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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-03

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William f. McCombs, chairman OF
the Democratic national committee.
who will direct the campaign Of Wood.
row Wilson for the presidency, is a
new figure in national politics. He
owes his selection to the sagacious and
intelligent manner In which he con-
Quoted Mr.. Wilson's pre-convention
campaign The actual plan of battle
will be directed by an executive com
mittee, of which Mr.. McCombs is ex
officio the head.
Chairman McCombs is a native OF
Arkansas, thirty seven years old and
n lawyer by profession. He was edu-
Gated at Princeton and the Harvard
Law school and was admitted to the
New York bar In 1901. where he has
acquired an enviable reputation In his
profession. Mr.. McCombs has been
close friend of Governor Wilson since
he was a student at Princeton, and
when the governor became candi'
date for the presidential nomination
the one time student took charge Of
the management of the battle. Mr..
McCombs is a bachelor, a prominent
clubman and a member of the board
of trustees Of the College Of the City
of New York.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-03
ST. JoHNsBuRy,s PROPOSITION.

The village of st. Johnsbury recently
has shown unmistakable signs of pro-
glessiveness, not the least of which is
proposal that the st. Johnsbury Com
mercial club engage a secretary, who
shall devote all his time to the advance
ment of the villages interests and to
work for fixed salary. Such an idea is
along the lines which are so popular in
the booming cities and towns of the
West and middle West, where it has been
found to pay well to have a secretary,
whose chief duty is to secure publicity of
his community. This idea of publicity
has been carried so far that some of the
middle West cities makes known their
municipalities attractions by space ad-
vertisements in the magazines Such
course is ultra progressive and perhaps
beyond the wishes of the average Yer
mont community; but the paid secretary
proposition is reasonable enough, since
there is too much for persons actively en-
gagged in their own private business to
accomplish without letting their own af-
fairs suffer. 1t needs someone who has
nothing else to do and who is paid for
his publicity work and therefore expect
ed to give results. If st. Johnsbury
should adopt this policy, it should find
itself making faster progress than most
Of the other communities in Vermont,
inasmueh as St .lohnsbury is the nat
ural large place for its section of the
state and should attract business to it.
self.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-03
W.seot. AspIrss to the roaa.

Former Judge John w. Wescott, who
made the nominating speech for Gov.
ernor Woodrow Wilson at Baltimore,
aspires to represent New Jersey In the
United States senate and has announc'
ed his candidacy TO succeed Frank O.
Briggs, Republican. Senator Briggs
term expires next March, and his sue.
cessor will be voted for in the prefer
entail primaries in September.
Formerly Judge Wescott was oppos
ed to Mr.. Wilson and was chosen by
the progressive Democrats Of New
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-03

Let me rock with mirth when the dust
flies up
And blinds his searching eye.
Let me then walk down to the man in
blue
And smile as | softly say,
"The number, sir, on the car you missed
Is Six-two-four, n. j.
Let me stand in the court by the side
of the judge
And laugh at the chauffeur's woe,
Let me realize that the motor car
Has made the cyclist go.
Then let me hear as ! sit at home
With my good wife at my side,
Perhaps, my dear, II is just as we'll
That we can't afford to ride"
Satire.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-03

While the Vermont state board OF
health is making its rounds of the state
in seeing that the law is enforced re-
garding fire escapes on public buildings,
it might turn for brief time to the
summer hotels which dot the state from
line to line. We may thereby avert a
horrible repetition of the recent Lake
Mercy fire.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-03
CURRENT COMMENT
What Batchelder Learned.

Wallace Batchelder seems to have
learned, what many others discovered
earlier in the campaign, that Col. Roose-
velt's interest in the so-called progress.
sive movement Is wholly personal, not
to say selfish. The Oyster Bays states
mans third term ambition has led him
to try to build party about one man.
None of the original progressives. not
even La Toilette, thought of trying 50
wild an experiment.-Rutland Herald.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-03

1t will cost Uncle Sam $1,000 to dig
hole for the new federal building in
Bangor, Me. Speaking of the high cost
of living, how about the high cost Of
digging?
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-03

Instead OF grumbling about United
States success at the Olympic games. the
British ought to settle down, manfash
ion, and lay the foundation for team
that will have some chance against the
Americans at the next 0lympiad in Der.
lin. That's the way out of their slough
of despond.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-03

Again we are reminded that baseball
is one of the worlds greatest civilizing
agencies. for the Filipinos have turned
from the cockpits to the diamond. Let
the game go on!
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-03
JINGLES AND JESTS
The Poor Pedestrians Plant.

