PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT FOR FARM REFORMS Would Improve Conditions of Country Life. A COMMISSION 1S APPOINTED. Prof. L. F. Bailey, of New York, Heads Body of Men Who Will Give Chief Executive Advice to Be Em- bodied in a Message to Congress Next December. Oyster Bay, N. Y. (Special). With a view to bringing about better social, sanitary and economic con- ditions on American Roosevelt has requested four experis make an investi- matter and farms President life to on country gation into the whole to report to him with recommendations for improvements The report and recommendations, with any addition- al recommendations which the Presi- dent himself may desire to make, will be incorporated in a message which | the President will send to Congress | probably early next year. The men President Roosevelt has asked to act as an investigating com- mittee are: Prof. L.. H. Bailey, of the York College of Agriculture. Henry Wallace, of Wallace's Farm er, Des Moines, la. President Kenyon of the United States Forest Reserve Walter H. Page, editor of World's Work, New York. Gifford Pinchot, United Forest Service. in a letter to Professor Bailey ask- | ing him to accept the chairmanship | of the commission the President out- | lines his desires direction of | improvements on the farms. The let- | ter follows: My Dear Professor Bailey: No nation has ever achieved per- manent greatness unless this great- ness was based the wellbeing of the great farmer class, the men who live on the soil; is upon their | welfare, material and n al, that welfare of the rest of nation ul timately rests New | I.. Butterfield the | States the ir it on for it the the In the United States, disregarding certain sections and tak. ing the nation as a whole, | believe it to be true that the farmers in gen eral are better off today than ever were before. We Américans are making great progress in the devel- opment of our agricultural resources But is equally true that the so cial and economic institutions of open country are not keeping with devel of the nation as whole Conditions In South, they ir it the pace the yjpmient a 51 a Tue, bit about the enorn preventable deaths of unsanitary con Southern farms percentage children due to the ditions of certain said: Choose Mill, “Personally, from the health point of view, T would prefer to see my daughter, nine years old, at work .in a cotton mill than have her live as tenant on the average Southern ten- ant one-horse farm.” This apparently extreme statement is based upon actual life among both | classes of people i I doubt if any other nation can | bear comparison with our own in the | amount of attention given by the government, both federal and state, to agricultural matters. But prac- | tidally the whole of this effort has hitherto been directed toward in- creasing the production of crops Our attention has concentrated almost exclusively on getting better | farming. In the beginning this was | unquestionably the right thing to do. The farmer must first of all grow good crops in order to support | himself and his family But when ‘this kas been secured | the effort for better farming should | cease to stand alone and should be accompanied by the effort for better | business and better living on the! farm. It is at least as important that | the farmer should get the largest pos- | gible return in money, comfort and | social advantages from the crops he grows, as that he should get the largest possible return in crops from the land he farms Agriculture is not the whole of country life. The great rural interests are human in- terests, and good crops are of little value to the farmer unless they open the door to a good kind of life on the farm. This problem of country life is in the truest sense a national problem. In an address deilvered at the semi- centennial of the founding of agri cultural colleges in the United States a year ago last May 1 sald: Farmer's Welfare, “There is but one person whose welfare is as vital to the welfare of the whole country as {a that of the wage-worker who does manual iabor, _ Paris Strike A Fizzle, Paris (By Cable).