Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 22, 1910, Page 2

_ of $1,000,000 for a worldwide expan- ARGUED BEFORE. SUPREME COURT Panama Libel Case Comes| Up at Washington. JURISDICTION THE ISSUE| Government Claims the Right to Pros- ecute Because of the Circulation of Alleged Libelous Articles at West Point—Appeal Is Against the Quash- ing of the Indictments Against the Newspapers Involved. ‘Washington, Oct. 22.—The govern- ment’s brief in the so called Panama libel suit of the United States against the Press Publishing company of New York (the New York World) has been filed in the supreme court of the Unit- ed States. It was argued by Attorney General Wickersham, James C. M. Reynolds and Stuart McNamara. It not only contained a statement of facts, but an argument in support ot its position that the indictment against the Press Publishing company should not have been quashed. “In effect,” says the government's brief, “the published articles charge that Charles P. Taft, Douglas Robin- son and William Nelson Cromwell, with J. Pierpont Morgan and others, acting through an American syndicate, obtained control of the securities of the French company, which owned the Panama canal route and its properties, for the approximate sum of $3,000,000. “Aided by the intimacy which they enjoyed with Theodore Roosevelt, the president of the United States and brother-in-law of Douglas Robinson, and William H. Taft, then secretary of war and brother of Charles P. Taft, and by the co-operation of these offi-!| cials with them they were enabled to effect the sale of the Panama canal to the United States for $40,000,000 and reap a profit of some $36,000,000, which was divided, as charged, among gov- ernment favorites in the world of poli- tics and finance.” Jurisdiction Vital Question. The substantial question which the government claims is before the court was set out in the brief as being whether the United States courts nave jurisdiction to punish a corpora- tion which printed in the city of New York a newspaper containing a libel, criminal under the laws of the state of New York, and circulated copies of the same within the federal territory of West Point. The government’s claim is based on an act of congress of 1898, which the government urges “operates to trans- fer the state law to federal territory for the purpose of punishing acts com- mitted there, which, if performed out- side, and in the jurisdiction of the state, would be amenable to its laws.” In the government’s brief it is ar- gued that it is not only the right but the duty of congress to legislate con cerning territory under its exclusive Jjurisdiction as to preserving peace and good order therein. “Because one may be punished for issuing a libel in New York is no rea- son,” says the government, “for al- lowing him to go free of all punish- ment for circulating it at West Point The people in the latter place are en- titled to protection.” ROOSEVELT ATTACKS DIX Democratic Candidate for Governor Branded “Trust Director.” New York, Oct. 22.—Theodore Roosevelt, in two speeches, ‘one in Manhattan and the other in Brooklyn, accused John A. Dix, the Democratic candidate for governor, of being one of the directors in a company which aided in forming “a complete scheme to accomplish the stifling of com- merce”—a trust against which he quoted the strictures of a judge now a justice of the United States supreme court—and contrasted his business record with the public record of Hen- ry L. Stimson, the Republican candi- date for governor. GAVE MUCH TO CHARITY| Oldest Priest at Notre Dame Univer. f sity Is Dead. South Bend, Ind., Oct. 22.—Rev. Louis Le Tourneau, the oldest priest at Notre Dame university, is dead at the age of eighty-two. Rev. Father Le Tourneau was a priest at Notre Dame for more than half a century. His parents came to this country from France in the early days of the last century. They amassed consid- erable wealth and as a young priest he inherited much money, which he devoted entirely to charity. One of his gifts to Notre Dame was Corby hall. i Million Fund for Y. M. C. A. ‘Washington, Oct. 22.—Contributions sion of the Young Men’s Christian as- sociation, $450,000 of which was given by John D. Rockefeller, were an- nounced at a conference of Young Men’s Christian association workers in the White House. President Taft addressed the delegates and heartily endorsed tke organization. A Dog’s Tongue. Have you ever wanted to know why a dog's tongue lolls out of his mouth on a hot duy or when he has been run- ning? People sometimes that it is because he is thirsty, but that isn’t ex- actly right. If you !ook at it you will see little drops of water dripping from it. Well. you know that when you get very warm you get covered with per- spiration. ‘The dog’s body never per- spir When he gets bot all the mois- ture comes out through his tongue. and ax the woisture on the tongue dries up the dog's budy cools.—Phila- delphia Press. How He Took It. “In training.” said an insteoetor in athletics, “the strictest obedience 1s re- quired. Whenever | think of the the- ory of : | think of Dash. who, after eighteen years of married life. is one of the best aud happiest hus- bands in the world *Dash. 1 oonce said to him. “well. Dash, vld man. how do you take war- ried life **According to directions,” he re plied.™ An Anachronism. When some celebrated pictures of Adam dnod Eve were seen on exhibi- tion Mr. McNab was taken to see them. *I think vo great things of the painter.” said the gardener. “Why. man. tempting Adam wi' a pippin of a variety that wasna known until about twenty years ago!™” Cold Comfort. Modest Amateur showing his latest painting)—I'm sure, Miss Ethel. you think I'm still some little way from being an arrist. Fair Critic (anxious to say the polite thing»—Oh. no. Very, very far from it. I assure you. i ture. Wheat Does Not Grow Wild. The existence of names for wheat in the most ancient languages confirms the evidence of its great antiquity and of its cultivation in the more temper- ate parts of Europe. Asia and Africa. From the evidence adduced by bota- nists of high standing it seems highly improbable that wheat has ever been found growing persistently in a wild state, although it has often been as- serted by poets, travelers and histo- rians. In the “Odyssey,” for example, we are told that wheat formerly grew in Sicily without the aid of man. Dio- dorus repeais the tradition that Osirls found wheat and barley growing pro- miscnously in Palestine, but neither this nor other reputed, discoveries of wheat growing wild seem at all cred- ible, seeing that it does not appear to be endowed with the power of per- sistency except under coutinued cul- The Mind During Sleep. “During sleep.” say authority on mental subjects, “the workings of the miund are under no control, and yet it seems to have a wonderful faculty of building up and arranging scenes and incidents. 1 remember once having a vivid dream of going into a house the ; furniture and inmates of which be- longed to the middle ages. So clear was the dream that 1 had no ditfi- culty in recalling it, and then as 1 went over each detail of dress, armor, jewelry, or nents and other objects seen in my vision 1 realized that every- thing 1 bad beheld was historically accurate—that is to say. that probably in a fraction of a second my mind had conjured up a scene to construct which, with the same faithfulness to detail, while awake woutd have taken me several hours.” “Grey” and “Gray.” ‘What is the ditference, if any, be i tween “grey” and “gray,” aside from the matter of spelling? The editor of the Oxford Dictionary some years ago made extended inquiry as to usage and found that opinions in London varied. Replies to his ques- tions showed that in Great Britain the form grey is the more frequent in use, despite the authority of Dr. Johnson and later lexicographers, who give the preference to gray. Many correspond ents said that they used the two formns with a difference of meaning or appli cation. the distinction most generally { recognized being that grey denotes a more delicate or lighter tint than gray. Others counsidered the difference to be that gray is a warmer color or that it bhas a mixture of rved or brown. An other group held that grey has more of sentiment, gray more of color. which may mean that grey is stion i rather than a positive outline.—New York Press. A Difference. “T am told that Jones is a regnlar leech. Is that true “No: | would hardly say that. A leech, you know, never gets stuck vn bimself.” STATE OF OHIO, C1TY OF TOLEDO, }ss Lucas COUNTY. 3 Frank J. Cheney makes oath_that he is i senior partner of the firm of I. J. Cheney & | Co., doing bu iness in the City of Toledo, (County and State aforesaid, and that said i firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Cure. . 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