deficit for the past
six months on account of Panama
canal operations, amounting to $16,.
311,978, and that on account of the
public debt transactions. the loss to
the treasury thus far this fiscal year
IL $23,919,910. as against $51. 755,572
for the same time last year. The larg-
est increase has been incustoms re.
ceipts, about 8 1000, 900.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07
IN COMMERCE Law

Bill Introduced by Representative
Mann Of illinois.
Washington, Jan. ga bill making
sweeping changes in the interstate
commerce laws for the regulation of
railroads was introduced in the house
by Representative James r. Mann of
Illinois, chairman Of the committee on
Interstate and foreign commerce. The
bill is not in accord with the one pre-
pared by the committee acting under
the direction Of President Taft and
known as the administration railroad
BILL" but was prepared by Chairman
Mann during the summer vacation Of
congress.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07
Employees Retire on Pension

New York, Jan. Eight hundred
employees Of the New York Central
and its allied railroads have been re-
tired on pensions under the new ruling
Of the company that all employees who
reach the age Of seventy while EN-.
.ployed by the Central or its allies
shall be retired and all such retired
men who have been employed for ten
years shall DO entitled TO . pension.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

That twaenlty-seven milliners and
sdressmakers have been indicted in
New York for customs frauds = not
strange In view Of the amount Of
crookedness which can hide under the
big lat and the ballroom gown.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

Chief Forester Pinchot claims that
the forest service has warrant Of law
for all that it has done. If this is SO
its position is impregnable, and Its
good work might well continue with,
less friction and less heat.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

Brazil orders warships and Chile
Krupp guns from Europe. It may
save trouble and expense II those coun-
tries will just have them shipped d.
rect Gin care Of Uncle SAM"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

The presidents insistence during his
recent tour upon putting the RESPONSE
bility upon congress should 1t fail to
indorse the legislation proposed has
at least had the effect Of centering
popular attention more critically upon
the house and senate.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

The sugar trust does not appear tc
have had a monopoly Of the business
Of cheating the customs by the fraudu-
lent weighing method. The i%ndepend-
ents, who love to pose as "trust bust
ers' and 'sreformers," have also been
caught at the game.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07
Car Blockade Imminent.

Des Moines, Jan. 5.-Des Moines is
in the grasp Of a severe snow storm.
Trains are late and street a service
is so impeded that it is questionable
whether it can be maintained through.
out the day. Zero temperature &C.
companies the storm.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

Many men as avaricious and cruel
and immoral as Leopold II. have es-
capped notice. But a king is seen Of all
men, and his wickedness and weak
nesses are always before the eyes OF
the world.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

An attack on a postofice deficit" as
II it were a deficit and loss in an ordi-
nary business proposition, misses the
whole a and object Of the post
oh1ce-the promotion, development and
convenience Of the American people as
q whole.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07
e. Paul Pioneer Dies suddenly.

z Ss Is 4. Y IA 1oneoT ~ . ouu'uo"'y'
Ct. Paul. Jan. 5.-Dudley Finch. aged
safty-seven, died suddenly Of heart dis
sease 81 his home here. He was con.
sversing with members Of the house
hold whom he suddenly collapsed, ex.
spiripg before medical aid could reach
rim. Nj. Finch was q pioneer st. Paul
smSrchAnf, having been one Of the
4 Murders Of the hrm Of Lanpher. Finch
3 esskinner. fur dealers.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

The Gladstone centenary calls atten-
ton to the fact that today the Liberal
party Of England has no statesman
nearly approaching Gladstone's stat
ure, nearly equaling bis enormous Sc
~riousness and sincerity. Perhaps his
tory will place David Lloyd-George in
the same rank.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

III In some measure the history Of the
rich placer camps Of our northwest
win be repeated in Alaska. Az the
nay gravel Is exhausted the miners
and a host Of camp followers will
drift away to other fields. and their
cabin towns will be left to the ele-
ments and the wild creatures Of the the
forest.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

With q foot Of snow on the ground
the mnoetorcar rests In the garage and
the little old horse comes ont Of the
stable and ID hitched 70 the sleigh.
And 70 the horse goes all right but'
doesn't * J
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07
North Dakota Ignite Output.

Bismarck, N. D., Jan. Sd. w. Bliss,
assistant state engineer, computes
that North Dakota's Ignite output for
1909 was 336, 900 tons, 1000 less than,
in 1908. The ninety-six mines in OPP
Grafton employ 1886 men. The state
contains $4,000 square miles Of work.
able veins. estimated to contain 600,..
O0O, 1000 tons. of which only 4.000;-
900 tons have so far been mined.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

If Zelaya really transferred $2o.ss
100000 to the banks Of Belgium he
must have known in advance that the.
thrifty King Leopold was about down
and out. <
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

Until more men are at work-untl
We. have further recovered from the
wounds Of recent years-there should
be In congress no experimenting with
prosperity. 9
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

England does not seem disposed to
renew its chronic war scare until the
budget fight is over In fact, the aris-
tocratic landowning class, whom the
a is likely to cost something extra
in taxes, may be pardoned a suspicion
that the war scare has been overdone.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

Some genius has discovered that
marriage is the root Of the divorce
evil" Next we will be told that eating
is the root Of dyspepsia.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

Perhaps rich Mrs. Astor's jewels and
other belongings have been jealousy
guarded since her death against cheap
s~ubstitutions and perhaps not.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07
Murderer. Ends Ills LIE,

Akron. O.. Jan. 5.-Charles Schmidt,
alias Mike Jordan, who murdered
Mrs. Teresa Barnhart. with whom he
boarded, gave that crime q sensation
al climax when he returned 70 Aktcn
and killed himself in front Of Tie Barr
hart home.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

The Danish scientists may be . bit
anical. OF course; but, then. to thinnksof
Santa Claus not so.Amuch as leaving g
geturn cali card at Dr.. Cook's;abode!
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

!. The way Loyd-George seems to look
Il the British budget ID that somebody
must foot the bills and that the poor.
are no longer able 70 DO 10.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

New Years resolutions about early
shopping for Christmas, 1910, will be
az quickly forgotten as any in the set.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

Theresare hundreds Of engineers and and
probably others who are not engineers
Who might gitvieesSrailroads managgers val
liable hints III the prevention q acci-
dents IL full9 publicity were given; TO
the causes 81 allsthose which happen.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

II Ii said on good authority that the
natives OF the Kongo have not yet sent
my messages Of sorrow Owe the dealtthl,j|
az King Leopold. 5
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

Universal peace may, after all, have
to wait until a strong arm makes those
Central American republics sit up and
be good.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

Perhaps this fuss is all because Nj
caragua has a canal site to sell.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-01-07

Hobson says that Uncle Sam will
surely have war on his hands soon,
but fails to name the other fellow.