THE NEEDS OF
THE 11. 5. NAW
REPORTS OF A COMMISSION SUB
MITTED TO CONGRESS BY
THE PRESIDENT.
ADVISORY BOARD ADVOCATED
Secretary of Navy Should Have a
Clear Understanding and Firm
Grasp of Leading Military
Considerations.
Washington, D. C. —The president
on Thursday submitted to coftgress a
message transmitting two preliminary
reports of the commission lie appoint
ed to consider the needs of the navy.
The commission recommends an ad
visory body for the secretary, declar
ing that what the secretary needs,
above all, is a clear understanding, and
firm grasp of leading military consid
erations. This advisory body, the com
mission says, should be selected from
the class upon whom will fall in war
the responsibility for the results of the
navies they recommend.
As regards individual responsibility
for advice, it is suggested that, the sec
retary of the navy nominate to the
president the officer whom lie deems
best fitted to command the great fleet
in case of war arising and that this of
ficer. irrespective of his seniority,
should be head of the advisory body.
He alone should be the responsible ad
visor of the secretary and would pro
vide him with the weightiest and
most instructed counsel. An essential
principle in the constitution of such
an advisory body is that the majority
should be on the active list and should
go afloat at not infrequent intervals;
and, specifically, the head of the body,
the prospective commander-in-chief,
should during the summer months
take command of the concentrated bat
tleship force, for maneuvers, target fir
ing and practice.
There should be no check or change
of method in expanding from a state
of peace to a state of war, concludes
the commission. This is not militar
ism; it is a simple business principle
based upon the fact that success in
war is the only return the people and
the nation can get from the invest
ment of many millions in the build
ing and maintenance of a great navy.
OHIO RIVER ON A RAMPAGE
People Living in Ohio and Kentucky
Suffer from Rising
Water.
Cincinnati, O. That the Ohio
river here will reach a stage of 00 feet
on the present rise was the prediction
made Thursday by the local weather
forecaster. If this stage is reached it
will inundate considerable property ou
the river front. Already Water and
Front streets in Cincinnati are flooded
and 300 residences in low lying lands
in Covington, Newport and Bellevue,
Ky., are submerged.
Gallipolis, O. —All railroads con
necting with northern points were
cut off here Thursday when the trestle
on the Hocking Valley railroad at
.Vlinertown was washed out. The
Kanawha and Michigan railroad is
washed out at Rutland. The iron
bridge at Bulaville is wrecked and
many families at Adamsville had to
flee for their lives when the water
came rushing down Raccoon Creek.
Frankfort, Ky.—Four feet of water
standing in the city school and
the entire lower part of the; city
flooded gives an idea of the damage
which has been done here by the most
disastrous flood in the Kentucky river
for a decade. Hundreds of families
have been rendered homeless.
GALE DOES DAMAGE IN GOTHAM
One Man Killed and Several Persons
Injured—Land and Water
Traffic Suffered.
New York City.—A northwest galo
which swept down with nuex
pected violence upon New York
Thursday claimed a heavy toll from
land and water traffic, while the havoc
which it wrought throughout the city
resulted in the death of one person
and the injury of perhaps a dozen
others.
Early in its course the gale over
turned the ten-foot bronze statue of
the Angel Gabriel on the roof of the
Chancel of the Cathedral of St. John
the Divine, and an hour later blew
down a 40-foot flag pole from the roof"
of the six-story building used by the
Dime Savings bank at Broadway and
Tuirty-fourth street. The pole fell
head foremost into mid-Broadway, nar
rowly missing two crowded surface
cars and a score or more of pedes
trians. In various parts of the city
several heavy plate glass windows
were blown out of their position and
a number of persons were injured by
falling glass.
Indiana Counties Vote "Dry."
Indianapolis, Ind. —In elections held
on Thursday three more counties
were added to the list of local option
counties in this state. The counties
voting "dry" Thursday were Hen
dricks, Fountain and Fayette.
Ordered to Target Practice.
Mare Island Navy Yard, Cal.—
The torpedo boat destrayers Per
ry and Paul Jones, which have just
been overhauled, left Thursday under
orders to proceed to San Pedro pre
liminary to target practice.
ASSAILED BY A FANATIC
"BILLY" SUNDAY, THE EVANGEL
-IST, HORSEWHIPPED.
He and His Assailant Roll and Tum
ble in Church Isle —Police Final
ly Arrest the Fanatic.
