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PRESIDENTS CHICAGO
Taft Made Speech in Which He
Denounced the Law's Delay.
DEFENDED NEWTAHIFF BILL
Reviewed 150,000 School Children
Who Carried American Flag and
Sang Patriotic Songs.
Chicago, 111. Speaking with great
earnestness to a mass meeting in
Orchestra hall, President Taft declar
ed that no question before the Amer
ican people today is more important
than the improvement of the admin
istration of justice, and announced Ms
Intention of recommending to con
gress the appointment of a commis
sion to take up the question of the
laws delaying the federal courts. The
president said he hoped that the re
port cf tnis commission, wnen ren
dered, would serve also as a guide to
the states of the union in effecting
leiaedical legislation.
Mr. Taft devoted the entire first
part cf his speech to the -subject of la-
hcr, and said ne intended to recom
menr to congress in his first mes
sage legislation to carry out the plat
form promise as to injunctions that
no injunction or restraining order
should be issued without notice ex
cept where irreparable injury would
result from delay, in which case a
spe-. dy hearing should be granted.
The president declared anew his foe
lief in organized labor, and congrat
ulated the leaders of the movemen.
that "thev have set their faces like
flint against the doctrines of social
ism."
Beginning with an automobile trip
in review of one hundred and fifij
thousand school children, four deep
on either side of the park boulevards,
the president's day was replete with
incidents. He attended and spoke
hrithy at a luncheon of the Commer
cial Club, viewed an exhibit of am
biticus plans for the improvement
and boautification of Chicago, attend
ed the regular National League
baseball game between the Chicago
champion 'Cubs" and the famous
New York "Giants;" dined quietly
with the Hamilton Club at the Con
giess hotel; made a notable address
to a mass meeting, and, as a finale,
attended for a few minutes the baj.
cf the American Bankers' association
Mr. Taft was deeply impressed Dy
the greeting of the school children,
each one of whom waved an Ameri
can flag and sang and cheered asfhe
passed. :-"T
At the National League grounds the
president saw his biggest baseball
crowd. More than thirty thousand
people were present. The president
sat in cue cf the open sections of the
double-decked stand, and thoroughly
enjoyed a brilliant game, in which the
two greatest pitchers of the league
Mathewson cf New York and Brown
of Chicago faced each other. New
York won, but the crowd had some
compensation in cheering the presi
dent, who remained to the end and
waved a farewell to the throngs. .
"Texas" Reilly, the editor of, the
San Antonio Light and Gazette, who
rede all the way from San Antonio to
Chicago to present a formal invitation
to Mr. Taft to visit that city, also met
the president at the ball game. He
was in typical cowboy costume, and
had reached Chicago on a horse from
the Taft ranch. The president as
sured Mr. Reilly that he was looking
forward with much pleasure to his
visit to San Antonio.
Secretary of War Dickinson sat at
the president's risht. Governor De-
neen at his left and General Freder
ick D. Grant just in front.
Mr. Taft received many hearty
cueers from the basebal lenthusjast3
when he stood up with the rest of the
'Tans" at the beginning of the "lucky
seventh," Although th inning
brought only a blank for the home
ciud, the crowd appreciated the pres
ident's good intentions.
Winona, Minn. In the most import
ant utterance he has made since his
occupancy of the white house. Pres
ident Taft, in a state which is the
hotbed cf the "insurgents' " movement
within the republican party, defend
ed the Payne tariff bill as the best
tariff bill the people have ever known
The president boldly asserted that
tne insurgents who voted against the
bill bad abandoned the republican
party.
"Was it the duty of the members
cf congress who believed that the bill
did not accomplish everything that it
ought to accomplish to vote against
U.'" asked the nresident. -
"I am here to justify those who an
swer this question in the negative. I
am not here to defend those who
voted for the Payne bill, but to sup
port them."
To this statement the crowd in the
opera house responded with a cheer
WOMEN FIGHT DUEL
Knif and Pistol Used By Fashionable
Chicago Women.
ChiCaCTO. Tl TWVa Inllan ' HP-! to
dead and Mrs. Jacob Silvers of New
York Was fatal! V wrmnrlprl no tVo re
sult of a pistol and knife battle be
tween the two women in Mrs. Tripp's
ayariumms m a rasnionable residence
district of this city. Mrs. Silvers is
a Sister-in-laW Of Mrs Trinn Tt ia
said her husband left her about three
luomns ago because of her curious
actions.
