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The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-04-11
The Ticket Didn't Tick.

Moore-My sense of hearing is the
keenest ever. Do you know can hear
your watch ticking, although you are
six feet away? Poore-Then you're
wonder. My watch is at the pawn
brokers', six blocks away. - Boston
Transcript.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-04-11
Must Keep Streets and Alleys Clean.

Must Keep Streets and Alleys Clean.
A determined effort to clean up the
streets and alleys Of Pueblo. Colo. and
place them in more presentable con-
dition is to be undertaken at once by
the health department. Copies of the
ordinance regarding the throwing of
trash into the streets and alleys of the
city have been printed and will be cir
culated generally throughout the city.
1t 1stipulates fine Of from S. to 500
for violation. and. according to the Off
Gals of the health department, 1t is to
be enforced to the letter The Ordi
nance covers rubbish and trash of ev-
cry description. and the first work Of
the department will be thorough in
spection of present conditions. Notice
will be served to violators that they
had better clean up at once. and after
a reasonable time has elapsed prosecu
lions will be started unless the law Is
adhered to absolutely.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-04-11
False Alarm.

II was present at a raid the other
night"
Great Scott! Were you caughtY
Certainly not. 1t was a masquer.
ade.'-Baltimore American.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-04-11
Gettinn Il LIN 10 na4a.

He-They say that no man is hero
to his valet. She-And no man is a
hero to his stenographer.-Cin Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-04-11
REMARKABLE. RECORD OF
IMPROVEMENTS IN HASTINGS
Nebraska City Has Reason to Rs
Proud of Its Achievements.

In the way Of municipal improve
ments. which are sure token of the
progressiveness of the community,
Hastings, Neb.. has made record dur
ing the past year that is said to be
without parallel among the Nebraska
cities of her class for this or any other
year.
Including over four miles of street
paving finished In the twelve months
ending this fall and for sewer extern
sions and improvements in the water
and light department finished or con-
tracted for during the calendar year
Hastings bill is approximately $780,
600. This years improvements bring
the value Of the water system up to
100000, and the value of the electric
light and power system up to $4,000,
making'a total for the two of $340,00O.,
The bonded debt of the city was de-
creased during the last ten years from
S2S5,OOO to $4,000. but the $4,000
issue Of intersection bonds this year
brought the total back to $245.OOO,
which is still far less than the value of
the city's investments in the two mu-
nicipal enterprises. Bond issues Of
$4,000 for the water plant and an
original bond issue of $4,000 for the
light and power plant gave the only
public aid these two plants have had,
all the subsequent improvements hav-
ing been paid for out of the earrings.
Moreover. there has been no
either for water used by the city or for
street lighting. During the present year
the city has invested about $1,000 in
new we'll and a new smokestack and
about $4,000 in the installation of new
air compressor. Approximately. $4,000
has been spent in the enlargement Of
the power house and the building of
coal storage house and machine shop
Two boilers have been installed and
are about ready to be placed in com
mission.
When the settlement Is made this i'm
prevement will represent further in
,vestment of $1,000. Early this month
the council contracted for new pump
10 cOSC SSa%OO anu elAe IouHudlIon anu
addition to the building about $4,000
more. Sewer extensions built and con
tracted for during the year show an
outlay of over $1,000. The total cost
Of paving in the twelve months ending
this fall was $2O6. 460.O8 Over 500
carloads of materials were shipped
into Hastings for this paving exclu-
sive of the home brick used.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-24
TEST TRIPS FOR NEW AERO.
Wright Machine Trials to Be Con
tinued at College Park.

