Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 12, 1906, Page 4

FIREMEN MAY STRIKE PRESIDENT UNDERWOOD OF THE ERIE REFUSES DEMAND FOR SHORTER HOUKS, NEGOTIATIONS PRACTICALLY AT END MEMBERS OF EMPLOYES' COM- MITTEE DECLARE A WALK- OUT IMMINENT, % PR ~ New York, Nov. 12.—President Un- derwood of the Erie Railroad company has declined to grant a demand for a reduction in working hours which had been made by a committee represent- ing the firemen employed by that company. John J. Hanrahan, grand master of the Brotherhood of Railroad Firemen, informed Mr. Underwood that his response to the demands of the firemen was unsatisfactery and that a poll of the Erie firemen would at oncé he taken to determine whether or not they will strike. The firemen’s demands are said to be equivalent to an Increase of 10 per cent in wages. Seventeen hundyed men are said to be affected. Their committee had a conference Friday with General Man- ager Stuart of the Erie, who refused their demands. They took the matter to President Underwood. He told them he should not have been ap- pealed to after Mr. Stuart had given his decision. The president also ad- vised the firemen to go home and wait until the matter could be investigated. Negotiations Broken Off. Grand Master Hanrahan replied that no further investigation was neces- sary and that the Erie paid its firemen less than any of its three competing roads between New York and Chicago —the New York Central, the Pennsyl- vania and the Baltimore and Ohio. After the conference the firemen’s committee had a meeting and decided that negotiations with the Erie offi- olals should cease. Some of the mem- bers of the committee said that a strike appeared to be imminent. Warren M. Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi- neers, arrived in this city during the day to confer with a committee of the engineers of the Delaware, Lacka- wanna and Western railroad, who are to have a conference with President ‘W. H. Truesdale over a demand for an increase in wages. Overtures made to the New York Central and New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads by the com- mittee of the Brotherhood of Firemen were reported to be progressing favor- ably. WITH EASTERN ROADS. Demands of Employes Nearing Satis: factory Adjustment, New York, Nov. 12—The demands of the rallroad engineers, firemen and other trainmen of the Eastern rail- roads for increases in wages and read- justment of hours are believed by offi- clals of the unions involved to be near a satisfactory adjustment. Assistant Grand Chief Hurley of the engineers’ brotherhood said that the 800 engineers of the Lackawanna road were close to a settlement with Pres- ident Truesdale of that road and that in all probability an equally satisfac- tory outcome would follow on the New York Central, New York, New Haven and Hartford, the Erie and New Jer- sey Central. BIG COAL DOCKS BURN, Fire at Chicago Causes a Loss of $757,000. Chicago, Nov. 12.—The docks ot the Lehigh Valley Coal company, sit- uated at One Hundredth street and Commercial avenue, were totally de- stroyed by fire, causing a damage, as estimated by the officers of the com- pany, of $757,000. The fire originated from some un- known cause in the engineroom, which was situated in the basement of & coalhouse in which 50,000 tons of hard coal were stored. The flames spread so rapidly that the employes were forced to run for their lives with- out being able to send word of the fire to the down town officers of the company. The coal is steadily burn- Ing and It is expected that it will be several days before the fire is entirely extingulshed. The company’s loss in hoisting machinery is estimated at about $200,000. This amount is, how- ever, included in the total of $757,000. AFFECTS TWELVE THOUSAND. Montana Mine and Smelter Employes Get More Wages. Butte, Mont, Nov. 12.—Twelve thousand employes of the mines and smelters in Montana have been grant- ed an Increase of wages averaging 26 cents a day, beginning Nov. 16. The increase of the Amalgamated company employes was ordered by H. H. Rog- ers. Oil Trust Files Demurrer. Chicago, Nov. 12.—Formal demurrer has been filed in the United States district court by the Standard Ofl com- pany of Indiana to the indictments against it in which the company is charged with rebating. The indict- ments against the oll company, which were returned some weeks ago, con- tain 6,000 counts. 'Arguments on the demurrer will be made later. e 3 g BRYAN DISCLEES ELECTION, VIG‘I‘ORY Fu" HA'[HUADI GENERAL SETER DYING. Sets Considerable Satisfaction From the Outcome. Liacoln, Neb., Nov. 12.