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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-10-06
News Of Especial Interest to
I Minnesota Readers.
SHIPPERS FORM STEAMER LINE
Withdrawal Of Low Flour Rate Fol-
, lowed by Independent Action Of >.
- .s Mill City Men. ="

The Flour City line of steamers,
backed by Minneapolis shipping in
terests, to operate from Duluth to Buff
falo, became a transportation entity
Saturday and the boats will be run
ming as soon as tariffs sent from Min
:neapolis to the interstate commerce
commission at Washington are ap-
proved. A thirty-day notice is neces.
sary. only when tariff changes are
made and the commission is expected
to give immediate recognition to the
new line.
! The withdrawal by the Western
lines of the rate of 21h cents on flour,
Minneapolis to New York, brought i'm
mediate action or the threat of Mime
apoiis to operate it's own lake line if
it failed to get the all rail and lake
and rail Gifferential of 31a cents asked
for. A new transportation factor is
introduced, the effect of which will be
watched with interest by traffic men
and shippers all over the United States.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-10-06

President Says There VIII Be
No Letup in Prosecutions.

Waterloo, Ia, Sept. 29-President
Taft in a speech defining "the rela.
ton of the government to business y
announced that the trust prosecutions
began by the department Of justice at
Washington would continue despite
the recent criticism: that business was
being made to suffer. o:..' III
He served notice that. the big bust
ness interests" Of the country must be
brought Within the law just as the
railroads have been, and declined to
admit that there exists any discretion
which would enable the attorney gen
eral to stay the hand of the govern
ment in dealing with combinations in
restraint of trade. :.
At the same time the president
made an earnest appeal for reasonable
consideration of the railroads and the
big industrial corporations on the
ground that their reformation was be-
ing brought about steadily and satis.
factorily and that nothing was to be
gained by 'vindictive hostility"
Mr.. Taft bitterly denounced those
politicians who seek to arouse the
prejudices of the people and to array
one section Of the country against an
other. Such utterances he declared to
be those of *'the blindest of men,"
The trust prosecutions, Mr.. Taft
said, need not be long continued be-
cause he believed the business COM
munity was rapidly taking in the ef-
feet of the recent decisions of the su-
preme court and preparing to square
itself with the law.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-10-06
FUGITIVE GIVES HIMSELF UP
Had Been Without Food or Shelter
for Several DAYS.

Had Been Without Food or Shelter
for Several Days.
The Willow River man hunt is over.
Ernest Eden, twenty-six years old, fc:
whom armed posses have been search
ing the woods in that vicinity for two
days and two l,j:l-tS, gave himself up.
Eden shot Constable S. L. Mottle
and Vernon Pembleton, mail carrier,
in Edward Olson's saloon and later
shot his own father through the arm
while making his escape. He hid in
the woods and all efforts to find him
were fruitless.
Eden appeared at his home, having
been without food or shelter for two
days and two nights. The elder Eden
and one of the fugitive's brothers at
once informed the officers and Will
lam Weekly, deputy sheriff, made" the
arrest. A charge of assault with a
deadly weapon will be made.
Constable Mottle, who was expected
to die, has improved and may recover
,Pembleton was shot through the arm
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-10-06
STAR WITNESS on The STAND
Robert e. Smyth Testifies in the Dr..
Dumas Case.

Dumas Case.
Robert E. Smyth, the first witness
for the state in the trial of Dr. Dumas,
told how in April last he had gone to
Cass Lake to obtain medical treat
ment from DR.. Dumas and had seen
two men in the Office. After they had
gone out, he testified, the doctor told
him they were two of the smoothest
crooks in the country" He said Du-
mas had shown him his safe, which
contained two revolvers and a bottle
of nitroglycerin
"The guns and nitroglycerin belong
to those two fellows" Smyth said DR..
Dumas told him. "They do a job and
then come to Cass Lake and rest up
for a. few days."
Smyth said DR.. Dumas then preached
the idea of burning the postofice
building and store at Puposky, of
which Smyth was manager, and he
had led Dumas along at different
meetings. He told how it was agreed
that dumas was to furnish two good
men,; how he met Dumas in the Be.
midi saloon, at which time Mike Davis
and Martin Behan were present and
how he gave Dumas 500 in marked
bills supplied him by Sam Fullerton,
who obtained the money from the
First National bank in St. Paul.
Smyth was put through a grilling
cross examination by Freeman P.
Lane Of counsel for the defense. Lane
was merciless in his questions rela.
tive to the ailment which took Smyth
to DR.. Dumas, and the questions be.
came SO pointed that the Judge cleared
the courtroom c: al women.
Mr.. Lane also attempted to show
that heavy insurance had been placed
on the Punosky property and that a
few da:~s later, about May S, fire
endang red the postoffice building.
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-
Is Change 81 Z Io<tor. !.

