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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03
TENSION IS RELAXED
OPTIMISM PREVAILS IN BERLIN
AND PARIS OVER MoROc-
CAN CONTROVERSY.
GERMANY MODIFIES DEMANDS
Asks Only Part of Coast of French
kongo-Both Powers Feel Conf
dent Early Solution to Affair will
Be Found.

Rambouillet. France.-At the close
of the cabinet meeting, over which
President Fallieres presided, two of
fetal announcements were made. The
first was that, in explaining to his
colleagues the external political stu
alton, Foreign Secretary De Selves
said that the pour parlers between
France and Germany were proceed
ing normally.
The cabinet announcement was that
the cabinet had decided on the reor-
ganization of the army, which repre-
sents 1.-The browning of the military
work pursued by the republic for the
last 40 years."
Berlin, Germany.--It is believed in
official circles that France and Ger
many will be able to unite the Afri-
can knot by direct negotiations and
without opening the doors to the
participation of Great Britain and the
other powers. Rosy optimism, how
ever, is not manifested.
Chancellor Won Bethmann-Hollweg
and Foreign Secretary Baron Won
Kiderlen-W aechter departed from here
to join Emperor William, who will
arrive at Swinemunde from his cruise
in northern waters. Definite predic-
tons cannot be made before this
meeting
Paris, France.-Greater optimism
prevails at the capital though it is
admitted that negotiations with Great
Britain regarding the Moroccan af-
fairs remain difficult.
The treatment of Premier Asquith
in the British house of commons and
Premier Caillaux's advice to the
French to keep cool and be prudent
relieved the tension at a moment
when relief was most needed and the
discreet military preparations of the
government were giving rise to the
apprehension that war was possible.
These preparations include orders to
the cavalry to be ready for the field
at the first signal, the heavy provision
ing of forts on the eastern frontier by
special supply trains run out Of Paris
at night and the mastering of all
regiments to their full quota.
1t is understood that Baron Won
Kiderlen-Waechter the German for
eign secretary, who is conducting the
negotiations with Jules Cambon,
French ambassador at Berlin, has
modified his original program, and is
asking for part instead of the whole
of the coast of French Kongo, but
names othersconditions which France
would find difficulty in accepting.
Nevertheless, there is strong feel
ing that solution will be found.
The papers welcome Mr.. Asquith' s
speech as clarifying the situation and
fastening a settlement. The Figaro
understands that Emperor William
told personal friends that the Moroc-
can question could be settled amicably
with France.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03
TRUST READY TO DISSOLVE
Electric Combine Submits Decree to
Attorney General Wickersham
for Approval.

ngton.--Attorneys for the
electrical trust have submitted to At
torney General Wickersham decree
which, it is said, they are willing to
have entered against the alleged COM
bination in the governments suit for
dissolution.
The significance of this move is
that the trust is willing to dissolve
without a fight. With some modifica-
ton the proposition may be accept
able to the department of Justice.
The decree is regarded by the
department of justice as largely a
formality.
So far as the governments special
agents can learn, the trust began to
dissolve soon after the government
filed the action against the electric
light bulb section and the voluntary
dissolve soon after the government
teen other pools which were alleged
to control prices and restrict compe-
tition of practically all modern cleo
trical apparatus.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03
NEW WOOL BILL
LA FOLLETT COMPROMISE MEA.
SURE PUT THOUGH IN SEN
ATE, 4e TO 80.
PARTY LINES ARE DIVIDED
Democrats and Insurgents Vote Down
Original Draft Passed BY House and
Adopt Substitute Presented BY Wis
consin Senator.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. La Toilette
pressed compromise wool bill to it's
passage through the senate by a com
bination of the Democratic and in.
surgent Republican forces. The mea-
sure cuts the duty on raw wool to
35 per cent. ad valorem, and makes
corresponding reduction on wooden
manufactures.
The result came about after Sena-
tor La Follette's original substitute
bill, carrying a duty on raw wool OF
40 per cent, and the wool bill passed
by the house of representatives, car
rying an ad valorem on raw wool OF
20 per cent, both had been defeated
The vote on the new measure was
48 to %.
The house wool bill was defeated
in the senate by vote of A to Sc.
Senator Brown of Nebraska was the
only Republican voting with the
Democrats for the bill. The La Fol
lette amendment to the revision meas
ure was defeated, Sc to IA.
A motion by La Toilette to recon
slider the vote by which the house
bill was defeated, so as to throw open
again the entire question of revising
the wool schedule, was adopted by a
vote of 40 to 81.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03

