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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-31
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
BASEBALL BRIEFS

| Jack Barry retired from Tuesdays
game on account of an injured hand
This is hard luck for the Red Sox, for il
they ever need Barry in condition, it is
now when they are fighting for the
leagues lead.
Lavan, the st. Louis shortstop, is a
fast man in the field and seems to be a
good sticker.
McGraw let his old pal, Robby of
Brooklyn, have Rube Marquard, Chief
Myers and then Fred Merkle. If the
Robins lose another game, Robinson will
have to acquire Dave Robertson and per-
haps Heine Zimmerman
In Tuesdays games between Pittsburg
and the Braves, Stallings tried Tyler in
both games, but Tyler's attempt to per-
form the Joe McGinnity stunt came very
near being fatal. In the first game he
held the Pirates safe throughout the
game. winning by score of to |, but
after the sixth inning of the second con
test he began to falter and was getting
pounded SO hard and often that Hughes
relieved him in the eighth inning with
two men on after two runs had been
worked over the rubber.
Outfielder Jimmy Johnston of the Rob
ins is fast recovering from the injury
that has kept him at home during the
past week. The injury occurred when he
run into Brown of the Cubs while chas-
ing fly ball, fracturing his nose and
shaking him up badly.
Richard Allen. pitcher purcha sed
from Jacksonville of the South Atlantic
league by the Pittsburg Pirates short
time ago, will report to the Pittsburg
team at the close of the South Atlantic
league season. Allen is a big right hand
or and comes to the Pittsburg team with
a great strikeout record and has fast
ball with something OF the smoke that
Walter johnson has been serving to the
American league batters during the past
eight years.
George Sisler, the Browns first base 4
nan. third baseman and all-around man, l
: receiving a great deal OF credit from 1
he Boston fans on his starlike stabs i
that are saving the Brownies games /
very week Without Sisler. the St
.ouis team would be about as helpless as
ship without a rudder. He is taking
.verything 20 him, high or low, and best
4 ell he Is slamming the ball.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-31
BELIEVE STRIKE
WILL BE A LONG
ONE If 1T COMES
Eastern Railroads Preparing for a Pro-
longed and Bitter Siege by
the Brotherhoods.

New York, Aug. 3l-Eastem railroads
are preparing for long siege in event
the general strike OF the big four broth
erhoods goes into effect Monday, as
threatened.
The railway magnates expect long,
bitter fight, and no detail has been over
looked in the preparations that have
been made in an effort TO keep train
schedules at least in partial operation
during the struggle.
1t was learned yesterday that cities,
towns and country districts have been
combed for mechanics, men who can serve
as brakemen, conductors and yard men,
and even stationary engineers have been
enlisted as possible prospects for work
when the regular engine drivers of the
lines go out
The entire Office force of the New
York Central-numbering upwards OF
4000-may be used in various sapacitics.
Heads of various departments, attor-
neys, superintendent and various di.
vision officers have sent in lists OF men
who will be available for work.
Vigilant search has been made for men
with some mechanical knowledge, espe-
cially, and even automobile factory
workers and garage employees have been
enlisted.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-31

NIcGraw and a fan in Cincinnati who
had an argument month ago when the
Giants visited Cincinnati that necessitat-
cd warrants on both men on account 81
disorderlv fonduct shook hands and made
up Tuesday in Cincinnati.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-31
10 CASES OF CHOLERA
REPORTED IN TOXIC
Four Hundred and Six Victims at Osaka,
But Disease Is Abating at
NagaSak

Toxic, Aug. 3l.-Ten cases of Asiatic
cholera are reported in Toxic The dis
ease is abating at Nagasaki, but increas.
ing at Osaka, where the cases now num-
Der 400
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-31
UNIFORM ACCOUNTING
Recommended for States BY West Vir-
GINA Tax Commissioner.

