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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-02-17

+ Washington, Feb. 1.-THE +
+ state department here today is +
+ in hourly expectation of an ap- +
: peal from China for help +
= against the menace of Russian +
+ invasion. +
= Pending Russia's statement +
+ of the oasp the sympathy of +
+ the state department is with +
= China, and it is not improbable +
+ that THE United States may in +
= tervene. 1t is regarded here as +
+ inconsiderate of the car to try +
+ to bully China into signing a I.
+ treaty when half of tha country +
= is being depopulated by famine +
+ and plague. +
+ +
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-02-17
Is "Sone Eater"

+ Wilkesbarre Pa, Feb. H.
+ Hungry Sam" Miller,of Straw
+ berry Ridge, MAR here the :
+ champion eater of Pennsylva- :
+ mia, is out today with a chal- :
+ lenge to meet j. f. Mckay, of :
+ Tompkinsyille, L. l., who says
+ he can eat more beef and bread
+ at one sitting than any other
+ man in the world
+ Hungry Sam" is willing to
+ wager a side bet of $500 or 1
+ more. For. his supper last .
+ night tina Strawberry Ridge
+ champion" devoured 2S pounds
+ of beef 8 loaves of bread and
+ drank 12 quarts of milk
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-02-17

sentative Fouts tried to increase the
allowance for the receiving ward at
the asylum from $1,000 Oto $14O,-
900, but lost, He made strong ap-
peal, but it was resisted successfully
by Brownhill, of Yamhill, and the
stony-hearied champion Of the ways
and means committee Mahoney, Of
Morrow. Eaton also made able de-
fense of the committees work IS did
Buchanan. Mr.. Fouts appealed to
the asylum from $4,000 to $14O,-
more humane treatment of the in
sane, and at the close of his timE-
limit talk was the recipient of a
handsome box of cut flowers on his
desk.
--------O----
General Navarro is asking the
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-02-17
The ARMY
CAPTURED
The TRAIN
The "WorkerS Of the World"
Fired From the Train at Ash
land Take a Feed, and Then
Proceed to Hold Up a
Freight.
PILED TIES ON THE TRACK

When Freight Train Stopped They
Piled on Board 200 Strong, and
Resumed Their Journey to Fresno
southern Pacific Will Attempt
to Ditch Them at Dunsmuir, But
There Are SO Many Nothing Short
Of the Militia Can Handle Them.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-02-17
Husband Follows.

Discovering that his wife had de-
serted him, and becoming suspi-
cious, the husband took up the trail,
and he followed it to Omaha. There
he secdre1 the services of a detective
to assist HIN in following it, and
found that his wife and Betschen
had bought tickets to Woodburn,
Oregon, and he and his daughter
boarded train and reached this city
a week ago, Arriving here he placed
the case in the hands of ChiL6 Ham
ilton, advising him that Betschen had
a cousin hare and the chief started
out on a still hunt
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-02-17
The MONEY IS POURING IN
AND INDICATIONS POINT
TO COAST WIDE TROUBLE

President GomperS Says It Is Battle to Prevent the Exer
mnaon OF Organized Labor on the Coast Which the Mer
chants and Manufacturers of Los Angeles Backed by the
National Association, Has Started -GOmpers Reviews the
Situation Very Fully.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-02-17

bail up to a late hour this after
noon, Now, back of these formal le-
gal proceedings is story not told
in them, and here it is:
Were NeighbOrs.
Back in the old state of Nebraska,
near the city of Omaha, Newton
Rule, up until about a month ago,
resided happily with his wife, two
sons and a daughter. On a home
stead adjoining the land of Rule re-
sided Fred Betschen, a bachelor
farmer AS the story comes to the
authorities, Betschen and Mrs. Rule
became infatuated with each other
and, despite the fact that he Is 80
years Of age and she is Sold
enough to know better-they re-
solved to elope, and the great state
of Oregon became their destination.
Betschen has a cousin by the name
of Andrew Kenoir residing near Mt.
Angel and to his home the love
stricken pair fed
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-02-17
COULD NOT LOP OFF A TWIG
OR CHANGE A FIGURE or
COMMITTEES ESTIMATE

Items Are Contested by Cham ponS of Economy and the Gen.
lemen With Hammers and HatChetS Succeeded in Keep
ing Out Amendments to Increase Amounts Thorough
Work of the Committee Saves the Day-The Emergency
Clause Rejected by the House.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-02-17

General Navarro is asking the
question, Jaurez Orozco?
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-02-17

CONTINUED on page S.)
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-02-17
Domestic S

We don't know of any store
in this part of the world that
carries such a complete stock
of wash goods as we do, Thou
snadS of yards we have for you
to select from, both in foreign
and domestic goods, standard
caIicoeS, yard &c and 8 1-3C,
outing fanneIS, yard &c, Sc,
6 lac and 8 1-3c, Muslin
from &c yard and up
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-02-17
THREE Big OMNIBUS APPROPRIATED Bills PASS

: ++++++++++++++
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-02-17
UNION LABOR GIRDS UP ITS LO|NS
FOR BIG STRUGGLE IN Los ANGELES
China Looks to America.