—Comment- Ing on the result of the election W. J. Bryan ‘gets considerable satis- factlon in viewing the outcome from a Democratic standpoint. He regrets the defeat of W. R, Hearst in New York, but cunuot see wherein President Roosevelt can find any comfort in the vote of the Empire state. Mr. Bryan says the president’s personal attack on Mr., Hearst was in very bad taste and he insists that the attack did not favorably impress the public. Particularly gratifying to the Dem- ocratic heart, says Mr. Bryan, is the return of Missouri to the fold. In & statement Mr. Bryan says in part: “The election of 1906 indicates a trend in favor of the Democratic par- ty. It proves that the Democratic party Is growing stronger as Repub- lican policies are developed. In New York the party has won a signal vie- tory In spite of the tremendous efforts put forth in behalf of the administra tion. The fact that the Democrats elected every state officer excepting the governor shows that in the Em- pire state the Republican party has been repudiated.” SAY BRUCE IS AHEAD, Republicans Claim New York Lieuten ant Governorship, New York, Nov. 12—John E. Smith, secretary of the Kings county Repub- lican campaign committee, said that In the neighborhood of 5,000 additional votes had been discovered for M. Linn Bruce, Republican candidate for lieu- tenant governor. He said: “We have received returns from practically every election district in the county. We have tabulated them and have discovered that the Demo- cratic claims made on election day that Chanler had a plurality of 34,000 in Kings county had been exaggerated. Our figures show that he received a plurality of less than 30,000. These figures will be verified by the board of canvassers, which will meet Wednes- day. According to the latest reports Mr. Chanler’s plurality throughout the state is In the neighborhood of 1,200. These additional votes In Kings county will undoubtedly elect Bruce lieutenant governor.” INNOVATION IN BANKING. Huge Automobile Safe Sent After Deposits, New York, Nov. 12—The Night and Day bank of this city has started an innovation which, it is expected, will please business men who make late deposits. To make late collectiong and to avold the risk of sending de- posits to the bank by messenger the bank officlals have had built a spe- clally designed automobile, containing a huge safe, which will call on all regular depositors. Each depositor who desires to have his money taken to the bank by the collectors receives a metal deposit box, numbered and enclosed in a leather case. In this he puts his currency and checks and when the machine comes around he turns the box, locked, over to the messenger, who gives him a receipt for the box, “contents un- known.” On the stub of the duplicate receipt which the messenger s to take back to the bank is a memorandum of the box’s contents, WILL COST TWO MILLIONS. Coke Ovens to Be Constructed at Khedive, Md. Cumberland, Md., Nov. 12.—The Briar Hill Coal and Coke company, composed largely of Pittsburg cap- itailsts, has let contracts for the sink- ing of four mine shafts and the con- struction of 1,000 coke ovens at Khe- dive, on the line of the proposed Un- fon town and Wheeling Short line, which will be a part of the extension of the Wabash to be built from Cum- berland to Wheeling. The enterprise complete will cost about $2,000,000. It will be the first attempt to coke Green county coal. A new town will rise where the shafts are to be sunk. The company expects to give employment to 2,200 men. . NO ASSISTANCE AT PRESENT. Shaw Will Do Nothing to Relieve Fi- nancial Situation, ‘Washington, Nov. 12.—Secretary Shaw has returned to the city from his campaigning tour. When asked if any- thing would be done to relieve the financial situation he replied that ‘“‘un- less conditions materially changed he would not refund, buy bonds,-increase deposits nor do anything else.*"- The treasury, he says, holds $25,000,000 that can be used as a last resort, but it will not be used until absolutely necessary. What has been done has been in response to business condi- tlons. Unless business conditions generally are again disturbed nothing turther need be expected. Hoch’s Plurality Reduced, Topeka, Kan, Nov. 12.—Officlal re- turns are coming in more rapidly and the general effect is to cut down Hoch’s plurality as shown by the un- officlal reports, ~ With forty-three counties received Hoch’s plurality was *ut to 2,729. Hoch gained 3 in Rooks and 25 in Osage counties and Harris made a gain of 126 in Sedgwick county. Alleged Bank Robbers Jailed. Centralia, TIl,, Nov. 12.