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Semi-weekly herald., 1913-09-29
sl50, ,OOO, 900 WORTH IMPORTS
AWAITING PASSAGE TARIFF

United Press.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Sept. 27.-
Customs officials estimate that i'm
ports worth sl50,0O0.000 are being
held in bonded warehouses Of differ
ent ports of entry awaiting lower tar
iff duties that will become effective
when the president signs the Under
wood bill. Elaborate preparations
are being made to handle the extra
business after the bill is signed.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-09-29
SNAP SHOTS.

Sometimes curmudgeon is re-
formed easy mark.
If milk were good substitute for
gasoline many baby would have
either to walk or go hungry.
If the statistics were available
probably it would be found that IL
per cent OF fishermen have hook
worm and 26 per cent haven't even
that excuse.
Another reason why it is all right
for "A nice girl to engage in an in
delicate dance is because her fathers
hair grows down over his eyes and
her mother hasn't much sense.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-09-29
IMPEACHMENT COURT
NOT IN SESSION TODAY

United Press
ALBANY, N. Y, Sept. 27.-The
Sulzer impeachment court is not in
session today. The defense plans to
recall Duncan Peck Monday and cross
examine him, expecting to impeach
his testimony relative to Sulzer ask
ing him to commit perjury.
Sulzer has called the statement of
Witness Duncan deliberate lie,"
and asserts the witness was present
during an interview with Peck. He
says he can prove the falsity of the
statement.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-09-29
UNION PACIFIC'S SURPLUS
REACHES 40 MILLIONS

NEW YORK, Sept. 27.--As = re-
suit of the Union Pacific recently
selling its Southern Pacific holdings,
the roads surplus has reached y140.-
100000. Mrs. Hartman Is the larR-
est stockholder and It is believed she
will accept the advice Of her SON
Averill to dispose Of the surplus. It
is reported Averill favors cutting
the melon," declaring an extra divi-
dend.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-09-29
WARNSAMM0NS NOT
T0CAL[ OUT TROOPS
CONGRESSMAN HEATING WILL ASK GOVERNMENT
TO MAKE INVESTIGATION COMPANIES IMPORT
KILLERS AND GUNMEN TO START TROUBLE
United Press

TRINIDAD, Colo, Congressman
Keating arrived here last night and
conversed with Governor Ammons
over the long distance phone regard
ing conditions here. The governor
seemed much excited as to the trend
of the situation expressed by Mr..
Keating in conjunction with Dennis
Sheedy, Denver multi-millionaire
who declared conditions were bad, and
that troops were needed.
Mother Jones has been causing con-
siderable trouble among the miners
in the camps.
Though troops are needed, Con-
gressman Keating urged the governor
that it would be grave mistake to
call the troops out. The governor
promised that he would not act hast
lily. Mr.. Heating has promised to
ask the government to investigate
the action of mine guards at Hast
ings last night refusing to permit
three newspaper men going to the
postoffice, because, it was, as they
said, on the company's property. The
guards are alleged to have threatened
to kill the reporters.
Keating declares that the opera
tors have imported 400 killers and
gunmen to start trouble.
The coroner is investigating the
death Of Driscoll, of Aguilar, a
boarding house keeper, found dead
at the bottom Of cliff near Aguilar,
last night, with his neck broken. 1t
is unknown whether he was thrown
over the cliff or fell. The operators
charge that the man was murdered
while the miners declare 1t was an
accident.
Ethelbert and Stewart, government
mediators, Secretary Of State Pearce
and Labor Commissioner Brake are
investigating conditions here. Quiet
prevails in the strike district today.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-09-29
GIANTS COP THE RAG IF
THEY WIN TODAY'S GAME

NEW YORK, Sept. 27.-If the
Giants win this afternoon or the
Phillies lose, the National league race
will be over. The Phillies must win
every remaining game, and the Giants
lose all to tie, which is practically inn
possible.
Even money is being bet here on
the worlds series, with Athletic
money scarce.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-09-29
WOMAN INDICTED ON
SMUGGLING CHARGE
United Prsss

United Preas
NEW YORK, Sept. 27.--Mrs.
Frank Wiborg, wife Of Cincinnati
millionaire, was indicted here today
on the charge Of smuggling. She
plead not guilty.
Customs officials say that 70
trunks returning with her from Eur
ope recently contained only $500
worth Of dutiabls material when il
should have been given in ut $1,000
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-09-29
GRANTS STAY OF Exc
CUTION IN CAMINETTI CASE

United Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 81
Judge Vanfleet today gave 20 days
additional stay of execution to per-
feet appeals in the Diggs-Caminetti
case.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-09-29

Our idea of a patient woman is one
who can uncomplainingly wait two
hours for her husband to come home
and ten hours for him to go away
again.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-09-29
TELEGRAPH TABLOIDS.

