VOL. XIV. NO 37
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House furnishiug Goods, Tools of Every
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k lot of seooud hand atovea and ranges fcr sale cheap.
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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
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Blankets and Comforts at Exceptional Prices
WOOL BLANKKTS —It is blanket time now and we are ottering some
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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.