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The Washington herald., 1911-09-10
MAIL SENT BY AERO.
Thousands of Letters Will Be Car
ried Through the Air.

London. Sept 9-Gustav HameI left
the Hendon aviation field for Windsor
about 4:30 o'clock to-day. with the first
aerial postbag. Thousands cheered him
while the band played the national an
them. Unfavorable weather delayed the
start. He arrived at Windsor al 5:11 p. m.
The mail bag contained missives for
all the crowned heads of Europe. a pres
ent of a packet Of cigarettes for King
George from the manufacturers. commu-
nications addressed by the premier to the
various cabinet ministers and foreign am
bassadors. the colonial ministers. and
to London editors. The bag weighed
twenty-five pounds.
Each letter was stamped First United
Kingdom aerial mail"
Within the last two days approximately
100000 letters and post cards nave been
deposited in the special aerial mailing
boxes
The Washington herald., 1911-09-10
DR.. WEDDERsPoON BACK.

The Rev. w. R. Wedderspoon. D. D..
pastor of Foundry Methodist Episcopal
Church, has returned from his vacation
and will be in his pulpit this morning
and evening At the morning service, he
will preach on The value of the foe
an the friend" and at the bright
hour" service in the evening" his theme
will be Gods finger in the Grand Can
yon of Arizona"
DR.. and Mrs. Wedderspoon attended the
assembly at Bay View, Mich, later
travelling in Canada, and spent the last
week at Asbury Park, n. J.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-10
MOTORCYCLE ROMANCE
ELIMINATES IN WEDDING
DIR. J. Bartlett Hills Takes Miss Edith Asheton for
Ride on His Machine, and They Fall in Love
and Are Now on Honeymoon

n late summer evening. down the peace
full stretch Of the Avenue. where the
sparrows chippered and cheeped, the
doctor and his fiancee rode the motor
cycle. Miss Asheton rode in front, and
the doctor, ever watchful of a reckless
telegraph messenger. steered.
Then Dan Cupid decided that, as there
were two carbureters with but a sin
gle thought and two cylinders that
beat as one, he might as we'll take a
hand in the situation, and shortly after
announcement of the engagement was
made public
Yesterday the couple were married by
the Rev. II. Schroeder and Immediately
after left for their honeymoon through
New York. DR.. Hills will return in four
days.
But, honestly, who would have sus-
pected that a motorcycle contained all
that romance?
The Washington herald., 1911-09-10
Death of Miss Hannah Haynie.

Funeral services for Miss Hannah
Haynie. a lifelong resident of the Dis
trict. were held yesterday at the Aged
Women's Home, 1855 Wisconsin avenue
The Rev. J. H. w. Blake officiated and
burial was in Glenwood Cemetery Miss
Haynie was seventy-one years old, and
had lived at the home for twenty years
Death was due to old age.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-10
OPPOSES BAY WINDOW TAX.
Commissioner JUdsOn Against Plan
Proposed TO District.

Commissioner Judson does not look
with favor upon the proposed plan for
a bay-window tax, as suggested to the
officials Of the District government by
Waddy c. Wood. of the architectural
firm of Wood. Dom & Deming. The
Commissioner wrote to Mr.. Wood yester-
day, stating that the plan is too radical
for adoption in this city. He suggested
that the question he referred to the local
chapter Of the American Institute of
Architects for consideration.
Mr.. Wood contends that the attempt
at picturesqueness through the construc-
tion of bay windows has done much to-
ward marring the architectural beauty
of the city. He said that many persons
build bay windows in order Ito get some
thing for nothing" as such windows usu-
ally project over government property.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-10

young man replied: Not exactly" He
explained that while there was no OBJ
lection on the part of any one to the mar
riage, no one expected II to take place at
this time, and that the announcement
would be a big surprise to the relatives
and friends of both.
The last mass at St. Mary's Catholic
Church. beginning tomorrow, will be
celebrated at 1O:30 o'clock instead OF 10
o'clock as heretofore.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-10
SUICIDE MAY BE OFFICER.
Capt. 4. J. Matthews Ended own
Life, Department Fears.

Agents of the Department of Justice
are investigating the suicide of an IN
identified man in rooming- house IN
Jacksonville, Fla. several weeks ago,
on the theory that he may have been
Capt. Arthur J. Matthews. of the United
states Marine Corps. former command
ant of the naval prison at the Mare
Island Navy. Yard. who disappeared on
February 3 last.
Capt. Matthews was the son of the
late Rear Admiral z. o. Matthews, who
died shortly before his sons disappear
ance. 1t was thought that Capt. Mat
thews mind, became unbalanced from
brooding over his fathers death. He
dropped out Of sight on the eve OF his
promotion to the rank of major.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-10
Result in Prince William.

