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River Falls Journal
C. R. Morse, Publisher.
RIVER FALLS, . . - v WIS.
SHOPPING IN MIDOCEAN.
The witless message pulsing over
■the sea ha& put the voyaging financier
In dally communication with the
bourses oj New York, London and
•Paris.
ist may buy or sell, with a view to
the protection or the profit of his
purse. But It were vain for mere man
to Imagine that he could reserve this
Instrumentality to his exclusive use.
If the wireless can be utilized to
make or to conserve money, it fol
lows as the night the day that It is
available for spending money. The
enterprising merchant could not fall
to be alert to this opportunity to In
crease the debit side of a fair client’s
account, says Washington Post. Fath
ers, husbands, brothers have cherished
the thought that when their dear ones
iWere safely at sea in swift and luxur
ious palaces, the item of shopping was
In a state of at least temporary de
euetude. But not so; the ribbon coun
ter an 6 the showcases have been ex
tended, hgurately speaking, across the
t»ea. The lady fair may now Indulge
fcer penchant for shopping even In
znldocean. Every department store in
great cities near the Atlantic coast
will be topped with its tall electric
mast afid maintain an operator at its
foot. of bargains may be
published on shipboard. Moreover, if
the lady is on her way home with a
depleted purse, she can make an aerial
draft to meet every tip of every stew
ard on board and make sure that some
of her raen-folk meet her with more
supplies promptly on arrival at the
pier.
London’s bad season, with dull
gray skies and chill winds, is partly
compensated for by the promise of
good grouse shooting. Parliament has
risen in time for the sport, and that
part of society which is not already
"on the continent” Is bound northward
for the moors. Summerless England
Is exchanged for. Scotland, which,
when the grouse are plentiful and in
good condition, is a good place to be,
even If the weather is wet. Bright
skies over the moors transform the
sportsman’s part of Scotland into a
semblance of paradise. To be sure,
the serpent is there. The guns crack
and the birds are slaughtered by the
thousands. But they have fulfilled
their destiny. Who can do more?
And mighty good eating is a well
cooked grouse from the Grampian
hills.
In East Haddam, about sixteen
miles north from the mouth of the
Connecticut river, hanging in the bel
fry of St. Stephen’s church and in use
today, is a bell that was cast in Spain
over 1,000 years ago. The Spanish in
scription stating that the bell was
cast In Spain in 815 and the name of
the priest who blessed it are all very
distinct. Those who have Interested
themselves in this valuable old relic
claim the church in Spain where it
originally hung was destroyed by Na
poleon, this bell and many others be
ing sent to America, where there was
a good market. It is 28 inches high
and 34 Inches in diameter at the base.
Nearly one million new farms have
been created in the United States du
ring the last ten years. In the last
ten years the total number of farms
has increased 18 per cent., says Ameri
can Agriculturist. In the older states,
from Ohio eastward, there has been
going o.i for twenty years a tendency
toward the amalgamation of farms dis
tant from market Into larger holdings.
On the other hand, this section has
witnessed the cutting up into smaller
sizes c’ many farms nearer to mar
ket. There are now almost three
times as many farms as In 1870, and
an unprecedented Increase in the
value of farm lands and live stock.
There Is one boat on the Hudson
river that refuses to be Oslerlzed. Al
though the word fast is not usually
relished when applied to the feminine
gender, the Mary Powell glories in
the epithet and has made friends by
it. This boat will complete this sea
son fifty years of service, and the
semi-centennial anniversary will be
appropriately celebrated. Captain
Anderson has served on the boat forty
years In various capacities. The Mary
Powell is still in daily use by the Hud
son River Day Line, and cuts the wa
ter between New York and Kingston
not only like a thing of life but like
a thing of very lively life.
A passenger has been carried on a
monoplane across the English channel,
A majority of the people who have to
cross the channel will continue for a
while, however, to risk the danger of
being shaken up in the old-fashioned
way.
Esperanto is attracting as much at
tention now as the puzzle pictures
did a short time ago and has as many
disciples as simplified spelling eVer
achieved.