There were ten hullet wounds
one cut oa the body of Mrs. Tripp,
rue xnrs. silvers is suffering from a
bullet wound in the chest and several
knife slashes. Only one revolver was
found In the apartments and eight
empty snens ana two cartridges were
found, showing that the revolver was
emptied and reloaded during the fierce
struggle. The furnishings of the
apartments were in disorder, and in
every room were evidences of the
desperate struggle waged between the
two women.
Mrs. Trior was fullv dressed, but
Mrs. Silvers was in her underclothing
and nightgown. Mrs. Silvers had been
staying at tne Tripp home for abovt
a montn, and tne two women are
aia to have had recont quarrels.
It had been Mrs. Silvers' custom
to tnke a nap in the afternoon, and it
is evident that she had prepared for
this as usual. The appearance al
most simultaneously of the two wom
en at different entrances to the apart
ment, each screaming for help, and
the knife wounds suffered by both,
has led the police to advance the
tneory that there was a third person
in tlie tragedy instead of its being
simnly a battle between the two wom
en or a murder and suicide. The the
ory that Mrs. Silvers or Mrs. Tripp
attempted to commit suicide and that
the other woman tried to prevent has
also been advanced.
One strange feature of the tragedy
is that no one heard any shots. The
appeals for help were heard, but no
one made an attempt to enter the
apartments until after the police had
been called.
PRESIDENT UPHOLDS BALL1XGEB.
Glavis Lcses Position at Request of
Secretary of the Interior.
Albany, N. Y. A statement in
which President Taft announces his
findings upon the charges against the
conduct of the interior department of
the government by L. R. Glavis, chief
of the field division of the general
land office, in connection with the
Cunningham coal land claims in Alas
ka, exonerating Secretary Ballinger
of the interior department, and ob
serving that Mr. Glavis embraced
only "shreds of suspicion without
substantial evidence," was made pub
lie here.
The president grants Secretary Bal
linger's request for authority to dis
miss Mr. Glavis from the service of
the government "for njustly im
peaching the official integrity of his
superior officer" and takes occasion
to review evidence in the so-called
"water power trust" and other cases
to refute the charges that the secre
tary of the interior Is put of sympathy
with the policy of the administration
in favor of the conservation of natu
ral resources.
WORK TU PASS INCOME TAX.
Senator Taylor of Tennessee Fears
Measure Will Fail.
Washington, D. C. The political
programme formulated by the demo
cratic conference at Saratoga is al
ready attracting much attention.
Senator Taylor of Tennessee, who
is in Washington; declared that the
conference's endorsement of the in
come tax was highly significant and
important. "The income tax will be
defeated by the states," he said, "un
less there is a vigorous affirmative
determined effort made to secure its
adoption. This New York move looks
like the firEt real step to organize a
solid backing for it. Twelve states
in opposition will defeat the meas
ure. I assume New England is to be
counted against it ia the beginning."
Senator Taylor expressed the opin
ion that the income tax issue will,
in the near future, become one of
the sharp and pressing ones before
the country, and he was gratified that
the democracy of the most conserva
tive state would have indorsed the
issue.
m $20,009 FOR CHURCH.
Bedridden Woman Turned the Money
Over to the Church.
Mattoon, 111. A story of woman's
patient and disinterested labor of
love during the twenty-seven years
that she lay bedridden, was told at
the eighty-sixth session of the Illi
nois conference of the Methodist Epis
copal church.
A telegram was read to the confer
ence telling of the death cf Miss Liz
zie Johnson, of Casev, 111. It was
then related that Miss Johnson, dur
ing the last twenty-seven years, while
confined to her bed by a lingering
lllre;;c, had earned for the church
ccmevrnce ?20,000 by embroidering
scripture book marks.
WESTERN UNION REPORTED SOLD.
Grg8 j. Gould Refuses to Talk of
Reported Sale.
-New York City. George J. "-Gould,
hose family is credited with own
fr'i more than $20,000 of the $99,000,
ou cal"tal stock of the Western Un
ion Telegraph Company, declined to
comment on the report that the Amer
ican Telephone and Telegraph Com-r-nyJ3
neotiating for the purchase
the Western Union Telegraph
'.cranany, Hq would neltner afflrm
daay in rumor ftt pPMtat, -
High School Girls Never Saw a Hog.