Springfield, 111.—Rev. William A.
Sunday, better known as "Billy"
Sunday, a former baseball player
who is now an evangelist, was
horsewhipped last night by a religious
fanatic at the Sunday tabernacle,
where in the presence of 8,000 per
sons he was conducting the opening
meeting of a religious revival meet
ing.
The evangelist, aftvr making his
opening remarks, was leaning against
the pulpit on an elevated platform
while a hymn was sung by Fischer
and Butler, his choir leaders, and
Miss Edith Anderson, a soprano of
Springfield, when a powerful man,
who later said his name was Sherman
Potts, sprang forward with a buggy
whip and struck Sunday several
blows. Sunday leaped from the plat
form and dashed his assailant to the
floor in the center aisle.
Rolls and Tumbles in Aisle.
The audience was Qn the verge of
panic, with women weeping and chil
dren screaming, while Potts and Sun
day rolled and tumbled in the aisle.
Mr. Fischer directed the choir and the
audience to sing and in a few mo
ments the entire audience was
calmed, few leaving their seats. Sev
eral men soon seized Potts and they
held him until policemen came and
took him to jail. Sunday said he suf
fered several painful bruises from the
buggy whip. The prisoner said that
his home was near Lovington, 111.
According to the horsewhipper's
statements at the jail, he was once de
clared insane and committed to Jack
sonville asylum, whence after a brief
confinement he was released as
cured. He made the attack, he said,
in defense of the virtue of women
which he declared had been criticized
by the evangelist. The police say
that I'otts is a religious fanatic.
THE WEEKLY TRADE BULLETIN
Law of Supply and Demand Will
Prove Helpful to the Busi
ness Situation.
New York City.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s
Weekly Review of Trade says:
Although the cuts in steel add some
confusion to the existing weakness in
the iron and copper trades, and have
brought about a sharp decline in the
security market, yet the reassertion
of the law of supply and demand, with
its inevitable readjustments of prices,
and perhaps of wages, must prove ul
timately helpful to the business situa
tion, however disturbing the imme
diate effects. The lower prices stim
ulated inquiries and somo orders for
structural material were placed at
Pittsburg at revised prices.
Transactions in the local dry goods
market are only for absolutely known
requirements. Reports from the west,
however, indicate a house trade that
seems to be fully up to normal. Cot
ton goods prices remain stationary
and the market is more or less un
even, certain lines being sold ahead
for months to come while others can
be had for comparatively'nearby de
livery. Export trade is light.
TARS PARADE IN NORFOLK, VA.
Two Thousand Men from Atlantic
Fleet March and Dine —City
Thronged with People.
Norfolk, Va.—For the first time
since their return from the 'round
the-world cruise, the men of the
Atlantic fleet were given shore
leave to-day in acceptance of the in
vitation of the city of Norfolk. Two
thousand bluejackets and 140 officers
were landed from the fleet, and, being
joined by several hundred regulars
from the army post at Fortress Mon
roe, paraded the streets of the city.
Rear Admiral Sperry himself was un
able to be present because of a neces
sary visit to Washington.
Norfolk was thronged witli people,
many coming from Old Point Comfort
and other near-by resorts. The streets
and principal buildings were beauti
fully decorated and the sailor boys
marched between solid walls of cheer
ing humanity. Immediately after the
parade a big dinner was served to all
the officers and men, after which they
were given an opportunity to amuse
themselves as they saw fit until re
turning to their ships in the early
morning.
Opium Congress Closes.
Shanghai, China. —The international
opium conference, which lias been
in session here since February
1, held its final meeting yesterday af
ternoon. Reports from certain sub
committees were submitted and
passed upon. The conference as a
whole takes for granted that the
opium habit is an evil that must be
suppressed.
Five Men Crushed to Death.
Joplin, Mo.— Five men were killed
and two others probably fatally
injured in a cavein at the
mine o? the West Seventh Street Min
ing Co. The men were crushed under
tons of rocks.
Woman and Children Cremated.
Bakersfield, Cal. Mrs. Minnie
Beekman, widow of W. W. Beek
man, who was a prominent resi
dent of Kern county, and her four
children were burned to death in their
Uoine four miles south of Bakersfield.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY MARCH 4, 1909.
TEN MEN RULE TOBACCO
STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE
GROWTH OF BIG COMBINE.
Report of Commissioner of Corpora
tions Reveals Trust's Grasp
.on the Industry.
