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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-18
4 Personal WORD.

About two years ago the situation in the
newspaper held in Richmond had become I'M
sndursbe Attacks we're made upon persons
Who we're oh ectlonable to those in control
of the existing papers and they were
sassinated in reputation far as those
newspapers could accomplish that result. So
eial reforms could secure no fair opportunity
fer hearing So far as the Bryan newspapers
were concerned In order that there might
bt an opportunity for persons to defend them
selves from such brutal assaults and that re-
form movements might secure fair hearing,
ihe undersigned undertook to establish
clean, high fair daily paper which would
stand for the best things in the business So
eal intellectual and moral life of the city
and of the state We could conduct this paper
only upon the lines and in accordance with
The ideals approved BY our own Judgment and
conscience. We have given to the accomplish
ments of this purpose much thought and labor
and We have been happy to see the paper full
I'LL those Ideals, and secure aa unprecedented
circulation among the best people OF Virginia
within the brief period of two years. 1t not
our intention In beginning the paper to engage
permanently in the work of secular journalism
but 10 secure the establishment of a paper
upon a solid foundation which could he de-
pended upon 10 be influence for righteous
ness and high living iu Virginia, Under plan
recently adopted additional capital has been
provided and We believe that the success of
tie paper is assured and that the principal
work which had in view has been accom-
piisbed. We have decided that the time has
come for us TO retire from all official connec-
ton with the paper aud there has been re-
organization of the company by which the
management of the paper has been placed in
the hands of competent persons who are IN
thorough sympathy with the aims and ideals
which have characterized The virginian from
It's inception
1t Is hardly necessary for lis to state that
while We will have no official connection with
The yrginian, in the future, yet the paper
viii receive our hearty support and we shall
feel the deepest interest in It's continued well
fare and prosperity We cordially commend
the gentlemen who have assumed the direc'
ton of its affairs, to the right thinking peo'
pie of Virginia and bespeak for them heart,
and enthusiastic support. In retiring fEon
active responsibility in connection with the at
fairs of the paper, We desire to acknowledge
our great obligation to the many friends In
the State who have joined with us In making
The Virginian possible. and To the many
thousands of readers who have subscribed for
end endorsed the policies OF the paper.
j. SIDNEY PETERS.
JAMES CANNON
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-18
LOWER GAS CAN WAIT.
JAMES CANNON,

Refusal of the Council Committee on Light
to sanction a further reduction in city gas
to so cents Is well reasoned. The budget of the
city has been greatly increased, There Is gen.
erai expansion which calls for large OUTLAWS
e. money The sas plant itself aass
be materially enlarged Facing this situation,
the wise policy seems to be it was deter
mined by the committee TO wait for period
of more settled financial outlook before intro
ducing further cut
The management of the gas plant reflects
great credit en- the city. contrary TO many In :
ssa nges at laanieaal ON nersbip of public ntjli
ties. 1t has fully justified itself. The rate has
been reduced In ten years from $3.50 to 80 IA
thousand Al this figure the saving of the
proposed additional cut OF more than 10 per
cent would mean comparatively little to the
Individual consumer. but might mean a great
deal to the city In reducing revenue from the
needed extension and enlargement of the sys-
ten.
We doubt whether there is another city of
Richmond grade which has gas at as low a
York the effort TO reduce the tolls to so cents
cost years on years OF the bitterest litigation.
Popular as the proposal Is the surface,
that it has done the wise and conservative
the reason of the light committee indicates
thing for this time.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-18

