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The Holt County sentinel., 1914-02-13


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such letters should he considered a.
emana'ing from an unbalanced I'M
settled, uncertain mind, a. his Fellow
townsmen and neighbors herein attest
The record shows that he was good,
brave and faithful soldier up to the
morning lac was struck down on tie
dusty road, between Tuscumbia and
Florence, Alabama, and that he was
wounded In the battle OF Shiloh, April
:, lsd2. Mr. Thuma's pension certiti'
cate from which lie Ii denied the bene'
Hts IN No. 2I6 HIl, and Is for heart
disease, the origin Of which could he
easily traced to sunstroke. Mr.Thuma
was dropped from the pension rolls
July ~, 1895. Senator Reed, would you
kindly give the citizens OF Oregon, Mo.
ten minutes Of your valuable time he.
fore the Pension Commissioners We
feel sure that II you, but grant our re
quest that IN ten minutes talk. for
A cause 30 lust, n client 80 pi,iable, a
case 40 " or,hy, that by the end Of tia,
time YOU viii have " on for him, Ills
Mac. upop the pension roll again, and
also win the lasting gratitude OF all
the good people Of Oregon.
should on fail IN this, We respect.
fully ask that you have this unjust
lcharr. of d,s,,,ion se, aside by special
act of the senate, and be pleased TO
lhaye YOU do so AT your earliest con.
yenience.
We are also sending you enclosed a
pe,ition, for the restoration OF Mr..
Thuma ON the pension roll and that
full and complete lust Ice be done him
at once, signed by q large number OF
Orepon's best citizens who have
known Mr. Thuma from thirty 10
for,y.seyen years-and earnestly re.
auest your early and best endeayor.
And here, Senator, Is the affidavit
of A, II. Greene:
srArr or MISSOURI,
Countysof Holt. ~
a. II. Greene being duly sworn on
his oath deposes and says that accord
Ing to the best OF his knowledge and
belief, Daniel Thuma was that soldier
OF the 18th regiment OF Ohio Infantry
, who was struck down by heat pros
: tration or sunstroke, between Tus
cumbia and Florence, Alabama, while
, on the march OF McCook's Division
!. OF which the 18th OHIO Infantry was
|, a part, that TO the best OF his knowl
a edge and recollection, on or about tht
a last OF June, 1852; that he Is not 70
\ lated to Mr.. Thuma, by blood or mar
h riage;.::that lie has no interest IN III
, claim, except that OF Justice ana hu
q manity. A. II. GREENE,
, Late Member OF the 4sth Ont
II. Infantry, which was brigadet
: with 18th Ohio for four years
a Subscribed and sworn TO before mi
a this 18th day OF February, 1913,
al G. j. HUNT,
ell Notary Public
l Respectfully Yours
IL A. ii, GREENE,
The Holt County sentinel., 1914-02-13

Plenty Of old papers for sale Ut
this once ct 20c per 100.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-06-05
A|DFARMERS UNIONS
ANTITRUST LAW AMENDED so
AS TO BAR PROSECUTION AS
IN RESTRAINT OF TRADE.
union LADOR.PE0PLE ALSO EXEMPT
Railroad Agreements Approved Now
Under Regulation by Commission
Congressman Murdoch Says II
viii Be Gears Before Settled.

Observation-Disclosures unions and
trade unions would be legalized in
their existence and declared not to be
combinations In restraint of trade by
a paragraph which the house has in
corporated in the Clayton bill to sup
plement the antitrust laws. s
AS adopted, the provision sets forth
that nothing in the antitrust law
shall be construed to forbid the exist
ence or operations" or labor unions or
FARMERS cooperative associations. or
TO Forbid or restrain members of such
organizations from carrying out the
legitimate objects thereof"
supplemental to this provision the
nou adopted an amendment propos-
ed by Representative Webb in charge
OF the bill and agreed on by organized
labor representatives and the admin
lstration, which would provide that
such organizations an dtheir members
shall not be held or construed to be
Illegal combinations or conspiracies in
restraint of trade under the antitrust
laws"
progressive Leader Murdoch and
others asserted that it would be years
before the courts could finally define
Just a far the exemption went, and
what it meant.
To Legalize Railroad Conferences.
A clause to legalize such conferences
agreements among railroads as
are now subject to the control OF the
commerce commission also
was passed by the house. The section
and protects the jurisdiction
OF the commission over such agree
ments, and confirms existing laws
against joint agreements to maintain
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HUERTA IS 1T" YET
OUTLINES HIS PLAN ON WHICH
TO SETTLE AFFAIRS DOWN
IN MEXICO.
WOULD HOLD ELECTIONS IN JULY
Select a Full Slate of Officers, From
President Down-Covering Entire
Nation-Admits Right of Rebs
at Conference.

