THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA. ffi Hill Ilk I Informs His Friends In the Quaker City of Ills Decision. RANK AMP FILE LOYAL Bat Willi I:inageiV Antagonism Greater " D-.a.hi" Experience Holds I: in Km-! -Writes Friends That Ho Would Knee Old Opposi tion if NhiiikI for lreldont. Philadelphia, Kept. 5. The Record ays: Friend of V'il!i:un J. Bryan in this city c'u.liu to hove received let ters from Mm v. h!r h Indicate thiit he ban do thought of being the Demo cratic noi.ilri".' for President next year. Thtso let'.ers arc declared to Intimate very broadly the belief of Mr. Dry"') t''if without a great change In the adJUudo (If Democratic organization h avr of the country toward him, he would. 1f nominated for President tit.it year, Buffer u re petition ol the fate that he met In 696 and U'Gu. Neverthi Ivtb, Mr. liryan evidently deos not un.lero.itIma. the Influence that he will have In t'.i" De.mocrr.tte national convention, nor does he np fttar tn Jjellevo that'sanylKjdy st,rcnu ,onsly '-opposed by lilm for the nom ination could win in the convention, fjut Mr. Bryan's recoginttlon of hl3 .rn unavailability, ;it present, for e noniintiUoii is the hauls of ex pectation by liii'iuls with whom he tuts been In pntii.u communication, that he will bele(.i'a candidate who, Ux his Judgment, would make the beet possible, run if nominated, and while the rank and tile still Etand by aool. The BiibFtunee of tlio Uryan lettem Inferred to Is that. In Uie two cam paigns which resulted In hie defeat, j the rank and file were for him, but j the leaderd were against him. In Me view, the ouly difference between I i ill ' n in pit " KM WILLIAii J. BRYAN. t mdltions In those years and the Hresent feeling of the party In rela tion to hta candidacy Is that the an tagonism of "the leaders" against Mm Is stronger then ever before, while ten rank and file still stand by Mm. In the light of the ample expert-. nee which he has had, Mr. Bryan wants to know why he should hope tKr election next year, If the fore most men of the party would exert tfiemselvts even more than they for merly did for the counteraction of whatever the rank and file would want to do for him. But the friends to whom he has written, argue that no man can be nominated In the coming Democratic convention cgalnot the will of Bryan. Ba can make the nominee win, they My- If he shall turn In heartily for "somebody like Governor Johnson, of Minnesota," that candidate, In the forecast of these observers, "will not only be nominated with a grand hur rah, but, in the running upon a plat form of State's Rights, Constitution al Guarantees and Tariff Reform, could not bo defeuteed even by Roosevelt himself as a candidate against him and certainly not by Taft, or any orli. v oui-MJato backed by the President." Kuriii; Auto Hills Woman. New York, Sept. z. With her husband in aaother automobile Jus: ahead of her, Mrs. Emily Leslie Ktd aey, wife of Robert (J. Kelsey, a wealthy real estate dealer, met al most lnstKnt fleuth on the Morris Park race track by the bursting of a tire of a racing enr in which sh was riding on a speed trial In anti cipation of the automobile meet of the New York Motor Club, which U to take place on September 0, and In which the Kelseys meant to com pete. Hchooltflrl TrieN Suicide. Pittsburg, oupt. 4. Rather than return to the village high school Emma Graham, aged 18, daughter of Justice J. H. Graham, this morning shot hentnir sn l la dying at Mercy Hospital in this city. This was to have been her Inst year In school. When tol l to prepare for school this morning she went to her room and shot herself with her brother's revolver. s i 11 l'' ll 'llll at.tov i;Atu:o i iv danger. Ju(!ue Lutidi Mny Ignore Uona parte' ronilse of Immunity. Chicago, 111., Sept. 5. Because of the uncompromising attitude of Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landls the Chicago nnd Alton Railroad Is in Imminent danger of prosecution up on the charge of "rebating. " The tentative