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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-16
Salesman Frozen to Death.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, January 16.-Wal-
ter E. King. thirty years old. a travel
ing salesman. benumbed by last night S
extreme cold, lost his way, tumbled into
a snowdrift in a vacant lot near his home
and was frozen to death. His body was
found today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-16
Declares It Is Legerdemain.

Mr.. Burleson offered to put In an amend
ment to make the District pay one-haif OF
the value Of this land into the United
States Treasury. Mr.. Johnson said there
was bill providing for q mum cipaI as
phait plant now before the House COM
mittee. on which he hopes to get action in
the near future.
tie would have had action before this.
he said, except that he had found 1t diff
hcult to get q quorum of the committee
together. He characterized the municipal
asphalt plant paragraph I'm the bill ~
another piece Of legerdemain to enlarge
the contribution of the United States to
the District OF Columbia
Representative Berger urged Mr.. john
son to withdraw his point of order on
the ground that the asphalt plant would
save the District q great deal OF money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-16
Hearing Like Tariff Debate.

Greet pressure has been brought 10
bear on Chairman Hardwick to close the
inquiry. The hearings have developed
into a tariff debate and the original
purpose Of the investigations search
for proof Of sugar trust'-has been
lost sight OF. The republicans on the
committee agreed that the committee was
drifting. but insisted on full and COM
niete hearing. inasmuch a. the bars had
been let down and the tartn drawn into
the INQUIRY.
Mr.. Bass, the first witness, tried to de.
scribe to the committee penalties imposed
on him as q sugar producer under the
tariff law and the operation of what he
calls .sthe joker In the sugar schedule
the No. is Dutch standard has OF sugar
purity.
Rithets. president Of the California and
Hawaii Sugar Refining Company Of SAP
Francisco.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-16
BUTTER PUSHED Up
EIgin Board Advances 1t to
Forty Cents a Pound.
HIGHEST PRICE SINCE 1888
Government Experts Say Talk Of
Famine in the Commodity
Is Nonsense.
HIGHEST PRICE SINCE 1888

ELGIN, ILL.,, January 16.-Butter on
the Elein board advanced to 40 cents a
pound yesterday. passing all records
since 1883. The quotation committee
set the price cents above last week S
quotations after ]. P. Younger of Chi
cage had bought fifteen tubs from
Oatman Brothers Of Dundee at Al cents
a pound.
Severe criticism has been heard OF
the quotation committee since last
week, when the price was established
at SO cents, with the New York mar
ket at 80 cents. The New York mar
ket was cents yesterday. Intensely
cold weather. which has materially
curtailed the output, is blamed by
creamery men for the advance in price
Went Down Low Last Winter,
The highest quotation in twenty-four
years is 41ss cents a pound. established
November % 1888. Last winter the price
of butter was the lowest it has been In
years, the quotation at this time OF the
season being 81 cents.
THE cold wave has made imminent a
butter famine throughout the coun-
try" said Joseph Newman. pioneer Ell
gin butter man, and member Of the
price committee. cat the present price
1t is virtually impossible for farmers
to manufacture butter at profit. The
storage supply will not become a fac
tor this spring in keeping butter quo
tations down."
Mr.. Newman predicted a further price
increase within two or three weeks.
Prices In Washington.
Washingtonians can buy butter today
at prices ranging from 30 to 80 cents a
pound. That is the range Of prices on
the retail market. Country butter from
the section around Washington is selling
for from 30 to 81 cents.
Some of the Independent makers in the
west who are not governed by the Elgin
board prices are selling tub butter in
Washington from 35 to 40 cents retail.
The process butter,'' that is, the sort
that has been worked over with milk and
other things, is selling locally for 81
cents.
The Elgin butter board, that fixes the
Elgin prices, set 40 cents as the whole
sale quotation day before yesterday. The
local dealers protested. and the Elgin
board yesterday jumped the price cents
a pound. making the price the highest
that butter has reached in twenty-one
years
Some Of the local dealers say the whole
sale price to them Is 43. and others
say it is A cents. Anyhow. they retail
the butter for 30 cents. In the meantime.
a good many of the consumers are turn
ing to Demonstrating. and 25 cents is
charged for the best varieties.
There is talk of a butter famine, but
the experts of the dairy division in the
department say this is nonsense. To be
sure, feed is high and the cows do not
give as much milk In winter as In sum-
mer, but there are many million pounds
of butter. just how many the department
does not undertake to say. in storage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-16
LIMITS SUGAR PROBE
House investigating Commit
tee Cuts Out Talk on Tariff.
PROTEST By INDEPENDENT
Clarence Hamlin Seeks Right to
Dispute Claims of Spreckels'
Interests.
PROTEST By INDEPENDENT