An Indiana mule kicked a motor
cyclist and his machine across the
road the other day. A kicking mule
never stops to count a hundred before
making up his mind what ought to be
done.
A New York man has won a cham
pionship and a SIOO watch by eating
sixty-four bananas in a given time.
•Still we decline to look on this con
itest as one that in any way involved
tthe honor of the white race.
DIETZ SURROUNDED
CORDON OF DEPUTIES PREPARES
TO CLOSE IN ON CAM
ERON DAM.
LEADER BRAGS WHAT HE WILL DO
Machine Guns May Be Used on House
At Last Resort. —Winter Still
Armed and Inhabitants
Quake in Terror.
Winter. John Dietz, the uncon
quered defender of Cameron Dam, will
be the object of a grim siege from
now on until his capture, or escape.
The tide of battle changed with ths
establishment of a cordon of sharp
shooters and woodsmen at vantage
points on the approaches to the log
cabin on Thornapple river.
Repardless of the fact that from
now on the fight will be pushed into
Dietz’s territory, the guard on Winter
has not been relaxed, the city officials
at any time fearing an attack by Dietz.
On the Thornapple turnpike the cor
don extends to the bridge that crosses
the Brunnis river. Here, just above the
ford, the men have ambushed them
selves in the bluff behind a blind of
fallen trees, and underbrush. They
command a two-mile view of the long,
undulating swamp that comprises the
meandering valley of the Brunnis river
and also a view for a mile to the top
of a hill on the Thornapple turnpike in
the direction of the Dietz farm.
Along the Price Dam road, the out
posts are stationed five miles from
Winter at a sharp turn in the road,
where from an eminence on a wooded
hillside a view of the highway can
be had for two miles. Three men have
been assigned to guard the Kaiser log
ging road which plunges from the
country road in the densest of the
forest and is almost impassable except
to pedestrians.
Fight to be to Finish.
Fred Thorbin, who is at the head o!
the armed deputies and is the recog
nized head of the “martial law” which
still prevails in this section of the
country, says: “This will end forever
the controversy over Dietz. There
will be no abatement to this endeavor
to wrest him from the fastness of his
fortified cabin. No doubt some of us
will be killed in doing it and Dietz
himself will surely be killed if he re
sists. The thing has gone far enough
and this will simply be the finish of
it. If he holds out too long, the chair
man of the county board has advised
the use of a gun and has given
his official permission for its use.”
By special order of Sheriff Mike
Madden at Hayward, no newspaper
correspondents were allowed within
the lines drawn around the Dietz
place. A party of newspaper men was
held up at the point of guns at Brunnis
Ford and turned about. Sheriff Mad
den is authority for the statement that
there had been too much publicity, and
that Dietz was receiving much of his
moral support from this source. A
correspondent who rode along the
guarded road while armed men in the
brush on either side let him go un
molested. was expected to return with
news of great worry and despair in
the Dietz household, but disappoint
ment was evident when, upon his re
turn to Winter, such information was
not forthcoming.
When Under-Sheriff George Arnson,
left Winter with Myra Dietz, suffering
excruciating pain, in the baggage car
he had been instructed by Dr. S. J.
Burns to take the wounded girl imme
diately to the hospital at Chippewa
Falls, as it was a case of life and
death. At Tuscobia, Arnson received
a telegram from District Attorney
Davis also, it is said, ordering, the
girls removal to Chippewa Falls.
William Dietz, brother of the defend
er of Cameron Dam, met the train
and tried to console the wounded girl
who showed plainly on her face, the
suffering which the enforced trip on
the floor of the baggage car meant.
William Dietz remonstrated with the
under-sheriff and demanded his niece’s
removal to St. Joseph’s hospital at
Chippewa Falls as originally intended,
but Arnson was obdurate and insisted
in changing the litter from the bag
gage car of one train to another and
the girl was taken to Ashland, Wis.,
instead.
