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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-02
FIRST THINGS

The first library in America was opened at Harvard College 274 years ago today, Aug. 2, 163S. For over six ty years the Harvard collection of books was the only one of importance on the continent, but in 17O0 a, public library was founded in New York. In the following year the Yale library was founded, and in 1731 Benjamin Franklin started a subscription library in Philadelphia, the first of it's kind in America. The Library of the United States, now called the Library Of Congress, was established in 1900, but was burned by the British in 1874. In 1851, when the collection numbered 50,000 volumes. the. edifice was again almost destroyed by fire, although about a third of the books were saw ed. The Library Of Congress at Washington now. contains nearly two million volumes, and is one of the fin est in the world. The first public library recorded in history was found ed in Athens in the year $40 B. c. England's first important library was that at St. Andrews, established in 1411 The famous libraries at Cam bridge and Oxford were founded in 1475 and 159S. respectively.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-02

At 22c-Big Bargain in Envelopes. Ten packages, 25 in package, extra good White Envelopes, all for 22c. At Sc-Men's Strong Canvas Gloves for working. At $1.98 25 feet 5-ply Garden Hose complete with coupling. At 8c-Brass Hose Coupling. At 25c-Boys' Strong Blue Overalls. At Sc-More of the splendid Stockings for Men, Women and Children. We have just added a handsome grey to the Mems line of colors. At 5Oc-Entirely new line just receiv- ed from Europe Handsome Char acter Dolls. At Sc-white Shoe Dressing, Liquid or Paste. At 29c-Boys' Working Shirts: extra value. At sc-Auto Goggles and SpectacIes. Why pay ten? At 1c, soc 1OO-Connectors for Dry
 Batteries. Lowest price we ever
 had. At 29c-Hand Satchels. Used a great
 deal for Lunch Bags. At Sc-Box of 100 Fish Hooks. Other
 Fishing Tackle just as cheap.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-02
HOME RULE
Journal Courier

Tn speaking of the growing demand
 in New Haven for a larger measure Of
 home rule rights, the Hartford Cour- ant finds The Journal-Courier more earnest than clear in. some of its de- mands. . It is confused by our sug-
 gestion that having repudiated the bl-
 partisan system of administering local
 departments of government the single
 beaded commissions which would take their places might be offfcered by the
 mayor oT the governor.
 There shouldn't be anything confus-
 ing about this. The main point in our { program is to get rid of a system of control, especially in the police depart ment, which politically debauches It. We want the police force built up on | a quasi military basis and the ques- tion is which is the surest way of ac-
 complishing that, by having the single head of the department receive his
 appointment from. the mayor or from the governor? In the neighboring state of Massachusetts the appoint Inent of such an officer by the gov ernor has tended to. keep the police out of politics. It is being seriously discusNed in the neighboring state of 1 New YArk, whether the police would not be a more efficient and honest 1 the state rather, than a depa rtment of the city of. New York. ' What men are searching for is an effective way of ting andss ss!overthroWing the po- litical bosses as they relate to the con trol of the police.
 It is obvious that the appointment of a police chief by the governor l would be a violation of the principle Of home rule. We are in no manner of means ready to accept the sugges- ton, but if we could be shown that in practice it would accomplish. more l readily than any other way, the abso- flute .divorcea of the police department 1 from politics, We would not permit our belief in the principle of home rule to stand in the 'waysT The fight dowr here is to get the police out of politics and Keep it out, and the fight has but l jnst begun Our Hartford contempo- I rary will hear more of it when the halls of legislation are thrown oper for business.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-02
BILLIONS IN WATER.
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 ' That the trusts of this country have fiourished and waxed fat under Re- publican rule is shown by some il- luminating statistics just published by John Moody, a New York financial expert, and the author of Moody's Manual, which is regarded as an au- thority in financial matters. The in- crease in trust. growth he attributes tendency toward industrial centrali- ration. +
 Notwithstanding the so-called trust prosecutions and the enforce naent of the Sherman law,r he writes, the industrial corporations have kept on increasing in size, until their to- rai capitalization is now more than eight billions of dollars. This as- tonishing growth does not include in- dustriaI concerns which are not trusts There are. thousands of Industrial cofEsfhs which enjoy the benefits of the tarif, but which are not trusts"
 This expert goes on to say that there is no truth in the much exploit a idea that trusts lower prices.
 ''In the great majority of cases" he says, trusts were formed with the sole idea of controlling the output of . product, with view to advancing the price to the consumer. The theory has often been put fokth by trust srnanagers- that such organiza- lions tend to eliminate the waste of production. and thus enable the con BuFner to reap the benefit, but there is no evidence that the consumer ever obtained that benefit. The great en- agreement in profits has been brought lbout by advancing the price of pro- atucts. rather than in curtailing the cost of production
 Mf.a Moody attributes the growth of rusts,sto the ..tarrifff11 T He says:
 :'steadidya throughout every year of Inc past decade, trust capitalization aas continued to increase. When Mr. Roosevelt began his second ad- nihistration the figure had risen to f6,s4s,s91,760. When Taft entered inc White House this had grown to s7.56O,0o4,000. and now, with Taft -iosing his term, the total is $S,- u66.zg0,s61.
 sat will be noted that the growth of<frusts during Mir Taft's term has practically all been accomplished Snee the enactment of the Payne As
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-02

