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PC' a if- I Willmar Tribune. By The Tribune Printing Co. WILLMAR. MINN. ES MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK, TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. BOUND ABOUT THE WORLD Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest From All Parts of the Globe—Latest Home and For eign Items. PERSONAL. Mrs. Theodore P. Shonts, wife of the president of the Interborough Rail way of New York city, who arrived aboard the liner Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, omitted to mention In her declaration that she had $20,000 worth of new jewelry with her. This over sight caused the customs inspector to have the jewels sent to the appraiser's stores, where they will be held pend ing an investigation. Mrs. L. H. Jenkins, a writer, seven ty-two years old, was burned to death, and her daughter, Miss Eva Jenkins, narrowly escaped when fire attacked boarding house in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Archbishop Messmer has written a letter to the priests in the Milwaukee diocese in condemnation of the opera "Salome," which is to be presented In the Auditorium. Mrs. W. J. Donahue of Detroit, Mich., was badly cut and bruised and Mrs. J. W. Davis of Indianapolis, Ind., was slightly injured in a wreck on the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake rail road near Victorvllle, Cal. Prof. Charles Otis Whitman, head of the department of zoology at the University of Chicago since 1892, and known as one of the greatest Ameri can biologists, died of pneumonia at bis residence in Chicago. Kyrle Bellew, the actor, is making plans with Charles Frohman and a steamship company in London to charter a steamship and make a tour around the world with a dramatic company. Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re search, underwent a successful oper ation for appendicitis at the Presby terian hospital in New York. His physicians report his condition as ex cellent. GENERAL NEWS. Eighteen men, including three po lice officers, were Injured, 11 street cars reduced to scAp and the win dows in over 200 more smashed in a riot of Toronto, Ont., citizens follow ing a mass meeting called by Mayor Geary to protect against the installa tion of pay-as-you-enter cars. Striking garment workers, number ing 20,000 men, women and children, marched from their respective head quarters in Chicago in a driving snow storm to the West side baseball park, where they braved the chilly blasts and shivered in the cold while they listened to speeches from their lead ers. Leaders pronounced it the great est parade of hungry workers since the march of Coxey's army. Five votes elected W. N. Ruby to the Colorado supreme court because the parties neglected to put up candi dates to fill the unexpired term of the late Chief Justice Robert W. Steele. The third days' polling in the Brit ish general election to decide control of the next parliament proved the most severe blow the Unionists have received. Going into the contest with a net gain of five Beats, they came out with a net loss of one in the 299 seats now filled. County Treasurer Hardy H. Whit lock of Danville, 111., turned over the office to his successor, O. B. Wysong, after an announcement that he was short $37,522. Following this he sur rendered all his property to his bonds men, the latter making good the bal ance due the county. Forty persons were seriously in jured, a number of them fatally, in a collision on the London (England) Northwestern railroad at Willensden junction. The second section of a train from Watford plowed into the first section, which was standing at the junction. The bronze statue of Baron von Steuben, drillmaster of General Wash ington's army, was unveiled in Lafay ette square, Washington. President Taft, Ambassador von Bernstorff and others spoke and there was a big parade of regular army troops and members of German societies. With the avowed object of promo ting a waterway policy rather than any especial waterway project, the National Rivers and Harbors Con gress opened in Washington. Presi dent Taft delivered the first address and many other notable men were on the program. Torrential downpours continue throughout France and the flood situ ation hourly grows more serious. Prac tically every stream in the country is out of its banks. Hundreds of villages are being surrounded by the waters and are being provishioned by soldiers with boats. Night Sergeant Wilfred French was shot and instantly killed in the Cairo (111.) police headquarters by Sheriff Ab Bankston of Pulaski county. As the news spread over the city an excited crowd gathered at headquarters. As a precaution against trouble Bankston was taken out of town. Willie Hoppe, the world's champion at 18.1 and 18 2 balkline billiards, .overwhelmingly defeated George Slos son in their championship tourney at New York City. Hoppe, by his vic tory, retains his championship, and rwith it a purse of $1,000 and the dia jaugna championship