The instruction of school children
on the danger of railroad trespassing
is good thing to take up. Much OF
the danger is incurred through child
ish thoughtlessness and failure of re-
quisite attention of parents and in
structors to the matter. The fact that
cars and trains have the right of way
on railway tracks cannot be too strong
ly impressed on the youthful mind. In
fact, It might with advantage be
brought to some adult attention. At
the same time, much danger, particu-
larly to the young and to the aged and
feeble. might be lessened by more at
tentiOn on the part of car and train
crews to the laws governing the rate
of speed in cities, particularly the
ordinances applying to the street
crossings.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03
MARcUSE, CALIFORNIA,
LAND FOR PROFITABLE FARMING.

Marcuse Colony, located In Suffer
County, which is in the heart of the
Sacramento Valley, is fast coming to
the front as a farming community In
which nearly every agricultural prod
uct known may be successfully raised
without irrigation.
The soil is s. dark, sandy loan,
sedimentary in character, level and
we'll drained. 1t has the advantage
over other soils in that 1t is loose in
character and superior to heavy soils.
With this wealth of soil, abundance
of water, unexcelled climate and long
growing season, Marcuse Colony is
the ideal place for the homeseeker
with limited means, the worn out pro-
fessional man, or the young man look
ing for a small farm in a healthful
climate.
The proximity of Marcuse Colony to
Sacramento, furnishes a ready market
for vegetables, poultry, eggs and
dairy products. Fruits. vegetables,
alfalfa, grains and grasses and poultry
yield large returns. The rainfall is
certain and drought is unknown.
Land is yet moderately priced, but
crop failures in other sections of the
United States will bring new settlers
in rapidly. This, together with the
holding of the Panama Pacific Expo
sition in San Francisco during 1915,
is bound to raise the price, and wheth-
er for a home, or for an investment,
now is the time to purchase. Land
may be had in tracts suitable to the
means of all and the results obtained
are almost beyond belief. Further in
formation will be gladly furnished by
HOMESEEKERS INFORMATION
BUREAU, $40 Bee Bldg, Omaha, Neb.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03
WHEN THE PETS SUFFER.

A large gray cat leaped to death
from a history window of a New
York hotel, and a telegram gives the
explanation that the animal committed
suicide in this way because it's mis-
tress had sailed for Europe, leaving It
behind, says the Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph. Whether the cat commit
ted suicide or not is immaterial, but
the incident does serve a purpose in
calling attention to a pathetic side or
the vacation season. In thousands OF
homes all over the country there are
household pets, such as dogs and cats
and birds, and as many Of these homes
are closed during the summer, or at
least for several weeks, the pets are
in most instances left to shift for
themselves. For the sake of the songs
there are neighbors who will take
charge Of the canaries during the alb
sence of their owners, but for the dogs
and the cats there are, as rule, only
harsh words and buffetings from the
neighbors, and sticks and stones
from the urchins of the community,
and the poor creatures, homeless,
friendless, and abused, are indeed OBJ
iects of pity. 1t would be much more
humane for the owners of these pets
to put them to death before going
away on their vacation trips, instead
OF leaving them to their fate, but the
practice Of deserving them goes on
year after year.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03

A bulletin recently issued by the
census department shows that the
United States leads the world in man
ufacturing silk, with the possible ex-
ception of China, from which no fig
ures are obtainable. We took first
place from France in 1905, and have
maintained our lead. We not only are
the greatest manufacturers of silk
goods, but the greatest consumers. Al
though we manufactured in 1909 silk
worth $196,425, 900, we exported less
than one per cent. of the goods we
made. Our silk industry in 1869
amounted to s12,21O,OOO. 1t was more
than Sal, 100000 ten years later. 1t had
more than doubled again in 1889, when
It was 1929, 900. It was $107 1885,
900 in 1909 and more than 1888. 900. 900
i've years later.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03
WILL REBUILD WINoNA MILL.
Directors of Bay State Milling Co.
Plan Largest Plant in u. S.