According to a confidential state
ment made by Myra to Mrs. Phelan
when she was confined in the Hotel
Winter the first words spoken during
the ambuescade were vile and insult
ing. That this statement by the
wounded girl is true, is verified by
the fact that Charence from his cell
tells the same story and Leslie aftei*
his fight through the woods, placed
the same words in the mouths of the
attacking party. Since the ambuscade
there has been absolutely no chance
for the three children to get together
and make up the story.
Twin City Markets.
Minneapolis. Oct. 4. —Wheat, Dec.,
$1.07%; May. $1.11%; No. 1 northern,
$1.09%; No. 2 northern, $1.07%; No. 1
Durum, 88c; No. 3 corn, 51c; No. 3
white oats, 31 %c; barley, 68c; No.
2 rye, 71c; No. 1 flax, $2.54.
Duluth, Oct. 4. —Wheat, Dec.,
$1.09%; May, $1.12%; No. 1 northern,
$1.09%.
South St. Paul, Oct. 4. —Cattle—
Steers, $5.50@6.00; cows, fair. $4.00@
5.50; calves, $5.00@6.00; hogs, $8.40
@8.60; sheep, yearlings, $4.25@4.75.
Chicago Live Stock.
Shicago, Oct. 4. —Cattle to 10c low
er; beeves, $4.60@7.90; western steers,
$4@6.70; stockors and feeders, $4.10
@5.60; cows and heifers, $2.20 @6.30;
calves, $7.25 @9.75.
Hogs.—Market dull, 10c lower; light,
$8.75@9.15; mixed, $8.25@9.15; heavy,
$8.20@9; rough, $8.20@8.40; good to
choice heavy, $8.40@9; pigs, $8.15@9,
Sheep —10c lower; native, $2.40$
4.15; western, $2.75@4.10; yearlings
$4.30@5.40; lambs, native. $4.5007.
WILL THE SOCIAL WHIRL COME TO THIS?
\c ■' ■
News Note: The Newport social season has been so strenuous that
many members of the most exclusive circles have been forced to abandon
their homes for hospitals and sanitariums. Several of the leading host
esses have fainted during the past fortnight while entertaining.
BREAKS AIR RECORD
WALTER BROOKINS FLIES 186
MILES IN FIVE HOURS 49
MINUTES.
WINS SIO,OOO CASH PRIZE
Young Aviator Surpasses All Cross-
Country Flights In His Chicago to
Springfield (III.) Trip—Out-Dis-
tances Special Train.
Springfield, Ill.—What Is looked up
on as one of the most remarkable
feats in aerial navigation was accom
plished by Walter B. Brookins, in a
Wright biplane, Thursday, when he
successfully flew from Chicago to this
city, and in doing so he broke all cross
country aeronautic records.
With only two stops, neither of
which was actually necessary, he made
thg trip from Chicago to Springfield,
a distance of 186 miles, in five hours
and forty-nine minutes, maintaining an
average speed of 32.7 miles an hour,
and won the SIO,OOO prize offered by
a Chicago newspaper.
Along the entire route, from Chicago
to the state fair grounds here, hun
dreds of thousands of people cheered
the daring young aviator as he passed.
As the great mechanical bird came
to the ground here in the presence of
40,000 people he was cheered vocifer
ously for fully half an hour.
Brookins left Chicago at 9:15 a. m.
He dropped out of the clouds over the
fair grounds in Springfield at 4:45.
Forty-seven minutes after Brookins
rose from the ground in Washington
park, Chicago, the “Daylight Special”
left the Park Row station over the Illi
nois Central. A special car had been
attached in which traveled Wilbur
Wright, the airship inventor; Roy
Knabenshue, special representative of
the Wright brothers; members of the
Aero club of Illinois, and about forty
newspaper men.
After a flight of two hours and twen
ty-eight minutes Brookins came to Gil
man, where he arrived at 11:43. Brook
ins was far ahead of the train and he
decided to alight and await the arri
val of the train.
The train arrived at Gilman at 12:15
and orders were given by the division
superintendent of the railroad to hold
the train until the biplane should re
sume its flight. The gasoline and wa
ter tanks were replenished, and after
the engines had been gone over care
fully by Wright and Knabenshue,
Brookins resumed his flight.
