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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-10-12
This Farmer Was Daffy.

A farmer who sells his farm in
prosperous community and buys
picture show and a motor car in
large city needs a guardian. was the
decision of a jury in the probate
court at Macon the other day. The
jury appointed a guardian for E. A.
Cunningham, on petition of his wife,
who said he was too easily influence
ed by smooth tongued men with
quick money-making propositions. -
Brookfeld Argus.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-10-12
Says They Should Keep Still.

Our advice to the partisan friends
of Champ Clark and Joe Folk is
that they should both sit still in the
Democratic boat. The presidential
question between the two will ad-
just itself alright if left alone, and
if the national Democracy wants
either of the two for its nominee, it
will find a way to nominate him
independent of any action on the
part of Missourians, -BooRville Ad-
vertiser.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1911-10-12

!, ,oa,5 a some quarters, but as UEveE " -.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15
Wheat Crop of Entire Country
Promises A Record Harvest
port, Buhels-condion Crops North
west ExceIent-Pacinc Grain 10 Promising

Washington, June Promise that
this years wheat crop will be the
greatest ever produced Is given in the
June crop report. issued today by the
department Of agriculture. Estimates
by the experts indicate that approx
mately 764,2s1,s57 bushels Of wheat
will be harvested in this country this
summer and autumn; an increase Of
about 68,S48,357 bushels over that
garnered last year. OF winter wheat
the Indicated yield is almost 9S0,O00.-
900 bushels and Of spring wheat 1884,
100000 bushels.
Prof. N. G. Murray, acting chairman
Of the crop reporting board, comment
ing upon the report, said:
THE average of spring wheat shows
a total larger than any previous rec.
ord and nearly per cent greater than
last year. On June / the crop was
above the average in promise, the
condition and acreage combined being
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15

Five Great Lake Steamship Companies
Combine.

Combine.
Cleveland, June 10.-The largest
steamship merger on the Great Lakes
since the days of the foundation Of
the Gilchrist and the steel trust fleets
was effected when the finishing touch
es were pat on the merger of five
companies controlling 81 of the finest
bulk steel freighters on the inland
seas. These included the various
companies in which Horace s. Wilkin-
son and his Syracuse associates are
the dominant factors.
The companies merged are: The
United States Transportation COM
pany, the L. G. Smith Transit COM
pany, the Wilkinson Transportation
company, the Standard Transportation
company, and the American Transit
company The new company, combin-
ing the five named, takes the title of
the Crest Lakes Steamship company.
1t will have paid capital Of $4,000. 900
and bond issue of $1,500,0 bearing
interest at per cent and payable So
rally in amounts Of $4,000 annually
during the next 10 years. The prop
critics included in the merger have an
appraised value Of $685. 800.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15
Government Within II. R,oht..

0overnment Within lto RlQhto.
Helena.-The government was act,
ing within its rights in entering into
Contract with Caroline Henckel and
her children, for the sale of her right
to land bordering on Lower st. Mary
Lake, desired for a reservoir site In
connection with the Milk River pro-
1ect, holds Judge Rasch in overrulini
today the demurrer of the defandants
to the complaint Of the government In
its suit for possession.
The agreement, the court says, was
not transfer or assignment, or sur.
render or REIMBURSEMENT Of their al.
lotment rights, but merely q waiver
to exercise that right upon particu+
lar tract which, under the agreement
Of June 10, 1896 ian Indian treaty.,
they would have been entitled to 50,
lect in case the requirements upon
which the accrual of such right do.
pended had been observed, leaving the
defendants, even without any reserva-
tions for the purpose, entirely free to
solicit other lands in lieu under tho
allotment law whenever the same
should be extended to and become op.
erative upon the service"
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15
NEW lNsURoENT POINTS TO THE
WEED As LUXURY AND WOOL
As A NECESSITY.
CIGAR TAX LOWER THAN SUGAR
Would Let In Latter Duty Free and
Make Smoker Pay Revenue.-Ao-
cuses Democrats Of 1eina
Afraid.