--The 24-hour strike of 100,000 Paris workmen, as a protest against the government's severity in dealing with labor demon. stations, called for Monday, turned out a fizzle, Not more than half this number quit work, and except for the nonappearance of several morning papers, due to a lack of compositors, and the police patrols in the Place Republique, no one would have Cotton been known a labor contest was In prog- # and that is the tiller of the soil the farmer. . If there i8 one lesson taught by history it is that the per- manent greatness of any state must ultimately depend more upon the character of its country population than upon anthing else. No growth of cities, no growth of wealth can make up for a loss in either the number or the character of the farm- ing population." CLUNG TO PRECIPICE. Boy 600 Feet High Unable To Get Up Or Down. Cal message from L.os (Special). -— A Avalon, Cata- nt Angeles, wireless lina Islands, reports the rescue Irving Spalding, aged 15, son of A F'. Spalding, of Springfield, Il., from a precipice 600 feet above sen where he had spent the day in peril of his life The vouth disappeared the and cliff, EO, top {0 the face to explore island thie sheer of the 7560 feet high, as far as he could and got within 100 feet of the Spalding found it impossible get down and shouted for help, but failed to make anyone hear. He could not sit down, and the slightest misstep would have sent him to in His father, as night was approaching, or- After an went climbed The problem of how was solved at last of a path leading | the top A rope | weak with fear. to rescue him the discovery feet down from in safety to the top of the Aside from the nervous shock, | cliff. is all right. FIRE AREA THIRTY MILES, Loss To The City ot Fernie Not Less Than $2,000,000. Toronto, Ont. (Special). J. G. 8S the summarizes thus | a Coal Company, Northwest fire situations received here: fire about long and from 2 to 10 miles wide, | and is still burning in many places | at the outskirts, but Michel is safe | except in the case of high wind, and | y be even then Hosmer is quite | and Coal Creek may said almost certainly safe “The loss of the Crows Nest Company, owning mines at Coal Creek and Fernle, and Michel will be $200,000; Canadian Pacific Rail- | way will $200,000; the Great | Northern GRe a 2250 lumber com not an a mil of timber to th Coal ings The area is 30 miles | gaffe be to | be Pass | the lose Railway and the less th wiil B00 Company lon loge t¢ ba not less ENGINEER DRIVEN INSANE, Aecident Responsible For A Man's Loss Of Mind Newton # fireman, was he died the next accident of his mind of and especially the fireman, so preyed upon | the engineer that he fled | from Washington and nothing was! heard of him until a week ago, when he appeared here at his home a rav-| ing maniac death iT" the WASHINGTON | Assistant Secretary of State Robert | acon has gone to San Juan, Porto! Rico, where he wiil look into the | question of transferring the United | States’ holdings. Commissioner Dennett, of the Gen eral Land Office, a tour of the new land has returned from | inspection, having found office system most ef- The probable election of former Postmaster General Bris. tow ag senator from Kansas has stir. red the political circles, The number of yards of dirt ex- cavated at the Isthmian Canal edn- siderably exceeds the work done in June, Statistics show that Porto Rican trade has increased about $206,783 during the past year. Commander C. A. Gove, of the Navy. has been ordered to duty at the Naval Academy as commandant of midshipmen, relieving Commander W. 8. Benson, who has been ordered to duty with the Pacific fleet, which is to sail from San Francisco on Oc- tober 5. The Bureau of Yards and Docks has recommended to the Secretary of the Navy the acceptance of the bid of the Penn Bridge Company, Beaver Falls, Pa., and Washington, D. C., of $154,436 for the construction of a conling plant and shed, a plier and key wall at Key West, Fila. C. J. Ericksen, of Seattle, Wash , has been notified by the Navy De partment of the acceptance of his bid of $1,625,000 for the construction of the Puget Sound dry dock. The Comptroller of the Currency announced the closing of the First National Bank at Delle Plains, Miun. The Navy Department has approv- ed the sale of the old warships St Mary's and Shearwater, The southwestern territory rails roads clalm that the shippers of Georgia have no cause of complaint, as the injunction by Judge S8peer has prevented the proposed increase in rates, Soriano, provincial governor of Ilocos Mortek, Luzon, has sent an expression