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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-12

Word was received at Winsted, to- day, of the suicide at Clayton, Mass.,. of Byron Rood, aged 65. When found, it was said, he had s5 in his
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26
JAPs INCREASE IN. HAWAII
Census Figures Show They Constltut
ed More Than TWo-Fifths OF
Population in 1910.

Washington, June 81. - Those per
sons who are inclined to consider the
Japanese as a serious menace to the
safety of this country will find fuel
to kindle their fires of agitation in 2
bulletin on the composition and char
acteristics of the population of Ha
wall, soon to be issued by Director
Durand of the bureau of census, de
partment Of commerce.
The statistics, which were prepared
from the thirteenth decennial census
taken in 1910, show that the Japanese
in that year, numbering 1866, con
stituted 41.5 per cent, or more thar
two-fifths of the total population, while
the Japanese, Chinese and Koreans
combined numbered 105,882, or 55i
per cent of the total population. The
increase of the Japanese in the dc
cade 1g00-1910 was 1864, or 30.4 pei
cent In the same period the Chinese
decreased 4,093, or 1873 per cent.
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socjETY.MAoNEss IS.
s. r. MORSE. Editor.

We are not content to leave much
TO Nature nowadays If we were, ger
haps we would get along better than
we co and with fewer worries 10 make
us grow old before our time, says the
Charleston News and Courier. Phila-
oelphia just at present is being held
up before the eyes of the country as o
horrible example. Some Industrious
statistician, seeking light or perhaps
seeking coin, has undertaken to ascer-
tain the effects Of social activity in
that city upon those who take part
in it. He has discovered that the
season which is just now drawing to
a close has very nearly sent some OF
the society leaders to their graves.
He has unearthed the fact that Of the
women who have been in the main
responsible for what is declared to
be the most strenuous social season
in the history of the city Of Quakers
several are now in state Of utter
collapse as direct result of the
strain to which they have been sub
1ected. This is interesting, but why
get alarmed? Social leaders of this
sort can very well be spared. If they
are taken away from US they never
will be missed Why not let Nature
have her way and infict what punish
ment she deems fit on those who have
not intelligence enough to take care
of themselves?
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act are also clear. The country has
sought and seen its path in this mat
ter within the last few years-see II
more clearly now than it ever saw IL
before-much more clearly than when
the last legislative proposals on the
subject were made. We must have q
currency, not rigid as now, but readily,
elastically responsive to sound credit,
the expanding and contracting credits
of everyday transactions, the normal
ebb and flow of personal and corporate
dealings. Our banking laws must mo-
Billie reserves; must not permit the
concentration anywhere in few hands
Of the monetary resources of the coun-
try or their use for speculative pur-
poses in such volume as to hinder or
impede or stand in the way of other
more legitimate, more fruitful uses.
And the control Of the system of bank
ing and of issue which our new laws
are to set up must be public, not pri-
vate, must be vested in the govern
ment itself, so that the banks may be
the instruments, not the masters, of
business and of individual enterprise
and initiative.
The committees of the congress to
which legislation of this character is
referred have devoted careful and dis
passionate study to the means Of ac-
comprising these objects. They have
honored me by consulting me. They
are ready to suggest action. l have
come to you, as the head of the gov
eminent and the responsible leader of
the party in power, to urge action now,
while there is time to serve the coun-
try deliberately and as we should, in
clear air of common counsel. ! appeal
to you with deep conviction of duty,
l believe that you share this convic-
ton. / therefore appeal to you with
confidence. / am at your service with
out reserve to play my part in any way
you may call upon me to play it in
this great enterprise of exigent reform
which it will dignity and distinguish
us to perform and discredit us to neg
lect.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26
DOCTOR AS CROWNS WITNES
Claims Smash on Jaw in First
Round Was Fatal to
McCarty.