:
Is Change Of 4 Letter.
"a hotel in Switzerland bore on one
Of It's walls the time honored' inscrip
ton "Hospes, salvev' C'Welcome,
stranger!') After rebuilding the leg
end had to be restored, but the paint
er, who must have had some expert
ence as traveller, made very slight
alteration in one Of the words and
caused it to read "Hospes, solve!"
c.Pay, strangervD 81 ~ Z - r 2.
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five DIE when HOME BURNS
Mother and Four Children Perish at
Mitchell, III.

"sICueuUS ~.
Mitchell, ILL.,, Sept. 29.-Mrs. Virgil
Vandever and four of her children
were burned to death at their home
here. Her husband and Arthur Lang
ford, eighteen years old, Mrs. Van
dever's son by former marriage,
saved themselves by jumping from a
second story window.
Mrs. Wanderers last act was a su-
preme expression of maternal love.
She snatched from the bed on which,
asleep, lay her seven-year-old boy,
Theirl, the favorite of her children,
Rugged him to her breast, and, with
a final effort, pushed him out of the
screen of window and dropped him
to safety The onlookers saw her
throw up her hands and sink back
ward into the flames. ,
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-10-06
Faith rs fka Dsnnla

Faith r. ths People. 80
It would surely have been highly
dangerous to conflde the destinies al
the species to Plato or Aristotle, Mar
Gus Aurelius, Shakespeare or Montes-
qufeu. At the very worst momentsl
Of the French revolution the fate of1
the people was in the hands of phi
losophers Of no mean order.-Maurice|
Maeterlinck in 'The Mystery Of JUS
tice" ~
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-10-06
STORM COSTS MANY LIVES

Forty Small Craft Are Sunk In North
Sea Hurricane.
Antwerp, Belgium, Oct. 3.-Twenty-
four coasting vessels went ashore and
forty small craft were sunk in a
storm which swept the North sea.
Many lives were lost.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-10-06
lin Collision; $

: "A head-on collision occurred west
Of Farmington between, an iowa and
Minnesota division engine and ca
boose Westbound and Rock Island
55freight train. The two engines and
b bout dozen cars Of merchandise
were ditched. It is reported that q
brakemaAtepuk the lowafan1f l(innaseo.
t. train Wa severely Injured
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-10-06
KILLED BY ELECTRIC WIRE
Saltwater. Man Grabs Pole Support
With Fatal Result.

WIFI ratdT He8U1t.
Malcolm D. McKinnon of Saltwater
seventeen years of age, received in:
~juries from a guy wire leading from
an electric light pole which resulted
in his death an hour later. : - II
rMcKinnon, who is an employe Of
the Connolly shoe factory, was on his
way home, when he caught hold of the
pole support The wires had been
crossed. The young man was, thrown
atwenty feet by the shock. When
picked up he was unconscious. He
died after being taken to the hospital
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-10-06

mitigating circumstances. We all agree
that smuggling is done and detected
in which it seems like great hardship
to inflict Jail sentence. For many
years it has been considered a venial
offense to beat the Government at a
port of entry if one could do it. But
with new order of things and with
fair warning given to all travellers that,
if they fail to declare what they are
bringing in they do SO at their peril,
the Government must either show it is
in earnest about inflicting punishment
upon the guilty or smuggling will again
become as common as tipping a
steward.
The imposition of $4,000 fine on
a man as wealthy as this Wisconsin
leather magnate is slight punishment
to him for his offense. The case was
SO fragrant that fine rather serves
TO give notice that, unless smuggling
is accompanied by some extraordinary
development of corruption, or is so
long continued as to denote the most
thorough contempt for the law, there is
little for the rich to fear.
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WHEN WOULD A JAIL SEN.
TENCE BE PROPER

