E 1, NO, 193 “ALL THE NEWS FIT TO PRINT” PRICE ONE CENT OOAL COAL . — . W. RISHAP is as much difference in quality of coal as there is ween white and yellow sugar. sell nothing but the celebrated high Valley fresh mined anthra- ‘We also sell Bituminous and sock coal and all kinds of J. W. BISHOP, Lehigh Ave, Lockhart Bldg. Both Phones, NATIONAL BANK ‘E.E. .. Reynolds, ; § For sale in Athens, REAL ESTATE Sayre and Waverly. acciacnt INSURANCE Property Bought, Sold and —Rxchanged — 117 Packer Ave., Walley Phone 230x. Sayre, Pa. INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE. Loans Negotiated, Insurance Writ- ten, Houses Rented, Rents Col- : lected, Taxes Paid. ROOM 7, ELMER BLOCK SPECIAL -—THE— Metropoiine, Magazine arent addresses if de- ASK ABOUT IT. L. GILLESPIE Druggist, Sayre, Pa. WHEN You want a 8 of good, pure you should insist | having] ¢ methods for and it costs ODELL'S COMMENTS. Charges Roosevelt and Higgins With Personal Ambitions ARE ATTEMPTING TO WRECK PARTY Ex-Geverner Accuses Present Hauler of New York State With False- hood In Hegurd to Speaker. ship Contest. NEW YORK, Dec 22 —Former Gov: eroor Odell, chairman of the state Re- publican committee, made a statement in which he said? “1 charge President Roosevelt and Governor Higgins with lnjecting their personalities into the speakership contest. They will be to blame if disaster results. 1 and my friends have not wade this fight. but now we are for harmony, and we will have it If we have to fight for it” Governor Odell also said, “1 charge President Roosevelt and Governor Hig gins with a deliberate attempt to wreck the Republican party iu this state for their own personal ambitions” Mr. Odell's accusations were a part of his comment on the situation grow ug out of the contest in the Republican party in this state for the speakership of the New York state assembly Mr Onlell declared himself in favor of E A Merritt, Jr. several days ago On Monday last Governor Higgins came out lo favor of J. W. Wadsworth, Jr. Mr Odell sald “I notice that Governor Higgins said be never was for Merritt. Shortly aft. er cievtion | went to Governor Higgins and asked him whom he was for for speaker. He eliminated all but Mer ritt and sald that peither New York nor Buffalo conld have It because it would stir up opposition agalost the cities. | asked him If Merritt would be satisfactory to him, and be asked me to see Mr Merritt and ask him some questions “1 saw Merritt and reported to the governor, and he sald he wax satisfied 1 clearly understood he was for Mer ritt and was wever so surprised as when be switched his trolley. This is the worst case of duplicity in politics I bave ever known. Merritt is abso lately right in saying that the govern or agrewd to support him. He offers! to the governor to stay out of the con test If thie governor wanted him to do [0 “Led by the collarless and coatless Young man who took us all to defeat in 1581 [apparently referring to J. Sloat Fassett], William Barnes, Jr. Colonel George W. Dunn and others with sore thumbs visited Washington and stirred up all this trouble “If President Roosevelt Lad the good of the party at beart be could have sent for me at any time. and I would have been glad to confer with him for the sake of obtaining harmony in the party. If that had been done all this trouble would Lave been avolded with out warffire “So far as gratitude is concerned. Governor Higzins certaluly owed me something. lustead of putting out the band of friendship he chooses to throw Stones at those who have been his friends. Higgins could have told we that be did not want we or Merritt to be io this affair, but lustead be throws stones. If the president wanted re forta [ was friendly, and they could bave had it” “If Governor Higgins and Mr. Roose velt had wanted reforms they could have bad them. [1 challenge either of them to contradict what 1 say And right now I make the