Mexico City.-President Huerta.
with regard to the settlement to which
the Niagara Falls peace conference is
directing its efforts, according to per-
sons close to him, has proposed that
the elections for president. vice presi-
dent, senators, deputies and state gov
ernors should be held on July 5 next,
as decreed by congress.
The president is DESTROYS that these
elections shall be free and legal, the
constitutionalists having the right to
exercise supervision in those portions
of the republic now controlled by the
government and the government
agents the same right to supervise
the returns in those parts of the coun-
try now in the hands of the constitu-
tionalists.
Huerta, according to the same au-
thority, has made solemn promises to
hand over the executive power to the
president elected. He objects to the
appointment of a new provisional pres
ident, because this would cause i'm
pairment of the national sovereignty,
Rebels Reported as Routed.
1t is reported that constitutionalists
under Trinidad Alamillo, former gov.
ernor of the state of Colima, have
been routed at NaraniD by govern.
ment troops, who killed many of them.
1t is reported further that Huerta's
proposals for the settlement of the
difficulties between Mexico and the
United States includes the admission
of representatives of the constitution
alists to the conference at Niagara
Falls in order that questions affecting
Mexico may be discussed and settled
between MexicanE exclusively.
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ON PACIFIC "A

The Canadian government steam
Whaler, the Karluk WAS recentIy
crushed in ice off northeast coast of
Siberia.
Fire Sunday destroyed the pictur,
esque forestry and California buildings
at the Lewis and Clank exposition
grounds, Portland
Passed Assistant Paymsaster Emmett
Il. Tebeau, of the navy, oaIt his throat
with fatal results at the Mare Island
navy yard recently.
The condition of the hshd market is
assigned as the reason for the tempo
rary suspension of ~operaaions at the
Marsh mine at EelMIae, Hdano.
Philip Kilfodl, aged 40, a real estate
dealer OF Los Angeles, was sent to San
Quentin penitentiary for 40 years for
Wronglng l5-year-old Lillian Palmer.
No less than 20 VANCOUVER, B. c..
people lost their lives including a big
contingent of local Salvation Army Of
ficers on their way to England on the
Empress of ireland.
The French consul at Mazatlan.
speaking for the foreign oonsuls at
port, has appealed to Rear Ad-
.niral Howard of the American fleet
1ar better protection of foreigners.
The will filed for probate at San
francisco of the late C. G. Lathrop,
of Stanford university.
shows $4,000 900 property, of which
$23,50O goes to San Francisco soci-
The ,severest earthquake shock
that of June, 1912, when the
volcano Katmai broke it's
bonds and scattered ashes over the en-
tire section, was felt at Fairbanks,
Saturday.
The rivers and harbors bill now
for passage before the United
states senate has been increased in
committee to carry the following items
expenditures on the Pacific coast
forth of San Francisco:
For improving mouth of Columbia
n Oregon and Washington and North
lefty, $4,1o0,0O0.
For improving Grays Harbor bar
md entrance, $780, 0O. ,
For improving Skagit City bar,
10000. ,
Provision for the following surveys
5 added. I
Columbia and Snake rivers from !
'elilo falls to Pittsburg Landing; Co |
lmbia from Camas, Wash, and La.
les island. I
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MINES AND MINERS

Eleven c0al miners were killed Tind
a number ef others badly injured by
an explosion CT gas in the SiIksbane
cOllaery at @fGrncliffe,. England, Sun
day.
The steamship Edith sailed from
Seattle Sunday for BeTlng sea with
$500 toms of freight, which will be dis
charged at st. Michaels, at the mouth
OF the Yakon to be shipped to the
minimizing camps on that stream. The
Edith is the first Of the big merchant
men 10 sail for Boring sea- The reve-
nGs cutter Bear and the small wood
EN- steamship Corwin, which are es-
peclany adapted for slipping through.
narrow spaces in the ice, sailed some
time ago, and are now due at Nome
The EGstb Will be followed by a fleet
OF boats carrying passengers and
New York Metal Markets.
Lead-Quiet. $3.s5@3.95.
Spelter-Dufl, $5.05 @5.I5.
Copper-Quiet: spot and July, S13.70
OLA; electrolytic, $14.25; lake nomi-
nal; castings, $d4@14.l2h.
Tin-Weak; spot and July, $31.75@
1925.
Antimony-Duli; Cookson's, $7.a5@
1874.
lron-Quiet and unchanged.
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PRESIDENT ADDRESSED VETS.