Kansas City, Mo. Inquiry following
a humorous incident shows that near
ly two hundred girls in various Kan
sas City schools have never seen a
live hog. It had been related that
a high school girl recently went to
the country and seeing a pig run
across a yard, asked what animal it
was. This led'' to an inquiry on the
subject and a canvass of all the high
srhnni cirls in Kansas City sho'wed
nrvme two hundred marriageable girls
of the second largest live stock mar-
wet in the world had never seen a live
member of the porcine family.
Mrs. Kelson Morris Killed.
Fontainbleau, France. Mrs. Morris,
wife of the late Nelson Morris, the
Chicago packer, is dead from inju
ries received in an automobile acci
dent near here September 10.
Bandits Get 500,000.
Calcutta. A desperate effort was
made by the royal police, the Sepoys
and armed soldiers to trace the ban
dits who held up a treasure train on
the Eastern Gengal railroad, dyna
miting the cars and getting away
with $500,000. The car containing the
vast treasure was blown to pieces.
The bandits are thought to have tak
en refuge in the nearby mountains. A
posse is in pursuit.
; $1,000,000 for a Kind Act.
Methuen, Mass. One of those
strange legacies bobbed up in Meth
uen when it became known that Mrs.
George Bramer has received word
from attorneys in the Scilly islands
that R. J. Ridstock, a man whom she
and her mother befriended in Bermu
da had willed her about $1,000,000 in
railroad stocks and bonds. When Mrs.
Bramer met Ribstock in Bermuda
before she was married. She and her
mother did many little kindnesses- tor
him la his eld a
MESSAGE FROM PR .COOK
Discoverer of North Pole JTells
How He Baffled Peary.
PEMILLINGTO ARBITRATE
"Tell the Pop' f America to Have
the Fullest Confidence of My. Con
quest of the Pole," Says Cook.
On Board the Steamship Oscar II,
at Sea, Yia Marconi Wireless Tele
graph to Cape Race, N. F. "Tell the
people of America to have the fullest
confidence in my conquest of the
Pole, I have records of observations
made by me which will prove my
claim. I shall be glad again to set
my foot on American soil."
This was the brief message Dr.
Frederick A. Cok aked the Associa
ted Press to give to his countrymen
as he nears home on the steamship
Oscar II, bound from Christiansand,
Norway, to New York.
Dr. Cock discussed freely with the
Associated Press correspondent the
assertions of Commander Peary that
he (Cook) had never reached the
North Pole, and drew from him a de
tailed story of the causes that brought
about dissensions between the two
explorers.
When he departed -for the north,
Dr. Cook said, he left a depot of pro
visions at Annatok, north of Etah, in
charge of Rudolph Francke and sev
eral Eskimos. Francke had instruc
tions to go south, aboard a whaler,
and return later. This he did, hat
missed the returning vessel owing to
a slight illness. He was then taken
aboard Peary's ship, the Roosevelt,
and proceeded north.
"Commander Peary found my sup
ply depot at Anantok," Dr. Cook con
tinued, "and the Eskimos in charge
told him that I was dead, which they
fully believed to be true at the time.
"Peary placed two men in charge ot
the depot. Boatswain Murphy and an
other. Harry Whitney, the New Ha
ven hunter, also remained there. Mur
phy had orders not to search for me,
but was told he could send Eskimos
northward the following' spring from
the relief depot.
"When I returned from the pole, un
expectedly, Harry Whitney was the
first to see me, and tell me what had
occurred.
"Whitney was placed in possession
of the facts concerning my journey
to the pole on condition that he would
not intorni Commander Peary or his
men of them. At the same time the
Eskimos who had accompanied me
north were told to maintain the very
strictest silence.
"When I went into the depot there
was a dispute between myself and
Murphy, who delivered to me written
instructions he had received from
Peary, although Murphy himself could
neither read nor write. These instruc
tions showed that he was making a
trading station of my depot, the con
tents of which had been used in trad
ing for furs l.nd skins."
Dr. Cook said he was instantly an
noyed at this alleged wrongful use of
his supplies, and threatened to kick
out Murphy and his companions. Fi
nally, however, he consented to their
remaining at the depot, as there was
no other shelter in the vicinity for
them. Said he: "On one occasion,
Murphy asked me abruptly, 'Have you
been beyond 87?'
