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The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-10-26
News of Noted Persons.

William R. Hearst stated at the op-
ening rally Of the fusion campaign
that he is once more a Democrat
Judge Peter S. Grosscup, of the
United States circuit court, has for
warded his resignation to President
Taft
The Duke of Abruzzi will be the
first civil governor Of Tripoli, after
peace has been concluded with Tur-
key
1t is reported that the problem OF
the automatic control of the aeroplane
has been solved by the Wright
Brothers.
All efforts having failed at reconcile
alton, Mrs. Newton Booth Harrington
has filed suit for an absolute divorce
from her author husband.
There are persistent reports in the
capital that Postmas er-General Hitch
cock will resign on January 1 to en-
gage in business in New York
Eugene Ely, aviator, met death at
the state fair grounds at Macon, Ca,
when his machine failed to rise from
sensational dip and plunged with
him so feet to the ground.
Returning from the West, President
Taft will cross South Dakota, Mime
sofa and Wisconsin, closing the week
in Chicago, where he will arrive Sat-
urday for a stay of three days.
The Chicago police were called to
clear up the robbery of Mrs. Warren
C. Fairbanks, daughter-in5law of
Charles w. Fairbanks, former vice
president of the United States, of
$4,000 worth of diamonds, while a pas
senger from Boston to Chicago in a
Pullman drawing car.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-10-26

WE'LL KEPT COUNTRY ROAD HAS GOOD
EFFECT ON ADJOINING FARMS.
rupled; prosperous farms already
bloom where there was only waste be-
fore.
Nor is that all. The people of the
lonely and formerly unvisited region
themselves had stayed at home for
lack of roads that tempted them to
travel. But as soon as they had good
roads they began to go about The
more prosperous OF them bought mo-
tOrcars to tit the roads Then they be-
gan to take tours. They now go to ad-
jacent states. to the mountains, to the
sea-wherever they within their tour
ing cars. They are becoming a Travelled
folk
More yet They have become so
thoroughly convinced of the value of
good roads that an enterprising fellow
in an adjacent county began the pub
lication OF a good roads magazine.
They felt an impulse to tell the rest Of
the world OF the value OF their discov-
ery-that good roads pay. Thus. while
a bad road leads nowhere and the
sooner it ends the better, a good road
may lead to anything.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-10-26
OKLAHOMA SCENE
OF RACE CONFLICT

Coweta, Okla.-Ed. Suddeth, a ne
gro, was shot to death by a mob of
citizens who had armed themselves,
following battle between blacks and
whites, in which Suddeth killed J. B.
Beavers, city attorney, and wounded
Carmen Oliver and Steller Thompson,
white men. Suddeth was wounded
and then strung up to a water tank,
but was cut down before being strang-
led to death. Leaders of the mob
kept him captive in a vacant build
ing.
Deputy Sheriff Flowers attempted
to take the slayer to the jail at Wag-
ner. As the negro was being lifted
into an automobile the mob opened
fire on him. Probably so shots en-
tered the body.
Large numbers of enraged negroes
are arriving from the surrounding
country and a race war seems in
evitable.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-10-26
HILL TALKS ON MONEY
Advocates Modification of Plan for
Central Reserve Association.

Central Reserve Association.
st. Paul.. ]. Hill appeared unex-
pectedly before the Monetary Commits
sion to give his opinion on a financial
plan for the country.
Mr.. Hill advocated a modification
in the plan for the organization of the
Central Reserve Association, which is
now under consideration, with an au-
thorized capital increased from $780,
100000 to s4OO,OOO,OOO Each bank
holding stock in the organization
should have only one vote and no
vote for stock ownership; that there
should be no government directors on
the national board; that the National
Reserve Association should be permit
ted to make loans to member banks on
security consisting of frst-class in
dustrial corporation bonds
He also advocated that the Reserve
Association should pay the govern
ment interest on government deposits
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-10-26
GERMANS INTERESTED
IN PROPOSED CANAL
May Use Nicaragua Route and
Build Rival Canal Across
lSthmus.

