Storm Delays Traffic on
Pennsy Near Wilkes-Barre
Wilkes-Barre, Sept. 19—Lost
night's heavy rain storm played
havoc with railroad traffic in this
section of the State. There were
washouts and landslides on four
roads. Traffic was resumed on the
Wilkes-Barre and Sunbury division
this morning after the wrecking
crews and every available repair
man had labored all night to get
the tracks in shape. The passeng
er train leaving here at 6:25 last
evening did not reach Sunbury un
til 3 o'clock this morning. It ran
into a big landslide at Stony Creek.
No one was injured. Heavy wash
outs did considerable damage on
the Delaware and Hudson road and
traffic was delayed sseveral hours.
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Prospecting For Iron Ore
During the last few years the
Unit d States Geological Survey
has received so many inquiries with
regards to methods of prospecting
for iron ore, that suggestions re
garding prospecting for certain
types of ore, such as ijematite and
limonite, have been published in an
advance chapter on iron ore from
"Mineral Resources of the United
States for 1911," by Ernest F. Bur
chard, a copy of which may be ob
tained free on application to the
Director of the United States Geo
logical Survey at Washington,
D. C.
Prospecting by pits, drills and
magnetic surveys is discussed, but
owing to the variety of ores and to
the differences in local conditions
of climate, topography, geologic
associations, and structure, the
suggestions given are very general.
It is hoped, however, that a few of
the fundament 11 principles at least
may be made clear.
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Kills Girl Who Rejected
TTim And Then Shoots Self
Wilkes-Barre, Sept. 20.-A double
tragedy occurred at Leonardsvilie,
two miles out of White Haven, at
an early-hour last evening, when
Frank Savage shot and killed Mar
garet Kresge, when she refused to
marry him, and then turned the
gun upon himse[f and committed
suicide.
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"THE SCUM OF THE EARTH"
THE PRESIDENT SIGNED HIQST V/SLLINGw
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The Industrious circulation of the falsehood that President. Taft threatened
a veto of the Sulloway bill was one of the chief plays of his opponents and
worked 6ome injury to his popularity, as liis adversaries had planned. That
there was no truth in this every senator, representative and other public man
could have known if he cared to inquire. "Yet it was a good enough Morgan
till after the nomination."
Now these same men are with equal industry and untruth circulating the
report that President Taft signed the act of May II most unwillingly and was
only coerced into it at the last moment. Nothing could be more untrue.
There had been an overwhelming popular demand for additional pension
legislation. The people were most earnest in their wish that the veterans who
had saved the nation should be properly "cared f<<r during the years that re
mained to them. The national encampment of tlir> CJrand Army of the Re
public had asked for such legislation. The remarkable fact of the indorsement
of the Sulloway bill by the legislatures of twenty seven states was an
astonishing development of depth and wide extended feeling on the subject.
Could any president be expected to disregard such a innniiVstation? Cer
tainly not William H. Taft, whose great heart has always appreciated the
service of the veterans and who has ever been quickly responsive to the
popular will.
No one doubted at the beginning of congress that he intended to approve a
pension bill. This knowledge had to be used with the utmost discretion, how
ever. The presidential campaign was opening. There was a general expecta
tion that the Democrats would make a strong effort to"put the president and
the senate in a hole" on the pension question. The fear was not allayed until
within a few days of the passage of the act of May 11 This squired the
greatest circumspection on the part of the president p.nd his friends. Hut as
soon as the act of May 11 began to take shape in the senate and months be
fore It actually passed there was no real doubt that the president would sign
the bill which would be finally formulated.
At the invitation of senators I was a constant visitor to the capitol while
the bill was going through its various stages. 1 was also made a means of
communication with the members of the Invalid pensions committee of the
house. With me went most frequently Past Commander In Chief .l«hn R.
King, less frequently Past Commander Slaybaugh of Potomac, Commander
E. 8. Godfrey, Arizona; Commander Granville C. Fiske, Massachusetts; Com
mander N. H. Kingman, South Dakota; Commander N. P. Kingsley, Pennsyl
vania, and other prominent comrades who happened to be in the city and
whom the senators-wanted to see and counsel with.
We met Senators Crane, McCumber, Curtis, Smoot, IJurnham and others of
the president's closest friends and advisers. They were confident in their as
surances that the president would sign the bill. The comrades named felt no
doubt of the result at least two months before the bill was signed.
As we all know, President Taft put himself to great personal inconvenience
In order to sign the bill and let It begin at once Its beneficence to the veterans.
The bill was not ready for his signature when he left for Princeton, X. J. lie
made the journey back to Washington expressly to sign the bill. He reached
the White House a little before 11 p. m . Saturday, May 11. affixed Ills signature
seven minutes before midnight and had to leave Washington again the next
day. Of these facts I was personally cognizant, as 1 was present when the bill
was signed. JOHN M'ELROY,
Editor National Tribune.
I fully concur In the foregoing.
There Is absolutely no truth in the statement that the president was op
posed to any pension bill. On the contrary, wo were assured, as sfc> '1 above,
that he would give his approval to the bill when finally passed, . #»/ch was
evidenced by his hasty return to Washington for the purpose.
JOHN R. KIN'G.
—From the National Tribune.
"It thirsts and burns for distinction; and, If possible, It will have It. Is It
unreasonable, then, to expect that some men, possessed of the loftiest genius,
coupled with ambition sufficient to push to the utmost stretch, will at some
time spring up among us? And when such a one does, it will require the peo
ple to be united with each other, attached to the government and laws, and
generally Intelligent, to successfully frustrate his design.