At 29c-Larger and Better wfndow Screens than we ever sold at tfis price,. t At Sc-Half Skein. of our best Ger mantown Yarn. Big shipment of Yarns for the Fall knitting have just been received. At 17c-First quality Table oil C1ott H yards wide. At Sc-100 Japanese Napkins.
 SPECIAL SALE BETWEEN 9 AND 10 A. M. ONLY At SAc-White or Cream Cheese Cloth. At 3%c-Best Light Prints. At AZ Mc-Best Dark Prints. At 4Nc-Good Patterns Challies for Comfortables. SPECIAL SALE SHAKER ELAN.
 NEIIS. ENTIRELY NEW LOT At 4%c-Good Shaker Flannel At 5%c-Extra Good and Heavy Shaker.
 At 71&c-Special value wider sss-&- At S34c Best value of all very Ac=-. Flannel. This sale is only from to 10.
 At S3lc-New lot 40 inch White Lawn At 915c-Handsome White Pique.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-02
THE SQUARE DEAL

k, Scmebody who signed himself "A Square deaI,'' and nothing else,,a ad- dressed a communication to The Far mer, speaking in, most discourteous terms of the Bridgeport singers who brought back. to Bridgeport from the PhiFaHeiphia saengerfest 9 prize. to their own honor and the credit of
 This communication was not enti- tied to publication for two reasons. It was anonymous. Its form was ob.' jectipnable. Yet it became incorpo- rated with other copy and obtained presentation in print. stS
 It appears that the Schwaebischer Chorus of Bridgeport brought home a third prize in the third, division, singing against competitors from 3 number of very large cities in a na- ff0HAf 9oHnBetsti = -. se This is an accomplishment in which every citizen of Bridgeport should re- ioice, and which especially should give pleasure to every singer.
 It is no. small honor to bring to Bridgeport 8 third prize in such a competition, and the national eharac- ter of the event assures that the fact was transmitted throughout the civ iiized world, so that Bridgeport was made known in all quarters of the globe.
 Envy is not the quality that should be brought to such an accomplish ment. Rejoicing and congratulatior ara v,,ore annrouriate
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-02
ROY UNDER AUTO WHEELS. F. s. Dennis Machine Killed Child, Although Chauffeur Ditched It.

Winsted, Aug. 2.-An automobile owned by Frederic &. Dennis of New York City, and driven by his chauf- feur, named Mosier. killed Charles, the five-year-old son of Charles Kov- fix a gardener employed by Mrs. Helen Jenkins of New York, in Nor- folk, last night.
 pr. Dennis and members of his family were returning to their Sum- mer nome, when the boy ran out of bushes beside the road. The chauf- feIIr turned the car into the ditch, nearly upsetting it, in an effort to nrevent the fatality. A young sister of the boy witnessed the tragedy
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-02

drich tariff bill.
 While no exact figure on the sub- ject are obtainable, it is reliably es- timated that only 25 per cent. of this vast sum represents actual invest ment. 7. The remaining 75 per cent is what is commonly known as water. or. as the Wall street finaneiers put it: Capitalization of earning power" !"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-02
OPPOSED BY RoCKEFEnLER.
Farmer to Be Ousted as Pocantice
 Hills School Trustee.