The Poor Pedestrians Plant.
Let me live in house by the side Of
the road
Where the motor cars 90 by,
Let me gayly laugh when the bicycle
man
Flies up and hits the sky.
Let me be right there when the handle
bar
Sails mp in the nearest tree,
When the rider sprawls in the nearest
ditch,
Let me be there to see,
Let me sit in a chair in the cool of the
porch
As the traffic cop gees by,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-03
nMy Wife and l

live all alone in little brown house we
call our own. She's an annuitant and
so am /, so we're sure of an income until
we die. So sings one of our annui-
tants. Send for rates. National Life
Insurance Company, Montpelier, Vt.
(Mutual) S. S. Ballard, general agent,
Lawrence building, Montpelier, vt.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-03

If things keep on, New Hampshire
will be federal preserve, the govern
ment having just acquired 10000 acres
of land in the center OF the state. But
il the timber can't be saved, or cut rea-
sonably, in any other way, then let the
government continue to take the land
until New Hampshire comes to realiza-
ton of the full needs.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-03
JOHN W. wEscoTT.

Jersey in 1910 to nominate Mayor
Katzenbach of Trenton, Wilson's most
formidable opponent for the Demo,
cratic gubernatorial nomination.
Judge Wescott is native Of New
Jersey, sixty-three years old, and was
educated at Yale, where also he was
graduated in law. He was admitted
to the Connecticut bar in 1875, the
New Jersey bar in 1878 and in 1895
to the Pennsylvania bar. In 1885 he
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-03

Justices yandeyenter and Pitney OF
the Z. S. supreme court are in line Tor
the Roosevelt recall.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-03

Barre and Montpelier deserve some
thing better than to be held back IN
business by the lack OF electric power.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-03

Eugene W. Chain, the Prohibition can
didate for president, looks just like j.
Pierpont Morgan, except in pocketbook.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-03

IT'S the height of the summer season;
the Clan picnic tells us so.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-03

Wanted-At once, an engineer. Steady
job. Cross Bros, Mortified, VT.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-08-03
6,O75

copies, the largest circulation of any daily
paper in Vermont outside of Burlington
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-09
FOREIGN.

The steamer Texas struck mine at
the entrance to the Gulf of Smyrna
and sank. Sixty people were drowned.
1t is estimated that sum of G7.-
100000 is in the hands of the British
, government waiting to be claimed by
the rightful owners or their heirs
The British sloop of war Algerine
Commander Brooker, will leave Es.
quimault Immediately. bound to Mexi.
can ports to-protect British interests
in connection with the outbreaks re-
ported from Mazatlan, San Bias and
other ports.
With 220 dead and more than this
number wounded, many of whom were
unable even to crawl from the field cf
battle, a band of 1000 rebels, under
command of Manuel Guerrero, have
been completely routed by the garri-
son at Tepic, Mexico, aided by the
local police.
UnioniSt members of the British
House of Commons are preparing to
catechise the government regarding
what they characterize as Ambassador
Bryce's 'treasonable act" in support
ing the proposals made by President
Taft in the matter of Canadian reci-
procity and as to whether the govern
ment proposes to recall the ambas,
sador
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-09
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o o N q s, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, SUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

