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| Camp at Losser Creek in Yellowstone National Park: President Theodore Roosevelt, and John Burroughs forefront, standing. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Tuesday, March 17, 1903.
A TWO MONTHS' TRIP.
President Will Leave Washington April 1.
FIRST STOP WILL BE AT CHICAGO.
Will Visit Many Northwestern States and Make an Extended Tour of the Yellowstone Park—California and Other Pacific States—At St. Louis Many Speeches.
Washington, March 17.—The itinerary of the president's Western trip was practically completed and is now in the hands of the railroads for exact determination of the running time of the president's train.
The party will leave Washington the morning of April 1 and proceed directly via the Pennsylvania railroad to Chicago, arriving there the next morning. April 2 will be spent in Chicago, where he will make an address.
From Chicago the president will go to Madison, Wis., where on the morning of the 3rd he will address the legislature. Then he will go to Waukesha and Milwaukee, where he will be entertained at a banquet. The trip from there will be to La Crosse, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Sioux Falls, Yankton, Mitchell and Aberdeen, S. D., and Edgeley, N. D.
The morning of April 7 he will reach Fargo and that day will visit Jamestown, Bismarck, Mandan and Medora N. D., and Livingston, Mont, and arrive at Cinnabar, Mont., at noon Wednesday, April 8.
Tour of Yellowstone Park.
Cinnabar is at the entrance of the Yellowstone park. The president's train will be sidetracked there until Friday, April 24. President Roosevelt, accompanied by Secretary Root and John Burroughs, the poet-naturalist of New York, who has been invited to accompany the party on the trip, will make an extended tour of the park escorted by a picked detail of soldiers. Communication will be maintained with president daily during his absence.
Friday, April 24, the president will leave Cinnabar and after passing through Livingston and Billings, Mont., will arrive at Alliance, Neb., late in the afternoon of April 25. From there he will proceed to Grand Island, Neb., where the party will spend Sunday. Monday, April 27, the president will visit in the order named: Hastings, Lincoln, Fremont and Omaha.
He will spend the night at Omaha and reach Shenandoah, Ia., early the morning of the 28th after having made a brief stop at Clarinda, Van Wert, Osceola, Des Moines, Oskaloosa and Ottumwa.
Passing the night on the train the president will arrive at Keokuk the morning of the 29th and on that day will visit Quincy, Ill., Hannibal, Mo., Louisiana, Mo., and Clarksville, Mo., arriving at St. Louis late in the afternoon.
That night and Thursday, April 30, the president will remain in St. Louis participating in the ceremonies incident to the dedication of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition grounds. He will arrive at Kansas City the morning of May 1 and remain there several hours, visiting Kansas City, Kansas, Lawrence, and Topeka the same day. The night will be spent at Topeka. He will make brief stops next day at Manhattan, Junction City, Abilene, Salina, Ellsworth, Russell, Hayes and Wakeny and arrive at Sharon Springs, Ks., late in the evening.
A Week in California.
Sunday will be passed at that place. Monday, May 4, the president will visit Cheyenne, Wells, Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Trinidad, Col. He will be in Santa Fe, N. M., and Albuquerque Thursday. The greater part of the next day will be spent at Grand Canyon, Ariz. After a brief stop at Seligman, Ariz., the night of May 6, the president will proceed to Barstow, Cal., arriving there the morning of May 7. Redlands and San Bernardino will be visited and he will arrive at Riverside late that day and spend the night there. May 8 he will stop at Claremont and Pasadena, reaching Los Angeles early in the afternoon, where he will remain until next morning.
May 9 he will visit Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo. Sunday, May 10, will be spent at Monterey, Pajaro, Santa Cruz and San Jose will be visited Monday, that night being spent at the last named city. During the morning of May 12 the president will stop at Palo Alto and Burlingame, will arrive at San Francisco early in the afternoon. The remainder of that day and Wednesday and Thursday will be spent in San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley. The president and party will then go to Raymond, where four days will be spent in the Yosemite Valley and Big Tree region. The morning of Tuesday, May 19, the president will enter Nevada, stepping at Reno and Carson City.
That evening he will return to California for a 14 hours stay at Sacramento. Wednesday he will be at Reddington and Sisson, Cal., and Ashland, Ore. Thursday morning he will spend at Salem, reaching Portland early that afternoon, where he will remain until next morning. From Portland he will go into Washington, stopping at Chehalis, Centralia, Olympia and Tacoma. At Tacoma Saturday the president and the entire party will take a boat trip on Puget Sound, touching at Bremerton and Everett, the trip ending at Seattle late in the afternoon. The special train will be run empty from Tacoma to Seattle.
