VOL. XIV. NO 37 FIRST NATIONAL BANK, HTJGHESVIL.LE, CAPITAL STOCK $50,000 W C. FRONTZ President. Surplus and FRANK A. REEDER, Cashier Xet Profits. 75000 - DIRECTORS: Transacts a General Will. Frontz, John C. Laird, C. AY. Sones, Banking Business. w - c - "•>»»««• kA - "f 1 "' „ f-f Lyman Myers, N\ .I. Reedy, Peter Frontz, Accountsoflnilivid- j' A s j' slll] j ( ,l m Hall. uals and Firms solicited. Safe Deposit.e Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year. 3 per oent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL OB WOO D. HE A T ONE OP WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. House furnishiug Goods, Tools of Every Description, Guns and Ammunition Bargains that bring the buyer back. Come and test the truth of our talk. k lot of seooud hand atovea and ranges fcr sale cheap. We can sell you in st< ves anything from a fine Jewel Base Burner to a low price i but satisfactory cook stove. Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and General Repairing. Roofing and Spouting. Warm Winter Underwear SOME SPLENDID VALUES Men's IIMIV.V col ton lull fleeced i Ladies' Vests|and Drawers, heavy I«IWII mixed Shirts and Drawers; ribbed full tleecvd. 25c to 50c iiieii rlbhcd garments for 50c; . , , , , , . . ,i Ladies' white ami natural colored Men's natural colored Shirts and . . . lowers in part wool and the finer j Vests and Drawers, ... part wool and all wool grades; from 75c to $1.75 ; line a!l wool garments 75c to #2.00 Blankets and Comforts at Exceptional Prices WOOL BLANKKTS —It is blanket time now and we are ottering some exceptional values in blankets ranging in price from ;>oc to $lO. OOOD COMFORTS—Each comfort is filled with clean white cotton; lav.t silkoline and sateen coverings in plain or floral design Sl.OlPto $3.00. OUTINO FI jV N' N T IOI iW E A R—l.adies' outing flannel gowns 50c to #l. l>iditj» outiiHT flannel short skirts from 25c to 50c OUTINO FLANN EL—Splendid assortment of the latest fancy stripes and checks, just the qualities you will be wanting for the cool nights We are showing some exceptional values lor 7c, 8c and 10c Ladies' Winter Hosiery Lidies' RL»i k Fleece Lined llose Ladies' Fast lilack Cotton Hose, u t 12c, 25c, 85c and 50c. extra qualities for 12.1 cto 50c. Ladies' Black Wool and Fine ('as- Ladies' Fast [slack Silk Lisle Hose Mmere Hose; fine lot from 25c to sl. .especially good values at 25c to 75c. SHOPBELL DRY GOODS CO., WILLRTMSPORT - PENN'A. PRINTING TO PLEASE i H U hc IKlcwe ITtem ©fKce. Republican News Item. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY FEBRUARY 4,1910. LINES TIGHTEN ON BEEF MIST Judge Landis, in Charge to the Grand Jury, Opens the Fight in Chicago SAYS HE STARTED THE HUNT Declares That He Msntioned It to Dis trict Attorney on Jan. TO and on Jan. 22 Washington "Functionaries" Told of Anti-Trust Plans. Chicago, Feb. I. In one of tho most remarkable cha:g:-s ever deliver ed to a Federal Grand Jury, Judge Kenesaw M. Landis formally launched the inquiry that is to be made into the alleged combination among the big Chicago packing concerns in restraint of trade. Excorclatlng the Department Justice at Washington in sizzling lan guage, and referring to certain of its members as "governmental functiona ries," Judge Landis deplored tho fore cast published in the newspapers con cerning the plans of federal officials to place the Beef Trust under a legal fire and seek the conviction of those be lieved to be responsible for an illegal combine. Such disclosures on the part of fed eral legal officials and the press, he asserted, not only tend to obstruct the orderly administration of justice, but also inflict a wrong upon any indivi dual whose conduct is under scrutiny. A stir was created in the court room when Judge Landis informed the members of the Grand Jury that he had reached the conclusion some time ago to call the attention of that body to "alleged circumstances and condi tions" connected with the fresh meat inquiry. lie said he called the atten tion of District Attorney Edwin W. Sims on January 20 to his plan of ad vising the grand jurors to consider the subject, and that two days thereafter | long despatches came from Washing ton Informing the public Unit tin- IV !