He and Champ Clark Made Speeches.
at Ceremonies at Capital
Washington.-Rresident Wilson an6
Speaker Clark delivered addresses at
the Memorial day services under the
auspices of the G. "A. R. in Arlington
national cemetery Saturday.
The president had not expected ito
participate, but feeling that a false
construction mad been placed upon his
declinaGion decided to attend and
speak. Before the, presidents decision
had been communicated to those i'm
charge they had invited Speaker Clark
to make the address of the day and he
had come from Atlantic City for this
purpose.
President Wilson was applauded as
he entered the vineecIad a~mpitheatre
in which tEae exerGises were held, and
again when DIR. j. X. Gleason, the COM
mander of the Department of the Po-
tomac. Grand Army of the Republic,
presented him to the great audience,
made up chiefly of members of pa
triotic societies whO carried their
flags and wore the insignia of their
In his introduction of Speaker Clark
Gleason spoke of the Missouri
as "the man who has always
been a friend of the soldier, who is
fair and fights in tine OPEN"
Mr.. Clark's reception was ttumultu-
BUS. He opened his address with an
expression of his appreciation of the
hearty greeting.
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MARKET REPORTS
Chicago.

Chicago.
Hogs-Market shade higher. Bulk,
$S.15@s.25: light, Ss.05@S.27h mixed
S8@8.3O; heavy, s7.sO@s.25; rough,
S7.80@7.95; pigs. $7.3O@s.1o.
Cattle-Market weak. Beeves, $40
@9.35; steers, $7.10@s.20; stockers
and feeders, $6.4o@s.40; COWS and
heifers, $3.SO@s.s5; calves, $7@0.75.
Sheep-Market slow. Sheep, $5.25
@6.2O; yearlings, $6.15@7.o5; lambs,
S6.l5@S.25; springs, $7@10.
Wheat-No. 2 red, 95@9Sc; No. .
hard, 94@99s4c; No. 2 northern, 97k
@9Skc; No. 9 spring, 97@9sc.
Rye-No. 2, &C; barley, 5o@63c;
timothy, $3.75@4.75; clover, $1O@19.
Butter-Higher. Creameries, zoe to
26A @26kc.
Eggs-Higher. At mark, cases in.
Guided, 16@1sAc; ordinary frsts, II
q17hc; %frsts, 1870.
New York.
Coffee-Spot, steady; Rio No. z,
91Sc; Santos No. A, 1896. Mild quiet;
Cordova, 1917 @16c, nominal.
San Francisco.
Eggs-Fancy ranch, 23c.
Wheat-Steady; oats, shipping,
white, $1.27k @1.30.
Millstuffs-Alfalfa, $7@s.50.
Portland.
Cattle-Market steady, unchanged.
Hogs-Market weak; light, $500
SIS; heavy, $6.50@7.15.
Sheep--Market weak. Ewes, 1925
Q4; ~yearfngs, $4.50@5; spring lambs,
$5.50@6,25.
Liverpool.
Wheat-Spot, No. l northern, rs, I'd;
2, rs Cd; No. 8, rs 41bd.
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Scandinavians Highly Literate,

In point of literacy they lead the
world. One finds an ~illiterate among
every twenty German immigrants OF
more than fourteen years of age. OF
immigrants from other nations, one
may find an illiterate among every 2S
Dutch, 3S Irish, SO Welsh, SO Bohe-
mians, n Finnish, 100 English, and
l43 Scottish; but the proportion
among those who come from Scandi.
navia is n in $50. What a contrast
between these and the Lithuanians
and southern Italians, half of whom
are unable to read any l~anguage!-
Century.
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GENERAL cARRANZA OPENS
THREE MEXICAN PORTS