Unless the doctrine that guilt is
PERSONAL is carried to its logical con-
clusion and Jail sentences follow in
such cases of smuggling as that in
which a Wisconsin millionaire and a
Southern business man were caught,
there is no occasion when it would
seem to be proper to live up to it. In
this instance the men comived with a
woman of bad reputation to bring into
the country jewels : alued at several
hundred thousand dollars.
The smuggling was successfully ac-
complished and only a falling out be-
tween one of the men and the woman
who had posed as his wife brought
the facts to light. Not only did the
men smuggle but, as the district at
torney said, there was every reason
to believe they had bribed customs
inspector.
1t is hard to see where there were
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of the ethical and moral position the
colonel takes.
A vigorous denial is entered to the
intimation that this country in any
way encouraged Panama to revolt
from Colombia and set up an indepen-
dent republic SO as to be in position
to do business with us. Mr.. Roosevelt
contends that, after Colombia's refusal
to accept the Hay-Herran treaty, no
person in the slightest degree familiar
with conditions on the Isthmus could
have had any doubt as to what was
going to happen. Panama, he contends,
was absolutely unanimous for indie
pendence and that all this nation can
be charged with doing is not stepping
in to put down a rebellion which was
justified by conditions. He thinks that
this country could not have done less
than it did do-namely, prevent the
landing of Colombian soldiers in Pana-
ma; to have done otherwise, he adds,
would have been "an act not merely of
unspeakable folly but of unspeakable
baseness."
As the Colonel admits, however, that
he had long before adopted the Cass
view-that the United States should
not permit any country to stand in the
way of the opening of this highway be-
tween the oceans-it may be said that,
having willed the end, he had already
willed the means. Those who opposed
his policy will probably argue that one
with his views of what it was right
and proper to do in the circumstances
could not be trusted to determine when
the moment arrived to take the portion
of the Isthmus we wanted. The
Colonel concludes with:
The United States has many honor
able chapters in it's history, but no
more honorable chapter than that which
tells of the way in which our right to
dig the Panama canal was secured and
Of the manner In which the work itself
has been carried out.
Everyone may not agree with this
statement; but, judged by the stand
ard of international morality which
prevails in the world today, few ma
tiohs are in position to lift eyebrows
at our Panama policy.
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TIE EVOLVED CAUCASIAN
AND HIS SOCIAL SYSTEM

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
In all animal life the exercise involved
in getting food and in avoiding danger
is necessary in the development Of the
individual. Development is a result OF
reactions to impressions received from
the environment. The surrounding con-
ditions and activities constitute the en-
vronment. species tends to repro
duce its kind while the different impress
sions that different individuals receive
tends to differentiate them. Some of the
impressions are received before birth.
Continued through several generations
differentiation changes the characters
tics. When this change is from lower
to a higher form of life 1t is termed
evolution, and it results from a success
sion of improved developments. The
new characteristics require new habits,
while the old. habits tend to persist
When a species habits conform to the
environment the individual enjoys the
greatest amount of possible happiness.
Without such conformity he becomes
restless, and this results in the retarda-
ton of the species. The evolutional
product of the environment comes itself
to be a part of the environment, as, for
instance the habits of companions, and
among Caucasians it bears an import
ant relation to. selfishness-
(My next paragraph is on selfshness
as the ruling principle in life.)
H H. SWEARINGEN.
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FAVORS WOMAN'S SUI
FRAGE; CITES THE WEST
To the Editor Of THE TIMES:

