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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-01-20
Even Wealthy English Peers Bor-
row Little Things.
Number Of Remittance Men is on IN
crease as They Are Being Ship
ped to Colonies to Get Rid
of Their Presence.

London.-Is the "cadging'' spirit
the desire to get something for moth
ing from somebody else-becoming In
creasingly common among English
men of all classes?
A case at the West London police
court. in which a housemaid was
charged with stealing money Tin or
der, it was ascertained, to give 1t to
her sweetheart, Scots guardsman)
gives rise to this question.
Mr.. Fordham, the magistrate, adj
dressed some stern remarks to the
Scots guardsman, who was in court,
on the meanness of this form Of cadg-
ing.
This Is a dirty, mean, scurVy
thing" he said. "a meaner, more
scurvy thing could not be. :
How man, a creature, an animal call
ing himself man could take money
from a poor girl working as house
maid | cannot understand.
"In my view, you are simply para
site animal creeping about and get
ting money anywhere you can. 1t is
perfectly disgraceful, and if / saw my
way to give you six months hard h.
Dor / would be pleased to do it..
According to opinions gathered
from prominent business men, social
reformers and others, the "cadging
creature" is to be found in all walks
of life, particularly amongst the upper
classes.
"The case of the guardsman who
would borrow money from woman
has it's parallel in higher circles of
society,"" said well known city man.
THE young, lazy, ne'er-do-well who
Is we'll educated, but lives on his
friends and relations, practises just
the same kind of meanness as this
particular Scots guardsman.
His acts, however, are gilded over
by good manners and polish. He
cadges money from his friends-he
calls it loan-but never intends to
pay it back.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-01-20
FIREMAN WARNED OF WIRES
Philadelphia Lecturer Believes That
There Is Still Life After Elec-
trocutIon.

Clifton Heights, Pa.-Prof. w. c. L..
Eglen of Philadelphia addressed the
Delaware County Firemen's associa-
ton, in session in the auditorium Of
the Clifton Heights Fire Protective
association, on the transmission of
high-tension current and the dangers
during fires.
Prof. Eglen told the firemen how
to rescue persons who may perhaps
fall across live wires without the dan
ger Of self-injury.
He also said that he believed that
80 per cent Of the men who are cleo
trocuted could be saved If doctors
would resort to artificial respiration
for long period. He also believed
that If man has received a heavy
charge for no longer than three min
utes that he can be- restored.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-01-20

Propose! of Director Durand to Disre'
gard Geographical Lines Would
Swell Gotham.

New York.-The proposal of the
director of the census that in future
publications on city population urban
centers shall be used as the proper
units instead of the arbitrary politi-
cal divisions indicated by city boun-
Diary lines Is one that appeals strong
ly to New York, for it gives hope of
enabling the city to surpass London
and to claim first place among all
the cities of the world.
Although this city has spread out
almost evenly in all directions, its
westward growth never has shown in
the census returns because it has
been beyond the boundary line of
New Jersey.
Under the new plan all the popula-
ton in the urban area Of each large
city, as determined by the experts of
the census bureau, would be credited
to that city This would add about a
million to the present official popula-
100000.
While this would still be lower than
the population Of Greater London,
which is now placed at nearly 7,000,-
900, the growth of New York is much
more rapid, and If the present rates
were maintained 1t would pass it's
European rival.
Aside from the prestige of being the
first city in the world, however, there
Is little to be gained by additions to
the size of the city. Popular senti-
ment, in fact, seems to be against
any considerable additions to the pres
ent administrative area.
For the present, most persons hold,
the problems Of giving the greater
city proper government are difficult
enough without further complications,
but the plan Of the census authori-
ties, which would give the city credit
for the population logically belonging
to it without adding to it's actual
area, is regarded with favor.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-01-20

CONVERSATIONS OF GREATER OR
LESSER IMPORTANCE.
A BOILING DOWN OF EVENTS
National, Political, Personal and Other
Matters in Brief Form for All
Glasses of Readers.
Washington.