Tampico, TnSpan and Matamoras In
vite Commerce of the World.
Durango, Mexico. General Carran-
"a has issued "a notice declaring Tam
pico, TuxpaR and Matamoras official
ly opened to the commerce of the
world. He aaso gave notice to the
steamships plying to these ports that
they must continue the arrangements
for service made with the Madero gov
eminent or all contracts and conces-
sions granted themNwould be declared
void. Announcement of General Car
ranza's cabinet and declaration of
principles which will be made soon at
Saltillo is awaited eagerly. The
nouncement- will he first a
for peace, heretofore having been
measures of war. This is taken as an
indication that the operations against
Huerta are approaching completion.
Water Famine at MazatIan.
The water famine which constitu-
tionalists besieging Mazatlan have
been seeking to preeipitate in that
city is in full swing. The large cleo
trio light plant shut down for lack of
water, adding materially to the dis
comforts and dangers saf the siege.
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REBELS NOT LET IN
MEDIATION PLANS BETWEEN
THIS COUNTRY AND MEXICO
ARE ABOUT COMPLETE.
TAKE eARRANzA'S PLAN IUP LATER
Each Side Agrees to Essentials OF the
Peace Plans so Far Proposed
Presidential Timber Is PuzzIinq
Felix Disz Favored by Rebs.

Niagara Falls, Ont.-The South
American ENJOYS, it has become
known, have virtually resolved to go
ahead with their plans for a two.party
agreement between the United States
an dthe Huerta government and for
the time being ignore the question of
constitdtionalist representation.
The Huerta delegates have received
General Huerta's approval of the es-
.sentiais of the peace ptan, together
with hi sopinion on some of the names
suggested for the new government.
The American delegates received
much information along this line from
Washington.
Try to Pick President.
Observation-Disclosures agents of
the constitutionalist movement in
Mexico have conferred here with Luis
Cabrera as the center of interest.
Luis CABRERA, whom Genera Carran-
LA hurriedly summoned from Europe;
Rafael Zubaran, minister Of the inte-
rior in the CarranZa oeazinet. and Jose
V~asconcelos, a second senlissary of the
northern Mexican Leader, were togeth.
er throughout Sunday.
The three ccnstitutionalist leaders
We're plainly interested in Felix Diaz
for presidential candidate, whose rep
resentatiyes have twice appeared at
Niagara Falls, and Wasquez Gomez, a
prominent Mexican who was an ad-
herent Of Madero, but who has not al
lied himself with the present constitu.
~tionalist movement under C~arranza.
Gomez left Mexico after the accession
of Huerta to p0wer@and3has since lived
in the United States.
GoHAez Is Favored.
Seniors Zubaron, Cabrera and Vas
concelos apparently think Diaz and
Gomez may be under consideration
by the mediators. They do not look
upon Diaz with favor, but speak more
favorably of Gomez.
The Brazilian minister in Mexico
City has informed the state depart
ment that Garcia Muro, Rear Admiral
Fletcher's missing Cuban messenger,
had been located in the Mexican cap
itay and WAS planning to return to
Vera CruE.
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Water Famine at MazatIan
Onion labor Leaders, .RespIte.

CMcago.-The date set for the "a
defendants in the dynamite cases to
surrender themselves at the prison at
LeaveRworth or to the United States
marshal here has been deferred from
June 6, she date originally set, to June
:25. The respite is due to the fact that
President Wilson needs more time to
study the petitions for their pardon
presented when the last court decision
welt against them.
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DENIES PRESIDENT RIGHT TO
WITHDRAW u. S. LANDS.
Federal Court Attacks His Power in
California Oil Land Case.

Los Angeles, Cal.-The conservation
order of former President William Fl.
Taft, withdrawing from entry nearly
three million acres of oil lands in Cal
i~fornia, was declared invalid in a de-
cision rendered by Judge M. T. Dool-
ing of the United States court, and
placed on file here Monday. The our
held that the president of the United
States had no power TO withdraw
lands from entry.
The question, however, of whether
the vast area affected by the order of
teh former president shall revert to
the status of a domain of free exploit.
alton depends upon the decision of the
United States supreme court in the
Midwest Oil company case, which in.
wolves 10000 acres of oil land in wy.
oming. This case has been before the
snupreme court for some time and a
adjudication is expected this
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-06-05
st. Louis Celebrates.

st. Louis.-Approximately 200, 900
persons, about one-fourth of this eity's
population, attended the second full
performance Of the pageant and
masque of st. Louis Saturday night
celebrating the 150th anniversary of
the founding of st. Louis. Seventy-five
hundred men, women and children are
in the cast of the spectacle, which
depicts the chief events in the city's
history.
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Jailed on Visit to Grave.