The House sugar trust investigating
committee today decided to shut of all
further public hearings except to w. l..
Bass, San Domingo sugar grower. the
Wisconsin beet sugar factories and the
Hawaiian sugar plantations. The indie
pendents protested.
This sudden Limitation of the hearings
was made in executive session. and when
the committee resumed in public session
Chairman Hardwick announced that ne
more testimony on the tariff question In
volved would be taken. He spoke sharply
as he advised the score OF witnesses pres
ent that the scope Of the inquiry had been
limited.
Clarence Hamlin, an independent re-
finer, asked If witness who had made
an investigation OF the European sugar
beet industry could be heard.
THE record has been filled with state
ments which independent sugar refiners
are prepared to contradict. Are We to get
that opportunity" asked Mr.. Hamlin.
Limitation on Testimony.
1--WE will not hear anything except
that which I have outlined" answered
Mr.. Hardwick.
But can we not straighten out the
record-it is public and our interests
are involved?" persisted Mr.. Hamlin.
THE gentleman understands the rul-
ing and will resume his seat" said Mr..
Hardwick.
Mr.. Hamlin referred to q batch Of let
tiers which the committee accepted from
representative Of the Spreckels sugar
interests. These letters, stating the con-
dition of the sugar business In Europe,
are not q true presentation Of the facts.
the independent beet sugar men asserted.
Their opportunity to dispute them Is
gone, however, and the committee will
busy itself Immediately on the prepara-
ton 81 its report.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-16

ago less than $4,000. 600. 900. This
marked increase Is significant, ano
should serve as a warning to our bust
ness men that markets must be found
for the increase. Our greatest weak
ness is lack OF cooperation among the
commercial organizations in all parts
of oIlr country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-16

w llSOIl. Representative L. z, EAQ8Slt,
John Barrett and DR.. F. A. Cleveland.
cha rman OF the commission on economy
and efficiency.
Officers of the organization will he cho-
sen the last day of the meeting. Thurs
day
The list Of delegates and the organiza-
tons which they represent In attendance
at he convention. are as follows:
Akron tOhio) Chamber Of Commerce
- &. Barber.
American Exporters and Importers
Association-William G.. Peck. Thomas
Eddy.
American Seed Trade Association-Ai.
bert Mccullough. Charles II. Brock.
American Warehousemen's Association
-. hiiip Cooley, Albert N. Read
Augusta Cotton Exchange and Board
OF Trade--A. J. Salinas.
Baltimore Chamber of Commerce
charles England. Louis Muller. Robert
Ramsay: alternate. Douglas N. Wyiie.
Boston Chamber of COmmerce-Edward
\. Filene, John ii. Fahey. William Il
Iitchfe d, James A. Mckibben.
Chicago Board of Trade-B. Frank
Howard. Caleb III. Candy.
Cigar Manufacturers Association of
.America-A. ~. Jenkinson.
Cleveland Chamber Of Commerce
Lincoln. Arthur O. Mckee. w. w Patti
son. Thomas II. Robbins.
Galveston Chamber of Commerce
Henry b. CulIum.
ffODOken OF iEdQe-EL. II. NOT.
wood. Acolph Lankering, Rudolph
Schroeder
Italian Chamber of Commerce-Joseph
Personeni. Louis J. Scarame.,.
Jersey City Board Of Trade-C; George
4. Smith. John j. Voohees.
Kansas City Board Of Trade-William
=. Borland
Los An eies Chamber of Commerce.:
John d. Works, William d. Stephens
Maine State Board of Trade-c; Lewis
\. Gondy.
Merchants Association Of New York
=; William c. Breed.
Milwaukee Chamber OF Commerce
Walter p. Bishop. James x. Ilsley.
Nashville Board Of Trade-E. s. Shan
non.
Newport News Chamber OF Commerce
Samuel X. Buxton, Arthur Lee, Waite
B. Livezey. NJ. G.. Armstrong.
New York Board Of Trade and Trans
Observation-Disclosures Gilbert, G.. Waid,
Smith. Charles ". Carpenter.
New York Produce Exchange-John r
Truesdell. William Harris Douglas, Weld
ing Ring. John Aspegren, +. e. Hage
meyer, Z. r.. Carhart.
Norfolk Board OF Trade and Bushes
Mems Association-Harry X. Wolcoti
William T.. Anderson.
North Side Board Of Trade-J. Harri
Jones, Joseph A. Goulden. Steven {
Ayres, Charles Z. Reid.
Philadelphia, Board OF frade-F. d. La
'~snne. Edward X. Wood. John NJ. Hal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-16
Fireaghter Breaks Propeller.