of former Prosdent Cleveland, HARRY K. THAW 15 A BANKRUPT Creditors’ Bills For Nearly Half a Million, HIS TRIAL HAS COST HIM $600,000. Slayer of Stanford White Admits Owing Nearly Two Hundred Thous- and—The Alienists Present Claims for From One to Twelve Thousand Dollars Each, Alleg pressing he Kendall White, (Special) Pa. creditors Pittsburg, ing his unfair claims against is Thaw, through schauser, that are him so that unable to Harry Stanford pay, slayer of his attorney, Charles Mor- of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and ex-Governor Stone, of Pennsylvania filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States Court here Detective Roger O'Mara, of Pittsburg, as receiver for Thaw's estate In his bankruptcy papers, which were signed by Thaw while outside the Poughkeepsie jail, he shows some startling figures He places his as gels at $128,012, his liabilities a $453,140 Thaw, through his at- gets forth plainly that he does that he owes the $453.- names 13 ereditors and gives the amount which claim he owes, Of this numbes two claims are undisputed. owing Mrs. Mary O. Thaw, his moth- er, $191,600, and he also approves believe He not they only There then f{ol- list creditora it is understood a detective lows in his paper a and their amounts, that Thaw disputes every one of them, and will insist that O'Mara, | as his receiver, sift the claims to the of bottom The list of claimants is as follows James G. Graham, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. $2,954. Dr. Graham Hammond, New York, Dr. Charies G. Wagner, New York, $4,000. Dr, $5.200 Dr 000. Martin W. Littlet $8,000, Hartridge & Peabody, $60,000 John B in, New York, $80, goa, Allen McLean York, $12.000 Dr. Dana, New York, Dr. Johan P. Wiison E. Jelliffe, New York Smith Britton Evans, New York, §6.- | on, (ivan Hamilt $453,140 Morschauser and bad a Governor Sic cou Total Attorney tsburg © Wi nse was wi pel Year created for hi cannot tors From ot: ne close it learned spent $600,000 which, thinks, that every bill paid bona-fide interesting information | given regarding the proceedings is to be found in the petition asking for the appointment a receiver, w h it is alleged that ac- | tion is taken for the purpose of | preventing his property being dis- | gipated in litigation over claims, many of which are unjust. The fig- here in in his ia enough from this is he and time out must be The most of the that this refers doctors Thaw states that jail at Duchess County, likely he there says some of his creditors have | commenced suits against him and | others are contemplating similar ac- | tion. He is unable, he says, to give | the litigation his attention owing to the confinement. Previous to filling the paper At- torney Morschauser held a long con ference with Stone & Stone, Thaw's local counsel, and the greatest crecy was maintained regarding the | action tonight. ; to the lawyers and | he is confined in | N. Y.. and | tes for sometime 80. | MILLION DOLLAR FIRE. Cigarette Causes A Disastrous Blaze In Chicago. Chicago (Special). « Fire, which was so hot that the firemen conld not get nearer than a block of it, and which made it necessary to play streams of water on bulldings three and four squares away, destroyed the Burlington elevators “"E" and “F.” the dock transfer warehouse of that road and either burned or rendered useless 100 box cars. The loss on the grain in the two elevators is placed by Armour & Co., who own it, at $700,000. The total loss is placed at $1,000,000. The fire startad in the Burlington warehouse supposedly from a ciga- rette dropped near several barrels containing chemicals. Stupid Burglars, Hendricks, W. Va. (Bpecial).— Burglars entered the store of J. B. Poling & Co., general merchandise dealers, at Hendricks, and blew open the lafge safe, securing about $25 in cash, but falling to take away $20 worth of postage stamps. They had carefully piled up a large lot ot clothing around the safe to deaden the sound, and almost all this cloth ing was ruined. The safe contained only the books of the firm and the 80Y KURDERED AND HIS BODY MUTILATED Tuffa Shis'ein is Victim of An Atracious Crime, Chicago (Special).