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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
TAKE NO STEPS TO
RELIEVE POTOMAC

Washington, February 1S.-No vessel
will be sent to the relief of the naval
tug Potomac, Ice bound in the Bay of
Islands on the coast of New Found
land. The navy department announced
today that it would wait until the
forces of nature made the release of the
tug possible.
Naval officers familiar with arctic
conditions believe that when the tug
is freed by spring thaws, the pres
sure of the ice will have ended its
career as a seaworthy vessel. Most
of the members of the tugs crew prob
! ably will be brought back to the
United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
CHARGE ATTEMPT
TO DISPOSE Of
INDIAN LANDS

Los Angeles. February 1s.-An alleged
attempt to dispose of a large amount OF
land embraced in the Colorado Indian
reservation of Arizona has been called
to the attention of the indian commits
sioner at Washington by Fred L. Ingra-
ham, district attorney of Yuma county,
Arizona.
The titles on which those attempting
to sell the reservation land base their
claim to ownership are said to have orig
mated in deeds to 100000 acres of land
given by Indians to Moses Abromet. a
native of France, who became member
of the tribe and finally its chief.
According to Ingraham. Abremet came
to America many years ago and made
his home in Louisiana. On the death
of his wife he moved to Arizona and
Joined the Indians on the Colorado reser-
Vation in Yuma county and in time be-
came chief of the tribe. He died in 1902
and the tribe erected a monument of
petrifed wood 80 feet high His son, ac-
cording TO Ingraham, became great
favorite with the Indians, who as early
as 1888 are said to have iaid aside for
him 100000 acres of land. fhe deed con-
Neying this land is said 10 have been
signed by four chiefs of the tribe, Lang
dow. Rodney Overton, Three Feathers
and Abromet, Sr., and by -FOUR squaws
Deeds are said to be on record in Yuma
showing that Abromet Jr., conveyed the
land to William Graves of Vincennes
md, and that Graves in rurn conveyed
100000 acres to Robert Connolly of Los
Angeles.
Connolly. it is said, attempted to dis
pose of the 100000 acres to which he laid
claim through c. l. Hinman, a Los An
geles real estate dealer, whose inquiries
at Yuma and Washington called the at
tention of federal officials to the case
Federal officials tonight said the gov
ernment never had decided the reservation
outright to the Indians, but had merely
set it aside for their use. They declared
therefore, that the Indians could not give
| title to or transfer it,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
EMINENT SURGEON
MAY VISIT SELMA
DIR. BlOodgood of Hopkins Faculty to
Lecture Upon Medical
Questions

Selma, February 13.-(Special.)-Dr. IT.
G. Howard president of the Dallas Coun-
ty Medical society, is in receipt of a
letter from DIR. Joseph c. Bloodgoo6 of
Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, in
which he says he hopes to be able to
accept the invitation of the society and
the Selma school board to deliver a lee
ture in Selma at an early date, possibly
next Tuesday.
The lecture to be delivered by DR.. Blood
good will be the third of a series upon
medical questions, which are to be de-
liyered under the auspices of the Selma
school board DIR. Bloodgood is surgeon
of national reputation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14

kindly, absent minded old man who has
a fashion of misaying things, and Elmer
Booth as Jack Doogan,' the quick-wit-
ted thief whose ability to extricate him
self from embarrassing situations bring
about the most unexpected climaxes.
stop Thief is a mixture of unusual
complications, which the author has pro-
Vided. He has taken that ever useful
farce material thievery, and mixed it with
new compounds. These include the thief
and his woman accomplice who enter the
house to rob it '1egitimatey," and two
k1eptomaniacs who add to the confusion
and are mistaken for the real thieves. The
occasion is the wedding of the daughter
of one of these unconscious thieves, an
old gentleman who mislays things. The
rich loot in the shape of wedding pres
ents attract the real thieves who enter
the house, the first in the guise of
lady s maid and the second her pal" as
her husband. They succeed in securing
the booty but before they can make
getaway the articles are missed and
by skillfully transferring the stolen ar
ticles to the capacious pockets of the two
kleptomaniacs bring about a series of
situations in which almost everyone in
the house is suspected and finally the
whole household is held up by the police
and the mystery of the stolen articles
cleared away. 1t is the unexpected that
brings the laughs and brings them fire.
quently.
Miss Carol Warren as ''Nell' the ac-
complice of the thief, Jack Doogan, -
gave a splendid porGayai OF the diff
ficult part. Miss Emma Campbell as
Mrs. Carr" Miss Laura Walker as the
brde-to-be. Miss Marie Vaughn as Car
oline Carr and Miss Gladys Wilcox as
Joan was very acceptable
Sidney Stone as James Quincy" the
self-suspeeted kleptomaniac; Henry Hub
bard the bucolic "Mr. Jamison." sgd
ney Mason as 'Dr. Willoughby," gave
excellent interpretations OF their several
parts, as did Chic Burnhain as the min
ister John McCabe, as the wary sleuth
and Hal Mordaunt as the clustering SER
geant of police We're very good. The
other parts were well taken.
The farce is billed as thr ee acts but it
is in really only one, for while the cur
tain drops twice it rises the identical
point of the play again The curtain
drops are merely to give the audience
a chance to recover from the hilarity of
the preceding act. very pleasing fea-
ture is the stage setting, which is one of
the neatest and most complete that has
been seen on the local stage this season.
NJ
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
Honey BOY MinSirels