"But I was determined not to let
Peary know of my movements, and
replied evasively that I had been
much farther north. From the state
ment has been connected the decla
ration that I had said that I had not
reached the pole."
Dr. Cook declared that neither Har
ry Whitney nor his (Cook's) records
are 'on board the steamer Roosevelt,
and that, therefore, Peary's informa
tion concerning him emanated from
Boatswain Murphy, wno knew noth
lng of his movements. Dr. Cook said
also that he had made arrangements
for the two Eskimos who went with
him to the pole, and Knud Rasmus
sen, whom he met in Greenland, to
go to New York and confirm the story
of his discovery.
Dr. Cook i$ tnoroughly enjoying his
rest aboard ship after the strenuous
days at Copenhagen. .He sleeps ten
hours each night, and spends a long
time daily in writing
Battle Harbor, Labrador, via Marco
ni Telegraphy to Cape Ray, New
foundland Commander Robert E.
Peary consented to talk turtner cou
cermng his dash to the North Pole.
He dwelt particularly upon the ob
servations taken at the apex of the
world, and the movements of Harry
Whitney, the sportsman of New Ha
ven, Conn., who has been described
as the bearer of records substantiat
ing Dr. Frederick A. Cook's claim to
have reached the North Pole,.
"Was there more than one observa
tion at the pole, and oy wnom?" the
explorer was asked.
"There were several observation,"
he replied, "and I took them all my
self. You must understand that the
pole is a theoretical point, without
length, breadth or thickness. Its ac
tual location depends on the accuracy
of the instruments employed and the
conditions under which the observa
tions are taken."
"You have stated, Commander Pea-
1 ry, that a copy of your records and
polar observations was wrapped in a
piece of a silk American flag and de
posited in an ice cavity at the pole;
did any person witness this act?"
To this question Commander Peary
declined to make an answer
Continuing, the explorer said that
he had stated in a private message
to a friend that Dr. Cook had given
the world a "gold brick." This mes
sage had been allowed to leak out,
and while he would have preferred
a more elegant expression, he was
willing now to let these words stand,
because they were at least emphatic.
The explorer said that he would turn
over to a competent tribunal and the
public certified copies of his own ob-
. servatlons, made on nis trip to tne
pole, with al other information bear-
lng thereon.
BARKERS CONDEMN POSTAL BANKS.
Legislatation Is Pasted Guaranteeing
Bank Deposits.
Chicago, 111. After five days' con
sideration and discussion of financial
problems of greater or lesser import,
the , delegates to the thirty-fifth an
nual convention of the American
Eankers' Association selected Los An
geles as their next meeting place,
and adjourned until, the fall of next
year.
Among the results of the confer
ence Of bankers, numbering close to
5,000, and - representing every state
in the union, the practically unani
mous -condemnation of postal -savings
banks and legislation guaranteeing
bank deposits stands out distinctly.
On the affirmative; side, strong sen
timent favoring the establishment of
a central bank for the entire country
received approval from many bank
ers, and was advocated in the annual
address of the president, George M.
Reynolds of the Continental National
Bank of Chicago. -
Different groups of the bankers in
the section meetings came out very
strongly in favor of permitting na
tional banks to establish separate sav
ings bank departments with funds
segregated from the other interests
of the bank and saving deposits spe
cailly protected.
A resolution pledging the associa
tion to eeek legislation looking to the
establishment of such secregated sav
ings departments failed of passage,
and was referred to the currency com
mission for consideration.
In the opinion of some of the offi
cers of the association, one of the
greatest results accomplished was the
awakening of Interest in the need of
co-operation between the comptroller
of currency, the federal bank examin
ers, the state bank examiners, the
clearing houses and the directors of
banking institutions, on the careful
and intelligent examination of backs,
both national and state.
The need of constant vigilance and
increased exactness in bank examina
tions was the burden of an address
by James B. Forgan of Chicago, in
which he declared his perfect accord
with the plea for co-operation in bank
examination made by Comptroller
Murray earlier in the convention.
The movement for the establishment
of uniform bills of lading.which would
be safe as negotiable instruments, re
ceived impetus from the convention
and strong endorsement of the neces
sity of an ample cash reserve in bank
ing institutions was voiced.
