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, LCADIMO IIEVCPAPER AriD L MARSHALL, MADISON CQ,U 1 J . iCELIEVEO TO : v . - THE JI JS fER Reported That Forest Fires'ire , ;r LNoto Violent. Sixty-five Men ' Rea4h Spokane and y State That Fifteen Austrians' and ' J Two i. American Choppers Were . Burned to Death. Last Saturday On Big Creek, Idaho Many" Rangers . and Porest Fighters Are Still hjiss- Ing.. ;- '.,''.. " .' - ' J; ,'.'" "3 Spokane, , Was. (Special). Following -is the revised .tabulation of the dead in .I'-the Northwektern.forest Ares: . ' ' United States .fire fighters in and netfr ' Idaho; 8B ; V ; v -Montana "deaths... including Bullion Mine 13," ';; , , , 'L At Newport, Wash., 3. " . At Wallace, Idaho, 4. ' Near Avery, Idaho, probably settlers, .UWvS!:. v :- At Mullan, Idaho, 2. t1" At Spokane, I.- . On Big Creek, Idaho, 47, , -; . Total, 80S.'.''- . This gives a total of 303 dead, hut it is probable that some of those, Hated by places may duplicate those listed as fire fighters. Bat as many are still missing the total dead -Will probably total more than 200 when the record is completed. The fires are not so violent, and it is believed -that the worst is over.,' Sixty five men arrived ii Spokane from Big ureeK ana said that lo Austrian; ana z American choppers were burnd to deatUfUg.,. 14, had stopped because, of an Thirty Italians had already been reported niiloiit in the air hrnL-. ' The ; Austrlnns were undertaking to backfire, but their work was so Unsuc cessful that -they were killed by the fire they themselves had just lighted. It flew back on them and drove them against ft, line of flame advancing from the oppo site direction. . . , ,-' . . - MINISTER FALLS TO EEATH. Father ' of , William ' Stearns Dav . Tumbles Off Ledge. Mount Washington,' Mass. (Special). Bev. Dr. William Wall . Wilson Davis, prominent-. Congregational , minister of 11.-... n i.i i r . ..1 . ii,. ii: O i Daivts. the author, was killed bv fallinc over aie!fff"at Bash Bish Falls, one mile from the Sew York State, line. Rev. Dr. Davis was formerly stationed at Cleve land, 0., and: WorcesterMass. ' " Accompanied- by his 'daughter. Miss Fannie Stearns Davis, and his two son, William and HnruM, the clergyman was - - -V i. HVh I ' v. .. , ..ouiitcv' away. Dr. Davi' " undurtook U harness pair ot horsrs to his carnage. As he was swinging '.Re carriase around, one of the wheels struck him and pushed him over the ledse. He - fell 20 feet to the bottom,' striking on his head and breaking his neck.; ' ' Dr. Davis was' born in Western jfew 'Vn.1. RT na n irf W i a. Wtfik vIlA VII a daughter of the late President Stearns, of Amherst College, died about two years NEW METHOD OF WARFARE. Submarine Invented to Pull Battleship to Bottom of Sea. . .. Washington .(Special). In the inter, vals between the transaction of such busi ness as preparation of his annual esti . mates; writing of his annual' report and " sjipsrvising relief from the army to4hc forest fires in the: Northwest, Gen. Leon ard Wood, chief of stall of the Army, has had his attention called to a novel method ' of naval warfare. An inventor sent to his office designs' of a gigantic submarine construction, capable of ap proaching ft fleet under water, at the psychological moment flapping ' s huge . wing over the unsuspecting battleship, dragging it down to the bottom of the ocean and holding the vessel there until its crew was "drowned." General Wood has forwarded the plan to the Navy De partment. . - - , ' V ' ", CURE WAS ALMOST FATAL. Man Uses Chloroform to Relieve .