indianapolis, Ind, Aug. 3l.-With pub,
lie business continually growing and ex-
panding to meet newly arising economic
and social conditions, there is urgent need
of uniform system of public accounting
and state supervision of public fiscal al
fairs throughout a state, according to
Fred O. Blue. state tax commissioner of
West Virginia, who delivered one of the
principal addresses at the closing session
,of the 10th annual conference of the Ma
tional Tax association here to day.
West Virginia, he said, had found that
its uniform accounting law, which has
now had seven years trial, had accom-
plished great good, turning a state of
chaos in fiscal affairs into order, system
and efficiency,
Among reasons for uniform public ac-
counting laws, Commissioner Blue said
that it was only through such a system
that conditions could be studied properly
and legislative remedies applied for evils
affecting scores, if not hundreds, OF pub
lie fiscal units. He said:
local officers are elected or appoint
ed for certain definite periods. They are
frequently selected without experience in
public affairs and particularly without
experience in matters of public account
ing. Quite naturally such persons can
not devise proper systems of accounting.
BY the time such officers become familiar
with their duties and public accounting,
they may be succeeded by others who are
likewise without experience.
IAN officer or private individual hav-
ing business to transact in several fiscal
units finds no embarrassment in doing so
under a uniform system; when he i ia
miliar with the method of transacting
business in his own unit he finds the
same business transacted in the same
manner in other units.
There can be no satisfactory private
or local supervision of public fiscal af-
fairs so as TO attain uniformity svs-
tenn must be prescribed and enforced by
central head if uniformity is to be at
tanned; in the very nature of things
there can be no uniformity throughout
state when a system OF accounting and
compliance Herewith are left to officers
whose jurisdictions are entirely local
There will not be uniformity in examina-
tions of fiscal bodies when public fiscal
accounts are examined BY private sc-
countants.
Private accountants are not vested I.
with authority TO enforce their findings I
against public fiscal bodies. The general /
experience is that the report 81 a pri- 4
vate accountant is flied and no suitable 4
action taken thereon 10 enforce the end
ings thereof"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-31
GRAIN CROPS LESS PROMISING
NJ E. Homestead Figures Spring Wheat
Yield at 81 Bushels and Winter
at 1877.

| Springfield Mass, Aug. 3l.-Not
enough wheat is being harvested to sup
| ply the total requirements of this coun-
try for bread and seed according to lat
est threshing returns as compiled in the
Orange Judd monthly crop report in New
England Homestead of Sept. 2. Follow
ing the complete disaster which over
whelmed the spring wheat crop of Min
nesota and the Dakotas, the average
spring wheat yield is placed at SO bush
els per acre, or total spring wheat crop
of las, 100000 bushels. Winter wheat re-
turns do not maintain the figure reported
Aug. |, the average yield being 1871 bush
els per acre, indicating total crop of
100000 bushels, or total wheat
crop. winter and spring. of around $685.
100000 bushels against 6l0,000,000 bush
els, the normal annual requirements for
seed and food purposes.
In corn, although some showers fur
nished much needed moisture. high tenn
peratures and drouth in late July and
early August are now found to have done
more damage than estimated. Unnatur-
al heat prevailed during practically the
whole period of tassel and silk upon the
early crop. Poor fertilization and an UNI
usually large number of barren stalks
are reported. Late corn. particularly in
Illinois. Ohio and southern Iowa, was
stunted in growth, partially fired and
tasseled very low. 1t appears that the
WELD per acre now indicated is only 24.3
bushels. indicating total crop of 2,5s5,-
CO000O bushels against 2,s72 100000
bushels indicated on Aug. |. and crop
harvested last year of 1923, 100000 bush
els. The oats crop appears to be of good
quality. average rate of yield 30 bushels
per acre, or a toal of apparently 1855
100000 bushels, against ,507 100000 in
1915.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-31
SANTA CRUZ
PUTS ALL HOPE IN
UNITED STATES
Legislature Gables Danish Government
Resolution Requesting Sale of
West Indies.

St Thomas, D. w. l., Aug 3l.-The
legislature OF Santa Cruz has adopted
and cabled to the Danish government at
Copenhagen resolution favoring sale of
the Danish West Indies to the United
States. The colonial council of st.
Thomas and st. John already has taken
similar action. The resolution adopted
by the Santa Cruz legislation follows:
THE colonial council unanimously re-
quest the ministry to hasten the nego-
tiations toward ratification of the treaty
with the United States, which is the
only means of relieving the intolerabIe
and ruinous state Of affairs on this is
land. There is no hope otherwise of rec
tifying our condition in the future
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-31
As Receiver Maintains the
Present Boston & Maine
Organization
HOBBS NAMED
AS COMPTROLLER
New Capital for Improve
ment Made Possible
Notes Ignored