agreement of the railroad company whereby It was to receive an "immunity bath" will be 7T WW 1 T J. fjl.'H ATTORNEY GEN. BONAPARTE. broken Jf the judge who Imposed a fine of $29,240,000 on the Standard Oil Company for the same offenses has hla way. When the court reconvened be fore Judge Saudis, and the Grand Jury was reconvened, It was expect ed that sbnio action would be taken In the way of deciding what course should be pursued with reference to the Alton company. Judge Land Is had convened the Grand Jury for the purpose of having the Alton indict ed. Attorney General Bonaparte had written a letter to District Attorney Sims, In which ho stated his views on the subject of the treatment which should be accorded the Alton road. The company has asserted Immun ity from prosecution on tho ground that it afforded the government every facility for getting at the facts again st the Standard Oil Company and that but for this course the Standard could not have been Indicted. The letter which the Attorney Gen eral wrote was made subject to re lease on Its being read In court. Special Injunctions of secrecy were laid upon It, and against the ub-j of any part cf the letter. This letNir was not i"arle public, and Instead -t taking action Judge Landls adjourn ed the court for three weeks. In the meantime, It la stated here, that there Is a serious dlsagreemen be tween Judge Landls and District Attorney Sims on the one hand and Attorney General Bonaparte on the other as to whether the Alton com pany shou'd be freed tor turning State's evidence. It Is understood here that Judge Landls feels that there are addition al facts, which are unknown to the Attorney General, which Impels him to go on and In case the Alton has been indicted to have these Indict ments tried and sentence Imposed. On the .other hand, there Is no doubt that the government did promise the Alton road immunity. SEVEN DEAD IN WKECK. Seventeen Injured When Chesapeake A Ohio Train Is Derailed. Charleston, WeBt Va., Sept 5. A Chesapeake & Ohio local passen ger train, No. 6, was derailed a mile below Kanawha Falls, and as a re sult seven are dead and seventeen ia Jureed. ' , A coach, th ' combination express and mail car and the baggage car overturned rolling toward the Kana wah River. Among the dead are: Allen Loving, a law student at West Virginia University, serving as express agent during the Summer. C. S. Campbell, a telegraph opera tor. . Spreading of rails Is supposed to have caused the accident. ENGLAND AGAINST OPIVM. Consent to Cut Importation of Drng Into Chinu 10 Per Cent. Shanghl, Sept.' 5. The British Minister, Sir John Jordan, has sent a memorial to the Chinese Board of Foreign Affairs offering to reduce the Importation of Indian opium 10 per cent. In three years as an experiment and also to increase the duty If the native drug is equally taxed. He further proposes to close all the places at which opium is sold In the British settlements and pro hibit the Importation of morphine if the other European Powers will take similar actlc n. No Fear of Epidemic. Havana, Sept., 4. Capt. Thomos on of the Medical Corps, U. S. A. who 1b supervising the sanitation of Clen fuegos, whore several American sol diers have died of yellow fever, re ports that the situation Is very en couraging. Bo far there has been only one case of the fever In Havana. There Is no fear of an epU'emlc hero, because the sanitary service Is most efficient, hav ing been In the hands of Americans since lntercnt!on bejati. . , "Ml I? f kit. it. n liffun Covering Minor Happen ings from all Over the Globe. HOME AND FOREIGN Complied and Condensed for the Ilusy Itomliv A Complete lb-cord of Kuropean Despatches and Im portant Events from Everywhere Dolled Down for Ilanty Perusal. Governor Hughes, In a speech at Jamootown, N. Y., declared that too many special privileges have been granted by tho State government to corporations. Representative Theodora E. Bur ton decided to accept the proffered Domination of the republicans of