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The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1912-09-11
THEY ELECT GOVERNOR, REGAIN
CONGRESSMAN AND CONTROL
OF LEGISLATURE.
SENATOR GARDNER DEFEATED
Virtually Complete Returns Give
Halnes 1890, Paisted 67,44o-
Only Eight Democrats in State
Senate-House in Doubt.

Portland, Me-, Sept. 11.-That the
Republicans not only elected their
state ticket, regained congressman
and will control the incoming legisla-
ner, Democrat, will not be returned
to the upper house virtually was made
certain by the returns available from
Mondays election. With the returns
Of 36 small towns still missing, but
estimated, the vote for governor was:
William T. Haines, Republican, H.
800.
Frederick w. Plaisted, Democrat,
C7,440.
The Republicans elected 81 mem
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1912-09-11
J. ADAM BEDE AND JOHN M. HAR-
Lam TO TOUR WEST IN
PRIVATE CAR.
LODGE TO SPEAK IN OHIO
Secretary NageI Also Prepares to
Take Stump-Maine Results Are
Encouraging to Supporters
of President Taft.

New York, Sept. 11.-That the Re
publican national organization intend
ed to carry the war direct to Col.
Roosevelt and challenge his public ut
terances was stated at headquarters.
Former Congressman ]. Adam Bede
of Minnesota and John NJ. Harlan, son
of the former supreme court justice,
are the two big guns that will be un-
limbered on the Roosevelt trail Both
now are en- route to the west and a
special car has been engaged by wire
from which they will campaign. They
plan to address the same crowds the
colonel does In many of the western
states, and 1t was insisted at the head
quarters that both Bede and Harlan
were designed to embarrass the colo
mel
The general Republican campaign
for the reelection of Taft will be
opened in Columbus, O.. Sept 81, by
United States Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge of Massachusetts, Col. Roose-
velt's closest friend for many years.
National Chairman Hilles admitted
that he hoped for great things from
the entrance of Lodge into the cam
paign. Lodge will be booked for as
many speeches as possible in the clos
ing weeks of the campaign. In addi-
ton, all of President Tafts cabinet
officers are to take the stump.
Nagel Is to Take Stump.
The first to get into action will be
Secretary of Commerce and Labor Ma
gel, who was in conference a good
part of Monday night with the ma
tional chairman. He returned to Wash
ington to clear up all of his office
business, so he would be free for a
general speaking tour. The Repub-
lican national committee expects to
get most of its best speakers out on
the stump without delay. 1t was ad-
mitted freely at headquarters that the
result in Maine had been inspiring as
indicating that the great Democratic
sweep, predicted so freely at the time
of the Baltimore convention, was not
going to materialize, and that the
Roosevelt movement was growing less
formidable. There was more of a
fighting air In evidence than hereto
fore, and ii was stated that from now
on the fight for president would be
hot.
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1912-09-11
aEcEDING WATERS CARRY CIT
les INTO SEA, LEAVING
SCARCELY A TRACE.
MILLION REPORTED STARVING
Hurricane and Downpour Of Rain
Causes Rivers to Overflow and
Towns Are Inundated Before
Terrified Ones Can Flee.

Shanghai, Sept. 11.-That the num-
ber of deaths in the typhoon which
swept Chekiang Province Aug. 20 was
nearer $4,000 than 10000, as at first
reported, is indicated by messages re-
ceiyed from Hangchow, the provision
al capital.
The number of homeless and desti-
tute. it is stated, runs into the mil
lions Unless aid is Immediately
forthcoming, hundreds of thousands
will die of starvation. Local commit
tees are doing their best to relieve
the situation, but the magnitude of
the disaster has swamped them. The
government lacks funds.
Several foreign missionaries are re-
ported to have been drowned.
Rain Falling as High Tide Comes In.
The catastrophe's suddenness was
appalling. The storm began in the
early morning. and during the fore
noon the wind attained hurricane vio-
lence. About the time for high tide
there came q sudden torrential down.
pour OF rain, which overfowed the
numerous streams emptying into the
Yellow Sea along the Chekiang coast
With the rivers already over their
shallow banks, the incoming tide
rushed up the river to an unprece-
dented height.
The water rose faster than man
could run, and almost in an instant
all the coast towns were inundated.
Then ii receded with rush, carrying
several towns with all their inhabi-
tants to sea with it, leaving scarcely
trace of them behind. Wenchow, with
population of $4,000. was among the
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1912-09-11