Winona.-H. c. Garvin, manager of
the Bay State Milling Company, the
plant of which was destroyed BY fire
Friday night, causing a loss of 100000,
arrived in Winona Sunday. He had
been spending his vacation in the East
and was summoned home, word reach
ing him at Mt. Clements, Mich. B. ].
Rothwell, Of Boston, president of the
corporation and representative of the
Boston capitalists interested, is also
here
A conference is scheduled when the
matter of rebuilding the plant will be
discussed. Already plans are under
consideration for building on the site
of the wrecked mill modern fireproof
structure which will be the largest
flour mill in the United States
1t is said the plans, still in the
rough, call for an expenditure of close
to million dollars.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03
HIT REAPER TRUST
CHARGE MADE MoRGAN-HARvEsT.
Err INTERESTS UNITED.
Townsend Report on Which Sonaparte
Failed to Act Goes Before
Investigators.

Washington.-That charges were
made to Attorney General Charles j.
Bonaparte during his term of office
that the United States Steel corpora
ton gave refund of three dollars ton
to the harvester combine companies
was revealed to the house steel trust"
investigating committee. Representa-
the committee, introduced into the
proceedings a voluminous report on
the harvester trust made to Mr.. Bona
parte in 1908 by Burdette C. Town
send. special investigator of the de-
partment, now assistant district attor-
ney of Oregon.
In describing the organization of
the group of larger companies in the
Harvester combine the McCormicks,
Deering, Plano, Wardner, Bushnell,
Glessner and the Milwaukee Harves-
ter companies, Mr.. Townsend reported
to Mr.. Bonaparte:
ut appears that there was an I'M
usual concentration of the capital
stock of these five companies. 1t
was all owned and controlled by four
families, the McCormicks, the Deer
ings, the Joneses and the Glessners.
The pooling of their holdings was all
that was necessary to create a trust.
All these people lived in Chicago.
"He is a good builder and receives
fabulous fees for his work. George
w. Perkins is his associate"
Attorney General Wickersham, sum-
moned as witness, testified that he
had never seen the Townsend report
before. He promised that Townsend
would testify later. He did not know
why the harvester case was not
pressed in 10000. 81 surmised," he
added, that the case was held up
pending the Supreme court decisions
in the tobacco and Standard Oil cases
involving the same points"
Mr.. Stanley announced that sub
poena had been issued for Mr.. Bona
parte, who is now in Canada, and that
an effort would be made to ascertain
from him and from other government
officials why there had not been a
prosecution of the International Har-
vester company upon Townsend's
charges.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03
WILL CALL PACKERS
CHICAGO BEEF MEN TO TESTIFY
IN LoRIMER CASE.
Tribune Editor Tells of Rumored Po-
itical Activity and Six VIII Be
Summoned to Washington.

Washington.-Seve Chicago pack
ers will be summoned before the Lori
mer investigation committee of the
senate as a result of testimony given
by James Kelley, general manager of
the Chicago Tribune.
Replying to a question by Senator
Fletcher, who asked IL he could sug-
gest the names of any packers who
should be called as witnesses, Mr..
Kelley mentioned the following:
j. Ogden Armour of Armour & Co.;
Alfred R. Urion, general counsel of
Armour & Co.; Arthur Meeker of
Armour & Co.; Edward Norris of Nor
ris & Co.; Louis F. Swift of Swift &
Co.; John A. Spoor of the Union
StOckyards company.
One other packer, Edward Tilden,
president of the National Packing
company, whose name was given by
Mr.. Kelley, already has appeared as
a witness before the committee.
Mr.. Kelley told the committee that
he had no evidence against any of the
men he named. He said, however,
that it was commonly reported that
the packers had contributed largely to
various campaign funds and for that
reason he believed they should be in
terrogated regarding their knowledge
of a fund raised for the election OF
Senator Lorimer.
The subject arose when Elbridge
Hanecy, attorney for Senator Lori
mer, asked Mr.. Kelley whom he had
in mind when he wrote editorials a
year ago which made the inquiry:
who Furnished the Sawdust and
Lard for Lorimer's Election"
Mr.. Kelley said in mentioning the
word "sawdust'' he had in mind Ed
ward Hines and the lumber interests,
and in the use of the word lard" he
referred to the packing houses, with
out having the name of any particular
individual i'll mind.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03
DECIDE CANADA MUST VOTE
Conservatives Insist That Reciprocity
Agreement With United States
Must Have Peoples Endorsement.

