VOL. XV. NO 16 ROOSEVELT RAPS VICE PRESIDENT Declares For Glean Politics Combined Willi Efficiency. PRAISES SHERMAN'S FOE Declares the Only Way a Politician Can Serve His Party Is by Effi ciently Serving the People—Farmers Cheer Him. Mr. Roosevelt came into Vice Presi dent Sherman's home town of Utica, N. Y„ and began his long speechmak lng tour by swatting Mr. Sherman. The colonel didn't mention names, be cause that wasn't necessary. Ten thousand farmers and their wives gathered in a grove and waited for the colonel to hit, Sunny Jim. They didn't have long to wait, and they roared with delight when it came. The occasion was the second annual re union picnic of the Herkimer and Oneida Grangers. Ostensibly it was a time for farm talk exclusively, but Mr. Roosevelt had other things on his mind. The colonel, alter he got through with a political stab, devoted himself to an interesting delivery of a speech on what the farmers ought 'to do. Mr. Roosevelt as he arose to speak, swept his eye over the picturesque crowd and it lighted upon Senator Davenport. The colonel beamed. "I am glad to see on the platform," he shouted, "Sen ator Davenport." The seats shook and the crowd gave the senator a hand greater even than T. R. had received. It was a real ovation. Davenport, ar dent supporter of the direct primaries, Hughes man and a bitter foe of Sher man, who has been working to throw him out, and has repudiated him, was furred. He hadn't estimated his popu larity, apparently. "I am glad," the colonel continued when the cheering had ceased, "because the only kind of politics 1 care for is the kind of poli tics where decency is combined with efficiency, and I hold that the only way by which a politician can efficiently serve his party is by helping that par ty efßcienly serve the people, and be cause the senator and those around him who have stood for those princi ples are on the platform." Air. Roosevelt had to stop several moments in order to finish his tribute. "You will at least notice that my ut terances are free from ambiguity." it was this sort of thing that made the colonel solid right at the outset of his performance. His hearers waited for mure ot it, but it didn't come. At the end ot Mr. Roosevelt's address, how ever, there were repeated cries for Davenport. "You have listened to a magnificent speech by a magnificent man,"he said. "He represents to my mind better tuan an> outer man since Abraham Lincoln the heart and the conscience and the courage of the great body of our people. He has been my ideal. I want to stand for the things he stands lor." Then he clasped hands with the colonel. Mr. Roosevelt's address contained very few startling utterances. It was more of a sermon than anything else, but was an interesting and instruc tive sermon, and the big audience fol lowed the speaker with marked atten tion. The colonel put the matter directly up to tiie farmers who came to hear him. He began with conservation ot natural farming resources and he end ed with a tribute to the Civil War veterans, who turned out in large numbers. He told the survivors of the rebellion that they were favored men, men who had really done tilings. He spoke as one soldier to another. He brought out the necessity for the farm- HARDWARE whatever it may he—"shall I buy? Don't poiuler over these tilings, nor speiul your time looking at pictures in "cheap goods" mail-order catalogs. Come to our store and let us solve the problem. We have a fine variety of standard goods to choose from When you think of HARDWARE think of COLE'S. SANITARY PLUMBING. We give special attention to Piping, Steam, Hot Water and Hot Air Heating. (Jeneral job work and repairing In all branches, prompt ly and skillfully executed Samuel Cole, - Dushore, Pa. Republican News Item. FRANKLIN MURPHY. Ex-Governor of New Jorsey Who Seeks Nomination For Serato. MURPHYSEEKSSENATORSHIP Former Governor of New Jersey Files Nomination Petition. Former Governor Franklin Murphy, of Newark, filed a petition with the secretary of state at Trenton, N. .!.. placing him in nomination as a candi date for the United States senate. The petition was brought here by Alfred N. Dalrymple, chairman of the Essex county Republican committee. It contained 1944 signatures, most of whom are residents of Essex county. The petition of Representative Charles N. Fowler was received at the secretary of state's office. The work of counting the names on the petition was immediately begun by the oftice force. ers tone represent.eu cttptiuiy upon civic commissions, lie said that the cities must not grow at the expense of the country, lie advised the farm ers to take to the heed for the call of scientific methods and not to scoff at them. The ex-president tokl the farmers that they should co-operate and study business conditions so that they shall be better able to meet the problems facing them. "Don't imitate the morality of some of these big business men." were his words of warning, "but get their effi ciency." Mr. Roosevelt will leave Utica to night. His next stop is Cheyenne on Saturday. GETS DIVORCE IN 10 MINUTES Mrs. Cudahy Granted Decree as Result