Cleveland for the mayorallty. Representative George Lllley, of Connecticut, urged tnat tho naval stations be reduced from twenty-six to four, declaring the maintenance of the present number a heedless ex pense. Count Bishop Vay do Vaya, a Hungarian nobleman and churchman, declared that Japan was learning colmlzatlon and would Boon be able to rule Corea In peace. The Interstate Commerce Com mission began active camaplgn to avert a car shortage which threatens the Northwest with a derth of fuel. Dr. Bell, Inventor of the telephone, has been at work on plans for an air ship, which he declared were on an entirely new principle. Vice President Fairbanks, In a speech before the National Irrigation Congress, declared that there Is too much politics and too little business In the country. Legislation without Investigation, says Senator Depew Is responsible for the decline In stocks, not tho policy of the President. Eighteen persons were killed and sixty Injured In a head on collision between electric cars near Charles ton, 111. Structural weakness and overload ing are said to bo responsible for the collapse of the great bridge at Quebec when at least seventy-eight lives were lost. The United States and Mexico an nounced their willingness to act as mediators In a permanent treatv of peace between the republics of Central America. Governor Hughes, In a speech lu Lowvllle, N. Y., said biennial sess ions of the Legislature wore sulll clent to transact the necessary busi ness of the State. It Is said the Atlantic battle shin fleet Is In such excellent condition that scarcely any repairs will be need ed before starting on the trip to the Pacific. Robbers lured an actor Into a saloon In Chicago, and after beating and robbing him, dropped him through a trap door Into a vat of acid. When a resolution censuring the President for his criticism of the trial of the beef packers was offered at a meeting of the 'American Bar Association It was promptly laid on the table. FOREIGN NEWS- According to a despatch the Per sian Minister will make formal reply to the Turkish note accusing Persian troops, charging the Turks In turn with cruelty and occupation of Per sian territory. M. Clemenceau, the French Pre mier .admits that great difficulties exist in connection with the Morro can crisis, while denying that Gen eral Drude will be recalled. A despatch from The Hague says that It Is now feared that the Ameri can scheme for a permanent peace tribunal cannot pass under the pro posed Idea of the classification of Judges according to the Importance of nations Mr. Elliot F. Shepard, while speed ing over the fifth circuit la an auto mobile race at Brescia, Italy, was thrown Into a river and suffered painful Injuries. In a striking speech Emperor Wil liam made what Is regarded as an open bid for socialist support. Black Hundreds broke out In riot InOdessa, killing four Hebrews and wounding almost a score. Ignorant of the wherrabouts of the warring Sultans of Morocco, the French government will probably take neither Bide. Senator Depew paid a lawyer's bill for a wagon wrecked while he pass ed In an automobile in Austria be cause an Item of two cents for a postage stamp appealed to his senso of humor, says a despatch. It Is ofilcially announced that the French Cabinet Is In complete accord on the policy of France as affecting Morocco. SPORTING NEWS. Fourteen clubs won victories In the seventeen races rowed at tho eighteenth Middle States regatta on tho Harlem. Racing stewards at Saratoga in vestigated the operations of a layer in the ring In connection with sus picions aroused by the defeat of scv , eral of Aupust Belmont's horses i when ridden by his Jockey, Moun tain. n.ree Cmielit in Qniekxand. Peoria, 111.. Sept. 4.