With a company of minstrel favorites
embracing such players as John King,
sam Lee, Vaughn Comfort, Tommy Hyde,
James Meehan, William II. Thompson
Joseph Gillespie Ed Lindeman, Will
Cawley. Rags Leighton, Master PAU
Van Dyke, and many others. George
Evans will be seen at the Jefferson thea
ire Thursday matinee and night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
"Within the Law"

David Belasco wrote as follows to Bay
ard WELLER, author of within the Law -
after having witnessed that smashing
melodramtic hit, which will come again
to the Jefferson theatre Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday nights and Wednesday
matinee: Il consider Within the Law
to be play of most admirable intensity.
vibrant with life and it's treatment Of
cetain present day conditions, quite
UNIQUE"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
Hsbson at Oneonta

Oneonta, February 13.--(Special)--R. P.
Hobson spoke to a crowd here today of
about $50 about half of whom were re-
publicans. He spoke along his usual
lines on education and prohibition. Mr..
Hobson brought up his charges against
Underwood being a whisky man and
backed by the liquor interests.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
UNABLE TO ELECT
STRIKING MINERS

Wellsburg, w. Va, February 13-Ef-
forts of the West Virginia and Pittsburg
Coal company to eject striking miners
from. the company's houses at Golfers
w Va. failed today in two suits tried
here. The jury disagreed in one and a
verdict for the defendant was given in
the other.
At Folansbee, a manufacturing town
near Golfers, stuffed figure bearing
&, the name of Judge A. G.. Dayton, of the
kUnited States district court, was hanged
to a telegraph pole.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
At the BiiOu

Every matinee record for the Bijou since
the Beulah Poynter Stock company open
ed here was broken at the Thursday matt
nee performance of ''St. Elmo" and the
same condition promises to exist this
afternoon. Robert w. Chambers novel,
1.-The Common Law" made as strong a
play as 1t did story for the magazines,
and it will be the feature offering of
the Beulah Poynter engagement at the
Bijou. A splendid production is being
built
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
At the Orpheum

The souvenir matinee for children at
the Orpheum on Saturday afternoon al
ways draws house full of young folks.
and this afternoon promises to be no
exception, for the show has two clever
acts that appeal to children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
At the Lyric

Gus Edwards Kid Kabaret is a splen-
did act for children, as there are 10 young
folks on the stage. Then the dogs and
the monkey add to the bill as chill
drens offering. For the matinee today
there has been an unusual demand for
seats on the part of children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
URGES ACTION To
HALT Immigration
Commissioner Speaks Be-
fore Immigration Commit
tee on Menace of Asiatics