-+++++++++++++ -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-22
Taft and the Parcels Post.

On his Western trip President Taft
is telling the people everywhere that
the parcels pest is bound to come; that
there is no reason in the world why
the people Of the United States
should be deprived of the advantages
of such legislation; that the scheme
would bring producers and consumers
into closer touch and be of inestima-
BILE value to those who live in the
large cities as well as those who dwell
in the producing sections; that the
plan has been adopted in every Euro
pean country and ought and must be
adopted in the United States.
1t is well and widely known that the
United States has made or is making
postal conventions with the countries
of the world. by which their citizens
can send through the mail, to any part
of the United States, packages weigh
ing II pounds. at the universal pos
tai rate. while the people of the Unit
ed States are prohibited from doing
the same thing because We have not
enacted parcels post law that will
permit such an act. Undoubtedly
Congress, at the next session, will be
urged to approve some Of the bills al
ready prepared by insistent demand
Of the people. in spite of the opposi-
ton of the express companies and 9TH
or trusts and jobbers There seems no
= reason why the United States should
not utilize the advantages OF their
own postofiice system the same as the
people sof Europe are now allowed to
do
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-22
Mary Ware in Texas.

The rare pleasure of watching a
Young girl just evolving into woman
hood comes to one who reads the new
est book by Annie Fellows Johnston.
She is of the group of the Little Col
aners" friends. but this story follows
her during Il sojourn in Texas. made
necessary by the i'll health of a broth
er. Poverty sends the little family
away from the gayeties of san Anto-
rio To queer quiet little German set
Element. 1t is 4 forlorn prospect for
brave Mary, especially when funds run
Low. Then she undertakes to instruct
and amusc two children of the "Heav-
emily Twins" type. With an absentee
father and an invalid mother they are
the terror of the town, but their very
original young governess manages To
tame them. The process is extremely
interesting. Friends. new and old. help
To relieve the burden of care on tile
Young shoulders, and il is. after all.
happy year that the Ware family
spend under the Southern skies before
they pass to new trails" This is just
as good as the authors earlier stories
and we can give it no higher praise.
L. c. Page * Co. Boston: price $3.50.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-22
Encouraging Approval.

Editor kennebee Journal.
/ can not resist the duty or afford to
lose tho delight which this occasion af-
fords NE, Of dropping YOU word Of
personal generalization and sincere
gratitude for service rendered and
victory Won. My parishioners feel as
d. that Your contribution to the great
moral forces of our State, in this is
sue. Just passed upon. was of inesti-
nable yalGe
The campaign which YOU and your
staff conducted has been hight edu-
cdtional IN its character and most ef-
fective in its results. Your editorials
have been clean, concise and conclu-
sire
Knowing something OF the merciless
onslaught and the low order of our OPP
ponents IL reading your excellent edi-
torial Of the 18th instant, written after
"a heated contest and in the face of a
reported defeat. it pleased me beyond
lords 10 observe its dignity and mag
naminitY. Such display of noble tone
WAS magnificent and deserves tn"
recommendation of all.
Now, although the roar Of guns and
the clash Of steel has grown less au-
dlble let Us guard against morbidHpss
ana apathy for the battle is still ON.
Let the good people Of Maine york
with unhrlng energy for the enforce
ment Oh the prohibitory amendment,
now that We have succeeded in avert
ing its abandonment. for right has
always tie majority and virtue sur
passes vice as the light OF the sun out
shines the Pickering flame of a canl'e
The progress OF ages is slowly
marching onward with irresistible
power To the tune of Heaven. and be-
meath its tread every destructive viper
shall be crushed and the people shall
truly rule undesputed monarchs Of all
they survey, as soon as light banishes
night
REV. d. HERBERT JONES
Jefferson Me
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-22
Row North Carolina Won.
Alma Me.

