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The Washington herald., 1911-11-21
IMPROBABLE ADVERTISING.
At Least 1t Was So for Woman
Man as Well on.

Wabash. Ind, Nov. 2O-Answering a
newspaper advertisement, Miss Mabel
Baker became Mrs. William Bailey. An
other advertisement, ten days later. So
licited family washings. Bailey is to
collect and deliver the clothes.
The Washington herald., 1911-11-21
CHICAGO PRODUCE.

Chicago. Nov. D-HAY-steady. Receipts 81
$50; clover, I6ooAl7.oo; Kansas and Oklahoma
prairie choice. n.ooal7.so; Iowa, Minnesota, Ne
brska, and Dakota, choice. lh5oal6oo; Illinois In
diana, and Wisconsin feeding prairie. 1o.Ooaf2oo;
ALTO; cat straw, aoOsasp; wheat straw, T.soasA
The Washington herald., 1911-11-21
CHICAGO GRAIN.

Quotations furnished By ". B. Hibbs q o..
members Of the Chicago Stock Exchange Hb6I
Building.
Chicago Nov. 9.-UnfaTorable cables and storms
in the wheat belt caused stronger wheat market and
advances Of TO IL. December, Ssh; May, Lol;
July, 94S.
Corn heavy on increased receipts ard lack Of
shipping call. December, So; May, Hx; July
64R.
oats acted in sympathy with corn. December
81; May. 50; July, 46S.
The Washington herald., 1911-11-21
Want Larger Membership.

A folIow-up campaign on the "get-to-
gether" dinner recently given under the
auspices of the Retail Merchants Asso-
citation was discussed at a meeting Of the
membership committee of that organiza-
ton yesterday. The committee believes
the time prOpitious for the institution of
a hearty and cooperative campaign 10 in
crease the membership of the organiza-
ton.
The Washington herald., 1911-11-21
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

Quotations furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co. mem.
eers Of the New York Stock EIchange. HiESa
Building.
Call money Open, ~; high ~; close. 2l4.
The Washington herald., 1911-11-21
AT THE THEATERS.
Continued from Page Nine.

and full of unique conceits. Mary Went
worth scored a success in her pianologue
The Battle" is the title Of the bio
graph drama which heads the film fea-
lures. It shows the civil war as 1t has
never been portrayed in motion pictures.
Pathe's weekly review Of current events
IS also interesting.
The Washington herald., 1911-11-21

a dinner to presidents Of banks in the
District, who are not members of the
stock exchange. is planned by the latter
organization. A committee consisting of
WILLIAM a. Mearns. chairman: Charles
J. Bell, president of the American Sc
Curity and Trust Company; Allen f.
Walker, secretary; James NJ. Green.
treasurer. and Benjamin Woodruff. pres
ident of the exchange, was appointed yes
terday to arrange for the affair.
The Washington herald., 1911-11-21
IMPERIAL LATEST
OF PLAYHOUSBS
New Theater Has Gala First
Night Opening.
FLOWERS AND PLAUDITs RULE

Latest Addition to Washington
PIayhouses Throws Its Doors
Omen to the Amusement-seekInE
PublIc-InterIor, Exterior, and
Bill Provided Satisfactory.
The Washington herald., 1911-11-21
BONDS
BOSTON COPPER STOCK.

Quotations furnished by W. B. Hibbs L Co..
members of the New York Stock Exchange. Hibbs
The Washington herald., 1911-11-21
CURB MARKET.

Quotations furnished By ". r. Hibbs & Co, memI
bers Of the New York Stock Exchange, Hibbs BuiIo.
The Washington herald., 1911-11-21
FINANCE AND REALTY