—The alleged , Odin bank robbers, who blew up the ! bank at Odin, eight miles north of here, on Friday merping, Oct. 26, and ' who were arrested at Terre Haute,' Ind, by Willlam Dwyer, chief of the | detective force of that city, have been placed safe” behind the bars of the l Marion county jail at Salem. GIVEN THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF VALUABLE LAND BY KAN- %, 8AS COURT DECISION. AUNDREDS OF PERSONS AFFECTED OCCUPANTS OF BOVH SIDES OF +HE ENTIRE RIGHT OF WAY | ORDERED OUSTED, Topeka, Kan., Nov., 12.—Thousands of acres of the most valuable farm land in Kansas, together with a large amount of land located in towns and cities of the state, is given to the Missourl, Kansas and Texas railroad by a decision handed down by the Kansas supreme court in the cass of that raiiroad company against one ‘Watson. In July, 1866, congress granted to the Union Pacific Railroad company, Southern branch, now the Missourl, Kansas and Texas Rallway company, a right of way 200 feet wide from said rallway to the south line of the state, a distance of about 150 miles. After- ward patents were issued to private persons for land through which the railroad runs without excepting the right of way. The persons holding these patents have treated the right of way as being only 100 feet wide. In some cases valuable improvements have been made by them on the outer fifty feet on each side of the railway tracks and they have occupied the land without disturbance for many years. The railroad company brought suit to oust these occupants and the court now decides in its favor. The land affected by the decision lles in Geary, Morris, Lyon, Coffey, ‘Woodson, Allen, Neosho and Labette counties, in one of the most fertile portions of the state. Among the larger places touched in these counties by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rallway are White City, Council Grove, Emporia, Burlington, Chanute, Par sons, Oswego and Chetopa, Mr. Watson, the defendant, is one of the many landholders occupying land along the Union Pacific right of way. It is belleved that the case will be appealed to the United States su- preme court. FORMERLY AN OFFICIAL SPY. Youth Who Threw Bomb Precipitating Blalystok Massacre, St. Petersburg, Nov. 12.—The man named Schekter, who threw the bomb at Police Captain Samsonoft of Bialy- stok, one of the terroristic acts pre- cipitating the Jewish massacre there, has been convicted and sentenced to ten years at hard labor. The prisoner, who is a mere youth, testified that he entered the terrorist organization as a spy at the instance of the police in 1904 and served the police faithfully for two years. But he became con- verted to the theories of the revolu- tlonists and determined to expiate his treachery by killing Captain Sam- sonoff. ® 2 This recalls the famous case of Deg- dieft, a member of the inner council of the terrorist organization, who, after the assassination of Emperor Al- exander II. in 1881, sold himself to Colonel Suderkin, chief of the secret police, betrayed 1,000 of his comrades and finally confessed his treachery and atoned for it by killing Suderkin in 1883. Degdieff fled to Amerieca, where, it was reported, he took up his abode under another name. OIL TRUST IN SHIP TRUG‘ Standard Gets Strong Interest in Mer. cantile Marine. New York, Nov. 12.—The Journal of Commerce says it has learned from a responsible source that Standard Ofl interests have recently acquired a sub-. stantial interest In the securities of the International Mercantile Marine company. This interest Is so exten- sive that the Standard Oil people have asked representation on the board of directors of the trust. In compliance with this request Thomas W. Joyce, one of the repre- sentatives of J. P. Morgan & Co. on the board, handed in his resignation and at a special meeting of the board John F. Archbold was elected to fill the vacancy, Mr. Archbold is the son of John D. Archbold, vice president and director of the Standard Oil com- pany. ALL WELL ON THE LOUISIANA, Wireless Message From Vessel Carry- ing Roosevelt. Norfolk, Va., Nov. 12.—The wireless telegraph station at Cape Henry at 9 &. m. was in touch with the battleship Louisiana, bearing President Roose- | velt and party to the isthmus of Pan- ama, The operator on the Louisiana reported “nothing doing,” meaning that all was well on the ship and that President Roosevelt had no message j to send at that time. The operator did not give the exact location of the Louisiana. Trial of Packers Postponed. Chicago, Nov. 12.