—Following the identification of the mutilated found in Mud Lake and ad- that body of a boy jacent ponds and of Taffa lice arrested Joseph Hasson sus- picion of his being murderer of the boy. Hasson was arrested at 102 Mather Street. In his room the po- found a blood-stained garment, several blood-stained paws ax The body gave every of having dismembered such instruments. With the identification tina of the Mud Lake mystery Tuffa Shishein, a Syrian, the began work on a new theory the lad met his awful death a hands of a degenerate, probably who had assistance in disposing the body Developments have in the case. On Tuesday tives were called to Mud Lake, a pond formed in the old bed branch of the Chicago River, the waters of the river were the drainage canal. Here WAlerWwavyeE as Shishein, a Syrian, the po- on the lice and an been of the vic Hae come rapidly} the detec to amount above stated, was un lonked, ns discovered the lower limbs being, severed at the the knees, and with missing The found were had one grewgsome wrapped in at feet relics when 8 ww a Greek fo work detective in the Every ity was put in the belief that a victim of the Padrone been summarily dealt against whom the testified in the recent the government Greek slave” trade swimming in Pelietis Pond, mile from the canal and hav discovered removed clty on Case Greek system, had with by had cases by 10 wipe out the Boys half a the por body head, which to and placed the bods restored, it Was with other With the was possible close de cription tions of {to of At Lawndale Station it the description tallied somewhat with that of Tuffa Shis whose disappearance from home, at 7 Johnson Sireet night had ried by father, Samuel Shisheln First which the boy hs worn the identified the Shishein family, gazed lated ho “3 the he lad's the shirt and then by members of the mother fainting wl} the first time what had been a st COTDSe Were en she for the mul remains of lHimbed, buoyant raig INDIANS KILL THIRTEEN. That Is Report Received At El Paso Concerning Yaquis, Paso, Tex Special) That Three Killed By Esplosion, Pa drsesecinl Americans ital city. were instantly kil mature ex sion of a Boge d Pian Hazelton, ial) ian. all of ¢ led by the biast al Charles hoe, on the outskirts of Hazleton Thomas Kehoe, a son of the con was injured about the head. and an pre Ke of The from the scene of the epxlosion, President To The Sultan, Washington (Special) Ambassa. been directed by the meni by cable to communicate to the the President's Found 830.000; Reward $2. Chicago (Special) er, a postoffice wagon driver, found ported it to Superintendent Day. The was payable through the trust company was notified, Becker is said to have been the re- thanks and a $2 bill. NCIAL —— aR Copper metal advanced another % cent, Jones & Laughlin mills, in Pitts burg, report business 25 per cent. better in July than in June. Philadelphia & Reading declared the regular semi-annual dividend of 2 per cent. on first preferred, pay- able October 10, to stock of record, August 24. Shipments of coal and coke over the Pennsylvania lines, east of Pitts. burg and Erie for the week ending August 1, amounted to 889,134 tons. Since January 1 the shipments aggregate 25,770,942 tons as com- pared with $4,004,222 tons during the same period last year, Conferences between a committee of the coal operators of the Pitts. burg district and officials of the Unie ted Mine Workers foreshadow a prob. able adjustment of difference in the wage agreement, Note brokers say that the Western banks are purchasing commercial pa- per as freely as Eastern institutions and that they are taking paper ma turing after the first of next year, a. ih OA] wi me a y #0 | of the year. Sferingt ot commercial to be very low. COUNT ZEPPELIN'S GREAT AIRSHIP 15 DESTROYED Aeronaut’s Fight Comes To a Disas- trous End. BY STORM AND EXPLOSION, Bad Nearly Achieved His Greatest Triumph in Navigating the Air Thousands of People tion of the Great Flight, AN AERIAL The airship diameter, 45 feet pounds; motor horgepower; carry persons Count ber of LWO months June 29 fight hour July 1a 14-hour flight Lt avery age speed of 34 mi July in an ascent Constance, the Count panied by the King and Queen of Vurtemburg, this bel time a reigning king had enjoved such an August 4 Zéppelin st hig 24-hour flight mile triangular Friedrichshafen, August night of one work. Echterdingen to During a thunderstorm 1 ship was torn from 8 motor « xp i« ded veloped and destroyed {| wae was . . wali Zeppelin BuUccegEiul Le made speed of al a les an hour over Lal WAS accom- ng