The climb Of Washington Railway and
Electric common from 4S1k the closing
price last week, to 45. in the course of
a fair amount of trading, furnished the
sensation of the session on the local
exchange yesterday. The opening sale
was at A. at which level two fifty-share
lots were transferred. After call, how
ever, the interest brought about add!
tional trading, beginning at Az, jumping
on the third transaction to a 3-5, and
closing with the transfer of rs shares
at 49,
Trading in Traction warrants was
again free, and tho only price was 3.
number of round lots went at this
figure, among them two $4,000 punches.
The recent improvement in strength
manifested by Railway common has been
explained on the street from a number
of different viewpoints. Many believe
it results from the recent changes in
administration of offices and the in
creased dividends expected on the COM
mon stock.
Lanston also showed Improvement.
moving up from 94h to 94% in the course
of three sales. Gas showed existing
strength. United States Trust Company
stock moved up one point in the course
of sales involving forty shares, closing
at 100 Ten shares of District National
sold at 1S3. Traction failed to keep pace
with the general advance, establishing
its level at 1854, on a fifteen-share sale.
Board of Trade Appointments.
President T. c. Noyes, of the Board of
Trade, yesterday announced these ap-
pointments: Executive committee, Ralph
w. Lee chairman: w T GalIiher vice
chairman; Arthur G. Moses, f. c. Ora
ham, John Joy Edison, J. Henry Small
Walter A. Brown, w. II. Saunders. and
John L. Weaver; chairman of the mem
bership committee, J. Louis Wiuige; first
vice chairman, Christian J. Gockeler; sec
ond vice chairman, DIR. Frank f. Glib
son: chairman of the committee on
streets and avenues, Judge Charles S.
Bundy
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-03-29
CUTTING Retorts.

The Duke of Connaught has a pc
cuIiar dislike of sIovenliness in per
sonal attire. To a young officer who
apologized for the state Of his sword
upon inspection the duke said: Your
excuse is so good that you must be
an old offender, sir" Sold tea, eh?'
he repeated, in his hard voice, when
a subaltern's grandfather's business
was laughed over at an officers mess.
We'll, that's not so bad as a grand
father who sold promotions" The
words were spoken in the presence
of a general whose grandfather had
been VIGOROUSLY venal. A dispute as
to the sobriety of a certain colonel
was summarily settled by his high
ness. Just able to walk straight, was
he?" repeated the duke. That's
sober enough for a civilian, but it's
very drunk for a soldier"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-03-29
WRITER SUES Ex-HUsBAND
AmeIie Rives, the Novelist, Wants
Income From ChaIoner.

New York-Princess Troubetz-
koy has made application for
$4,000 annual income from her for
mer husband, John Armstrong ChaI-
oner, and Supreme Court Justice Gray
has appointed George M. Mackeller as
referee to take testimony.
The princess was Amelie Rives, the
novelist, and divorce Chaloner, then
known as Chanler in 1895. He after
ward had his name changed by law.
Princess Troubetzkoy, in her appli-
cation, says her former husband has
an estate of 100000 and an annual
income of $4,000.
She says Chaloner promised to give
her an income of $4,000 for life and
offered letter from him in support
of this. Still another letter said he
might increase the amount to $4,000
a year.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-03-29
NO IMMUNITY BATH
FOR BIG PACKERS
indictments Stand and They
Must Go to Trial.
JUDGE CARPENTER so RULES
Declares Decision Given by Judge
Humphrey Does Not Apply to
Present Charges-GoVern-
nent to Rush Cases.

Chicago.-Holding that the immu-
nifty granted by Judge Humphrey
of the federal circuit court in 1906 did
not apply to the present charges,
which, he declared, were based on
evidence not included in the Humph-
rey decision, Judge Carpenter in the
United States district court overruled
the demurrer filed by the indicted Chi
cago packers and they lost their fight
against going on trial on the indict-
ments obtained by the government
several months ago.
Judge Carpenters decision went
into the controversy relating to i'm
munity with great detail
In brief, the packers position was
that any conspiracy that might have
existed was the plotting prior to
Judge Humphreys immunity decision,
and that the immunity from prosecu-
ton granted them extended over all
future time, so long as the acts COW
cred by the 1906 decision remained
the same.
In deciding this, Judge Carpenter
ruled that the immunity granted
them was only for acts which had oc-
Cured prior to the date of the indict-
ment and could not pertain to any I'M
lawful act which was performed after
that time. The evidence given by the
packers before the grand jury, he
said, could not relate to that which
had not occurred, and hence could
have no future application.
AS to the contention of the defense
that the conspiracy ended with the
first plotting, he ruled that so long as
the acts complained of continued, the
conspiracy remained in effect, and
unlawful acts growing out of the con-
spiracy and occurring after the in
Gicted men had testified before the
grand jury were new and separate Of
lenses and subject to the operation
Of law
In addition, the offenses admitted
before the grand jury by the packers
prior to their immunity and from the
criminal responsibility for which they
were freed by the Humphrey decision,
were defined by the court as none the
less criminal In themselves. He said
they could be used in prosecutions
which were predicated on continue
ton of the offenses.
Following are the defendants: Louis
F. Swift, E. E. Swift, Charles F. Swift,
Francis A. Fowler, Edward Tilden, ].
Ogden Armour, Arthur Meeker,
Thomas J. Corners. Edward Morris
and Louis H. Heyman.
United States District Attorney
Sims said he would in a day or two
demand that the packers be brought
into court to plead to indictments
and have dates set for trial. Sims
was 1ubilant over the ruling of Judge
Carpenter.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-03-29
a Bow Once Himself.