Before adjournment the standing
law committee made its report recom
mending that the association advo
cate legislation in all the states to
punish the making of a false state
ment to obtain credit; to punish the
making of derogatory statements af
fecting a bank; to define the crime of
burglary with explosives and fix the
punishment for it, and legislation rel
ative to the payment of deposits in
trust.
Without opposition, Lewis E. Pier
son of. New York, former vice presi
dent, was elected president, of the as
sociation, and F. O. Watts of Nash
ville was made first vice president,
being advanced from the chairman
ship of the executive council.
Secretary Fred Farnsworth of New
York; Treasurer P. C. Kauffman of
Tacoma, Wash.; Assistant Secretary
William G. FItzwilson of New York,
and General Counsel Thomas B. Pa
ton of New York were re-elected by
a unanimous vote.
No definite date was fixed for the
convention in Los Angeles next yar.
The 1910 convention will be held,
however, between October 15 and No
vember 15.
Bailey's Comet Seen.
Chicago, 111. For the first time in
seventy-four years Halley's comet has
been observed with' the naked eye.
The observation was made by Pro
fessor S. W. Burnham of the Yerkes
observatory at Lake Geneva. Two pho
tographic negatives weer secured.
The announcement cf Professorn
Burnnam's exploit was made by Pro
fessor Edwin B. Frost,
Wright Breaks Heignt Record.
Berlin, Germany. Orville Wright,
flying in his airship here in the pres
ence of the empress, Princess Louise,
Prince Adelbert and Prince August
and a large party from the court,
broke the record cf high flying. He
attained a height of 233 meters (765
feet). The best . previous record for
height, 135 meters, was made by Hu
bert Latham.
Watching For Castro.
. San Juan, Porto Rieo. Two repre
sentatives sent here by President Go
mez of Venezuela are watching for
the possible landing of ex-Presidenl,
Castro. They say that a large re
ward will he given to any one sub
mitting information of an attempt by
General Castro to land at Porto Rico
or the adjacent islands.
Government Aids Flood sufferers.
Washington, D. C. Any practicable
assistance which may foe rendered to
the flood sufferers at Matamoras will
be given by the troops in Texas. Or
ders to that effect have been sent to
the commanding officer at San Anto
nio, Texas. This ' help must be con
fined to the United States side.
Improye Money Odrer System.
Washington, D. C. After overhaul
ing the registry , system of the post
office department, Postmaster General
Hitchcock has set a number of ex
perts at werk to eradicate some of
the kinks of the money order system,
with a view of obtaining greater ef
ficiency and less expenditure.
Indian Threw Tomahawk at Walter.
"-".New York City. Sam Friendman, a
waiter in a Coney Island music hall,
was badly injured by an Apache In
dian, who hurled a tomahawk at him
while doing a turn on the stage.
Friendman was serving drinks in the
hall below when the Indian, throwing
the weapon over the heads of the
spectators, struck the waiter in the
shoulder cutting a deep gash and
knocking him to the floor. The In
dian then fled but was captured and
locked up.
WILL OF E.H. HARRIMAN
All of the Property Bequeathed
to Mrs. Harriman.
WORLD'S WEALTHIEST WOMAN
It is Believed Mr. Harriman Provided for
Children With Gifts Out of Hand.
Estate Valued at $100,000,000.
LATE NEWS NOTES.
New York City. A - hundred brief
words, weighted each with approxi
mately $1,000,000, and containing in
their entirety the last testament of
E. H. Harriman, make his widow,
Mary Averell Harriman, one of the
wealthiest women iii the "world." It is,
perhaps, the briefest will on record
for the disposal of an estate of such
magnitude. All his' property is left to
Mrs. Harriman.
Wall street estimates that Mrs.
Harriman will inherit in realty and .
peional property between $75,u00,oa
and $100,000,000:
Mr. Harriman's private fortune is
supposed to have been greater than
this by many millions, but there U
reason to believe that his "unmarried
daughters, Mary and Carol, his mar
ried daughter, Mrs. Robert Living
stone Gerry, and his two sons, Wil
liam Averell and Roland, a boy of
fourteen, together with his surviving
sister, Mrs. Simons, and other rela
tives, hae all been substantially pro
vided for in gifts out of hand and
trust funds set aside by Mr. Harri
man during his lifetime. The will is
dated June 8, 1903.