The District fireboat Firef1ghter, while
working in the river channels about this
city yesterday. broke her big propeller
wheel SO badly as to put her out Of COM
mission.
She has been taken to the navy yard
to be hauled out on the marine railway
there to receive q new wheel, but II Will
be several days before she will be aSain
ready for service. as there u Q govern
ment yacht on the railway, and the Fire
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-03-27
He Hated That Kind.

+. F. Jerome, the secretary of the
United States Hay Fever association
said at the recent convention at Beth,
iehem, apropos Of certain unpleasant
hay fever symptoms: These symp.
toms are often made light Of, but for
my part l feel toward them as the
poor man felt in the dentists chair.
This man had a bad tooth pulled
out, and as soon as the paroxysm was
over he placed his forefinger on an.
other tooth and said bravely: 'Yank
this fellow, too, doctor
But that's good tooth!' remon.
strated the dentist.
1T aches said the man.
But said tho dentist, the pain
is only sympathetic
"'Yank IL, anyhow was the answer.
Darn such syaapathyl'"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-03-27
RAILROAD MATTERS

Reports from the construction
camps and the other forces along
the line of the Eureka & Palisade
railroad are most favorable as t.
the progress made during thu
week. The grading force. that
went into action at the Slough
eight miles below Eureka, tire first
of the week, is repored to have
done particularly fast work, and g
visitor there Thursday from
Eureka was Informed by tho mer
that the grading work at that poin,
would be completed in about four
days. The gang that lay the ties
and rails were expected to reach
the Slough today, and as soon as
the roadbed is sufficiently com
pleted for the engine and pile
driver to reach the channel >
hurriedly built bridge and trestle
work is to be put in so that the
No. 7 engine now in Eu reka ran he
taken down and put into commits.
sion on the road. This engine i,
said to ssbe badly needed, and ar
extra effort is being made to com.
| plete the work lat the Slough il
order to get it out of Eureka.
One gravel train with a large
force of men is reported to be com.
pleting the track in Pine Valley,
and another crawl train With 6
smaller crew is working near
| Blackburn.
The construction train got up as
far as Garden Pass summit the
middle of the week, and aithosh
the road down to the hill on this
side is said to be in pretty GOOD
order, an engine has not attempted
to come over that portion of the
road as yet, but several fiat cars
with supplies for construction gang
at the Slough we're let down the
hill with their own brake power
and made the trip all right
Eureka Sentinel.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-03-27
GOLD AND SILVER

Gold and silver are measured by
troy weight and other CONNIE dities
usually Iby avoirdupois weight.
The two standards may be traced
back to the grain, which is a
measure Of weight common to both
systems. Che troy ounce contains
480 grains and the avoirdupois
4378 grains; while the troy pound
contains IL ounces and the avoirdu.
pois pound 16 avoirdupois ounces.
A troy pound thus contains $3.50
grains and the avoirdupois pound
1000 grains. To STRIVE at the
value Of q ton of gold, the troy
pound must be translated into the
avnirdupois pound. The troy
pound is worth, at $2O.67 an ounce,
248.04, while the avoidupois pound
is worth approximately S30l.43.
Inssmuch as a ton is made up of
1000 aVoirdupoi5 pounds, q tsn
If pure gold would be worth
approximately 100000. The
simple Simon who spoke Of gold
ssaying close to a million dollars
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-03-27
LARGE ARMY OF UNEM-
PLOYED SEEK BREAD LINE