medal. Congress reassembled Monday for the short session, which will termi nate on March 4, 1911. The galleries of both houses were thronged with thousands of spectators while on the floors there was an unusually good at tendance of members, especially so when the fact that at the close of this short session the house will pass out of the hands of the Republicans and into those of the Democrats, is taken into consideration. In the senate Vice-President Sherman occupies again the chair of the presiding offi cer. There are several vacant seats in the senate which at the last ses sion were occupied. Three members of the upper house recently have died. There was a crowd in the senate gal leries, as there was in those of the house. The issue of whether or not Wil liam Lorimer is entitled to his seat in the United States senate will be submitted to that body before the Christmas recess of congress, accord ing to the present plans of the sub committee that is taking the evidence in the case. That was the program announced by Senator Burrows, chair man of the committee on privileges and elections. George D. Horras, formerly a bank er of Sioux Falls, S. D., was released from the Leavenworth federal peni tentiary after serving three years for violation of the national banking laws Horras was only twenty-six years old when he went to prison. Seven Chinese girls brought to San Francisco in the steamer Manchuria assert they were kidnaped for the slave trade in Hongkong and confined on the ship in a locker 14 feet square, into which no light was let during the whole voyage. Mrs. James McKinney, the wife of Congressman James McKinney of the Fourteenth district of Illinois, died at Washington, D. C, of paralysis. The funeral of Mrs. Mary Bakei Glover Eddy took place from her late residence on Beacon street, Chestnut Hill, Newton. Only her relatives members of her household and the of ficials of the church attended. The services were of the simplest charac ter, in keeping with the wishes of the founder and leader of the Christian Science church. Exonerating Secretary of the In terior Ballinger on all the charges brought against him and condemning his accusers as having been inspired by a deep feeling of animosity, built upon a supposed difference in policy respecting conservation, a majority of the congressional committee which in vestigated the so-called Ballinger-Pin chot case submitted its report to con gress. Juan Sancho Azcona was arrested at Washington by direction of the de partment of justice on request of the Mexican government. Azcona is a member of the inner Council of the Mexican revolutionists. He was known to be closely associated with Francisco I. Madero, leader of the In surrectionists. Azcona is a former member of the Mexican congress and a journalist. Fire destroyed the Fendrich cigar factory, the largest independent fac tory in the world, and several other business buildings on Main and First streets, Evansville, Ind. The losses will run over one million dollars, partly covered by insurance. When a Harlem (N. Y.) fire company responded to an alarm John Tierney sprang from a truck in dismay when he saw the fire was in the flat building in which he lived. He carried out his two children and guided his wife to safety. W. R. Clarke of Kansas City, presi dent of the Alberta & Great Water ways railway, has appealed to Ottawa and Washington protesting against an Alberta bill for the confiscation of $8, 000,000 subscribed by Americans for the building of the railroad. Duveen Bros., the greatest art and unique dealers and connoisseurs in America, owe the United States gov ernment $5,000,000, according to an announcement made by Collector Loeb of the port of New York. The federal grand jury at Detroit, Mich., indicted 32 individuals and 16 firms alleged to control 85 per cent, of the annual output of bathtubs in the United States. The principal de fendant is the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing company of Pittsburg, and the individual indictments Include the president, first and second vice presidents and the treasurer of this concern. An explosion in the garage of Dr. A. J. Ghiglione, Italian consul at Seat tle, shattered all the windows and china ware in the house and broke windows in other residences. In the indictments dates are given when the individual defendants are alleged to have made shipments over the lines named at rates less than those on file with the interstate com merce commission. It is alleged that from western points to Philadelphia the Millers ob tained export rates where the law de manded domestic rates. This saved them from one to three cents on ev*ry 100 pounds of grain shipped. Albert Balk, a watchman, was shot and fatally wounded by a madman in the elevated railroad in New York. The maniac escaped. Robert Louis Philippe, Eugene Fer dinand d'Orleans, Due de Chartres, a brother of the late Comte de Paris and a grandson of Louis Philippe, died at Paris at the age of 70. Restriction of immigration, espe