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The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-04
Joshua Had Nothing
On Prussian Police
They Are the Final Judges AS
to When It's Light and When
It's Dark.

Berlin, Oct At is dark in Prus-
STA whenever the police say it is dark
The mere fact that it may happen
still to be daylight in defiance of po-
lice orders is of no Importance.
This is the decree of the Prussian
Supreme Court in an appeal taken by
a truck owner accused of driving after
dark without a lantern on his wagon.
The law prescribes that lantern
must be carried by such vehicles after
dark, and the police have decided that
it is dark thirty minutes after the sun
SETS The defendant admitted that
he had driven after the prescribed
time without lantern, but contended
that it was still light. Two lower
courts permitted him to prove his
contention and acquitted him. The
police, the lower courts held, have no
power to set a certain time when it
shah be considered dark. The actual
conditions must govern in each case.
The Supreme Court has reversed this
decision upon appeal by the prosecu-
tor and imposed a fine on the Offend
er.
An analogous ruling has been made
in an action for DANA ges, brought by
a tenant of an apartment house who
had fallen in a dark hallway and in
jured himself. The landlord plead
ed that the hour had not yet arrived
when, by police regulation, Railways
must be lighted. The plaintiff Of
fered proof that it was quite dark
when the accident happened. The
proof was excluded as irrelevant. The
police, said the court, had decided
that it was dark at a specified hour,
and that settled it.
German Population Shows Retarded
Growth.
A decided check in the growth of
Germany's population, most alarming
to the military apostles CT the en-
pire, is shown by the statistics for
1911 which have just been published.
The surplus of births over deaths
fell from $4,000 in 1910 to 100000
in 1911, shrinkage in the rate of
growth of 139, 900, or over 5 per cent.
This marked retardation in the
growth of the nation was due both
to a reduction in the number of
births and an increase in the death
rate. Despite an increase in mar
riages from 496, 1876 to 512,819 the to-
tai number of births for the empire
dropped from 1,982,S36 in 1910 to L.
927,039 in 1911, while on ire other
hand, the number of deaths rose from
1, 103,723 to 1,187,O94, an increase of
more than $4,000. This increase in
m ortality is attributed chiefly to the
heat and drought which
prevailed during the summer of 1911
and under which infants suffered with
particular severity.
Almost a third of the deaths, $780,
522, during the year were of children
under one year old, some $4,000 ba-
bies more than in 1910 succumbing to
the heat. The death rate for chill
dren in their first year rose from 1872
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-04

Indian lost his life. On one occasion,
it is related, Proctor calmly looked on
while the Indians tortured an Ameri-
can prisoner. Tecumseh came up,
turned to Proctor and said: " GU see
this, and you call yourself a soldier!
7 gu should wear petite oats!"
On the day before his last battle,
when General William Henry Harrf-
son was approaching with a vastly
superior force, Tecumseh had a pre-
monition of his coming end. He re-
moved his adopted uniform of a Brit
ish brigadier-genera1, and donned his
Indian costume. With his last breath
he cursed Proctor his white colleague,
as a coward. Within a few minutes
of the beginning of the action, Tecum-
seh's prediction of his own death was
fulfilled.
After the brief battle, from which
Proctor had fled early in the day,
the bodies of two Indian warriors
were left upon the field. One of the
dead Indians was thought to be Te-
cumseh, and the Kentuckians, forget
ting their debt of gratitude for his
noble conduct at Fort Meigs, stripped
slashed it with their sabers. AS a
matter of fact, however, it is likely
that the dead Tecumseh was carried
from the field by his warriors.
Tecumseh, the savage of heroic
mold" was born near the site of
Springfield. o., in 1853. He was
Graded in strife, for it was a day
when the Indians were vain1y trying
to turn back the tide of white immi-
grafton. He received his baptism of
fire at the age of eighteen, when his
village was attacked by a paleface
force. Tecumseh, frightened, turned
and fled at the first fire. 1t was the
only time he ever retreated. From
that time until his death his face was
ever toward the foe.
AS chief of the Shawnees, he at
tempted to organize the western In
dams against the white, and in this
project he had the assistance Of his
brother, E1sKwatawa, 1.-The Prophet
a great religious leader among the
Indians The latter was defeated by
Harrison at Tippecanoe in 1911, and
Tecumseh then offered his services to
the British. Acting with such brave
English leaders as Brock and Harvey,
he was almost invincible. and his
Indians would do anything for him
even refrain from massacre and tor
ture.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-04