A tornado passed over Kinsley
Kan, recently, killing three OF four
Mexican laborers and seriously injur.
ing two others.
The Spanish war veterans of Colo
RADIO have organized regiment of vol
unteer cavalry, which will be accepted
by the War Department.
John Austen, pioneer resident OF
Livingston, Montana, was attacked by
an immense grizzly bear on Crevasse
mountain. near Jardine, and killed.
A Plymouth Rock egg weighing
seven ounces and measuring 9la
inches endwise and 711s inches the 9th
er way, is being exhibited by l.. Hiner
of Colorado Springs.
One company of the Twelfth infan-
try which has made preparations to
leave Monterey, California, for the
Mexican border, will be divided be-
tween Yuma, AriZ., and CaleXico, Cal
Two children of Joseph Stark were
burned to death and Mrs. Stark was
seriously injured at Helper, Utah,
when an explosion of an oil tank fol-
lowed collision of four Denver 4
Rio Grande freight cars with two
light engines in the yards.
Nick Haworth, who has served thir.
teen years of life sentence in the
Utah penitentiary for the murder OF
Thomas Sandal at Layton, in 1899, is
innocent, according to the written con-
fession of j. j. Morris, filed with the
Board of Pardons in Salt Lake.
A movement has been started in
Springfield. Missouri, by the churches
to suppress future contemplated box
ing bouts. This action is the result OF
the McCartyMorris fight held there re.
Gently. The church contemplates an
appeal to Governor Hodley to prohibit
such matches in the future on the
ground that they violate the laws OF
the state.
Detectives have been employed by
the city commission in enforcement of
the local option law with respect to
communion services in the churches
in Grand Junction, Colo, and have re-
ported that wine containing more than
two per cent. alcohol is used in the
services of at least one church. This
Is in direct violation of the law, but
whether the minister and trustees of
the church will be arrested and prose-
cuted, city officials refuse to say.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-09
SPoRr.
WESTERN LEAGUE

Jack Johnson says he will STRAIT for
his training quarters near Las Vegas,
N. NJ, in about three weeks.
The range of prices for the. Flynn
Johnson worlds championship fight at
Las Vegas, N. M, July 4, will be SIS,
500 and $40.
Luther Mccarthy of Springfield. Mo,
knocked out Carl Morris of Tulsa,
Okla, in the sixth round of ten-round
bout before the Springfield Athletic
Club. Edward w. Cochrane, sporting
editor of the Kansas City Journal,
refereed the bout. Mccarthy won with
swinging right to the jaw which fol
lowed straight left that had stag
gered the Oklahoman. Morris went
to the floor for count of fourteen
and even then did not appear to realize
that he had lost.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-09
WASHINGTON.

The German fleet will visit the
United States to return the call made
by the U. S. fleet to Germany last year.
First tests of the new rapid fire
Lewis gun, which weighs only twenty
five pounds. fires 500 shots a minute
and is designed so 1t can be used ad-
vantageously from an aeroplane, were
conducted at Fort Myer and were high
ly successful.
An International maritime confer
ence and the immediate equipment of
all United States army transports with
life-saving apparatus were provided for
in bills passed unanimously by the
House. Both measures were intro,
duced as a result of the Titanic disas-
ter.
With the probability of war with
Mexico and possibly with Japan immi-
nent, comprehensive and peculiar
plans for the organization of great
aerial army. powerful enough to defend
the entire coast line of the United
States, the Philippines, Hawaii and
Panama, are now complete in the De.
partment of War.
While busily engaged in probing an
accident to British ship and laying
bare a negligence in the matter of life
saving contrivances that has caused
deep criticism throughout the land, the
Senate committee, investigating the
sinking of the Titanic, has suddenly
found itself in the delicate position OF
the little boy who threw stones at
other peoples houses and himself lived
in house of glass. In word. it has
suddenly discovered that the safe
guards surrounding citizens of the
United States when afloat in boats be.
longing to the United States are even
more deplorable than those upon the
White Star liner. The United States
army transport service, a service
which annually transports thousands
Of soldiers, from ports in the United
States to ports in our foreign posses.
sions. is wholly negligent in this re.
spect.
The House ordered an investigation
by the judiciary committee of the con-
duct of Judge Robert w. Archibald OF
the Commerce Court, to determine
whether he should be impeached on
charges that he has used his office to
procure favors from railroads. The
committee will report its conclusions
and recommendations to the House.
The charges were made by Interstate
Commerce Commissioner Meyer and
investigated by Attorney General
Wickersham, who transmitted his
finding to the judiciary committee for
further investigation.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-09
Big Ditch for Poudre Valley.

Of Denver has made a report to the
farmers of the Oklahoma district in
regard to the Num- Creek reservoir
site, located about sixty miles in the
mountains west OF this city. The wa
tershed is sufficient for the irrigation
the side of the reservoir a large dam
will be built and water will be sent
through big tunnel into the Poudre
valley. where 1t can be turned into the
north side ditch and onto the land.
Fifteen thousand acres in the territory
will receive the benefit Of the project.
The land is situated five miles north.
east OF Loveland.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-09
To Extend Laramie Line.