Ottawa, Ont. = That reciprocity
with the United States will
have to get the Endorsement of the
voters Of Canada was the decision of
party caucus of the Conservatives.
The Liberal caucus thereupon de-
cided the election should be held as
soon as possible. There may be dis
solution of parliament within fort
night, but possibly not until the end
of August.
The election probably will be held
the last week in September or the
first week in October. Parliament will
be called Immediately afterward. If
the government is returned the reci-
procity bill will be put through with
out difficulty.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03

Chicago, July 81. = CattIe-Receipts
estimated at 200; market steady; beeves,
western steers. s4OO@6.7O; stockers,
and feeders, $3.O0@5.S5; cows and heif-
ers, $2.1005.65; calves, S5.50@S.O0.
market steady to sc higher than yester-
days average; light, $6.S0@7.35; mixed,
$6.70@5.35; heavy, $6.45 @7.SO; rough,
@7.S0; pigs, $5.4O@7OO; bulk OF sales,
$6.9007.20.
Sheep-Receipts estimated at 5000;
market weak: matte, $2.5O@425; west
ern, S2.60@4.25; yearlings, S3.90@5.15;
lambs. native, $S.75@7.10; western, $3.50
Oils.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03

New Orleans, La.-"For years I suf-
fered from severe female troubles.
Finally was confined to my bed and
the doctor said an operation was neces-
sary. gave Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound a trial first, and
was saved from an operation. Mrs.
LILY PEYRoUx, I'LL Kerlerec ST., New
Orleans, La.
The great volume of unsolicited tes-
timony constantly pouring in proves
conclnsively that Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound is a remarkable
remedy for those distressing feminine
ills from which SO many women suffer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03
AERONAUT FALLS TO DEATH
TWO Thousand Picnickers See Bal
Ioonist Drop 700 Feet at
PlainfieIo, Ill.

Plainfield, Ill-While attempting
to turn a somersault from a
trapese while up in a balloon, Harry
Barnell of Chicago fell 700 feet into
the Du Page river and was instantly
killed.
Two thousand picnickers from
Joliet saw the balloonist plunge to
his death while attempting to enter
tain them with his daredevil stunts
in the air. Barnell fell into four feet
of water in the river. His body was
only slight bruised and it is believed
that he died during his fall through
space.
Barnell was forty-ive yeaE old and
unmarried.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03

Surgeon B. M. Brown, U. s. N. has
discovered a method of treating at
mospheric air so that 1t shall sustain
life for us as much as a week in an
enclosure of moderate size even
though no fresh air is introduced. II
the scheme really works, we shall
hear of public men and fashionable
women seeking the rest cure by q
weeks vacation in submarine i'm
mersed say hundred miles off shore.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03
WRECK FATAL To 8.
REGULAR PASSENGER AND Elk.
CURSION TRAINS COLLIDE
HEAD-ON IN MAINE.
FOURTEEN ARE BADLY HURT
SraiI Smoking Car Who're Most Per-
sons Met Their Death-Accident
Due to Misunderstanding of
Orders.

Grindstone, Maine. Eight per.
sons are dead and IA seriously injured
as the result of a head-on collision
which occurred at the Bangor and
Aroostook railroad station. The trains
were a special OF three light coaches
containing about so excursionists and
a regular passenger express.
Five of the dead were passengers of
the excursion train. The three in
gineer of the special The five passen.
gers killed and all of the injured were
in the smoking car, directly behind the
engine of the excursion train.
Both trains were moving slowly at
the time, one of them just pulling out
of the station and the other slowing
up for sliding where the trains were
to have passed.
The accident. apears to have been
due to a misunderstanding of orders.
None of the cars left the rails and the
passengers on the regular train es.
capped with a slight shaking up.
The dead: Frank Seeley, son of the
cashier of the Presque Isle National
bank; Cloud Loomer, Washburn,
Maine; Zerne Harris, Pressure Isle;
Fireman Gallagher of the excursion
train; Fireman Wentworth, Brewer,
Maine, of the regular train; F. w.
Garcelon, engineer of the excursion
train; DR.. Eugene Pipps, Presque Isle,
Maine, and Harry Clerk, Pressure Isle.
Grindstone is small settlement of
not more than so persons, with no ia
cilities for the care of the injured.
They were cared for temporarily by
physicians on beard the trains and
early today were placed on a special
train to be taken to Millinocket.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03
OPEN FIRE ON SHERMAN ACT
Senate Adopts Resolution for Inquiry
Into Needed Changes for Protec-
ton Against Trusts.