Sunday, May 24, will be spent in Seattle. Other Washington cities will be visited May 25 in the following order: Ellensburg, North Yakima, Pasco, Wallula and Walla Walla. Early on the morning of the 26th the president will arrive at Spokane, remaining there for several hours and will stop at Tekoa, Wash., Harrison, and Wallace, Idaho. Next morning he will reach Helena, Mont., and during the day will visit Butte. He will go into Idaho Thursday, stopping at Pocatello, Boise, Nampa, Mountain Home and Shoshone.
Early Friday he will reach Salt Lake City, remaining there several hours, and in the afternoon and evening will stop at Ogden, Utah, and Evanston, Wyo. Saturday morning Laramie, Wyo., will be reached. At this point the president will leave the train. He will spend this day in a manner suitable to Memorial day and will rejoin his train at Cheyenne. Sunday, May 31, will be passed at Cheyenne.
Monday the trip homeward to Washington will begin. The only stop that day will be at North Platte, Neb. The president will enter Iowa early on the morning of June 2, touching at Council Bluffs, Dennison, Fort Dodge, Cedar Falls and Dubuque. At the last named place he will spend the night.
The next morning he will make brief stops at Freeport, Rockford, Rochelle, Aurora, Joliet, Dwight, Pontiac, Lexington and Bloomington, Illinois. The night of June 3 will be spent at Bloomington. June 4 he will visit Lincoln, Springfield and Decatur, Ill., and will arrive at Indianapolis that night.
Thence he will proceed directly to Washington via the Pennsylvania lines, making only necessary stops and arriving here the evening of Friday, June 5.
During the trip the president will make many speeches. A majority of them quite naturally will be delivered from the platform of his car, but many of them will be sustained effects of notable importance.
TO OPEN 1,000,000 ACRES.
Federal Land in California to be Given to Settlers.
Los Angeles, Cal., March 17.—The United States, through the Federal land office at Los Angeles, will open to settlers within the next sixty days about 1,000,000 acres of land in California. This land is between Needles and Mojave, and borders the Colorado river. Much of it is valuable agriculturally.
The prospective throwing open of this vast tract to settlement is the result of a recent decision of the United States supreme court with respect to the famous grant made to the Atlantic and Pacific railroad by act of July, 1866. In the territory which embraces this great tract the Southern Pacific has selection privilege. Authority for the receiving of entry applications for the 1,000,000 acres in question has been received from Washington by the officials of the United States land office at Los Angeles.
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| Guest editorials in March 17, 1903, issue of Cortland Evening Standard. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Must Pay for Lynching.
The lesson which has been taught Champaign county, O., is one which some other communities may study with profit. It has been compelled to pay $5,500 to the heirs of a man lynched in that county and in addition about $1,000 in court costs and fees connected with the case.
In 1897 a colored man known as Clint Mitchell was lynched by a mob in the yard of the courthouse in Urbana, a city of about 7.000 people above the average in intelligence and respect for the law. Immediately after the lynching the heirs of the lynched man began a suit against Champaign county for $5.000 damages under a law enacted by the Ohio legislature in 1896. This law requires every county to pay $5,000 to the legal heirs of any person lynched in that county. A favorable verdict was obtained, but the case was appealed from court to court until it reached the supreme court of Ohio, where the verdict for damages has just been affirmed with costs and interest and the constitutionality of the law declared.
Thus after six years the dignity of the law has been vindicated and the taxpayers of the county made to pay about $6,500 for the satisfaction a mob had in lynching a man and for the inefficiency of the authorities in not controlling the mob. The case is an important one in that it proves that such a law is constitutional and that it can be enforced, at least in one state. A similar law enacted and enforced in other commonwealths might lessen the number of cases brought before Judge Lynch.
COMMITTED SUICIDE.
Nathan A. Gardiner Shot Himself Twice With a Revolver.
WAS FOUND DEAD IN HIS SHOP.
Had Suffered from Cancer and Dreaded the Advance of the Disease—Shaved and Went to His Harness Shop—Son Heard the Shots and Found His Father Dead.
Nathan A. Gardiner, 67 years old, a harness maker of Virgil, N. Y., committed suicide shortly after 9 o'clock this morning by firing two revolver bullets into his body, one in the temple and the other in the abdomen. He died instantly.
This morning he shaved and then went out to a shop that he formerly worked in. After he had been there a few minutes his son Roy, a lad about 16 years of age who was at the barn doing chores, heard the shots and went at once to the shop. His father was dead when be reached him.
For some time Mr. Gardiner had been treated for a cancer of the under lip, and it is believed that he considered the malady incurable and that death would be preferable to the dreaded disease. It is understood that he left a note to his family, bidding the members goodbye, and stating that the course he took was the only one left him to pursue. He leaves a wife, the son mentioned, by his present wife, and four children by his first wife.