Bread lines which were once
thought peculiar to Chicago and
New York have become u feature
of San Francisco night life and
are but an indication of the real
poverty. that has succeeded a long
period of unemployment for a large
number OF men in the bay city,
according to Paul Sharrenberg,
secretary of the state federation
of labor, who with John L. Nolan,
secretary OF the San Francisco
labor council. appeared Friday
before Governor Johnson to ask
that any possible steps be taken by
him OF relieve tho condition, says
the Sacramento Union.
Over 10000 men are idle in San
Francisco. says Sharrenberg.
About 10000 of these, he told the
governor, have been in, San Fran
cisco more than a year. From 800
to 10000 of them nightly assemble
at Ellis and Market streets on the
dreaded dread line" the last
ditch of the hopeless unemployed.
This bread line has been supported
by the churches, charita BILE organi
cations and others for some time,
but their resources are giving out
and material assistance soon will
he needed if the poor are TO be
supported.
The labor men asked the cover,
nor to urge the prompt beginning
Of work on the exposition grounds
and on the roads to he built under
the $l8,000,000 highway bond
issue.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-03-27

true that the leaven which has
changed the mighty corn crop of
the Mississippi valley frsm fuel
into the most valuable TODD crops
in the world is not through tho
genius of the farmers, nor the
acumen Of New York stock sharps,
but the steady delving of the men
in the mountains and deserts of
the West?
What is this learned adviser o.
the people devoting his life to?
Making money, is he not? And
where did all the money in the
world come from except from thu
mines? 1t is the life of business.
is 1T not? The one thing the
controls business and sets the pac,
of the worlds work, is it not
But so many mines do not pay"
No doubt; but what b usines>
is sure to pay? And when me.'
invest in any buSine that they
know nothing about, how often de-
they win? Let those stock sharpH
take this fact home to them. Let
mining cease all around the wcrlC
today and in twenty years fron
now there would be general bank
ruptcy and our country would b.
what Europe was in the medieva.
ages.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-03-27
Dangerous Animal.

AD Ohio man and his wife with a
couple Of friends went out for a run
In the country the other day In their
motor car The trip wN5 quite a long
one and they arranged to have lunch
con ont in the wods. AS they
neared their destination a stop was
made and one of the party made his
way into the bush on the side OF a
hill to get water He was gone an I'm.
usually long time. and on his return
explained his delay by saying: There
was only a trickling stream coming
from the spring. so had to wait,
There was ram down there in the
bushes. and 1t seemed to be taking
up all the water"
"A what?" inquired the hostess.
"A ram-hydraulic ram"
"My!" she said with some surprise.
weren't you afraid OF the little
beast?"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-03-27
Beware Of Ointments for Catarrh
That Contain Mercury

as mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely
dsrange the whole system when
entering it through the mucous
surfaces. Such articles should
never be used except on prescriptions
from reputable physicians. as the
damage they will do is ten fold to
the good you can possibly derive
from them. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney Co.,
Toledo, o., contains NO mercury,
and is taken internally, acting
Directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system.
In buying Halls Catarh Cure be
sure you get the genuine. 1t is
taken internally and made in
Toledo. Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co
Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price, 75c.
per bottle. Dps.
Take Halls Family Pills for
constipation. d.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-03-27
MINES HAVE SUSTAINED
COUNTYS BUSINESS

In the Review IF Revicws we
find ali article denouncing mining
presumably gold and silver
mining--and warning investors
against buyin g minini. shares, says
the Boston Financial News:
:. We suspect it was written by
some gentleman who gets a COM
mission for unloading CITY, cor
poration and especially railroad
bonds Upon people and whica bonds
are advertised to Ipay from q to 6
per cent interest.
No doubt THE p.nten an is
principally concerned about his
own business and firds il to his
interest to Lderide rliniug stocks,
though he knows no more about
either than he does whether the
canals on Mars were dug by the
general government Q. by private
corporations who secured for a
song large tracts of ard la DIS and
after putting in their canals sold
out at an immense profit by adver-
Using that the lands we're fine for
prunes or peaches and tina; there
were no signs of weevil m the
Alfalfa.
But there are some curious
features about this prejudice
against mining. On this same
page Ct the Review of Reviews we
see the statement that the $780,
600 farmers of the United States
produced $4,000, 900, 900 W orth of
crops last year, or stated in
another way, they created new
wealth for the country at the rate
of nearly $24, 100000 a day."
Is that true? Suppose they had
produced the same amount from
their 'land in, say, 1852 sixty
years ago-what would it have
been worth?
When we turn hack to see we
find that the Iowa farmer raised
just about as much corn 10 the
acre that year as he dil last year.
But that year he fed little of
it to his pigs and he burned the
rest for fuel. What as made the
difference?
1t was something that CAV: sharp
men the credit to sell straw rail-
road bonds in foreign countries,
was it not? Something that
enabled them to CAPITALIZE their
roads with $4,000 per mile in
stock sud as much more in bonds;
to sell the bonds at par; then to
build and equip the roads a. about
$4,000 per mile, to hold all the
stocks and clear about $4,000 per
mile from the sale Of the bonds!
beside begging the right ct way
and subsidies from cities and
counties and from nothing owning
the roads and having a fortune
IL mo ney in addition.
But what really gs.ve te them
the credit? And why did they
have none prior 10 about 1851?
Was it not because the pr ,vious
year California mine IS hat sent
$50, 100000 in gold from their
placers, and because The p omise
was that they would repeat that
every year of the future? Was
it not that which csused tbs CAPT
taIists Of the old world to conclude
that after all American sec lrities
were about the best they could
invest in?
And has mot the West kcrt its
promise and kept that sire, M of
treasure flowing East in steadily
Increasing volume? And is it not
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-03-27
May Make NettIe vaIuabl.