of Sensational Cutting. Mrs. Jack Cudahy, who filed her pa-! pers in her divorce suit against her husband, the son of the millionaire packer, was granted a divorce ten min utes after sne took the stand at Kan sas City. Mo. She was given alimony l amounting to JI. The proceedings grew out of the sensational quarrel March last, when Jere S. IJllis, president of the West ern Exchange bank, of this city, was seriously cut by Mr. Cudahy. Strangled to Death Pliyif.g on Swing. Edward Burton, a twelve-year-old I boy of 25211 Dakota street, Philadel phia, was found hanging in the cellar I of his home by ills mother. The boy died a hall hour later. Ho had been playing in the cellar and had rigged | up a rope swing. In some manner the j boy became entangled about the neck in the swing and was unable to release ! himself. In his struggles the rope be came tightened around his neck and I strangled him. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1910. SEARCH FOR DEAD IN FOREST FIRES Scores of Bodies Have Been Found in Ashes. - 1008 FIGHTERS ARE MISSING Flames Rage Unchecked In Five States —Women Save a Town—Many Villages Still Threatened. Nearly the whole panhandle Of Idaho, timbered mountain country, is on fire, and it is possible that 4UO per sons may have perished. United States Forest Supervisor W. F. Weigle has not heard from 300 of his men who were in the burning woods, and he fears they may have perished. He sent Ranger A. E. Holcomb to open uji the old Mullan road leading to the Bullion mine, where eight bod ies are buried. The known dead now number 80. Three towns 'are in ashes. They are Taft, Deborgia and Henderson. The old part of St. Regis has been de stroyed, and half of Wallace, Idaho, where forty-five lost their lives, lies in ruins. A crowd was sent out to the big fork of the Coeur d'Alene, where twelve bodies are buried under the ruins. This will necessitate the clear ing of thirty miles of road to Wallace. Besides the twelve dead at Big Fork, three men suffered broken legs and three others were totally blinded. Heavy clouds are hanging over the district and rain is expected. Six hundred fire fighters who left Thompson Falls, in Montana, four days ago, are reported lost, and Forest Su pervisor Bushncll, of the Cabinet re serve, who is at Thompson, fears all may have perished. The fires have swept past Wallace. The towns of Coeur d'Alene district have passed the first stage of wild, un reasoning panic and have settled down with more or less composure to wait for the list of dead. Forty men are dead north of Mur ray, Idaho, along independence creek, where the fires were the fiercest. The list is constantly growing, as the forest rangers, with red eyes and blackened faces, penetrate the rails now choked with fallen logs and bring word of lire fighting crews cut off, camps wiped out, ranchers and home steaders caught in the patii of the flames and mountain towns left in ashes. Hardly a bridge in the whole coun try around Wallace is left and the Oregon Railroad Ai Navigation. North ern Pacific and Chicago, Milwaukee ti Puget Sound lines are- crippled to some extent. The burned district in Mon tana. generally speaking, extends east to Missoula, north to the headwaters of the St. Jose and in other directions, nobody knows how far. From the top of tiie hills every thine as far as the eye can see is swept bare. It is said that insurance on the buildings destroyed in Wallace will total $.1511,00(1. Losses are still esti mated about $1,000,000. That Elk City, Wash., is still on the map is due solely to the heroism of the women of the town, who. while the male population was fighting the ad vance of the conflagration, guarded their homes and business houses, ex tinguishing flames wherever they ap peared. The town is out of danger, but the conditions in the surrounding regions are growing worse. The wind has again risen to a gale and the adjacent mountains arc a seething mass of flames. The entire Iron mountain is again ablaze and the tire on Squaw creek is burning with renewed fury. The American river district is a gi gantic furnace for miles. A number of outlying settlements, from which the inhabitants have fled, are certain of destruction. Forest Ranger Porter wires Assist ant Ranger Brown, at Orangeville, as follows: "Situation desperate. Whole country ablaze. Must have help to save prop erty." The fire in the Clearwater reserve, according to advices, is absolutely be yond control and all hopes of subduing the flames until it rains have been abandoned. SIOOO Reward For Chauffeur. John Deans, the chauffeur, who speeded after Edward T. Rosenheim er's automobile after it had killed Miss Grace Hough in New York city, will receive a reward of SIOOO from Walt It. Hough, the father of the girl. Mr. Hough declared that it was but Just that Deans should be rewarded for bringing Rosenheimer to justice. Three Killed In Freight Wreck. Thrw men were killed and Rix in jured In a head-on freight train col lision on the Western Maryland rail road near Rdgemont, Md. TAFT DID HOT OPPOSE T. R. In Letter to Grisccm Denies Charge of Plotting. l.iS COUNSEL TO SHERMAN Declares