in 1910 to 1872 in 1911. The general
death rate too, after steady decline
for a number of years, rose to 1872
per 1000 as compared with III in
1910.
Summing up the statistics in anoth-
er form the net surplus of births over
| deaths per thousand of population
was only 11.3 in 1911, as against ID. 6
in 1910 and 14.9 for 1906. These sta
tistics bring out also the fact that al
most 80 per cent. of the il1egitimate
children died before reaching their
first birthday.
New View of Canal.
A novel Interpretation of how the
Monroe doctrine should be applied af-
ter the completion of the Panama Ca
nal has just been voiced by a Ger
man diplomat of authority and high
| position. In substance it is to give
the United States full control as far
south as the tsthn1ian waterway, but
to let the countries of Europe, incIud-
ing Germany, have a free field from
Panama to TERRA del Fuego.
The high standing of this diplomat
may reasonably be expected to inf1u-
ence the standpoint of Germany in
famous doctrine of American foreign
relations; consequently his views are
not without certain interest. He
would cut the American continent in
two at the Panama Canal and allow
to the United States full and free
hand as far south as that waterway
but exclude from the sphere of any
Washington supervision or control the
relations of Germany, and the other
European powers, with the states Of
South America. He believes Ger
many should refrain from any inter
ference whatsoever in Mexico, and
that the same rule should apply to all
the Central American states. This
would involve a virtual extension of
the southern boundary of the United
States to the Canal, so far the re-
lations of these states to the Euro
pean powers is concerned. This, it
will be seen, is the Monroe doctrine
for Central America in an even
stronger form than is at present en-
forced.
But the European states must and
should, this diplomat believes, be al
lowed to settle their controversies
with the countries south of this line
in their own way and without refer
ence to Washington. The role of the
United States as guardian and pro-
tector to the whole continent is, he
believes a thing of the past; the South
American states have reached years of
discretion; they are out Of the legiti-
mate sphere of control of the Amer, I
lean Department of State; the coun-
tries of Europe are entitled to insist
on a. free hand in their relations with
them.
Archibald Remains.
Archibald, the American rider who
is at the head of the winning jockeys
in Germany this year, has renewed
his contract with Baron s. A. Won
Oppenheim, thereby rejecting hand
some overtures to engages him for the
French turf.
Thanks largely to Archiba1d's tai
ents, the Oppenheim stable this year
heads not only the other German sta
bles but those of the world in win
nings, having up to September II ta-
ken prizes amounting to $196,640.
This is the highest figure reached by
a private stable in Germany and is
only some $4,000 behind the record
scored last year by the government
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-04
BE CAUTIOUS IN THE WOODS.

the number sportsmen increases and the
and hunting decreases Human habatons spread
further into the woods and powerful used
during hunting
stanty increases
Formerly these mischances happened mostly when
accidentally discharged hit hunsman his
date companions constantly mistaing
motions of concealed game and long distance
shots find their way to outlying homes.
During the autunnal shooting the woods full of
SPORT whom every rustic in the distant bushes
They have acquired of the habits of obser
by which the trained woodsman watches for wild life.
woodcrat should have this
strict against shooting by
III mt set
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-04

Allison MacFarland, formerly of
Newark, was twice tried there on the
charge of numbering his wife. His
Bunny letters to Miss Bromley when
he was advertising manager of the
Croker Wheeler Electrical Company
of Newark indicated then, in the year
1911, that he was in love with Miss
Bromley. These letters and the sub
sequent death of his wife by drinking
poison were the basis of the murder
charge. mcfarland insisted that his
wife committed suicide.
Mcfarland was convicted at his
first trial and sentenced to die. A new
trial was ordered and the jury acquit-
ted him. A few days after his re-
lease he was arrested in New York on
a charge of counterfeiting and sent to
the Federal penitentiary at Atlanta,
Ga, for ten months. He was recently
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-04
DIR. SWEET AND BRIDE
SURPRISE FRIENDS IN
ST. VINCENT'S HOSPITAL