Denver.-The stockholders commit
tee of the Northwestern Land and
Iron Company, the Denver-Laramie
Realty Company and the Colorado-Wy-
oming Realty Company, has an
nounced. through circulars. that It has
q definite plan to bring order out OF
chaos in the affairs OF these compa-
nieS and place the Denver, Laramie
and Northwestern railroad on basis
where additional funds can be raised
and tho line at once extended to Sew
erance. twelve miles from Greeley.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-09
LoveIand Has Large Beet Acreage.

Loveland.-The number of acres of
beets contracted for the Loveland
sugar factory is about $500 but as
many of the farmers are planting a
few acres in excess of the contracts
1t is expected that 10000 acres will
be devoted to beets. In the neighbor-
hood Of Johnstown, where the soil Is of
such a nature that it can be worked
in a damper condition than in other
parts of the district, about 1000 acres
have been planted, while only about
1000 were planted in all other locali-
ties. Everywhere the farmers are
feeling sanguine of good results and
are pushing the work vigorously.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-09
RIVER RISING;
DANGER GROWS
1000 PERSONS MAROONED ON
MISSISSIPPI LEVEES WAITING
TO BE RESCUED.
Is LIVES ARE LOST
FOOD is BEING DISTRIBUTED TO
10000 PEOPLE IN LOUlSI-
ANA ALONE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


New Orleans, La.-Huddled on
levees in various parts of the flooded
sections of Louisiana are more than
1000 men, women and children, fear
ing death by drowning and praying to
be rescued.
Five thousand persons have been
rescued from the path of the break in
the Torras levee alone. There are L.
500 refugees at Baton Rouge, 1900 at
Natchez, Miss, and 600 in and around
Vicksburg and thousands of others in
various small towns
Food is being distributed to 10000
persons in Louisiana alone
Rescuing parties returning from the
Torras district declare they are cer-
tain that at least seventyfive lives
were lost in that section.
The levee at Saint Sophia, forty
miles below New Orleans, has broken.
Water is pouring through a gap 200
feet wide and a section hitherto con-
sidered safe is being flooded.
New Orleans.-Whcn the official
gauge of the river registered 21.3 feet
weather bureau officials were of the
opinion that the Mississippi has start
ed on it's final lap toward the predict
ed crest of 21.5 feet, which would
mark the passing of the greastest
flood recorded in the Mississippi val
ley.
Clear weather and sunshine is re-
ported at all points from the Torras
crevasse to the mouth of the river.
The work of rescuing marooned per-
sons in isolated districts is progress
ing rapidly and boats coming into con-
ccntration camps are loaded with
women and chilaren.
There is scarcity of every kind of
navigable craft and everything that
can be steered and carry passengers
and supplies for even a short distance,
has been pressed into service. Hun
dreds of primitive flatboats that can
be towed by motor boats are being
constructed.
Work on the levees practically has
been abandoned here, where, in the vi
cinity of the American Sugar refinery,
the hot sun baked the repair WORK
done during the last three days. The
engineers are cheerful. many believing
that the worst has passed.
The work of Strengthening the
lcvees on the Algiers side has about
been completed and the experts be-
lieye more than a twenty-two-foot
stage can be held back.
nr1ao n IN
up the task of raising funds in connec-
tion with the relief committees and
several thousand dollars and many
carloads Of supplies have been sent
from this city.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-09
Kills Playmate; Held for Murder.

Grand JunctioI.-A childish tragedy
was enacted here as a result OF which
q seven-year-old boy Is dead and his
five-year-old playmate is held by the
police on a charge of murder. Little
Mickey Maloney, not quite four years
old, was the only witness to the kill
ing. He childishly explained to the
police how Johnny Santos walked up
to John Maloney. his brother, and
placing a .3S caliber revolver to his
ear fired bullet into his brain. Five
year-old JOHNNY Santos. as his play
mate fell dead. tossed aside the re-
voIver and walked out of the Santos
home.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-09
Might Not Get tho Children.

A young lady of ten was discussing
her future with her mother.
Yes. mommie," she said. II shall
get married and shall have four chill
dren."
THAT will be nice!" commented the
mother
MOI" continued the young lady
after a minute or two Of deep thought.
Maybe l won't have four children.
I might marry a bachelor! Saturday
Evening Post.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-09
Refugees Flock to City.