Tarrytown, N Y.,' Aug. 2.-John D. Rockefeller has succeeded in having a new school election called at Pocan- tico Hills to oust Irving IL. Bryant, the farmer who defeated Mrs. D. M Milton, and yesterday the Board of Education posted notices that a meet ing would be held in the school house on. the evening of Aug. 13 to elect 8 new Trustee.
 There is little doubt that Mrs Mill. ton will be candidate, and MT Rockefeller has said she must be elected Bryant says he will not seek the office because he has sold his
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-02
,rt,E aPRoGREssIvE" PARTY

Is the individual, man or woman who uses Foley Kidney Pills for back ache rheumatism, weak back, ana other kidney and bladder. irregulari- ties, Foley Kidney Pills are healing, strengthening, tonic, and quick to nrod1ce beneficial results. Contain r harr,1ful drugs. Never sold in bg bulk. n Put up in two sizes in sealed bottles. The genuine in yellow nackage. F. l.. Curtis. Is D
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-02

A. s. Jones, of the Lee Pharmacy, Chico, Cal, who has handled Foley & Co.'S medicines for many years, says: "I consider that Foley's Honey and Tar Compound has no equal, and is the one cough medicine I can reconl- mend as containing no narcotics or uine in a yellow package. F. BsCi1r- tis. *135
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-02

place to MT. Rockefeller and will move away. It is understood that Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., parti- cularly desires Mrs. Milton's election. Mrs. Rockefeller is on the Advisory Committee for the school district.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-02

Miss Margaret Gerry of 830 Connect icut avenue is in vacation to her aunt at Jamaica.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-02
RADF0!RD B.SMITH
1O72 Main St. pEPARTMENT STORE s9 Fairfield Ave
 ARTICLES" AND THE STORE THAT PAYS
BARGAIN SALE sEAsoNABLE cooDs

 of Be FoundHe
The Daily Missoulian., 1912-05-30
TWIN ACTIONS CITE
DOCKS AS TOO NOISY

Suits OF unusual nature are the
twin actions for damages against the
Northern Pacific Railway company,
filed yesterday In the district court
hy attorneys for James H. and Julia
Smith and a. NJ. Stevens Each suit
demands $4,000 as compensation for a
state of affairs alleged to have been
brought about by the y. 4. coal
docks here and by the general noise.
dirt and confusion incident to the
handling of coal. The plaintiffs own
property near the docks. 1t Is
charged that the plaintiffs have been
unable to ventllate their 'homes prop
erN, on account of coal dust. and
that they have not been able to sleep,
on account of much noise of machin-
cry.
The Daily Missoulian., 1912-05-30
MOTOR ASSOCIATION
IN A MEETING
MiSSOULA COUNTY AUTOMOBILE
CLUB HAS MONEY IN BANK
AND is STRONG.

Notwithstanding the inclement
weather. large and enthusiastic body
of automobile men gathered in the Of
tana block last evening and held the
annual meeting Of the Missoula coun-
~ Automobile club
II was discovered by number
present who had not been keeping In
touch with the club work that. al
though not "A large number of meet
ngs had been held during the past
year, that the work of the club had
been carried on very energetically and
"a great deal had been accomplished.
A report Of the treasurer showed the
club to be I'm very excellent financial
condition. 1t having a substantial bal
ance In the bank to Its credit. This
report also showed that the paid up
membership OF the club was large.
A report of the secretary showed
that this club had been operating
with the other clubs OF Montana in an
endeavor to get the fees charged by
the government for the permitting Of
automobiles to enter Glacier National
park reduced, If not abrogated en-
tlrcly. This report also showed that
an endcavor had been made to get the
American Automobile association to
arrange to have the 1912 Glidden Tour
pass through Missoula
The American Automobile associa
tion Is about to establish. and adver-
tise as established, three great Coast
to Coast" or Sunrise to Sunset"
routes. ana that with the exercise OF
n small amount of effort Missoula can
secure the northern one of these routes
to pass through this city. thereby in
suring the passage through this city
and over this route of hundreds Of
people In automobiles annually II
was agreed by all present that moth
ing should be left undone In an en-
deavor to get this routing via Mis-
soula. The American Automobile as
sociaiion favors the Missoula routing.
but an exhibition of some interest In
the part of the citizens Of the COM
munity through which the route passes
Is necessary to secure II.
The third annual convention of the
Montana Good Roads congress Is to
be held at Anaconda July and Q.
1912. and the club has been invited to
send five delegates To attend. Some
Of the best speakers In Montana will
there be present and make addresses
on the subject of good roads and road
building.
This also was the meeting at which
the annual election Of officers was to
have taken place: however. the many
other matters of pressing Importance
go occupied the tina of the evening Il
was found at Il late hour that another
meeting would have to be held to at
tend to Immediately important mat
ters requiring the attention of the
whole membership Of the club and,
therefore II was decided to hold an
other meeting of the club at the cham
ber of commerce rooms. June 10, at
y. m. and at that meeting have the
annual election of officers. and appoint
the five delegates who are to attend
the good roads congress at Anaconda
No effort Is to be spared i'm an en-
dcaNor To get one of the Sunrise To
Sunset routes through Missoua
The Daily Missoulian., 1912-05-30