Washington, February 15.-Despite a
general understanding, that in Difference
to the administration, Asiatic exclusion
legislation would not be agitated in Con-
gress pending diplomatic negotiations with
Japan, Commissioner General Caminetti
of the immigration bureau addressed a
House committee today, urging early ac-
ton to check the menace of Asiatic i'm
migration.
Previously it had been announced a
meeting of the immigration committee
would be confined vigorously to the sub
jeet of exclusion of Hindus.
Mild Sensation
Mr.. Caminettis testimony came as a
mild sensation.
THE Chinese and the japanese" said
Commissioner Caminetti, had become so
acclimated to the United States that Ash
attic immigration is serious menace to
the entire country. The danger is great
est, of course. on the Pacific coast, but
1t is general as well.
THE Chinese have spread rapidly all
over the country and now the japanese
have become so acclimated that no part
of the country is immune from the inva-
sion. There can be no question but that
the Japanese are coming in surrepti-
tiously. The number of japanese in the
country has doubled in the last five or
six years.
New laws to prevent smuggling of
immigrants are an urgent need. They
should be passed at the present session.
of Congress.
Japanese, Chinese and Hindus cross
the border illegally. l should like to see
legislative action at the earliest possible
moment on the question to check the
menace to the Pacific coast and the whole
country.
Waited Patiently
THE people of California have waited
patiently for the settlement of the Japa-
nese question, and l do not believe they
want TO wait again for diplomatic nego-
tiations on the problem of the Hindu.
IF you throw down the bars to the
$50, 100000 Hindus, the southern states as
we'll as the Pacific coast will get its
share of immigrants"
Commissioner Caminetti declared that
in his opinion Asiatic exclusion legisla-
tion as embraced in the Raker bill and
other measures before the committee did
not in any way violate existing treaties,
even under the most favored nation"
clause
The organization work was completed
tonight with the election of the follow
ing officers of the board of directors:
President, John H Fahey, Boston; vice
presidents, A B. Farquhar, York, Pa,
A II. Mulliken. Chicago, j. n. Teal,
Portland and Robert f. Maddox, At
lanta; treasurer John Jay Edison of
Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
Believe US-February
Furniture Sale FavOrs
Men Today
81 S m o k i n g,
Stands 69c

Golden oak, fumed
oak and early Eng
lish Smoking Stands,
bronze finish, tray
with receptacle for
matches, etc.
I'D FIoor)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
SIS F ir e s i d e
Rockers $40

Early e n 6 Ii $ h
Fireside r oc k e r S,
full u p h o ! S t e + ed,
very C o m f o r t able
and of good construc-
ton. I'D FIoor)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
SENATE.

Cfs-N A L L.
Met at noon.
Mine committee heard arguments
on Senator Walsh's radium bill
Smoot bill for codification of mining
laws amended to include oil and min
eral land laws
immigration committee continued
work on the Burnett bill.
Adjourned p. m. to noon Satur-
day.
T HOUSE.
Met at noon.
President VanHise of the University
of Wisconsin testified ON the trade
commission bill.
immigration committee heard argu-
ments for exclusion of Hindus
Representative Cullop of Indiana in
trodueed a bill TO prohibit common car
riers from owning or leasing coal
lands.
Passed omnibus private pension bill.
General debate on Indian appropria-
ton bill, carrying s9,6l9,7S7, resumed.
Adjourned at 80 p. m. to noon Sat
urdaY.
Washington February 18.-To show the
manner in which foreign governments
might retaliate against a demonstration
in favor of free tolls for American ships
through the Panama canal, Senator
Lewis has asked the Senate for permits
sion to have printed as public docu-
ment parts of his reports to the state de-
partment in 1909 on the way in which mu-
nicipal regulations governing the ports
of Yokohama. Japan. and Shanghai,
China. Disseminated against American
shipping.
Former President Taft will be heard
by the House judiciary committee Feb
ruary q in advocacy of the bill of Rep
resentative Clayton designed to effect re-
forms in federal court procedure. The
measure would authorize the supreme
court to prescribe forms and rules and
generally to regulate the pleading, pro-
eedure and practice on the common law
side of the federal courts.
The United States treasury department
has adopted the economy and efficiency
recommendation made by the conference
of customs collectors in New Y ork last
autumn, it was announced today, and
they are to become Immediately effective
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
THE DAY IN CONGRESS
t all customs ports of the unitea