—Trial of the charges against the various packing companies under indictments alleging a combination in restraint of trade and commerce has been postponed until Dec. 10. " Neither the counsel for the government nor-the packing com- | panies was ready to proceed to trial. ‘L‘_t——"—‘—vv—r*"v Llttle Hope for Recovery of Retired Army Officer, Bakersfield, Cal,, Nov. 12—The con- 1ition of Major General Shafter, who s lying critically ill with pneumonia at his ranch near this city, is un- shanged. During the entire night GENERAL SHAFTER physicians were in coustant attend- ance. It was announced on the re- turn of the doctors from the ranch that a decided change for the better must be apparent at once or lifer will be despaired of. UNCLE SAM AFTER LANDS, Coal Properties as Object of Suits'in Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City, Nov. 12.—Suits in- stituted by the federal government to recover thousands of acres of coal lands now being held by the Utah Fuel and the Pleasant Valley Coal com panies came up during the day before Judge John A. Marshall in the United States district court. These coal com: panies are known as the Gould cor- porations and are controlled in the interests of the Denver and Ric Grande railway system. The defense questions the jurisdiction of the Utah court over the two coal companies, which are incorporated in New Jersey, and over the Morton Trust company of New York, which, as holder of bonds of the coal companies in trust, is a co-defendant. FIVE COACHES OVERTURNED. One Man Killed and Score of Persons Injured in Wreck, Blanchester, 0., Nov. 12.-~A" wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwest: ern road resulted in the dedth.of one man and the injury of nearly a score of other persons. Fifteen of the in Jured were taken to Cincinnati -and’ the physicians fear that several may die. R Passenger train No. 5, Conductor Graham, struck a broken rail. The engine, postal and baggage cars passed, but five coaches were wrecked, turned over and rolled down the bank Three little children of oné family were injured, one having its leg: crushed. All the crew escaped except Conductor Graham, who was injured BATTLESHIPS ALL RIGHT, No Defective Tubes Used in Any o1 the New Vessels. ‘Washington, Nov. 12.—In connec tion with the report from Pittsburg that the grand jury at that place had indicted three officials of the Shelby Steel Tube company on charges of il legally tampering .with marks upon steel tubes, intended to be used in the boilers of warships, Rear Admiral Ray, engineed-in-chief of the navy, stated that not a single defective .tube had been placed in any of the battleships. The tubes, he said, are subjected to two inspections at the place of man physical test, which, he said, would surely disclose the existence of any defect HELD TO THE GRAND JURY. Charles W. Norton, Alleged Swindler, Is Bound Over. Chicago, Nov. 12.—Charles W. Nor- ton, accused of using the mails to pro. mote a fraudulent scheme and arrest- ed at the instigation of postoffice in- spectors, has béen held to the federal grand jury at Toledo, O., by United States Commissioner Foote. Norton will be taken te Toledo to answer to the charge of obtaining 16,000 shares of mining stock through a fraud per- petrated on Thomas Smurthwaite, an official of the mining company, by rep- resenting himself as'a member of a brokerage company, which the gov- ernment officials declare is fictitious. Three Men Killed by Train. New York, Nov. 12,—Three men were struck by a rapidly moving train and instantly killed at Park avenue and Fifty-sixth street. The men were electricians and were working on the tracks of the New York Central rail- road uader the Fifty-sixth street bridge making electrical connecticns on the third rail when the train bore down upon them. 5 Colorado Volcano In Eruplloh. Trinidad, Colo, Nov 12.—Mount ufacture and finally subjected to heavy | Latc News of the World % WOULD START UPRISING TRANSVAAL COLONY BOER AT HEAD OF SMALL FORCE IN CAPE COLONY. COMPELLING FARMERS T0- ENLIST _— . COLONIAL GOVERNMENT ADOPTS MEASURES TU SUPPRESS THE DISORDER, Capetown, Cape Colony, Nev, 12— A disturbance has occurred fin the northwestern part of Cape Colony. The official report of the affair says that several Boers, led by a man named Ferreira, recently employed in Germarn Southwest Africa, entered the northwestern part of this colony a few days ago and surprised a police camp in the vicinity of Witkop, wound- ing two troopers, seizing their arms and ammuaition and, subsequently cap- turing a corporal of “police. At Abi- quasaar Ferreira, who is a Transvaal colony Boer, gained some recruits and marched to Zwart Modder, about twenty-five miles from the frontier, where he 1s reported to be compelling the farmers to join his forces, assert- ing that an uprising in the Transvaal 1s imminent. The colonial government has adopt- ed measuves to suppress the disorder. FIFTY THOUSAND ON STRIKE Polish Childrcr: Refuse to Respond in German. Berlin, Nov. 12.