Trial flights with the new Wright
aeroplane will be continued at College
Park this afternoon. The new weight
carrier has not completed the test in
the altitude climb for the full ten min
utes required by the War Department
but the climbing speed made on the
shorter flights indicated that the ma
chine is about equal to making a climb
of 200 feet minute with full load.
No arrangements have been made
yet for testing the small speed ma
chine that has been furnished by the
Wright company. This machine is not
intended to carry any appreciate
weight. but must make speed of
sixty-five miles an hour. The appear
ance of the machine indicates that it
will do a good deal better than this.
1t is possible that Orville Wright him
self may come from Dayton to fly the
machine on it's acceptance test.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-24


Albertus H. Baldwin. chief Of the bu-
reau Of manufactures, has been nominal
ed by the President to be chief of the
newly created bureau of foreign and do
mestic CONNIE in the Department OF
Commerce and Labor. Oscar =. Austin,
chief of the bureau of statistics. and Z.
A. Brand, assistant chief of the bureau
of manufactures, have been selected for
posts of assistants.
Mr.. Baldwin. who comes from Connec-
ucut, has during his regime as chief of
the bureau of manufactures made it a
great agency for the development OF COM
merce, and his appointment is regarded
as an Endorsement by the nations chief
executive of his effort. The new bureau
will take over the work of both the bu-
reaus of manufactures and that of sta
tisticS
AS statistician Mr.. Austin, it is point
ed out, has taken front rank for years.
His first and only. work for the govern
ment has been in this line, he having
in 1893, on invitation of President Nc
Kinley.
Mr.. Brands work as assistant of the
bureau of manufactures has been espec-
tally acceptable to Mr.. Baldwin, and
when the question OF his assistants in
the new bereau was considered it is
stated he was anxious that Mr.. Brand
continue with him in the work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-24
WICKERSHAM TO DEFENSE.
Will Uphold William H. Lewis Be
fore Bar Association.

Attorney General Wickersham left
Washington today fo9 Milwaukee 10 at
tend the convention of the American Bar
Association and take up the defense OF
William II. Lewis. a negro assistant at
torney general of the United States.
The executive committee of the asso.
citation in January rescinded its action
in admitting Lewis to membership on
the ground that it had not known Lewis
was a negro. The Attorney General be-
lieves the committee exceeded it's powers
and will appeal to the convention in be-
half of his assistant. 1t is reported tina,
the. committee recently likewise revoked
the membership of two other members
said to be negroes.
Never before has a negro been a mem
Der of the American Bar Association. The
issue to be raised at Milwaukee promises
a bitter fight
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-24

railroad fare? No excuse could be thin
ner in these days of high cost of feed for
horses as well as for humans. II any
Notwithstanding voter OF Oregon, who
lives on the wilder grasses himself. is
fooled, let him consider these approx
mate figures. Fare both ways by train
at 2is cents a mile, So; Pullman. 81;
meals on train. So; tips for train porters.
Sc: total $35.
Now consider the tens Of the ecOnoni-
cal horseback ride. First, we Will assume
that the governor owns his own nags
and IL not paying s. a day to a liveryman.
He rides at an average of thirty-fivc
miles a day. making a total Oft twenty
eight days for the 1,O0O-mile journey.
Again give him the benefit of a doubt
and take 1t for granted that for the noon
rest he let's the horse grace. by the road
side, and satisfies himself with the 80
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-24
GERMAN DOCTORS COMING.
Plans to Be Made to Entertain Emf.
nent Physicians.

committee composed Of representa-
tives of the various local German socie-
ties is to meet President James F. Oyster
at the Chamber of Commerce at noon
Monday for the purpose of discussing
plans for the entertainment of a party
of eminent German physicians who are
to arrive in this city September 23 for a
weeks stay. The physicians are repre-
sentatives of the German central COM
mittee for medical scientific expeditions
They are visiting this country for the
purpose of visiting medical universities
and colleges and clinics. They will be in
this city during the sessions Of the fif-
teenth International Congress on Hygiene
and Demog<aphy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-24

cents worth of sandwiches he has put in
the saddlebags on setting forth from the
inn in the morning But there must be
oats night and morning and hay and a
stall. That surely would amount to 75
cents a day. And for the horseman, bed
and board. We cannot think of any eX-
cellency eating and sleeping on less than
W a day. and we suspect him, even at
that figure of trying to curry favor with
the masses. But put ii down at So.
Then the horse must BIC curried. too.
and the stable boys at the wayside tav-
ems. who hold your stirrup as needless
~ and as obsequiously as any New York
waiter pushes the butter plate about
from place to place. must be remember
ed: also the hotel servants: SO IS cents
day for tips is a conservative estimate.
That makes the days total for entertain
ment for man and beast $3.50. Total for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-24
FRENCH FLIERS DELAYED.
Will Not Leave for Chicago Aero
Meet Until Tomorrow.