The principal of a village school Ia.
Kansas one afternoon detected boy
cutting the letters of his name in the
desk in front of him. AS the novels
would put it the principal rushed to
the spot, angrily put forth his hand
intending to grasp the boy by the col
lar, when 10, and also behold, close
by the newly formed letters were the
initials OF the principals own name
written by himself when he was
pupil in the same school.
His grasp upon the boys collar
loosened itself, and he returned to
his desk a sadder and a wiser teacher.
That principal is today judge OF an
important court in one of the greatest
cities of the world. We often wonder
whether or not in the administration
of justice the judge ever thinks OF the
incident in the village school.-West'
ern School Journal.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-03-29
BENJAMIN o. GREENE
FREED; FINE QUASHED
Convicted of Savannah Fraud He
Takes Pauper's Oath at Atlanta
as Term Ends.

Atlanta, Ga-Benjamin d. Greene,
who was convicted Of fraud in
the Savannah harbor improvements,
and who has just completed a four
year term in federal prison, was
granted his liberty after taking the
pauper's oath
Green's application for leave to
take the pauper's oath in order to es-
cape further liabilities for the $575,0O0
fine imposed on the two men when
they were convicted was grantee aft
er hearing which lasted two days.
John F. Gaynor, jointly convicted
with Greene, has completed his SEN
tence in the federal prison. His ap-
plication to take the pauper's oath is
pending.
The case of the government against
Greene and Gaynor was one of the
must unusual in the annals of Amer1-
can jurisprudence. More than dec
ade ago these two were engaged in
contractual million dollar improve
ment work in Savannah harbor, under
the supervision of Capt. Oberlin M.
Carter
Trouble began when Carter was ap-
pointed military attache at the court
of St. James. The army officer who
succeeded him, Capt Cassius E. Gal
lette, sound evidences of fraud in the
work. which resulted in a three
months court-martial for Carter,
fine, a term in Leavenworth prison.,
and, ultimately, in the confscation by
the government of money he was al
legged to have secured through the
harbor frauds.
Greene and Gaynor were indicted IN
December, 1889. The case did not
come to trial in Savannah until March
6, 1902. There was an immediate
recess of a few days, during which
the defendants went to Canada. The
extradition laws did not apply to their
case and for about three years they
lived in Quebec, until on the grounds
of courtesy and friendship the British
government agreed to surrender the
fugitives.
Trial at Savannah began October
9, 1905, lasting until April 10, 1906,
when they were convicted of embez-
element and sentenced to four years
Imprisonment each, and Jointly to pay
a fine of $575,000
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-03-29
MILLER WHlRLED TO DEATH
BENJAMIN Smith of SayIesvilIe Is
Caught in Shafting and His Body
Horribly Mangled.

aukesha.-Benjami Smith, aged
81, met death while at work in his;
grist mill at Saylesville, town Gene
see. While working about some
shafting his clothing became en-
tangled in the machinery and he was
drawn in and twisted around at a,
rapid rate of speed. His body was
pulled into space so small that when
his feet and head went around with
the shaft they knocked off several
projecting spouts. The machinery
was stopped and his body was found
to be badly mangled.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-03-29
SPINSTERs' TAX PROPOSED
Manitowoc AssemblYman Introduces
Bill to Make Women Pay for
Single Bessedness.

Madison.-Assembly Carl Ham
sen of Manitowoc, by means of a bill
introduced in the assembly, has dele
gated to himself the task OF placing
a premium on spinsterhoOd and at
the same time aiding those, who for
lack of opportunity or inclination,
have not yet succeeded in finding hus-
bands.
The Manitowoc legislator, who re-
Gently aligned himself with the
advocates of the harem skirt and who
allowed himself to be photographed
while in the neighborhood of one of
the bifurcated garments, would tax
all single women over rs years old in
the state SIS year.
To show that he does not intend
to prosecute those whom the pro-
posed law will affect, he asks that a
matrimonial commission be named,
consisting of the governor, superin-
tendent of public property and the
chief clerk of the assembly, whose
duties would be to aid the spinsters
in evading the tax.
Should the subjects of his solicitude
decline, both to pay the tax and Sc
cure helpmeets, he would fine them
each not less than SIS or more than
$50
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-03-29
OLD TEXAS WEATHERs SHELLS
Gunners Shoot Canvas Equipment on
San Marcos to Tatters.