TEDDY isn't running"-so TAFT folks
used to talk; and now we find it's true
enough. for he's win
IN A ming in a walk; he
WALK doesn't have to run at
all, his walk is fast
enough; he has the bosses beaten, he's
called their boastful bluff; he ran
right smart In Illinois and in the state
of Penn; but he walked through Ohio
and rested now and then; his Mnne-
sofa winning was just IA pleasant stroll;
and Caifornia's figures made Mckin-
ley's brag look droll; the way he's
travelled through the states is mighty
good to see. It's true he isn't running
but he walks well. you'll agree. he's
had some pleasant exercise in these
brisk campaign walks, he's paused to
give the people some friendly little
talks: the people stopped 10 listen,
they needed well his word; they made
the Roosevelt campaign the best you
ever heard: no. Roosevelts been walk
ing. but you will see some fun. next
month In old Chicago. when he begins
to run.
The Daily Missoulian., 1912-05-30
0VANDO ORGANIZES
NEW CLUB
ENTHUSIASM MARKS INITIAL
MEETING OF FIRST CON-
MERClAL BODY.

Writing from Ovando under date af
May % w. X. Glasscock tells of the
organization there of the Ovando
Commercial club. He says:
"At n large and enthusiastic meet
Ing Of the citizens OF Ovando and the
surrounding country commercial club
was organized here last night. II the
interest and enthusiasm displayed at
the meeting Is any indication of the
future Of the club 1t Will be a hum
mer. There IL only one thing to regret
In connection with the meeting. | had
promised the folks here that A. j.
Breitcnstein, secretary of the Missoula
. chamber. would be present to address
them and they reluctantly accepted
the excuses offered for him after
hearing that ihe could not come They
insisted, however. that MIR. Breiten
stein be urged to come and attend
some meeting In the near future as
/ they feel certain that he mill be able
/ from his store of experience In his sue
cessful work with the Missoula organ
ization, to offer some splendid sug-
gestons for the club here. | took II
upon myself to promise that Mr.
Breitcnstein would come to OvandO
and meet with them in the near flu
ture."
The following Officers were elected
II. j. Faust president; w Il. Glass
cock, secretary, H.. X. Kilburn. treas
nrer Executive committee: II. II
Snyder, DR. j. Il. Toothaker. Leonard
/ Hammond, g. II. Hammond and Robert
/ Turrell. Committee on by-laws-E. IL
Hslgt tsI - Ias
cock was elected delegate to represent
4 the 0vando club nj the meetings oi
/ the Western Montana Association OF
Commercial Clubs, Of which TIL,
Oyando club will become member
The Daily Missoulian., 1912-05-30

mlxups during Mr.. Pcats term as po-
lice commissioner. He Is no good"
said the former commissioner. "He
was involved in three scrapes during
my term In office and he also came
to my attention on account of the
fact that the children had nothing to
eat and wear and the department of
charity had 10 take action IN their
case. His reputation is that of a
trouble maker"
The Daily Missoulian., 1912-05-30
THE RAIN
TERFERE S

Near the billbonrds along the Bitter
Root branch OF the Northern Pacific
are n number Of tepees
GATHER and. as may be judged,
ROOTS they are inhabited by
quite u contingent of
the red brothers from the reservation,
AT this time of the year, 1t Is Gus
tomary for the Indians To come down
from their reservation and spend a
few days in the valley gathering the
bitter root. This root IL put to
many uses by the redskins. 1t Is n
regular medicine chest In Itself. In
addition To It's use as substitute Tor
flour, 1t plays a prominent part In all
the home -brewed medicines of The In
dian. II is also brcWed into most
delicious tea. That Is, the Indians
think II Is delicious. As said before,
the hegira has arrived from the res
eryation and the modern Minnehahas
are on the job all day contracting
lame backs and digging bitter root.
The Daily Missoulian., 1912-05-30

Dr. G. D. Bryant. the city health Of
ficer, has not given up his campaign
against dirty alleys
THE RAIN but the work has been
INTERFERES more or less hampercd
recently. Speaking of
the progress made along this line, Dr.
Bryant said: I'VE are still going after
the alleys and that work will lac done
within short time. However, we
have been greatly handicapped by the
heavy rains. II Is next To Impossible
to accomplish anything under the pres
ent weather conditions. but as soon as
the sun has had an opportunity to dry
things up we are going right ahead
with this work. The sewer connections
will also be made within short time.
The recent ordinance passed by the
council makes II possible to see that
this work Is done at once and we shall
require that the property owners go
ahead with II Immediately
The Daily Missoulian., 1912-05-30
COM PANY Is SUED.