- Quicksand in the Illinois River caused tho drowning of Charles McHnleo, Keel ing Wilson nnd William Stinger of Lacon, 111. The bodies were fotinj upright lu the river, all three held firmly by the quicksand, which reach ed above tho knees. It Is thought the men's boat was overturned and they were caught by the quicksand in their attempt to wade to shore. The water was barely abovo their heads when they were found. Opposes Discrimination. Boston, Sept. 5. The Boston Chamber of Commerce adopted reso. lutlons deprecating any agitutlon which might tend to cause ill-feeling between the United States and Japan. Tho Chamber declares Itself opposed to any legislation Intended to discriminate against Japan or hr citizens. The resolutions were adopted In response to an appeal from tho Ass ociated Chambers of Commerce of Toklo, Osaka, Kioto, Yokohama, and Kobo. Itonr-Admlral Davis Ret Ires. Washington, Sept. 6. Rear-Admiral Charles H. Davis, In command of the second squadron of the Atlan tic fleet, was retired having reachod the age of sixty-two. After the REAR-ADMIRAL CHAS. H..DAVI3. earthquake In Jamaica he was sent by Rear-Admiral Evans to ;the re lief of the people and was snubbed by Gov. Swettenham. He was bora In Massachusetts and entered the Naavl Academy from that State. 27 Hurt When Swing Breaks. -Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 4i Seven passengers were thrown out and Injured and twenty others were slightly hurt In the crash of a steel arm carrying a section of a big dou ble whirl swing on the Board-wlk at Arkansas avenue. The accident was caused by the snapping of a steel beam carrying one of the revolv ing swings. The passengers became panlcstrlcken and leaped from their high seats. Empress Wonts Wildcats. Seattle, Wash., Sept. 4. Stephen Mason, an old hunter and trapper, known all over the West as a marks man, has Just received an unusual commission ..from the. Empress Dow ager of China. Through a fur com pany of this city Mason is commiss ioned to capture a pair of real live grizzly bears and four live wildcats. The Empress Is accumulating an Imperial museum of the world's fast disappearing animals. Plotters Against Czur Hanged. St Petersburg, Sept. 5. Two of the three men who were sentenced five days ago to death for having organized a plot against the life of the Emperor were hanged here. Their names were Slnasky, allaa "Purkln," aged 27, nnd Vladimir Naoumoff aged 26. Itoad Olx-y Alabama Law. Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 4. The Mobile and Ohio .the Seaboard Air Line, the Southern, the Frisco sys tem, the Chattanooga Southern, the Alabama Great Southern and the At lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic put the 2 cent passenger rate into effect In Alabama. Erie Canal to Open. Syracuse, N. Y., Sept, 8. Deputy Superintendent Thomas Wheeler stated that the break In the Erl? Canal In this city, which closed that waterway since July 30, would be re paired, so that by next week at the furthest navigation may be resumed. Ilglttidug Kills H, Hits 80. Raloigh, N. C Sept. ( Lightning struck the power house of the elect ric plant at Buckhorn, killing five men tind Injuring between twenty and twenty-five others. The ex tent of damage to the property ha not been learned. !'2 . r my $&hm ALASKAN DOGS HALF WOLF. Invaluable to the Inhabitants Servo n Draught AnlninN. The native Alaska dog Is known ns the "huskle" or 'malamoot' and Is a mongrel one-hnlf timber wolf, says a writer In Leslie's Weekly. Ho has characteristics which especially fit him for his work ho Is heavy set, with a thick coat of long hair, Im pervious to cold, and with Just enough wolf In his nature to mako him rostlesa, eager to go, and with n sufficient mixture of dog to temper ft fierceness nnd treachery which might, nnd Bomotlmes does, become dangerous. It Is a rare occurrence for them to bite a human being, but they will fight among themselves on the slight est provocation, and It Is not an un common sight for half a dozen "huskies" to hold a pitched battle. A bucket of cold water will generally put them to flight, but In tho major ity of cases the miners pay no atten tion to the melee and allow tho dogs to fight It out. Tho wolf nature mnnlfests Itself in their thieving propensities, and