RumOrS current in London that Am
bassador Bryce intended to resign as
Ambassador to the United States was
denied at the British embassy in
Washington.
conditions in the famine districts
and refugee centers of the northern
part of the province of Anhui, China,
ire rapidly growing worse, according
to cable received from Shanghai by
the American national Red Cross So
ciety.
information was asked for by Rep
resentatiVe Calder of New York from
tue secretary of the navy as to wheth-
er combination of any kind exists
among the shipbuilding firms of the
United States that is operative to the
disadvantage of the government.
The supply depots of the army will
be redistributed over the country and
placed at centrally located points OF
the various military departments. 1t
was decided to locate them in all
cases possible near the camps set
apart by the states for the rendezvous
of troops
Renewal of the fight on Richard A.
Ballinger, secretary Of the interior, is
contemplated in resolution intro
duced by Senator Purcell, which
seeks to force into the open the re-
port of the joint congressional com
mittee that investigated the charges
made against the cabinet officer by
Clifford Pinchot, former chief for
roster.
Congressman Kinkaid, having been
one of the OriginatOrs of the bill en-
acted at the last session for the issue
of $20000,000 for irrigation bonds,
whereby to realize funds to complete
projects like the great North Platte
propect in his district, further con-
Gtruction being at standstill for the
want of funds derivable from the or
binary source, has, since the report
of the board of engineers has been
made public by the president, been
doing his utmost to ascertain how in
detail the 100000 allotted for the
further construction of the NORTH
Platte project is to be used.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-01-20
PRlNCETON'S HEAD RESIGNS

Genuine regret is felt In education
al circles because of the resignation
of DR.. Henry Van Dyke as Murray pro-
fessor of English literature in Prince
ton university. He had been at Prince
ton since 1900 and his historical lee
lures were the most popular at this
renowned seat of learning.
DR.. Van Dyke is one Of the foremost
educators in the country and is O. dis
tinguished author. He was born In
Germantown, Pa. in 1852 and gradu-
ated from Princeton in 1873 and later
from the University of Berlin, In 1878
he was pastor Of the United Congre~
gational church Of Newport, r. l., and
from 1883 to 1900 and again in 1909
of the Brick Presbyterian church,
New York. Latterly he had been
minister in charge" Of the Brick
church, but has severed that relation
ship. He has also been a lecturer at
Yale and Harvard.
DR.. Van Dyke has written many
works, among them THE Reality of
"The Christ Child in Art" THE Cos
ers" and other poems. It is probable
at Princeton he will devote himself
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-01-20
General.
Senator Elkins left an estate valued
at S20.000,000.