Washington, June 1O.-Representa-
tive Warburton of Washington, new.
~ elected Republican xnsurgent in
the house, charged congress with Lett
ting millions of dollars 60 to waste
that 1t might collect in internal reve-.
nue. taxes on tobacco. He attacked,
the pending wool tariff revision Offer
ed by the Democrats, declaring that
their plea of needing revenue for the
government treasury was not serious
argument for keeping high duties on
wooden goods.
IF the government would nut rea.
sonable tax on tobacco, which may
be considered a luxury" said Mr.
Warburton. ut could let in wooden
goods, cotton goods and sugar with.
out any tariff whatever. If this coun-
try taxed tobacco as England and
France do we could close the doors
of all the customs houses, except al
to the importations of liquors and
tobaccos."
Mr.. Warburton said the Democrats
had been afraid to reduce the duties
on wool any further for fear of the
consequence at the next election if
the wooden industry was Frustrated
by the removal of protection. He said
the Democrats had been compelled to
adopt the Republican doctrine Of pro.
lection and excused themselves on the
ground of needing revenue.
"And in the meantime" said Mr..
,Warburton, American people are pay.
ing six times as much tax to the gov
eminent on sugar as they are on five
cent cigars; ~ times as much on su-
gar as on ten-cent cigars; 30 times as
much on sugar as on 25-cent cigars;
and 60 times as much on sugar as on
6O-cent cigars. The rich man who
smokes 35-cent cigar pays one and
two-tenths cents tax on each dollars
worth Of them; while his gardener
who smokes tive-cent cigars pays six
cents tax on his dollars worth. and
his washerwoman who buys a dollars
worth of sugar pays 36 cents tax on
it,"
Representative Peters of Massachu.
sets, a Democratic member of the
ways and means committee which
framed the wool bill, said wool and
wooden goods would have been made
free but for the necessity of raising
revenue. He said the duties had been
placed as low as was consistent
with securing enough tariff revenue
to run the government.
The house special committee to in
vestigate the American Sugar Rein.
ing company has decided to summon
Joseph Smith, president Of the Nor.
mon church, to tell what he knows
of the dealings of the so-called sugar
trust with the beet sugar interests
controlled by the church.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15
URGE RAILWAY MAIL REFORM.
Clerks in Syracuse Meeting Call Moth.
Cd Of Appointing Bad.

Cd Of Appointing Bad.
Syracuse, N. Y, June 10.-The Ma
tional Association of Railway Mail
Clerks adopted resolutions declaring
that no salary should be regulated by
car space; that the method of ap-
pointing clerks is defective and steps
should be taken to reduce to a mini
mum the class of undesirable clerks.
Protest was made against the super
vision of detail work of the railway
mail service by postofflce inspectors.
The convention voted down proposal
to establish a merit system and went
on record as being against the de-
merit system. No action was taken
on the question of affiliation with a
labor organization.
In the election the conservatives
triumphed. Philip ]. Stewart of Mil.
waukee was unanimously elected pres.
ident and William T. Terrell of Fort
Worth, Texas, was elected vice presi-
dent. George A. Wood of Portsmouth,
N. H., was chosen secretary-treasurer
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15
Bail Refused Wireless Men.

New York, N. Y. - While execution
of the Judgment of the court that they
be imprisoned in the federal peniten-
tiary in Atlanta is indefinitely stayed
pending the fling of additional assign
ments of error, Colonel christopher
Columbus Wilson. president. and four
other officers of the United Wireless
Telegraph company must remain in
the Tombs. The United States circuit
court Of appeals refused to permit
the convicted men liberty on bail
pending their appeal.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15
IOWA CONGRESSMAN is CHOSEN.
w. r. Greene Of Audubon Elected to
Succeed Walter l. Smith.

Council Bluffs, Iowa. 49, w. R.
Greene, of Audubon, was elected con-
gresham of the Ninth Iowa district
to succeed Walter I. Smith, who re-
Gently was given judicial appoint
ment by President Taft. Practically
complete returns give Greene a ma
jority Of 1892 over w. s. Cleveland.
his Democratic opponent.
Greene stands opposed to recipro.
city, while Cleveland was favorable to
the agreement. Although Cleveland
cut down the majority given Judge
Smith at the last election by 700 votes.
the country vote was strong enough
for Greene to give him safe ma
jority.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15
James Is Given Three Years.