Wichita, Kan.-Mrs. Grace e. Pat
ton is in Jail here awaiting arraign.
ment on a charge of numbering her
husband in this city December 10
lsoz. Mrs. Patton was taken In Gus
tody soon after she arrived from Wei.
lington. her present home, to place
flowers on her husbands grave on
decoration day. Patton was killed in
his home at night and his wife told
officers that burglars had shot her
husband.
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SPORTING COLUMN

Purses totaling $1,000 are offered il
four trotting and four pacing events
at the Washington state fair this fall
at North Yakima.
New York now leads the nationa.
league; Philadelphia, in American;
Baltimore in Federal; San Francisco
in Pacific Coast; Vancouver in North
western and Salt Lake in Union asso
Citations.
Barney Oldfield, in his 100-horse.
power Fiat Cyclone, against Lincoln
Beachey in his biplane, is the race
arranged by George d. Dunn for the
Tacoma speedway events to be held
July 3 and 4.
At Indianapolis May 80 Rene Thorn.
as driving a French car, won the
fourth annual 500-mile automobile race
His time broke the record for this dis
lance, being 6:03.45, an average of
S2.47 miles an hour.
Represented by one of the best bal
anced track and field teams that has
out of Ithaca in some years,
Cornell won the 39th annual cham
pionship of the intercollegiate Anna
teur Athletic association SATURDAY,
scoring a total of 43 points out of a
possible 1876.
With the Americas cup defending
candidates launched and turning UP
preparatory to the initial practice
races on June 2 the attention of
yachtsmen is turning toward the chal-
lenger, Shamrock w. Despite the Sc
crecy and conflicting reports from
Gosport, it is known that the Upton
yacht is almost ready for her slide
from ways to water. According to
those privileged few who have viewed
the challenger, the Shamrock Nv is a
boat of extreme type, departing from
many of the orthodox yacht building
principles and lacking in many re-
spects the attractive lines that have
marked challengers and defenders of
the past
VooAA1Soou SCdBG CCli0S6, EuIlIlldn,
presented her fine new athletic field
to the northwest college conference
last Friday and along with it handed
over five new conference records.
For the first time in the history of
the conference meets, the receipts
greater than the expenses. The
coach of each of the six teams went
home with $242O in his pocket.
The Score
tof Oregon ........SS4
agricultural college ..27a
Washington State college .26
of Washington .....22
tof Idaho -...---.....-.T9
college, yWalla Walla-.., rs
New Conference Record Holders
High Jump-7Stul&er, Oregon, 6 geet
rs inches.
Polo wault@Wiltiams, Washington
2 feet 3 Ia inches.
Low hurdles-McCroskey, w. S. C.,
"A 3-5 seconds.
Half4mile run-Melson, Oregoa, Il
minute ST 1.5 seconds.
Mile mslay-W. S. c., McCroskey,
Dietz and Cooke, 8 minates
q seconds.
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German Prince 70 Many.

Potsdam, Germany.-The engage
ment of Prince Oskar, fifth son of the
German emperor and empress, to
Countess Won Bassewitz, maid of hon.
or to the empress, is announced. The
marriage will be the first morganatic
union which has occurred in the Ho-
henzollern family since 1853.
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Iowa Nominations.

Des Moines Iowa.-Beyond the car
tainty that Senator A. B. Cummins
and Governor Clark had been renom-
mated on the republican ticket, and
that Congressman Maurice Connolly
of the Third Iowa district had defeat
ed e. T. Meredith, the Des Moines
publisher for the democratic senate
rial nomination, according to state
primary Monday.
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Engine peraiIed. s Killed.

Connelsville, Pa.-Five trainmen
were killed and two perhaps fatally
injured Sunday when a locomotive on
the Connelsville division of the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad was derailed at
Cooks Mills, east of here.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-06-05

Late dispatches that
President Huerta of Mexico has depos-
tied a nest egg Of some $4,000 0 in
France. against the possible coming
OF a period of adversely.
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The regulations for the carrying out
OF the so-called net weight law. which
compels manufacturers to make a
clear statement of the weight, volume,
or contents of their packages Of food,
were signed May IL by the secretaries
Of the treasury. agriculture and COM
merce.
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Four Die in Hlnahamton Fire.

B~inghamton N. Y.-Four persons
lost their lives and another was prob
ably fatally burned in a fire which
partly destroyed the home of Patrick
O'Rrien.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-06-05

Bolivia is the worlds second largest
producer Of tin. the mai nsupply COM.
ing from the Malay straits.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-06-05

Fashionable women are now having
the upholstery of their limousines
done over to match their hats.
Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-06-05

Chicago in 1913 handled more than
aS7,2SS, 900 bushels Of grain.
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32.404,110 acres