He Favored Roosevelt For Temporary Chairman In New York and Suggested Concessions to In surgents. President Taft not only had no hand in the trickery at the meeting of the New York Republican state committee, whereby Billy Ward, Tim Woodruff, Billy Barnes and Jimmy Wadsworth succeeded in having a mo tion adopted naming Vice President Sherman as the temporary chairman of the Republican state convention in place of Mr. Roosevelt, but in a letter which was received by Chairman Gris coin, of the Republican county com mittee, it was made plain that Mr. Taft insisted that before any choice was made by the committee, Mr. Roosevelt should be consulted. Mr. Roosevelt was not consulted. Mr. Griscom after the meeting stateil that Mr. Taft had told him that he would do nothing that would seem to apply antagonism to Mr. Roosevelt, and Mr. Griscom states further that lie was sure that the statements made by Mr. Woodruff, Mr. Barnes and the others who led the movement for the choice of Mr. Sherman, that their ac tion had been sanctioned by Mr. Taft. was entirely without foundation. When Mr. Woodruff was told what Mr. Gris com had said the state chairman in sinuated that Mr. Griscom ought to be enrolled as a member of the Ananias club. IJe said that Mr. Sherman, with whom he had a long talk the night be fore, had spoken with Mr. Taft over the telephone, as had also Mr. Ward, and that both had been assured by the president that it would be announced at the meeting that the selection of Mr. Sherman had his approval. So far from Mr. Taft sending any such message to either of these men, he sent a telegram to Mr. Sherman in sisting that before any action was taken by the committee Mr. Roosevelt should be consulted with and that if there was need, reasonable conces sions should be made with the pro gressives, both with regard to platform and candidates. The letter from President Taft to Mr. Griscom does away altogether with the wild stories which have been float ing around io the effect that there is a break between Mr. Taft and Mr. Roosevelt. As this letter shows, the' president had nothing to do with the turning down of Roosevelt bv the state committee and that it was in fact his hope that there should be l harmony at the meeting. When the news of the re sult of the meeting reached the presi dent he was told that Mr. Roosevelt was inclined to blame him for what oc curred. and Mr. Taft was advised by some of his closest friends to come out with a statement showing that so far from doing anything which might split the Republican party in this state, he had on the contrary advised that noth ing should be done which would' tend to show that there was even a sem blance of a possibility of a break be tween himself and the former presi dent. Mr. Taft told friends that to do so would put him in the light of tak ing an active interest in the party af fairs of this state. Until about Friday or Saturday last Mr. Taft intended to stick to this pol icy, but in response to suggestions made to him that if the idea should be allowed to continue that he was even indirectly responsible for the re jection of Mr. Roosevelt as temporary chairman of the state convention the result would be that the Republican party would be in an even worse con dition when the campaign opened than it is now. It was then that Mr. Taft consented to make it clear that he had never raised so much as a finger to defeat Mr. Roosevelt for the temporary chairmanship of the convention, that he had always been opposed to any suggestion of a contest at the meeting of the state committee against Mr. Roosevelt; that he had made this plain to Mr. Sherman; that Mr. Sherman in the presence of Representative Nich olas Longworth had promised him that nothing would be done with regard to the selection or rejection of Mr. Roose velt until in the interest of harmony Mr. Roosevelt had been consulted. Mr. Taft in his letter to Mr. Oriscom states that Mr. Sherman agreed to this stip ulation, but. according to Mr. Roose velt and Mr. Oriscom, the promise was never carried out. Well Beaten, The way of the transgressor is hard, of course—it is so thoroughly and per sistently traveled.—Puck. JAMES A. PATTEN. Well Known Broker Who Has Finally Retired From Pits. Patten Sells Stock Exchange Seat. James A. Patten lias sold his stock exchange seat in New York for $70,000. This is an increase of SSOOO front the last previous sale. Mr. Pat ten. who is on his way home from Europe, sent a wireless message to the firm of J. S. Bache & Co. asking them to dispose of his seat. There have been reports since early last spring that he intended to withdraw from active business. He has been active from time to time since then as ft cotton merchant. Maine Deer Takes a Buggy Ride. Francis F. Mitchell, a New York n.an vacationing in Maine, had the surprise of his life, while driving along a road a few miles from Bangor. He was sitting hack in the seat enjoying the beautiful scenery, when he was startled to see a frightened deer spring from the forest at the road side and leap into the carriage, fall ing between the dashboard and the horse. The latter kicked