HARTFORD, Conn.-Because he
thought y salary Of $500 too much
for q city job, E. Spencer Goodwin,
millionaire, resigned
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-09-29

NEW YORK.-Mme. Pau Poiret, Of
Paris, appeared here wearing a slit
skirt and boots made in cossack style,
which reached half way to the knee.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-09-29

TRENTON, N. New Jersey,
the "skeeter" state, is being poster
ed by a new bug-the saw tooth
grain beetle. Eats everything from
choice fruit to paper bags and hu-
mans.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-09-29
BRUTAL
MURDER
Los ANGELES WOMAN'S
HEAD IS CRUSHED
WITH PIPE
United Press

United Press
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27-A scrub
woman this morning found the body
of Mrs. Rebecca Day, aged SO, a
prominent Christian Science healer
Of southern California, in her office
with her skull crushed. A bloody gas
pipe was found lying near the body
of the dead women. She had evil
IDENTIFY been murddted, but no clew
to the murderer y murderers has
been found by the Officers.
LOS ANGELEsf Sept. 27.-Mrs.
Gay is the divorced wife of John
Gay, San Diegos multi illionaire.
The gas pipe foundtnsar the murder
ed woman's body, vas wrapped with
paper to deaden he sound of the
body. Her jaw bons was broken, the
side of her face cfuahed, her teeth
scattered over the floor and the
walls and ceiling a the room were
covered with blood, eyidencing a des-
perature struggle With the murderer.
Her valuables ~ unmolested.
The murderer apparently tried to
drag the body to a lrshaft, aband-
oning the purpose M way. Ply
sicians said the won kfhad been dead
ten hours when foutd
A watchman at he building said
no one had entered II left the build
ing after Z o'clock last night. The
location of the body tends to show
that the woman wns leaving the
building when she ~ attacked.
Outside of the deer Of her room
was pinned card with the following
inscription: "Closed baturday. Will
be back Monday"
The only clew is desk calendar
showing eight office appointments
to have been filled yesterday, with
the names given. The police are ex-
amining them.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-09-29

CHICAGO.-Two Polish laborsrs
sat down on railroad tracks and re-
fused 70 lssvs until they had finished
On argument. The snginssr Of =
stalIsd freight train complained b
~ polies who Arrested botA nen.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-09-29

WALLA WALLA, Wash.-Mrs
Kate Wharton was awarded 81, l,40'
damages against DR.. w. H. Verne
because he left fourteen inch
spring in her body after an oper
alton.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-09-29

NEW YORK.--After being separ-
ated from her husband for SO years,
Mrs. Thos. Pbrein is suing him for
alimony. The two were parted when
they were Il.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-09-29

PORTLAND, Ore.-Meeting a
friend at the ball park, Geo. Frank
lin decided to negotiate loan. After
the friend had slipped him some coin.
= biligerent cop arrested George for
gambling. 1t took lot Of explain
ing.
Semi-weekly herald., 1913-09-29

PORTLAND, Ore.-"Pm certainly
in hard luck" murmered Henry Dav-
age, whom, through various contor-
tions avoided being run over by a
touring car only to be knocked down
by two-wheeled truck propelled by
. Chinaman.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-31

becomes Europeanized, they will find that France can better supply them with finer goods than other countries. In this way, France will benefit in the Far East in the future more than immediately after the opening of the Panama Canal
 The Suez Canal, created by a French enterprise, has it's head offices in Paris. A study has been made there of the probable effect of the opening of the Panama Canal. The expectation is that the tonnage pass ing through the Suez Canal will not be reduced by more than five to eight per cent. This reduction will almost certainly be made up within three or four years, possibly in less time, by the natural expansion of the Suez Canal traffic. The best relations have already been established be- tween the officials of the Suez Canal and those of the Panama Canal. Prof Emory Johnson, the American Com missioner, was in consultation with the Suez Canal management during the early half of September, and it is understood that he Will report in favor of using in Panama exactly the same rules of tonnage measurement as are now used in the Suez Canal. It
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-31