Norfolk, Va.-For five hours the
old battleship San Marcos, formerly
the Texas, was under fire from the
big 12-inch guns of the battleship New
Hampshire Just how much damage
was done the old hero of the Spanish
American war is known only to Off
Gals of the navy department. 1t is
known, however, that the old ship
was not SO badly damaged as many
expected, and perhaps the only re-
pairs necessary are the replacing of a
few plates, new smokestack and the
substitution of modern fighting masts
in place of the fighting tops that were
SHOT away.
On both sides of the smokestack
was stretched large sheets of canvas.
After the first three shots from the
New Hampshire the canvas was in
rags.
The Texas was stripped of every
thing of value on her decks except her
two 12-inch guns amidships. The can
vas was supposed to represent real
ship, with all her equipment on deck
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-03-29
CANADA MAY KEEP OUT NEGROES
Plan to Bar OkIahomans Causes Wash
inqton to Act.

Winnipeg, Man.-Officers of the i'm
migration department left for Elmer
son, on the border, to stop the entry
into Canada of 165 negroes from Okla
bona who intended to settle in the
Canadian northwest.
Washington.-In response to COM
plants that negro immigrants from
America would be refused admission
to Canada, the state department
asked United States Consul Foster at
Ottawa whether under the Canadian
law any American citizen as class
could be excluded on account of color
The department received a reply
from Mr.. Foster stating that there
were no Canadian immigration regula-
tons specifically relating to colored
immigrants. This information will be
telegraphed to American Consul Jones
at Winnipeg.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-03-29
DECLINE TO ACCEPT TITLES
Many EneIishmen of Eminence Have
Been Content to Remain
Commoners.

It was reported that at the opening
of the South African parliament Cen
eral Botha and SHUTS refused titles.
The late Mr.. Gladstone declined on
more than one occasion to become
peer. Twice Queen Victoria asked
him to accept an earldom, and twice
he refused. Before the famous states
man had turned fifty he was offered
visCounty, but preferred to go down
to posterity as plain Mr. Gladstone.
Many literary men have refused to
be raised above the rank Of common
ers for one reason or another. Charles
Dickens was compelled to refuse a
knighthood for lack of means, and the
late George Meredith was content
with the Order of Merit, though a
baronetcy was offered him. 1t is well
known that when Thomas Carlyle re-
ceived a letter offering to make him
"Sir Thomas" he threw It contemptu-
ously into the waste paper basket
with the remark, II would much pre-
fer being given a pound of good to-
bacco."
Sometimes one particular honor is
declined in preference for another. A
case in point is that of Lord Curzon.
When Lord Salisbury offered in 1898
the post of Viceroy Of India to him he
was plain Mr.. George Nathaniel Cur
zon, under secretary for foreign at
fairs. He accepted the viceroyalty,
but when he was told that it was
necessary to become a peer he object
ed for the reason that he wanted to
return to the house Of commons after
his five years in India were completed.
The difficulty was got over by Queen
Victoria making him an Irish peer,
title which did not bar him from be
coming an NJ. P. When he returned
from India his ambition was conferred
upon a seat in the house of lords
Later on he was elected an Irish rep
resentative peer.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-03-29
INDUSTRIAL RISK
BILL IS REPORTED
CONCESSIONS MADE TO MANU-
FACTURERS IN THE AMEND
MENTS ATTACHED.
FARMERS FEARS ALLaiED
Defense of Negligence of Fellow
Servants Will Not Be Taken from
Employers of Less Than Four
Pers ons-Plan Test of Measure.

Madison.-The senate has received
the report of the joint committee on
workmen's compensation on the Dill
providing a system of paying work
men for time lost through injury re-
ceived while at work. The bill was
reported for passage with eighteen
amendments.
The chief amendment to the bill
provides that when an employer elects
to come under the uniform compen-
sation plan, he is to have restored to
him the defenses of assumption of
risk and negligence of fellow servant,
if employees refuse to accept the terms.
This has been one of the leading re-
quests of manufacturers throughout
the state
Another important amendment was
put in to allay the fears of the farm
ers that they might be put to extra
expense under the proposed act. This
amendment makes the general abro-
cation of the fellow servant defense
applicable only to employers of four
or more employees. This applies to
small manufactures as well as to
farmers.
The bill is designed to go into eff
feet Immediately upon passage only
to the extent that the commission is
to be organized and thus enabled to
work out the administrative features.
In the event of passage of the bin
a taxpayer will be found to bring suit
to determine the constitutionality of
the act, and in this suit every pos
sible question will be brought to the
supreme courts notice.
On July 1, 1911, the whole law would
go into effect.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-03-29
TELLS UCHIDA OF
U. S. FRIENDSHIP
Taft Summonses Japanese Envoy to
White House-War Tales Are
Absurdities.