Special tn The Washington Herald.
Manassas, Va. Sept. 9.-The official can
vass completed this afternoon Of the vote
cast in the Senatorial primary in Prince
William County resulted as follows: Mar
tin, 491; Jones. ia; Swanson. so; Glass.
l35. Martins ma jority in the county is
81. and that of Swanson. 2s7
The Washington herald., 1911-09-10
Bitten by Collie DOG.

ThRas Wilson, thirty years old. OF
Crosbp House, Third and c streets
northwAst. reported to the police last
night THAT while in front OF 1is E
street northwest he was bitten on the
right leg y collie. His injury is not
considered ssrious.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-10
Minins denEre.. Po.tponed.

Chicago, Sept. A-The convention OF the
American Mining Gongress, which was to
have been held here October q. was to-
day postponed until the 18th. owing to the
inability OF President Taft to be present
and address the delegates on the first
named date. The President Is expected
The Washington herald., 1911-09-10
Charter Oak Meeting on

Hartford. Sept. 9.-Rain again to-day
necessitated the closing Of the racing at
Charter Oak Park track, the track being
in such condition that no events were at
tempted. The meeting, therefore. is off
for this year.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-10
SUGAR FAMINE, "
FACING COUNTRY,
CROWS SERIOUS
No Refined Product-Crop
Shortage Threatened.
PRICE RISING STEADILY
Europe Withholding Big Surplus
from America.
PRICE RISING STEADILY

Already Scarcity Has Had It's Eff
feet on CnsumptiOn for This
Year-Sugar Expert of Depart
ment of Agriculture Admits Sit
to Grow More So Before Relief.
The Washington herald., 1911-09-10

The above picture shows a party Of
students from the Consolidated Rural
High School. of Driver, Va, who have
been visiting Washington on an educa-
tlonal tour under the auspices Of James
S. Thomas, commissioner Of education OF
the Southern Commercial Congress.
The thirty-six students in the party
are known in Nansemond County. where
the school 10 located. as "the washing
ton club" and every member in the
group earned in some way the money,
koo suo anos sIzl no mTg iQsnoIQ 1pV,
The Washington herald., 1911-09-10

raised an acre Of potatoes; another an
acre of corn. One girl baked pies to
cart her money, while another canned
tomatoes and made cooks aprons.
All of the work was done under the
direct supervision OF the heads OF the
school to emphasize the practical side
OF the educational work dcne there.
II is expected that congress next year
ton to extend the plan to other rural
schools throughout the country, since
this first experiment has proved such q
complete success
Commissioher Thomas estimates that
The Washington herald., 1911-09-10

A patent has been granted an East In
dian for an electric pen that car6onlssa
paper over which Il is DasssA
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-04
Cf Monarch and snuffing out the lives
OF more than dozen persons.
Another Gift For Colorado.

Denver-Formal acceptance by
Colorado of the Fort Lewis Indian
school property has been filed with
the secretary of the interior by Sena.
tor Guggenheim.
Colorado can also have the Teller
# accepted at once, but will lose it if
an effort is made to extend the time
for its acceptance.
Senator Guggenheim filed with the
secretary of the interior the formal
acceptance by the governor of Colo
RADIO of the grant to the state of the
Fort Lewis Indian school lands and
property, also certified copy of the
act passed by the Colorado Legisla-
ture appropriating funds for main
tenance of school at Fort Lewis,
An official Interpretation of the
Grand junction Indian school land
grant. made by Secretary Ballinger
End received by Representative Tay-
lor, settles the question as to the
liability of the state in accepting these
lands, and Mr.. Taylor believes the in
depreciation will result in immediate
acceptance by the legislature. Rep
resentative Taylor submitted the
statute to the secretary several days
ago, asking for an official construc-
ton. In his reply the secretary of
the interior says:
Il will say that the orly obligation
which the act seems to impose upon
the state in accepting the grant is
that Indian pupils shall be admitted
to the schools free of charge for tut
ton, and on term of equality with
white pupils.
THE provision respecting the ap-
preparation for maintenance of the
school and pay of the superintendent
provides that such appropriation shall
not be available after the school has
been turned over to the state, and it
is not Believed that in accepting the
grant the state assumes an obligation
to clothe and support the Indian pupils
who may thereafter attend the in
stitution''
Ex-senator Teller has Joined with
Representative Taylor in a telegram
to Governor Shafroth, assuring him
that any attempt to have the grant ex-
tended is absolutely out of the ques-
ton, and would be sure to cause Colo
RADIO to lose these lands.
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-04