Boston, Aug 3l.-For some time the
travelling public will not notice any diff
ference in service on the Boston & Maine
railroad attributable to the change in
management. Pres. James II. Hustis en-
tered his office at North station yester-
day morning as the supreme head OF the
whole Boston Maine system, answer
able to no directors or stockholders but
TO the federal court only. As temporary
receiver he has vastly more power than
as mere president of the company. He
even is in better position to deal with
the threatened railroad strike, should
that materialize He filed a bond yes
terday morning for 100000, guarantee
ing faithful discharge of his duties.
Interior management of the road win
be changed, in accordance with the decree
of the federal court and in accordance
with the ultimate treatment of the leased
lines. For instance, the bookkeeping
may be changed so as TO show the exact
earning value of each leased road.
Officers. attorneys, agents and en-
ployes of the company have been APP
pointed by the temporary receiver as his
representatives in the same capacity and
at the same compensation as formerly
obtained, except that VicePres. Hobbs
who was treasurer, will be designated
comptroller and Vice Pres Hudson be
comes general counsel.
Hence practically the only ones who
win feel an immediate and material eff
feet will be the holders Of the Sl3,000,000
notes that fall due to-day. They will
not receive payment for those notes now,
neither will they have to be consulted
any extension Of time for the pay
ment, because it lies within the discre
tion of James H. Hustis as temporary |
receiver to take up those notes for rec
tons to the court when the |
time seems to him right for such action
This would apply to other financial OBJ
legations OF the company.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-31
SAY MEN WILL
DEAL WITH THEIR
INDIVIDUAL ROADS
Members of Chicago Labor Organization
Declare Negotiations Will Pre-
cede Strike

Chicago, Aug, 81 Railroad brother
hoods will make an effort to adjust their
differences with the companies separate.
ly, in a series of conferences with the
heads of each system before the strike
order takes effect, according to members
of the Rock Island committee, an organ
ization of employees OF the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific. At these conferences
the men will suggest to the railroad
heads, negotiations between the brother
hoods and the lines collectively having
failed, they settle their differences in.
dividually.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-31
Advertised Within an Hour
After Navy Bill Is
Signed
DREADNOUGHTS
CARRY 16-lNCH GUNS
Destroyers as Planned Will
Make 80 Knots-Larg-
err Submarines

Washington, Aug. 3l,-The presidents
signature Tuesday vitalized the great
three'year naval building program, which
includes ten battleships, six battle cruis.
ers, ten scout cruisers, fifty destroyers,
nine fleet submarines, ffty.eight coast
submarines, three fuel ships, repair
ship, transport, hospital ship, two
destroyer tenders submarine tender,
two ammunition ships, and two gun
boats. Within an hour after the signing
of the measure the navy department ad.
vertised for bids for four battleships, four
scout cruisers, twenty destroyers, and
thirty submarines of two distinct types
fifty eigEt vessels in all The depart
ment also directed the commandants of
the navy yards at Philadelphia, Boston
and Charleston to proceed with the con.
struction OF the hospital ship, the fuel
ship, and the gunboat, respectively The
bids called for are to be opened in two
months. The sixty.one vessels are the
units to be begun, under the law, within
six months from date. Four battle
cruisers also are to be begun within the
next six months.
The only designs for the current pro-
gram not yet completed are those for
the battle cruisers and the ammunition
ships. These will be ready to be issued |
to bidders on Oct. l. During the last I
nine months the technical bureaus OF !
the navy department have been at work
IN the designs of the different vessels
In them are Incorporated the results OF
study OF the lessons of naval warfare (
n the European conflict.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-31
LEASED LINE FOR RECEIVER
Barre g. Chelsea Co., Holder of $4,000 of
Notes of Connecticut River.

The Connecticut River Railroad Co.,
which is one of the Boston & Names
leased lines. has filed petition in the
United States district court in Boston
for the appointment of receiver. The
petition names the Barre & Chelsea rail
road, holder of $4,000 of notes, as a de-
PENDANT which it seeks to restrain from
collecting on the note. The Connecticut
River company owes 100000 of notes
due to-day, and it is unable to meet this
obligation 1t realizes also that the
Boston & Maine Railroad Co., which
guarantees the notes, is unable to pay.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-31
EPIDEMIC JUMPS AGAIN
Cases of Infantile Paralysis in New York
Show Another Increase.