at all customs ports of the United
States.
With the S310,OOoOO0 postoffiee appro-
priation bill before it. the Senate COM
mittee reported an amendment to pre-
vent further changes in rates, or extension
of the parcel post without congressional
authority.
Postmaster General Burleson extended
', the weight limits and reduced the rates
recently and it was developed that he
had legal authority to do so.
General objections to Senator Walsh 5
bill for government control OF all radiupl
bearing lands were made today before
the Senate mines committee by j. NJ
Flannery of Pittsburg, president of a pri-
vate corporation producing radium.
He attacked chiefly the broad powers
to be conferred upon the Secretary of
the Interior, some of which he char
acterized "as an outrage
How to make hens lay more eggs was
one of the multitude of investigations
authorized in the agricultural appropria-
tion bill reported today. The measure
provides that congressman are to con-
tinue to distribute gratis seeds; the
weather bureau is to be extended to the
Panama canal and insuiar possessions
ing how TO eliminate sne waste and prof
its In foodstuffs between the producer
and the consumer.
Political views of the industrial sit
ration in the country featured the
House today. Representatives Hard
wick Georgia; Carter Oklahoma;
Reilly, Oklahoma and other democrats
drew prosperous pictures while Repub-
Jican Leader Mann. Representative
Willis Ohio. Representative Sloan, Ne
braska, and others on the republican
SIDE old gloomy stories of closed fac
tories and breadlines
The fact that citizens OF Michigan
control only 10 per cent of that states
vast copper resources, while the re-
nlaineder is owned by interests in Bos-
ton and elsewhere in the eastern
states, is the legislation offered in q
report before the Senate today from
secretary Wilson of the department
of labor, of the growing sentiment in
Michigan for levying a tonnage tax on
all copper mined in the state
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
$3.50 M orri s
Chairs $3.50

Morris Chairs with
removable We ur
Gu s h o n 5, spring
seat, well made and
finished. I'D Floor)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-14
S65 Chifforobe $50

Birdseye Maple Chifforobes, "a
inches wide, feet 10 inches high,
two doors, shaving mirror, ample
drawers, compartment for hanging
garments. I'D Floor
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-28
Another Busy ExpIainer

Another busy explainer is Secre-
tary Wilson, of the Department Of
Labor, who has been doing his best
to explain to the Wage-earners of the
country why so many of them are
idle. He hasn't put it over yet. He
thought he had it when he issued q
statement that there were plenty of
jobs in the harvest fields of Kansas
and Missouri, but, somehow or 9TH
er, the Secretary failed to point out
just how the workingman was to get
up and leave his family and take a
thousand trip to the harvest
fields on the chance of getting a
job. These men have been pretty
persistent in wanting to know why
they could not keep the jobs they
had under Republican rule Secre-
tary Wilson has not yet taken up
this phase of the inquiry.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-28
MORRIS
On "The Public Schools"


The establishment of our system of
free public schools has done more to
advance the cause of civilization than
Magma Charta. The great charter
made secure popular rights of untold
value. 1t marked an event in civiliza.
ton of the first magnitude. But with.
out popular education it would have
remained mere piece of parchment,
for an illiterate people could not have
developed the machinery and agencies
for the practical effectuation of the lib
critics which 1t granted.
Our system of free public schools,
that is, of popular education, gave un.
derstanding, expression and perma.
nency to the eternal principles of jus.
tice and equality embodied In Magma
Charta. It can be truthfully said,
therefore. that, as an historical event
momentous to the race. the establish.
ment of our public school system
meant even more than the great char
ter itself, for had there been no previ
GUS Magma Charta the public schools
would have developed their own char
ter OF nberty.-From Address by Hon
Thomas Morris. at Bayfield,, May 20
1914.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-28
Extract from Address by Hon. Thomas
Morris at Sparta, June 10 1914.
MORRIS
MORRIS
On "The Exemption of Farmers Co.
narrative Societies from the Omar.

MORRIS
On 1.-THE Exemption of Farmers Co.
operative Societies from the Oper-
atton Of the Antitrust Law"
Farmers cooperative societies to
market their own products should also
be exempted from the operation of the
Sherman law. In the very nature OF
things farmers organizations cannot
control the market or limit the output
in the way that the big trusts do.
Between the farmers and the con
sumner a distinct class has grown up.
1t consists of commission houses.
brokers and combinations of various
sorts, with the modern trust as the
head. Not all of the agencies of dis.
tribution are bad. Many of them de.
pend upon special privilege and unfair
practices and are therefore wasteful
Before much can be done the facts
in regard to all must be ascertained
! favor the immediate establishment
of federal marketing commission
with power to investigates:
l. To inquire into conditions affect.
ing the farmers
2. To inquire into conditions affect.
ing the consumer.
3. To inquire into the practices OF
the middleman, the middle class that
has grown up between the farmer and
the consumer
4. To find which of these are effl.
cient.
5. To find what are unfair practices.
Then we should definitely prohibit
by law such practices as experience
and such investigation show to be in.
furious to the public.-Extract from
address of Hon. Thomas Morris, at
Racine, June 9, 1914.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-28
PSYCHOLOGICAL GOOD TIMES