not help but profit in the future. But I feel that England and some other countries of Europe are better organ ized for sea traffic with the western coast of the Americas than is France.
 France does not offer the heavy frefghts which encourage the increase not only in the number of American lines, but in the class of ships which carry heavy freights and which form such material adjunct to the mer- chant marine of England.
 ''Of course, the Panama Canal will develop the trade of China, Australia and the Indies. The easier access to the enormous Chinese markets will not immediately benefit France. We have allowed ourselves to be outdis tanced by England, and the reqC1re- ments in those markets have not been of the kind that especially eNcour ages French manufacturers. The textiles so largely shipped from Eng land and the United States to China are far coarser and are made in much larger quantities than the fabrics we produce in France. We make a speciality of finer articles, such as are not manufactured in enormous quan- titles.
 'As the taste of the Chinese people
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-31

had been expected by the Suez people that the American tonnage charges, although nominally precisely the same as the Sue~$1.20 per net ton were in reality, owing to the differ ence in American measurements, three per cent. less.
 "Co-operation rather than competi- ton is the key word of the relation ship between the two canals,'' said M. Max Bertrand, the General Sec retary of the Suez Canal Company we occupy two different spheres and [ fill two independent needs. The greatest cordialtty exists between the governors of the two waterways
 The French official of Panama's ri val waterway praised e1oquentIy the method which have been employed in executing the gigantic engineering task, but he preferred not to discuss the effect upon the trade of the Suez M. Jonnart, the Director-GeneraI of the Suez Canal, said at the annual meeting of the shareholders recently that the revenues of the Company would not be much diminished by the opening of the Panama Canal
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-31

The corsetless figure is now fash tonabIe.
The Washington herald., 1913-11-02
Judge Lindsey Triumphant.

Another attempt to get" Judge Ben
B. Lindsey by the political grafters
and public utility ring in Denver has
failed. The campaign of caluniny and
Misrepresentation, carried on against
the judge through the mails by The
Women's Protective League" has been
punctured by the report of a commit
tee appointed by the taxpayers asso-
citation to investigate charges made by
the league. The report is complete
vindieation of Judge. Lindsey's court
and methods.
The real influences behind the perse-
cution of Lindsey were exposed by
The Washington. Herald last summer
when the league" invaded Washing
ton with its circulars. Later, Judge
Lindsey, in speech at the Columbia
Theater, told packed house why he
has been forced to run for reelection
seven times in the last thirteen years,
although each election supposedly was
for four years. "The Wonen's Pro-
tective League" was composed of one
woman and one man, both of them
noted for their vindictive hatred for
Lindsey. Both of them were directed
by the public utility political gang
which Lindsey exposed in "The Beast
and the Jungle" and which he since
has driven back, step by step, some
times single-handed, almost to point
where it no longer influences the po-
litical life of Denver. The attempt to
get" Lindsey may be the last eS-
piring gasp of the Beast"
The Washington herald., 1913-11-02
Building from the Ground Up.

There is one thing to be said in ia
vor of Tammany. If it demands loyal
support it gives much in return.
There is no organization which gets
down so close to the people as Tam
many. 1t builds from the ground up
A Tammany captain must know per-
sonally every voter in his precinct
More than this, he must be the ad-
wiser, confdante, and helper of each one
If child is arrested for some juvenile
ofense, he must see that the case is
leniently handled. If a father trans
gresses and is sent to the workhouse
or the jail, he must see that the mother
and children are fed and their rent
paid. In serious cases he will hunt up
witnesses and engage lawyers. He at
tends every wedding and every funeral.
He appeals to the social instinct of the
tenement dweller by giving frequent
dances and excursions and maintain
ing a club where the men can drink
and smoke. He gets employment for
as many as he can and is, in fact, the
human pivot around which everything
in his district revolves.
But, on the other hand, the recon-
pense for his time, trouble, and ex-
pense is in making vice pay toll for
disobedience of law. The return is
enormous. DRY Dollar" Sullivan could
spend $4,000 a year in charity in his
district and not miss it. The sys-
TEN works admirably. The more
money that can be collected through
pressure and intimidation or by nom
enforcement of law; the more there
will be to spend upon the voters, and
the more voters who are thus enticed
into the spiders web, the greater will
be the control of the leader; and as
authority increases the power of ex-
tortion likewise grows. In nearly all
the districts the Tammany leader is
a car unto himself.
The Washington herald., 1913-11-02
Washington Needs DR.. Davidson.