—Fifty thousand Polish children persist in refusing to respond in the German language to re- liglous instruction in the public schools and the Prussian government continues to apply measures designed to convince the children and their parents that their resistance will be ot no avail. All Prussian Poland is stirred by the outbreak of race and religious hatred. The events in Russia appear to have stimulated the Polish national move- ment so that the Polish newspapers and Polish agitators have taken a more <ggressive attitude against the gover. “cnt, selecting ‘‘the Prussian educatic. w™ministry’s requirement that religious i.-iruction be given in Ger man as the principle to combat, be cause upon it could the religious feel- ing of Catholic Poland be consolidated and a certain amount of support be won from the Vatican, while at the same time the government might be ‘weakened by the hesitation of the German Catholic party to oppose their Polish co-religionists, LOSS OF HALF A MILLION. Destructive Fire Occurs at Scran ton, Pa, Scranton, ‘Pa., Nov. 12.—Fire of un- known origin destroyed the Carter & Kennedy six-story building occupied by the Foote & Shear Hardware com- pany and the J. Scott Inglis Carpet and Furniture company and the large two-story building of J. D. Williams Bros. company, dealers-in confection- ery, toys and house furnishings. The Connell building, an eight-story office structure adjoining, was damaged on the upper floors. Only its fireproof construction and thick fire walls sep: arating it from the Carter & Kennedy building saved this structure from de- struction. and the city from a con- flagration, as the destroyed building was in the part of the city where large business blocks and office struc: tures are centered. The total loss ig estimated at $500,000. Seven firemen were Injured, one of them, Joseph Jay, seriously. REQUESTS ARE REFUSED. Cuban Sugar Planters Ask Military Protection, Havana, Nov. 12—The feeling of insecurity throughout the island is shown by numerous applications by proprietors of sugar plantations for detalls of American troops to guard the sugar mills during the approach- ing cutting season. The owners offer to supply free quarters for the troops, hoping to re- celve such military protection as was customary under Spanish-rule during the last revolution. The military -au- thorities have refused to grant any of the applications. STEAL MACHINE GUN. Latest Exploit of St, Petersburg Revo- lutionists. St. Petersburg, Nov. 12.—The most recent exploit of the St. Petersburg ! revolutionists is the theft of a ma- chine gun of the latest model and a large supply of cartridges. It is pre- sumed that”an expert gunner is in- volved, because all the necessary ac. | Culebra, which is located forty miles cessories were simultaneously ab- west of Trinidad, fs reported in a' stracted from the armory. The pre: state of cruption. Postmaster Adolph ' fect of police has issued an order spe- Storz of Stonewall, who lives within : cially emphasizing the necessity of re- twelve miles of the peak, has sent capturing the gun, word here that smoke and vapor can be seen {ssuing from the mountain. Fifteen Persons Injured, Bloomington, 1ll, Nov. Nashville special on the Ilinofs. Cen- tral railroad, northbound, was wrecked at Buckley. The whole train left the ' ately with the erection of a $150,000 | | “- Pythian Home for Aged. Chicago, Nov. 12.—The Illinois grand lodge, Knights of Pythias, which 12.—The ' 18 holding. its thirty-seventh annual convention here, has instructed - its board of trustees to proceed immedi- | track, but none of the coaches turned Pythian home at Decatur, 1ll., for old : over, train crew were more ‘or less injured, none fatally. i Fifteen of the passengers and people and orphans. , ; od $25,000 and sixty acres of land for - | the institution. % . | Decatur donat- ‘light, $6.90@6.37%; pigs, | CARRIED OVER EAGLE FALLS. Three Wisconsin Young Men Narrowly Escape Death, Marinette, Wis, Nov. 12.—Three Marinette county young men, Albert Marsh, Warren Hale and James Forbes, had a miraculous escape from death, They were crulsing in the vicinity of the Eagle falls on the Pesh- tigo river and tried to cross the river in a boat, The boat upset and the men and craft went over Eagle falls. The falls are eight or ten feet high and full of jagged rocks, The foot of the falls s a swirling mass of water Wwith whirlpools and eddies. The young men and boat were swept over before any assistance could reach them. Hale 18 a good swimmer and was able to make the shore. Marsh was carried through the rapids and depos- fted on a sandbar In an unconscfous condition and rescued by friends and has recovered, but Forbes had .the most miraculous escape. He was car- ried through the rapids and was in the water several minutes. At times parts of his body could be seen and friends on the shore put out In a boat and finallly succeeded In grabbing him.' His almost lifeless body was taken ashore and all the methods used to restore life in similar cases were tried and he was finally resuscitated. PROBE HARRIMAN SYSTEM. Interstate Commerce Commission tc Begin Investigation, ‘Washington, Nov. 12.