To the Editor OF THE TINES:
Mrs. C. r. Edwards. Washington so
ciety matron," desires and approves OF
independence, financial and marital, but
not suffrage for women.
II Mrs Edwards, in her trip around
the world. had spent more time
in the western part of her
own land. doubtless she would have
discovered that only through the bal
lot have women ever achieved the in
dependence. financial and marital" OF
which she so ardently approves. Most
true, indeed, is 1t that every woman
should be Independent of marriage H.
nancially, but this can only be brought
about by encouraging the pursuit or
gainful occupation in women of all
classes, land then the recognition OF her
ability to earn a livelihood for herself,
and the unhampered opportunity to
do so.
So long as women are not recognized
politically. just so long will they De
wanting in the measure of lndepend-
ence which Mrs. Edwards desires. III
Is a natural sequence. At present there
is a decided premium put by the Gov
eminent officials upon the sex of men,
is enough under existing conditions 10
debar her from many, and particularly
the higher. positions which she Is per-
fectlY competent to fill.
Does anyone believe that II women
had the power of the ballot, such dis
elimination against them at every turn
would be their lot? Go West and see
how it works. Don't believe every silly
editorial published in our Eastern pa
pers, the bias and ignorance of which
is perfectly apparent to those who are
in touch with, and up to date In the
progress which has been achieved IN
Colorado and Washington, and the oth-
er free States; and which the govern
ors, and hosts of the most representa-
tive and best people, men and women
are eagerly attesting.
Mrs. Edwards thinks that women
politicians are disgusting. particularly
suffragettes." Does she think that In
order to vote one must be politician!
How many men who vote are pohu-
clans? The word politics" has SUI.
fered grievously, not perhaps without
very good cause, but to assume that
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ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS

Ensign w. SMITH, resignation as an
ensign accepted to take effect Octo-
Der 4, 1911.
Surgeon H. c. CURL, detached Naval
Hospital, Canacao, p. l.; to Naval
Hospital Mare Island. Cal.
Surgeon L. r. WEBB, detached Naval
Hospital, Mare Island, Cal; to Ash
attic station.
Paymaster G. w. REEVES, jr., re-
tired, placed upon the retired list
from July Is, 1911.
Assistant Paymaster W. r. VAN
BUREN,, detached navy yard, Mare
Island, Cal: to navy yard, Puget
general storekeeper.
Assistant Paymaster S. E. DICKINSON
to navy yard, Mare Island, Cal, as
assistant to the general store keep
Chief Boatswain S. MCCARTHY, de-
tached Naval Torpedo station, New
port, r. l.: to duty Glacier.
Chief Boastwain w. A. MACDONALD,
detached Glacier; to home and wait
orders.
Ensign H. B. Kelly, detached Helena;
to home and wait orders.
Ensign A. W. Brown, n, detached
Helena; to home and wait orders.
Ensign R. P. ENRICH, detached Sa-
mar: to home and wait orders.
Chief Gunner c. F. JAFFE, detached
New Orleans; to home and wait
orders.
Lieutenant H. NJ. JENSEN. detached
command Shark and First Sub
marine Division, Asiatic Torpedo
fleet; to New Orleans.
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LABORING MAN
NEEDS CONSIDERATION

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
Recognizing The Times as the best.
the most independent, and fearless pa
per in Washington, I hope you will
honor my few lines in your valuable
paper in behalf of the poor laboring
men and women and their meager
wages. They have to live and pay the
high cost of living, rent, with families,
vet there is nothing said, only for the
Government clerks. They get more
wages than the poor man or woman
the clerk has thirty days leave with
pay; thirty days sick leavve, and half
holiday from June to October-wtth
pay. Now, whefe are such favors
granted to the poor laboring men and
women-get that. If they lose one day
from their labors the time lost Is dock
ed from their meager wages, wages OF
SO or SO per week. Yet they have to
stand it and live as best they can. Yet
the universal cry is for an increase In
wages to the Government clerks.
MRS. NJ. C. v.
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Explains Theme Of EVERY
wife,. Which Is To Be
Seen Soon At Chase's.
COY FLAT, KEPT IN
ORDER BY HAPPINESS
Woman In Green Soon Disrupts
Peaceful Little
Flat.