Washington. - Although officially
Washington denies that it is con-
oerned over the report that Germans
with unlimited capital have proceed
with the plans for a canal to rival the
one being built by the United States
across the Isthmus of Panama, never
theless it Is said on what is regard
ed as good authority that secret
agent of the United States has been
investigating the progress of events in
Costa Rica and Nicaragua and has re-
ported that the officials of both those
republics have lent encouragement to
the scheme.
German engineers are known to
have made exhaustive surveys in con-
nection with what can be nothing else
than an interoceanic canal project. A
Berlin syndicate, it is said, proposes
to take advantage of the original wat
| erway to Lake Nicaragua and then
utilize the SapOa River to point
where it is only seven miles from Sa-
linas Bay.
The report in Washington is that
the State Department, having been
forewarned, will take action, at the
proper time, to let it be known to
the governments of Costa RIGA and
Nicaragua that the grant of canal
rights between the two oceans will
be construed as an act unfriendly to
the United States and will be acted
upon accordingly.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-10-26

Goldendale, Wash.-Five passen-
gers were injured when the rear
coach of the Lyle-Goldendale local of
the Spokane, Portland & Seattle
jumped the track and turned bottom
side up five miles west of Warwick
Station. The injured were: H. B.
Dabney, of Portland; Mrs. H. B. Dab
ney, of Portland; Rev. J. E. Martin,
of North Yakima; Mrs. j. E.. Martin,
Of North Yakima, and A. Becker. OF
gestlasA.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-10-26
GOOD EFFECTS
OF GOOD ROADS
Improve Citizens Surroundings,
Lives and incomes.
PROPERTY VALUES DOUBLED,

Small Southern Town Rose Rapidly In
Public Esteem Through Efforts OF
Few Farsighted Observation-Disclosures
car Great Help.
A good road is the best thing to
build and the dreariest thing to write
about in the whole world. When
you've said that the difference be-
tween a good road and a bad one is
the difference between an efficient
civilization and the jungle, you've told
the whole story. But there Is long
and most cheerful story that might be
told about the present progress Of road
building in every cart of the Union.
thanks to the general awakening OF
the people and to the coming OF the
motor car.
In dark corner of one Of the south
ern states-a country that God had
forgotten and few men had discovered
the sparse population arose a year
or two ago and said to one another:
people go to places where there are
good roads. They avoid places where
there are bad roads. We have bad
roads. Few people come here. Let's
make good roads and see what will
happen" They went to work building
good roads from Nowhere to Any
where. County and townships went
into debt. Private persons put up
money. By great agitation and much
sacrifice, they built road after road
through the lonely woods. And the
scoffer said that nobody would ever
travel them.
At first nobody did travel them. A
lonely, perfect highway through thin
ly settled corner of the world. it did
look foolish to incur debt for that. But
presently people came-in motor~ars-
then more came. Somebody discovered
that the land along the highways was
good land 1t had before been taken
for granted that because it mad not
been TILED it was OF little value. Now
its price has doubled. In places quad
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-10-26
Good Roads Benefit School.

Good roads will make possible the
naturalization of schools. the employ.
ment of more efficient teachers. the
use of better apparatus for instruc-
ton. and all at less expense than our
present system.
Some one has said that the three
links of civilization" are a model farm
home and model country school con.
nected BY a stretch OF model country
ad. -
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-10-26
Suffragists Hold Convention.

Louisville, Ky.-"Get the uninterest.
ed women interested in suffrage by in.
direct means" was the concensus of
opinion expressed at the 43d annual
convention of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association in ses.
sion here.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-10-26

Must Control Judges Says freddy"
New York.-The judiciary of the
United States must be brought within
the control, and made answerable to
the well thought-out judgment OF the
people, is the opinion of Theodore
Roosevelt, who spoke on "The Con-
hood" before the Civic Forum.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-10-26
Claims Message From the Dead.