The need of Washington and the
personal advantages of one of its
most valuable servants seem distress
ingly opposite at this time. Though
latest advices are to the effect that
there has been no formal proffer OF
the superintendency of the Pittsburgh
public schools at a salary of 5000 a
year to DR.. w. NJ. Davidson, our own
superintendent of schools, there seems
to be no ground for doubt that the
Office in Pittsburgh is his If he wishes
it Without any other information
than the record which DR.. Davidson
has made since he came to Washing
ton, there is no doubt that Washing
ton needs him-needs him more than
the 5000 worth he is paid, more
than the 5000 worth that Pittsburgh
is represented as willing to pay him.
Citizens of the Capital, whose bud
get is controlled by Congress, can
not, with their present or even pros
pective powers, reconcile these differ
ence' between Pittsburgh's compe-
tency 10 pay for what it wants and
the Capitals appreciation of what it
has, got and cannot adequately pay
for. The District people, unable to
do what they would like with the
money that passes into and out of
their treasury, can do nothing but
wish. Their hopes are reasonably
based upon but one foundation, that
DR.. Davidson, whose past conduct has
shown him to be a man of far from
mercenary spirit, will conclude that
his opportunity to do good to the COM
munity and to his own fame is greater
at the National Capital than even in
a city of the wealth and magnitude of
Pittsburgh.
The modest responses which DR..
Davidson has given to inquiries as
to what he would do if the proffer of
the Office in Pittsburgh were made to
him have not suficed to show what
the Washington people may expect.
This answer-and a fitting one from a
man of DR.. Davidson's characters
all that may be inferred, that DR..
Davidson's decision will be predicated
upon opportunity for usefulness, not
reward.
The Washington herald., 1913-11-02

'I made 1t a special point as soon as
took my seat in the Lower House of
Congress-" said Col. Wait to me, ''to
learn all could about the attempts made
by President Grant to make a successful
nomination for chief justice of the Su-
preme Court as the successor Of Chief
Justice Salmon p. Chase.
II have already told you that Presi-
dent Grant did offer the chief justiceship
in a formal letter to Senator Roscoe
ConkIins, and that Conkling thought that
you, too, that Conkling's declination Of
this very high office was the only dec
lination of that post which was ever
made.
President Grant nominated first of all
Caleb Gushing. He made that nomina-
ton after he had received Senator Conk-
ling's declination of the offer.
Caleb Cushings career and person
ality had already had a singular fasci-
nation for me. l knew him as a Won
derful scholar and a master Of many
languages, and 1 followed his career in
the Mexican war and his service as At
torney General of the United States In
the .abinet of President Pierce had never
failed to interest me. 1 regarded his
achievement in securing treaties with
China as a wonderful one
Il remember / thought when I first
heard that President Grant had nonii-
mated Caleb Cushing for chief Justice
that it was an admirable nomination.
was surprised when a day or two later
the dispatches from Washington report
ed that the President had Withdrawn
the nomination. / asked my friend,
Henry H starkweather. who was at that
time a member OF Congress from my
home district, why the nomination had
been so suddenly withdrawn Mr.. Stark
weather told me that documents had
been laid before the President which
tended to show that Caleb Gushing was
in sympathy with the Southern states
men who were attempting to establish a
new nation.
But after became a member OF Con-
gress learned that this statement was
not exactly correct What really did
happen was that after Jefferson Davis
The Washington herald., 1913-11-02