Livingston.-Ivor James, formerly q
member of the choir of st. Andrews
Episcopal church, and at one time q
respected citizen of Livingston, who
recently attempted to kill his wife
and Chief Of Police Swindlehurst, who
had been called to the James home
to arrest James, believed insane,
pleaded guilty to a charge of assault
in the second degree and was sem
fenced to serve three years in the pen-
itentiary. James has completely re!
gained his senses. In passing sem
tence, Judge Henry told the prisoner
that he should be glad that he was
not facing trial for the murder Of
Swindlehurst, whose vest was frayed
by the bullet which James fired at
him.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15
Black Arraluned,

Kalispell.-William Black was an
raigned before Justice of Peace Rogn.
lion, on a charge Of assault in the
first degree in connection with the
shooting of /. L. Flinchpaugh, over q
water right controversy, and pleaded
not guilty. His hearing was fixed for
June IA, and Black gave a $4,000 bond
for appearance. Flinchpaugh is rest.
ing quite satisfactory at the hos
pital. That the shot was accidental,
as result of the attack by Finch
paugh with a shovel, while Black
held his gun In readiness for defense,
Is the latest claim of Blacks friends.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15

such as to give hope for a yield Of
nearly % per cent more than last year
and nearly II per cent more than the
average for the last five years.
May Unfavorable Month.
"May was unfavorable for winter
wheat, but nevertheless with the in
creased acreage there probably will
be between three and four per cent
more winter wheat produced than last
year and between six and seven per
cent more than for the average of the
last five years. Combining both spring
and winter wheat, the indications
point to a slightly larger yield per
acre than was produced last year and
about the same yield per acre as dur
ing the last five years. This would
make total production Of all wheat
Of go per cent more than last year
and 1912 per cent more than the aver
age for the last five years.
Dat Area Lower.
"The acreage of oats was not quite
so large as it was last year, but the
one-tenth Of one per cent reduction is
substantially immaterial. The crop
prospects are not so promising as
year ago. Last years production was
the largest ever recorded. The con-
dition of the crop indicates yield
per acre of 27.7 bushels as compared
with 319 last year and % for the av-
erage of tho last five years. This
would make total production of
about 1873 less than last year, but 4.8
per cent more than the average of
the last five years.
"The condition Of all crops in the
Pacific northwest, particularly in
Washington and Oregon, is notably
fine. II any one feature of the month
covered by the report stands out
above another, it was the drought
which prevailed during May practical
ly throughout the country. It affected
materially not only the condition of
winter wheat, but also the hay crop,
which is one of the greatest crops of
the country. That drought now, how
ever, has been largely relieved IN all
parts Of the country"
Tho Northwest's Prospects.
The northwest has one of the best
general grain prospects reported.
With the exception Of South Dakota
all crops l., the other two states are
we'll above the ten year average and
in none of the three states is there an
average below 80 per cent of normal.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15
GLASGOW Postoffice Robbed,

Glasgow.-The postoffice here was
robbed and from the stamp till $45,
mostly in pennies, nickels and dimes,
was taken. The thieves afterwards
went into the drug store adjoining
the postofice and relieved the Glas.
gov Drug Company's cash register of
SO. The Mahon Robinson and I'm.
perial lumber offices were also broken
into in the same raid, but no cash
was obtained in either place. The
safes were unmolested.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15
Commission Election In mi.soula.

Mfssoula.-The city council has
called the commission plan of govern.
ment election for July 10. The date
Of the primary election is fixed auto
matioally by the law itself and comes
on June 26. All petitions nominating
candidates must be filed 10 days be.
fore the primaries. The Indications
are that there will be about so names
to be voted on at the primaries.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15
HULK OF MAINE is VISIBLE.
First Stages Of Work to Uncover Sunk
on Warship Are Completed.

Havana, Cuba. - The first stage of
the actual work of uncovering the
wreck Of the battleskip was completed
when operations ceased after the wa.
ter level within the Golfer dam built
around the wreck had been lowered
precisely five feet. This leaves the
portion Of the wreck visible above the
water practically the same as on the
night of the disaster before the hull
had time to become imbedded in the
mud at the bottom of the harbor.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15
Butte Man Sues.