Calgary, Alta, June 23.-Medical
evidence tending to show that Luther
McCarty died in the prize ring May
"a as the direct result of a blow to
the jaw administered by Arthur Pei
key was presented by the crown at
the trial of Pelkey, who is charged
with manslaughter.
While differing on minor points
with DR.. H. H. Moshier, who conduct
ed the autopsy on McCarty's body,
DR.. III. M. Merritt, the crowns princi-
pal witness, agreed that the clot of
blood on McCarty's brain had been
caused by the blow delivered by Pei
key in the first round of the bout.
During his testimony, A. L. Smith,
counsel for the defense, attempted to
show that Dr. Merritt was contradict
ing evidence given by DR.. Moshier.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26
MOUNT M'MNLEY ASCENDED
EPISCOPAL MINISTER REACHES
HIGHEST PEAK.
Archdeacon Hudson Stuck Makes
Complete Readings and Observa-
tions by Barometer.

Fairbanks, Alaska, June 23.-The
ascent of the highest peak of Mount
Mckinley was accomplished for the
first time June 7, when the party led
by Archdeacon Hudson Stuck, Epis-
copal missionary for Alaska, accom-
panied by Robert G. Tatum, Harry p.
Karsten and Walter Harper reached
the top of the south peak of the noun
tain, the highest on the continent.
News of the sacess of the expedi-
ton has just been received by a mes
senger sent by DR.. Stuck, who is rest
ing at the base camp. Archdeacon
Stuck expects to return to Fairbanks
in August and will go to New York in
October, as delegate for Alaska to the
general conference of the Episcopal
church.
DR.. Stuck and his assistants erected
a six-foot cross on the summit of the
great mountain. Observation made
with the mercurial barometer indi-
cate the height of the mountain is
20,500 feet
DR.. Stuck said this could be check
ed by comparing the reading or MS
barometer with records taken at Fort
Gibbon on the same date.
The expedition, which left Fairbanks
March Is, expected to reach the sum-
NIT OF Mt. Mckinley early in May,
but was delayed three weeks by the
cutting of a passage three miles long
through ice thrown across the ridge
by an earthquake last summer.
The party found much evidence of
seismic disturbances on the upper rid
ges. The upper basin shows evidences
of violent upheaval and the ridges
are badly shattered, but the SUBMITS
are not marred.
Archdeacon Stuck confirmed the as
cent of the north peak by Thomas
Lloyd and three companions in 1910,
being able, with field glasses, to see
the flag staff erected by the Lloyd
party.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26
PASSION FOR THE "PARLOR"
Medical Officer Finds Fault With Gus
tom of Using Poorest Rooms
for sleep.

In the course of lectures on per-
sonal hygiene at the Royal Sanitary
institute, Prof. II. r. Kenwood, medi-
cal officer of health for Bedfordshire,
dealt with "The Home" Much might
be done for the prevention Of tuber-
culosis by the improvement of the
home, he said, according to the London
Daily Telegraph. Wherever there was
dirt there was also degradation. But
it was the really invisible dirt in the
form of germs in the atmosphere or
ground that was the most harmful. 1t
was essential in dealing with these to
make the acts of cleansing as simple
as possible, and there should be no
heavy pieces of furniture to move;
no nailed-down carpets, but movable
strips and squares and light washable
curtains. 1t should be remembered
that there is no such thing as dry
cleaning. busting was a mere dis
turbance of particles unless damp
cloth, tea leaves or wet sand were
employed.
Was there, he asked, anything moro
dUSuIu Ludu W nuO d lALI1C i1OooO III q
shabby genteel street with its bed
room accommodation overtaxed and
the best apartment used as the par.
lor-that holy of holes, with its odor
that might be called sanctimonious.
and occupying cubic space that could
be far better used? This passion for
the parlor was almost like the fetish
of the uncivilized
Direct sunshine, with it's regenera-
tive power and germicide effects,
should not be reduced by heavy cur
tains. 1t was the soundest of invest
ments to make the home as healthy
and attractive as possible. The cuckoo
type of parent, depositing it's children
at school and expecting them to learn
everything there, should realize that
the true influences in youth are those
of the home itself
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26

Floating factories have become ali
important part Of the development of
the forest resources of India. In GER
tain parts of that country the forests
are only accessible through the water
courses, and the great expense Of
erecting the plants for the utilization
of the lumber resources makes such
a course impracticable. Therefore,
sawmills and other manufacturing
esta blishments are built on floating
platforms and moved up the streams
as they are needed. After the lumber
is prepared in a sawmill it can be
packed in a way that makes transpor-
tation much more economical than
any system of logging. Plants for
the preparation of tannin extracts
have also been established ia this
manner. The plants are built on fiat
boats, 200 feet long by q feet wide,
capable of carrying a load of 40 tons.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26
Sentiment is More Favorable.