character tmorals, not only OF the users them
selves but Of their children.
II makes the users OF It more susceptible to
geri' diseases. tho relation OF alcohol drinking
that alcohol causes q coIlsIderable amount OF
insanity. and that the drinking of parents has
a very injurious effect on the bodies and minds
In speaking of the evil effects Of alcohol, Dr.
Kelley, OF Johns Hopkins. says: 1T is impvs
for the degradation and destruction OF the
human race" The failure OF our health board
many Of he ailments ns ss at so%S OF causes s
soul are heir to. is my excuse for asking you
publish the following open letter to the
eaith beard. NJ. w.
l., the State Board Of Health:
Gentlemen.-I hereby acknowledge the re-
,c.it or your Health Bulletin. Virginia Health
Almanac, for which am very much obliged
many valuable hints. 1t tells how the doctor
Fine Piece OF Work" saved the foolish
cells how Tom" By using little common
5ense STAYED Off bad cold. and how BIZ
rot drunk enough to undo the good work OF
ais thoughtful Wife and near losins
MS life thereby. Lowering the window" was
he ofense and not his getting drunk 1t
gives an expressive picture of the hoggsh ran
eho eats too much, but word abou,
the sot who drinks too much. 1t we'll says
better BET. have good water than piano, but never
hints that home, happ ness, health and life are
better than the products of bad whiske.
POVERTY, misery. sickness and death II tells
Killed Joe's baby" 1t gives The Fiy's
Lament but don't mention the Widows Moan
and the Orphans Wall. 1t extols the Wise
Mayor who made his town healthy, happy and
fich by insisting on having pure water, but
forgot to say he foolisnly retained the. saloons
'othels and dens. which constantly destroyed
he health happiness and riches OF his town
II told The True Story of a Virginia Family
hat was reduced to sickness poverty and ruin
the worm in the ground thookworm), and
aid There are thousands OF such families
n the state" but overlooked the thousands Of
ia m lies in the State that are reduced to a worse
condition by the worm in the glass that bitetn
Like a serpent and stingeth like an adder 1t
warned against diphther.a, smallpox and con-
umption and ne. er warning against that
which, II Is said. kills more than war pestl-
lence and famine all combined. 1t gives a
oem Il Am Smallpox" which is yery good.
hut / prefer TO write it II Am Alcohol
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-18

thousands of innocent people are starving
The pinch of necessity has already materially
lowered the plane of living, even Of the we'll
TODD. In desperation, the government is
seriously considering exercising its right of
sovereignty by taking public ownership of what
IS popular necessity
The United States has been consistently con-
sentative in keeping hands off of private dis
putes even whem their private character wac
more of fiction than reality. 1t is coming
to be seen, however that more complex life
brings added necessities to government.
Among them is the drift toward compulsory
arbitration of all industrial disputes capable
OF affecting the general public. A failure to
obtain this, or at least for while to do with
the substitute of voluntary arbitration what
would be morally compulsory, will simply be in
the end to embark the country public owner
ship in order to its very salvation
1t appears that the anthracite miners of the
nation to strike, unless something Is
speedily done They have the right to strike
and the operators have the right to let them.
only in so far as they do not by their acts
with the greater right of the country at large
to live. and to do business. Stagnation OF
the affairs of people who must keep busy
and continue to be productive to exist IS not
a right that lies with any body Of men. Of what
soeyer character to bring to pass.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-18
PEOPLES FORUM
What Health Almanac ovcrlooks,
rhc Virginiarl

Editor OF The Nirgnan:
Sir.--The State Board of Health kindly sent
us copy OF the Virginia Health Almanac and
We read every word of II with avidity 1t is
full of good hints and good advice. We under
stand II has made such good impression
that several States have adopted the idea,
one State copying 1t almost bodily.
However. are forced to the conclusion
that 1t Is as remarkable for what 1t don't say
as for what 1t does say. BY order or Tue
State Board Of Education our children are
taught
"a That 1T is certain that the users Of
alcohol fail to live as long as those who do not
use alcohol
CD THAT alcohol users especially SUBJ
ject to tuberculosis. so important is tn g fact
that the International Tuberculosis Congress
whose members include the most learned ply
sicians in all the world, in 1905 adopted the
following resolutions We strongly emphasize
the necessity and Importance OF combining the
fight against tuberculosis with the struggle
against alcoholism +"
(3) That alcohol Injuries the body. mind and
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-18
Floods In Caroline.

(Special to The Richmond vireinianl
BOWLING GREEN. VA, March
f7.-up TO the present time no -
ri0us Losses have been reported here
on account Of the frsshet Of lase
night. The high water In the Mat
taponl river q threatening dams6o
g the Richmond. Freder1eksbury and
Potomac tracks In some places. ma
tf1fic may be iYterfered with. Water
power mill owners throughout the
county spent last night watchinR their
propertiss, but damages were aver.
ed. Yesterdays fall Of water vas 'the
heaviest seen here tor many years.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-18
THE FUNERAL OF THE MAINE.