-.: Neuralgia and Escapes Death. ' ' New York (Special). Henry B. Lind say ."'of Dallas, Texas,,who is staying at the Hotel Knickerbocker, applied cnioro- f orm to his face In an effort to cure neu Talgia and narrowly'eacaped being killed by the fumes. He was found lying on ih hml uneanscious. ' - '. ," i-v; Two physicians worked over him for atr hour ano; nnany manaaru u him In ennseiousness. He will recover. Lihdsay is- manager Ot the Southwestern. Life, lasuianfla Companjn, with headquar ters at Dallas. , KILLED DURING QUARREL.' Italian Shot Brother Because He An noyed His Wife. . , . Wilkes-Barre, Pa. ( Special ). Ihiring a Quarrel at fheir horn at Pittston, -near here, Mattao Fidanto was shot and, killed by his brother, Frank. The men quar reled because Frank had been annoying his 'brother's wife. The latter informed her husband, and when ' Mattao called his brother to account-Frank drew a re volver and .shot him. The murderer wcaped. , . . ' ' . : . ,. . ' YOUTHFUL MAIL ROBBER. . Twelve-Year-Old Confesses to Detect . tive Who Arrested Him. V Nelson, Neb. (Special).. A government agent arrested William Moody, aged 12, charging him with robbing the mails. The Uy broke down and confessed, after which he took the officer to a cave-where had secreted nearly a bushel of lettws, ' 0 in cash and several hundred doi SIX KILLED i:i A : REM) CRASH 1 " , - 1 Locomotive Ploughs Throngh s j v Pnliman Sleeper. VICTIMS ARE y UNABLE TO ESCAPL Collision Took Place Near . Durand, Mich., Between Second and' First Sections of the Boston and . Mon .. treal . Express The Sleeper "Ne- braska" Is Set On Fire From Fire box of Engine and - Burned Five 1 Passengers Were Injured And Eight Escaped. ' Durand, Mich. Special). Superinten dent Ehrke, of the Grand Trunk, gave out a statement that six passengnrs wre, kill ed, -flvo were injured and tight escaped without injury in the Grand Tronic rear end' collision," three- miles east ,of here, when the Pullman car Nebraska, on the eastbotind train No. 14, was demolished and set on fire by the locomotive of pass enger train No. 4, . V - Superintendent Ehrke's statement says that -the -assertion that there were- just 19 passengers on the wrecked car is borne out by-the train chart of Pullman Con ductor Hayhes and the list given out at Chicago by H. G. Elliott, first assistant general , passenger agent of the Grana , Trunk.,.. - --, . - - -j .The uninjured passengers, according to Superintendent Ehrke, who has charge of I the Grand Trunk lines west of the Do troit and St. Clair Rivers during the aoaenee ol superintendent Kgan, were checked up when the train started east ward utter the wreck, Thf forward sectinn, which wss known Mitchell, . of the forward section, had crawled under his engine-to locate the trouble. The locomotive ol the second section, known as No. 4, plowed half way through the roar sleeper of the forward train,- and the locomotive fire-box set fire to'the Pullman car. The passengers in tile rear berths had not thj slightest chance to escape, and those not killed by toe crashing timbers as the locomotive foraed through the sleeper were burned to death hi- the. fire that followed.. Half a dozen passengers,' however, seriously in jured, wera Tescued from the forward berths and taken to hospitals in-Lnrand. and Flint. . ' DROWNED RESCUING GIRL; Grabs Man About Neck When Boat - r .Capsizes On Pond. , v " Ponglikccjiflie, N. Y. , (Speclal).-rA sailboat ' containing a' party of eight eampera : -ckpsized na Pinks 'Pond, IT miles- from this ity, and two of -the partv, Irving G.v Paulding., an electrlcnl ! I'J.'ol iN liauiburgh, were drowned. . : ,.j ' -, '. -1 :. i ri All of the voiina women 'In the botft, . 1 1 n i. a t . i. . eT.cep( ..wjifs jjrnK fkiiu.uin -ui lue -ultra, 1 caught hold of the overturned boat. Miss Drake wentdowq and Paulding swam to tier rescue. 