"Everywife," the vaudeville sensation
of the season, is to visit Washington,
where 1t will be seen at Chases Thea
ter the week of October %.
This strong symbolical playlet by
Joseph Hart concerns Everywife and
Everyhusband. who are spending their
honeymoon in cozy little fat, served
by pretty maid IN pink, known as
Happiness, an excellent servant. Every
husband is so much in love with his
pretty little wife that he will not even
go out nights, and really neglects his
business to stay around where she is.
Reason insinuates that he is doing
wrong to be so attentive to her, but
Rhyme slaps him across the back and
tells him not to heed Reason. Soon
woman in green makes her appear
ance. She is Jealousy. She comes be-
tween Everyhusband and Everywife,
and while Reason urges Everyhusband
to tell the truth, inasmuch as he is
innocent of wrongdoing, Rhyme insists
that Everyhusband shall fib about the
Other Woman. Everyhusband does so,
telling Everywife that the Other Wo-
man is a cousin whom he has not seen
for ever so long-the same old story.
Everywife knows better; there is 4
stormy scene, in which Happiness gives
notice and says she will go out and
seek a new job. Everyhusband bangs
his exit from the house, and goes his
way.
A Elonth passes, and Everyhusband IS
discovered at the stage door of a thea
ter. He has refused to listen to the
advice of Reason. and has made the
acquaintance Of many girls, Gayety.
Excitement. Dress, Frivolity, Amuse-
ment, and loneliness, but of all of
them he is bent on pursuing plump
rttle mink named SQuabina.
He approaches her. and asks her to
have supper with him. Reason i'm
plores him to remember Everywife, but
he thrusts the intruder from him The
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WINFIELD SCOTT SCHLEY.

1t is not for laymen to pass judg-
ment on technical points in a profess
sion of which they know nothing
But the American people are loath to
believe that a man whose life had for
forty years been one of acceptable and
honored service to his country could
fail her at the browning moment of his
career.
Naval men may argue and reargue
the significance of the famous Brook
Ign loop, and will probably never reach
an agreement about it, But naval ma
neuvers are at best a mystery; and
the judgment or lack of judgment with
which they are said to have been car
ried out appeals less to the public than
does the tangible evidence of the big
guns roar and the sinking of the
enemy's ships, which is their obvious
purpose. However hot the Sampson
Schley controversy waged among men
versed in the technicalities of naval
warfare, it possessed for the public
only a passing interest. The fact that
Admiral Schley was there and in COM
mand and that Admiral Sampson was
not is enough to secure to the former
the popular credit for the victory.
The argument that he only obeyed
orders, that every possible contingency
had been foreseen and prescribed for in
Simpsons plan of campaign, is hard
to accept in its entirety. The public
mind has been less ready to grasp this
doctrine of the infallible foresight of
the commander n-chief than it has the
utter lack of tact which he exhibited
after the battle. As Admiral Schley
said, "There was glory enough for all, !"
andthe modesty and quiet bearing with
which he said it, and by which his
subsequent attitude was characterized,
strengthened the public in its deter
mination to recognize his claim to the
major part on 1t.
Admiral Schley's death brings to an
end career the repute of which is I'M
dimmed by the remembrance of that
unfortunate controversy. He gave the
country efficient service from the time
of early manhood up to his retirement.
The verdict of history may be that he
made tactical mistake at Santiago;
but to those who have personal recol-
lections of the events of July 3, 1898,
the impression left by the reading of
dispatches which told of the victory
cannot be killed by dry-as-dust critics.
He became that day a popular hero. 1t
is a pleasure to think that only a few
days before his death Admiral Chad
wick, who was SIMPSONS own chief of
staff at the time of the battle, vindi-
Gated his claim to the title.
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politics must OF necessity be some
thing that no good woman and few
gentlemen should care to enter, is not
the way to cure the evil.
Where women vote they are known to
be non-partisan. The disgusting poll
ician is always full of party machine
politics. A woman's politics might bet
ter be called diplomacy" Even the
'suffragettes," to do them some meas
ure of justice, do nothing half so bad
right to full citizenship. 1t seems to be
the conceded opinion that whatever
man may do, It is only to be expected,
but a woman must be above the slight
est criticism. No matter how just and
righteous the cause for which she is
working, If she departs the hairs
breath from what is considered by so
ciety" the conventional, her cause is
condemned, of course, by society peo-
pie" an expression never used a few
years ago by anyone of assured social
position.
AS for the opinion Mrs. Edwards ex-
presses with regard to the rich so
ciety women" who have taken up the
sufragette movement, that they are
doing 1t from sheer ennui." and that
they tire of the fad and leave the dis
agreeable aftermath to their deluded
sisters and Mrs Edwards could not
produce evidence that any such thing
has ever happened. Few, indeed, turn
back from this reform, who understand
1t.
Every practical woman who has ever
tried to do any work of a serious or
philanthropic nature outside of the
four walls of her own home has found,
almost at once, that she is helpless
because. she Is voteless and does not
count politically.
Mrs. Edwards believes in much that
suffragists and suffragettes are work.
ing for, but she is hardly consistent,