From Gilman to Springfield the spe
cial train and the aeroplane ran neck
and neck, first one forging ahead,
then the other, but never at any time
more than a quarter of a mile apart.
Brookins was forced at 3:20 to de
scend at Mt. Pulaski for fuel, only
twenty-four miles from the state fair
grounds. The landing was one of
the most remarkable that has ever
been seen in the history of aviation.
Trees and fences surrounded him on
all sides and with perfect control he
picked out a spot, after soaring about
in a short circle, scarcely more than
half a block square, and landed square
in the center. The special train was
held up, the aeroplane’s supplies again
were renewed, and at 3:45 he as
cended again. From Pulaski to the
fair grounds a speed of thirty-five
miles an hour was maintained.
To Bury Belle Elmore’s Body.
London. —The coroner issued an or
der Saturday for the burial of the body
found in the cellar of the home of Dr.
Hawley Crippen and which the coro
ner’s jury found to be that of Belle
Elmore, the doctor’s wife.
Taft Signs Merit Rule Order.
Washington. —President Taft Satur
day signed the order which will place
assistant postmasters in first and sec
ond class offices and all their clerks
under the classified services on Decem
ber 1 next.
Canteen Founder Is Dead.
Washington.—Maj. George M. Dow
ney, U. S. A., retired, originatox’ of the
army post canteen, died here Friday
after a week’s illness. He was sixty
nine years old and had participated in
thre-3 Indian campaigns. He was
transferred to the retired list in 1888.
Nine Hurt In Car Crash.
Detroit, Mich. —Nine persons were
injured, one probably fatally, Friday,
when two street cars collided at the
intersection of Dix and Scotten ave
nues.
PRAISE FOR LA FOLLETTE
CONVENTION CALLS SENATOR PI
ONEER PROGRESSIVE.
Wisconsin Republicans Declare Payne
Tariff Law Fails to Carry Out
Party Pledge.
Madison, Wis.—-Sharp criticism of
the Payne tariff law, a demand for
the physical valuations of railroads
and unstinted praise of Senator La
Follette as the pioneer “progressive"
are the principal planks of the plat
form adopted by the Republican state
convention Wednesday.
Indorsement of the state’s strongly
“Insurgent” delegation in congress
and a slap at President Taft are ex
pressed in the following resolution:
“Wisconsin is to be congratulated
upon having representatives in the
senate and house who remained true
to the people and to the national plat
form of the party, notwithstanding
the efforts to punish them, for so do
ing by withdrawal of federal patro
nage.”
On the tariff the platform says:
“The Payne-Aldrich tariff is not a
compliance with the pledge of the
Republican party in its national plat
form. The true basis of protective
tariff is the difference between the
cost of production at home and
abroad, and we hold any increased
cost of production of living of Amer
ican labor should be accompanied by
compensating tariff duties.
“The present tariff board has no
power of investigation, and is not re
quired to report to congress. We fa
vor the creation of a nonpartisan
tariff committee empowered to ascer
tain the cost of production in this and
other countries, and required to make
frequent reports of the Information
gained in congress.
“Upon the information so obtained
congress should proceed to revise the
different schedules independently of
each other, according to true pro
tective tariff principles.”
GIRL AND TWO BOYS SHOT
Children of John F. Dietz, Wisconsin
Fugitive, Fired On by Sheriff—
Youth Warns Father.
Couderay, Wis., Oct. 3. —In a futile
effort to capture John F. Dietz, the
“outlaw of Cameron Dam,” three of
the Dietz children were shot and two
of the three wounded were captured.
The other escaped to warn his father
of the raid.
Dietz is charged with shooting a
man in an election row September 1
and has defied the authorities. The
sheriff expected him to go to Winter,
and -waited for him at the side of a
road. When the Dietz buggy ap
proached, Sheriff Madden ordered the
three occupants to throw up their
hands, and when they failed to obey
fired at close range.