'The young woman grabbed Paulding about the neck and both sank. YOUNG GIRL A BURGLAR. Fourteen-Year-Old's Effort to Become , a Heroine. Newark, (Special). Alice Mc Laughlin, 14 years bid, unable to resist a desire to become a heroine, has confessed to having committed two "burglaries." While her aunt, with whom she- lives, was. away one day last week she ran sacked the house and later told of -having encountered a burglar, whom she drove away: with a parasol. , Today while - her aunt was again away she, repeated the little drama and told the same story. After severe questioning by the police she cftnfsssed all. : . ; . : r ; . - Wanted: A Xylotomist ,'1 Washington, D.C . (Special ), The government is hunting' for Sf xylotomist a xvlotomist is admittedhy the forest officials to bo a rarity -and to find just oneft capable of , making microscopical stuilles of trees and their structure the Civil Service Commission will hold ex aminations in all principal cities of the country October 5. The position pays $1,100 per annum. ' it.,,-.'- " : Gets Reward of $1,000. ." . New York .(Special). John Deans, the chauffeur, -who speeded after Edward T. Rosenheim's .automobile after it had kill ed Miss Grace Hough, will receive a re ward of $1,000' from Walter B. Hough, the father of the girl. Mr. Hough de clared that it Was but, just that Deans should be rewarded fdr' bringing Rosen heim to justice. '. ' ! Big Colliery Destroyed. -. , Mahanoy City,; Pa. (Special). West Bear Ridge' colliery, owned and operated by the Philadelphia, and Reading Coal and Iron . Company, at ' Mahanoy Plane, near here, was destroyed by fire. .' The colliery; which gave employment to" 600 men and. boys, was idle yesterday and the-cause of the fire is not known. The colliery . prepared and. shipped,' 175,000 tons of coal annually- and, the loss is heavy. . . - " . ,,,,. . : , iv-:!. j. " To Peport Japanese. Seattle; Wash. (Special). Eighteen Japanese women and '11, men are In the detention sheds of the ynited States Im migration Service here awaiting depor-; tation as the result of raids in- the re stricted districts of Seattle and Tacoma, conducted bv Inspector T. M. Fisher and deputies. They were arrested under the new act, wnicn "proviaes nat any im moral aliens may be deported, no, matter bow long they have been in the country. Oil Well Shooter Dies. Butler, Ps. -; (SpeoUl). Frederick Emerson Hinmaa, 82 years old, an oil well, shooter for . forty years, died at Petrol ia. ' In forty years he shot 8,500 wells, the wells requiring from 2 to 333 quarts apiece, and bo manufactured and handled more than 2.500,000 pounds of nitroglycerine. In the early days of the industry he was Uauor of the "moon lighters." so called bwanse they were compelled to shoot wells ot n!-ht. His daughter, Fanchion, for years iioed him g. mm tia . the go::ez plot . s ' y . 1 . - - .. , . , He Conspired - Against "-Vent zuela's President ' The' Government Publishes a- Full Statement of the Facts In Which is Shown That the Exiled Former President Was the Guidir.g Spirit In the Move to 'Seize President Gomez Intercepted Letters Foiled Plots. , i - Caracas (Special). The government published a full statement concerning the recent ' conspiracy . against "President Vicente Gomra, in which it is stated that Cipriano Castro, the former president of Venezuela,, who is now in exile in Fu rope, was tlio instigator of the plot. . On duly 20.-the statement savs. Gen ijrul .Uriboi informed me governor of Corneas that ie had been approached by i.arios.uararo, a Colombian, who asked him to join a plot for the capture of seizure to' take place at S;nor Gomez's farm in the suburbs of the capital, and the conspirators, armed with poignords in order to overcome any resistance,' were to compel Scnor Gomez to telephone or ders to the governor and to InsDector iwiubu, vii.cA. jknv uiuil HUB lur llie General Galavis to surrender the garri son at Caracas. According to the statement meetings were held at Cipriano Castro's Villa Zoila. Gen. Benjamin Ruiz, a Colombian, was the , leader in the plot, and from a doz-3n to 20 other persons are said to have ' been, connected with it. " Senora Meves Castro de Parra, a sister of Cipri ano Castro, the statement declares, guar anteed $30,000 to the conspirators. The government, it is said, intercepted a. letter from Celestino Castro, a brother of Cipriano, to his sister, which indicated his complicity in the plot, and also