Mrs. Harriman was Miss Mary
Averell, daughter of W. J. Averell, a
wealthy banker of Rochester, N. Y.,
who made his money in the Rome,
Watertown and Ogdensburg ..railway
company. She brought her husband
financial aid in his early struggles in
the market, when aid was most valu
able to him. .
Their thirty-six years of married
life has always been said to have
been ideally happy.
If the estate measures up to expec
tation. Mrs. Harriman, according to
common estimation here, is the
wealthiest woman in the world. Mrs.
Hetty Green's holdings have been es
timated at $40,000,000; those of Mrs.
Frederick Courtland Penfield, who
was Anne Weightman of Philadelphia
at $80,000,000, and those of Mrs. Rus
sell Sage at a like amount.
PLANS TO BOOST SOUTH.
Resource of the South Will Be Placed
on Exhibition in Washington.
Washington, D. C. M. M. Clark,
field organizer of the Southern Com
mercial Congress, has returned to
Washington after several weeks' visit
in southern states in behalf of "a
greater nation through a greater
south." He Is enthusiastic over the
manner in which southern business
men are lending their aid. The con
gress is firmly established in five of
the 16 southern states and partially
in seven. ' v
The congress will convene in Wash
ington, which city is the headquarters,
on December 10 and 11. At that time
the cornerstone will be laid for the
Southern Commercial Congress build
ing, which will be a large office struc
ture. There will also be on exhibit all
the resources of the south and on file
quantitltes of literature pointing out
and explaining all the conditions and
advantages of Dixie Land.
MAIL REGISTRATION PRICE RAISED.
After lov. 1, It Will Cost 10 Cents
to Register a Letter.
Washington, D. C. The fee for the
registration of mail will be Increas
ed from 8 to 10 cents after November
1, 1909, according-to an order signed
by Postmaster General Hitchcock.
The maximum indemnity allowed for
the less of a registered article has
also been increased from 25 to 50
cents. f
As the registry division has been
reported to be doing business at a
loss, a committee has been" investigat
ing it with the end in view of making
it self-sustaining, and modifications to
ward economy are expected.
RURAL CARRIERS WANT PENSIONS.
Will Ask Congress to Retire Them
,After Certain Length of ServSce.
Washington, D. C. Rural free de
livery carriers are now planning for
legislation granting them a pension
after a certain number of years of
service. The subject will be discuss
ed at the forthcoming convention. It
is closely akin to the civil pension
for departmental employees, which
congress has never looked favorably
upon.
The rural carriers now number
about 41,000 and hope ' to become
strong enough one of these days to
force recognition upon congress.
ATTEMPT TO LOOT TRAIN.
Five Bandits Dynamite the Express
Car Near Leadville, Col.
Leadville, Col. A daring attempt
by five bandits to rob a Denver and
Rio Grande passenger train was made
at Leadville. . The express car was
dynamited. According to the train
men, no booty was secured.
The train had proceeded but a
short distance ironi Malta when two
men crawled over the tender and com
pelled the engineer and fireman to
march back to the express car.
The express messenger was told to
open the doer. He refused, and a
charge of dynamite was placed under
it. After firing a volley the robbers
fled into the darkness.
TO DIVIDE CALIFORNIA. -
Lower Half of State Wants to Sepa
rate State.
Los Angeles, Cal. The sentiment
aroused in some quarters to divide
California into two states, took defi
nite ehape in Los Angeles when the
California State League was made a
permanent organization at a citizens
meeting. The meeting was called to
protest against the recent action of
the state board of equalization 'in
raising the assessed valuation of the
property of this county,
General.
As the strains of "The Star-Span
:ed Banner" played by a brass band
Jf forty Highlanders died away, the
Roman Catholic priest at Aberdeen,
Scotland,' read the marriage litany
aniting Miss Anita Stewart, daugh
ter of Mrs. James Henry Smith of
NTew. York, to . Miguel of Bragonza,
jon of thg pretender to the Portu
gese throne, .
Denouncing the connecting of Mrs.
Horner's name with his as outrage
a.nd charging that his wife's suit for
Jivorce has grown out of his persist
ent refusal to embrace Theosophy,
Major J. F. Hanson, president of the
Central of Georgia railway, filed in
the Georgia superior oourt his answer
to his wife's petition for divorce. De
nying practically every charge
brought by his wife. Major. Hanson
stamps some of these charges as be
ing "unqualifiedly and absolutely un
true," while others he terms "reck
lessly and absurdly, untrue." On the
whole he charges that Theosophy
broke up his home.