Dietz had stayed at home, having
learned that the sheriff was near, and
had sent his daughter with his sons,
thinking the officers would not shoot
if she was near. She, as well as the
boys, was armed. Leslie Dietz es
caped through a shower of bullets
Fifty residents of Winter, many old
time friends of Dietz, have been
sworn in as special under sheriffs and
the city is patrolled constantly under
instructions from Sheriff Madden, who
fears the -wrath of the defender of
Cameron dam.
Foreign Fest for Hitt’s Son.
Washington.—R. S. Reynolds Hitt of
Illinois, son of the late Representa
tive Hitt, who for many years headed
the house committee on foreign af
fairs, was Saturday appointed United
States minister to Guatemala.
Two Died in Fire.
New York.—Fire that started in a
stock of prayer books stored beneath
the stairs of a ramshackle tenement
in Hester street Sunday caused the
deaths of David and Israel Fessler,
brothers.
1 -——
Twenty-Eighth Aviator Killed.
Muelhausen, Germany. Aviator
Flochmann, who was injured when his
biplane collapsed at a height of 150
feet, died Thursday without having re
covered consciousness. This makes the
twenty-eighth death this year.
Painting Brings $200,000.
Paris. —Rubens’ famous painting,
“The Bath of Diana,” the pride of
Brussels, was sold Wednesday to an
American for $200,000. It was for
merly in the possession of Frau
Schuybert.
ONE OOm KILLS 20
PLANT OF LOS ANGELES TIMES IS
DESTROYED WITH MANY
FATALITIES.
HOMES MENACED IN PLOT
Infernal Machines Found Beneath Res
idences of Two Bitter Foes to Or
ganized Labor—Big Reward Offered
for Capture of Perpetrators.
Los Angeles, Cal. —At least twenty
men &st their lives Saturday when
the building occupied by the Los
Angeles Times Publishing company
was destroyed by fire.
The fire was preceded by an explo
sion and immediately the building was
enveloped in flames. The blast oc
curred on the second floor of an ad
dition to the old building. This is of
three floors. Within a few seconds
the entire structure was a fiery fur
nace.
The havoc of the explosion was
greatest in the mechanical depart
ments, and the majority of the dead
and injured were members of these
departments. Twenty-two injured were
taken to the receiving hospital.
Within twelve hours after the
wrecking of the Times plant an at
tempt was made to destroy the resi
dence of Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, pub
lisher of the paper, by means of an in
fernal machine.
The bomb was discovered in a suit
case hidden under a bunch of vines
near a bay window and was exploded
as it was hurled into the street by
police officers. Little damage was
done.
Another infernal machine was found
earlier in the day at the residence of
F. J. Zeehandelaar, secretary of the
Merchants and Manufacturers’ asso
ciation.
General Otis and the other respon
sible heads of the paper charge the
Times building disaster and narrowly
averted attempts at further destruc
tion of life and property to labor union
sources.. The property damage is esti
mated at $500,000.
With equal emphasis the leaders of
union labor here and throughout the
state repudiate the accusation and
have offered all aid in their power in
the effort to detect the culprits.
For twenty years, following a quar
rel with the typographical union,
which resulted in making the Times a
nonunion paper, General Otis has
fought unionism with every resource
at his command. He has been ably
seconded in this fight by the Mer
chants and Manufacturers’ association,
whose secretary was the object of
frustrated dynamiting.
The president of the local typo
graphical union issued orders that
union printers may work in conjunc
tion with the nonunion printers of the
Times in any of the local newspaper
offices in getting out the edition of
the Times.
The city council met in special ses
sion and appropriated $25,000 for the
purpose of determining the cause of
the Times explosion and provided a
reward of $2,500 for the capture of
those responsible for the outrage.
FOUR KILLED IN AUTO RACE
Score Are Injured—Mismanagement
Charged—Harry Grant Wins Van
derbilt Cup in Record Time.
New York. —Four persons killed and
twenty seriously Injured—several of
them probably fatally—was the sacri
fice on the altar of speed at the sixth
Vanderbilt cup automobile race Satur
day.