Dr. Groves c. Sweet of New Haven,
until about month past house sur
geon at ST. Vincent's hospital and now
in charge of the x-ray work there on
the visiting staff, visited the institu-
ton last night. The visit proved a
surprise, being unsch eduled and I'M
professional Mrs. Sweet was with
him, the stop off being made on their
honeymoon trip. The wedding, a, quiet
one, took place at o'clock last night
in New Haven with Rev. F. j. Sexton,
rector of St. James church in West
Vile, officiating.
The bride, Miss Olive L. deGroff,
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-04

daughter of Mrs. M. B. deGroff of
Vineland, N. J., was accompanied by
Miss Jessie Chadeayne of New Haven
as bridesmaid. Percy NJ. Smith of New
Haven, right guard on the Swarth-
more college football eleven a few
years ago, was best man.
DR.. Sweet is a member of the famous
Sweet family of natural bonesetters
and one Of the few to ever receive a
medical diploma. A native Of New
Haven, he gained his education in the
schools of that city. Yale and Balti-
more Medical school. His work at st.
Vincent's was of an unusually high
character and, on account of this, he
was made a member of the visiting
staff following the completion of his in
ternship.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-04
To GIVE UP BUTTER?

Among health enforced at Vassar college
that the girls not supplied with butter this fall
from the like milk and is i'm
the most natural food the world contains
of life and converts the severity of
of rich satisfaction for the hungry
that the peoples of Southern Europe and other
largely without butter But is largely
economy habit frugal custom of people whose imperfect
industrial restricts Of subsistence
really out butter from its table, it of
that the students will be healthier
wholesome diet dependent appetite
as well most people bread without
butter unattracve that but little would be eaten
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-04
.e1eased from Atlanta.

released from Atlanta
While MacFarland was in prison he
learned that an uncle had died in
England and bequeathed him about
$4,000. When MacFarland was ac-
quilted Of the murder charge he an
nounced that he expected to marry
Miss Bromley. It was through the
Bunny letters being brought into
the first trial that the second trial was
ordered.
Miss Bromley lived with her par
ents at 4237 Viola street, Philadel-
phia.
AS the beef packers are buying
meat only 1 IL cents a pound less
than last year, it is believed that
prices to the Consumer must be high
er.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-04
WATER BOTTLES

We have an assortment that
cannot be equalIed in any
wholesale house, and the Price
is the lowest. We have them
from
6Oc to S2.75
FOUNTAIN SYRINGES
75c to $500
BULB SYRINGES
Soc to $500
SPORTING GOODS
........ 75c to $500
80. $3.50 to $500
Bags =. $3.50 to $500
Gloves $3.50 to $500
Per Set.
JERSEYS ..... 9sc to $3.50
400. $3.50 to $3.50
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-04
WEEDS
HIS OWN BUNNY
Twice Tried on Charge of Wife
Murder He MarrieS Florence
Bromley.

Niagara Falls, N. Y, Oct. AL
lison mcfarland of New York and
Miss Florence Bromley of Philadel-
phia were married here on Wednes-
day Miss Bromley reached Niagara
Falls at noon and became bride an
hour later.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-04
I he d. NJ. Read Co,
ia Est46lssAsd x85z
A Season of Beau Brocades.
Est46lzSASd 1857.