J. P. Morgan, Jr., was elected to
the late E. H. Harriman's place on
the board of directors of the National
City bank. By Wall street the elec
tion is regarded - as one of the most
significant of the week's financial de
velopments, presumably indicating
that harmonious relations exist be
tween the Morgan and the Kuhn-Loeb-Standard
oil groups of finan
ciers. Added weight was given the
event because it followed so closely
upon the recent reports , that the
Morgan interests were about to take
an active interest in the government
of the Harriman roads and that the
younger Morgan was slated as the ul
timate successor of Mr. Harriman in
the command of the Union and South
ern Pacific systems.
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposi
tion entered its last quarter with
every cent of its floating Indebtedness
paid.
An important archaelogical dis
covery was announced in Mexico City
by Professor Ramon Mena, who head
ed a government expedition to Otum
ba in the state of Mexico, which has
uncovered a buried city of great an
tiquity. A pyramid similar to that
uncovered at San Juan de Tootlhacan
has been exposed. The pyramid 13
sixty feet in height and measures
two hundred feet square at the. base.
The remains ' indicate that the city
was built and occupied in the time
of the Tcltecs.
Captain Netherton, of the steamer
Comedian, reported three streams of
oil bubbling from the surface of the
Gulf of Mexico, one hundred and six
ty miles southeast of Galveston.
Soundings showed a depth of 5,400
feet. The spring comes from an ex
tension of the oil bearing strata of
the Beaumont field.
Miss Marjorie Palmer, millionaire
daughter of the late General William
J. Palmer, was married in Colorado
Springs to Dr. Henry C. Watts, who
restored her to health . after hopes
had been abandoned for her recovery.
Washington.
John R. Early, the leper, so-called,
has been struck from the rolls of the
pension bureau, as he has been found
to be entirely freer from any disease,
having recovered from the skin erup
tion which was declaised by eminent
physicians to' be leprosy. Early was
receiving $72 a month on account of
total disability. .
The postoffice department purpos
es to give inventors an opportunity to
put to practical test some of their
ideas in regard to improved methods
of tieing packages of letters In the
mails. From the thousands of de
vices submitted the department has
selected eleven, asked the inventors
to furnish twelve thousand -of each
and to begin an official test on Sep?
tember 15, Each device will be teett
ed for one week in a number of post
offices and in the railway mail ser
vice.
' Fifteen companies mining coal in
the Coal Creek fields of Tennessee
filed a complaint with the interstate
commerce commission, charging that
the Southern Railway company die
criminates against them in the rates
on coal as compared with those ac
corded operators in the Appalachia,
Tom's Creek and Black Mountain dis
tricts of Virginia. It is urged 'that
the differential of 80 cents to Knox
ville given on the Coal Creek coal
6hould be maintained in shipments to
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and
other southern points when passing
through Knoxville. To points in
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Georgia reached by both fields
through Morristown, Tenn., it is
claimed that the same rate should, ap
ply beyond that junction, with a dif
ferential to that point of 40 cents in
stead cf 25 cents, in favor cf the Coal
Creek field. The rates to Nashville
are also made the subject of com
plaint. The coast and geodetic survey . will
undertake to arbitrate the Peary-Cook
north pole controversy providing Dr.
Cook requests that it should do so.
In view of the fact that Peary has
been operating under the directions
of the survey it will become the duty
of that institution to compute : his
notes without request from any 'one,
and Acting Superintendent Perkins
said that if Cook should so desire the
survey would go over his papers also.
The International Esperanto con
gress has selected Washington, D. C",
as the meeting place in 1910 and a
special steamer will be chartered to
carry the European delegates to the
United States. , Edwin Reed, the
United States government delegate,
extended the invitation.
Any practicable assistance which
may be rendered to the flood suffer
ers at Matamoras will be given by the
troops in Texas. Orders to that ef
fect have been sent to the command
ing officer at San Antonio, Texas.
This help, however, must be confin
ed to the United ' States eide. ;
Factories for the manufacture' of
plug tobacco, whose output probably
will reach as high as twenty thous
and pounds a month, soon will be in
operation in the isthmus of Panama,
states Vice Consul General Claude E.