Mismanagement and poor policing
of the course were declared responsi
ble for the slaughter. Many of the
victims were spectators, run down
when the racing autos crashed into
the crowds lining the parkway.
The race was won in electrifying
fashion by Harry Grant, driving a 120
horsepower Alco. He defeated Joe
Dawson, driving a Marmon, by the
narrow margin of twenty-five seconds.
John Aitken, in a National, was only
a minute and six seconds behind Daw
son.
LAUNCH UPSETS; 29 DROWN
Members of Battleship New Hamp
shire Are Victims of Accident in
the Hudson River.
New York. —Twenty-nine persons—
all members of the crew of the battle
ship New Hampshire—were drowned
in the sinking of a launch in the Hud
son river Saturday.
That the list of dead is not much
higher is due to the bravery and per
sonal rescue effected by Godfrey De
C. Chevalier, a midshipman.
One survivor said Chevalier himself
rescued 15 persons who were in the
water, besides saving the lives of
many others by showing them the
best method of saving themselves.
Sleeps on Track; Killed.
Herrin, Ill.—Adam Smith, aged for
ty-one years, a prosperous gardener,
was struck and killed by an extra car
on the Coal Belt Interurban Saturday.
He was asleep on the track. Secreted
in the bottom of his shoe was found
$261 in currency
1,000 Strikers Are Arrested.
Warsaw, Russia. —The police arrest
ed 1,000 of the street car employes
who struck for higher wages and com
pelled them to return to work. As a re
sale 100 cars were operated Saturday.
Dickinson Passes Harbin.
Harbin, Manchuria. —Jacob M. Dick
inson, the American secretary of war;
Brig. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards, chief
of the bureau of insular affairs, and
their party passed through here Fri
day en route from Peking for Moscow
and St. Petersburg.
Nicholas Monsarrt Is Dead.
New York. —Nicholas Monsarrt,
president of the K. & M. Railway com
pany, and formerly president of the
Hocking Valley Railway company,
died suddenly here Friday.
JOHN A. DIX FOR GOVERNOR
NEW YORK DEMOCRATS ADOPT
PLATFORM URGING REFORMS.
Direct Primaries Favored, Pledges
Party to Preservation of “Old Na
tionalism—Denounce Tariff.
Rochester, N. Y.—The Democratic
state convention Friday nominated
the following state ticket:
Governor—John A. Dix of Washing
ton county.
Lieutenant Governor —Thomas F.
Conway of Clinton.
Secretary of State —Edward Lazan
sky of Kings.
Comptroller—Williapi Schner of
New York.
Attorney General—Thomas Carmody
of Yates.
State Treasurer—John J. Kennedy
of Erie.
State Engineer—John A. Bensel of
New York.
Justices of the Court of Appeals—
Irving C. Vann, Republican, of Onon
daga, and Frederick Collins, Democrat,
of Chemung.
Mr. Dix was nominated by a vote of
434 to 16 for Congressman Sulzer. All
the other nominations were made by
acclamation.
The platform adopted pledges the
party first to the preservation of the
“old nationalism.” It condemns “all
attacks upon the Supreme court of the
United States.
It declares for sovereign state rights
and “for the largest possible measure
of home rule for all cities of the
state.’’
It denounces the Republican party
for its government of the state. The
declaration of principles declares that
the Payne-Aldrich tariff law was a
“breach of faith” by the Republican
party and responsible for the high
cost of living. Only by a downward
revision of the tariff, it is held, could
the cost of living be reduced.
It charges the Republican party
with extravagance, especially in the
creation of many needless public of
fices, and pledges the Democratic par
ty to retrenchment.
Popular election of United States
senators, an income tax, a parcels
post and the preservation of water
power for all the people are other
things urged f by the set of prln
ciples.
SAYS OFFERED JOB FOR VOTE
Bank Cashier in Senatorial Bribery
Hearing Gives Damaging Evidence
Against Senator Lorimer.