destroyed the power Of the saloon boss.
In the olden days the iaborine man
was compelled TO go to the barroom
| to get the ticket which permitted him
to 60 to work and on election day the
saloonkeeper was charged with seeing
that his customers voted right If
there be treachery in the air, the Sc
cret ballot offers. a convenient cloak.
If Tammany is defeated, however, it
will not be because of the secret bal
lot. It viii be because the conscience
of the people has at last been profound
ly stirred. The revelations which have
been made have created feeling Of
revulsion. More than this, they have
aroused a resentment against fla
grant disregard of every principle
of honest administration. Much have
the people of New York stood in
the past and much viii they endure in
the future. Every once in a while,
however, they reach point where pa
tienee ceases to be a virtue and
then Tammany steps down and out.
Whether that point has been reached
in this year of our Lord is the question
which the result next Tuesday viii de-
eide.
If the blow comes Tammany win
simply bow its head and let the storm
pass. Parties have succeeded parties
and generations have followed gen.
erations and Tammany is not dead. 1t
will keep intact its organization, wait
complacently for the opposition to blum
der, and disintegrate and then come
again into its own.
The Washington herald., 1913-11-02
Murphy and His Predecessors.

In an organization which reaches
each individual voter through a leader
or captain and which can make house
toulouse canvass of the entire city of
New York in twenty-four hours, it
stands to reason that whoever COM
mands must profit greatly thereby. A
thousand golden rivulets flow in his
direction. Every head of Tammany
Hall has amassed enormous wealth.
1t was William NJ. Tweed, the son
of a chairmaker, who first discovered
the possibilities of graft which went
with political power. He is credited
with robbing New York of $3oyoooooo,
but being merely plain and vulgar
thief, was sent to jail and died behind
the bars. John Kelly, who succeeded
him, was so considerate that he left
fortune of only half a million and
earned the title of Honest John"
Richard Croker, prize6ghter, indicted
for murder, but escaping through the
disagreement of the jury, and securing
leadership by undermining Kelly, who
had befriended him, was also adroit
enough to reap fortune without con-
viction and. now lives in luxury on an
estate in Ireland. After Croker, with a
brief interregnuin, came Charles Francis
Murphy who, for ten or twelve years
has been the dictator of New York.
He, too, has made politics pay enor-
mously, his fortune being estimated at
many millions.
It is long black record which Tam
many has made for itself. 1t has had
neither principles nor politics. Its de-
mocracy is nothing more than a pre-
tense and sham. Even its good deeds
have selfish and corrupting purpose.
Its hand is outstretched for plumber,
taking the penny from the street ped
dler and the dollars from the contrac-
tor with equal cupidity and dishonesty.
The Washington herald., 1913-11-02
TIE oPEN FORUM
T,re view. af : clnh-

To the Editor-As your paper has made
public the views OF certain employees
OF the Interior Department reeardine
Secretary Lanes proposed ~Ezome club.
you viii undoubtedly be disposed &c
grant square deal By pabIishinx one
feature overlooked.
All owe the Secretary tribute for the
spirit actuating him In this matter.
whether the idea appeals to everybody
or not. During the few months he has
been in charge Of the department he
has done more to harmonize that insti-
tuition than any other oficial; at any
rate, he has made more efforts In that
direction And this II the spirit In which
he has planned this club. his idea being
fraternity and good fellowship. His ef-
forts should be especially appreciated
by all thinking people. in a patriotic
sense. for the reason that during the
past few years a tendency has been
growing up in some branches Of the
service not in accord with the spirit OF
our institutions. q Sort or caste system,
based on different grades or degrees OF
assumed authority The word '.as-
sumed Is used here for the reason that
legitimate authority is sacred, being the
oasis Of good government: but the domi-
neering spirit breeds rebellion and is a
menace to popular government. Thus
there had come about in some quarters
sort OF reversion toward medieval
conditions. rather than modern, some
people In government service being about
a thousand years behind the times. But
the main reason why our form OF gov
ernment endures and has endured for
SO long is just because whenever and
wherever such q condition threatens us
some one like Secretary Lane comes
along and gives 1t ''bin" And such
men are the true patriots and make
popular government possible. For these
reasons your report OF the club proceed
ings Is not complete without a recorni-
ton Of its moving spirit And there is
no political bias in this. the writer de-
string to pay tribute to men of that
caliber in whatever political party they
may be found. HINDA BURKE.