Senator Elkins left an estate valued
at $2O,0O0,0O0.
Conditions are growing worse in
the famine district of China.
Governor Carroll, in his message,
pleads for less political strife in Iowa.
The house passed the legislative ex-
ecutive and judicial bill, carrying ap-
proximately $35,0OO,O0O.
Five men were killed and several
injured in collision on the New
York Central at Batavia, n. Y.
Senator Lodge was made the re-
publican caucus nominee in Massa-
chusetts, but his election is not
thereby assured.
Henry c. Scott, president of the
National Light and Improvement
company of st. Louis, shot and killed
himself at his home.
A strong movement, supported by
the bishop of Liverpool and leading
churchmen, has been started against
Mormon activity there.
John Broder, pioneer railroad
builder of the middle west, was found
dead in bed at his st. Joseph home.
He was eighty-one years old
N. p. Dodge, aged seventy-three, a
brother of General GreenvilIe NJ.
Dodge, died at his home in Council
Bluffs, after less than a weeks i'll
ness Of pneumonia.
Homer S. Commings, member of
the democratic national committee,
was chosen as the democratic nomi-
nee at the caucus at Hartford, Conn,
for United States senator.
Major John l.. Bittinger, II years
old, one of the most prominent repub-
licanS of Missouri and we'll known in
public life in the nation in the past
fifty years, died at st. Joseph.
ciety men and women of the city.
Fire of unknown origin started in
the annex of the Iowa Central round
house at Marshalltown, which com
pletely destroyed the twenty-five stall
building and most of the locomotives
in it. The loss is estimated at from
$4,000 to 100000.
Fred c. Throop, held at the county
Jail in Omaha on an insanity charge
swallowed a 500 bill which he had
cunningly secreted before the "frisk-
ing" process by officers. There's
one piece of money the police didn't
get" he observed to a fellow prisoner
The senate refused to give it's CON
sent to the admission of Chinese to
the West Point military academy.
Charges of excessive expenditure
in securing his seat were made
against Senator Stephenson of Wis
cOnsin.
Judge John D. Works formally was
declared United States senator at a
Joint session of the senate and as
sembly of California.
The house committee on military
affairs added $4,000 for field artil
lery for organized militia to the army
appropriation bill, and reported the
bill to the house.
The American Sugar Refining com
pany has deposited 100000 in cash
in the United States treasury to com
promise it's civil liabilities in the
sugar drawback frauds in New York
Secretary MacVeagh probably will &C
cept the money for the government.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-01-20
"Wcmen First, Please

Boston.-''Women first, please" will
be the softly spoken request of ele-
waited train guards in Boston hereafter
Conspicuous signs bearing this polite
request will de displayed in elevated
stations.
The courtesy crusade is the result
of complaints that men and boys jump
on the cars in the elevated tunnel
and subway stations before they come
to a stop. This deprives women of
seats for which they wait The com
pany is going to stop the practice if
politeness wall do it.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-01-20
ITALY WILL USE WIRELESS
Government Asks 100000 for Net.
work of Stations for Communities
ton With Rome.

Rome.-The government asked an
appropriation of 100000 to complete
network of wireless stations
throughout Italy by which all points
on the frontier and italian coast will
be able to communicate among them
selves and with Rome.
The last station is of such power as
to be able to maintain communication
with a man-of-war in any part of the
Mediterranean.
1t is also arranged for these sta
tons, which are chiefly for military
purposes, to be open to private serv-
ice so as to be not only means of
protection, but also as a public utility
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-01-20
FIRST TEETOTAL LORD MAYOR

Sir Thomas Vezey Strong, the new
lord mayor Of London, is the first in
the long history of the office to be q
teetotaler He has drunk nothing
stronger than water all his life, and
doesn't intend to.
Two great events will mark tho
reign Of Sir Vezey at the Mansion
house. The first, Of course, is King
Georges coronation, at which he will
not have to officiate in any way, but
he will receive a baronetcy as nice
little memento. The second is the
five hundredth anniversary Of the Sta
toners guild, and in this he will take
a prominent part. He is a past mas
ter Of the guild, and his year of office
synchroniZes happily with it's quin~
centenary. In commemoration Of this
Sir Vezey has suggested the building
of an art gallery really worthy Of the
city Of London.
London has cause to be grateful to
it's new lord mayor for two schemes
which he has carried through, which
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-01-20
HEARD OPPORTUNITY KNOCK

Some men never heed the coming
Of opportunity. When her approach
is heralded by a gentle tapping he
whose door is SO favored should ever
have his ear attuned to catch the
slightest sound, for the goddess does
not tarry. One Of those who so list
ened, who was ready when the sum-
mons came and who has certainly
made good in the business world Is
George w. Perkins, the retiring part
ner Of J. P. Morgan & Co.
At forty-nine Mr.. Perkins is in the
prime of life and retires from active
business with a fortune. estimated at
good many millions of dollars. He
began his business career at fifteen,
with a yearly salary of $500 as an
Office boy in the employ Of the Chica,
go branch Of the New York Life In
surance company, of which his father
was long a general agent. He was
steadily advanced until in 1901, when
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-01-20