Washington, D. C. —Methods by
which a comparatively few capitalists,
known as the tobacco combination,
have gained control of the manu
facture of tobacco, except cigars, are
revealed by Herbert Knox Smith, com
missioner of corporations, in parts of
his report on the tobacco industry,
made public to-day.
The combination represents a total
net capitalization of $316,000,000, and
60 per cent of the outstanding voting
stock of the American Tobacco Co.,
which controls the entire combination,
is held by a group of ten men.
A List of Subsidiary Companies.
A list of the subsidiary companies
controlled, "including over 20 hitherto
secretly controlled, so-called 'bogus in
dependent concerns,'" is given in the
report. It is shown also that the com
bination is practically the only im
portant exporter of tobacco manu
factures from this country. Astonish
ing figures are given in respect to the
development of the combination. In
1891 it controlled 89 per cent of the
business of cigarette manufacture, and
this proportion practically is main
tained to-day. In cigars its output in
creased from 4 per cent of the
business in 1897 to 14 7-10 per cent in
1906, while in manufactured tobacco
(chewing, smoking, fine cut and snuff)
the combination's output increased
from 7 per cent of the total iu
1891 to 77 per cent in 1906.
Growth of the Combine.
"An idea of the absorption of com
peting plants," says Commissioner
Smith, "and of the changes through
combination within the last decade
may be had from the fact that in
1897 the combination had ten plants,
each producing over 50,000 pounds of
manufactured tobacco or snuff per
year, while there wore 243 indepen
dent plants of the same class. In 1906,
on the other hand, the combination
had 45 plants of this class and inde
pendent manufacturers 140."
REBATERS ARHINEF $16,000
A Railroad and a Glass Making Con
cern Pay Heavy Penalty to a
Federal Court.
Springfield, III.—-Entering pleas of
guilty in the federal court yester
day to charges of rebating and fail
ure to x>ost rates and schedule, the Illi
nois Central Terminal association,
operating a road between Alton and
Edwardsville, was fined $4,000 and
costs and the Illinois Glass Co., owned
by the Terminal Co., lined $12,000 and
costs. Both companies paid.
Saved S2O a Car on Freight.
According to the interstate com
merce commission it was a scheme
which enabled the glass company, with
the help of the Terminal company, to
ship glassware through from Alton tc
California at a rate of S2O less on the
car than other companies could do it.
When an order came from the fa
west for a carload of glassware, the or
der was hurried to Gas City, Ind.,
where a large amount of glass is made.
The car was loaded with glassware,
but not entirely filled. It was then
billed to Alton. When the car reached
Alton it was opened, several hundred
pounds more of glass from the factory
in Alton putin and the car re-shipped
to the west, just as though it had been
billed through from Gas City in the
first place. Ry rebilling the car and
putting in the extra glassware they
were able to save sls to S2O on the
car.
TEN PERSONS WERE KILLED
Slipping of a Gangway Brought Death
and Injury to a Number of
People at Hamburg.
Hamburg, Germany.—Ten persons
were killed and 17 injured last night
through the slipping of a gangway be
tween the wharf and the steamer
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, which was
being loaded preparatory to sailing for
New York on Saturday. No passen
gers were among the victims.
Those on the gangway when the ac
cident occurred included members of
the crew, steveodores and stew
ardesses. They were dashed into the
water, which was covered with thick
drift ice. The majority of them sus
tained broken bones, and several were
badly crushed. Only 17 of them were
rescued.
Congress.
Washington.—On the 24th the house
rejected a number of senate amend
ments of the legislative appropriation
bill which provided for salary in
crease's for the highest officers of the
government. The senate spent the
day in debate of the agricultural ap
propriation bill.
Cattle King Is Sent to Prison.
lies Moines, la. —James Starlin,
wortli SIOO,OOO and known as the
"lowa cattle king," was yesterday
sentenced in the district court at At
lantic to serve four years at hard labor
in the penitentiary for stealing cattle
from Cass county farms.
A Magnificent Gift.
New York City.—Mrs. William K.
Vanderbilt, sr., has- given more
than $1,000,000 for the erection of four
model tenements for persons suffering
with tuberculosis.
WELL PLEASED WITH WESTERN /
CANADA.
GOOD CROPS, SPLENDID CLIMATE
AND WELL ENFORCED LAWS.