Washington Following an attack
by Senator Borah of Idaho upon the
enforcement of the Sherman antitrust
law, the senate adopted a resolution
offered by Senator Clapp of Mime
sofa, calling for an investigation into
the operation of the law, to determine
what changes or amendments are
necessary to make it an adequate pro-
lection against unlawful monopolies
and trusts.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03
BANK COMBINE PROBE NEXT
Rules Committee Votes to Report "a
vorably Resolution Ordering
an Investigation.

Washington. The next big in
vestigation to be undertaken by the
house of representatives will be to de-
termine whether there is great bank
ing combination with power to control
credit, exchanges and deposits, and
cause business depression and panics.
After hearing Representative Lind
bergh of Minnesota the house rules
committee decided to report faVorably
a resolution at it's next meeting.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03
EDWARD M. SHEPARD EXPIRES
Noted Attorney and Independent Dem.
cratic Leader of Empire State
Dies After Extended Illness.

Lake George, N. Y-Edward NJ.
Shepard, the noted attorney, author
and independent Democratic leader,
is dead after an illness of several
weeks.
Mr.. Shepard was born in New York
city July %, 1850.
AS a special deputy attorney gen
eral, Mr.. Shepard sent John Y. Nc
Kane and twenty of his followers to
Jail for ballot frauds.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03
His Criticism.

An old man stood on the street cor
ner in Cherryvale when the trolley
stopped and let off a woman passen-
ger. She had on linen dress, Pan
anna hat, champagne-colored hose and
strapped pumps. "Gosh!" exclaimed
the old men. I'D spend less money
on my bonnet and buy some socks
Cherryvale (Kan) Journal.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03
EIGHT Shot hx crazed Hindu.

Chicago.-A man wearing a soldiers
uniform and carrying a modern
Springfield rife went suddenly insane
in front of the Chicago opera house,
Washington and Clark streets, and
shot eight persons, none fatally. After
a terrific struggle the man was arrest
ed and said he was M. Husian, Hin
DIN He said he had determined to kill
10000 persons and had just started.
Husian gave the police terrible fight
before he was subdued-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03
GATES CONDITION is SERIOUS.
Double Pneumonia Developing, But
Still He May Live.

Paris, France. = The condition of
John w. Gates continues grave. DR..
eros, the attending physician, said that
the pneumonia which Saturday was
confined to the left lung, is now be-
ginning to attack the right lung. New
ertheless. the physician considers that
the danger is not immediate and he
still has hopes of saving the patient.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03

SASKATOON requires mixed farmers,
hog and stock raisers. Nowhere is there
more room or greater opportunities for
such. Agricultural laborers in great de-
mand. Wages high. Work abundant.
Why not get into this bigger life and par
ticipate in it's wonderful prosperity? Write
Commissioner, Board of Trade, Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, Western Canada.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03
TAFT SIGNS CANADIAN BILL
Secretary Knox and Other Cabinet
Officers Witness Approval of
Reciprocity Measure.

Washington.-The Canadian reci-
procity bill reached the White House
shortly after l p. m. Mr.. Taft signed
it at $40 o'clock. Speaker Clark and
Vice-President Sherman already had
signed the bill.
Secretary of State Knox, Secretary
of Commerce and Labor Nagel, Secre-
tary to the President Hilles and Rep
resentative Littleton of New York,
several newspaper men and photog-
raphers witnessed the signing.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03
Showed the Effects.

He-I understand the speakers at
the banquet used a great deal of hy-
perbole.
She-Well, to judge from. the way
their wives have been telling how they
came home that night, they used
a good deal more than was good for
'em.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-08-03
Asks Funds for Mcnamara.

Washington-An appeal for a $780,
900 fund to defend J. j. Mcnamara,
the labor man accused of dynamiting,
has been issued by Secretary Morri-
son of the American Federation of La
Dor to the 100000 members of labor
unions. He suggests that each mem
Der contribute 25 cents.