all food must be "cachi d" out of their rfh. A hungry "hnskle" will open n '-ox of canned lu-ef with eose by blt'n.s' through the tin. He will llo before the door of u tent or cnbln, pretending to bo asleep, when In reality he la waiting for a chance to rans.'x k tho klthchen Cue day I saw n miner's dinner wrecked by his own dog, a splendid big, wolfich fellow, who overturned a pot of beans, and In tho most un c::irerned manner walked off with the hot bacon In his mouth. No matter what depredations thoy may commit, severe punishment, so as to cripple or kill them, Is out of the question on nreonnt of their gr?at value In the transportation of supplies. It Is an Inferior dog thnt Is not worth 40, and mony of them, say their masters, arc not for sale. Two good dogs can haul a man forty or fifty miles n day on a good trail or carry from f00 to 600 pounds of freight about 20 miles In G hours. Went her Forecasts No Joke. A largo majority of the residents of the Inland cities look upon tho forecasts of tho United States Weather Bureau In a spirit of fore bonrunce If not of levity. They ac cept the Jokes of tho paragruphcrs about the unreliability of the predic tions as practically true and If called upon to pass a rerious opinion on the bureau would In most cases de cide that It wr.s primarily designed to furnish sinecure jobs to army on cers for whom no bet I or employment could be found. At tin- ocean nnd lake ports, however, v.-hero millions of dollars are Inverted Itr shipping, a different view Is hold. Instances are too numerous In which tho heeded warning of tho weather observer has averted the loss or damage of ships and cargoes of exceedingly largo ! tie. Hero it Is recognized that the forecasts are not Invariably correct and tho officials themselves mako no pretense that they are, but In tho main they strike so near the truth that the man who has life nnd wealth that Is subject to menace by weather conditions cannot and does not take chancos. No shipping In surance Is so cheap as the free ad vice furnished by Uncle Sam. Rail roads, too, appreciate tho value of tho weather Bervlce especially In the Northwest during the blizzard sea son and In the Southwest during the Spring freshets. At these seasons transportation officials keep a close watch on the bulletins of the bureau and gauge the movements of their trains accordingly. The losses thus avoided frequently are sufficient to put the balance on the right Bide of the ledger. Utilizing Pine Stumps. The denuding of the American foests Is leading to many odd re sources to supply the deficiency. The government' recently announced that owjng to the rapid manner In which forests are being mowed down to secure -wood pulp for paper making a small .army of experts were at work, hunting for some abundant material like swamp or prairie grass that would be suitable for paper making. Long ago the supply of wal .nut, lumber for furniture was prac tically exhausted and oak has large ly taken Its place. For some time the turpentine makers have been puz zlod to find raw material to meet the growing , demands of their trado which threatened to make serious Inroads on the pine forests. The trees were biihg used much faster than they could be grown and this meant disaster. Then attention was turned to the refuse of the forests already used and experiments were made which demonstrated that the Btumps of the pine trees, which had orlgnlally been passed over as not worth tho trouble of digging out, were saturated with raw turpentine. These stumps immediately took on n commercial value which will fur nish small fortunes to the men who own them. In some cases the Inter esting question has been raised as to whether the Btumps were a part of the original timber right Bold by the farmer to the turpentine maker or reverted to tho owner of the land after the trees had been cut. CASTOR I A Tor Infants and Children, The Kino You Kara Always Bought NEW YORK MAUM;is. Wholesale Prices of Farm l r.,lnc, Quoted for tho Week. Wheat Sept. .100' Deo. ..1 OP.; M,iy i n UoltN ' ' ' 'I't 7,' Den nihi Mav rq Oats. Mixed, d 81c. ' ' Milk Kxohnnne price for standard qna. ity is 3 Vic per quart. IUttkk Ckba.mi.bv. Western, extra 2.n ., Firsts whufio. .State duiry, (in. ..t " CltF.KSR Suite, full cream. 