cially of unskilled labor, is strongly urged in the final report of the immi gration commission which was sent to congress by Senator Dillingham. Mrs. Elizabeth Allen, aged eighty seven years, a wealthy widow, was found strangled to death at her home at Shirley, W. Va. A large sum of money which she had in the house is missing. Balloting among Chicago & Alton engineers, which has been in progress for three weeks, has been concluded, the result being 95 per cent, in favor of a strike and five per cent, opposed. The Volcanic Research society has just been organized at Springfield Mass. Its purpose is to investigate volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and allied phenomena. Reports of relief work in disasters in this and other countries wert heard at the annual meeting of U»« American Red Cross in Washington President Taft presided at the aMttf noon session. W •&%,•>, /v,t *$££$)* (Vs HAS 2,075,708 FEDERAL CENSUS OF 1910 8HOWS 8TATE GAINED 324,314 IN TEN YEARS. GREATEST GAIN IN LARGE CITIES St Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth Gain 175,886.—Rest of State Shows Increase of 148,448 Inhabitants. 80ME OTHER STATES. Population 1910. Increase. Maryland, 1.294,450 106,406 Nebraska, 1,192,214 125,914 Illinois, 5,638,591 817,041 Oklahoma, 1,657,155 242,978 New York, 9,113,279 1,844,385 New Hampshire, 430,572 18,984 Alabama, 2,138,093 309,396 Florida, 751*139 222,597 Washington, D. C. The popula tion of the state of Minnesota is 2,075, 708, according to the thirteenth federal census figures. This is an increase of 324,314, or 18.5 per cent, over 1,751, 394 in 1900. The increase from 1890 to 1900 was 449,568. The returns place the state of Min nesota in the two million class. The major part of the gain is credited to the three largest cities—Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth—but the rural communities show a growth that is more than merely healthy. An increase of more than 100,000 is shown for the farms and the small towns of tin state and this immense army of workers is increasing every day. While the population of the three large cities had prepared the average Minnesotan for a large state increase, it was not hoped by any but the most optimistic that it would be more than 300,000. Older States Are Beaten. Older and larger states that showed Indications of great progress have been left behind in the struggle for supremacy in population and few states in the union show as large an increase, and still fewer showed a larger percentage gain. The steady stream of sturdy farm ers from the okl countries, the equally steady stream of skilled workers and mechanics and the flow of wealth to Minnesota has been continuing for years. Its wealth, climate and prom ises of bounteous crops have brought new citizens to Minnesota from all over the world. Nearly every county in the state shows gains and some of them have almost doubled since 1900. Those counties containing the cities show an especially large increase. In 1880, only 30 yearo ago, when the first fed eral census was taken in the state, Minnesota had a population of only 780,773, and has gained 1,294,935 in that period. Texas and Oregon and Washington have a larger percentage increase, but the railroads of the country have spent millions of dollars in advertis ing and land has been offered free to thousands who would take it. The growth in Minnesota has been a steady, natural increase and there is no danger of losing any of the gain. Population by Counties. The details of the census of Min nesota by counties are as follows, showing the changes in it total and in each county by the 1910 returns, compared with 2900: County— 910 1 9 0 0 Aitkin io,371 6,743 a 12.493 11313 geezer i8840 14 375 Beltrami i9337 030 Benton 6 5 C^ago i3 £t a Clearwater ,* ?f a I a g«» Big Stone 9,357 %n\\ Blue Earth 29,337 32'263 Brown 20 134 iS 787 Carlton f? J| Carver 17,455 J^JJ Cass i6 2o 7*777 Chippewa 13,458 12 429 JJ*fg 537 19,640 17 942 6 8 7 Cook 1,3306 Cottonwood 12 651 12 n«Q grow Win Dakota 25,171 21733 S 12,094 13 340 S O & a S 1? .«69 17 964 Faribault 19,949 22 055 Fillmore 25 680 28 238 Freeborn 22 282 21 &\% Goodhue Grant 9114 8 035 Hennepin 333.480 228'340 14,297 15 400 Hubbard 9 8 3 1 6 578 12,615 6 7 5 a 17,208 4 573 Jackson 14,491 14793 Kanabec 6,461 4 614 Kandiyohi 8 9 6 9 1 8 4 6 Kittson 96 69 7,8819 Koochiching 6 431 Lac Qui a 15*435 14289 fakfl on 4654 Le Sueur 8 609 20 234 Lincoln 9,874 8 966 Lyon 15,722 14 591 McLeod 8 ,69l 19 595 Mahnomen 3 249 Marshall i6 338 15,698 Martin 7 5 8 1 6 9 |g 17,022 17 753 Mille Lacs 10,705 8 066 Morrison 24.053 22 891 Mower 22.640 22 335 a 11,755 {-%l\ fcioqllet 14 125 14 774 Nobles 15,210 14,932 Norman 13,446 15 045 Olmsted 22 497 23 11Q Otter Tall 46 036 45.'375 I)™ 15.878 11 6 Pipestone 9,553 9 264 Po!k 36,001 35429 £op* 12.74Shot. 6 12 577 Ramsey 223.675 170 55g Mistaken For Deer Walker. Edward Boosom a youn4 farmer in Hubbard county, was mis taken for a deer while hunting, and shot and killed by two boys. The boys