ft cir cular by Romero Garcia, a followers of Cipriano Castro, raying that President Gomez had beffer carry his will in his pocket, as Castro would make him pay for his treachery with his blood. , The statement concludes by sayingjhat the Castro families hnve been expelled from Venezuela, ; that-General Ruiz had escaped and that, several others of the alleged plotters are under arrest. , CHILD HACKED TO PIECES. Disappeared Lost Friday, Believed He ''.'' ',v.'"Was Kidnapped. . ' Kingston, N; Y, (Speiiallu Peter, the four-year-old son ot Frank Fabian, - an Italian,' disappeared from his home,' at Porterville, a few miles north of Kings ton, on Friday last. Hundreds Of Italians searched for the boy ; until Wednesday morning, when his body was found cut t" pieces alongside an outhouse bnl' ininimr neighbors' prnn"'v --.' ,ather went to e,v i and consulted a fortune-teller, and v... he returned Monday night the father said I that the fortune-teller had told him that I.i. I ' ,., : . . i . i i .1 nie uujf wouiu return wibuin iiuw uatvs. ine opinion now prevails tnat tne Doy was kidnapped, and when the kidnapper learned of what' the fortune-teller had told the father he killed the child and placed the body where it was found. :'- 11 1 ' " ' v-. SHOOTS WIFE TO DEATH. Husband After Securing Shotgun Lies In Wait Nyack, N. , Y. (Special). Edward Wegner, of Nanunt,' shot and killed his wife with a shotgun and he was arrested during the day and held for the grand lury on a charge of murder by Justice Cooper.,, of-Pearl River. Wegner and his wiie were marrieu zo years ago, ana nave one son, .18. For several years past the nome naa oeen unnappy Decauae ot vveg ner's hard drinking. , ' ; ;' For the last few months the .couple have been separated. : Mrs. Wegner and her son living together. The husband visited the farm, evidently -for the pur pose of killing his wife. He secreted him self behind a small; building' about 70 feet from the bouse, and when hi wife came out to feed the chickens he raised his gun and fired. The woman fall dead. v Child Kills Mother. Corry, Pa. : . ( Special ) . Mrs. Robert Thompson, aged 32, of Pittsfield, near here, was snot anu instantly Killed by her 12-year-old son, Dewey. .The boy had been presented with a rine and was show ing his mother; now tie would kill a burglar. ' The gun .was discharged, the bullet striking Mrs. Thompson in the head. . , y . Gov. Flower's Widow Dead. ' i Watertown, v N. - Y..' (Special) .Mrs, Roswel P. Flower, aged 74, -widow , of former Governor Flower, died at her home in this city after a month's illness from heart trouble. Sbe.leaves an estate vari ously estimated at from $4,000,0000 to $8,000,000, One daughter (Mrs. Emma r iower layior) survive, -.j t, ; - '-' Went tajBed Smoking -. ".' Pittsburg (opeoial)'. A guest at a large downtowir hotel went to bed with a lighted eigar in his mouth..-; In ft few moments his bed was afire. An alarm was turned in calling out all tha down-J town nre ngnung apparatus. . uuesu in the hotel fled panio atricken ' into the streets, scantily clad, jrrigntenea women narrowly escaped being run down by the nre Horses. - - - . Manufacturer Kills Himself. " New York (Special). Made de spondent by ill health, W. S. Klee, 37 years old, a Brooklyn clothing manufac turer, who lived at tha Hotel Ansonis with his wife arid 10-year-old - daughter, committed suicide in his apartment by shooting himself in the head.. . Gaynor's Wound Healed. ' New York' (Special). The bullet wound in Mayor Gaynor's neck has healed on the outside, and the irritation of the throat caused by granulation on the in side has ceased. The Mayor eats heartily, and will go back to his regular diet, of three meals a day. No bulletins are now issued, and only the hospital physicians are in attendance. There will be a cn;v s'l1, tinn of pi-vsieians toward the end f f . ve ' t i li a date at which it v. J - - , k-i Mrtvnr iiv. mm Reoresc: FEAR Did. Text ; of ( Korea ' I. Reprcsen: -Japanese j to Publish .Threats 01 :. 