Mr. George E. Hunter Is a Maid
stone, Saskatchewan (Central Can
ada), farmer, who writes to a Cana
dian Government Agent as follows:
"It was the first week in November,
1907, when wo arrived here. There was
very little snow or cold weather until
after the holidays, then the snow and
cold increased, but to no great extent.
I think the coldest I heard of was 30
degrees below zero, but that degree of
cold would not be felt here any mora
than 10 degrees below zero would be
back home in Michigan, owing to the
beautiful dry atmosphere of this coun
try. There came a good thaw every
month that settled the snow, the fields
soon became bare, and on the 12th of
April I commenced ploughing. The
snow was then all gone and summer at
hand. This last season was some
thing more than an average year
around here, with fine crops gathered
from a largo acreage. In parts the
crops wero less than average, but gen
erally speaking they were above it.
The price of wheat was quite good.
Some fine yields sold at sl.lO per bush
el, while some were marketed at much
less, but hardly any went below about
60 cents a bushel.
"Oats started on the market at 35
cents a bushel, barley about 50 cents,
and flax from 90 cents to SI.OO a
bushel.
"As this was my first year in this
country, it was a hard year for my
horses, owing to their being eastern
horses, and not used to the western
climate, but they will soon get cli
matized.
"The soil on my farm Is a black
loam, about one foot in thickness, be
low that we find about six feet of
clay, and below that again gravel and
sand, with an abundance of excellent
water. This was the condition of the
ground as I found it when I dug a
well. I can say that the water is as
sweet and as free from alkali and im
purities as I ever saw.
"My opinion is that the man who
comes here with a little means can do
no better than invest SSOO or SI,OOO in
cattle, after locating a homestead ad-
Joining or near some hilly part of the
country where it will not be taken up
as soon. There is plenty of grass and
hay to be found in the hilly country
and small lakes and sloughs will afford
sufficient water for any amount of cat
tle. The bluffs with a few hay or
straw sheds will make sufficient shel
ter for them. There is no need to
worry about the market for cattle, as
there is already a great call for stock
of all kinds to satisfy the continued
demands of the large packing house at
Edmonton, established by Swift and
Company.
"The dairy business should by no
means be forgotten. It is one of the
paying enterprises of this great west
The price of butter seldom goes below
25 cents and reaches as high as
40 cents a pound. Also the new cream
eries that are fast being erected along
the lines of railroad are calling on the
farmers for their cream.
"These creameries ara greatly wel
comed in all communities, because sell
/ng cream is better than making but
ter, even at an average price of 25
cents a pound. For a new country the
railroad transportation facilities are
good; not yet, of course, what they
are in older countries, but the new
lines are swiftly gaining as the coun
try gets more settled and supplies
them with produce to ship. It is hard
to say too much in favor of this coun
try. All one needs is a little monejf
with grit and ambition. I have see*,
homesteads that were filed on a little
over three years ago that the owners
have refused $3,000 for.
"There is much more tha! can bo
said in favor of Western Canada, but 1
think my letter has been long enough."
THE VERY LAST.
"I'm so delighted to see you, major.
I thought you had died."
"Died, madam? That's the last
thing I'd do. madam."
GOVERNMENT LAND OPENING
UNDER CAREY ACT.
May 6, the State Land Commissioner
of Wyomihg will distribute 7,000 acres
irrigated land at Cooper Lake, near
Laramie and Denver, on main line of
Union Pacific; 50 cents per acre. Old
est Reservoir and Direct Water Rights;
$5 an acre cash and $3 an acre an
nually for ten years. Free trip and
two town lots to all who apply before
May 1. Write for application and cir
culars. Tallmadge-Buntin Land Co.,
Agents, 2nd floor, Railway Exchange,
Chicago. Agents wanted.
It makes a woman awfully tired to
gee a man make a fool of himself
over any other woman.
OM.Y ONE "BROMO QUININE"
That Is I.AXATIVIS lUlt'MO OUININW. Look foi
the sij/naturo of K. W. CiHUVB. Uwd the World
over to Cure a Cold In Ono Day. 26c.
A woman probably feels blue when
she is green with envy.
Allfn'g Foot>l!u«o, n Powder
Forftwollen. sweating I'eet. <;ivcfi In stunt relief. The
original powder for the feel. Xbc at all Ltrugtfist*
The common people believe without
proof.—Tacitus.
S Thi Flaw U kj Cheap )
) J. F. PARSONS' ?
ctlfiESl
RHEUMATISM]
LUIBMO, SCIATIC A B
NEURALGIA and!
KIDNEY TROUBLE!
"|-OtflPS" taken Internally, rids the blood H
of tba polionous matter and aolds which WM
are tha direct oausea of these diseases. H
Applied externally It affords almost In- ■
■tant relief from pain, while a permanent ■
our* la being effected by purifying the ■
blood, dissolving the poisonous sab- ■
■tano« and removing It from the system. ■
DR. 8. D. BLAND ■
Of Brewton, Ga., write®: p
"1 had be«n a sufferer for a number of yeere Bj
with Lumbago end Rheumatism In mj anni H
and lege, and tried ell the remedies that I oould H{
father from medical works, and also consulted M
with a number of the beet ph/slolens. but found H
nothing that gare the relief obtained from H
•••.DROPS." 1 shall prescribe It In my praoUoe H
(or rheumatism and Kindred diseases.'' pp
FREE
If you are suffering with Rheumatism, H
Neuralgia. Kidney Trouble or any kin- ■
dred disease, write to us for a trial bottle ■
of "i-DROPS." and test It yourself. ■
"••DROPS" can be used any length of H
time without acquiring a "drug habit," H
as Uls entirely free of opium, oocalne. Bj
alsohol, laudanum, sod other similar W
Ingredients. St
luftllh "S-BKOPS" (SOS Dates) ■
lI.M, Far laU by BnnliU. ■
BWARSOI IHEOSATIO ROI! GOBPAIT, ■
Dept. *O. Lake IbrMt, H
y| t ff _■■ ■ ri Domam Gives you the reading matter ia
M MJG m MOMMMG ■ which you have the greatest in
■ . .i■■ i . .. —,.. i. . . —. terest —the home new*. Its every
issue will prove a welcome visitor to every member of the family. U
should head your list of newspaper and periodical subscriptions.
G.SCHMIDT'S,' —
FOR
FRESH BREAD,
gOpalar
*
CONFECT | ONERY
n a i|v Doliverv. Allorderngivcn prompt and
* ** skillful attention.
Enlarging Your Business
Jfefc If you are in annually, and then carefully
business and you note the effect it has .in in«
want to make creasing your volume of busi«
more money you ness; whether a 10, ao or 30
M JB will read every per cent increase. If you
word we have to watch this gain from year to
say. Are you y° u will become intensely in«
H iflß spending your terested in your advertising,
BJ VH money for ad- * n d how you can make it ca
lif wj vertising in hap- large your business.
V a hazard fashion If you try this method w«
Jff as if intended believe you will not want to
for charity, or do you adver- let a single issue of this paper
, tise for direct results? goto press without something
Did you ever stop to think from your store,
how your advertising can be w Phased to havo
made a source of profit to you call on us, and we will
you, and how its value can be take pleasure in explaining
measured in dollars and our annual «.ontract for so
cents. If you have not, you many inches, and how it can be
are throwing money away. used in whatever amount that
Advertising is a modern seems necessary to you.
business necessity, but must If you can sell goods over
be conducted on business the counter we can also show
principles. If you are not you why this paper will best
, satisfied with your advertising serve your interests when you
you should set aside a certain want to reach the people of
amount of money to be spent this community.
JOB PRINTING
can do that class just a
little cheaper than the other fellow. Wedding invitations, letter heads, bill heads,
sale bills, statements, dodgers, cards, etc., all receive the same careful treatment
—just a little better than seems necessary. Prompt delivery always.
If you are a business man,
dW you ever think of the field
of opportunity that advertis
ing opens to you? There is
almost no limit to the possi
bilities of your business if you
study how to turn trade into
your store. If you are not get
ting your share of the business
of your community there's a
reason. People go where they
are attracted where they
know what they can get and
how much it is sold for. If
you make direct statements in
your advertising see to it that
you are able to fulfill every
promise you make. You will
add to your business reputa
tion and hold your customers.
It will not cost as much to run
your ad in this paper as you
think. It is the persistent ad
vertiser who gets there. Have
something in the paper every
issue, no matter how small.
We will be pleased to quote
you our advertising rates, par
ticularly on the year's busi
ness.
tm i i. mm
MAKE YOUR APPEAL
m to the public through the,
JL columns of this paper.,
With every issue it carries
JV * its message into the homes
1 and lives of the people.
Your competitor has hi*
store news in this issue. Why don't
you have yours? Don't blame the
people for flocking to his store.
They know what he has.
3