are in jail at Laporte. Boosom, coming out of the woods, raised his hand which was enclosed in a canvass glove, to remove his pipe. The glove was mistaken for a deer's tail and two shots were fired, both striking the unfortunate man, one in the body and one in the head. The boys will be given a hearing at Akeley. Man, Asleep in Bed, Is Shot. St. Cloud. John Mosher, of the town of Minden, the father of Ma linda and Albert Mosher, who were kidnapped recently by Sam Russo, an Italian and were rescued by the St. Paul police in a resort in that city, was the victim of an attempted mur der when he was struck on the head by a bullet while in bed. The bullet inflicted a painful wdund. A search was made, but no trace of the assassin could be found. The shooting is a most mysterious affair and the onlcers have no clue. ~v Red Lake 15,940 12.195 Redwood 18,426 17,261 Renville 23,123 23.693 Rice 25,911 26,080 Rock 10,222 9,668 Roseau 11,338 6,994 St Louis 163,274 82,932 Scott 14,888 15,147 Sherburne 8,136 7,271 Sibley 15,540 16,862 Stearns 47.733 44.464 Steele 16,146 16,524 Stevens 8,293 8,721 Swift 12,949 13.503 Todd 23.407 22,214 Traverse 8,049 7,573 Wabasha 18.554 18,924 Wadena ~. 8,652 7,921 Waseca K.446 14,760 Washington 26.013 27.808 Watonwan 11.382 11,496 Wilkin 9.063 8,080 Winona 1 23.398 35,686 Wright 28,082 29,157 Yellow Medicine 15,406 14,602 Reapportionment Now Possible. Final action in the way of shaping a bill for the reapportionment of the state into legislative districts can now be taken by the next legislature. The census announcement was the only thing that, held back plans of those favorable to the measure. It is 13 years since the present system of legislative representation was drawn up and the apportionment then made was based on the state census of'1895. The inequality of the present appor tionment is shown in the accompany ing table. The state senator in Dodge county is elected by a constituency numbering only 12,094 while the Fif ty-second legislative district has near ly 63,000 people. The representation of the various districts with the 1910 population of each follows: Present Representation. Ramsey county includes districts 33 to 37. The population is 223,675 and the county is resented by five sena tors and 11 members of the house. This is 44,735 for each senator. Hennepin county includes districts 38 to 47. The population is 333,480 and the county is represented by sev en senators and 16 members of the house. This is 49,640 for each senator. Other Districts. Other districts in order follow: St. Louis, Cook and Lake counties are divided into three districts with three senators and six representatives. The Forty-ninth, Fiftieth and part of the Fifty-first are included in St. Louis county with a population of 163,274. The remainder of the Fifty-first dis trict is made up by Cook and Lake counties. The population of Cook is 1,336 and Lake 8,011. St. Louis coun ty has a senator for each 65,000 peo ple and five house members for each 32,655 people. The remaining districts follow: Watonwan 1 11,382 Fourteenth—Jackson 1 14,491 Cottonwood 1 12,651 Fifteenth—Murray 1 11,755 Nobles MINNESOTA'S RECORD OF POPULATION GROWTH. WW 2,075,708 324,314 W00 ..: 1,751,394 449,568 W90 1,301,826 521,053 W80 .,. 780,773 Following is the gain shown in 1910 (over 1900) in the three largest cities of the state:, Minneapolis 98,690 St. Paul 51,679 Duluth 25,497 Total gain three largest cities 175,866 Gain in state outside big cities... 148,448 The'population of Minnesota' counties containing principal cit ies is: County. 1910 Hennepin 333,480 Ramsey 223,675 St. Louis 163,274 Winona 33,398 •Loss. Represen- Popu- Distriet and Counties— tatives. lation. First—Houston 1 14,297 Second—Winona 3 33,393 Third—Wabasha 1 18,554 Fourth—Olmsted 2 22,497 Fifth—Fillmore 2 25,680 Sixth—Mower 2 22,640 Seventh—Dodge 1 12,094 Eighth—Steele 1 16,146 Ninth—Freeborn 2 22,282 Tenth—Waseca 1 13,466 Eleventh—Blue Earth 3 29,337 Twelfth—Faribault 1 19,949 Thirteenth—Martin 1 17,518 15'?J2 Sixteenth—Pipestone 1 ».»25 Rock 10.222 Seventeenth—Lincoln 1 9,874 Lyon 1 15,722 Yellow Medicine 1 15,406 Eighteenth—Lac qui Parle 1 15,435 Chippewa 1 J3.458 Nineteenth—Redwood 1 18,425 Brown 1 20,134 Twentieth—Nicollet 1 14.J25 Twenty-first—Sibley 1 1£.540 Twenty-second—Renville 2 23,123 Twenty-third—Meeker 1 H'22? Twenty-fourth—McLeod 1 18,691 Twenty-fifth—Carver 1 17,455 Twenty-sixth—Scott 1 14,883 Twenty-seventh—Le Seur. 2 18,609 Twenty-eighth—Rice 2 25,911 Twenty-ninth—Goodhue 3 31,637 Thirtieth—Dakota 2 25,171 Thirty-first—Washington 2 25,013 Thirty-second—Chisago ... .. 13,537 Pine 2 15,878 Kanabec 6,461 Represen- Popu District— tatives. lation. Forty-fifth— Anoka 3 12,493 Isanti 12.615 Sherburne .,2'lx? Mille Lacs 10,705 Forty-sixth— .„„ Wright 2 28,082 Forty-seventh— Benton 1 l,zlz Stearns, part estimated.. 8,000 Forty-eighth— Morrison 24,053 16.861 Crow Wing Fifty-second— „«-. Aitkin 10,371 Carlton ",559 Pnc O Itlsca 17.201 Koochiching 6,438 iji0tal 63,189 This district has one senator and two representatives. Fifty-third— Minnesota Fruit Growers Meet. Minneapolis.