Editor kennebee Journal:
| want To tell you. now that the cleo
ton is over and VIC are both GiSap-
pointed with the results how pleased
have been with tie high plane upon
which YOU conducted the campaign
our editorials were invariably of a
high order and you have said little or
nothing Ia regret and nothing Ia take
hack. Your files for the last six
months are a mine of information and
intelligent discussion and might well be
termed IN invaluable photography on
temperance, total abstainance, proh-
hition, license and local option Defeat
by such narrow margin should be an
incentive TO increased courage and re-
newed effort and lead 10 a realization
Of the fact that the campaign is not
at an end. but has Just begun. The
tide was turned against prohibition
Xeste rday. temporarily | believe. by a
large number of men between 81 and 81
years of age who have never lived in
license communities. There must be Il
long continued campaign of education
The changes must be continually runs
upon the bad business policy Of liquor
selling, its immortality and the iniuri-
Gus effects of its use upon body mind
and soul, as well as the home. the
school and the church. l wish there
might be I. Joshua Nye III every com
nunity III the State TO organize by tho
young people
In North Carolina we won cut by
4b,0 300 majority. but il was only after
Years and years oil agitation and per-
siStent campaigns of education in
which the leading politicians, clergy
ment and educators took part.
Enclosed please find five dollars to
renew nv subscription.
CHARLES FRANCIS MESERVE.
Raleigh. y. c.
THE above letter was written inlme-
diately on the receipt of the news.
Sept. Z. that repeal had won. Mr..
Meserve is president of Shaw Cniver-
sity at Raleigh n. C.-Editor)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-22
A Souvenir Kenncbec journal.

So great has been the demand upon
our files for material used in the cam
paign just ended, that we have deeid-
ed to reprint some Of the best OF it in
the form OF a special edition devoted
entirely to the editorials. letters. arti-
cles and excerpts of addresses pub
Jished by the Kenucbcc Journal. The
editorial staff is now working on this
mass of material, culling and revising,
preparing new headlines and getting it
ready for the eonpositors. We hope
10 complete this work by the first Of
October.
From other states they are demand
ing. for use in their fights against the
liquor Interests. HE material and ar
guruel,ts used by the kennebcc Jour
nal FOR fis't months. Maine people are
asking for copies to make their files
complete; many are filing away for
reference some of the best of the mat
ter used
il is TO these that we are respond
ing with a souvenir edition. The
number of pages cannot be decided
until the material is carefully edited
and measured. The price is not like
~ to he above 10 cents for single
copies, and special rates to those
wishing larpo n,,,.,harc r. ,,aU ~,
friends or organizations elsewhere.
To those wishing copies we would
suggest an early order that we may
better estimate the size of the edition
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-22
No Newspaper Man Would Steal

BloodhoundS occasionally make
mistakes, the same as the wo-legged
kind of detectives" says the Kansas
City Journal. Not many months ago
horse and buggy were stolen. ana
the sheriff put his blo0dhounds at
work immediately. They took the
trail and soon wound up at the barn
of a Topeka newspaper man, an OLD
friend of the sheriffs The dogs were
discharged. The sheriff knew that Il
newspaper man would not steai--a
horse and buggy
Not By q jugful, If an up-to-
date newspaper man were Ia steal any
sort of conveyance it would be an
automobile or flying machine; and
we should like to hear from the blood
hound detective that would undertake
the running down Of bipane or
monoplane doing 60 miles an hour COR
100, perhaps) at height of a mile or
SO above terra firma.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-22
A Bargain Day" in Waits.

The Kansas city Journal reports the
annual bargain day" for New York
waits, held at Mcpherson. the other
day. Fifteen little tots, either aban-
doned by their parents or l"it orphans
We're pareelled out among Mcpherson
lcounty families. The demand for the
children was greater than the supply.
The Children's Aid society males a
practice Of finding good homes III
Kansas fer a number Of New York
waits, each year. 1t is orc Of the
provisions in the great scheme of
things that the big hearted, Whole
souIed folk of the world. who live in
temperate and God fearing manner
and communities, SHAH help to care
for the offspring of those irresponsi-
bles, who devote their lives to graft
flying habits of intemperanec aud in
diligence of passion, IN communities
where the government enters into
partnership with crime.
Beyond all the thousands of inno-
cent infants which increase the NOR
tally of great cities like New York
every year, are thousands of others
who are sent into remote rurul sec
lions for the people who are big of
manhood and womanhood. and to
mould into useful citizenship those
brought into the world as the result
of depravity encouraged by govern
ment license and civic tolerance. The
wickedress of great city like New
York or Chicago, or scores of others
of lesser size, is beyond the under
standing of the average citizen in the
country districts of the smaller cities.
They cannot grasp the enormity of
criminal Indulgence ans of govern
ment latitude where hundreds upon
hundreds of helpless human beings are
brought into the world every day TO
be cursed from the moment they ar
rive until their old agez-if they are
unfortunate enough TO survive the
hardships of tenement life and the
neglect of drunken and irresponsible
parents
Happy the bargain day fer these
little ones when they are put net in
the rural districts of any part of the
United States to share the homes and
hearts of respectable. temperate. God
fearing. law abiding people.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-22
Another Scandal in License Ohio,