He did
a
genial kindly
the civil
times fired
He in Lowell
Michigan Chicago with his family
INC the ShoreC Country of Chicago
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-01-20
PRESIDENT OF. c.. QUITS

James T. Harahan, once a freight
clerk, engineer and passenger con-
ductor, then president of the Illinois
Central railroad, celebrated his seven
tieth birthday anniversary by formal
~ resigning. The retiring railroad chief
will be awarded a pension of about
$4,000. He has received an average
salary of $4,000 for the last ten years.
He is said to be the owner Of plan
tati0ns in Memphis, Tenn, and to pos
sess much other property.
Mr.. Haranan, however, win not re-
tire from railroad activities. He re-
mains q director of the Illinois Cen
trail and other railroads, and his coun-
sci frequently will be sought by tho
officials of these transportation sys"
TENS. The retiring president Of the
Illinois Central is expected to be in
close touch with the affairs of the
road.
Mr.. Harahan, his fellow railroad
men say, is the true type Of the old
foChiOnOd railroad man now DaSSiOp
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-01-20


a
nothing
Being lifelong abstainer Sir associated himself
o.
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This salary reduced $4,000
vepresiden chairman the
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which deeply interested"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-05-10
-
LABOR NEWS AND NOTES.

Chicago heads the list of cities
! with the largest number of strikers
out in various trades.
The strike Of the British seamen
has been set back to the cath of May
as it is the plan of the leaders to have
it affect the coronation plans as much
as possible.
Congress has before t several bills
whose purpose is to regulate the i'm
migration of aliens into the United
States. The one Carrying the illiteracy
test is being urged by the American
Federation of Labor.
During the last session of the leg
iSlature Kansas ~unionists secured a
workingmen's compensation law, also
a law requiring all coal mines to be
provided with telephones,
\ plan is on foot in Omaha, Neb.,
to launch a cooperative store. Some
of the unions are said to feel that they
are not given a square deal by some
of the shops of theNebraska city and
it would be better to organize a co.
operative store than to start a fight
against the existing shops because of
llelT union ana non-unlpn am. d
tons.
The shopmen of the Pennsylvania
railroad are hopeful that their trou-
bles will be happily settled. Within
a short time no less than $4,000 men
have been dism ,ssed by the company
between Altoona and Pittsburg, and
the result was a strike on the first
of May, The men claim that the
discharges have been on account of
the men being union men or organ
lied, but the company declares that
the laying off is simply in accordance
with a plan for retr6Tchment.
1t s not at all certain that &c SUI
preme court, which has taken a re-
cess until next Monday, will hand
down a decision in the case of the
contempt charges against the heads
of the American Federation of Labor.
Labor leaders declare that unless
ONE conclusion is reached and the
matter cleared away, W"orkingmen
everywhere will begin to give cred
ence to the report that the court is
waiting for a tip, not from evidence
but from developments.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-05-10
HILL WILL EXTEND
LINES SOUTHWARK

Los Angeles, Cal-James ]. Hill,
the railway magnate, who has been
carrying on a nationwide war with
the Hartman interests, is about to
shift the seat of that war to Califor-
MIA by entering this state from the
northwest, where he is strongly in
trenched, according to the statement
today of Robert E. Strahorn, vice.
president mi general manager of
the O.-W. r. & n. company.
Strahorn is the man who, in the
employ of Hartman, built the mys-
ferrous romance" railroad in the
Northwest, which after six years of
construction work and completion Of
about 900 miles of track, was discov-
cred to be a Hartman interest in
vading the Hill stronghold in the
Northwest.
Strahorn SAYS that Hill interests
will not invade California from Dem
yer, one of the Western terminals of
the system, but that a great double
track line will be laid from Seattle
south through the vast lumber areas
of Northern California down to San
Francisco and eventually on to Los
Angeles.
This part of the construction will
come first, says Strahorn, and after
that will follow the building of a con-
Meeting link in the chain of Hill roads
which will give Los Angeles another
through line to the East by connection
with the Burlington at Denver.
Strahorn refused to say that he has
information to the effect hat Hill is
contemplating the construction OF
this road from the northwest into Cal
ifornia and on down to the Mexican
frontier in the immediate future, but
he did say that it is a piece of rail-
road work which may be looked for
in a short time.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-05-10
Do Ghosts Haunt Swampsp