—The First Unitarian church was crowded when Presi dent Thomas B. Cashman of Owaton na called to order the 44th anual meeting of the Minnesota State Hor ticultural society. Meeting with the society were the State Forestry asso ciation, the Minnes6ta Rose society, the Plant Breeders' auxiliary, the Woman's auiliary and the Minneap olis Market Gardeners' association and all of these spcieties had some part in the program of the convention, Brainerd Joins the Dry Host. Brainerd. Deputy D. Patten of Akeley and Deputy James M. Quinn closed twenty-seven saloons here. There wa« no disorder. In giving the*saloonkeepers orders to close Dep uty Patten said he was a United States officer and that the saloons should close, keep out all patrons, lock their doors and box up and ship its liquor supply as quickly as pos sible to the wholesale houses. The salocns of Brainerd expected closing and had only a small stock on hand at the end. Federal Census. Gain 10 Years 1900 Gain 105,140 53,121 80,342 *2,288 228,340 170,554 82.932 35,686 Hubbard 9,831 Wadena 8,652 Todd 23,407 This district has a senator and two representatives. Fifty-fourth district, part of Stearns county, has a senator and two repre sentatives, with a population of about 40,000. The fifty-fifth district, Kandiyohi county, with 18,969 people, has a sena tor and one house member. Fifty-sixth— Swift .* 12,949 Big Stone 9,367 Total 22,316 This district has a senator and one house member. Fifty-seventh— Grant 8,114 Stevens 8,293 Traverse 8,040 Total 25,456 This district has one senator and two representatives. Fifty-eighth— Douglas 17,669 Fope 12,746 Total 30.415 This district has a senator and two representatives, each county electing one. The fifty-ninth district. Otter Tail county, with 46,036 people, has a sen ator and four representatives. S ix Clay 19,640 Becker 18,840 Wilkin 9,063 Total 47,543 This district has a senatpr and three representatives, each county electing one. The sixtv-first district is Polk coun ty, with 36,001 people, electing a sen ator and two representatives. Sixty-second— Norman 13.446 Mahnomen 3,249 Beltrami 19 337 Clearwater 6,870 Red Lake 15,940 Total 58^842 This district has a senator and two representatives Norman and Mahnomen counties electing one representative, and the other three counties the second. Sixty-third— Kittson 9 669 Marshall 16,338 Roseau 11,338 Total 37 345 This district has a senator and two representatives. RELIEF FUND TOTALS $88,000. Contributions to Northern Minnesota Fire Sufferers About All In. St. Paul. The contributions to the fund for the permanent relief in the fire-swept districts of Northern Minnesota have reached a total of $88, 000. The donations have been coming in slowly and in small sums of late, and Kenneth Clark, president of the Minnesota Red Cross society, said that he believed the above figures repre sented practically all that may be ex pected until the need bcomes more urgent. "Of this amount," said Mr. Clark, "only about $25,000 has been expend ed, which leaves a balance sufficient to carry out all relief plans for prob ably two months to come. Before it is entirely exhausted I understand the state legislature will be asked to ap propriate a sum sufficient to take care of the fire sufferers through the early spring and until their farms are again on a paying basis." CHURCH CELEBRATION PLANNED. Bishop Heffron to be Guest at Roches ter for Christmas. Winona.—Bishop Heffron has ac cepted an invitation to go to Roches ter for Christmas and take part in the celebration by St. John's parish of the raising of its church debt. The bishop will preach Sunday and on Monday evening will speak at a pro gram to be given at the Metropolitan theater. The mortgage will be burn ed and the church property formally presented to Bishop Heffron. Contests Stevens' Election. St. Paul. John L. Gieske, de feated candidate on the Democratic ticket for Congress in the Fourth dis trict, comprising Ramsey, Washington and Chisago counties, has served formal notica of a contest against dec laration of the election of his Repub lican opponent, Frederick C. Stevens, who, on the face of the returns, de feated Mr. Gieske by more than 5,000 votes. Minnesota Debaters Beaten. Minneapolis. The University of Illinois debating team defeated the University of Minnesota talkers in the first intercollegiate debate at Min nesota this year. The judges were unanimous in their decision. Minne sota also lost to Iowa at Iowa City. REPORT ON MINNESOTA RIVER. St. Paul.