"Distinction will be his paramount object, and although he would as will
ingly acquire It by doing good as harm, yet nothing left in the way of building
up he would sit down boldly to the task of pulling down. Here, then, Is a
probable oase, highly dangerous."— From Mr. Lincoln's Speech Before the
Younfl Men's Lyceum, Springfield, 111.
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Heavy Frost at Muncy
Briugs Chestnuts Down
Muncy, Sept. 20. Frost of sulli
cient severity to <'iui.se (he chestnut
burs to open, visited tliis section
i last iiiglit ami as a result-punilter
of the chestnuts have ten i'nuiul
ion the grounds. Along the Muncy
j creek valley many of the burs have
fallen to the ground im<>i>c"rd and
the cause of this is pnzzfing resi
dents here as it is feared that some
pests have attacked the trees, as
no winds have been strong enough
to shiike them down, a -d the frost
! has a different cfl'i ct mi th<> trees
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Negro Running Amuck
i With Knife Kills Officer
Philadelphia, Sept. 21. —David
. M- Simpson, a policeman, was
stabbed to death by Robert Hender
son, a negro, here early today
while he was attempting to subdue
' Henderson, who was running
■ amuck with a knife. The polioe
, man was off duty and in plain
I clothes when lie happened along
where the negro was chasing other
negroes and threatening them. In
the scuttle in which Simpson re
; ccivcd his death wound several
i other persons were wounded. lien
derson was finally beaten into sub
mission.
WHERE THE CASH
IS COMING FROM
Women Work at Night to Finance
Roosevelt Campaign.
AWFUL FACTORY CONDITIONS
New York State Investigating Commit
tee Found Pale, Worn Women Work
ing In Twine Manufacturing Con
cern Owned by the International
Harvester Company.
Awful conditions have been found
by the stata factory investigating com
mittee of New York in the mills of the
Osborne Twine company. No. 3, at Au
burn, N. Y., owned by the Interna
tional Harvester company, of which
George W. Perkins, chief financial
backer of Theodore Roosevelt In his
scheme to ruin the Republican party,
is a director.
"The appearance oft lie women
workers in this plant," said a member
of the committee, "was very dis
heartening. They were worn and
pale and their clothes, faces and
hands were covered with oil and hemp
cloth. Many of these women, so called,
are only children In age and they have
to lug huge piles of hemp, weighing
150 pounds each, across the floor, the
load in some cases being bigger than
the women themseJves. In the spin
ning room, where women are employ
ed alone, to the exclusion of men, who
would have to receive higher wages,
the clatter of machinery is so fright
ful that a voice belosv a shriek cannot
be heard. The rooms are dark, though
for no necessary cau?e, and no at
tempt is made to remove the dust
which is kept in constant motion by
the line shaftings despite the require
ments of the law. This dust is
breathed continuously by the women
many of whom complain of chronic
coughs and colds. The dust and dirt
are so thick upon the clothes of the
•jirls that at the noon hour —which in
many cases consists of but a few
minutes — and at the clone of the day's
or night's labor, the girls have tc
sweep each other e!««un with brooms.'
It is further stated that the custon;
of working the women all night is
permanent, married women being se
lected for night worts, their hours be
ing from sundown until 6:30 o'clock
in the morning. Of 400 women em
ployed in the mills, 200 work all night
When George W. Perkins was asked
by a New York Times reporter for an
explanation of the conditions in ar
establishment of which he is one oi
the directors, he made, in part, the
following remarkable reply: "This
night work has been rendered neces
sary largely because of the govern
ment's perfectly unreasonable attitude
toward large corporations, which has
mado it impossible for managers oi
large concerns to know whether they
were on foot or horseback, whcthei
they could expand their plans to keep
up with Increasing demands or not."
The late Mark Twain in his bright
est moments never uttered anything
more grimly hurnoroits than the fore
going explanation by George W. Per
kins of why the company of which he
is a director is working women al!
night under the frightful conditions
disclosed by the New York state fac
tory investigating committee.
Meantime it ought to be ot interest
to millions of Republicans throughout
the United States to know where the
money comes from to finance Theo
dore Roosevelt in his campaign oi
"rule or ruin."
BOUGHT HIS SOCKS IN
SCOTLAND.
Governor Wilson is a free
trader and is so recognized by
the rank and file of his party.
The truth is a little
by the fact that he buys his
socks in Scotland.
His apparent indifference to
the condition of American
laborers may be due to his abil
ity to get along without being
obliged to eat bread in the sweat
of his brow.
He has been extremely fortu
nate in this respect. His auto
cracy has been deeply tinged
with aristocracy during his en
tire career as an educator and
dabbler in literature.
He has neither by personal ex
perience or observation ac
quainted himself with the actual
struggles and of the ordi
nary wage earner.
During the trying times that
this country was under the
blight of free trade in 1594, '95
and '96, Woodrow Wilson was
enjoying a liberal income that
was in no degree affected by the
deplorable conditions surround
ing the laborers in this country.
Mr. Wilson is not to be con
demned for Ills good fortune.
On the contrary, we should be
disposed to congratulate him,
but in self Interest the less for-'
tunate should protect themselves
against the enforcement of his
tariff theories and policy, a trial
of which has been given more
than once with deplorable effect
upon the industrial life of this
country.—Trenton Gazette.