Major Fernham Lyon, 81 years old.
who issued rations to the Southern
army during the Civil war, is dead at
Saginaw, Mich.
Cyrus Corning, prominent in the Or
ganization of the Populist party in
Kansas and identified with several
Populist newspapers. is dead.
Both branches of the Kansas Legis-
lature adopted resolutions endorsing
San Francisco as the place for hold
ing the Panama exposition in 1915.
The lower house of the Washington
Legislature passed bill making
women eligible for jury ddty by strik
in the word male from the present
statute.
en- a new lease on life when the House
of the Legislature went on record by
vote of SO to 5S against any further
means to prohibit the game.
The Senate committee on public
lands has reported favorably the bill
granting permits to explore and pros
pect for oil and gas on unappro-
rated and withdrawn lands, with the
recommendation that it pass.
For the first time, it was declared.
in the history of aviation, an aero
plane rose from the surface of the
water, at San Diego, Cal, sailed
about and, returning to the starting
point landed on the water as easily
as gull
E. A. Sunderlin of Colorado Springs,
general manager of the Grand juno
ton & Grand River Valley Electric
railway, has announced that the in
terurban line from Fruita to Grand
Junction will be extended east to Cliff
ton. Work will not begin until spring.
More than 5000 veterans and 20b
civilians at the National Soldiers
home at Leavenworth were placed un'
der strict quarantine by Gov. Cook of
the home because there are three
known cases of smallpox at the iEsti-
tuition.
The Arkansas Valley Irrigation
Company of Denver. of which A. M.
Eppstein is president, reports the sale
within the last ten days Of water val
ued at $S5.OOO to farmers owning land
along the companys bitches in Gray,
Ford and Edwards counties, Kansas.
The Western Development Associa-
ton was organized by representatives
from all Western states who have
been exhibiting at the land show at
Omaha. The object is to divert the
tide of immigration from the South
eastern states and Canada to the
West.
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-04
Ex-Gov. Haskell Loses.

Guthrie. Okla.-Judgment in favor
Of Cornelius S. Loder of New York
City, against former Governor c. N.
Haskell of Oklahoma for $4,000 and
interest since February, 1900, and
costs, was rendered here by Judge Cot
teral of the United States Circuit
Court. The interest amounts to about
$4,000. The principal represents the
amount due from Haskell to the
Illinois Steel Company on loan made
to Haskell in 1898 to promote the
Lima G. Northern railroad in Ohio.
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-04
Copyright. 19l1.)

1t will be left to the House of Rep
resentatives to determine whether
San Francisco or New Orleans shall
have the Panama exposition.
President Taft has sent to Congress
a SPECIAL message urging fortificatioh
of the Panama canal and recommend.
ng an appropriation of s5,0OO,00O for
the work, at the present session OF
Congress.
Reports based on detailed field ex-
aminations as made by the national
forest officers, of the lands burned
over in the forest fires of last sum-
mer in Washington and Oregon, which
have been received by the United
States Department OF Agriculture,
show that the national forest timber
loss in these states is about 700, 900 900
feet. .
The boycott case of the Bucks
Stove & Range Company of St. Louis
sgainst the American Federation of
Labor came to dramatic close in the
Supreme Court of the United States,
hich decided it was a question 1t
would not hear. The court proceeded
to hear arguments on the contempt"
case which arose out Of the boycott
case.
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-04
Minor Mention.

The Ingleville mine at Trinidad has
suspended operations indefinitely.
The business men of Grand junction
lave organized social club.
The total tax levy for 1910 in Rio
Grande county is $14O,9O4.1O.
Mrs. w. H. Conklin. aged 56. and a
resident of Sterling for thirty years. is
dead
Edgar Buchanan has been reelected
president of the Durango Board of
Trade.
Greeley has organized a motor
cycle club with charter membership
OF twenty.
Walter Cheney of Leadville, with
his bare hands captured bobcat and
Gagged it.
The residence of William Orwig in
North Cripple Creek was burned, with
loss of $1,000.
Sadie Carter of Pueblo has made
application for a position on the fire
department of that city.
A banquet and dance will be given
by the New York Society of Colorado
February 10th, in Denver.
The Colorado & Southern has signed
contract for joint use of the Santa
Fe track from Pueblo to Denver.
An examination for clerk and car
rier will be held at the postoffice in
Sterling on February II, 1911.
Trinidad will perhaps receive rec
ognition from the Santa Fe in being
made Colorado common point.
In the wrestling match in Denver re-
Gently between Hackenschmidt and
Westerguard, the former won after a
hard contest.
James White. veteran of the Civil
War, pioneer Of Georgetown and a
resident of Clear Caeek county since
1872, is dead.
The sixth annual banquet Of former
Fennsylvanians now resident in Den
yer was held at the Brown Palace no.
tel January 30th.
Several settlements of Oklahoma
farmers will be established in the
Grow Creek district, east of Greeley,
next spring.
Raising of hogs is an important in.
dustry in the Hayden valley. The
Cary ranch has 400 or 500 and has pu.
in a packing plant.
The new pavilion erected under the
management Of the Celtic Club in Flo
renee was formally opened recently
with big dance.
For the first time in thirty-six years
Judge Hart of Ault has heard from
bis brother by letter written by the
supposed lost man, W. w. Hart of
| Corning, Cal.
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-04
GEN ERAL.