prediction that Assemblyman Wadsworth will uot be elected speaker of the assembly’ “Will Mr. Merritt be elected” was asked “1 do not know.” replied Mr Odell, “but I do know that Wadsworth will pot be” Congressman Cocks of the president's own cougressional district, said that he had called at the White House to con sult with the president as to the atti- tude of the assemwbiyman from Nassau county about the speakersbip contest The president said that as a citizen of Nassoa and a constituent of the assem- biyman, If bis advice was asked. he would state that in his opinfon Mr Wadsworth was au deal candidate for speaker; that it would be the Lost pos silile thing both for the party and the state If he were elected Assemblyman Wadsworth said, “I believe Governor Higgins statement that President Roosevelt did not die tate my candidacy, and I thibk Gos enor Higgins is abundantly able to take care of himself” Mr. Wadsworth sald LE: would not attend the conference of Republican assemblymen called In this city today, although he had received au invitation, He added: “I was never more confi dent than | am this minute that 1 wil be elected. | have received Assurances that make it absolutely certain.” EE — Fassett Sopports Higgine. ELMIRA, N. Y., Dee. 22 ~(ongress- man J. Bloat Fassett when shown Chairman Odeil’'s Interview, in which the latter blamed Fassett for the pres ent condition of things in the Repabile- an party, and the statement of Senator Malby threatening impeachment pro- ceedings against Governor Higgins, said in part: “The talk of impeachgient of the governor is rank nonsense. [t is much better for a governor in office wha Is likely to be held largely respon. sible for party action to do everything in bis power to uplift the party in the his own Meliah interests to CONGRESS TAKES A HOLIDAY, Canal Commissioners Confrmation Held Up on Account of Bishop. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 --Congress bas adjourned until Jaw. 4 No effort was made by the senate commitire ou inferoceanic canals to hold a meeting for the purpose of con of the isthmlan canal commission, the coufirmations of which were reconsid ered by the senate on Wedsesday. It was agreed by members of the commit tee, however, that the nominations should not be taken up again vatil aft number of absentees else was taken by surprise at the sud den developments whereby the coufir mations of six canal were recousidered and the White to the senate Senators Allisou and Hale had given the president assurances that the nom- ination of Jusvph Bucklin Bishop as cabal commissioner to succeed Wallace few Democrats worst of the canal troubles was over for awhile Mr. Bishop, formerly executive secre tary and head of the literary bureau of the canal board at $10.00 a year, as a full commissioner, with the understamd linmediate cause of the senate's out break. It was seen that the president had devised a way to give to Mr. Bish op $7540 a year as commissioner and $2500 a year as secretary, thus allow plainly indicated opposition of the sen ate to the high salaries the commission pays. This flank movement of the ad ministration stirred the senate to its depths Representative Williams (Miss) has introduced a bill which provides that hides, leather, shoes. boots, saddles and harness imported shall be duty free if the country from which they come ad mits the products of the United States at its minimum tariff rate MURDER AT MUNCY VALLEY. Mrs. Sarah Whitmire, a Killed by Robbers. WILLIAMSPORT, Pa, Dec. 22 Mrs. Sarah Whitwire, 8 widow aged Oty three years, was murders! in ber home near the village of Muncy Val ley, Sullivan couufy Robbery is be lieved to have been the motive. Mrs Whitmire lived aloue Recluse, obe Answering his knock on the door he entered and found Mrs. Whitmire Iying in a pool of blood with her head badly battered. The sitting room of the house showed evidence of a strug