New York, August 26-~For the
first time in thirty years, there will
be no Labor Day parade in New
York City this fall. The labor unions
have decided to take the money the
parade would cost and use it to re-
lieve unemployed union men.
In times past, in New York City,
many thousands of union men have
marched on the first Monday in Sep
tember Their parades have been
spectacular No money was spared
in making them a success. The hors-
es in the parade were union-shod and
the men union-equipped. There were
union bands and union badges. There
were union-made uniforms and union
refreshments. So that the expense to
the union men for their Labor Day
parade, in one way or another, led to
an expenditure running into great
sum of money. All this is to be fore
gone this year and the Unions,
very commercially, will turn the
money to help their unemployed
brothers.
This instance of practical charity
on the part Of Union organizations
is attracting wide attention over the
country and has caused considerable
comment, especially in view of Pres
ident Wilson's statement that the
hard times are purely "psycholog-
ical"
One good natured workingman says
he is 'sure getting psychological pay
checks He also says he is buying
psychological shoes" and probably
will soon be eating out of a ''psy
Geological dinner pail"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-28
Wisconsin VS.. Irrigation

1t costs from fifty to eighty pei
cent less to secure land in upper
Wisconsin than in the irrigated sec
tions.
1t costs nothing for water in Wis
consin, a heavy cost in the irrigated
sections.
The crops are more certain il
Wisconsin than where irrigation is
used.
The value of the crops in Wiscon
sin is greater than in the irrigated
sections.
In Wisconsin the country is con
tinuously good and productive-ir
the irrigated sections the various
projects comprise from one to a few
townships which are surrounded by
many miles of miserable desert or
all sides.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-28


ing contributory negligence as a de-
legislation. He also supported and
helped enact the ad valorem tax law
for railroads, the primary election law,
civil service, public utility laws, in
dustrial commission, workmen's COM
pensation, conservation of forests and
water powers, laws limiting working
hours of women and children, corrupt
practices act, pure food laws, and In
fact all the legislation in the interest
of the people advocated by the repub-
licans In Wisconsin.
AS citizen, as legislator, and as nor
NAL school regent, he has given spe-
cial attention to educational affairs.
and believes thoroughly In maintain.
ing our public school system so that
rich and poor alike may have free In.
struction from the kindergarten to the
university.
Wisconsin Should Have Two Progress
sve Republican Senators.
During his ten years of arduous and
unwavering service to the state OF
Wisconsin Tom Morris has made last
ing contributions to the progressive
movement. In all the long struggle to
free this state from political corrup-
ton, to break down the control over
public affairs by selfish corporations,
and to effectively restore government
into the voters own hands, there was
never a question raised as to where
Tom Morris stood At every call he
was found in the front rank fighting,
without thought of self interest, in the
peoples cause.
1t is important that Wisconsin
should have two United States sena-
tors who will support progressive re-
publican principles. During all the
years of progress in Wisconsin. at
least one of its representatives IN the
upper house of congress has been
reactionary. who did not represent the
sentiment of the state. and whose vote
has nullifled that of Senator La Fol
lette In. recording that sentiment.
1t is time that this state should give
two votes in the United States senate
for the national legislation that Is fol-
lowing the lines laid down In Wiscon-
sin.
Lieutenant Governor Morris le the
only candidate for the republican NOM
ination who represents the progressive
republican voters of the state and who
stands for national progressive repub'
IIcan principles.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-28

knows legislative methods, he under
stands men and their motives, and Is
not susceptible to the wiles of the
lobbyist.
The five legislative sessions in
which Mr. Morris has served at Madi-
son have been sessions of great i'm
portance. AS member of the COM
mittees on railroads, on judiciary and
on education and as president of the
senate, he took leading part in the
framing and adopting Of the progress
sive laws which are now being fol-
lowed as models by the other states
and by the national government.
Among these are the laws establish
Ing the railroad commission, abolish