Senator r. NJ. LaFollette was for
mally reelected in joint session in
Madison, Wis.
The University of Michigan has
graduated 26,979 men and women
since it was founded.
Horsewhipping in public may be-
come the method of Furnishing tobacco
chewers and smokers in Zion City,
near Chicago.
The strike of the Florida cigar max
ers, which has lasted seven months,
has been called off by the joint ad-
Hisory board, conditionally.
The entire police and detective
force OF Pittsburg, Pa, and of a pri-
vate detective agency are endeavoring
to solve the robbery of $4,000 worth
of jewelry from the home of Mrs. Will
liam Thaw, Jr
Death came to four persons while
walking on Market street, the busy
thoroughfare of Philadelphia, when a
sign on building near Tenth street
blown from its fastenings by a high
wind. crashed down upon them.
Nevada, the last of the wild and
woolly West,' is going to reform.
Carson City reports movement to
carry through the Legislature meas.
tres to bar cigarettes and easy di.
Sorces, and give the ballot to woman.
Deposits of individuals in the 1900
National banks of the United State.
decreased $191, ,566.4SS between Nov
10 and Jan. Ia situation probably
unprecedented in the reports made to
the comptroller of the currency in
Washington.
protest against what he called
government interference" in the can.
italization of railroads has been made
by Charles G. Dawes. president of the
Central Trust Company of Illinois, in
the hearing before the railroad securi
ties commission in Chicago
After struggling for more than TWEEN
ty-four hours with the testimony. the
jury in the case of Mrs. Laura Farms
worth Schnek. charged with poison
ing her husband. John o. Schenk, a,
Wheeling, w. Va. announced that ii
could not reach verdict. Judge Jor
dan discharged the jurors and Mrs
Schnek isagain in Jail to await another
trial
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-04
COLORADO STATE NEWS

I The 100000 French loan for the
Eenver Reservoir & Irrigation Com,
pany has been authorized by Judge
Allen in the District Court at Denver
After three days session at the Al
bany hotel in Denver, the annual con
vention of the Colorado Retail Hard
ware G. Implement Association came
to close.
| AS the result of an alteration over
mining matters. c. B. Baker shot and
1t is believed fatally wounded David
Parks, at Copperfield, in the western
part of Fremont county
M. D. Thatcher, president of the
Capitol National bank of Denver and
of the First National bank of Pueblo.
has purchased control of the Ameri-
can National bank of Alamosa
Official notification has been re-
ceived by Superintendent Burkin of
the Teller Indian Institute at Grand
Junction that the school will be closed
June 30th as a government school.
The first batch of deeds of trans
fer of real estate to the Colorado &,
Southern railroad for its right of way
for the Wellington-Cheyenn connect
ing link has been filed with the coun-
ty clerk for record at Fort Collins.
For four days, Thursday. Friday,
Saturday and Sunday, February 9th,
10th, 11th and 18th men from all sec
tions of the state will be gathered in
Fort Collins for the twenty-fourth an
maui state convention of the Young
Mems Christian Association.
In the recent state bar examination
In Denver, the results of which were
announced recently, the highest per-
oentage made by any of the twenty
six applicants was made by Butler Dis
man of Salida, his percentage being
S8.2.
H. Med. Thompson, late city clerk
of Montrose, who has been found
short $500 in his accounts by Ex-
pert Harry F. MuniX, has confessed to
the city council that the figures are
correct and made a clean breast of the
whole affair.
That the government is interested
IN reservoir projects in northern Colo
1sdo, is evident from the visits of en-
gineers from the department of the in
terror looking over reservoirs built,
and the sites of those to be con-
structed.
Hildreth Frost, prominent young
attorney and captain of Company A, N.
G. c. of Colorado Springs, maintains
that the city ordinance providing
against bicycle riding on the side
walks is unconstitutional when the
| roads are bad.
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-04
FRISCO GETS
BIG FAIR
PACIFIC METROPOLIS WILL HAVE
PANAMA EXPOSITION IN
NINETEEN-FiFTEEN
CITY is ENTHUSIASTIC
CONGRESS GIVES PREFERENCE TO
THE WESTERN CITY OVER
NEW ORLEANS.