The sinking of the Maine" in open sea
brought to its final act drame that power
fully influenced world history. Five hun
dred skirmshes of the armies of Napoleon, as
well as those engaged in the War Between the
States cost double the number of lives that
were sacrificed when the Maine was blown
up, But even the most dreadful OF these bat
ties failed to have an effect equal to this COM
paratively insignificant disaster.
AS a result of what happened February
10. 1898. the United States became a world
power welded to a colonial policy.
The Monroe doctrine was established as the
constitution of great nation whose emphasis
had been peace but whose expansion thence
forth put another problem into the simmering
equation OF ID great European war
Cuba was freed. under protectorate OF
the United States, and as definite obliga-
ton of its freedom this country assumed
without wishing it the character of policeman
of the western Hemisphere.
In the cold light of history it will probably
be the judgment of time upon the Spanish
War that it was the result OF an inevitable
hysteria on the part of an angry people. Fol
all of that it will also be the judgent that the
destruction of the maine" merely precipitated
one of those conflicts and world changes which
have been we'll called ''irrerressible.'
When under escort of two examples Of the
new navy against which the fleets of Santiago
combined would scarcely have been match
the wreck of the Maine" was given deep-sea
burial the impressiveness of the occasion lay
not SO much in the dignity attaching to a
unique expression of sentiment as in the
thought OF what the Maine" came to mean to
the world and to humanity.
Every one of the ships that in a short
time will commence to pass through the
Panama Canal will cut through u continent
as the result of the sacrifice of friendly war
vessel and OF the men whose bones the gov
eminent at great expense is fourteen years af-
forwards giving the honors OF military burial.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-18

That Colonel Roosevelt takes himself in
perfect seriousness is again disclosed by his
statement that he Is getting ready to speak
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-18

DR.. Wiley recommends nr. Bgelow as his
successor. He will probably discover that he
has choked his friend with kindness
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-18

That the Sunday school census is meant in
entirely good faith is shown by the fact that
/. is held about the 18th March instead of
December.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-18

Secretary Knox urges President Taft to use
his influence for the ratification OF the Nicara-
qua loan convention of s1560000o under
which certain New York bankers would buy
bonds at 80 IL. get per cent. interest on
their par value, and have as security the
guarantee of their payment by the United
States 1t appears that. after ALL the Secre-
tary of State had some business in Central
America
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-18

The coming Of ST. Patrick's day on Sunday
morning no doubt killed number OF snakes.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-18

Smallpox seems to be still another thing
which happens first In North Carolina.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-09-20
YOUNG MEN DROWNED.
sivrlght and Lyon, Sons Of Officials,
Lose Lives.

Hutchinson.-Guy Sivright, son of
w. w. Sivright, one of the managers
of the Minnesota State Agricultural
society, and Myron Lyon, son of DR..
H. C. Lyon, a member of the state
livestock sanitary board, were drown
ed in Lake Marion, eight miles south
of here.
Sivright was 81 and a member of
the firm of w. w. Sivright & Son,
implement dealers. He was presi-
dent of the Union club of Hutchinson.
Lyon was rs years old and book
keeper in the Citizens bank Both
were Masons.
They had been camping with young
people on the shores of Lake Marion.
About a. m. they set out in a canoe.
saying they were going bathing. That
was the last seen of them alive.
Several members of the party row.
ing on the lake saw Lyons hat float
ing on the water. They thought 1t
queer and a search was made for
the young men. Soon their canoe
was found. The searchers returned
to shore and notified others. The
lake was dragged and both bodies
recovered. How the drownings hap
pened is only matter of conjecture.
Sivright was an excellent swimmer.
Both young men were single.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-09-20
$50 ENROLL AT CARLETON
Record Attendance at the Congresa-
tionaI College at Northfield.