New York. Aug. 3l-The confidence of
health department officials that the cpl
demic of infantile paralysis was under
control was shaken yesterday by another
increase in the number of new cases re.
ported. There were 50 against 70 on
Wednesday. The deaths were p against
80 Wednesday for the "a hours ending
at 10 a m. yesterday. Experience how
ever, has shown that Tuesdays figures
are usually high on account of the failure
of physicians to report cases over Sun
day.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-31
WILSON'S LAST WORD
ROAD EXECUTIVES
"God Forgive You, / Cannot Is the
Quotation Made By the
President

Washington, Aug. 3l.-What President
Wilson said to the railroad executives at
their final conference is still the subject
of curiosity. One version of the presi-
dents last word to the railroad heads
was reported yesterday.
According to this account, after the
railroads had submitted their final prop
osition, which rejected everything the
president had suggested for a peaceful
settlement, Mr. Wilson said to the ex-
ecutives:
God forgive you, ] cannot"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-31
BIG BREAKS ON WHEAT
Market Hit By Pennsylvania An
nounoement of Embargo.

Chicago, Aug. 3l-Big breaks in the
value OF wheat quickly resulted yester-
day from announcements that in sntici-
patton Of a general strike, an embargo
on grain shipments had been ordered to
take effect Saturday on the Pennsylvania
railway, one Of the chief outlets from
here for exports to Europe. The extreme
~hrinkage amounted TO six and one
fourth cents a bushel Some reaction
took place before the market closed.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-31
OLD-TIME REMEDY
MAKES PURE BLOOD

Purify your blood by taking Hoods
sarsaparilla. This medicine has been
and still is the peoples medicine because
of its reliable character and its wonder.
ful success in the treatment Of the com
mon diseases and ailments scrofula, ca.
tarrh, rheumatism dyspepsia, loss Of APP
petite, that tired feeling, general de-
blity.
Hoods Sarsapsrila has been tested 40
years. Get il to-day. ADV.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-31
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Yesterdays Results.

At Philadelphia-cbicago I, Philsdel.
phia 3.
AT New York-New York 5, Detroit 2
At Observation-Disclosures 3, Cleve-
land l.
At Boston-Boston 4, St. Louis 0.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-31
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
NATIONAL LEAGUE


At Pittsburg list game) Boston
Pittsburg o; I'D game Pttsburg Z Bos-
ton 6.
At st. Louis-Brooklyn 4, st, Louis l.
At Chicago--Chicago 2, Philadelphia O.
At Cincinnati-New York 6, Cincinnati
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-05-04
IF KIDNEYS ACT
BAD TAKE SALTS
Says Backache is sign you have
been eating too much
meat.

When you wake up with backache
and dull misery In the kidney region
II generally means you have been eat.
Ing too much meat. says well.known
authority. Meat forms uric acid which
overworks the kidneys In their effort
to filter II from the blood and they
become sort OF paralyzed and ioggy.
When your kidneys get sluggish and
clog you must relieve them, like you
relieve your bowels: removing ail the
body's urinous waste. else you have
backache, sick headache, dizzy spells;
your stomach sours. tongue II coated.
and when the weather ID bad you have
rheumatic twinges. The urine IL
cloudy. full OF sediment. channels OF.
ten get sore, water scalds and you are
obliged TO seek relief two or three
times during the night
Either consult a good, reliable physi.
clan at once or get from your pharma.
cist about four ounces OF JRd Salts;
take a tablespoonful In u glass OF
water before breakfast for a few days
and your kidneys will then act fine.
This famous salts Is made from the
acid of grapes and lemon Juice, com.
bined with lithia. and has been used
.or generations TO clean and stimulate
kidneys. also 10 neutralizc
acids In the urine SO II no longer irri.
tatcs. thus ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts Is life saver for regular
meat eaters. II IN inexpensive. cannot
injure and makes n delightful, effer.
Whitewater drink.
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-05-04
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS;
GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS


Portland Wheat Bluestem, 81. .03
fortyfold. ole; club, 90c; red fife
90c; red Russian, 90c.
Hay - Eastern Oregon timothy
S2S.50 per ton; alfalfa, old crop
$19. 50@2l.
Millfeed--Spot prices: Bran, SO;
per ton; shorts, $26; rolled barley
| $Sl. 50@32.50
Corn---Whole. $50 per ton; cracked
SS7.
Vegetables - Artichokes, 75c pei
dozen; tomatoes, 3.50@4 per crate
cabbage, 81. .25l3.50 hundred; garlic,
l0c pound; peppers, 17h0l20c; egg
plant, 20@25c; horseradish, SIC; cau-
liAower, 75c@S1.25 dozen; spinach, 4
@6c per pound; asparagus, Sl.25@
l.50 per dozen; rhubarb, lAGl2c pound;
peas. 6@7c; celery, sS.50@S.75 per
crate.
Potatoes-Jobbing prices: Oregon.
81. 50@1. go; Yakimas, Si.60@l. .75 per
sack; new California, case per pound.
Buying price: 0regons, $l0D1.25.
Onions--Oregon, $1.S5 a $50 sack.
Green Fruit--Strawberries, $1.25@
2.25 per crate; apples. Sl@l.75 per
box.
Eggs - Jobbing prices: Oregon
ranch. candled. 2Sc per dozen; un-
candled, 22@22c.
Poultry-Hens, l7@17c; stags, lSc;
broilers, $5@6.50 per dozen; turkeys,
live, l9@21c; turkeys, dressed. choice.
25@27c; ducks, 15@l6c; geese, 10@l1.
Butter-Extras, prints, soc; prime
firsts, 2Sc; firsts, 27c; cubes, 25@
27c; butterfat No. l, 2Sc delivered
Portland; No. 2, 26c.
Veal-Fancy, l1@11c per pound.
Pork-Fancy, 11@l1ac per pound.
Hops-l9l5 crop, 10@1lc; 1916 con-
tracts, 10@12c.
Wool - Eastern Oregon, 81 a 27c;
valley. soc; mohair new clip, 4s@5lc
per pound;.
Cascara bark - Old and new. &c per
pound.
Cattle - Steers, choice grain and
olup, So. 75@9; choice, hay, So. .5O@
s.75; good. $S.l5 a $50; medium,
81. 75@8. 15; choice cows, 81. 7.50@8;
rood, s6. 75@7.25; medium, Sc. ESQ |
'.25; heifers, s5@7; bulls, s2.75@6;
tags, S3@5.25.
Hogs - Prime light, ss.90@9. 10;
'ood to prime, $3.50 a S.75; rough
eavy, s7.90@s; pigs and skips, $3.50
lS.
Sheep-Y -Yearlings, ss.25@10; weth-
RS, $s a 8; ewes, s7@s.25; lambs,
9.50@11.
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-05-04

118 and would get so weak at times that
I fell over. / began to take Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and
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medicine ever since and / feel like a
new woman. now weigh 127 pounds
80 you can see what it has done for me
already. My husband says he knows
your medicine has saved my life. -
Mrs. ]. S. BARLOW, 1924 South 4th St.,
Columbus, Ohio.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
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Lydia E. Pinkhan's Vegetable Com
pound
Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1916-05-04
ksep the shesp.
The American Sheep Breeder. OF
rnNnnt dnta payo,

The American Sheep Breeder. oi
recent date, says.
"A brooding, dreadful calamity how
ers over our sheep industry according
to some OF our sheep prophets. After
the war they see wool tumbling down
by the shilling. Europe will cry for
more wool. Hundreds OF factories
now idle will gobble up the supply.
Remember that Germany, France,
Italy, Austria and other nations are
using little wool today. They cannot
In the very nature OF things. Yet
there is no surplus. There are no
idle stocks save small quantity Ger
many has bought in South America.
which cannot be shipped and consid-
erable OF this is being offered by the
Germans themselves who seem quite
willing to take the present fine margin
OF profit The worlds clip is reduced.
Sheep stock in most every country
has declined. Reconstruction In Eu.
rope means busy spindles. Whoever
heard OF cheap anything after war?
The cost of living is higher in every
land. With millions of workers killed
how can European labor be cheaper?
Wages will soar. They must. Tariff
or no tariff. this awful slump In wool
will not happen. Mutton! This war
has no influence on the market We
are exporting no mutton. We are eat
ing more mutton and our supply is
less. There is no logic in the argu.
ments advanced by these pessimistic
sheep prophets. In fact they have no
arguments. Their statements are gen
eral. not specific. It's bosh-all bosh.
Keep your sheep. Buy more If you
can get them. All this is rot about
after the war makes us smile. There |
are no grizzly horrors in sight"