New York, June 23.-Bradstreet's
review of trade says: Sentiment, as
distinguished from actual business, is
somewhat more favorable than hereto
fore. In this respect conservatively
sanguine factors are sufficiently num-
erous to more than Offset retarding
developments. It is felt that stocks
have been quite fully starved, that
textile lines probably have discounted
the effects Of coming tariff changes,
that crop prospects certainly are good
enough to warrant optimism, and the
removal Of apprehension.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26

When the Sultan OF Turkey comes
into an American court on a suit, he
must be exactly on the same footing
as any other litigant, and has to put
up bond like any other, which was
the information conveyed to his royal
ears via his attorney, in suit for
the insurance on the life of a rich
Armenian. The decision is a patri-
otto one, as any citizen in an Ameri-
can court is as good as any king,
emperor, prince or sultan. AS far as
the bond was concerned, that was
prudent as we'll as patriotic.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26
HOUNDS ON TRAIL OF ROBBERS
MINER ARRESTED IN ILLINOIS
HOLD-UP CASE.
Two HighWayman Passed by $4,000
in Loot, Obtaining Only a
Small Sum.

Springfield, ILL.,, June 20.-Two
masked bandits, who held up the the
Diamond Special on the Illinois Cen
trail railroad near here, dynamited the
express car safe and overlooked $685.
600 in loot, are still at liberty. Off
Gals of the company placed the plum
der obtained by the robbers at $19.36.
Members of the sheriff's force, rail-
road detectives and Springfield police
are searching the surrounding coun-
try Bloodhounds took up the scent
near Fifteeth and Maple streets where
two men passed on the run and follow
ed the trail into the city. They stop
ped at the home of James Connolly,
20 years old, miner, who was found
in bed asleep. He was arrested, how
ever, on suspicion of knowing some
thing about the holdup.
In an effort to prevent bloodhounds
from taking up the scent at a point
about mile south of the city, where
the bandits left the engine, the men
scattered cayenne pepper about the
tracks. One of tie few clews upon
which the police are working is bag
purchased in a local grocery store,
which contained the pepper.
Contradictory to reports that moth
ing had been taken from the express
car, it was learned that 5000 in cash
had been taken from strong box in
the express car. Hundreds of express
receipts and checks worthless to the
men were found lying scattered in
the meadow, where one of the revol-
vers of the men had been found.
President Markham of the Illinois
Central railroad, together with of
ficials of the American Express COM
pany, offered $1,000 reward for the
capture of each of the men.
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Two Canadian Girls Drowned.

Banff, Alberta, June 23.-Eva Ball
ems and Lilly Sutherland, each 20
years old, employed at the Banfi
Springs hotel, were drowned when
raft which carried them careened ov'
er Spray Falls. The two girls and
five male employees Of the hotel were
standing on the raft which was tieG
to the enhancement. The fastenings
broke and the raft rushed out into
the swirIing waters. -Four of the men
sprang overheard and swan for shore
The fifth man made frantic efforts Il
run the raft to safety, but failed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26
Navy Will Participate.

Washington, June 23.-The celebra-
ton Of Perry's victory on Lake Erie,
beginning July 4, being regarded as
essentially a naval event, the Navy
department is making special prepare
ton to participate The ceremonies
will begin at Putin-Bay July 4, with
the laying of a cornerstone of mon
ument to the naval hero, to be fol-
lowed by weeks celebration at Erie.
The historic old brig Niagara-Com-
modore Perry's flagship raised from
the bottom of the bay, will be the
central feature of the celebration.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26
ob!iteratinq Field of Waterloo.