>h II in I'll i of .111 Mi i • r- fully pl'iliiril for hn atlnck on llie 112 Hiiion*" tlml prob»bly would lam! some of tliem behind lb»- bars. TAFT TO WAR ON THE TRUSTS. Btart Made In a Crusade of Wide Ex tent. Washington, Jan. 31. With the beef trust already under fire and the Standard Oil and American Tobacco Company cases in the hands of the Supreme Court, it was made known on high authority that the Adminis tration Is planning a crusade of "trust busting" such as this country has nev er seen since the passage of the Sher man anti-trust law about twenty years ago. President Taft, it was made known, is waiting only for the decision of the Supreme Court in the Standard Oil and Tobacco cases before he begins his campaign against the trusts. CHILDREN FORCED TO WORK. High Prices of Food Driving Them from Schools at St. Louis. St. Louis, Jan. 31. —High prices of meat and other foods are forcing chil dren out of the schools into the fac tory and workshop. This statement was made to-day by W. W. Williams, State Factory Inspector. Hi# olllce is tilled with children who desire to quit school and goto work. Each must have a certificate from the Factory Inspector before being allowed to do 60. When children leave school to work, Inspector Williams Inquires the reason, and almost without exception the great number of applicants in the last ten days, he says, have given the cost of living as the reason. The applications for child labor per mits have almost doubled for the first half of January, as compared with the previous month. A HOLD-UP FAILS. Engineer Opens Throttle Wide and Saves $15,000. Huntington, W. Va., Jan. 31.—Four men, armed with Winchesters, at tempted to hold up Lex Coleman, pay master of the Knox Creek Lumber Company, near Devon. Coleman had $15,000 in cash with him and was nboard a yard engine. The engineer threw the throttle wide open and dashed by the bandits, amid a shower or bullets. Anti-Treating Bill Before Legislature. Trenton, N. J., Jan. 26. —Assembly- man Heritage for Gloucester, intro duced a bill prohibiting treating in saloons or taverns. Mr. Heritage holds that much drinking would be averted if every man were compelled to pay for his own liquor. Nip and Tuck. Self-confidence is half the battle, but the other half generally makes you lose it. —Puck. PANAMA LIBEL SUIT QUASHED BT COURI Judge Hough Holds T.iai the Circuit Court Lacks Jurisdiction Ur;der the Storey Act. New York, N. Y., Feb. 1. —After a running fire of argument with De Lancey Nicoll for the deft nee and As sistant District Attorney Wise for the Government, Judge Hough ,in the United States Circuit Court, quashed the indictment against The Press Pub lishing Company, publishers of The New York World, charging criminal libel in connection with the promul gation of stories about the purchase by the United States from France of the Panama Canal Company. The stories intimated that by virtue of tips passed out by ex-President Roosevelt and Secretary of War Taft at the time the negotiations were undertaken, an American syndicate that included Douglas Robinson, Mr. Roosevelt's brother-in-law; Charles P. Taft, Presi dent Taft's brother, and William Nel son Cromwell made a profit of co.ue $3G.500.000 out of the $10,000,000 tiie Government paid for the French com pany. ' As there were no individual com plainants in the case, the Government relied upon a statute called "the Story Act," passed by Congress in 1825. amended down to lS'.iS. making any crime on Government territory punishable in the Federal courts un der the laws of the State in which the Government concession in question was located. In this way alone was the publication in The World suscep tible of prosecution by the Govern ment in the absence of an individual complainant. This was the first at tempt to enforce the statute since the Storey law was passed. PARIS FLOOD COST J2OO GOO.OOD. Hundreds of Thousands Arc Destitute and Hungry. Paris, France, Jan. 31. Official es timates place the damage already done by the great flood in France at $200,000,000. The Seine is still rising, public buildings and residences are in dagger of collapse and hundreds of thousands are homeless ntid hungry. The flood has Invaded lit.- -mire In by i 1 lit li uf II IMI .■ 1 1 •i: in.l Purl.-, in i luilini; the Bii-at t \t. 'it of tin < :itn comhs. Subterranean stri'iiins Mow under the centre uf the city, new are iuuudutud. many strufets have been converted into yellow ca nals, pavements have caved in and half the city is in darkness and with out heat. Galloping orderlies are bearing in structions which can no longer be sent by telephone. Transportation is completely para lyzed. Whole streets are roped off as unsafe. The bridges still stand, but traffic has been closed over more than half of them. ; The flood has not spared the rich in its visitations. It imperils some of | the most fashionable districts. The death rate also is growing at a frightful rate. Scarlet fever has ap peared among the refugees at Ivry. FARMER BEARS THE LOSS. Packers Take None of the Reduction in Meat and Butter. Omaha, Neb., Jan. 31. —The meat boycott is hitting the farmer Instead of the beef trust, and instead of the groat corporation suffering it is mak ing money out of the people by pur chasing its live stock at lower prices and selling at the old prices. The same conditions prevail in the butter market, which Is controlled by the packers and in which the jeduciion in prices is saddled onto the farmers. At the South Omaha stock yards cattle, sheep and hog., are bringing less than ten days ago, but the whole sale price of fresh meats has not changed. Omaha is the largest producer of butter in the world. When prices dropped six cents a pound to-day an nouncement was stnt to ail dairymen that beginning to-n orrow they will get a proportionately lower price for their cream, thus throwing all the loss on the farmers. TRAIN TWICE KILLS ON TRIP. Hits Woman at One Crossing and Auto Farty at Another. Mansfield, Ohio, Feb. i.