No, never. It's foolish TO fear a
fancied evil, when there are real and
deadly perils to guard against in
lowlands. These are the malaria
germs that cause ague, chills and fe-
yer, weakness, aches in the bones and
muscles. and may induce deadly ty-
phoid. But Electric Bitters destroys
and casts out these vicious germs from
the blood. Three bottles drove all
the malaria from my SYSTEM" wrote
VIM. Fretwell, of Lucama, n. c..
land I've had fine health ever since"
Use this safe, sure remedy only soc
at Koeppens.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-05-10

and returned Immediately to his home
in Massachusetts, where he has since
remained. He has gathered together
an immense amount of data, con-
corning Clusters last battle, including
every bit OF literature written about
this event, letters from comrades and
officers who participated in the bat
tie, pictures n relics from the field.
He declares his intention of coming
west this next June for the purpose
OF visiting the field which he upon
that memorable June day thirty-five
years g and upon which he left
nearly 800 of his comrades dead after
a battle that will live in the memory
OF nan as long as the field endures.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-05-10
Potash Hcnrino RcoinS.

Hamburg, Germany, May 10.-Ne-
gQtiations We're commenced here to-
day which are expected to result in an
agreement whereby the independent
potash interests in the United States
will cut loose from the American
combine n deal directly with the
German potash syndicate. 1t is be-
lieved that the conferences will settle
the matter, as there is manifest a
general determination to arrive at
some solution of the vexing matter,
The American interests represented
in today's conference ar separated
from the Bradley and Schmidtmann
groups. There will be negotiations
with the original Schmidtmann group
at Brussels on June Is.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-05-10
CLEAR LAKE LANDS TO
Be BIRD PRESERVE
TERRITORY SET ASIDE
BY PRESIDENT TAFT
Action Is Believed to Be the First
Step Toward Establishing an I'M
mense Game Reserve i'm Southern
Oregon.

Portland, Or.-Wild birds of the
state may hereafter take refuge in
Clear lake and the surrounding lands
for President Taft has declared this
a government bird preserve. Clear
Lake lies near the California line and
the reserve includes $4,000 acres. 1t
was purchased by the government as
a reservoir site five years ago..
Clear lake has been one of the
best known breeding spots for wild
birds for years and is second only to
the Lower Klamath lake regions.
Millions of ducks nest there each
spring. The lake is from II to Is
miles across at its widest point. Birds
breeding there have not been molest-
ed in the past to any great extent ex-
cept by stockmen who range their
cattle and sheep on the nearby lands,
but with the steadily growing popu-
lation of the country, it was recog-
nized that greater protection was
needed for the water fowl.
With protection from the hunter,
the birds of the Clear lake country
may be expected to multiply rapidly
n restock to a considerable degree
many of the well known hunting
grounds of the state.
The action of President Taft in set
ting aside the Clear Lake reserve is
believed to be the first step toward
establishing an immense game reserve
in southern Oregon, south of Klam-
ath Falls and including the lava bed
country along the California line. For
a year an effort has been made to
have the president set aside the lava
beds as a refuge for mule tail deer.
This has been fought by the stock
interests but is still being considered
at Washington.
BY adding that section to the Clear
lax reserve, one of the finest game
preserves in the country would be
established n it is believed hat it
would do much to conserve the game
resources of the northwest.