gle. Mrs Whitmire was alive, but un could be summoned That robbery was the motive for the crime was evi dent from the fact that every closet and drawer in the house was open and ransacked Coroner McHenry and District At- toruey Hill of Sullivan county are mak- obtalued a clew Ite Rev. S. B. Bid Hck of Muncy Valley drove past the house earlier than Flick's arrival. He saw a Lorse tied to a telephone pole near by He did not stop to invest! gate Kiog'sYneht a Hackensack Freighter NEW YORK, Dec. 22 The bark rig ged auxiliary yacht Hildegan! of gay parties in which King Edward George Gould, Howard Gould and oth er owners were the principal figures, is doomed to the humiliation of being transformed iuto a common, ordinary freight conveyance on the Hackensack river. Frank R Long of Hackensack, N, J, and Jacob L. Swayze bought the boat at a public auction a few days ago for a sum less than $10,000. She | now tied to the dock at Kaofwan's pa- villon at Little Ferry, N. J. on the Hackensack river Cuban Cabinet Opposes Palma. HAVANA, Dec. 22 The cabinet has annulled the decree of President Pal wa expelling Jose Planino, the Italian agitator, from the island. Pinuino on Sept. 10 at a meeting of Liberals re ferred to President Pulma as a “fool and traitor aud later by order of Secretary of the Interior Andrade he was deported on a cattle steamer to Cartagena, Colombia. He was refused admittance to Colombla and was re turned bere and afterward was de- ported to Halifax Ships Must Steer Wide of Dewey. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. A warning wus sent out Ly the hydrographic of fice to the eotire shipping world re questing ship captains to ook out for the flonting dry dock Dewey so that sips might vot pass between the dock and the vessels which are towing her to the Philipploes. Strung out in tan dew formation, the dock and the four accompanying ships will extend con- siderably over a mile Bosten Hotels Defy Moran. BOSTON, Dec. 22. ~The four botels— Young's, the Parker, the Essex and the Adning Housethe liquor leenses of which District Attorney John Moran declared were inoperative on account of violations of the “sereen” law, had their barrooms open for business as usual, Duke Wiss Right to Sue. NEWARK, N J, Dee. 22 Pitoey ONLY A FICUREHEAD Hendricks on Stand Admits Lax Inspection Methods. EQUITABLE BOOKS WERE MISLEADING | i | state Superintendent Tells Why He Did Not Discover Estravagance and Corruption In Big Companies. NEW YORK, Dec. 22 State Super intendent of losurance Fraucis Hen investigating committee, confessed that { be had been nothing more than a fig | arehead in the office Lie has held since | i eXx-Goveruor Odell appointed bim in 1800 His testimony made clear why the | Bred jusurance companies which have | been pilloried during the last two | months by the committee and Chief Counsel Hughes have received clean bills from his department He admitted that be bad not enforced the laws, had left examinations to sub ordinates who did uot report to him and had permitted boands of directors to run thiugs In their own way LB obly concern being that death claims were paid. Extravagance and corrup | tion in management be has not bother {ed himself about. His theory has beep | that the easiest way is the best way of doing things Hendricks has been accustomed to , leaving everything to the other fellow The other fellow in the state depart ment of Insurance Is and has been since ING Chief Examiner Isase W Vanderpool. In 1902 and 1%3 Hen dricks left the examination of the Mu tual Life to Vanderpoel, and Vander { pol didn't find out that Rickard A. Me j Curdy was getting $150,000 a year and that the rest of the McCurdy tribe was mliking the company. Hendricks jeft the examination of the New York Life to Vauderpoe! last year. ‘Lhe examina tion lasted from January to August The result was the saze— Nylic stayed {in its hole, Andy Hamilton's “yellow dog" stayed in its kennel! and George | W. Perkins kept his fattor's letter In | his pocket | Inquisitor Hughes begau the exami nation of Hendricks by getting from { him the fact that Kate Hendricks is | eiployed in the department as “confi | clerk” al $254: a year. Hen cks is a banker in Syracuse He is ; reputed to be a wealthy man. He was : appointed to office by ex Governor i Odell In February, 1900. His salary Is $TO0 a year, with an allowance of $1.70 annually for traveling expenses Summon og Hendricks to the witness stand cae ax a great surprise. It was | belleved that the investigation of the stale’'s (psarauce department would not be taken up until next week at the capital | In answer to m question from Mr | Hughes Mr. Hendricks sald: “Since | { bave been In office I have never at tempted to manage an insurance cow | pany. It bas seemed to me that the management of a company should be properly placed in the hands of its of ficers “Now, Mr. Hughes, what you bave developed bere is dishonesty. 1 don't believe that any amount of examina tion by an insurance department will stop dishonesty “Now, we will take the Equitable Unless we had had belp from the in. side we wouldn't have got anyth ng We could not find dishonesty ou the LONDON, Dex hewry Harland, the American uovelist, who wrote “The Cardinal's Snuffbox Mademol selle Miss” “Comedies and Errors” and other well known works of fiction, Is dead of consump tion at San Hewo Mr. Harland had been very ll since May At that time his physicians gave him little encour agement, the disease having advanced to a point where recovery sectued im- possible Mr. Harland was forty three years old and leaves a widow who was Miss Allue Merriam of New York. He had no children “Grey Roses” Storm In Wyoming Valley. WILKESBARRE, Pa, Dec. 22 -A heavy rain and wind storm, which practically reached the dlinensious of a hurricane, has swept the Wyoming val ley. One man was Kllled. and property worth thousands of dollars was de stroyed in this city and surrounding towns. Telegraph and telephone wires were brokeu down in sll directions, and for several hours communication was cut off Togoe's Farewell Address, TOKYO, Dec. 22 Fleld Marshal Ya wmagata has been appointed president of the privy council. Adiniral Togo, now president of the general staff of the navy, in his farewell address to the officers and men of the combined Jap anese fleet warned them to be lu con stant readiness for emergencies. . He concluded with the words, “Victors, tie your helmet strings tighter.” To Bring George Washington In. WASHINGTON, Dee. 22 - E. Woixls superintendent of the capitol, has ap peiabedd to the committee on library of the house of representatives to save the Greenough statoe of George Wash ington, now on the esplanade east of the capitol, from further destruction by exposure (oo the weather Nr Woods asks that the statue be placed indoors % Iinly Sends a Warship, SHANGIIAL Dec. 22 The Italia armored crulser Marco Polo has arrly. od here and has been ordered to re main anti the re-establishment of tran: COLUMBIA LEADS. ntercelicgiate (hess Tournament af New York. NEW YORK, Dec. 22 -At the con clusion last night of the first day's play sentatives of Columbia university took the jead over Harvard and Yale, with Columbia was pitted against Prince a half points enfs Harvard played Yale, and the E Schroeder, IL. P. Wolff, O. Brown aud HH Blumberg played for Columbia apd W. Ward, C Willams H G Greenland and RB Hinds for Pr Columbia will now Harvard, Princeton ihe concluded tomor neeton meet and Yale will play tournament will be row csar Declares Martial Law at Moscow. PEOPLE AND POWERS i» TUG OF WAR ital Ceased as if by Magic 3 a 0 opera bags wo Plany and Estimetes Furnished| - umbrellas 3.98 825 Stavenson Sb. Savre, Pa. 1.00 umbrellas 3.25 ' 3.00 umbrellas 248 {Le B. DENISON, M. D. 2.50 win] rellas 2124 i 2.25 umbrell: 1 Office, Rooms 