Boston.-That he has talked with
the spirit of Professor William James
of Harvard, who was himself an ar
dent and patient investigator of the
phenomena of the spirit world, is the
assertion of James H. Hyslop of New
York, secretary of the American So
ciety of Psychical Research.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-01-23
KILLS MAN HE SAID
HAD RUINED HIS HOME
After Shooting Buppert, Showus Was
Raising Revolver to His Own
Temple When Over
powered.

Baltimore, jan Believing him to
have ruined his home, Samuel L. Show
us Saturday afternoon shot and killed
Benjamin F. Buppert in the salesroom
OF big seed warehouse
Both the murderer and his victim were
married Both had been living apart
from their wives. Buppert and Mrs.
Showus were employed in the seed es-
Enlistment. Showus went there Satur-
day afternoon,
Buppert approached him, asking what
he wanted. Showus replied that it was
none Of his business, but that he wished
TO see Mrs Shows Buppert told Show
ms she was not IN and that he had
better leave.
Showus walked toward the door, Bup-
pert following so closely that when
Showus wheeled and fired q shot from
a revolver into his victims forehead the
flash singed the mans hair. The bullet
passed out at the back Of the skull,
Showus was raising the weapon to his
own temple, when George Sturgeon, an
employee OF the firm, knocked it from
his hand, threw him to the floor and
pinioned him there until the arrival Of
the police.
Mrs Showus heard the fatal shot.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-01-23
STATED ON THIN ICE,
THREE ARE DROWNED
Boys Break Through Ice On Concord
River-Rescuers Have Narrow Is
capes from Drowning.

Lowell, Mass. Jan. 23.--Three skaters
who ventured on thin ice We're drowned
near here Saturday. William Hancock,
aged IL, lost his life in jackson pond
in Methuen, and Nicholas McNulty, aged
10, and Patrick McCue, Ia, were
drowned in the Concord river.
MeNulty and McCue broke through
the ice together. In an effort to res
cue them William Fl. Carey, aged Is
years, and man who declined to give
his name, nearly lost their lives Carey,
punging into the midst OF the ice cakes
and swimming to McNulty, held him
up until both were able to grasp a
board which the unidentified rescuer
showed over the ice TO them, but their
weight on the board threw the man
into the water.
Unable to swim the man grasped
Carey and they struggled together UNI
til they were hauled out by ropes
thrown to them. Meanwhile both the
boys had gone down
Carey was taken TO the hospital in
an unconscious condition The stranger
walked away in his freezing clothing.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-01-23
VAN SHACK WILL
SOON BE PAR0LED
Wife Likely to Succeed in Getting Free
dom for Slocum Captain.

New York, Jan % Capt. William I'll
Van Shack is to be paroled from Sing
Sing, where he is serving ten years
sentence for misconduct, negligence and
inattention to duty as master OF the
steamer General Slocum, june Is, 1904,
when 1000 lives were lost in the fire
that burned the boat to the waters edge
off North Brother island in the East
river.
United States Attorney Henry A. Wise
is not opposed to the parole. Capt Van
Schaick is rs years old and has served
more than a third of the term 1t is
understood the president of the parole
board in Washington has decided to rec.
ommend to the attorney general that the
captain be paroled.
The efforts OF his wife are largely re-
sponsible for the decision, She was Grace
Mary spratt, superintendent of nurses
at Lebanon hospital. She married Capt.
Van Schaick while he was under $4,000
bail for his trial. although he had wooed
her fourteen years.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-01-23
NEW AVIATION RECORD.
Parmelee in Wright Biplane Aloft
Hours and 80 Minutes

San Francisco, jan 23.--San Francis
co.'s aviation meet produced a new Amer
lean endurance record yesterday, when
Philip o. Parmelee, plotting Wright
biplane, remained aloft for hours, 80
minutes and 40 l-5 seconds.
The best previous endurance record in
America was that OF A. Welsh of St
Louis, 3 hours, IL minutes and IS sec
onds At Los Angeles, Arch Hoxsey,
who later was killed, was credited with
an unofficial record Of hours and II
minutes.
A crowd Of $4,000 persons cheered
Parmelee as he circled above them yes
terday, and when he descended several
admirers, among them Eugene B Ely
hoisted him on their shoulders and car
ried him to q stand in the middle of
Selfridge field. where General Tasker H.
Bliss, other army officers and host
of women crowded about the aviator
to extend congratulations.
II could have remained up longer"
said Parmelee, "but my seat grew 50
hard and my hands and feet so numbed
with the cold that | decided to come
down after clinehing the American rec.
ord"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-01-23
Current Comment
The Learned Lesson.