—Pennsyl vania train No. 0, west bound, struck and instantly killed Mrs. Roy Covert, and fatally injured her husband, at a crossing near Loudonville. Proceed ing further train struck an automobile on the outskirts of Crestline, a few miles away, and killed J. H. Sigler, six ty, and Charles Echelberger, both of Hayesville. Curtis Doerrer, who was In the same automobile, had a shoul der crushed and a leg broken and re ceived internal injuries. The automobile, which ran from the rear of a freight directly In front of the express, was lifted high In the air. Right. A man may not resent an aspersion against himself, but he will defend i tho accuracy of his thermometer to bis last breath. —Topeka Capital. OFFERS A ROYALTY FOR tUSKJI GOAL John E. Ballaine Says Govern ment Would Get $50,000,000 by Suggested Lease A REVENUE OF $8,000,000,000 Proposal Made In Opposition to Bill Practically Giving Lands Away— Fighting $lO an Acre Lease Plan Which Is Under Advisement. Washington. Feb. 1. —A new factor appeared in the already excited situ ation over the Alaska coal lands, on the eve of the beginning of the Bal llnger-Pinchot investigation, which largely concerns that quest on. John E. Ballaine of Seattle, said to be the largest Individual property owner in Alaska, has proposed to the Senate Committee on Territories, of which Senator Beveridge Is Chairman, to pay the Government a royally of 50 cents a ton on coal mines for the lease of 5,000 acres of some of the choicest coal lands in Alaska. Such a royalty would net to the Government, Mr. Ballaine says, as high as $2,000,000 a hundred acres. This proposal is made in opposition to another proposition embodied in a bill which has been pi'opaied, but not yet introduced, designed to permit the sale or lease of such lands at $lO an acre. It is said that the general feat ures of this plan have the approval of olflelals high in the Administration an» of inlluential members of both houses of Congress. Mr. Ballaine olTers to enter Into a bond of $1,000,000 with the Govern ment for the performance of his part of the agreement which he proposes, and charges that "other interests" have now at work in Washington a lobby "headed by a former United States Senator" in support of the bill referred to above, under whose pro vision k the Government vrmiM extend MM Hill oiidil IOIIHI GMH r» 111 <<> ton rail | IOM.I HI nil I mints wlili-h llie.-i- Inter j «-<tt* |iiir|>oHf lii luiilil in Uaskn. HHI would virtually donate in iliftu HI $lO per acre one or nun* trio is of ."i.nny uri'fc'M each to !>« l«il by litem. Mr. Ballaine quoted the United States Geological Survey as stating in one of Its recent reports that there are 16,000.000,000 tons of coal In sight in the known coal areas of Alaska and and probably at least as much again in regions yet unexplored, and he pointed out that the leasing of these areas on a royalty basis such as he was offering for an area of only 5,000 acres would ultimately bring to the Government a net revenue from that source exceeding $5,000,000,000. PLUCK AVERTED FLOOD. Hew Austin, Pa., was Sav.ed from Dis aster Like That of Johnstown. Austin, Pa., Jan. 31. —Heroic work by men of Austin has saved this town from a disaster similar to that which almost wiped out Johnstown twenty years ago. A concrete dam, restraining a huge volume of water, showed signs of giv ing way yesterday, and three hundred families went to the hills where they remained all last night. When the break was discovered, I however, a large gang of workmen, assisted by many volunteers, set to work blasting one end of the breast of the dam. Others, at the risk of their lives, worked all night trying to reach a release valve at the bottom of the dam. They finally succeeded, and the water was gradually released until all danger was passed. PREDICTS A WORSE PANIC. Prof. Carver Thinks That the Food Problem Will Bring It. Boston, Feb. I.—Prof. Thomas Nel son Carver of Harvard, who predicted the panic of 1907, is quoted in a local newspaper as saying that the high prices of foodstuffs and the meat boy cott are only the forerunners of a great financial panic which must coma In a year or two. "1 will stake my reputation as an economist that in 1912 or 1913 this country will undergo one of the worst panics in its history," he went on. "The supply of foodstuffs in this coun try is becoming gradually, but surely less than the demands of the public, and in my mind In not many years the United States will of necessity be obliged to Import a large quantity of Its meat and other foodstuffs." Looking Out for Grandma. They are considerate youngsters in Nottingham, as most people know, | says London Tit-Bits. A little boy ; whose grandmother had Just died wrote the following letter, which lie I duly posted: "Dear Angels—We have sent you grandma. Please give her a harp to play, as she Is short winded and can't blow a trumpet." 