—Major F. R. Shunk, chief of the United States engineering of fice at St. Paul, has about completed his report to the chief of engineers at Washington on the question of con structing reservoirs along the Minne sota river for the improvement of navigation and the prevention of floods. A party of army engineers un der Major Shunk's direction last sum mer made a survey of the river val ley from Big Stone lake to Mankato. Accidentally Shot Killed. Duluth. Robert Quayle, aged four teen, of Aurora, Minn., met death by being shot while hunting. Quayle and a companion, George Rye, were hunting rabbits in the woods near Doop's farm. They came to a small creek which Quayle crossed first. Rye handed Quayle the guns. He took them muzzle first, and in drawing them toward him the hammer of a shotgun became entangled in Rye's clothes, discharging the weapon. The charge of shot entered Quayle's body, killing him instantly. HEAD OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCB CHURCH 8UCCUMBS TO OLD AGE. The «nd came so quietly and peace fully that Mrs. Eddy's most intimate followers who stood at her bedside thought she had fallen into a calm sleep. The last written words of the mother of the Christian Science church, penned as a message to her disciples, were "God Is My Life," Body Lies in State. The body now lies in state in the large room on the grand floor of her home. Only the leaders in the church were permitted to take a last look at her face. Mrs. Eddy had been indisposed about nine days. She was in posses sion of all her faculties until the very end. It Is reported that her death fol lowed a slight cold contracted on one of her daily drives through the Mrs. Baker Eddy. grounds of her Chestnut Hill home. It is believed her drive of Thursday might have aggravated the cold she caught a little over a week ago. Th extent to which Mrs. Eddy had car ried her idea of personal suppression in regard to the Christian Science church is shown in the fact that she was never inside the new Christian Science church on Falmouth street in this city. It is also probable that she never saw the edifice. About her at the time of death came were persons who have been intimate hold for the past several years: Cal ly associated with her in her hoase vin A. Frye, Laura E. Sargent, Mrs. Ella S. Rathvon of Colorado, Rev. Irving C. Tomlinson, her correspond ing secretary William R. Rathvon of Kansas City. No Physician Was in Attendance. No physician was in attendance at the bedside of Mrs. Eddy. While no one of those present, all of whom were devoted students, realized just when death had come, it was believed by them and so stated that Mrs. Eddy had spent her final moments in the body in a spiritual communing with God, fighting against death according to the principles which she had her self set forth in the Bible of the Christian Science religion, her book, "Science and Health, With Key to the Scriptures." Those surrounding her themselves prayed unceasingly. Mrs. Eddy left no final message, due, it is said, to her last efforts in following out her own doctrine. Health Officer Issues Certificate. After Mrs. Eddy's death came those about her set themselves to do the necessary duties. A telephone call was put in for Dr. George L. West, the medical examiner of Newton Cen ter, whose presence was required un der the law, as Mrs. Eddy had not had medical attendance. Doctor West immediately responded and after ma king his examinations of the body, pronounced that death was due to "natural causes" and issued the cus tomary certificate. Chairman Albert Farlow stated that the great body of Christian, Scientists had received the news of Mrs. Eddy's death with the greatest calmness, her death is regarded, he declared, as the passing of their founder, their pastor emeritus, and of a great leader. Up-to-Date Advertising. Sweet are the uses of advertise ment! A firm of Hungarian lottery touts now embellish their circulars with the proud boast: "The famous Dr. Crippen our client in 1907," and a fac-slmile is given of his letter or dering four quarter tickets "in odd numbers."—London Truth. A Usual Exception. "Do you know of any exception to the rule that birds of a feather flock together?" "Yes. Raven locks with crow's feet." To Church on a Traction Engine. Jim Nixon went to church last Sun day on his steam threshing traction engine. Jim said he had got good and derned tired of taking to the ditch with his horse and wagon ev ery time he met one of those dod blasted automobiles, and thought he would ride down the road in a rig they couldn't jar.—Hedge Corners (Mass.) Herald. Of course, there is no such thing as the bigger half, yet most people want NtAfirB.G.EDOYDIESARE OPPOSING TAFT END IS PEACEFUL AND QUIE1 pREFER Body Lies In State at Boston None but Intimates view Re mains—Leaves Estate Valued at $1,800,000. Boston.—After an illness of two days Mrs. Baker Eddy, founder and head of the Christian Science church, passed away at her home at Chestnut Hill. Mrs. Eddy was ninety years old. HOUSE INSURGENTS ONLY ONES WHO FAVOR SCHEDULE BY SCHEDULE PLAN. A E N E A E S 0 N Situation Disclosed During Discussion of Cummins' Rules Program.