cities practically obliterated. Of Chu
Chow and Tsintien also little remains,
and of Konso nothing is left whatever.
Province ThlckIy Populated.
Chekiang is the smallest, but one
of the most thickly populated prov
inces In China. 1t has nearly 10000, 900
inhabitants. Along the coast 1t is very
low and fat and gridironed by an i'm
mense number of canals and small!
rivers. The most intensive culture of
its farms is necessary to support the
people, and the destruction by the
food of thousands of acres of crops
inevitably means an enormous loss of
life by famine.
Shanghai and Hangchow, one of the
most important cities in eastern
China, also suffered considerably by
the typhoon.
The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1912-09-11
Horses Dying In East.

Mays Landing. N. j.. Sept H.
Horse owners in Atlantic county are
aroused by an epidemic of spinal men,
ingitis. which is carrying OF horses
at rapid rata
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-11
Charleston Race Meeting Opens.


CHARLESTON, N. c., Jan. 10.-An
ambitious effort to make this city the
real center of winter racing in Ameri-
ca was inaugurated today with the
opening of the seventy-fve day race
meeting planned by the Charleston
Fair and Racing association. The
management is pleased with the pros
poets for success. Hundreds of thor
oughbreds are now quartered at the
local course, and additional applica-
tions for stable room are being re-
ceived daily. Gathered in Charleston
for the first time are many turfnen
whose faces are familiar on the metro
politan tracks.
Thirty thousand dollars has been set
aside by the promoters of the meeting
to be expended in purses for stake
events alone. The program provides
for twenty events of this character
fifteen for horses of the more mature
division and FIVE FOR the baby racers
The feature event of the meeting will
be the Palmetto derby, one mile ant
a quarter, worth $4,000.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-11
Aided by Her Irate Father.

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Jan. 9.-After
a runaway marriage at sea and ten
days honeymoon, Thomas Smith, a
nephew of Leonard T. Beale of Phila-
delphia, was declared dependent per
son by Judge Guy in the juvenile court
here today and ordered committed to
sanitarium. The complaint upon
which Smith was brought into court
was sworn to by j. C. Hearne, rep
resenting Beale, who is Smiths guard
ian.
Smith is 20 years old. His bride
who was Miss Emma Cross, daughter
of J. II. Cross, wealthy rancher OF
Ell Cajon, CAL, is 26. To overcome
opposition by Miss Cross parents,
they went aboard the United States
dispatch boat Dolphin ten days ago
and were married by Rev. Stephen G.
Embson of San Diego, outside the
three-mile limit.
When the runaway couple returned,
Cross threatened to bring legal pro-
ceedings, but when he learned that
the young mans guardian did not
welcome his daughter as member
of the family he Withdrew his opposi-
tion and aided Smith in his defense
Smith, who is one of the four heirs to
the Beale estate, says he will appeal
from Judge Guys decision.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-11
Grazing Fees to be Lowered.

Word came from Washington to the
effect that the forest service will an
nounce reduction of fees for grazing
stock on forest reserves to take eff
feet next spring. Responding to the
pressure Of western members Of con-
gress ii has been decided to enforce
new schedule which will reduce the
receipts $4,000 annually for grazing
sheep and, probably, like amount for
cattle.
Particulars have not been disclosed
but it has been learned that the fee
for sheep will be reduced by one and
one-haf times in certain reserves and
one in others, the amount being deter
mined by the quality of grass and its
abundance. A schedule of similar i'm
portance is being prepared in regard
to cattle grazing.
Senators Warren and Guggenheim
and Representatives Taylor and Mon
dell have recommended the move,
representing that the fees in force in
Western reserves have not been COM
mensurate with the quality of feed
these have produced, especially in the
recent dry seasons.-Montrose Enter
prise.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-11
PROPti[S|[S
GREAT WAR
Law Of Succession Of
Events Stronger Than
Universal Peace

Western Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1O.---In spite of
the movement for universal peace the
United States probably will find it.
self engaged in another war about
1880, according to Prof. B. Matthews,
head of the department of dramatic
literature in Columbia college. Prof.
Matthews makes this assertion in dis
cussing American literature prepared
for Columbia students.
Prof. Matthews is an ardent sup
porter of the arbitration movement
and he declares his influence In its he.
half but he says the law of succession
of events will count more than all
the arbitration movements put togeth-
or and for that reason he believes the
country will naturally find itself nt
war at the time he predicts. With the
rapid increase Of wealth and popu-
lation he says our nation is likely to
take the part of bully. People in
recognition of their strength may dis
play public opinion in favor Of war
and unless the work of arbitrators Is
effective, an unnecessary slaughter
will result.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-11
To Elect Two Senator's.