Helena.-Five thousand dollars dam.
ages is demanded by Thomas Clark.
a Butte teamster, from the Northern
Pacific, for injuries alleged to have
been received Nov. II. 1906, while the
plaintiff was driving coal wagon in
the Butte yards. The trial Of the ao.
ton was begun in the federal court.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15

Figured on the basis followed in other
years, the high condition Of the crop
in the northwest suggests total at
the present time of 262,0O0,000 BUSH
els, but as the government only esti-
mates the total spring wheat yield at
284,000,000 bushels, this gives the Pa
cific coast, where the promise is good,
only 100000 bushels, which is. Of
course. an absurdity.
Winter Wheat States.
OF the winter wheat crop the per-
centage of the United States, acreage
in each state, the condition on June 1,
and the 10-year average on June 1.
follows:
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15
MONTANA MAN IS ACQUITTED,
Dillon Man Was Accused Of Smuggling
Opium In Hawaii.

Honolulu, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Sny-
der, of Dillon, Mont, was acquitted
In the United States district court on
a charge of smuggling opium into this
port. Synder was arrested on the ar
rival Of the steamship Manchuria at
San Francisco on an indictment re-
turned by the federal grand jury Of
Hawaii. He was brought to Honolulu
tor trial.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15
NEWS OF MONTANA
Important Happenings Of the
Week Briefly Told.
DEMURRER ovERRuLED.
Anaconda Copper Co. viii Have To
Stand Trial.

Helena. - Judge Rathsch In the
FEDERAL court overruled the demurrey
OF the Anaconda Copper Mining Com,
pany and the Parrot Company to
the Dill OF William e. Wall and Louie
Foss, stockholders of the Parrot, who
sued to secure the annulment Of the
conveyance Of the Parrot property to
the Anaconda and for an occountina.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15
Negro Given Indian Post.

Washington, D. G. - DR.. William T.
Vernon, negro. former register of the
United States treasury, was appointed
assistant supervisor of schools of the
five civilized Indian tribes by the Sec
rotary of the interior.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15
Taft Declines oreaon Invitation

Washington, D. G. - In declining
an Invitation to visit Astoria, Ore, in
August, President Taft indicated to
Representative Lafferty that he ex-
pected to spend the entire month Of
August at Beverly.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15
Settles for $4,000.

Livingston.-A. N. Kellum, an en-.
gineer who recently lost foot in an
accident on the Northern Pacific in
Broadwater county, dismissed his suit
for damages against the company. He
settled for $4,000.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15
Condition
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In arriving at the prospective wheat
yields in the northwest there Is con-
siderable confusion. In the first place,
the government has used. evidently,
the old average basis for arriving at
the area sown this season, which, &C.
cording to the census. was much too
high for Minnesota. It is suggested,
however, that the North Dakota acre
age is too low and that the aggregate
figures Of spring wheat acreage in the
three states az estimated now is not
far away from the census area.
A further diAculty presents itself
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15