HAVRE, France. August IA delay
has occurred in the departure of the air.
men who are to represent France in the
contest for the international aviation
cup at Chicago September ..
Jules Vedrines. Maurice Provost and
Andre Frey were to have left this port
today on board the French transatlantic
liner La Lorraine. AS she did not, how
ever, arrive here from New York until
last evening very much belated. she could
not complete her coaling in time to leave
according to schedule. She will sail to-
morrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-24
RIDING FOR ECONOMY.
Cheaper to Travel on q Train Than
on a Horse.

From the >ew York Evening Poet,
IL is no doubt fine thing for the Gov
ernor of Oregon to ride 200 miles on
horseback to attend a conference with
other governors. IL he wants to travel
that way for fun or exercise or to see
the country, and then. on the way back
over the long stretches of quiet road. to
ponder the reforms that he and the other
governors have discussed. But why spoil
IL all by telling tho folks at home that he
rides a horse because he cannot AFFORD
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-24

the twenty-eight days. $l34. only about a
hundred dollars more than the cost of
the same journey by train.
The writer once spent a vacation on
horseback to save money, and SO thor
oughly enjoyed every mile and minute
of it that it was not until after he had
dismounted at the home gate that he
realized that for the same money he
could have gone to California and back
and won the esteem of every Pullman
porter between the Atlantic and the Pa
cific.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-24

1909 is considered in connection with its
history since 1S4S. as shown on the leg1s-
lative journals Of Congress and as shown
by the various reports of congressional
committees. it would seem to be the duty
of Congress to inquire fully into the
affairs Of the company.
From the hearings had by former COM
mittees of Congress and from their re-
ports it may be learned that the divi-
dends kept pace with every increase in
the capital stock. Indeed. the company
| appears to have been unable to increase
the capital stock fast enough to keep the
| dividends at reasonable rate on their
| face. The treasurer of the company, in
a letter to Mr. Samuel ]. Randall in 1881.
declared that 'for the thirty-one and
one-half years the average of cash and
stock dividends had been 1873 per cent
After 1881 the dividends seem to have
averaged much higher--1O per cent in
1852. 80 per cent in 1855 on S2.OOO,OOo
capitalization. 10 per cent in 1884. 12is per
cent in 1885. although the company
earned 171s per cent according to the
| Spooner report.
ION February 3. 1886. the company. in
answer to an inquiry. informed Repre-
sentative J. w. Babcock that the COM
pany had paid in the year 1895 dividends
! in the sum of S60O.00o. or more than u
per cent on it's capital stock. and had
remaining a surplus OF SIS, 3223S.
! 1T must be conceded that Congress has
the power to- regulate the charge for
gas. How can Congress exercise this
power with justice to the company and
the public in the absence OF information
touching the facts sought to be ELECTED by
this resolution?
| THE company is entitled to fair and
reasonable return on its investment; tho
value of the investment in dollars must
be known in order to determine what
would be a fair and reasonable return.
This return must be paid by the public.
From every standpoint the inquiry should
| be ordered.
Standard of capitalization.
Again. the inquiry should be or
dered TO the end that proper stand-
| arc for the capitalization OF all pub
| lie service corporations may be de-
clared and established BY Congress.
| Capitalization liz the key to govern
| ment control and regulation OF all corr
porations subject to it's jurisdiction.
/ The company under discussion and IN
curry furnishes to Congress an imme-
date opportunity TO declare wise and
ptudenf public policy in respect to cap
| italization of corporations generally.
| The opportunity should not be lost.
The committee reports the resolution.
| to the House with the recommendation
that IL do pass.
| "Your committee further recommends
that the interstate commerce commits
| sion should investigate at once the
your committee hearings that Wash
ington is Disseminated against In
| freight rates on coal and other COM
modities as against other seaboard
points. and IL there Is discrimination In
| take immediate action to relieve the
situation and. IL necessary. recommend
remedial legislation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-24

Mrs. Mary S. Hergenrother. widow of
Jonn NJ. Hergenrother of Havre de Grace,
Md. died at the home of her son, Jacob
j. Hergenrother. Friday. Had. she lived
until next February Mrs. Hergenrother
would have been ninety years old;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-24
J, I. Kolb Sells House.