the first and expericnce ted Over =a queen ar course from after at reduced ¢ OF Two me thi Cour i an and flan matie long waited monster proud rigible airship lies in here, a mass o metal A chapter occasioned by bad moods and the 1 * Of me BROCPR con the untimely end flights of tention ing the Count ¢ lens of hat 1 wa respons: | of thie which ha the 14 ambi Zeppel roken ball ve 1 of : bheart-t endure craft the has left shafen T he air seen cen oon. the and smoothl wire sta engineers making reg rode at an force of militar 10 large been out the telegraph called keep Count Zeppelin to Friedrichshafen for more ing inn for luncheon He t bout two hours, Was away B task anda de Was TH» local special car sight-scers ran curious railway companies convey the the spot, while pedes automobilists and wagons loaded with peasants also flocked It is estimated that 40.000 to {to fo the At 2.30 o'clock a wind sprang up and some of the wise bystanders called the aitention the officers to the fact that suddenly to secure the balloon Their warn. ings were unheeded The balloon swayed io and sometimes rising a few feel from the ground. Then a strong gust of wind struck the airship broadside Al first the craft heeled over and then her bows rose in the air, carrying with them a number of soldiers holding the ropes. After poising for a moment at a height of 50 feet the airship returned to the earth, even more suddenly than it rose, and came crashing to the ground With a thunderous report the forward motor exploded. From the bows of the balloon shot forth a livid flame, while from the rear escaped thick clouds of black smoke which caused the entire struc ture to disappear from the view of the thousands of spectators. When the air clecred the balloon was seen lying in an open field on a high platean with only the ragged, tangled strips of the aluminum envelope still remaining. The metal stays and bands and portions of the motors were strewn about in pieces like old fron and blackened with smoke and scorched. Amend Banking Laws, Washington (Special). — Acting Comptroller of the Currency Kane transmitied to the Secretary of the Treasury for submission to the Na- tional Monetary Commission, author. ized at the last session of Congress, his recommendation for such amend. ments to the national banking laws as experience in the administration of the laws by the comptroller's of- fice and observation as to their prac- a en UNITED STATES SENATOR ALLISON PASSES AWAY Was Twice a Candidate For ths Presidency, condition "CWE £50,000 WANDERERS BAG. iN He ed Mind hala Man And (8 Work 1 Wealthy 1" at FIGHTING THE PAPER TRUST ri Auction Carloads Of News nt Paper Sold At Five x { 8 he New Y Japs Sign Copyright Treaty, 3 hy at iD i 35% : of the Falls 000 Feet And Lives, Abbotisford, Wis (Special) S00 t the air for a car- conducting probably Dropping feet through Mrs. Eva nival company which is a street fair here, will The rope of her Jones, balloonist re parachute 20 feet from the ground When taken down she Was unconscious, several of her ribs were broken and she was otherwise internally injured Chicago Quite A Big Town. Chicago (Special) Chicago has a population of 2,425,000, according to the 1808 city directory, which will be istued this week. This is a gain over last year of 585.000. The total number of names in the alphabetical Het 8 758,100, an increase of 20,- 700 in a year. In ostimating the po- pulsation the multiple of 3.2 is used, a smaller figure than is used in some other cities, 100,000 Fewer Dead Letters. Washington (Special).—One hun dred thousand less pieces of mail were received in the Dead-Letter OL fice during July, 1808, than during the some month of 1807. Of the 932.088 pieces of mail received, 381. 050 were returned to the senders Isom E. MeCury was appointed post. master at Sylva, Mitchell County, N. C. He succeeds R. J. Burleson. Lightning Kills Family, Charlotte, N. C. (Special). A spe. cial to the Observer from Sparta. Al- leghany County, brings news of the death of an entire family at Ed- monds, 10 miles across the mouns tains from Sparta, by lightning. Frank Murphy, a farmer; his wife and young son were in the field stacking rye when the storm came up, The trio ran for shelter, but were struck down before they reach- ed the house. The vodics were found by neighbors. : :
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