1 . . Tokio (Spit 'e,- i;v:ich tr.M en -'to I'' i. ili'jJIS. ''m- 1 -it . :nts, 1 'iC ' nly.,; ? f, t t'con- . i1, aiUe-t'j.t. i i,! ' Thi'LlSw;-, "'tab.Uuwi ' vention under to Japan was resentatives mont, which, a facts, was sir feciive wnen will occur, a ministers, Aug the Independei, Kingdom, the started the .1 oease.' - ; JSaron Hirat. summoned the Japanese news; and requested authorized int. situation in Koi such publicatio' tionf would on! Japanese govern annexation jnor, pers. agreed to I regarding he TI statements- wi)S here -beforer the mulgatlon.,of -the The Japanese ! large number bi i in Korea, vill be the machinery of n without any delay LOnsiderdule m Seoul pwjng; to t of disorder ' fjj Theso . emaifitt , " ; taken here, from not received the c think their. due in the conveiition ;i Koreavroyal f iim i bporadic outbre the absorption of anticipated, but -widespread dbiect to the annexation , : Girl ' Rlchpiond, Smlthi a we" city, jMTMmf a seri- out condition at d not give co herent-explanation -a the- alfair. Her escort, , an -unidentified young man,: has disappeared and the police are searching for nim. ; y:. '-. Killed In Runaway. . Coatesville, ..Pa. : ( Special ). -4-Morris Pierce, a prominent. farmer of Cochran ville, was thrown out of his carriage sus taining . fatal injuries, He .vas ound lying in the rosJ with, his neck''Asi and died before those who ound hidL. H him home. A coroner- a , investigating uu'r7ttu' ',,"ue,lco.",.ure.' the matter. The hTie was. driving isinarket8 at home and abroad. said to nave oeconie arigncenea ana run away. " ; k - . .Found Dead in Surrey. : White Plains,;UfY. (Special). Geo. W. Burlinson, former deputy commis sioner of jurors of Westchester county, was found dead here in s .surrey hf the rear of Joseph Smith's blacksmith shob. His head was hanging down over the side of the -carriage and be had evidently been choked to death by a high collar which he was wearing - Burlinson was assistant secretary of the Democratic county com mittee for . several years. He leaves a widow and two sons, who" live in Dan bury, Conn. !, .vjif' - - ' Madris U Flight ' - - Colon (Special).---The viptorious army of the insurgents is iishing on Managua to save Americans from the wrath of mobs in the capital if Nicaragua, accord ing to dispatches .received here, Presi dent Madriz is reported to be In flight and Gen. Juan EsttaJt; who will receive the reins of Boverimient Irom his brother. to whom they were gjyen by Madriz, is determined to main the" most of his op portunity of gaining the good graces ot Washington by protecting Americans. -Kills Wife nd Self. , Philadelphia (Special). During a quarrel at - their ' home' here, Elwood. Mi- Smith, a contractor, well-known , among local horsemen, 'iot his wife in the breast and theft fired a bullet into his own brain, dying instantly. Mrs. Smith expired on the way to the hospital. . The couple had been separated for six months but a reconciliation wss effected.: About noonr however, Smith's, voice' was heard in angry tones and a trw moments utter the two shots rang tut The Smiths leave three'ohildren.' ,1 ' 'v ... c.. ; Stung By Wssp; Dies. . Watertown. N. Y. ;" ( Special ) .Mrs. Frank Dimmock, aged years, ot Nat ural Bridge, while -picking berries in a field near her borne wss stung on the arm bv a yellow wasp, walked ft Jew feet and dropped dead.- v-. . " . " Take- Up Automobiles. Pottstown, Pa. (Special). An evi dence of the farmers' prosperity and their inclination to keep up v ''h dwellers in the cities in the way r menta is the reports 1 agents, who sxy they are ness v '' 'i ' "u t,iian"v Dow i i -'yak W cry a ..'ifttinet Cirit- ' 1 'r ' modern enjn n autonmb: rg more bt" tt'wn peo-, ip, Mont: v Menrj " 'eB sold l i, who ev wid-bi llitomnl, llr thcsdeclartionaof tnw' tuif ,jwr.v.