75C PER YEAR WORLD NEWS OF • THE WEEK. Coveaing Minor Happenings From I All Over the Globe DOMESTIC. In New York City, a burglar mur dered Moses Gootman, a prosperous manufacturer, wounded his son Isaac, a lawyer, and escaped. Joseph F. Shipp, ex-Sheriff of Chat tanooga, Tenn., who has just been re leased from tho federal jail in Wash ington for contempt of the United States Supreme Court, was enthus'as tically received on his return to his home town. The federal Inquiry into the meat packing industry was formally begun in Chicago; it was apparent that It would be national in scope. Thomas M. Osborne, of Buffalo, N. Y., resigned his $15,000 position on the up-State Public Service Commis sion to devote all his time to organ izing the Democratic League and strengthening the party in tho State. Ten of the largest milk retailing companies announced that eight cents a bottle would be their price for milk in future. Innocent investors who lost heavily by the collapse in Hocking Coal and Iron are planning to sue the members of the pool, who they claim are re sponsible for their losses. The United States Steel directors declared a quarterly di\idend of 1 per cent, on the common stock with an ex tra dividend of 3-1 of 1 per cent. Warner M. Van Norden, President of the Van Norden Trust Company, ac cused two women of the theft of 000 from his pocket. Herbert J. Dennison, a magician who has been in insane asylums, was arrested, in the belief he was the mur derer of little Robert Lomas and Ar thur Shibley. President Cortelyou of the Consoli dated Gas Company, of Now York, in his annual report said the earnings were 3.73 per cent; that the expect ed Increase In gas consumption from the 80-cent law has not taken place. The company may again appeal to tho courts. I The Mexandr-r Campbell Mil); Com | puny, of Mrooklyn. reduced the price I of milk to eight rents. WASHINGTON. | The House Committee <ui I 'out Of lee aud Post ltoads seeks February 8 as the last day for magazine postage hearing. Many of the ablest lawyers in tho country take a hand in the test of tho corporation tax law before the Fed eral Supreme Court. Free imports under the Payne law have reached $700,000,000, or more than half of all the imports. President Taft, angry, sent Wade Ellis, assistant to the Attorney-Gen eral, to Chicago to push the Beef Trust inquiry. President Taft is working to place prosperity on a sound basis, advocat ing national incorporation as a refuge for harassed trusts. The fortifications appropriation bill was passed by the Senate and a meas ure creating a new national forest, in Montana was considered. President Taft issues a statement denying sensational stories of an im pending. indiscriminate prosecution of Important industries. It was announced that President Taft is preparing a special message on the high cost of living. Robert L. O'Brien, editor of tho Boston Transcript, says it is plain the government's postal loss comes from magazine transmission and uiv a complete departmental overhauls. Washington reports a growing . ir of the attitude of Mr. Taft and .lor ney General Wickersliam by the trusts. FOREIGN. Britons seem to be agreed that the elections settled two things thai, tao budget must pass and that the power of the peers must be limited. The Seine continues to fall slowly, but conditions in Paris and tho towns on the river below the ea; ital have not improved; thousands of per sons have been rescued and led i>y troops and volunteers; many looters have been shot. Lima, Peru, presented William J. Bryan with a gold medal and also gave Mrs. Bryan a medal studded with dia monds and rubies. The United States Banking Com pany of Mexico City suspended. The floods in Paris continued to rise at the rate of half an inch of wa ter an hour, and no immediate relief is expected. Lord Minto, in opening the Imperial Legislative Council of India. In Calcut ta, warned the members that tho preachings of the revolutionary press would not be allowed. A special dispatch from London says it is now estimated thnt tho Liberals will have a ma;'o:ity of ItS, : including Laborites and Nationalists, in the next House of Commons. The Hood situation in France is bo -1 coming desperate, Premier Priund de clares. Immense Rosebush. A rosebush in a garden at Freiburg, Germany, covers 99 square yards and bears 10,000 budj.
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