The house at 2143 n street northwest
has been purchased from j. L. kolb by
j. ]. Minahan for $3.50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-24
Chapter and Verse.

From the Sydney BuIletin.
Tommy-Ssy. dad. who was Shylock.
Dad-What! Don't know who Shylock
was? What do Z send you to sunday
school for? Go ane read your Bible!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-24

II pays to read the want columns Of
The Star. Hundreds - atuatious are
diied through them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-24
PROBE
OF GAS COMPANY
(Continued from First Page.)

(Continued from First Page)
be required from time to time, in extend
ing the plant in the District Of Columbia
east of Rock creek. The act is an in
dependent. not an amendatory, act So
that it appears in 1872 the total author
lied capital stock of this company was
S2,O0O,OOO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-24

..when this report Of the company for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-24

No matter Svhere you
come from, If MIS-
SOURI, IS your STATE
OF MIND, zee can
SHOW YOU aOhy you
should o1On a home at
High VaeSU.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-24


$3.50"
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-05-17
.EMBEzzLER RICH AGAIN IN
Frank G. BigeIow of Milwaukee
Makes New Fortune.
Now In Business In laSalIe Street,
Chicago, Where He Is Again
Gathering in Profits.

Chicago, May Is. - Frank G.. Bige-
low, former president of the First Ma.
tional bank of Milwaukee, whose de-
falcation of nearly 100000 nearly
wrecked that institution seven years
ago and caused its wealthy stockhold.
ers to subscribe $1,O00,OO0 in twenty
four hours after the Chicago Clearing
House association came to the rescue
and saved the institution, again is in
LaSalle street.
Six years spent in the federal pen
itentiary at Leavenworth, from which
he was paroled a year ago, have not
dimmed his hunger for speculation,
which was the primary cause of his
downfall.
The former Milwaukee banker is
said 10 be once more on the high road
to ease and affluence as result of be-
ing Tong" on big line of wheat and
stocks, as we'll as corn and oats. His
profits are said to approximate $780,
900 from the corn and oats he is al
legged to have liquidated, while paper
profits in stocks and wheat are nearly
as much more.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-05-17
ROOSEVELT BY 10000
California Also Declares I'm
mistakably for Clark.
Incomplete Returns Show tha
These Two Candidates Distance
the Fled.

San Francisco. May I5.-Roosevelt
has carried California by plurality
which will amount to forty or fifty
thousand, and he had also carried San
Francisco. but not by so large a vote.
Returns are still incomplete, but
they show that Roosevelt is leading
everywhere and that in the southern
part of the state he polled more than
the combined vote of Taft and LaFol-
Iet.e. and in many places, supposed
TO be Republican strongholds, he has
beaten Taft by three to one. This
tremendous vote was scored in Pasa.
dena, Riverside and Santa Barbara.
In San Francisco majority of &C..
$40 womer must have voted for
Roosevelt
Clark is sure OF the Democratic
preferential vote, as he is running far
ahead of Wilson. In most of the re-
turns received thus far he has scored
at least to over Wilson.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-05-17
Il SIX
new BISH0PRICS
Episcopal Committee Favors
Retiring Two Bishops.
LISTOF EPISCOPAL RESIDENCES
Negroes Are Disappointed In Hope
They Might Have Bishop OF Their
Own Color-Committee Up
holds Ban on Amusements.