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 10.--The
general assembly of Virginia convened
today and organized for its regular
biennial session. Early in the ses-
sion will come the election of two
United states senators. There will be
no contest for either toga, however, as
the results of the recent Democratic
primary insure the reelection of both
Senators Swanson and Martin. Tho
former will get the short term and
the last named the long term. Fol
lowing the election of senator's the
Legislature will elect a score Of judges
and various other officials.
The legislative business of the ses-
sion promises to be of more than ordi-
nary interest and importance. Over
shadowing all other measures will be
those relating to taaxtion, the liquor
question and the contract system OF
prison labor.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-11
Slayer of Two Surrenders.

KIRKSVILLE, Mo-, Jan. 9.-Lee
Mills, the former normal school stu
dent who shot and killed Homer Hat
field Tuesday night and wounded Lee
Branstetter SO seriously that he died
last night, will be arraigned before
Justice of the Peace c. A. Hamilton
ON charge of murder in the first de-
gree for the death of Hatfield.
The shooting occurred after quar-
rel in front of Branstetter's home in
an isolated section of Adair county.
Mills claims he was attacked by the
two men, and when he surrendered to
officers his face was badly beaten and
his head was battered. He says Hat
field clubbed him with shotgun.
Mills is a slight young man, weigh
ing about 140 pounds. The two men
he killed were much older, and weigh
ed nearly 180 pounds each.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-11
WHOOPING COUGH
MORE DEADLY THAN
ANY OTHER DISEASE

Whooping cough was the most dead
ly Of all contagious diseases in Dem
yer in the last year, according To the
annual report of the city health de-
partment. A child attacked by whoop-
ing cough had less than one chance in
six Of recovering. There were sixty
five cases reported, and eleven deaths.
Typhoid fever's death 14te ranked
nexteo that OF whooIsr4 cough. One
in eight typhoid patients died. The
number Of cases was 429 and thirty
nine deaths resulted.
Erysipelas was third in deadliness,
one in nine cases resulting fatally.
There were los cases reported, with
twelve deaths.
Diptheria, not many years ago one
Of the most deadly diseases, last year
in Denver killed only thirty-seven pa
tients out of total Of 721, the chance
Of death being only one in twenty.
Scarlet fever and measles were
practically equal in mortality rate,
there being one death in fifty cases
from each. Nine deaths were due to
scarlet fever, out of 491 cases, while
measles killed forty-four of 2,212 pa
tients.
Smallpox was no more to be dreaded
than chickenpox during the year. Nei-
ther caused death. There were 472
cases of smallpox and 22s of chicken
pox. Mumps of which eleven cases
were reported, also proved non-fatal
throughout the year.-Denver Post.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-11
Goodbye to Mr.. Shylock.

PITTSBURG, Kas., Jan. 10.-Shy-
lock may have to go from the rooms
of the Pittsburg high school. If John
j. Curran, attorney and member of
the school board, had his way about it,
"The Merchant of Venice" will not
be used an as English study any more.
Students will be kept from the idea
that all Jews are Shakespearean The
board has instructed the teachers com
mittee to inspect the various books
that are used in the schools and toss
out those that tend to create racial
prejudices or that criticize creeds or
religions.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-11
BASEBALL NOTES.

AS Chattanooga will not pay the
salary Kid Elberfeld demands, Buffalo
has put in a bid for the little Wash
ington player.
Manager Harry Davis will make his
permanent home in Cleveland and will
make an effort to place Napville on
the baseball map.
Frank Baker, the cleanup swatter,
has purchased another farm. If the
Athletics continue to win champion
ships "Good Night" will own the state
of Maryland.
The declaration of Manager Nc
Graw that he intends to stand pat
on the present lineup of the Giants
should set at rest the rumor that
"Red" Murray is to be given the gate
Sacramento has signed left-handel
named Kohner, former Santa Clara
college pitcher. If he makes good in
the Pacific Coast league he will be
sent to the Boston Red Sox.
The Pittsburg Pirates paid s22,50C
for Pitcher Marty O'Toole and s27.5C
for Pitcher Hendri. The $27.50 was
paid in railroad fare for Hendrix from
Kansas to Pittsburg.
Manager Fred Lake Of the Provi.
dence team has done quite lot Of
hot-footing during his twenty-five
years in baseball. Starting his career
on the diamond at Moncton, New
Brunswick, in 1890, Fred moved uT
to the Boston Nationals in 1891. After
quitting Boston he was with Milwau
kee and Providence in 1892, Wilkes
Barre, 1884; Toronto, 1895; Kansas
City, 1895; Boston Nationals, 1897
Syracuse, 1893; Manchester, 1899
Lowell, 1901; Nashua and Lynn, 1905
Little Rock, 1905; Boston Americans
1908; Boston Nationals, 1910; st. Lou
is Americans 1911 and Providence
1912.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-11