While Americans are observing the
semi-centennial of Gettysburg, and
thousands study the battle by the aid
of the monuments and markers on the
battlefield, complaint comes to Eng,
land that the Waterloo terrain is in
danger. While La Hale Sainte and
Hougomont still bear the marks of
cannon shot, both are in danger of
being rebuilt, and part of the Hougo-
mont wall against which the wave of
French courage dashed in vain has
already been pulled down. That is not
the worst of the situation, according
to a British officer who recently visit
ed the field "Tramcars" and cheap
fares have been followed by "tawdry
cafes" located on the very spot
whence the Imperial Guard recoiled
What is to be done? The suggestion
is that cooperation of Belgians and
Englishmen who would preserve the
topography of Waterloo many be effec-
tive in doing for that famous field
what has been done for Gettysburg. but
the first step, it is admitted, will be
very expensive. If preservation is not
organized there is danger that the
strategic points will be obliterated by
garden and farm field.-Boston Tran
script.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26
Cincinnati in Ice Business.

Cincinnati, Ohio, June %. The
city of Cincinnati has gone into the
ice business. 1t has established de-
pots at all fire engine houses, where
families may be supplied who can not
obtain ice from their regular dealers
on account of the strike of ice wagon
drivers, their helpers, and engineers
of plants. To alleviate suffering,
Mayor Hunt cal&ed the city council
in special session today to act upon
an appropriation of $4,000 to be used
in handling the ice business.
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suffraqettes Burn Mansion.

Birmingham Eng, June %. - A
large unoccupied mansion at Solihull,
near here, was burned by arson
squad" of militant suffragettes. A
number of suffragette placards were
found in the vicinity. One of them
demanded the release of the women
suffering Imprisonment for the cause.
A second bore the words, Votes for
women" Another was addressed to
Sir Walter Phillimore, the Judge who
three days ago sentenced six of the
suff-agette leaders to imprisonment in
London for conspiracy.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26

The American traveller who finds
himself in Dresden or Leipzig will do
well in case of need to look out for
policemen who wear badges bearing
the crossed flags of the United States
and England, says the Argonaut. Of
ficers thus decorated can speak Eng
lish, and even though it be not the
most accurate kind it will suffice.
And now Berlin is to follow the same
praiseworthy example. A number OF
officers have been selected and sent
to language school from which they
Will emerge fully equipped to be
guide, philosopher and friend to the
wandering tourist innocent of all
tongues save his own.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26

Seattle, Wash, June 23.-The first
four cases of a group known as the
Hyde cases, Involving title to $40
acres, and which it is asserted may
be regarded as precedent for the
recovery by their rightful owners of
more than 100000 acres of valuable
lands in the Northwest, have been de-
cided by Judge John G. Denny Of the
general land Office, in favor of the
claimants. Judge Denny held that the
parties were innocent purchasers
without notice of any fraud, if any
fraud ever existed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26
Hollands Fishing Net Factories.

The manufacture of fishing nets has
for centuries been a very important In
dustry in Holland. which in the seven
teenth century had fleet of over
1000 smacks engaged in the herring
fishery. The latest census of the in
dustry shows that there is one fishing
net factory at Scheveningen, where
the first factory was established, with
about ten hands; one at Apeldoorn,
with about $50 hands; two at Goor.
of which one is also cotton mill,
with about $50 hands; one at Leyden.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26
suffranette ESCAPES Police.

London, June 29.-Miss Lillian Len
ton, the militant suffragette who was
convicted of having started the fire
in the Kew tea garden pavilion and
who has given the police much trouble
has escaped in mans clothes from the
house where she was living in Leeds
pending the expiration of her license
Miss Lenton was released from jai
in March because of illness causec
By. a hunger strike. She broke thu
license and was not heard of agar
until Juns 10, when she was arrested
at Doncaster.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26
EDITORS choose New Leaders.

Colorado Springs, Colo, June d.
The National Press Association of
America brought its twenty-eighth an
nual convention to a close with the
election of officers. The officers elect
ed follow: President, J. Clyde Os-
valid, editor American Printer, New
York; vice president, George E. Hos
mer, editor Morgan County Herald,
Fort Morgan, Colo; secretary, George
Schlosser, editor DEily Press, Sioux
Falls, S. D.; treasurer, w. r. Hodges,
editor Herald-Despatch, Sleepy Eye,
MINI.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26

The experiment of women on the
police force has worked well in Cali
fornia. Los Angeles has two who
wear plain clothes" and patrol the
streets with the object of affording
protection to girls. Each will exer-
else surveillance over the dance halls,
skating Kinks, moving picture shows
and safes on her beat, and it is safe
to predict that they will perceive in
advance and adroitly avert a great
deal of villainy.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26
arabs Kill Twenty italians.