Something was learned in 1907 that
happily has not been forgotten in 1911
namely, that there is community Of
interest among financial institutions, and
that it is to the selfish interest Of the
unassailed to help the assailed. 1t Is
now generally agreed that most OF the
bank Blessings Of three years ago were
unnecessary This has been shown by
the fact that they have paid in full
despite the asset shrinking that comes
from forced liquidation If there had
been proper promptitude in cooperation
much Of the trouble would have been
averted.
This year there is such cooperation.
Examination having shown that The in
stitutions under suspicion because Of
unfortunate affiliations are sound and
solvent, they have been able through
rediscounts to convert loans into cash.
Having no central bank to act as o
clearing house for credits and to hurry
suecor to point attacked, the com.
bined blanks are fashioniug substi-
tute The conferences Of SATURDAY. and
Sunday made distinct progress toward
realizing the ideal of no bank closings
except for adequate cause. The corol-
larry of this, of course, IS that no bank
should open that ought TO be shut, and
this will be achieved when every banker
knows that be is under the constant in
spection of his fellows, and that they
win not tolerate irregular methods
Three years ago there was some rea-
son to suspect the soundness of the f.
nancial structure. There had been a
long period Of prosperity and no per-
emptory settlement. But when the
spotlight played it was unexpectedly
revealed that the public was mistaken
that there were surprisingly few rot
ten places Such being the testimony
Of three years ago, and business hav-
ing since gone on prudently and eau
tiously, no basis for the slightest appre-
hension can be discovered New York
Globe
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-01-23
SENATE RUsE OF NO AVAIL.
Fight Cannot Block the Choice in West
Virginia.

Washington, Jan 20. = Democratic
members of the Senate committee on
privileges and elections have. taken the
position that the presence of 10 Repub-
lican members of the West Virginia SEN
ate who have hidden themselves in Gin
cinnati 10 avoid the organization of the
state Senate, of which they are half of
the total membership. is not necessary
in order to constitutionally elect two
members of the United States Senate
w. H. Chiffon and Clarence w, Wat.
son, the two Democrats chosen by the
Democratic caucus. were in Washington
Saturday consulting with minority mem
bers of the Senate They were told that
If the Is Republicans refused to return
to the state in order TO permit the or
ganization of the state Senate, then the
Democratic senators should meet with
the Democratic members of the House
and elect two Democratic members of
the United States Senate 1t was de.
clared at the conference here Saturday
that there are presidents for such ac-
ton. and that the two West Virginia
senators would be seated, even though
the Republican governor should refuse
TO sign their credentials. One of the
precedents cited is in connection with
the Call case from Florida
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-01-23
GOV. ross is SUSPICIOUS
Of Legislators Who Voted for Senator
Lodge.

AsOhhNs
Boston, Jan. Straight from the
executive department comes the follow
ing
The governor has received number
of letters and petitions asking him TO
investigate the conduct of certain mem
bers of the legislature in reference to the
recent election of United States senator,
and involving certain other officials, both
state and federal The governor forward
ed two of these letters, which covered
the points involved, to the attorney gem
eral for an opinion on the matter. The
attorney general in his reply stated
upon this proposition, beg leave to
advise you that it is the province OF the
legislature to investigate the conduct OF
its own members, if charges are proper
~ brought before it. The governor cam
not eonstitutionally interfere with the
legislative department, or investigate its
conduct, either as body or as a collec-
tion of individuals. It is therefore my
opinion that YOU have no power to
act as chief executive"
In one of the letters a demand was
made that the governor withhold his sig
nature IRON the certificate of election
of Henry Cabot Lodge. This, of course,
was not considered, as the duty of the
governor was perfectly plain and required
his signature, as it is not the province
of the governor to pass upon the matter
of election of United States senator
the United States Senate being the sole
Judge of the election return and qualifi
cations of its own members under the
constitution of the United States.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-01-23
GARDNER URGES AN
lLLITERACY TEST
Seeks Early House Action on Imnigra-
ton and It's Prob
lens.