to speak Of the chronically diseased,
help to swell the death rate, whereas
the employees on the isthmus are men
in the working perio1 of life; yet this
comparison only shows the progress
that has been made since the isthmus
came under control Of American sani-
tary officers. A survey of the death
rate among the white American pop
ulation, including women and children,
gives even more conclusive proof of
this achievement. OF the seven white
employees who died in October, only
one was an American, a man aged
"A. who died Of chronic nephritis. The
only other death among white Ameri-
can men, women and children in the
canal zone during the month of Oc-
tober, was that of child, aged 15
months, who died of pcritonitis, Think
what this means Nearly twelve
thousand white men, women and chill
dren from the United States--1i $3.50
to be exact, these figures including
about four thousand of the white en-
ployes previously mentioned-are liv-
ing happily, comfortably and safely
in what was, few years ago, hot
bed of disease-and the annual death
rate among them, as indicated by the
deaths for October, was 2.03 per thou
sand. And yet the League for Medi-
cal Freedom, headed by Senator
Works, demands that the president re-
woke his order limiting the right to
treat disease on the isthmus to prop
erly educated persons, and that the
wonderful results secured by the toll
and sacrifice Of devoted, clear-headed
scientific men bc surrendered at the
behest Of deluded and uninformed re-
ligious enthusiasts. Truly, the ply
sicians who have made possible such
results In the canal zone would have
far better right to call themselves
christian Scientists" than have the
persons who masquerade before the
public under this name, since the life
saving work Of Colonel Gorgas and his
assistants is, In the highest sense, both
Christian and scientific.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-11
FIRE HARD
70SUbDUf
Ruins Of Equitable Build.
ing Still White Hot
Six Known Dead

Western Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 10.--A white hot
furnace still glowed fierce in the Gel
lars of the ruined Equitable building
at daybreak today, resisting all the
efforts of the firemen to drown the
flames. Chief Kenlon doubted wheth-
er the fire could be completely extin-
guished before nightfaH. The blaze is
now confined, however, to the heaped
up ruins in the cellars for above the
first story nothing is left save the
granite walls.
All night long, under the glare of
three powerful searchlights from the
Singer tower, the ice covered fremen
poured water from twenty nozzles.
Until the flames are completely axtin-
guished little effort can be made to
reach the vaults where securities and
papers valued at billion and a half
dollars are stored. A rigid police line
is maintained on all sides of the build
ing.
There were no additions to the list
of casualties during the early morning
hours today. The official police blot
ter gives six known dead, two missing
and twenty-three injured. The body
of William J. Walsh, battalion chief
of the fire department., has not been
recovered. The body of William Cam
pion, captain of the watchmen at the
Mercantile Safe Deposit company, was
visible at daylight through the iron
grating at the entrance of the COM
pany's vaults. The missing men are
two watchmen employed by the Safe
Deposit company.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-11
THE CANAL ZONE AN
IDEAL HEALTH RESORT