G. La Forge sued the Clark Mon
tana Power company for damages In
the sum of $4,000 yesterday. his suit
being filed In the district court. The
PLAINTIFF sets out I'm his complaint
that the ice gorge In the pond above
the company's mill at Riverside
caused his property to be flooded.
The Daily Missoulian., 1912-05-30
REMARKED.

Mr. and Mrs. J. w. Dressed. married
by Judge Dyson March IL, 1912, were
remarked yesterday morning at
o'clock according to the Catholic serv-
ice. Rev. Father Grisez officiating
Mr.. and Mrs Dressed left for their
home at st. Ignatius at 1 O'clock.
The Daily Missoulian., 1912-05-30
DELAMERE TRIAL.

The trial of Frank Delamere was
continued In the district court yes
terday and will be resumed tomorrow.
The defendant. who Is charged with
grand larceny, was on the stand In
the afternoon. All Of the evidence
was taken and the arguments will be-
gin Friday morning.
The Daily Missoulian., 1912-05-30
Notice.

All members of Schiller lodge No.
are requested TO assemble at Eagle
hall Thursday, May 80. at a. m. to
march to Missoula cemetery with the
members of the G. A. X.
r. w. kUPHAL. Secretary.
The Daily Missoulian., 1912-05-30

There Is one footpad In Missoula, who
doesn't think much ~ the business.
Although not personal
OUT OF ly acquainted with the
LUCK gentleman, IL would lie
reasonable To- suppose
that he prefers other walks of life.
The holdup I'm question seemed to be
Of the opinion rnat W. a. Clark was
making too much money and that a
little of it could be diverted into his
pockets without causing the company
to suspend business. He selected the
Daily addition car and Tuesday even
ing as the time for relieving the afore-
mentioned Mr.. Clark. However. his
selection Of cars turned out to be poor
Ray Hail, formerly on the police force.
was the Casey Jones Of the DAILY addi-
tion car The footpad stopped the car
near the end of It's run I'm DAILY addi-
ton and when Mr. Hall slid the door
| open, he saw a gun staring MIN in the
| face, II want that cash register" I"
said the gentleman with the artillery.
Like hell" commented Mr.. Han
tersely. using a short wallop TO the
| Jaw for exclamation point. The man
behind the gun upended rolled into the
| ditch and was seen no more as Mr..
| Han did not tarry long. The police
| Is now searching for the villain.
The Daily Missoulian., 1912-05-30
.OD|ON'S WOUNDS
EXAMINED
DOCTORS PEASE AND 0oD0S
PERFORM AUTOPSY ON MUIR.
DEREo MAN.

There were several important de-
velopments yesterday in the case OF
Ernest A. Odion, who was shot and
killed by w. IL. Zcller Tuesday even
Ing. Probably the most important Of
these was the autopsy which was
held on the body yesterday afternoon
by Doctors Pease and Dodds. The
three bullets which ended Odion's life
were all found in the body The shot
which undoubtedly caused his imme-
date death was the one which en-
tered the chest directly between the
breasts The autopsy showed that
this bullet had ranged downward and
IL was extracted from the body con-
siderahly lower than where II en-
tered. II passed directly through the
heart. II must have been fired be-
fore he ran 81 feet Intervening be-
tween the places of shooting and of
his death, as 1t was the only shot
striking him In front. the others taxi
ing effect in the left side. II Is
thought remarkable that he could
cover the distance with such Il
wound. The shot which entered the
abdomen on the left side would prob
ably have proved fatal In time as II
pierced the intenstines and the stom-
ach. This bullet passed almost
through the body. The third shot,
which went through the left arm and
ribs. lodged In the pleural cavity and
would probably not have resulted
fatally.
There was one thing conclusively
proved by the autopsy and II goes a
long way to substantiate Mrs. Eel
lers story of the shooting. Mrs. Eel
Ter said that Zeller pulled the gun
and that Odion then stopped to pick
up a rock. The nature OF the wound
In Odion's chest makes It almost n
certainty that he received this wound
while In n STOPPING position and the
fact that the other wounds were in
the left side shows he received them
while trying to escape.
The Daily Missoulian., 1912-05-30
Public Auction.

will sell at public auction. on my
ranch one-1uarter mile east of French
town, all stock and household goods,
Saturday, June !, at l y. M
THEODORE BEDARD.
Frenchtown. Mont.