Rome, June 23.-In severe battle
fought between the Italian troops and
the Trjpolitan Arabs at Ettangi, one
Italian officer and nineteen soldiers
were killed and five officers and PIT
men wounded According to an of
fetal dispatch from Derna, General
Salsa surprised a native camp and
hard fighting ensued, lasting an hour.
The Arabs, he reports were COM
pletely routed. Their losses are IN
known.
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To Train Porch Vines.

One of the best labor-saving ar
rangements is a device to fasten the
strings or wire netting for the vines
of the porch A strip of wood one
inch square and about six feet long,
with a strong screw eye at each end,
is all that is needed. Drive two nails
into the upper part of the porch, the
same distance apart as the screw
eyes, then after tying the strings onto
the strip lift it up and hook the screw
eyes over the nails. Fasten the lower
ends of the strings into the ground
with small pegs and train the vines
on them
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-06-26
Wound Raue EIders Join in Play.

Joseph Lee, president of the Play.
ground Association of America, says
that 40 institution is sound and
wholesome until it expresses itself in
play. / believe in family dances" he
said. There is an aristocracy of age
that bars the elders from sharing ID
the pastimes of the young. We ought
not to be so afraid of our children. Ws
ought to butt in to their parties"
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Victim a Prussian.

Dr. Knabe, who lived alone in her
Office apartment in Delaware street,
had won signal honoFs in her profess
sion. She had emigrated to this coun-
try from Prussia, entered domestic
service, and by dint of the strictest
economy and hard study has finally
graduated from the Medical College
of Indiana in 1904 at Twenty-Five years
of age. After her graduation she
served as an instructor in the college,
leaving later to become the first bac-
teriologist in the newly created Indi-
ana state laboratory of hygiene. Sub
sequently she opened an Office and
succeeded in building up a good prac-
tice. About year previous to her
death she had become Unidentified with
the faculty of the Indiana Veterinary
College, of which DR.. Craig was dean.
The Rumors AfIoat.
Rumors became rife soon after the
murder that DR.. Craig and Miss
Knabe had been engaged to be mar
ried and had quarreled shortly before
the tragedy. Mrs. Tenant, house
keeper for DR.. Craig, who is about
forty years of age, a widow and has
resided in Indianapolis for the past
fifteen years, informed detectives that
DR.. Knabe had called on DR.. Craig
two nights before her death and that
quarrel had ensued. Detectives
traced the movements of DR.. Craig
on the night of the murder and found
that he returned to his home at about
eleven o'clock, changed his clothing
and again went out. Harry w. Has
kett, who saw the man come from the
alley in the vicinity of DR.. Knabe's
apartment on that night, identified a
photograph of Dr. Craig as that of the
man he saw. On December 81 of last
year DR.. Craig and Alonzo M. Rags
dale, an undertaken, were arrested,
the latter charged with being an ac-
complete.
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Cairo, ILL.,, June 23.-Eleven persons
were injured, two probably fatally,
and scores of other passengers were
badly shaken up when sleeping car
on Mobile & Ohio train No. 2, north
bound, jumped the track at Laketon.
The sleeper turned over twice before
it came to stop. A buckling rail is
believed to have caused the accident.
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DEAN OF COLLEGE
MURDER SUSPECT
DR.. WILLIAM 8. CRAIG FACES Sc
RIOUS CHARGE IN
INDIANA.
is A PROMINENT VETERINARY
Trial for Killing DR.. Helen Knabe in
napoIis-Story of
the Case to
Date.

Indianapolis, Ind, June 23.-What
promises to be one of the most spec
tacular murder trials in the history
of Indianapolis began today, when DR..
William B. Craig faced the court to
answer a charge Of murder in connec-
ton with the mysterious death of DR..
Helen Knabe, who was found in her
bed on the morning of October "a,
1911, with her head almost severed
from her body.