Mortified - The attendance at
Carleton college is the largest ever
known and regular work has been
started in. all departments. At the
opening exercises Dean Luther A.
Weigle announced that the prelimi-
nary registration was the largest on
record, $50 having enrolled.
The total enrolment is expected to
be more than $50 Of the number
enrolled 1875 are freshmen. These
figures do not include the enrolment
in the conservatory of music where
thirty students have entered with
more expected. f.
Changes in, and additions to the
faculty have also been announced. In
the biology department the work will
be in charge of James Ewing, of the
University of Aberdeen, Scotland,
Prof. Neil S. Dungay having been
granted years leave Of absence.
The work in the German department
will be directed by DR.. Axel E. Vest
ling of Yale. In this department
also will be DIR. Ray A. Sigsbee, who
holds a degree from the University
of Heidelberg. DR.. c. H. Gingrich has
returned, after a years absence, to
take up his work as associate profess
sor of mathematics and astronomy.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-09-20
Spying Out More Ore.
w. G. T. u. MEETING.
Thirty-sixth Convention to Convene In
st. Paul Friday.

st. Paul. - Sessions of the thirty
sixth annual convention of the Min
nesota Women's Christian Temper
ance union will be held at the First
Methodist Episcopal church in St.
Paul Sept. 20 to "a. The convention
will open with a reception and BAN
quet at the church, Friday evening.
Miss Rozette Hendrix, state president,
will preside as toast mistress and Rev.
Charles n. Pace, Mrs. E. w. Randall,
Miss Mary Cramsie, Hugh Mcleod,
Benjamin Beulke, Miss Eva Jones and
Mrs. Edith Smith Davis, will give
short after-dinner ta:ks.
Monday afternoon will be the insti-
tute session and difftrent subjects per-
tanning to the POLICIES of the organiza-
tlon will be discussed. In the evening
there will be demonstration of the
work Of local departments and the
district jubilee.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-09-20
M|L|T|AMEN READY
FOUR COMPANIES ON ARMS
AWAITING ORDERS FROM
GOV. EBERHART.
SHERIFF TO CONTROL
City Council Starts Action in Court
Against Traction Co.-Mobs vi
client Throughout Day.

Duluth, Mimi, Sept. 14-With mes
sage from Governor Eberhart's office.
calling on Sheriff Meining either to Sc
cure control of the strike situation or
resign and put the responsibility on the
state authorities, rumors that the four
companies of the State Guard here
were held held under sealed orders
ready to etablish military rule gained,
a firm basis for their circulation.
The four companies were called to-
gether and held in their rendezvous.
awaiting for direct orders to take con
troll of the situation. Major H. V. Eva
in charge of the companies, is ready to
march his men into the downtown dis
trict at a moments notice. The order
is expected hourly. When the tele'
gram to Sheriff Meining was received
the troops made ready to deploy at the
majors orders.
While the. troops are waiting, the
strike has been thrown into the courts
by an order issued by Judge Dibell
The City Council in special meeting
ordered City Attorney Carmichael tc
apply for writ of mandamus against
the Street Car company. Judge Dibeli
made the writ returnable Monday. The
Street Car Company is ordered by it to
show cause why its cars are not being
operated regularly. They stopped at
) o'clock Friday afternoon after hav.
Of the day.
Mob violence flung itself up the
main street and through the city yes
terday, coming from the West End,
where for most of the week an ungov-
erned mass of men has dared the po-
lice and wrecked cars.
In the West End the 5000 men, boys
and women stood around, brick in
each hand, pile of cobblestones at
their feet, a sneer on their faces and
daring the police to shoot or the com.
pany to let out car. Women vie with
men in their abusive language and
each woman carried some object &c
throw. The police apparently stood
pat and waited
Business organizations are appealing
by wire and telephone for state troops
to quell the trouble. Governor Eber
hart is fastening back to st. Paul tc
look into the Duluth situation. He
may order troops here. .at
Five arrests were made so far as
can be ascertained. Six car men were
hurt. The police claim they are unable
to enter the crowd and pick out tn,
stone throwers. The car company i.
providing all cars with heavy screer
windows. Rumors that dynamite is
being secured by the strikers are de
MED. -. ....
Trouble occurred when strike
breaking motorman bumped off the
track an ice wagon which contained
a strike sympathizer. Immediately &
mob formed, the glass was knocked
from the street car and the crew of
the car was routed. Another crew
boarded the car, turned on all power
and dashed through the crowd.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-09-20
FOR DELINQUENT ONES.
Club Women to Work for
49, Reformatory.