Minneapolis, Mimi, May l5.-The re
tirement of two bishops and the es
Enlistment of six additional Episcopal
residences was recommended to the
Methodist general conference by the
committee on Episcopacy.
This plan, if adopted by the confer
ence. will necessitate the election OF
eight new bishops. The report recon.
mends the retirement of Bishop Hen.
ry w. Warren of Denver, who is
eighty-two. and Bishop David H. Moore
Of Cincinnati. who is seventy-four.
The eight new bishops will scarcely
be enough to properly reinforce the
Episcopacy. Two have died during
the quadrennium, Goodsell and Syell.
meyer; two will be retired, Warren
and Moore, so that the election OF
eight new bishops will only increase
the house of bishops by four, making
twenty-four effective bishops, not
counting missionary bishops in a
worldwide field.
The report recommends that new
Episcopal residences be created in
Los Angeles, Pittsburg, Helena, Kan
sas City, Detroit and Rome, Italy
Two Episcopal residences, New York
city and st. Louis, are vacant, because
incumbents having died in the quad.
rennium. These, with the six above,
will be the palaces recommended by
the committee.
The present Episcopal residences
and the bishops assigned to each are
as follows:
Washington, ID. g., Earl Cranston
Cincinnati, o., D. II. Moore; Boston,
Mass, John w. Hamilton; Buffalo, 10.
seph II. Berg; Chicago, ILL.,, w. F. Nc.
Dowell; Pekin, China, ]. w. Bashford
Zurich. Switzerland, VIM. Burt; Den.
yer, Colo. Henry w. Warren; Phil.
adelphia, /. w. Wilson; New Orleans
T. b. Medley; Chattanooga, Tenn, w.
Neulsen; Oklahoma City. Okla, w. A.
Quayle; Portland, Ore. G. w. Smith ;
Foo Chow, China, w. S. Lee; San
Francisco, Z. II Huchess; st. Paul.
Mimi, Robert Mcintyre; Buenos
Ayres, Argentina, +. N Bristol
The missionary bishops are: James
NJ. Thomurr, retired; Joseph c. Hart.
zell, Funchal, MADEIRA Islands; Frank
II. Warne, Lucknow. India; Isiah B.
Scott, MonrCvia, Liberia; William F
Oldham. Singapore; John f. Robinson.
Bombay, India; Merriam &. Harris,
Seoul, Korea.
The hope OF the colored delegation
securing a bishop of their own race
has gone ;;iimme"ilg The sentiment
of the conference is strongly against
he innovation.
The committee on state Of the
c,.urch voted. after two days debate,
TO r""~mmcnd to the conference the
retention IN the discipline of para.
grarh geo, or the famous catalogue OF
prohibited amusements. The dis.
puted prohibition will now be brought
before the conference and pictur.
esOue debate will ensue. The ban, not.
withstandino tho cor'r'':tee's report,
will probably Re lifted in harmony
with tho bishops recommendation in
the Episcopal address.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-05-17
BEGIN SUGAR TRUST HEARING
U. s. Officials Offer Testimony in Suit
to Dissolve Concern.

New York, May 15.-The taking of
testimony in the federal action for the
dissolution of the American Sugar Re-
fining company was commenced here
before Special Examiner Wilson B.
Brice.
This action, together with the suit
against the United States Steel cor
poration, makes two big cases brought
by the government for the dissolution
Of the two so-called trusts that are now
under way in this city.
Much OF the evidence that was de-
veloped at the recent trial of the sugar
officials under indictments for restrain
ing interstate trade will be brought
out again.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-05-17
THREE VIOLENT DEATHS
Man Hangs Himself, Car Kills One
and Third Falls from Tower.

Kalamazoo, Mich, May 15.-Three
persons met death in violent forms
here In one day.
W. d. Smith, for nearly twenty-five
years the agent of the Michigan Gen.
trail at Galesburg, committed suicide
at the Kalamazoo state hospital. Rob-
ert Henderson of Gobleville was
struck by an interurban car at Com
stock and instantly killed. Harry j.
Kennene, aged thirty-one, Kalama-
zoo carpenter, died fifteen minutes
after he fell off high steel tower at
the Monarch Paper company's mill.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1912-05-17
MICHIGAN DEMOCRATS
Convention Meets at Bay City Today
to Select Delegates to Baltimore.

Bay City, Mich. May 15.-The Dem
ocratic state convention meets here
today to select six delegates at large
to the Baltimore convention.
The only question of Importance is
whether the delegates shall be in
structed, but it is considered absolute
ly certain the delegation will go to the
national convention uninstructed.
General Understanding Is That Pro-