In quarrel over the possession OF q
package of letters, w. E. d. Stokes
millionaire proprietor of the Ansonia
hotel in New York city, was shot
three times in the legs by Lillian Ora.
ham. singer, and Ethel Conrad, an
4 artist. at the young women's apart.
ments.
A semi-military body known as the
Crawford and Cherokee Volunteer as
ISOLATION was chartered at Topeka,
Kas., with the purpose of driving vio-
lators Of the prohibitory law out Of
Crawford and Cherokee counties.
Colonel Joseph Garrard, U. 8. A.,
commanding the cavalry post at Fort
Myer, w., was severely reprimandsd
by the secretary Of war, under orders
from President Taft, for reporting ad.
versely an application Of Frank Bloom.
private Of the Third field artillery,
for the right to take examinations for
promption to commissioned grade on
the ground Of Jewish parentage.
The army transport Buford sailed
from San Francisco for Honolulu.
Guam and Manila, with $50 army and
navy results for the island stations.
Six hundred hotel men from all
parts Of the United States and Canada
are attending the annual meeting Of
the Hotel Mems Mutual Benefit asso-
citation In Boston.
The passage of a deep waterway
bill is the only subject to be discussed
by the special session Of the Illinois
general assembly which will convene
at noon, Wednesday, June IA. Tho
call for the special session was issued
by Governor Deneen.
The existence Of an organized band
OF "firebugs," with headquarters in
Chicago, was discovered through the
confession Of Leopold Dreyfus, presi-
dent of the wholesale clothing firm Of
l.. Dreyfus & Co. OF Chicago, who,
after admitting he had hired agents
OF the gang to set fire to his store at
262 South Market street, killed him
self in his home.
A. B. Bankston, former sheriff OF
Pulaski county, Illinois, was found not
guilty of the charge of the murder OF
W1liford French, policeman of
Cairo, last December, by a jury at
Jonesboro. Ill. The jury was out IS
hours.
In suing his wife for divorce H. 8.
Smith of Mckinney, Tex, gives as
grounds for the action that Mrs.
Smith is strongly opposed to Senator
]. W. Bailey while he ia supporter
of the senator.
The constitutionality Of the penal
sections of the Sherman antitrust law
We're attacked before Judge George A.
Carpenter In the United States district
court at Chicago by attorneys for the
indicted beef packers In their final ef
fort to escape trial on the charge of
being criminal combination in re-
straint of trade.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15
Personal

Miss Grace Bryan, the youngest
child of William Jennings Bryan, was
married to Richard l.. Hargraves, a
prominent young business man of
Lincoln, Neb., at Fairview. The we'd
ding was private.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt declares
with emphasis that the story that he
had agreed to support any man for the
Republican presidential nomination in
1912 was without any foundation of
fact
William Cornelius Hall, well-to-do
retired manufacturer, famous among
college athletes as the captain of the
crew of Bob Cook. who was the father
of rowing ct Yale. Is dead at his home
in New York He was f1fty-six years
old.
Mrs. William Elliott, only daughter
OF David Belasco theatrical manager.
is dead at Colorado Springs, Colo.
She was married year ago.
John W. Springer, Denver, Colo,
banker, has started divorce proceed
ings against his wife, whose name was
connected with the shooting of s. L.
Won Phul, amateur balloonist, who was
shot and killed May "a.
The general convention of the
Church Of the New Jerusalem opened
III Chicago with meetings of the coun-
ell of minister's.
An inventory of the estate of David
H. Moffatt, filed in the Denver county
court, shows that the testator died
possessed of property worth more
than $15,O00.000
Queen Dowager Margherita granted
an audience to Mrs. Heloise Durant
Rose, the American authoress, in
Rome, and said she would probably
visit the United States in the autumn.
Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati, broth
er of President Taft, was presented to
King George at Buckingham palace by
Whitelaw Reid, the American ambas-
sador.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15
Foreign

In a secluded defile on the road
over which Sultan MANNED will pass
on his tour of Macedonia have been
found large stores of dynamite and
bomb-making apparatus.
Wholesale warrants were issued in
Mexico City for members of the army
and the Cientifico party, alleging the
completely in a plot to overthrow Ma
dero. Antonio Villavicencio was ar
rested and warrants were issued for
six other prominent MexicauA
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15
Cleveland Gets Charities.

Boston, Mass. - Cleveland was Sc
lected by the national conference of
charities and correction as the meet
ing place of the next convention.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15
Quake Near Caspian Sea.

Quake Near Caspian Sea.
Potsdam, Ger. - The seismograph
at the observatory here registered
catastrophal earthquake in the neigh.
borhood of the Caspian sea.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15

The following table gives the compar
alive conditions for wheat, oats and
barley.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15

such as to give hope for yield OF
nearly % per cent more than last year
and nearly II per cent more than the
average for the last five years.
Nav lInfavarahle Month";
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15

The army transport Buford sailed
from San Francisco for Honolulu.
Guam and Manila, with $50 army and
navy results for the island stations.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15

Six hundred hotel men from all
parts Of the United S<>tes and Canada
are attending the annual meeting Of
the Hotel Mems Mutual Benefit asso-
citation In Boston.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-06-15
Important Oats States.
tails for important oats states fol-

Barley Condition.
Details for important barley states
follow: