2 CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULLIN, Editcr. Published Every Thursday. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. CiT ysar 0® paid in sivainoe 1 •»® ADVERTISING RATES: A4T«rtlMment* are published at i!in rnte 01 Etu dol.ar per square for one Insertion and liftj »at» i er square for eaeli subsequent Insertion. Rate-- :>y vm- year, or for siior tlireo montha. fire low and uniform, and will Ue furnished on i'Sr licat.oii. Legal and OfPcial Advertising per square f'.reo times or less. each subsequent liiscr- He-. ; 0 cents per square. I.ocal notti is 1" i i nts per line for one tnser lertlon: 5 cents per line for each subsequent tonsecutlvo Insertion. Obituary notices over five lines 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, n.ar rl.ee? nn»i deaths *\ill lie inserted free. Business c.rJs. IHe llr.es or less. ift per year; over live lint t., at the regular rates of adver tising. No local Inserted for less than 75 cents per l.suo. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the Puk«« Is complete lad affords facilities for doin*. 1 the best class of work. pAIVHCLt.AU ATTENTION PAIDTO LAW PRINTING. No pa*)cr will b-» discontinued until arrenr tjes are psld, except at the option of the pub sher. Papers sent out of the county must be pala Cor in advance. Too True. A four-year-old child at once de lighted his quick-witted parents and touched a deep truth in his unexpect ed rendition of the hymn line writ ten: "Love is meek and thinks no wrong.'' "Love is weak and things go wrong," the piping treble invaria bly shrilled. Good-By to His Money. Prof. Stone —"To the geologist a thousand years or so are not counted as any time at all." Man in the Au dience —"Great Scott! And to think I made a temporary loan of ten dollars to a man who holds such views." Puzzled Both of Them. Magistrate—"You say you are in nocent? How do you explain the fact that you were found near the scene of the robbery with the stolen property in your hands?" Prisoner —"That's what's puzzlin' me, too, yer worship." —Stray Stories. Comment by Bachelor Cynic. "Don't propose to a girl until you have known her for a year," says a woman philosopher. Merit of tliis ad vice probably lies in the fact that a man who waits that long is in no danger of being married. —Exchange. v. Her Discovery. A fair maid from the city saw a queer thing on a tree; she said: "Oh, ain't it pretty! Whatever can it be?" With a parasol she poked it —to her beauty's ruination, for alas it proved to be a hornet's habitation. Has a Steady Job. "I think a loafer is about as bad as an ordinary hobo." "And I think he's worse. A hobo moves around a little, but a loafer stays in the same town and works the same woman for his handouts." —Cleveland Leader. Rehearsals Well Attended. "In your amateur theatricals do they really kiss in the love-making scenes?" "In the public performances of course not! What would people think! Only at the rehearsals!" — Boston Globe. "Botheracious." "De fact dat kickin' don' accom plish much," said L'ncle Eben, "is proved by de climate. Folks has been findin' fault wif it ever since I kin remember, an' it jes' as botheracious as ever." Wise Plan. "I.earniif by experience is convinc in\" said l'ncle Eben. "But as is de case wif toadstools an' mushrooms, it's mos'ly de wises' plan to be satis fied wif hearsay evidence." Thought It Was Raining. "Some men," said Uncle Eben, "can't lay by a little money for a rainy day wifout bein' fooled by de fust sprinklin' cart dat turns de cor ner." His Bad Break. "Will you love me when I am old?" she whispered. "Didn't 1 tell you that I love you now?" he responded. And she didn't speak to him again for a whole week. See? There are lots of good points about many a man we wouldn't sus pect if he didn't tell us about them. — New York Times. ' To Credit's Discredit. Business will have its periodical re verses so long as a man who couldn't pay cash for a wheelbarrow is able to buy an automobile on credit. Not Risking a Quarrel. Heiress- Tell me truly, Arthur, is it your love or your reason prompts you to marry me? Arthur—Just as you like, dearest. Good. And the smile of a good woman will do a man more good than a dozen handed to him by a bartender. —Chi- cago News. First Study the Subject. Spenser: Exhaustive observation is an element of every great achieve ment. And Be Liberal in Its Use. Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. —Henry Ward Beecher. NOW FOR BUSINESS. NO INJUSTICE HERE: WEST FAIRLY REPRESENTED ON COMMITTEES. Claim That Important Chairmanships Have Been Divided up Among Eastern Men Is Absurd When Figures Are Considered. One of the latest bugaboos invent ed by the enemies of the Taft admin istration and the Republican party is sectional injustice in congress, with the newer west posed as the victim. It is pointed out that only 13 chair manships of standing committees in the house of representatives out of 62 have been given to the states west of the Mississippi, in the list of com mittee appointments announced by Bpeaker Cannon just before the end of the special session of congress. It Is also discovered that New England gets 12 chairmanships, while the Pa cific coast has none. The inference drawn from these facts is that the persons and influ ence most powerful in congress are trying to punish the west for its spirit of independence and reward the east for standing by the speaker and the forces which find him most satisfactory. As a matter of fact there is little in this latest effort to show political injustice and sectional unfairness. The seeming inequality is mainly a sort of optical delusion —an effect of the big spaces on the maps. There the regions between the Mississippi and the Pacific ocean looks immense, and New England seems insignificant by contrast with the Pacific slope alone. The census, however, is the basis for representation in congress, and the count of heads tells a differ ent story. The great section of the country which lies west of the Mississippi has only about 25 per cent, of the popula tion and Texas and Arkansas, like the part of Louisiana beyond the river, have solid Democratic delega tions in the house, and hence can ex pect no chairmanships of committees. Colorado is represented by three Democrats and no Republicans, in the present house, and Missouri is heavily Democratic by the same test. About 26 per cent, of the Republicans in the house come from districts west of the Mississippi and they have 21 per cent, of the committee chairman ships. No great injustice crops out there, nor in a comparison with the 25 or 26 per cent, of the population living in the states west of the same river. As for the Pacific slope, the small —in area —state of Massachu setts contained a larger population, in j 1900, than California, Washington, | Oregon, Nevada and Idaho, all taken , together. It will be found, on looking up the records, that states west of the Mis sissippi which have been in the habit of keeping Republican delegations in congi ess, have fared extremely well in committee honors, in the present house, as well as in the past. The •effort to stir up a new sectionalism does not look promising. It lacks the vital element of truth.—Cleveland Leader. President's Prestige Increased. One think which the ending of the long tariff struggle has done is to in crease greatly the prestige of the president. The Taft administration stands better with the country than ever before, because it is recognized on all sides that the president was the deciding factor in the bitter con test between those who sought to keep the pledges of the Republican party and those who desired to mock the expectations of the people. The final victory, by a narrow margin, for the cause of downward revision, which means the square deal and good faith, is a. Taft triumph, ar.d the country will trust and"tie to"the president ac cordingly. That is one result of the prolonged task of tariff-building which will have far-reaching consequences for good. We note that Mr. Bryan says he is going to remain a "fixture in Nebras ka." That does not prevent him, hrwever, from running again for the presidency. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1909. TARIFF WAR NOT PROBABLE Maximum-Minimum Feature of Tariff Act Sure to Be Rationally Interpreted. The new tariff act, with its maxi mum-minimum feature, entails the ab rogation of existing trade agreements with foreign countries, Cuba excepted. Due notice is to be given, in accord ance with existing stiptlations, and this notice is to be followed by an in vestigation of the various foreign tar iffs by experts to be appointed by the president. There is, however, no danger of tariff wars in the near future as a re sult of the termination of agree ments now in force. The maximum tariff will not be imposed on any country that does not "unduly" dis criminate against American goods. Of course, if a rabid standpatter were in charge of the negotiations, "un due" discrimination could be found in the slightest differences, and a seri ous problem might be presented in such a thing as Canadian preference for British goods. But with President Taft in the White House and Mr. Mac- Veagh at the head of the treasury there will be, we may be sure, no dis position to look for trouble or to make mountains out of molehills. "Un due discrimination" will be interpreted rationally and sanely, in a way to help our commerce instead of ham pering or injuring it. Germany, the Berlin dispatches state, docs not like our new tariff but is prepared to make the best of the situation. No talk of "retaliation" is heard, and no trouble is anticipat ed. In France the high-protection el ements have been demanding upward revision in order to "arm" the gov ernment for negotiations with the United States, but the late ministry refused to lend any countenance to such proposals, and the new cabinet, which is as liberal and enlightened as its predecessor, will doubtless main tain the same attitude of opposition to French tariff bourbonism and avoidance of frictian and commercial warfare. It was explained in the Fenate dur ing tiie tariff debate that the maxi mum tariff would practically leave matters in statu quo except as to one or two countries, which countries, it was expected, would promptly remove certain discriminations complained of and secure the benefits of our mini mum tariff. European reports indi cate that the views expressed in the senate were not too optimisitic in this respect. The President's Trip. President Taft will be obliged to compress in the period between now ' and September 15. about six weeks, I his entire summer vacation. He then J begins a 13,000 mile trip through the \ country, which doubtless will be as j enjoyable to iiim as it will be to the j cities which he visits, but which j cannot be regarded as anything but work. For two months the president will j lead the nomadic life of a traveling | theatrical company on the one night j stand circuit, and will not have as much freedom of movement. Mr. Taft was the great traveler of the Roose velt administration. Evidently he in tends to he the great traveler of his own so far as it be possible for him to maintain his record within the con fines of this country. For a man ac customed to swing around the world, a schedule laid out entirely within the boundaries even of a nation generous in its geographical lines will not be a hardship, although it will be work. The people will be glad to see the president. He goes to the north, the west, and the south. He will reach the Pacific coast and the gulf of Mex ico. He will see the development of the coast states illustrated in the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition. He will hear of the hopes of the Missis sippi valley at the waterways conven tion. it will not be a vacation, but it will be none the less pleasant for that. To attack a tariff law the enact ment of which is followed by good times is about as effective, politically, as it is to tell a farmer that the season has been bad when his crops are big. | IMPORTANT NEWS ! NOTES CF A WEEK | LATEST HAPPENINGSTHE WORLD OVER TOLD IN ITEMIZED j FORM. I EVENTS HERE AND THERE Condensed Ir.to a Few Lines for tho Perusal of the Busy Man— Latent Personal Infor mation. PERSONAL. Frank X. Riedinger of Delafu Id, Wis., who was believed to have been . one of the victims ol Belle Gunness' | death farm at Laf>orte, lnd., is alive at Kiiirfleld, Neb. Capt. J. T. Chase, civil war veteran, | who invented a hoop skirt 40 years ago, is the inventor of an airship, for which lie has obtained a patent. Edward H. Harriman, upon sailing for the United States from Cherbourg, said his health was improved and he j would be glad to see the soil of j America again. Willard Jones, a Springfield bar- j tender, was arrested as an accessory ( in the "fake" bank robbery at Frank- 1 lin, 111. Despite his desire to return to Lon- I don for a few years longer, it is said ; that Ambassador Reid will be replaced by President Taft as soon as he can j find the right man for the place. Albert Newhouse, an inmate of the j poorhouse at liloominglon, 111., fell j heir to $200,000 left by Oliver New- ! house of Indianapolis, lnd. Ex.-Gov. R. E. Glenn of North Caro lina, addressing an audience at Chau tauqua. N. Y., said he had seen sights in Chicago and New York so vile that should he describe them he would be , attacked by his male hearers and that 1 the wrath of the Almighty was sure to strike those cities. Rev. Father Edward M. Dunne was consecrated bishop of Peoria, 111., in Chicago, Mgr. Falconio, the papal delegate, conducting the ceremony. Col. Duncan B. Cooper, who with his son, Robin, was found guilty of killing former Senator Carmack in Tennessee, inherits $11,655 from the estate of his brother, former Justice William F. Cooper, who died in New York, leaving $285,000. William Travers Jerome announced that he would be a candidate for re election as district attorney of New York. He will run independently. Secretary Wilson of the department of agriculture, speaking before the food convention at Denver, said the time is coming when there will be no adulteration of food'. George B. Moulder, chief gardener of the Illinois Central railroad, was elected president of the American As sociation of Railroad Gardeners, which held its tiiird annual convention in Philadelphia. GENERAL NEWS. The fiftieth anniversary of the first oil well in the world was celebrated at Titusville, Pa., where Col. Edwin W. Drake struck petroleum by drilling on August 28, 1859. The San Francisco Schuetzen Ver ein began the celebration of its gold en jubilee with marksmen present from all parts of the country. Familes of strikers at McKees Rocks, Pa., were ousted from the company houses in a rainstorm and sought refuge in cainps in the hills. Hubert Latham, the French aviator who failed to fly across the English channel, flew 95.88 miles in two hours and eighteen minutes at Rheims. The convention of the Association of State and National Food and Dairy Departments at Denver approved the use of benzoate of soda as a preserv ative. Surgeon General Wyman has been informed by cable from the American consul at Rotterdam that there is cholera on board the Dutch ship Andyk, which is due at Baltimore September 8. Bertha Rocha, 16 years old, an In dian girl, ran away from the house where she had been employed, to camp in Golden Gate park, San Fran cisco. She was found in hiding, her camp fire attracting a policeman. She said she had tired of civilization. Gen. Herbert O. Jeffries of Panama, revolutionist and all-'round fighter, killed William Nicholas Chandler, editor of the Panama Press, in the Press office when an apology for an article declaring Jeffries' sister-in-law had been indiscreet at a hospital was not forthcoming. Early reports of an earthquake which shook Italy said one person was killed, many injured and hun dreds of buildings destroyed. George Rutledge found a pearl 1 weighing 46 grains in the Wabash river at Mt. Vernon, ill., and sold it for $2,500. Two children were killed and 15 1 hurt when a hayrack on which they , were riding at a Sunday school picnic . near Humboldt, la., was overturned. Mrs. Shelby M. Cullom, wife of the . United States senator from Illinois, died in Washington and her body was I brought to Springfield for burial. The cruiser St. Louis, in San Fran cisco from Honolulu, made a naval record of four days, 22 hours for the I trip. The isthmian-cannal commission j has purchased of the Port Johnson I Towing Company of New Jersey a new ocean-going tug for $75,500. | The fourth warning of an impending ; hurricane given ships on the Gulf of Mexico within a month reveals the ! fact that in September and October of each year a number of devastating j storms strike that section of the . tropics. The national insurance commission | ers in convention at Colorado Springs, Col., decided not to interfere with fra I ternal insurance methods, but to al | low the fraternals to work out their I own salvation. j Pearls and diamond earrings valued I at $1,500 were found by customs in | specters at New York concealed on | the person of Miss Catherine AlcKee !of Ilarrisburg, Pa. Hh" was arrested on her arrival from Kurope. The government is to pay S2OO a month for a farm of I fib acres near College Park, Aid., to be used for an aerial experimental station. The police of St. Louis denied the kidnapers o! the two Viviano children had written a second letter to the ; parents demanding that negotiations I be resumed. The Vivlanos declare ! they have obtained no news of the | children. I The quartermaster's department of the army at Washington decided that j too great publicity had been given the I plan to exhume the body of Lieut. I James X. Sutton and has withdrawn | its permission. The dead officer's ! mother desired to have consecrated | the ground where he was buried, j Ann Odelia Diss de liar, notorious | spiritualist swindler, who operated in j Chicago a few years ago under the . name of Vera P. Ava, was discovered | in New York under an assumed name I as one of the teachers in the "school |of the Alahatmas." She has disap -1 peared. Consular agents have been instructed j to make collection of the commercial j laws of all Central and South Ameri j can republics. The laws will be ! printed in English and distributed in the United States to encourage trade with the Latin-American countries. The harbor of San Francisco can be mined and the port rendered safe from invasion in 48 hours, according | to Capt. Ferguson of the coast artil ! lery who had charge of the practice laying of mines in the bay. The centenary of Hannibal Ham lin's birth was celebrated in Paris Hill, Ale., by many present and former residents of that state, the fea ture of the day's ceremonies being the unveiling of a bronze tablet on the house where the statesman was born. The United Bohemian Turners be gan a four-days' tournament in Chi cago. The body of William Wade, a negro, who had shot 29 citizens in a street battle at Monroe, La., was burned in sight of a crowd including women and children. A report from Buenos Ayres said 200 lives had been lost when steam ships loaded with excursionists, most ly women and children, colided at the entrance of the harbor at Alontevideo. Homer Cassube of Logansport, Ind., committed suicide in New York after writing a letter accusing his wife, a nurse of Cleveland, 0., of causing him to take his life. M. Paulhan, a French aviator, in a thriling flight in a rainstorm at Rheims, France, lowered the record of Wilbur Wright for time in the air to 2 hours, 53 minutes and 24 seconds, which is 33 minutes better than the American's mark. Following the unexplained death of District Attorney William A. Amnion at York, Pa., it was announced that he was $40,000 short in his accounts with the Standard Building & Loan associa tion, of which he formerly was secre tary. Postmaster General Hitchcock called a conference of post office offi cials to consider a plan for increasing the rate for registering letters, raising the price of money orders and lower ing the amount paid to railroads for carrying mails. Hamburg Belle, after setting a new race mark of 2:01 1 4 for trotters in de feating Uhlan at Cleveland, 0., was purchased from the Madden brothers by H. M. Hanna for $50,000. Having been dumb for 40 years, George Purdy of Dakota, Wis., re gained his voice when a preacher at tacked the Masonic lodge to which he belongs. He whipped the pastor and denounced him in strong language. The fifth convention of the Associ ated Advertising Clubs of America opened in Louisville, Ky. The body of Ebenezer Steele, an electrician who came in contact with a dynamo in New York, has become perfectly rigid. The man was hurled across the room and picked up uncon scious. lie has regained his mind but the body remains paralyzed. The historic memorial trees trans planted in the botanic garden in front of the capitol at Washington to make room for the Grant statue, are dying. Among the trees are the Beck elm and the Crittenden, Shepherd, Torrey and Howard oaks. The fortieth annual national con vention of insurance commissioners, with 350 delegates, representing all the states attending, was held in Col orado Springs, Col. Fred W. Potter of Illinois responded to the address of welcome. Airs. Sarah Nagler of New York, afraid of mice all her life, saw her cat driving one toward her, leaped onto a chair for "safety," tipped it over, and fell out of the window and was killed. Since a boy several years ago stole two silver dollars from the United States treasury while being shown through the vaults, visitors without special permission have been denied access to the S9 by 51 feet treasury room, in which is stored $1 G0,000,000 in coin. A fire in Monterey, Mexico, caused damage estimated at $1,450,000. MILLIGIiS HANDED TO THE MILITIAMEN MONEY APPROPRIATED BY CON- , GRESS ALLOTTED BY COL. E. M. WEAVER. STRENGTH OF THE MILITIA The Money Is to be Used to Purchase Arms, Equipment and Ammuni tion and for Rifle Practice and Camping. Washington, D. C.- Four million dollars, appropriated by congress for the militia, have been allotted among the several states and territori s by Lieut. Col. E. M. Weaver, of hf gen eral staff corps of the army, who is chief of the division of militia. The enlisted strength of the militia as shown by tables prepared by Col. Weaver is 109,761 and the allotments under various heads include $1,472,- 250 for arms, equipment and camp purposes; $490,750 for promotion of rifle practice; $628,561 for ammuni tion, and $970,656 for supplies. The allotments for the states and territories in round numbers include the following: Alabama, $88,000; Arkansas, $54,000; California, $73,000; Colorado, $30,000; Connecticut, $66,- 000; Delaware, $16,000; Florida. $37,- 000; District of Columbia, $56,000; Georgia, $90,000; Idaho, $19,000; Illi nois, $194,000; Indiana, $91,000; lowa, $86,000; Kansas, $59,000; Kentucky. $78,000; Louisiana, $53,000; .Maine, $40,000; Maryland, $58,000; Massa chusetts, $142,000; Michigan, $91,000; Minnesota, $83,000; Mississippi. $58.- 000; Missouri, $116,000; Montana, $17,000; Nebraska, $65,000; Nevada, $11,000; New Hampshire, $37,000; New Jersey, $105,000; New York, $360,000; North Carolina, $73,000; North Dakota, $24,000; Ohio, $170,000; Oklahoma, $40,000; Oregon, $36,000; , Pennsylvania, $275,000; Rhode Island, 112 $30,000; South Carolina, $60,000; ) South Dakota, $25,000; Tennessee, 1 $66,000; Texas, $104,000; Utah, $16,- 000; Vermont, $26,000; Virginia, $78,- 000; Washington, $33,000; West Vir ginia, $44,000; Wisconsin, $92,000; Wyoming, $16,000; Arizona, $19,000; Hawaaii, $14,000, and New Mexico, SIO,OOO. LAND SUITS KNOCKED OUT Demurrers in Eastern Oklahoma Title Cases Started by United States Are Sustained. Muskogee, Okla. Judge Ralph Campbell has sustained the demurrers in the suits brought by the United States to set aside various deeds and leases made by citizens allottees in the five civilized tribes in eastern Ok lahoma, and thus settled a legal con troversy that had been the cause of considerable concern in that part of the state. The court reviewed the relation of the United States to the five tribes since they became a nation, and found that no vestige of title to the lands allotted them now remains in the United States. The demurrers in volved the question of the citizenship of these Indians and the court de clared them to be citizens of the United States with all the rights, priv ileges and immunities of citizenship. It is held that the United States can not maintain these suits on the prin ciple that it sustains to the individual Indian a trust relation, such guardian ship being incompatable with citizen ship, national and state. Finally the bills were held bad be cause numerous defendants are joined in each bill who were connected with many distinct transactions regarding as many distinct tracts of laud. PANIC IN BURNING BUILDING One Man Was Killed, Three Persons Probably Fatally Injured and a Score of Others Hurt. Waverly, la. —In a panic of 300 employes of the Kolley canning factory to escape from the second floor of the canning department, where a gasoline tank had exploded and thrown fire over the room, George Mcßoberts was killed, three persons were probably fatally injured and a score of others were severely hurt. The building was destroyed by the fire that followed the explosion, caus ing SIOO,OOO damage. While the canners were busily en gaged in preserving sweet corn in second floor of the factory, a gasoline tank used for the soldering of cans, burst with a frightful detonation, hurling clots of flaming fluid over the large room. French Soldiers Killed. Paris, France.—Advices received here from the French Congo say trou bles between the natives and the French military authorities have not. been quelled. Several French officers are reported to have been wounded and a number of men killed. Building Up Fallen Fortune. New York City.—That Charles W. Morse, the financier who recently was released from the Tombs prison under $125,000 bail, has begun his ef forts to rehabilitate his fallen for tunes was indicated by the announce ment that he has purchased a major ity of the claims outstanding against the Metropolitan Steamship Co. and will attend a sale of the property of that company which takes place in about a month. The claims against the company, which is now in hands of receivers, amount to $1,157,012.
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