Again the report of the department
of sanitation of the isthmian canal
commission leads one to marvel at the
almost incredible result of trained, sci
entific effort to control disease, as
well as at the dense stupidity of a
people who, with such an object lesson
before them, will not profit by it to
save their own lives and those of
their wives and children. Cold figures
in official reports are inadequate. One
must visualize the facts and clothe
them with flesh and blood In order
TO realize their meaning. The report
of the department of sanitation for
October, 1911, shows that during that
month there were 81 ,496 colored and
1876 white employees at work on
the canal and railroad. Thirty-three
colored employees died Of disease and
six from violence, a total Of thirty
nine deaths, or an average annual rate
per thousand of 12.48. This is the
death rate for October for nearly
thirty-eight thousand negro laborers
working in what was, few years ago
the pest-hole of the tropics. The Jour-
nal Of the American Medical associa-
tion says that the death-rate for the
United States for 1910, for all classes
and climates, was 1871, nearly foui
deaths per thousand higher than the
death-rate for the poorest class Of Ia
borers IN the canal zone. Among the
white employees, numbering l2.3Is, five
died from disease and two from vio-
lence, total annual death rate o1
e.s2 per thousand. Returns from the
1910 federal census show that ths
American city having the lowest denth
rate in 1910 was West Orange, N. y.
where the death rate was S.6, whils
the highest death rate, that Of
Charleston, 8. c., was 29.7, or ovel
four times the rate among white EN-
ployes on the isthmus. It Is true thai
in any city infants and the aged, mol
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-11
Bride Accused of Trying to Kill.

ALLENTOWN, Pa, Jan. 9.-Mrs.
John Kulp, of Egypt, near here, a
bride of three months who is accused
by her husband of attempting to kill
him by putting strychnine and crush
ed glass in pies, at hearing today
was held in $4O0 bail for further ex-
animation.
Two pies alleged to have been baked
by Mrs. Kulp were offered in evil
dence as exhibits. They have been
analyzed to ascertain the presence of
poison, but it was shown that the
grapes were covered with crushed
glass, some of the pieces being almost
as large as ten-cent piece.
Mrs. Kulp denies she placed the
glass in the pies and declares the
whole affair is plot to get rid of
her, there having been some differ
ences between her and her husbands
family.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-11
Russian Girl Bought Man.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 10.-As
a result of charges made by Elsie
Navakoff, a 17-year-old Russian girl,
that her parents had tried to sell her
in marriage to man whom she never
had seen for consideration of $500,
it was announced today by the authori-
ties who investigated the irregular
matrimonial doings in the Molokne
colony, that all members of the colony
had indicated willingness to have
the ceremonies performed over again,
after they had secured the necessary
license.
Nine. j. Won Wagner of the city
housing committee stated that at least
one illegal marriage week was per-
formed in the Molokne colony.
"These people are ignorant and fol-
low the teachings of their forefathers
with resolute faith" she said. Il do
not think there is any such thing as
buying brides or forced marriages in
the colony. | do not know of any
specific case of actual payment for a
bride, but | am told of many where
gifts are exchanged. These gifts
always are of money consideration
and are received by the father of the
bride from the bridegroom, but I have
knowledge of one case where the girl
bought the man."
The immigration service and the
district attorneys office are investi-
eating the matter.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-11
Vanderbilt Hotel Opening.

NEW YORK, Jan. 10.-With the
opening today of the new vande rbiit
hotel another was added to the long
list of palatial hostelries for which
New York is famous the world over.
The hotel, which is of the skyscraper
type, occupies the site Of the old Van
derbilt residence at Thirty fourth
street and Park avenue.
So far as the exterior of the build
ing is concerned it closely resembles
other structures of the same general
class, but inside the hotel is said to
set new high mark for costliness
and luxury. The interior fittings alone
cost three-quarters of million dol
lars In every salon of the hotel there
is an oil painting copy of some old
master. The rugs and carpets cost
about 100000 and the furniture is sll
of the new glass top pattern, with sat
in or linen scarfs beneath the glass.
The structure is declared to be alb
solutely fireproof. There Is not bit
of wood in the construction. The bed
room floors are all concrete and the
haseboards are marble. The doors,
window frames and sashes are steel.
There are no wall papers used in the
decorations, the corridors bsing oil Of
stone and walls of the rooms paint
ed and panelled.
The owner of the building is Alfred
Gwynne Vanderbilt. He is not inter-
ested in the management of the hotel,
th' ugh he has reserved one entire
floor for the use o. his bride and
himself when they are in the city
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-01-11
Fights Fire In Snow Barefooted.

TOPEKA, Kas., Jan. 10.-R. r.
Baer, when the thermometer was Is
degrees below zero, about 6 o'clock
this morning, with only his nightshirt
on, walked barefoot in the snow to get
water with which he put out fire
in the kitchen of his home. The fire
was caused by a rise in the gas pres
sure during the night. Last night the
gas had been turned on. During the
night the unexpected increase flow
heated the gas range red hot. 1t set
fire to some blankets and from these
the woodwork in the kitchen canght.
The damage was about $25.