Experiments with process for OBJ.
tanning a textile fher. with merits be-
tween those OF cotton and linen. from
the hettle ere being fostered by the
Austrian government
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-03-27

was dreaming of the mathe
matically impossible. -Exchange.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-03-27

"At 10 minutes after 2 a train am.
bled in. from somewhere, and, Keeling
from WEAKNESS. we dashed to the
sleeper end Of It, i wish I owned
this road! confided to the Pull.
nan conductor. I'd like to hack Il
Up with little Ratchet and use It for
Hndling.' HUH he retorted. III I
owned It I wouldn't take so much
trouble with It! I'd just step on II
and exterminate IT,
AFTER hurting umbrellas and suit.
cases into our section and finding
r'ithout doubt that It wasn't out sec.
ton at all, because there was a man
In the lower berth. who was annoyed
because the corner OF a suitcase land.
ed against his stomach, we finally got
adjusted and snatched about two min.
utes OF sleep. think. in the midst OF
the switching and humping and back.
Ing up.
when ! woke up in the morning
at daylight looked at the scenery a
long time before I addressed Louise
Cilflst In a shrlll whisper. She looked
out and said we weren't In Chicago.
where we we're supposed to be. but
at the junction twenty-five miles from
where we had started There was a
wreck ahead Of US. the porter told us
cordially, and maybe be could pro-
coed In about FIVE hours.
THAT was when my desire to meet
the president Of the road came into
existence-and I'm still living on
hopel"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-06-14
Wonderful Sarah Bernhard.

. Sarah Bernhard often has said Il n
her enthusiasm and continued interest
in life and work to which she ascribes
her youthful appearance. Now she
has a new enthusiasm-the MOVING
pictures. For years she refused 70
pose before the moving picture cam.
era. Then she gave her consent and
acted Camille" before a long string
Of film recently In Paris. She could
hardly restrain her eagerness to ses
the finished pictures, and when they
were shown to her she insisted the
whole play be repeated several times.
Edmond Rostand accompanied her to
the exhibition, and when she had de.
fghtedly watched the films run OF sew.
eral times she turned to him with alt
the enthusiasm Of a chorus girl, say.
ing, Nov, what next is there for me
to do?"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-06-14
HEARD IN GREAT BEND.
Bad Backs Made strons-Kidney Ills
Corrected.

ALI over Great Bend you hear it..
Doan's Kidney Pills are keeping up
the good work, curing weak kidneys,
driving away backache, correcting
urinary ills. Great Bend people are
telling about it-telling Of bad backs
made sound again. You can believe
the testimony OF your own townspeo-
pie They tell it for the benefit Of
you who are suffering. If your back
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cradle, II the kidneys act too fire.
quently, or passages are painful,
scanty and off color, use Doan's Kid
ney Pills, the remedy that has help
ed so many Of your friends and neigh
bors. Follow this Great Bend cit,
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to do the same for you.
james heppe, l223 Morton ST.,
Great Bend, Kans., says: 81 know
that Doan's Kidney Pills are a rem
edy Of merit, Ny Kidneys gave me
considerable annoyance and the kid
ney secretons we're too frequent and
painful In passage. had a dull main
across my loins and l was in misery
all the time. Deans Kidney Pills
proved very effective in correcting
these difficulties and therefore feel
Justified in recommending them"
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and
use no other.