The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-04-16

The Panama-Pacific Exposition, un.
like other world fairs, has made profits
at the very outset, President Moore
has announced, predicting it would be
big financial success. In the first
thirty days of the exposition the Of
ficial report stated, the income includ-
ing concessions and admissions to-
tailed SS23.SSS Expenditures amount
ed to $738,471.
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Employers mania for more speed
and greater outputs, is one of the I'M
DERIVING causes OF industrial unrest,
in the opinion of A. o. Wharton, presi-
dent of the railway employees depart
ment of the American Federation of
Labor, as expressed recently before
the Federal Commission ON Industrial
Relate
Employment agents in many cities
between Chicago and Denver have
been asked to supply ten thousand I'M
skilled laborers for railroad work.
The Burlington will put two thousand
men to work by May l. and the Union
Pacific four thousand by June 1.
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A bill submitting the question OF
territorial prohibition to the voters at
the general election, November 4,
1916, has passed the lower house OF
the Alaska Legislature by vote OF
IA to 2. 1t now goes to the senate
Should prohibition be adopted 1t
would become effective January l,
1918, under the terms of the bill.
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F. Hopkinson Smith. II. famous
American novelist, artist of interna'
tional note and expert marine archi-
tect, is dead at his home in New York.
He was born in Baltimore of a ia
nous old Southern family and was
forced to shift for himself from early
boyhood. His first novel appeared
after he was As years old
Vaudeville isn't the only chance
Jess Willard, white prizeflght cham
pion, now has for making a living.
The president of the Oklahoma State
Board of Agriculture has offered him
the job of state cattle inspector. The
offer said the state needed just such
man as Jess.
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The old Monmouth Park Hotel, IA
nous in the days when horse racing
flourished in New Jersey, burned re-
Gently. The hotel was close to the
Monmouth Park race track, where
many of the country's most noted
horses ran in their day.
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A charter amendment providing for
the single tax in municipal affairs was
defeated in the city election at Colo
RADIO Springs recently. The voters
also defeated an amendment permit.
ting Sunday amusements.
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An order calling for forty-five thou
sand tons OF steel rounds for shrap.
mel has been placed with the Carne-
gle Steel Company of Pittsburgh by
a Cleveland concern acting for the
French government.
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Three young men, members OF the
Montclair, N. Y, Academy Alumni AS
sociation, were drowned recently when
a motor car in which they were riding
with four others plunged through an
open drawbridge into the Passaic
River.
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In recent municipal elections Chi.
cago and st. Louis went Republican
by large majorities. In every state in
the country where the liquor question
was voted on, the dry elements won by
substantial leads.
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All of the twenty-seven defendants,
including Mayor Dom NJ. Roberts, il
the Terre Haute election fraud case
were found guilty by jury at Indian
apolis. The case has been on trial in
the federal court since March 8.
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Creditors Of the little village of
Hillsdale, N. Y, attached the portable
police station. empty safe and chairs
and tables in the town hall, putting