Chicago.—Testimony directly con
necting Senator Lorimer with an offer
of patronage for a vote for him was
brought out Friday at the senate com
mittee hearing in the investigation
looking into the validity of his seat
in the senate.
Henry A. Sheppard, a bank cashier
of Jerseyville, was the witness. His
testimony brought out by the interro
gations of Attorney Austrian, for the
prosecution, caused a sensation in the
committee room.
Mr. Sheppard said:
“Mr. Lorimer told me that if I would
vote for him he would get a friend of
mine in Jerseyville the office of post
master. It was the day before he was
elected. Lee O’Neil Browne took me
to Mr. Lorimer and we had a talk. I
told him I wouldn’t vote for him un
less he did as I requested. Lorimer
considered a minute and then he
said:
“ ‘Well, ’f I am elected I will have
a share in the Illinois patronage and I
will do it.’ That was all there was to
it.”
Representative Michael S. Link of
Mitchell told the story of another vote
cast for Senator Lorimer for which
money was paid when he was called
to testify. Link declared he was asked
personally by Lorimer for his vote,
and later was paid SI,OOO in the South
ern hotel at St. Louis by Lee O’Neil
Browne.
THE RACE FOR THE PENNANT
Standing of the Various Clubs In the
Leading Baseball
Leagues.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Clubs. W. L. P.C.I Clubs. W. L. P.C.
New York.B6 59 .593 jit. L0ui5...59 83 .415
Pittsburg .83 62 , 572'Rrooklyn ..60 86 .411
PhildTia .74 71 .510|Boston 50 96 .342
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
PhildTia .99 46 .684' Cleveland .63 77 .465
Detroit ...81 64 ,562Wash’ton .64 82 .437
New York.B2 63 .557!?hicago ...64 83 .435
Boston ...79 66 .552!5t. Louis.. .45 103 .303
WESTERN LEAGUE.
Si’ii City 106 58 .647|Dmaha ... 83 80 .509
Denver ..101 63 .616!3t. .T’seph. 73 91 .444
i incoln ..92 70 .568 D. Moines. 70 93 .429
Wichita . 87 77 .5311 Topeka ... 42 122 . 254
Parole System Is Favored.
Washington. Such time-honored
methods of punishment as the
dungeon, starvation, silence, the soli
tary cell, darkness and corporal pun
ishment have been largely discredited
in American reformatories, according
to the report of the committee on re
formatory work and parole made to
the American Prison association.
Missouri Has 3,293,335.
Washington. —The state of Missouri
has a population of 3,293,335, accord
ing to the thirteenth census statistics
announced Friday. This is an Increase
of 186,670, or six per cent over the
population in 1900, which was 3,106-
665.
_ • .
Cadet Bodies Not Militia.
Washington.—The war department
Friday ruled that the cadet organlza
tions of educational institutions are
not properly a part of the organized
militia.
Biplane Beaten by Auto.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.—Driving an ar.
tomobile, his Fiat “Cyclone,” Ralph D;
Palma Thursday defeated Eugene Ely
in a biplane of the Curtiss pattern c
the driving park, circling the mib
track three times in :53%, :54 am
:56Vi, respectively.
Omaha Gets Postmasters.
Richmond, Va.—Omaha was Thurs
day selected by the national conven
tion of postmasters of che first clas
as the place for the next annual
ing of the association.
ACT PROMPTLY.
Kidney troubles are too dangerous
to neglect. Little disorders grow seri
ous and the sufferer is soon in the
grasp of diabetes, dropsy or fatal
f Bright’s disease.
Doan’s Kidney Pills
cure all distressing
kidney ills. They
sick kidneys
well, weak kidneys
strong.
John L. Perry,
Columbus, T e x.,
says: “I grew worse
and worse until it
seemed but a question of a few hours
before I passed away. My wife was
told I would not see another day. I
rallied somewhat and at once began
taking Doan’s Kidney Pills. I steadily
Improved until today I am in good
health.”
Remember the name—Doan’s.
For sale by all dealers. 50 cents
box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
HER FIRST PROPOSAL.