— Clapp for Permanent Commission. Washington, D. C. President Taft't suggestion, which has the in dorsement of the tariff board, for changes in the tariff law schedule by schedule, already has received a sharp knock from influential leaders in con gress. A local newspaper here that is known to be in close touch with the insurgents who want the tariff re vised a schedule at a time announced that nobody in the senate and a few in the house except the little group of insurgent Republicans want the tariff law attacked in that way. The situation disclosed is that both Re publicans and Democrats, at least a majority of them, do not favor this way of approaching changes in the tariff law. The condition was disclosed, it ap pears, during the discussion of the changes in the rules as proposed by Senator Cummins of Iowa. The ultra protection Republicans are opposed to the plan, as was indicated by the fact that Senator Hale antagonized it when offered. Senator Cummins renewed his ef forts by filing the necessary notice to the committee on rules. On Mon day he will reintroduce the resolution and thus start the fight for a revi sion along the proposed new lines. The report was that expressions by a number of prominent Democratic senators are antagonistic to the Cum mins measure. One of the prominent and influential Southern senators said: "I have heard no Democrat speak in favor of the resolution. I have heard several speak against it. For myself I am opposed to it I object to sin gling out and throwing a sort of a mantle of secretiveness about the Payne-Aldrich tariff law. "I don't fancy the idea of putting that statute upon a pedestal and re quiring that special rules shall be made with it." The insurgent Republicans are not surprised at discovering that they will have no support from either regular Republicans or regular Democrats. It is expected that a few of the more independent Democrats will support the resolution, among whom Gore and Owen of Oklahoma, Chamberlain of Oregon and Shively of Indiana are mentioned. In speaking of the tariff situation Senator Clapp of Minnesota said that the particular thing in which he is in terested so far as general legislation is concerned for this short session Is the creation of a full-fledged perma nent tariff commission to take the place of President Taft's tariff board, which is dependent on annual appro priations by congress to keep it alive. Senator Clapp said he had no partic ular tariff commission plan in mind, but he expects to support the Bever idge bill or some modification thereof. CONSERVATIONS MAY UNITE. "Federal" and "State" Wings Want to Get Together. Washington, D. C. A plan is be- ing considered by the National Con servation association, of which Gifford Pinchot is president, to bring together the advocates of federal regulation of waterpower sites and those who stand for state control, according to an an nouncement made by the executive committee of the association. The ob ject of the plan, which was drafted by Philip P. Wells, former law officer of the Forest Service, is to adopt "a wa terpower platform on which both sides of the waterpower controversy may unite to protect the public interest and at the same time encourage the de velopment of the many millions of horsepower now going to waste in the mountain streams of the Far West and the great rivers of the central and eastern parts of the country." The basis of the plan is develop ment "without delay, waste or the sacrifice of other and higher uses of flowing waters." Twin City Markets. Minneapolis, Minn., Dec, 9.—Decem ber, $1,011/4 May, $104% No. 1 northern, $1.03% No. 2 northern, 51.02 No. 1 durum, 86%c No. 3 corn, 43c No. 3 white oats, 29%c barley, 85c No. 2 rye, 77%c No. 1 flax, $2 48%. Duluth, Dec. 9.—Wheat, December, |1.02%, May, $1 06% No. 1 northern, 51.04%. South St. Paul, Dec. 9.—Cattle— Steers, $4 00@4.50 cows, $3.00@3.40 calves, $3 75@7.25 hogs, $7.35@7.45 Sheep, yearlings, $4 50@5.00. Chicago Live Stock. Chicago, Dec. 9.—Cattle—MarkeJ iveak to shade lower beeves, $4.40@ 7.20, western steers, $410@6 20 stockers and feeders, $3.25@5.00 cows and heifers, $2.20@6.10 calves, $7.00 @9 00 Hogs—Market slow, oc lower, light, P7 15@7.57%, mixed, $7.15@7.55 heavy, $7.15@7.55 rough, $7 15@7 30, good to choice heavy, $7.30@7.55, pigs, $6G5@7 45 Sheep—Market slow, native, $2.25 @4 30, western, $2.60@4.25 yearlings, $4-10@5.25 lambs, native, $4.25@6.30. Greatect Liner to be Built. Liverpool, England. The Cunard Steamship company has placed a con tract with John Brown & Co., Clyde bank, Scotland, for the construction of a big liner for the New York serv ice The specifications for the new steamship call for a vessel a little longer than the White Star liner Olympic, now the largest vessel in the world. She will be 885 feet in length, with a total displacement oi 50,000 tons and a speed of about 2.r knots. She will carry 650 first-class 740 second class, and 2,400 steerage •RESIDENT VAIL'S BOLD MOVE MARK8 EPOCH IN FINANCE. •^Accuracy* Reduced Western Union* Surplus $13,000,000.