The body was allowed to remain where it was found and Coroner E. M. Santee was summoned. It is not known as yet what his verdict is.
William Warren Mott.
William Warren Mott, who died Feb. 23 at his home near East Homer, was born Sept. 2, 1841, at Virgil and was the youngest of twelve children, seven boys and five girls.
Mr. Mott enlisted in the spring of 1861 as a private in Co. E, Thirty-second regiment, New York Vols., for two years, and was in a number of engagements, among them Bull Run, seven days fight, and Antietam. He returned in June of 1863 and was married to Augusta Terpenning, Nov. 16, 1864, at Virgil. Four children were born to them, Mrs. Jessie Osbeck, Mrs. Mina Bell, Franklin Mott and a babe that died when only a few days old.
Mr. Mott united with the church at Virgil in 1868. He moved to Cortland in 1870 and to East Homer in 1877. He was a member of the grange and had been a member of the I. O. O. F, for twenty-eight years.
While serving in the army he contracted diseases from which he never fully recovered. On Feb. 18 he was taken with pleuro-pneumonia, from which he died Feb. 23. Rev. H. B. Roberts preached the funeral sermon. The floral tributes were especially beautiful. Mr. Mott was admired and beloved by all who knew him, a man of sterling qualities and noble Christian character. He will be missed by the entire community in which he lived. The mourning wife and children have the heartfelt sympathy of all their friends in this time of trouble.
MEN ARE WANTED.
Local Men will be Given Preference Over Outsiders.
J. E. Davis, president of the J. E. Davis Mfg. Co., which is about to locate in Cortland for the manufacture of piano cases, says that it will be the policy of his company to give preference to local men, as far as they will go, over outsiders in the matter of employment. He will be at the factory of the H. M. Whitney Wagon Co., which is to be the piano case factory, all day Thursday to receive applicants for places. He will require both machine and bench men among the skilled workmen, and also a certain number of unskilled workmen.
A PIANO FACTORY
Seems Likely Soon to be Established in this City.
IT WOULD EMPLOY MANY MEN.
May be Obtained through J. E. Davis of the Piano Case Company-Experienced Piano Man and a Capitalist Trying to Get Together.
It seems quite likely now that Cortland in securing the J. E. Davis Manufacturing Co., which is to make piano cases here in the factory of the H. M. Whitney Wagon Co., have secured two new industries instead of one. The first one is the piano case factory, and the other may prove to be a piano factory itself. If this comes about it will be through the instrumentality of J. E. Davis, the president of the piano case company, though this latter company will be in no way interested in the manufacture of pianos.
As stated yesterday Mr. Davis is an expert and experienced piano manufacturer, having been in that business for twenty years, in fourteen of which he was an inspector and superintendent. Mr. Davis has a friend in New York who now occupies a responsible place as a practical man in one of the largest piano houses in that city, and this friend has for some months been urging Mr. Davis to go in with him in the manufacture of pianos. Mr. Davis did not wish to do so, as his preference is for the piano case business. This man is possessed of considerable property, but be thinks be has hardly enough capital to start a factory alone.
Mr. Davis, however, has another friend in Washington, N. J., a capitalist whose wealth is very large. This man sought to obtain stock in the J. E. Davis Manufacturing Co., but none of it was for sale. He is desirous of investing his money in some good business. Mr. Davis has now set about bringing together these two friends of his and he believes that a new piano company will be the result. As a resident of Cortland, as he now claims to be, he is interested in the welfare of the place and will do all he can to locate the proposed concern in this city, and from his relations with both the men be believes be will be successful. If such a company is formed and such a plant established it would mean the employment of probably another hundred skilled workmen at the outset. Mr. Davis does not consider this matter at all visionary, but, in fact, altogether probable.
BREVITIES.
—Everybody wears green today in honor of St. Patrick.
—The heavy rain last night went far toward settling the ground, and the roads will soon begin to dry up.
—The Fortnightly club meets tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. F. I. Graham, 10 Lincoln-ave.
—David College and daughter, Miss Edith College, who teaches at McGraw, expect to move next Monday from Cortland to McGraw.
—The Taylor block at the corner of Main and Railroad-sts. is getting a fresh coat of paint of a light tint that materially improves its appearance.
—The new display advertisements today are—Smith & Beaudry, Wall paper, etc., page 5; Hollister Hardware, & Plumbing Co., Hardware supplies, page 7; Perkins & Quick, Drugs and paints, page 5; W. T. Crane, Last call for pianos, page 8; W. W. Bennett, Ranges, etc., page 4; McGraw & Elliott, Drugs and paints, page 6; W. T. Crane, Electric playing piano, page 6; R. H. Beard, Upholstering, etc., page 8; A. Mahan, Pianos and organs, page 6.
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