- " : , i fc' y. The Local . Anzeiger lays stress upon the desire of the Emperor that the peo ple co-operate with him, and points out that the Emperor delivered the speech in the castk) where the-Prussian kings were formerly crowned. He sain in the same hall in May, 1890 1 "We Hohenzollerns take our crown from heaven alone," and in the same place on September 6, 1S04, he quoted the words of his grandfather William I. about ruling by divine right, and added: "So, too, do I take my king dom by God's grace." . The Tageblatt affirms that although prices did not fall on the exchange, trad ing Blackened, and brokers apprehend an unfavorable influence of the speech upon SMITH BY 3,476. Hoke Has 230 Votes to Gov. Brown's 138. Atlanta, Ga. ( Special.) . Complete returns , from the Democratic : stale primaries show that Hoke Smith will have 230; votes in convention against Gover nor Brown's 138.; . Smith's popular majority is 3,476 votes. The vote fell about 30,000 short of the total vote of two years ago, owing to the registration date being two months earlier. .- . . : '; Other results were unchanged except that latest returns reversed the decision of prison commissioner, -Robert E. Davi son winning over G. R. Hutchens. ' - CLIMBS PIKE'S PEAK. WpmaiC Aged 70, Only Little Tired - After Feat " Colorado Springs, Col. ; (Special). Mrs. Mary Powell, of Philadelphia, 70 years old, has walked from Manltou to the top of Pike's Peak and back, return ing to Manitou. . Mrs. Powell, , who is visiting Manitou, Is an experienced pedes trian. .' '- f ' ., - . On retnrnihg from her trip to the peak, which many strong, young men would 1 slum, , Mrs. Powell said,' "I'm a little. tireU from my walk. She' started out Wednesday;. morning,' reaching, the summit before dark and returned by moonlight . -':; : ' JERSEY JAIL ROBBED, r Thieves Steal Breakfast Intended fot ' . ' ' Prisoners. . Morrktown, TS. J. (Special). For the third time in two. months th .Morris County Courthouse has been broken open and the iail pantry raided. George Hill. janitor and cook, , discovered the thieves had gotten away with 10 pounds of roast beef and a dozen loaves of Uread which were to have been used for the break fast of the prisoners. , . ' entrance was eiiectea mrougn a case ment window. ' His Pardon Too Late. - Chicago (Special). At the funeral ol Mrs. Caroline Shipman McReynolds, at Kenilworth was her son, George, whose release from. Joliet Penitentiary after nearly three years, was accomplished t'mouu'h the mother's requests ftnd tears, a ' 'i her cherished hope that she in t see liim before she' died was not r .!. ".M'ileynolds, a former broker, i v. r i'.viited of securing $70(KI., !0 n fraudulent gram r ' t, : a hours afi.er las ' r . 7.- .n 1 Hill !: - ' coui.try. . I r oseveV I.. , n I- , o ' of V ' r . I'.e has .,) k "K ! ot , l'Ui.. ),,. .Oft . . was,-- U-'.. ut t.-wiW .Jlfo Jjasks, anS to ; learn to know ' their feellngrs by actually sharing' them: Tha man of the west, throughout the succes sive ataarea of westarn arrowth, ..has l w iys been one of the two or three- most typical fltrures indeed. I am tempted to ay the most typical figure In jUnerican Ufa; and no man can really understand our country and appreciate what it really Is and what It promises unless he has the fullest and closest sympathy with the ideals and aspirations of the west The prime reason for this Is to be found In the fact the westerner Is so srood an American. He is an American first and foremost; for 'this Is . th great lesson, friends, that all of us need to learn and to keep, the lesson that lt is unimportant whether a man Uvea north or south, east or west, provided he Is genuinely and In good faith' an American, that he feels every part of the United States as his ewn, and that he Is honestly desirous to uphold the Interests of all other Ameri cans In whatever sections ot the country they may dwell. !