Guyant, of Panama City
TAR HEEL TOBACCO CROP
Reports Gathered From Many Sec
tions and Briefly Stated.
In response to a request "by the
News and Observer of Raleigh, many
reports on the tobacco crop have been
aent in and published.
- From Martin county the report in,
part is: The acreage of to
bacco in - the county was increas
ed this year about 15 per cent,
perhaps with an eager expectation of
becoming rich, on account of rains -which
were so numerous during the
early summer. The crop this year
will amount to 40 per eent less than
the crop of last year. The yield will
be about five hundred pounds to the
acre, while last year the average yield
was eight hundred and fift', or there
about. Tbe Reidsville report says: The
average this year is about the same,
or less, than last year. In pounds,
tobacco is considerably less, although
it makes up in appearance, for it is
all light in color verj' little mahog
any to be had.
The Henderson reporter 6ays : The
crop of tobacco in Vance county is
about as follows: Acreage as com
pared with last jTear, 105 per cent.
Quality as compared with last jrear,
75 per cent. Quantity as compared
with last year, 75 per cent. Prices
here are much improved and the
farmers are tetter pleased.
The report from Greenville says, the
tchatco acreage in P'ti county, this
yfur u only slightly increased over .
last jc&i not more than 10 to PJ
per cent. The quality of offerings up
to this time has been very poor, the
first primings or sand lugs and tips
consistuting probably 90 per cent
of the sales.
A Rocky Mount ieporter sa',s:
It is evident that the offeii.'ii'S on
the it bI market from Nash and Eilr
combe counties and ot'ie. s as well are
as a v-hole inferior to what was told
here last year. It seems " that
the tobacco this year falls short in
weight, and is light - and thin . and
while tips and good bnf havo ncicJ
a filial improvement in qua lily as
whai was offered la A month, thc?
are :-ii!l short of the standard.
The Kinston reporter says in part:
The acreage of the tobacco crop this
season in Lenoir and those counties-'
tributary to this market is about one-
eighth larger than that of last year. .
It is estimated that about a million
and a half pounds of the weed will
be marketed here in excess of the
amount sold on this market last year.
The quality, however, is greatly in
ferior to lhat of 1908.
The quality of the tobacco crop
in this county now being curedf
says the Dunbury reporter, is prob
ably 25 per cent inferior to that of
last year. The acreage this year is
fully as large, and probably larger,
than the 1908 output but the number
of pounds will be a good deal less
than last year, owing to the unfav
orable season, sometimes too dryt
sometimes too wet.
The Louisburg report is discourag
ing. The yield is very light and a
conservative estimate would be about
60 per cent, of last year's crop, It
is hard to judge the quality of the
crop this year by the receipts coming
in now, as these are only primings,
and are very inferior as compared
with last year. Prices as a rule are
very unsatisfactory, though trood
bodied leaf commands a good price,
this kind not offering in any quantity
however. Farmers seem to be thor
oughly disheartened, with an increas-
ed outlay they have a poorer yieia
ar.d lower prices than last 3Tear. .
From Durham is heard the local
crop will fall far short, more than a
75 per cent yield, while many fear
a slump to 60 per cent. The
average price paid for the season of
1908, was $12.80 per hundred. While
the best weed has not been marketed
yet, it is believed here that the crop
will almost reach that degree of ex
cellence owing to the lack of pounds
that result from the wet weather.
From Oxford the report is the ywld
as compared to last 3-ear is 100 per
cent. The quality of the crop as com
pared to last year 75 per cent. , It
is said to be remarkable how the to
bacco crop improved with tbe favor
able weather of August. The growth
was almost wonderful in tho course
of the month.
The Goldsboro correspondent has
this to say: The tobacco crop , in
Wayne county has proved a big dis
appointment in view of the fact that
notwithstanding an increase of acre
age this season the yield falls con
siderably below that of last year,
while there was about 15 per cent,
increase of acreage over last year.
The amount of tobacco produced
equals only three-fourths of last sea
son's crop, or in other words there
is a decrease of 25 per cent. And
too, the quality of the weed is very
inferior. At the present time better
grades are being brought in than
those marketed in August and, as a
consequence prices have advanced.
Good leaf tobacco is selling at prices
ranging from 8 to 15 cents, while a
few small piles are running as high as
$25 and $30 per . hundred poundsi