until the vehicle was demolished. After both the horse and deer hade kicked about for three minutes the child of tin- forest man aged lo extricate itself and ran back into its retreat, apparently none the worse for its experience. Killed By Hio Roommate. Antonio I'areso v.as killed by his bedmate, John Foti , at Pittston, Pa., and the slayer is now a fugi tive. The men had an apparently trivial quarrel Sunday, an I for a few day-' slept in the same room without spooking. As Pareso emerged from the bedroom ready for work, Foti faced him with a double barn led shot gun and fired one load into his chest. Pareso reeled, and then Foti fired the other barrel into his back and ran. Lived Ten Years Past Hundred Over 110 years old. Mrs. Mar garet Johnson, believed to be the oldest colored woman in Now York state, died at her home in Bay Side. 1,. 1. The aged woman was hale and hearty up to a few years ago, but gradually failed. Mrs. John son was born on the south shore of Long Island on May 15. ISIOO, accord ing to the death certificate. Jaw Broken By Pitched Ball. Waiting for the pitcher to "lay them over" in a game of ball at ilollidnyeburg, Pa.. John Karl did not dodge far enough from the plate when a fast inshoot was served, and the sphere struck him squarely on the point of th-> chin, splintering the jaw bone and knocking him out. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, HUGHESVII-LE, IP-A-- CAPITAL STOCK $50,000 W C. FRONTZ President. * Surplus and FRANK A. REEDFR, Cashier. Xet Profits, | 75 - 000 - DIRECTORS: I Transacts a General Will. Fronts, John O. Laird, C. W. Sones, Banking Business. N\ . C.lrontz, I<rank A.lteeder, Jacoh Per, , Lyman Myers, \\\ T. Reedy, ret.er Frontz, Accounts oflndivid- j A . s. liall, ' John Bull, uals and Firms solicited. Safe Deposits Boxes for Rent, One Dollar per Year. I 3 percent. INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS. 75C PER YEAR I AVIATORS IN TIE RACE AT MINEOLA Hamiiioii and Baldwin Thriif Big Crowd. A thrilled crowd at the Mineola, N'. Y., aero course watched the exciting spectacle of a seven-mil. race between aeroplanes—the lirst contest of the kind ever held in America. Seven times around the course, Cap tain Thomas S. Baldwin in his "Red Devil," and Charles K. Hamilton in his Curtiss biplane, flew at a speed which varied from thirty to sixty miles an hour. And when they whirred past the grand stand at the finish of the last lap, amid deafening cheers from the spectators, the two airmen were so close together that no decision as to the victor was made. The Beldwin machine was known to be the speedier, but Hamilton handled his plane with such remarkable skill, especially at the turns, that he man aged to run his rival neck and nock throughout the perilous contest. JOE SIBLEY AKRESTE D Accused of Conspiracy to Debauch Voters. Former Congressman Joseph C. Sib ley, who withdrew as a candidate for congress 011 the Republican ticket in the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania dis trict, was arreste 1 at Franklin, Pa., on a warrant charging "conspiracy to debauch voters." Mr. Sibley was released on his own recognizance to appear before Justice of the Peace Perry at Warren on Aug. 2G. His arrest came a few hours after he had announced his withdrawal from the congressional race. In the recent Republican nominating primary Sibley defeated Congressman N. P. Wheel, r, and the charge was at once madu that his victory was due to the lavish use of money. When, in obedience to law, he filed his statement of campaign expenses and it was seen that lie had spent $17,000 in Warren county and $42,50u in the entire district, an audit of his expenses was demanded and ordered by the Court. Sibley had spent a sum that aver aged $1 for every voter in the entire district. In the warrant under which Sibley was arrested three other prominent politicians in the Twenty-eighth dis trict are also charged with conspiracy to debauch voters. They are Charles Crandall. D. ,\l. Howard and George .VI. Dunn. Boy Kills His Cousin. While two boys were playing with a shotgun at the home of Alenas Sankler, a few miles from Cresson, Cambria county, Pa., Chailes F Beck, aged nine years, was shot and instant ly killed by his cousin. Willie Sanker, aged eleven vears, the lad's head be ing almost blown off. The boys had been observed playing with the gun, but were not interfered with, because it was supposed to be not loaded. Choked By Shirtband. Edward McNaugliton, seventyslx years old, was accidentally strangled to death in his room at the Man sion house, Newark, X. J. The old man was subject to fainting spells, and it is believed that he slipped t'roni a chair while in 011 c of these faints," iiis shirtband catching 011 the valve fof the radiator in the room, causing liim to strangle. Sick Man Kills Himself. Made desperate h\ ill health, W. S Kloe, thirty-seven years old, a Brook lyn, N. V . clothing mrnr.facturer, who lived at the Hotel Ansonia with his wife and ten-year old daughter, com mitted suicide in his apartments by shooting himself in the hen 1.
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