This year. the dress returns to favor, and the
of modest wardrobe will not find herself confined to
tailored gown with the required number of separate waists
for occasions Needless to say the dress, in piece
very convenient, and becoming to everyone.
Anticipating the fact that the finer qualities and light
weights of WoolenS will be in demand there has
provided larger stock of WOOL and Silk and Dress
Goods than have shown for number of seasons
specified here and only wish that samples could
be printed along with this to show texture and coorng
No. 1. A Silk and Wool novelty of the Crepe family
wool ground with design threaded with silk In vista
ria, navy blue kings blue, Delft, tango and taupe
inches wide $1.5O yard
No. z. An Atwood Brocade, sort of dan1ask weave
which exceedingly stylish, and this could be used COM
bnaon with plain goods of the same shade. In mahog-
any brown navy blue, Copenhagen blue and taupe; A
inches wide, $125 yard.
To be continued in next
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-26

London's hotels and lodging
houses are filled to the skylights with
blooming Yankee tourists. Never be-
fore has the city welcomed more
travellers who say, Il should worry"
and gnaw ,pepsin gum and demand
the baseball scores by cable.
It's nothing short Of an American
invasion, a calamity never dreamed
Of by the ancient Romans and Druids
who built the city's hotels and pTune
joints and installed the plumbing.
Therefore, even milliOnaires are
forced to tramp the streets or else
contest with local lOafng, talent for
soft spots on park benches.
AS it doesn't cost much more to
cross England in a taxicab than to
cross Broadway, U. S. A, in one,
some of the WeH-tO-do visitors are
hiring machines by the hour in order
to grab repose. You can dream you
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-26

. ~ :.
81 ~ : !
a I :. 2G
Out in the cold world, out in the
street,
Asking nights lodging of each boob
meet.
They auctioned a garnet, but I was
outbid.
Reg Vanderbilt got it for ten thou
sand guild!
The Wall of Homeless Million
aire.
How would you like to have mil
lion dollars or so at your beck and |
call and be homeless in London |
town? Rich, and nary pillow to |
rest your head or a quilt to deaden |
your SHORES!
Late cable, dispatches relate that |
American tourists are trotting the |
streets of the roast-beef metropolis |
in a vain search for a room and bath, |
but they'd be dead willing to sleep in |
a bath tub that leaks.
Best HOTEL IN INU0
s. E g.! : :: 4 f. :. 8
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-12-31
Irritation dtstrtc, held invalid BY

Irrigation district held invalid By
Judge Phelps.
December e3-Council in caucus
considers experts report on water
commission books School closes for
holidays. Coolest night In years. .
above.
December 24-August Ottke, bitten
by dog. sues Frank Pedro for $4,000.
January panel drawn. Julius Will
liams. well known indian. found dead
with head in water barrel.
December z5-Chrfstmas celebrated
I'm Pendletcn. Relief association
brings Joy to poor homes. Mer-
chants declare Christmas trading best
In years. Indians at rutuilia enjoy
Christmas tree.
December 2s-Dance room bsawlers
from Birch creek fined In justice
court.
December :s-Rsiph Koch, wen
Known young man. falls from two
story building to pavement and sus-
tains serious injuries. P1sns for
$4s.eos improvement to Hotel Pen
aSeton completed. Pendle<en Joins
IN fight to secure regional reserve
bank for Portland. Marion Jack
9uotes authority for statement that
Col. Raiey assisted DR.. Best in cam
paign. o. A. c. band here.
December 3o-Mrs. LeoRa Thomp-
son. pioneer Psndleton lady. dies sud-
denly In Portland. Marshall Ayers
JAILED for contempt when he ref,sss
= obsr court order.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-12-31