12; fc'.m.ill i:;u ; Euod ' Nearby-Fancy 38a30o Ktnte-Ci.,,,,1 to choico.24aaO Western Firsts -4 liKXVKs. City drcd. fc-iio . OiiiVKs. City dres'd. aiHao. CW try dressed per lb. TuU'a KiiKKl'. l'ur 100 lb. :).7."i;').2.. HtHi.s. Livo per 100 lb. fr.u0 Couutry dressed per lb. b,u-'4i'. Hay. Prime, 100 lbs., WcaiUj. Straw. Long rye, tiiiuiOo. LlVR I'OLLTKV Fowls. Per IK uU'f CmcKJCNS. Spring, per lb., niiKx Ducks. lr lb. lluUc, Drksskd I'ocltky 1 L'UKKYS. Per lb. l:t.ilik-. Fowls. Por lb. Ulaloo. CmcKJCNs). I'liilu., per lb., 2-u::;0. Vkoetaiilks Potatoes. L. I. p.-r 1W., $1., 'A ': 25. Citcmhkus. per Mil. i-l.mial .v Onions. White, per bbl. i-i.ii' . . j..- x LKTTircu. per Phuket, .6ooil.a.i. Pbets. per 100 bunches, tl.ixiaua Ouekn Corn. per 100, .oOcuJl.iO. Tomatoes per box, .HOa'.MV. FINANCIAL- Stocks scored advances la u (inlet market. Georgia Central officials puhllsh"d only a few details of Ocean Sn. un ship Company finances. Statistics compiled by Chnii.1 i-r llrothers & Co. showed that v: ' 1, 3 of stocks depreciated more than 000,000,000 in the lat seven inonthi 11ASLIIALL LF.AGI K SL.MMARKid. Standing of the Clubs, National. W. L. P. C. Chicago 00 83 .735 New York 70 41,1 f,c.( Pittsburg , . 71 fio ,5bT Philadelphia 05 R2 ,K1 Brooklyn fit) f(J .4"9 Cincinnati 61 71 .4 m Boston 44 75 .3: St, Louis 38 87 At American. W. U P. C. Detroit 72 40 .010 Philadelphia 72 47 m Chicago 72 51 .Asi Cleveland 70 61 .873 New York 65 (14 . 403 Boston 64 70 .433 St. Louis 4U 70 .41J Washington 80 SI M PRKSIUKXT CUTS HER TKRM. Aids Woiiiun Who Altered Ii;uikn itfl to Help Mother. Washington, Sept. 6. Tho Presi dent commuted to two years tie sentence of Bessie L. Bond, of Haiti more, who laat June pleaded guilty of altering a' national bunk note. Five yearB being the minimum, the Judge had to impose- that swuwuu, but,i with' the District-Attorney, petU tloned ; for, commutation to six mon- ths. , Attorney-General Bonaparte believed two years not too much nnd the President approved. The young woman raised a 1 0 bill to' $100 to cover a shortage la her accounts as treasurer of a miss ionary society of the Central Metho dist Church. She had taken money to care for her Invalid mother. 8h studied a flOO note, got it changed Into $10 bills, then clipped a cipher from one and added It to the $10 sign on the other. The pastor of her church was decleved by it, but not the bank. Half a Million Fire in Houston, Tcvns Houston, Texas, Sept. 6. Fire de stroyed $500,000 worth of property and reduced three squares of the business and residence section to ashes. The biggest loss was to the plant of the Standurd Milling Com pany, valued at 1300.000, which covered an entire block. The eleva tor and the flour mill and rice n'H were destroyed. One fireman vi's Injured and a policeman was t-orio, in ly hurt when his horse fell on hir.i. $50,000 Monument for 11 Horse Chloago, Sept. 4. Provision for $50,000 monument for his horse lu been Incorporated in the will "f Henry Oraves, tho oldest settler of Chicago, who Is dying st his ho:ne. It will memoriae Ike Cook, a famous trotter, which he owned fifty vears ago, f.nd which had a record of 2:30. Ten Yearn for Land Frauds. San Francisco, Sept. 4. United Ststes District Judge De Haven has sentenced John A. Benson and B. I' Perrln, recently convicted of laud frauds, to ten yeurs Imprisonment In the Alameda county jail and to pay a fine of $1,000 each. Will 0 Words, Codicil 4. Baltimore, Sept. 6. The will 0' Pr. Albert B. Lyman, who died Aug ust 20, hna been probuted. It 'u made yerB ago uud consisted of one sontenco. "I give everything to t; .1' wife." A codicil, made years lujc", read; "And name her executrix."
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