—A general in- vestigation of what is known as the Harriman system of railroads, under authority conferred by law, is one of the subjects that has been discussed by the interstate commerce commis- sion. Because of the pressure of work now before the commission and the great amount of labor and the time involved in suck an undertaking, the matter has thus far been considered only in an informal and tentative way and no final decision has been reached as to when the proposed inquiry shall begin or the methods to be followed In securing the ‘information desired. The commission, it is said, really stands committed to an inquiry. “We have been informed,” a mem- ber of the commission said, “that this system in some of its features is not unlike the Northern Securities com: pany, which was dissolved through the interposition of the attorney general of the United States.” ROBBED OF THE RETURNS, Messenger and Ballots of a Nevads District Missing. Reno, Nev., Nov. 12—Tom Bigfoot, an Indian runner, to whom the election ballots and returns of the Wonder ining district were glven Wednes day, has disappeared and deputy sher- iffs are scouring the country sixty miles east of Reno for him. Upon the returns rests the fate of the candi- dates for judge in the Second district and the fate of several Churchill coun- ty candidates. It is believed that the Indian was intercepted and robbed of the returns and that he fled to the hills for fear of prosecution. Kills Wife in Crowded Market, Harrisburg, Pa, Nov. 12.—Jacot Stehman, a boilermaker employed at the Pennsylvania steel works at Steel ton, near here, shot and killed his wife In the crowded Broad street mar- ket. Stehman and his wife have been lving apart for some time, she being employed as housekeeper for a York county trucker, who attended market Drops Dead at Revival Meeting. Kansas City, Nov. 12—D. O. Smart, one of the wealthiest pioneer citizens of this city, died of apoplexy while participating in a revival service at the Independence Avenue Christian church. Mr. Smart dropped dead im- mediately after rising to request that the words of a certain hymn be read a8 a prayer. B MARKET QUOTATIONS, Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, Nov. 10.—Wheat—Dec.. T4%c; May, 77% @77%c; July, 78%c On track—No. 1 hard, 78%c; No. 1 Northern, 77%c; No. 2 Northern 78%c; No. 3 Northern, 72% @73%c. 8t. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, Noy. 10.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $5.50@6.25; common to good, $3.26@4.00; good to choice cows and heifers, $2.60@4.50; veals, $4.00@ 6.50. Hogs—$5.65@6.10. Sheep—Weth- ers, $4.60@5.16; good to prime spring lambs, $6.26@7.00. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Nov. 10.—Wheat—To arrive and on track—No. 1 hard, 78%¢c; No. 1 Northern, 775%c; No. 2 Northern, 76%c; Nov., 77c; Dec., 7T4%c; May, 78c; July, 78%ec. Flax—To arrive and on. track, $1.19%; Nov., $1.19; Dec., $1.16; Jan,, $1.16%; May, $1.20. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Nov." '10.—Whesat—Dec,, 72%c; May, 77%c. Corn—Dec., 42%c May, 485c. Oats—Dec., 84%c; May, 86%c. Pork—Jan, $14.121,@14.15; May, $14.26. Flax—Nothing dolng. Butter—Creameries, 19@25%c; dair- {es, 1814 @23c. Eggs—21@23c. Poultry —Turkeys, 16c; chickens, 9@9%¢c; springs, 10c, Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, Nov. 10.—Cattle—Beeves, $3.40@7.25; cows and heifers, $1.40@ the only difference. vy Wire Domestic--Foreign--Financial--Social-Political and Commercial % " Sir Walter Scott’s First Brief. Sir Walter Scott had his share of the usual curious experiences shortly after being called to the bar. His first ap- pearance as counsel in a criminal court was at Jedburgh assizes in 1793, when he successfully defended a veteran poacher. “You're a lucky scoundrel,” Scott whispered to his client when the verdict was given, “I'm just o’ your mind,” returned the latter, “and I'll send you a maukin (L e, a hare) the morn, man,” Lockhart, who narrates the incident, omits to add whether the maukin duly reached Scott, but no doubt it did. On another occasion Scott was less successful in his defense of a housebreaker, but the culprit, grateful