Bunkie, La.-Refugees from the
stricken and threatened sections OF
Pointe Coupe. st. Landry and Averil-
les parishes are flocking here on every
train one hundred Italians, mostly
women and small children, taken from
the levee at McGrae in POinte Coupe
parish were brought in. They had been
camping on the levee for five days
waiting to be rescued.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-09
BattleshIp to Rescue.

Washington.-The navy has entered
the field Of relief along the Mississippi
river. Captain Wood, commanding the
battlcship Nebraska, and Commander
Dismukes, commanding the gunboat
Pctrel, have been ordered to give all
assistance possible to the flood suf-
ferers. These vessels now at Ba-
ton Rouge arc on a cruise Of the Mis-
sissippi.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-09
Weld County Schools Hold Meet.

Grceley.-Ault. Greeley. Eaton, Fort
Lupton, Training, Gill and No. 80
grade schools participated in field
meet on the Teachers College campus.
Greeley won eighth grade honors;
Ault. seventh; Fort Lupton, sixth;
Training and Greeley schools tied for
fifth grade events; Greeley, fourth;
Training, third; Eaton second and
Training frs. The meet will become
an annual affair in the future.
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-09
GEN ERAL.

A son was recently born to Mr.. and
Mrs. John d. Rockefeller, Jr. This is
their fourth child.
The Mexican federal army was de.
feated by the rebel forces of General
Orozco in the big battle at Torreon,
Wheat prices in Chicago have
bounced up to new high records for
the crop. July prices range from s113
to $1.14.
The Carnegie hero fund commission
has taken action in recognition OF the
many acts of heroism in the wreck Of
the Titanic.
Large sections of fifteen Louisiana
parishes west of the Mississippi rive.
are under water. and others are en-
dangered.
Emilio Vasquez Gomez has assumed
the provisional presidency of Mexico,
saying it had been rendered him by
General Pasqual Orozco.
Speaker Champ Clark and Theodore
Roosevelt carried the Maryland pri-
maries on the face of incomplete re-
turns received from all counties of the
state.
The United States government has
been requested to intervene In the
presidential election in Panama to the
extent of seeing that it is fairly con.
Quoted.
Animals has purchased a downtown
site for a hospital for horses and other
animals. The building will be the
largest animal hospital in the world.
Following the publication of Miss
Helen Logan's editorial on slang In
the Wellesley College News, of which
she is editor in chief. word has been
passed around to the students to "cut
out the slang!"
Nineteen thousand ministers will in.
ployment of children under sixteen in
factories and textile mills, was an
nounced at the general conference OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church
The cable ship Minia, which re.
lieved the Mackay-Bennett in the
search for bodies Of Titanic victims
near the scene of the disaster, has
reached Halifax, N. s., according to
wireless advices, bringing fifteen add.
tional bodies.
Ten passengers and six trainmen
were killed and forty other passengers
and members OF the train crew in.
jured in the wreck of the Confederate
Veterans special train near Hatties.
burg. Mississippi. Three passengers
besides the reported dead are missing.
The engine, baggage car and day
coach and three tourist sleepers left
the track and rolled down an embank-
ment.
The cornea Of Z rabbits eye has
been grated upon the eye OF a man
In New York md the operation was
successful. The patient. says the
journal of the American Medical As
sociation, was entirely unable to see
when he entered the hospital.
Officers OF the United Mine Workers
of America, who have been In confer.
ence In New York express confidence
that a strike Of the mine workers OF
the three anthracite districts, idle
since April /. has been avertsd, and
that q satisfactory agreement will bs
entered into
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-09
To lrrisate by Pumping.

Windsor.-For the purpose of bring
ing large tract of land lying south,
southwest and southeast of Windsor
under irrigation which is now too high
to- be reached by ordinary methods, it
is proposed to build pumping plant,
which will force water from Boyd lake
to the land
Gilpin observer., 1912-05-09
Propose constitutional Amendment.

Pueblo.-At meeting of represen-
tatives of Grand Junction, Colorado
Springs and Pueblo here, a skeleton
constitutional amendment, giving
cities of Colorado having population
of 1000 or over, the right to adopt
special charters, was tentatively
agreed upon. This draft of an amend
ment to Article Xxx. of the state con-
stitution will be submitted to the vot-
ers of the state at the general elec-
tion this fall.