San Francisco.-With a gala spiri.
that excelled any of the far-famed fes-
tivals ever held in this city, San Fran
cisco celebrated the adoption by the
House OF Representative in Washing
ton of the resolution naming the ma
tropolis of the Pacific as the site of
the PanamaPacific International En-
position, to be held in 1915, to com
memorate the opening of the Panama
canal.
The receipt of the news was re.
ceived with burst of enthusiasm sell
dom witnessed even in the spontane-
Gus West.
The firing of bombs from the news
paper buildings announced the victory
to the eXpectant city and was the sig
nal for the sirens and steam whistles
of every craft in the harbor and from
the factories and power plants on
land
AS by magic the great steel and
granite piles of the business district,
reared since the fire in 1906, which
destroyed $4,000 buildings, broke out
in bunting, wreaths and pennants, and
from every flagstaff fluttered the ma
tional colors.
The courts adjourned in the midst
of testimony and arguments, unable t.
keep within bounds the enthusiasm OF
their pupils, the city's schools closed
spontaneously and gave the children d
half-holiday in honor of the event;
while downtown staid merchants
threw business to the winds and
danced in the streets to the music OF
brass bands which suddenly appeared
from various directions and paraded
the streets during the afternoon. The
central telephone offices were fairly
aglow with the little red lights of sub
scribers ringing in and asking for de
tails of the vote in Washington.
The Fair Is Ours" was the cry
everywhere, and it was fully an hour
before the downtown section of the
city settled down to routine business
again, while in the clubs, cafes, the
atres and on the streets impromptu
celebrations continued during the af
ternoon and night.
The vote of the House was 1SS to
159, in favor of San Francisco.
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-04
Great Double Track Plan.

New York.-The executive com
mittee of the Union Pacific and South
ern Pacific lines have voted to COM
pIete dcuble-tracking of the lines from
They also voted to double-track the
Oregon Short Line from the junction
with the Union Pacific main line at
Granger, Wyo, to Huntington, Ore,
also the line along the Columbia river
in Oregon to Portland
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-04
eiq Snow slide Near Monarch.

Salida.-The first snowslide of the
season in this section occurred at Mon
arch. twenty miles west of Salida, in
jured one man, George Barnes, who
had the novel experience of riding
down a hill, 1000 feet at lightning
speed. One hundred and fifty feet of
the Madonna tramway was taken out
and it will be necessary to close down
No. 4 level of the mine until the tram
can be repaired. 1t was on this hill
that a big slide ran two years ago
practically wiping out the little town
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-04

The Senate passed bill authoriz-
ing the Secretary of the Interior to
sell to the highest bidder burned tim
rer of public lands and on lands on
which entries are pending. In the lat
ter case the proceeds of sales are to
go to entrymen as soon as they re.
ceive patents.
AS result of vigorous and persist.
ent effort on the part of number of
Western members, the House commit.
tee on postoffices and postroads has
added $4,000 to its original allow
ance for star routes = whereby the
West materially benefits.
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-04
snowstorms Isolated Workmen.

Washington.-The reclamation serv-
ice reports that several of it's con-
struction camps are now entirely cut
eff from the rest of the world by reas-
on of continued blizzards and exces-
sive snowfall. In the Teton noun
tains, at the headwaters of the Snake
river in Wyoming, $50 men are com
rietely isolated, owing to the blizzard
which has prevailed without cessation
for many days.
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-04
SPORT.

Joe Hamilton of Wichita, 20 years
old, broke the worlds continuous roll
Ter skating record, skating a total of
"a hours.
frankie Burns, of Jersey City, out
fought and outpointed Digger Stanley,
English bantamweight champion. in a
ten-round bout in New York.
Zybszcko, the Polish wrestler, won
two straight falls over Paul Nogard in
Lowell, Mass. The first was in 80
minutes and the second in 12 minutes
The Glenwood post., 1911-02-04
St. L. G. S. F. Ry. Take Part.

Pueblo.-The hand of the ST. Louis
& San Francisco railroad system,
which has more than 1000 miles of
road in the Southwest, and which has
had Colorado territory for its main
objective for number of years, is
seen in the organization of financing
of the Pueblo & Southeastern railroad,
designed to connect Pueblo with the
town of Wilson, sixteen miles south
east.