2 and 4 2.00 1.7% a | Talmadge Building, Eimer Ave : a Valley Phone at office and 1.00 umbrellas 1.24 residence 1.00 wimbrellas 39 Good lines to select yom. H. H Mercer reau, Attorney-at-Law Notary Public Special attention to Pension Paper Vallsy Phoas 11 X 112 Desmond Street, Ladies’ Neckwear We have received ship- ments of neckwear nearly every day this week, We offer some new ones tomor- row at 25¢. All 30e collars will he sold tomorrow at 25¢. Sayre R. H. DRISLANE, Contractor and Builder . Plans and Estimates Furnished. Handkerchiefs Our handkerchiefs are without doubt the handsom- est ever offered in this val- LEIGH VALLEY RB, R.|::. vicina for — lows: He, 10¢, 121e, 15¢, 18¢ (In effect Dec 3, 190%.) 20¢, J7c¢, and 0c. Globe Trains leave Sayre as follows Ye > Se ‘4 a pt TS Warehouse values all, of them. 4 12: 2: nk. Fiitiwee Wires tore. aah Dress Goods Spetials husk, Allegtown, Bethicheni New 1.00 Panama, black and York Philsd cipmia, HAI more «uw. Washinton M. Daily for HeuEBAmnach , FH isd ): 2 ihes Batre, Glen Fummil colors, 8Ye; Toe quality O8c, ale quality ie, Silk Waistings PRilade!s his, Balt 1.00 Moire, good range of colors, the; 1.00 Plaids, wood assortment, 85¢; 73¢ Plaids, good assortment, Gic; 1.00 Radium and Shadow Silks, Dally escept Buatay, Back bia | VC, 2. 10: 2 Buy for Yeoman! Tuanknan n wk Pittston, Wilkes = Gir Sum mit Mauch Chunk, Allentown, = shem New I bi li York, Phi Haden Baltimore = Weahingion - in Nn Waverly gus FM Week days d 6 e S n'y ph ¢ Athens, Ulster Towanda Mon roeton, New Albany, [Vasnote, Salles ’ Halls, Wil Hapwport, Wysiuviug, Lacey i=, Tunkhenaock, Pltston an! Wilkes Barre WESTBOUND Dally for Gegeva, Fulfalo Niag ara M is wwonta, Detroit, Chicago. st Loni and points west Daily for Genes ester, Ca ; iHiek atavia, Bul. Coanecis fo isgars alls qn] 29 1 cso oe Olobe Warehouse, b:J0: Spencer Ithaca Trumaos ang Jar urners, Geneva Roo hoobey vi alo Compects for Niagata Falls Toroute, Talmadge Block, Elmer Ave. VALLEY 'PHONE lian and Chicago 1:00 Sein Fam | D. CLAREY COAL C0. burg Mlayts Coruers, Geneva, Roch ter, Batavis oe Malo and Niagars Falls Lehigh Valley Coal HARD AND SOFT WOOD 103 Lincoln St. Sayre, Pa, Bethlehem New ¥ and Wash uglon AM (Waretly S454 4) Week . for Athens Ulster Towsnds, 1, New Albany, liushore, Satie e Wiltiamsport, Wyaturing Lacey ville, Tunkhannock, Pittston acd Wilkes Barre AM Waverly & AM Daily for . Towanda Tunk mock Pittston Wikes Barre, Glen Sommit springs White ilaven, Fenn Haves Jusction, Mauch Chunk Allentown, Bethlehem, New York, Fai sdeiphia, Paltimore and Washington M Sunday culy, for Athens, Mi'ar I: ser, Towanda, Wyslusiag Lacey 10: 0 Ye: Mestoppen and 1 shannxk Waverly 133; PF M) Ls Tod ands, Tunghesnock, Fills’ n w kes Barre, Glesm §.ramit Springs Win Haven Mauch Chunk, Al -utown, Bethie bem New York, Pulisdelphis, Heitimore and rington Some new patterns at special prices for Saturday. Dislly for Geoevs, Koghester 3: 4 Slaton s, Estavia, Bafalo aily far lack wood, Odesas Re tefl (Watkins Valois, Lodi, Gillet Varick an! Geneva Daily for ithaca, Trmansbus ww ele . 'aken CGeners, C1 . srrings, Vick ofhesler, Caled min Batavia, Buf Niagara Falls Detroit, Chicago, SL Laois Poinis west FM. Daily except Punday, Risck Dis : mond Kypress, for ere, Roc heste Rulleio, Niagara Fall}, Detroit, Chicago st “Louts and potats west, M. Dai'y for wood, Van Riten, * ay ithaca, Trgmansbary, Hays Corners, Geneve and AUBURN DIVE AM Week days 3 ville, Cortiand, Moravia, Auburm, ror iaven, Syracuse, Utica FM. Daily for Ow h land, Canastota, Gr Bern, SyTecnee, or Cards For The Valley Record following card signs: For Reat Best Quality & Prompt Delivery ; Guaranteed Bradford Street Yard Phone, 138d Office at Raymond & Rpts Store, Sayre = C. J. CARY, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER REAL ESTATE CARY BLOCK, SAYRE. for Owego, Free masiots, Groton, 1s oar to be as low high- the vs