for his counsel’s exertions, gave him, in lieu of the orthodox fee, which he was unable to pay, this piece of advice, to the value of which he (the housebreak- er) could professionally attest: First, never to have a large watchdog out of doors, but to keep a little yelping ter- rier within, and, secondly, to put no trust In nice, clever, gimcrack locks, but to pin his faith to a huge old heavy one with a rusty key. Scott long re- membered this incident, and thirty years later, at a judges’ dinner at Jed- burgh, he recalled it in this impromptu rhyme: Yelping terrier, rusty key, ‘Was Walter Scott's best Jeddart fee. ' —Westminster Gazette. A Wastebasket Treasures. “T have in my employ,” said a dealer In autographs, “a number of celebri- tles’ housemaids. Thanks to these young women, I secure at nominal cost many an autographic gem. All I ask of the maids is that they ship me week- ly the contents of their masters’ waste- baskets. They bale the stuff up in burlap, and every Monday or Tuesday 1t comes to me by freight. I go over it carefully, making many finds. Here ‘will be a begging letter from a famous author In hard luck. Here in a brief note a great actor will boast of his last success. Here will be a dinner Invitation from a celebrated million. alre. Some celebritles, of course, save their valuable letters, and some sell them, but the majority throw into the wastebasket most of the mail they re- celve, and. I, searching the baskets’ contents every Monday morning, find my reward in many a letter worth $10 or $20.” The Deer’s Tracks. A deer if walking always places Its feet firmly closed upon the ground, and consequently the track is sharply drawn—that is, the hoof is not spreaa to any appreciable extent. Excep tions are sometimes the track of deer that are heavy with fawns, during spring and early summer. and those of old bucks during the rutting season. But even then the heels of their tracks are considerably closer than in tracks made by a hog or a sheep. The hoofs of the latter two animals are always rounder at the toe than those of deer, making the tracks they leave easily dis- tinguishable, and if the difference is not discernible in frozen snow the fact that the trail made by hogs or sheep does not register should settle all doubts for the tracker. A deer if not wounded will always step with its hind foot in the track made by the front foot.—Field and Stream. A Confusion of Names. Although Scotia is now known to mean Scotland, it once was the name af Ireland. Two centuries before the birth of Christ Ireland was known to the Greeks as Juvenca. Caesar called it Hibernia, as did also Ptolemy in his map of that island. It is said the Phoenicians first gave Ireland the name of Hibernia, meaning thereby “utmost or last habitation,” for beyond that land westward the Phoenicians never extended their voyages. Toward the decline of the Roman empire the coun- try began to be called Scotia, a name retained by the monastic writers until the eleventh century, when the name Scotia, having passed to modern Scot- land, the ancient name of Hibernia be- gan to be again used. To Cure Snoring. “At a banquet,” said an editor, “I once heard Jerome K. Jerome make a speech on snoring. I remember that it ended with these words: ‘To cure snoring, it is advised that a piece of soap be dropped into the mouth of the snorer. The oil in the soap will lubri- cate the pharynx and other Latin parts of the throat. This remedy must be applied with caution; otherwise the snorer will arise and lubricate the floor with the person who dropped in the soap.’ ” ‘Worship a Deux. When Dean Swift was called to the living of Loracor he inaugurated the custom of reading prayers on Wednes- day and Friday. At the first Wednes- day service he waited in vain for any one to appear except his clerk Roger. At length he began, “Dearly beloved Roger, the Scriptures moveth you and me in sundry places,” and so proceed- ed to the end of the service.—Harper's ‘Weekly. e Pepper. Black and white pepper afe from the same round seed of a tropleal plant. The white Is ground after the black outer skin has been removed. That is The white is con- sidered less Irritating to the stomach. It is also preferred for dishes consist- Ing of cream and milk, such as oyster stews, creamed potatoes and the like. - S Always Flashing. Tess—She certainly is the lucklest 5.20; stockers and feeders, $2.60@ &lrl. Jess—You mean because she has 4.40; calves, $5.00@7.75. Hogs—Mixed. an engagement ring? Tess—Not only ! and butchers, $6.00@6.50; good heavy, $6.30@6.50; rough heavy, $6.85@6.05 gs, $5.65@6.16 yearlings, $5.50@ | Bheep, :$8.10@5.50; 6.4 $ , but she’s left handed.—Philadel- 2 s i