November Move Is started to
have millrace abolished.
November S-First Hermistor
dairy show proves success. Charges
re made against DR.. Best.
November 10-Measles continue tr
spread among school children Wife
OF Columbia George comes to his de-
tense.
November ll--Boom started FOL
DR.. C. j. Smith for governor. Pen.
dleton property owners will pay 27
mill tax. Directorate OF Roundup
reelected. Banquet given men who
made Roundup success.
November 12-Jury finds Columbia
George guilty Of murder In second
degree.
November 13-C. r. Coleeworthy
announces candidacy for water com.
missioner.
November 14-Pendleton high
school defeats Baker at football w
A. Brown denies that ne Il dead Mrs
Laura Kurrle dies. Pendleton bath.
robe sent Miss Jessie Wilson for we'd.
ding gift.
November 17-1.Aborer b killed q,
Umatilla in wreck. Menbsp Of va
ter commission reply 70 Best,
| charges. Assessor Strain Osse e
Salem to protest against high valao
tion in Umatilla county. Fire de-
stroys home Of Tom r. Hampton
Candidates file for city election.
November 1s-Denny H. NoNahos
ends his life by jumping Z. front O.
fast train.
November 1s-Dr. Chiffon p
Hodges says make Pendleton flyies,
town. Petition calls on council I,
eliminate Byers' mill race
| November 20-Deputy Sheriff
Strand called to endorse check: ar
rests man for forgery.
| November 21-Pendieton high de
feats walla walla on gridiron.
November 22-Robert J. Slater die
In Portland.
| November 23-Burglars enter hom
of Wesley N. Matlock and secure val
ables.
November 25-Local telephone ex
change announces important change
In service which will place Pendieto,
on the main line. City Attorney Car
ter upholds water board regardin
payments to Kelsey. Roundup equip
permanent offices.
November 26--Driveways at East
ern Oregon State hospital being paw
ed. Turkeys five cents less poun
than year ago. Council modifies an
t-bill board law.
November 27-Mark Lewis die
J from broken back sustained In ia
. from wagon because of bad road!
Pendleton keeps Thanksgiving b
closing all business houses. Pendlt
ton high defeats Wallowa high
J football game.
December Wv. F. Matlock r,
5 elected mayor. Commission charts
defeated. DR.. Best reelected to wate
: commission. Local business ME
3 favor immediate passage of currenc
bill. Rugy home burglarized. burs
D lar captured. Philip Minthorn, note
S Indian religious worker. dies.
: December white house brio
acknowledges receipt of Pendletc
= gift. Commercial club endorses In
;. provement of Columbia. Fred Brocl
man Of Walla Walla tries to jun
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-12-31
CONTINUED from Page 1s. Section ~

Salt Lake wild west show ends In scan.
dal. Rural delivery route No. I ex-
tnded two miles. Work suspended on
Wild Horse road. Sun-burned ranch
er. taken for Indian, can't get drink
July l6.-President Of Pacific Tele-
phone company Is entertained here
Committee named to draft commission
charter.
July 2l--Mrs. Aura N, Raley,
mother Of Pendleton." s called by
death.
July a3--Terry McKune resigns as
manager Of Buckaroos. Location Of
fire alarm boxes fixed. Sam r.
Thompson elected new livestock direc-
tor of Roundup.
July 25-rarm residence OF Charles
Crowley on reservation destroyed BY
fire.
July 2s--Half, Of local Chinatown
u prey to fire. Sub committees are
named to formulate new charter. Su'
preme court denies new trial In Johns
VI. city.
August.
August i---Thermometer reaches
l07 degrees. Fire destroys threshe'
owned by Ely Enbysk. Stage Gulch
farmer.
August 3-Contest for naming
Roundup buffalo closes.
August 3-Mr. and Mrs. Leon Co.
hen, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. F. Robinson anc
Harold Smith return from S5s mile,
trim by auto. carrying Roundup ban
ner.
August 6--Twenty-four pairs o
China pheasants are liberated on thu
reservation. Program concession fo'
Roundup Is awarded. Old academ!
building destroyed by fire. following
serious blaze at Domestic laundry
Secretary OF War Garrison and Ma
Tor General Wood spent short time II
city,
August s-water commission inves
tigates use of chloride Of lime to pre-
vent typhoid.
August 11--Hundreds Of fish die II
Umatilla river. Announcement mad
that 100 autos will leave Portland 70
the Roundup.
August 12---More Indians than eve
before will take part in the Roundup
Water will be purified before used
State officials accept invitation to at
tend Roundup. Dean Tatom chose
10 fill vacancy on Accommodate
committee for Roundup.
August Island for fish hatcher
on reservation Is denied by Interio
Department because Indians object
ed. Educator says university will wi
fight on referendum. Electric enur
ciators secured for Roundup. Fir'
steps taken for Improving Wate
street.
August 19--secretary OF the1nteric
Franklin X. Lane arrives In city an
delivers address before commerci'
club.
August 2o--Announccmcn mad
that Young estate Is ready to be q