OK
Ethel —Was she glad when he told
her the old, old story?
Marjorie—You bet she was. Why,
that girl never heard it before.
Pleasant Place to Prosper.
TO THE EDITOR: We want to hear
from people who would appreciate se
curing a fruit, dairy or poultry farm In
the Kuhn irrigated tract in Sacramento
Valley, California, at half the true value.
Best water right in state. Low mainte
nance cost. Work costing millions now
actually being done. Roads, drainage
and water right Included in price. Ten
month’s growing season. Ten tons alfalfa
per acre. Splendid dairy conditions. 500
nens earn SIOO a month or better. Oranges
lemons, grape fruit, figs, English walnuts
and a thousand other fruits, nuts, vege
tables and flowers grow here. Gardens
winter and summer. Charming place to
live. Very healthful. Who wants such a
home? Land selling fast. Work for ev
erybody. Write us for enthusiasm. H. L.
Hollister A Co., 205 La Salle St., Chi
cago, or 845 Fourth Ave., Pittsburg, Pa.
Love’s Crime.
George was a manly fellow, yet, sur
prising as it may seem, he was guilty
of a grave charge, a criminal offense —
theft, for had he not many times,
stolen kisses from his fair sweet
heart?
Maude, one of the most, lovable of
girls, was equally guilty as an acces
sory; she received the stolen property.
Each seemed to havo perfect confi
dence in the other, however, and when
sentence was pronounced by a proper
ly qualified official, they decided to
serve their time together.
They remained loyal to the end,
neither making any effort to have
their sentence abrogated or shortened,
but during the course of their long
term together several small offenses
were directly chargeable to them. —J.
W. B. in Puck.
Why He Wouldn’t Hurry.
They were riding to church and
were late. Several of the party wero
worried and one remarked: “The au
dience will be waiting.” “Well,” ob
served the old pastor (who was to
preach that forenoon), “don’t let’s fret
over it if we are a little late. It re
minds me of the man who »vas being
taken to execution. His guards were
greatly exercised over the fact that
they could not possibly get there on
time. ‘Never mind,’ said the poor fel
low, philosophically. ‘Don't fuss over
it. The people can wait. There’ll be
nothing doing till 1 get there.’ ”
Christian Herald.
Woman-Like.
“I hate him! I think he is the mean
est man I ever met.”
"Gracious, Jeanette! What is the
trouble?”
“Why, he told me he loved me devot
edly and I told him it would be impos
sibly for me to love him in return. The
poor fellow looked so downhearted I
told him to try and forget me.”
“Well?”
“800-hoo! He—he did.”
A FOOD DRINK.
Which Brings Bally Enjoyment.
A lady doctor writes :
“Though busy hourly with my ov’«
affairs, I will not deny myself the
pleasure of taking a few minutes to
tell of my enjoyment dally obtained
from my morning cup of Postum. It
is a food beverage, not a poison like
coffee.
“I began to use Postum eight years
ago, not because I wanted to, but be
cause coffee, which I dearly loved,
made my nights long weary periods to
be dreaded and unfitting me for busi
ness during the day.
“On the advice of a friend, I first
tried Postum, making it carefully as
directed on the package. As I had
always used ‘cream and no sugar/ I
mixed my Postum so. It looked good,
was clear and fragrant, and it was a
pleasure to see the cream color it as
my Kentucky friend always wanted
her coffee to 100k —‘like a new sad
dle.’
“Then I tasted it critically, for I had
tried many ‘substitutes’ for coffee. T
was pleased, yes, satisfied, with my
Postum in taste and effect, and am
yet, being a constant user of it all
these years.
“I continually assure my friends and
acquaintances that they will like it in
place of coffee, and receive benefit
from its use. I have gained weight,
can sleep sound and am not nervous.”
“There’s a Reason.”
Read “The Road to Wellvllle” in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
a**e goMulne, true, and full of human
Interest.
Ever read the above letter?
one appear* from time to time. They
are seoulne, true, and fall of tamM
t&tereat.