—"Publicity* Inspired Such Confidence That Its Stock Went Up. Are the great financiers of the country beginning to see a new light? Time was, until recently In fact, when the men at the head of the big cor porations "kept their business to themselves," as far as the law would allow. Capable men at the head of the big 'concerns, long realized the weak ness of their position, but what was needed obviously, as in all great re forms, was an unmistakable occasion and a courageous man. The occasion arose in the purchase of the Western Union Telegraph company by the American Telephone and Telegraph company, and the man appeared in Theodore N. Vail, President of the purchasing corporation. It was last December when public announcement was made that the Gould holdings of Western Union had been taken over by the Telephone company. On account of the high esteem la which the management of the tele phone company is so generally held, great things were predicted as a suit of the absorption of Western Union. By the press of the country the "deal" was most favorably com mented on, it being widely pointed out that under the direction of such men as Theodore N. Vail and his as sociates, the telegraph company wae bound soon to work itself into a po sition where it could offer the publlo far more efficient service than it had ever before been able to offer. But a very few months had elapsed when it became apparent to the management that a modern and up to-date appraisal of the company's assets would make possible a far greater degree of efficiency ef oper ation. "Here," they said to them selves, "we've bought control of this property and we know it's immensely valuable, but we don't know just how valuable These appraisals of real estate and securities owned were made a long time ago. If we have a complete inventory made of every thing we've got we can announce the facts to the public, start a new set of books, and begin our responsibility to stockholders right there." How Inventory Was Taken. The most expert accountants and appraisers to be had were put at the task. Their labors lasted over eight months. Their report and its publi cation by the company marks an ep och in finance It began by recommending an ad* justment of the difference between the appraised and book values by a charge of $5,595,089 against sur plus. Book values of securities held were reduced to market values, bad and doubtful accounts were "charg ed off," an allowance of $2,000,000 was made for "depreciation," another of $500,000 for "reserve," and so on, until the old surplus of $18,867,000 came down to $5,136,000. It required courage, the publication of this statement to stockholders, say ing In effect: "The property of your company has been reval ued: the surplus isn't nineteen mill ions, as you have been led to be lieve, but five millions," but it was the truth, and President Vail did not flinch. "Accuracy and publicity," he declared, was essential. "The stock holder has a right to know. The shares of this company are scatter ed from one end of the Union to the other. This is( more than a private corporation. It is a great national enterprise. The public is entitled to the facts." The report was ordered published forthwith. Financiers of the old school and speculators generally were aghast. What would happen? Would the bottom drop out of Western Union when the shareholders realiz ed that their propetry was worth $13,000,000 less than they had sup posed? But the amazing thing happened. The stock went up and stayed up. The public had respond ed to this remarkable display of frankness and confidence to the new motto, "Accuracy and Publicity." The full significance of the action of the new board is stated concisely by Harper's Weekly in these words: "Is this policy of publicity and of open-handed dealing with sharehold ers and public the forerunner of a similar movement on the part of oth er big corporations? Certainly it is to be hoped that it is. In the case of these big companies, dependent upon public patronage and doing busi ness under public franchise, can there be any question of the right of the people to know? "That right is being recognized, It is recognized now in this epochal act on the part of the telephone and telegraph interests. It is the dawn of a new era in corporation finance." Soothed Boston Babe. The Boston infant was restless and peevish. Its nurse had crooned "Rock-a-by, baby, on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock," a long time in vain. The babe would not fall under its influence. Then its fond mother sang to it gen tly: "The vibrating atmosphere causes the soporific receptacle where in the babe lies ensconced tooscillate in the arboreal apex ." No need to chant further. Instantly soothed, the babe, with a satisfied smile, fell away in slumber. A Modern Problem. The paragraphers are still keeping in circulation that paragraph about the judge who ruled a man need not support his mother-in-law. What Is it, impecuniosity, tight-waddedness or just pure cussedness? Complimentary References. The way El Dlario del Hogar talks about us as "giants of the dollar, pig mies of culture and barbarous whites of the north" is almost as bad as some of the things we say about each I pother during a hot a a I •'i VI "i w- I