Minneapolis.-If Minnesota club
woman have their way, Minnesota
will have a state reformatory for
Minnesota delinquent women. Min
nesota club women years ago started
a move to that effect, but the efforts
were sidetracked, owing to the work
for the girls training school at Sank
Center, but Mrs. H. A. Tomlinson, the
vice president-atlarge of ST. Peter,
will take the matter before the an
nual convention of the M. F. w. G.
in Dodge Center this week.
The Minnesota federation is honor
bound to give this project it's support
because at the time the vote was for
united efforts in behalf of school
for delinquent girls, it was done with
the distinct understanding that at
the suitable time the federation
would pledge itself body and soul to
work for reformatory for women.
When Mrs. E. NJ. LaPenotiere was
president of the federation reform
atory committee was organized of
which Mrs. G. o. Welch, Mrs. A. c..
Rogers and Mrs. Tomlinson were the
members and a bill was ready to be
presented before the legislature for
the establishment of such a reforma-
tory, the committees of the state
charities and correction and the board
of control fully approved, and the
work will now be resumed where it
was dropped in 1904.
The federation will not have the
reformatory known under this name,
but suggests that it be known as a
social hospital for delinquent WON
en-
Many of the club women left to-
day for Dodge Center, for the morn
ing sessions of the executive board
and the board of directors are early
tomorrow morning. 1t is expected
that about six hundred delegates will
be at the convention, which begins
tomorrow morning and concludes Fri
day at noon.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-09-20
$2,741, 1886 ADDED.
State Auditors Advance Report Shows
Large Increase.

st. Paul-An increase Of nearly
100000 in the permanent trust
funds of the state for the biennial pc
riod ending July 81, 1912, is reported
by Samuel G. Iverson, state auditor, in
the advance statement of his biennial
report. This is by far the largest in
crease in these funds since they We're
created.
The entire amount derived from the
sale of timber, minerals and land sales
in the last two years is summarized
as follows:
Permanent school funds 81 Gil 1926
Perm anent university
funds ........ 57,337.I5
Internal improvement land
funds ............. l2,404. Z
Swamp land fund. ...... 1,090,471.9+
Total .................$ 2,741 ,936.1s
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-09-20
Father Of orozco Captured.

Washington, d. c. The United
States viii hold Colonel Pascual Or
ozco, ST., father of the Rebel gen.
eral, with any other captured Mexican
rebels probably for deportation to
Mexico. No charges of violations of
the neutrality laws are pending
against either, and their position is
the same as that of any of their men.
General Orozco, however, il cap
tured, would be held for the Mexican
government, which is prepared to ask
for his extradition to face charges of
embeZZlement.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-09-20
crazed Man Runs amuck.

Mankato. = After being terror.
lied for nearly three hours by a GRAZ.
ed man who stood over them with q
loaded shotgun and repeatedly an
nounced his intention to wipe them
out" the families of August Zingler
and Henry Schultz, Decoria farmers,
were nearly Frustrated. Financial
worry is what led Zingler to threatea
to clean out his family and himself.
and when Schultz interfered he and
his family were also threatened. ling
Ter has been adjudged insane and com.
mitted to the st. Peter Asylum.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-09-20

Windom.-The whiting nurse advo-
Gated by the university extension
course last June has become real
ity for Window. Through the efforts
of the women, committees were ap-
pointed and sufficient subscriptions
guaranteed to insure success in fnan-
cling the undertaking. The board Of
education has contributed literally
and the work will be directed through
school inspection as a means to con-
troll the spread of any contagious dis
ease in the community. A commit
tee. of which H. G. Reise is chairman,
has been appointed to secure . nurse.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-09-20
Forty indictments in a Day.

Detroit, Michigan. = Forty in
dictments against 80 persons were re-
turned by jury in federal court here.
Twenty people are charged with
white slavery. Prominent among the
other cases is an indictment charging
William Ferguson, cripple, with
murder on the high seas. Ferguson
must stand trial for the shooting Of
Canadian immigration Inspector Her
bert, which occurred several weeks
ago on a ferry between Detroit and
Windsor. The punishment under the
United States law is death.