Washington.-President Taft and
Baron Uchida, the Japanese ambassa-
dor, had lengthy and most cordial
conference at the White House.
MIR. Taft sent for the baron to felici-
tate with him upon the ratification Of
the new treaty between this country
and Japan. He took advantage Of the
occasion to assure the ambassador
that never in the history of the two
countries had the relations been so
pleasant as they are today; never had
talk of war been more absurd.
President Taft expressed pleasure
at the opportunity to set at rest once
and for all the stories which have
been published from time to time dur
ing the past two weeks that back of
the administration action in sending
troops to the Mexican border was
motive of precaution against some
expected treacherous act by Japan. 1t
also was reported that Japan had Sc
cured from Mexico a coaling station
on the Pacific coast, to be used as a
base in attacking the United States.
amazed to find on his return from Au-
gusta that some newspapers had been
giving credence to these reports by
publishing them in a prominent man
ner. 1t was the first he had heard of
them and he quickly expressed his re-
greet that such malicious stories" as
he called them, should gain circula-
ton.
Baron Uchida is said to have as
sured the president that he attached
no Importance to the reports and had
discovered that they emanated from
irresponsible sources. The interview
lasted for fully half an hour, the presi-
dent and the ambassador chatting
with unusual informality.
The president said the reports were
scarcely worth denying, but he de-,
sired to set them at rest for all time.
The president asked Baron Uchida to
communicate these views directly to
the emperor of Japan.
President Taft has been greatly an
noyed by the persistent reports to the
effect that Japan had negotiated a
secret agreement with Mexico for a
coaling station on the Pacific coast,
and that the United States was menac-.
ing Mexico as protest.
Denials from the Japanese embassy
and from the ambassador himself as
to the coaling station story, as well as
denials from the state department
here as to any connection with the
maneuvers, have failed to stop the
reports, which the president regards
as malicious.
While confident that the Japanese
ambassador needed no assurances
either private or official as to the pur-
poses of this government, President
Taft conceived the idea of inviting
Baron Uchida to the White House for
conference so as to give the great
est publicity possible to denial which
the president hopes will carry convic-
ton to the American people,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-03-29
pMEMIER sToLYPIN QUITS POST
Emperor Nicholas Promptly Accepts
RESIGNATION of Cobinet Head.

Emperor Nicholas Promptly Accepts
Resignation of Cobinet Head.
st. Petersburg Nicholas
promptly accepted the resignation of
P. A. Stolypin, premier and minister
of the interior, and has named V. N.
Kokovsoff, minister of finance, to sue
coed him.
Premier Stolypin presented his res
ignation personally TO the emperor.
His action was due to the rejection by
the council of the empire of the
Zemstvo bill for self-government in
the nine western provinces. The Sc
lection of M. Kokovsoff was made by
the emperor on M. Stolypin's recon-
mendation after his majesty had ex-
hausted all means to persuade the
latter to retain his post. The reac-
tionary groups, which plotted Stoly-
pins fall, thus get small satisfaction.
The present crisis, like that in 1909,
when the question of the reorganiza-
ton of the Russian admiralty came
near distrupting the cabinet, seems to
indicate that the reactionaries lack a
statesman of the proper caliber to
command his majesty's confidence.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-03-29
New Eddy Claimant sues

Concord. n. Hone more legal
twist to the already complicated Iiti-
cation over the will of Mrs. Mary Ba-
ker Eddy, founder Of the Christian
Science church, was given Tuesday by
counsel for John B. Baker of this city.
Mr.. Baker, who claims to be a grand
nephew of Mrs. Eddy, filed a petition
asking leave to intervene in the suit
of George w. Glover of Lead, S. D..
Mrs. Eddy's son, and DR.. E. ]. Foster
Eddy of Waterbury, Vt, her adopted
son, as claimants of a share in the
$500, 600 estate.