- A hundred years' ago, when men spoke of the west they meant the country be tween the Alleghanles and the Mississippi. Fifty years ago the white man's, west took In Minnesota, towa and Kansas, and then skipped across to California and Oregon. . The country of the great plains and the Rockies, the country In which you whom I am now addressing lead your lives and do your work, haa grown up within my own lifetime. I myself saw and took part in the closing years of v the .pioneer period, and it was my great priv ilege to work'slda by aide with tha pio neers tha ranchmen. - tha miners, the cow-ptmchers. tha mule-sklnnera, the bull whackers who actually openefl up the country. I have seen the herds. and flocks of the cattlemen and sheepmen supplant the game;-I have seen the fortunate movement by which- the small farm has tended gradually to take the place of the great Unfenced ranch. I now travel In very comfort on railways across lands which, when I first rode across them, were still the home of the Indian and the buffalo; and X And cities where one can obtain not merely ebmforV but luxury. In the places where thirty years ago there was not building beyond s log hut or a doble bouse. The men who did this work were engaged In the final stages of con quering the continent; and lt was their privilege to do ana of the great works ot all time, to do their part In the perform ancn of an epic feat In the history of the progress of mankind. - ; :; :v . West Stsnds for .Progress. . ', I have "used, ths word progress.- The west stands for growth, for progress. Bo must the whole American people stand. A great democracy must be progressive or It will soon cease- to be either great or democratic. No nation, no state, no party, can stand still. It must either go forward or go backward; and it becomes useless If It goes backward. - Therefore I greet you, men of the west and I stand for progress as all men must stand who are progressive. - The pleneers and their Immediate sue- eessors won victory Only by proving that they possessed the great masterful Quali ties which He at the foundation of Na tional -greatness. There are certain well- meaning men of intellectual cultivation. but lacking mental and moral robustness, whs complain continually that they And American lire, and especially the life of those American communities emerging rrom tne pioneer stage, crude and with out genius or beauty.. Genius Is a fine thing for a nation, but character Is a Still finer thing, and though beauty Is good, strength is an even greater good. The men who have made this great republic. f the west what It is. and especially the men who have turned lt into a continental commonwealth, have possessed In the highest degree the great virile virtues of strength, courage, eneriry. and undaunted and unwavering resolution. Their typical leaders of whora Abraham Lincoln, though the most exceptional, was the most typical have possessed keen Iniel- llgence. and a character not mereiv strong but lofty, a character exalted by the fact mat great power was accom panied bv a hu-'n and fine e term nation to vne this irreut power for tha common c-iod, for the advancement of mankind. 1 ne pioneer days are over, save in e iw I aces; and the more complex iue of -t t -r a irre?5fer variety f.f - s. it.! i -re ii on tha . . . i need tit nn.snt i i a lt... i: .-loinncat, of new e ? ua t i.roujilit to hirv pe; i v 4i V i of.tralnlup uaelej i s ;. ' i.fit these m v. qu.- - uient, and near aupi !. !y vl-iifs; the' need nr.'.' Hsiinctive.' pioneer v r"-. ex-flr. la otlr word ; I f'ows older .and in. - it is true that we n- I t if- d ability, and niw.l ! . !iv ar devot. . w:. - r i-v1fti- obK- - 1 ". ),. ' r of ! in..- ''".ft.- tn C' u 1 Ihhr .hetterutf-nt ,r social' ftnd economic onub CSV-. conditions in our Complex -Industrial llxatlon, we should work In the old froi tier spirit of motherly .comradeship nd good will. I do not mean that we should" leulr refrain from hating wrong: on the con . trary. I .would Breach nrev wrath against wrong.