Several times. of late, the kennebec
Journal has had occasion to point out
the dangers Of allowing such trust
as the combination OF liquor interests
TO obtain foothold in the control of
civic affairs of State, county, city or
town Several concrete examples have
been given from the experiences of
the people in certain sections of Ohio
The terrible result of saloon control
of tie city Of Newark has impressed
the country almost as much as did
the spectacle of the dsfranchisement
of the voters of whole county, only
few months ago. Now another
scandal has cropped out in the Buck
eye state. Graft is reported in state
institutions, and it is said that many
oihcials are to be dismissed. At the
meeting Of the grand jury at Column
bus, Monday. for the further inQesti
cation of charges against legislators
which the states attorney says will
result in the indictment of several
more senators and representatives
comes big exposure from another di.
rection. showing that the state ha.
been robbed of many thousands o
dollars.
The new central board" created
by the last Legislature at the sugges
tion Of Governor Harmon. to contro
all state Institutions in place of board
Of trustees. has beer investigating tn
administration OF various institutions
The steward Of the ohio penitentiar,
and the steward of Columbus Stat
Hospital for the Insane have boen or
dered dismisled Immediately. and thi
action is regarded as only the begin
ming Of wholesale dismIssaIs Of officer
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-22
The Christmas Angel.

While rather late in reading we find
enough of lasting qualities in The
Christmas Angel To warrant our
highest recommendation. The timely
awakening of the holiday spirit in the
.ebellious heart of one grown old in
loneliness is no new theme, but ono
that because of illustrious precedent
demands even more than usual from
an author who would handle it with
airy degree of success. Abbic Farweli
Browns little volume is "A Christmas
eve dream story wherein a toy angel
;twakens a lonely spinster to reconcil-
iation with an only brother. There is
an uplift all disproportionate to the
size of the little book-and then that
indescribable holiday feeling that lin
gers about a Christmas tree and acts
ON the heart of the beholder just like
sun and rain on a hard little seed in
the springtime.-H Mifliin Co,
Boston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-22

of the institutions throughout tn
state.
Among the charges against the Of
ficals is mismanagement. 1t is said
that the board has discovered that
stewards of the above named natitu-
tions, in buying food supplies. not only
raid laore than the goods were worth
but had allowed sellers to deliver less
goods than We're paid for
1t is, as we have pointed out. with
the increasing control of pubic Of
ficers and power to name officials by
the liquor interests, the insidious un-
dermining of the very fabric of gov.
eminent by these selfish and unseru-
pulous makers of intoXicants, easy
for civic institutions to take the down.
ward coarse and go on from bad To
worse until conditions are intolerablc.
An eruption in political and civic
affairs is necessary, occasionally. for
the public welfare, because there is
a human tendency to move after the
manner of the crawfish.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-22