Washington, Jan. 23--An extended re-
port was submitted to the House Satur-
day by Representative Gardner of Mas
sachusetts upon the bill providing for
an illiteracy test for immigrants. Mr..
Gardner advances strong argument why
this test should be applied. He is trying
to get special rule for its considera-
ton in the House at an early date. In
his report the congressman says:-
"That the illiteracy test is a complete
method of sitting out undesirable immi-
grants, your committee by no means
contends Your committee admits the
truth, but not the force of the argument,
that an honest though ignorant workman
will make better citizen than a highly
educated rascal To form general con-
clusion from a few specific cases is no.
'toriously unsound argument.
"The real question is this: Is it prob
able that 100000 men who cannot read
will make as good citizens as 100000
men who are able to do so2 To answer
this question in the affirmative is to
impeach the American school system
"The commissioner general of immigrs-
ton feels that the illiteracy test is not
sufficiently drastic. So does the writer
of this report, but the House is not
called upon to decide the question at this
moment The House must FIRST decide
whether it desires substantial restriction
at all; second, whether the illiteraey
test is a step in favor of substantial
restriction
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-01-23
DIpLEY IN DEFENSE.
Man Who Shot Ketchel Relates circum.
stances.

Marshfeld, Mo, ian. 23.--At the open
ing OF Saturdays session of the trial OF
Walter Dipley and Goldie Smith, charged
with the murder OF Stanley Ketehel,
champion middleweight pugilist, intro
duction Of testimony for the defense
began.
r. P. Dickerson, at whose ranch ketch-
el was staying when shot, collapsed
Friday night, it is said, as result Of
the strain OF Fridays session of the
trial. At his home Saturday it was
stated his condition was serious. Call
ers were refused admission to the house.
Walter Dipley, put on the stand in
his own behalf, testified he shot ketchel
in self-defense; that ketehel was pulling
revolver out when he tDipleyl fired.
Il did not shoot at him until | heard
Goldie Smith ask Ketehel not to shoot
me, said Dipley.
Dipley, detailing the events connected
with the shooting, said that on return
ing TO the ranch house from the fields
the evening before the shooting, Goldie
Smith told him Ketchel had insulted her
Next morning, he ssid, Ketchel came into
the room where he was sitting with
Goldie Smith and said with an oath,
What are you doing in the house at
this time Of the dayy
The witness said he told Ketchel he
had quit his job and that he and Goldie
Smith intended to leave the ranch at
once. Then Ketchel unbuttoned his shirt
and showed a re7elver.
"Don't start anything, for if you
do TIL shoot you full of holes, he told
me" said Dipley II thought he was
going to shoot me saw a rifle stand
ing at the foot of a bed, not far from
xetchel. made for it and jumped
through a doorway into the kitchen.
"Ketche got up aud with his back to
me was pulling the revolver out. It
seemed to have caught. | fred. ! don't
know what happened afterward. ketch-
Ell ran from me and | ran out into the
yard. ! did not shoot at him until |
heard Goldie Smith ask Ketchel not 10
shoot me"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-01-23
Need Of a New State Building.

The Journal is glad to learn that an
earnest effort is to be made to provide
additional room for the business of the
various departments OF the state by the
erection of new building ON the lot
owned by the state near the Pavilion.
Probably the erection Of separate
building win be more satisfactory than
the erection of a new State House wing,
which task would present some serious
difficulties.
The need of more room at the State
House long has been evident This is
more noticeable in lack of proper COM
mittee facilities than elsewhere although
the natural increase Of state depart
ments has caused a crowded condition
Of affairs, and in some instances lack
OF adequate accommodations The lack
of suitable committee rooms creates a