- But I would not preach t such wrath against the wrong-doer; - save In those cases where , his wrong dpi EC really Is due to evil moral attributes est his part and not to. a wrong or false ays- ; tern, of which- he is almost u much the . victim as the beneficiary. Sometimes wrong represents tne o ell Derate wlcseOr - J ness of the wrong-doer. In' which case . the remedy Is .to punish him, but some times tt represents the effects of ft .fats -. social system, in which case the right , course la to alter what Is false In the system. Both principles need to be -kept 1 in view as guides to our conduct, sad tt . is necessary sometimes to work in ae- t cordance with one and sometimes In ae- t cordanca with the other. w ciiuiu, . ..,. w W.J nuu .11 , something which I believe should earne- j dally interest all men who live in the : open country, and especially all men who during the past thirty years have lived! their life work in the wilder parts of oar land, on the great plains or among the mountains. The phase of our national -life In which the stockman, the mini net r prospector, were the chief characters, was not only s very important but also a , -ery picturesque phase. Often ouch ' phase passes without any great artist ' arising to commemorate It , . . ' . The old-time backwoodsman, . for lav Stance, the man of the back country, who lived In the eastern forests throngh which the waters ran eastward to the Atlantic and westward to the Iflsslastppi. i passed away without any . painter eg j sculptor arising who possessed stt One both the keenness of vision to see what ft vital and picturesque figure ths buw- -woodsman was; and the genius adequate- ly to present that figure. The artist whet saw that plctureaqueness of the back- ' woodsman lacked the genius adeqn-tcty to commemorate It,, while the artists eC'i real ability unfortunately had their eyes turned towards Europe and lacked the ro bust originality which the novelist Coop er showed to see where their chances lay '. to do a great work.; But In our genera- v tlon, for our good fortune a great artist , arose who was capable of seeing and of recording the Infinite plcturesquenesa of t the life of the plains and the Rockies. . j. ' Eulogy of Remington. Of course I speak of Frederic Remlmr- ' ton. He. was one of those Americans who by his achievements distinctly deserved well of America. Re worked with pencil. " with brush, with chisel, he was both a. painter and a sculptor. His pictures and his few bronzes are equally good. When my own regiment, ft typically western r, regiment recruited mainly from the anem of the great plains and the mountains, was disbanded at Moatauk Point, the out- oers end enlisted men Joined In giving : me Remington's "Bronx Branoe Buster, a gift which I thought peculiarly appro priate coming from such ft body of men. la Remington's pictures all the ire t ' vivid and characteristic feetnres of i e western pioneer life which Is Just c-a -were set forth, : and the commemnrt. 4 forever the men of the plains and te mountains aa they actually were. 1 -m mavtHaw im kta famirft. . . , . . . Ing prosDector. the frontier fi. ,-,, .... man who guides ox-wagon or nm e-t-.ro. the soldier, the Indian ell r. Ninsr ' I wish very much that the i-,en tbeni- selves would 1u their turn r - K. f- men. ument for the greHt art t tne S'm of whose activities represent r i a t ...in,e of American achievemerit.s. e f p ... all, represents a commemn,,. , ', f ,. , of the most intereptttiff t : . , ever appeared on the S';- c f hfe. - A slfttue should be i , t , ington bv some renuy lu?.t , ? r Here et 'lieyer.e In t many huniii,..i8 of the r ..-i toirether who w-re th, leaders in and ts-nrpsfin..- v life whkh hfir ..-ton i-j i It will alwnvs I .e. ' I i men will J. 'n t r:i. f, pointmenl i( a . ii!.. , raise fun. Is for tee-stai'.!.
The News-Record (Marshall, N.C.)
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Sept. 1, 1910, edition 1
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