Coming Events

Sept 21-22-M Maine State Board of Trade.
Sept. 23-Maine state Free Christian
Conference, Moose Hill
Sept. 23-Wentworth Family Reunion.
Hope.
Sept. s-27-Mainc Society Of Civil En-
gineers, Kansas city. Mo,
Sept. 27-EiGhth Annual Convention OF
the Androscoggin County sunday School
Sept sI-Meetlng of Governor and Coun-
Sept. 27-2s-9-Annual Convention Of
Maine Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, Waterville.
Oct. 3-5-Mainc BaptstS. ShowheSan.
Oct. 12-Columbus Day
Oct. l2-l4-Bangor Musical Festival
Oct. l6-ls-Portland Musical Festival
oct. 21--Convention of York County Odu
Oct. ANNUAL meeting Supreme Com
mandery, Knights Of Temperance Fort
oct. 25-2s-27-Anuual Convention Maine
Teachers, Association, Augusta.
Nov. 1-3-Maine state Conference OF
Charities and corrections Augusta,
Nov. H-l5-is- Annual Convention Mains
State Pathological Association. Augusta'
Maino Fair Dates.
Sept i9-3-2i-eum6criand County ram
Gorham. ,.rs..',,t
Sept g-20-2i-AndroScO \ dAey d''
sept sept ia-so-south Kennebec Agricul-
tural Society, South Windsor
~.
Sept 26-Grange Fair. at North Haven
sept 2G-Richmond Farmers clab FAR,
Richmond. ,,t
i's Sept, g1-Granee Fair Canaan.
Sent 26-gT-2S-Calais Town Fair.
sept. D;.2T-zs-West Peuobscot FAR
Sent. .2s -2s-Nor,h Knox Fair. Union
Sent -2I-2s-Bristol Fair, Bristol MUS
sept 27-S-Ne. oxford Fair, And9V s,,,,,
Sept. 27-gs-Cunb" riand Farmers C'uo
Fair West Cumberland ST.
SEPT 9-30--Semcrsct County att
sept. 3o-sidney Fair Sidney.
Oct. 3-t-winsiow Grange Fair.
oct. 3-f-Iiniiy Park Assn, Unity
Oct 3-4-5-Wesi ,5Xford Fair. FfyeoiHe.
oct. 3-4-5-Frankiin Co. Fair, Farming
ton.
Oct. 3-4-5-Lincoln County Fair. Dam
ariscotta
Oct. 3-4-5-Cattle Show and fair' tica'-
ant Valley Grange
oct. i-Grange Fair Saco it,,
oct. 4-5-Freeport Agricultural Society
Fair Freeport.
Oct. 10-I1-i2- Sagadahoc Co. fair' Tops
ham
oct. 17-is-west Bath Grange FAR. nav.
Nov 6-ll-Maine Corn ana run 7'''
Portland. p.,
Dec 12-13-l4-i5-Maine Poultry ana ie'
Stock Association, Portland 80. Aeeo-
Dec. 1921 2S-2a--Freeport fouttry "s'
citation. Freeport no,,,ry
Jan 2-3-4. 1912--Western Maine fou''s
Assn, South Paris.
Pomona Dates.
Sent 2a-Hancock Pomona Grange East
Orland
ReaimentaI Reunion
sent. g3-24--sth Maine Regiment, feak -
Island
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
(New York Globc)

Some neighbors don't like it unless
you talk about them.
When man howls for justice he
wants to he the judge of it.
Query: When woman says there's
no use talking, why does She?
If a mans hope of future life
misses fire he has no kick coming.
a woman makes up her mind be-
fore attempting to make up her COM
pleXion.
And the only good that brain food
does some people is to appease their
vanity.
a man is as young as he feels-and
a woman too. but she doesn't always
look it.
a pretty girl always thinks the men
are trying to flirt with her-and she
thinks right.
Woman is an institution to which a
man pays homage during courtship
and indemnity after marriage.
II married man gets in bad his
wife always blames some other wo-
man for it publicly, but privately she
reads the riot act to him.
No man is truly great unless he is
able to convince his neighbors that
he is.
Listen. girls. Never put off till to-
morrow the man YOU have Il chance to
accept today.
Just because a married man does
what his wife tells. him to do is nc
sign that he wants to do it,
II a man is poor his neighbors sas
he is a poor manager: If he is rich
, they accuse him of being a CRATER.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-22
VOICES OF THE PRESS.

The Democratic. free rum papers Of
Maine are printing with approval an
editorial from the New York World
against majority rule in state cleo
tion, Some OF the rum advocates say
that it is not right for the country
people to thWart the will of the cities,
Is 1t right then for the cities to fasten
Objectionable legislation upon the
country? Which has the better class
of voters? la the country the voters
as 9 rule are property owners. In the
cities large percentage of the Tote
IS cast by floaters, many of whom do
not even pay poll tax and who have
DO interest in the community Belfast
Republican Journal.
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kilmeny of the Orchard.

This is a love story of rare charm
and freshness. By that gifted writer of
Anne of Green Gables" and Anne of
.tyonlea." kilmeny Gordon. the hero
inc. endears herself TO the reader by
her sweet simplicity and naturalness,
and we are all glad when she finds
herself able to speak. after laboriug
for years under the delusion that she
Was dumb. Eric Marshall makes a
fine hero. and his proud old father
WINS the readers admiration III the
way he takes Kilmeny to his heart.
The book leaves u good taste III ones
nouth--a tribute, by the way. that
cannot be honestly paid to all novels.
L. c. Page & Co.. Boston; price $l.25
net