Lincoln County leader., January 31, 1908, Image 6

LINCOLN COUNTY LEADER
RE COLLINS, Editor
f N HAYDEN, Manager
TOLEDO OREGON
Money talks, and what It says bag a
soothing effect on a wild and boisterous
oanlc
If the lines of thought affect the lines
of the figure It Is remarkable that more
women do not resemble the Interroga
tion point.
According to recent estimates there
are 8,000,000 telephone girls In the
world. ' Most of them are at this mo
ment giving the busy signal.
King Edward of England wears a
green hat, but Ireland refuses to give
tip the hoje of gaining home rule even
tually. An Australian physician claims that
eour milk la the only real elixir of life.
That ought to suit people who have dis
positions to match it
New York has a young englneei
named Herbert Spencer. He begins
life either with brilliant prospects or
under a fearful handicap.
Although "Uncle Joe" Cannon has ex
pressed the opinion that "boys will be
toys," he Is not likely to overlook the
fact that a gooi! many become voters.
If ever the complete story of arctic
exploration Is written It will be found,
doubtless, that the astronomers on
Mars discovered the north pole ages
igo.
The American who was arrested In
Russia while gathering material for a
lecture will soon be back here with
. some material that he hadn't figured on
getting.
A contemporary describes a simple
and effective burglar alarm, operated
by means of a string. The burglars
doubtless have read of It with Interest
and will know what to do when they
uieet it.
One photographer reports that he has
taken 7,000 pictures of Mars. Still,
there Is no likelihood that pictures of
Mars will take the places of the pic
tures of pretty girls on the covers of
the magazine.
Having attained to that degree of
common sense where they Ignore the
"panic" cry, It Is not too much to hope
that some day the people will keep
tbelr seats and laugh when the Idiot
bouts "fire" In the theater.
Brazil, distinguished In the merry
comedy, "Charley's Aunt," as the place
"where the nuts come from," Is also
distinguished as a place where Ideas
grow. Thirty Brazilian merchants and
professional men, have been visiting
this country, in obedience to the advice
which Secretary Root gave to all the
Americans to get acquainted.
King Alfonso of Spain kept his wife
owako with his snoring, and to pre
serve peace In the family he has hnd
adenoids cut from his nose, so that he
may breathe through It when asleep.
His physicians have ordered him not
to smoke so many cigarettes, if he
would retain his nasul health, and he
doubtless will do as he Is told. Kings
mid slaves alike must obey their phy
Mciuns and their wives.
The King of Aysbonla Is offering his
realm for sale, advertising In a number
of Eurojieaii papers that he will accept
$200,000 for his kingdom, together with
ull his subjects, lie even offers to
throw In thirty of his wives. Aysbonla
Is in Africa and Is 250 miles long and
ninety miles wide. Why doesn't Borne
heiress who has unfortunately married
a bogus count or a spurious duke buy
this kingdom for him, and thus estab
lish her right to the possession of a
ltle?
Mechanical traction has been substi
tuted for horses on the Ladoga canal
in Russia. When the traction engines
appeared 2,000 peasants seized thein
and stopped all truffle so effectually
that troops had to be called out to re
store order. There were riots of tblB
sort In England a hundred years ago,
when power sawmills were Introduced
there, but In the more advanced coun
tries the laborer and the mechanic now
adjust themselves quickly to new In
ventions. Russia Is about one hundred
years behind the times. When one
reullzes this, one will understand nwiny
things that happen there that are oth
erwise Inexplicable.
The Department of Agriculture Is
taking a paternal interest In the pros
jierlty of the farmer. It Is teaching
him to have better crops, better ma
chinery and better buildings. Now
comes Postmaster General Von Meyer
with an Intimation that the Postoflice
Department also wants to take a pater
nal Interest In the fanners. It wants
to give rural residents the parcel post
This," according to Mr. Von Meyer,'4
In a Philadelphia si-eeeh, "will bo a
great boon to the farmers on the rura'
routes, because when they are able to
order their goods by telephone or postal
card it will relieve them of the Incon
venience of going to tow n to obtain the
necessaries of life." The Postmastei
General admits that country storekeep
ers strongly object to this form of be
nevolence to the farmers. But he say
he will quiet their objections by giving
fanners a lower parcels post rate on
their local delivery routes than from
the outside. Does Mr. Von Meyer Im
agine that even this concession will
protect country stores from the aggre
slve city mall order houses? The fatal
flaw In Mr. Von Meyer's reasoning, as
quoted above, Is the supposition that
the farmer needs to be pampered until
his conditions of living are as artificial
as those of the average city resident
He Is o have the trolley car at his
door, the telephone In his house, his
dally mall delivery, which will Include
all his groceries and store supplies.
Neither the fanner, nor his wife, noi
his children are to feel the need of
"going to town." One may well doubl
whether the average rural resident ap
preciates or needs quite so much atten
tion on the government's part. Th
country storekeeper needs as much pro
tection as the farmer, perhaps more,
says the Cblcngo Journal. The farmei
should be encouraged to deal In ,th
nearest town or village. The parcel!
post Is an enemy to this rural com
munity life. It will Increase the artifi
cial markets In the cities and curtail
the natural home markets. The govern
ment's paternalism could find moTe le
gltlmnte objects than the suppresslor
of normal healthy neighborhood ex
change In the rural centers.
Dr. Forbes Wlnslow has found In
studying statistics of Insanity that
locomotive engineers and firemen are
unusually apt to become mentally de
ranged. In a list of seventy-four trades
and professions that of the engineers
stands seventh from the top in this
respect. As records of 40,000 engineers
and firemen entered Into these statis
tics, they have a good basis of relia
bility. The three exceptionally destruct
ive accidents to passenger trains in
England In the last year or two, those
of Salisbury, Granthnm and Shrews
bury, have all been due to failures of
thoroughly reliable engineers to see
signals or to judge correctly their
speed and position at critical moments.
Naturally there Is active discussion of
the strain which Is being put on en
gineers by their service, and of the ex
tent to which they weaken, If not to
the point of Insanity, at least to that
of unreliability of attention during
their work. The railway unions have
emphasized the heavy requirements of
the roads upon the engineers In the
way of making time, and the roads
have tried to place all the blame upon
the men. It Is the conclusion of Kelgh
lejr Snowden, writing In one of the cur
rent British reviews, based upon con
clusive reports as to the causes of all
three of the accidents In question, that
the engineers of fast express trains
have literally more work than they
can hope to do thoroughly and unfail
ingly. What between making time,
coring for the running of their compli
cated mnchlne, and watching out for
danger signals, they are burdened be
yond the limit. And his remedy Is that
either a system of automatic signals
must be adopted on all lines running
fast trains, or else that the fast trains
must lie given three men to run them
instead of two; one of those three hav
ing the sole duty of watching out for
the signals. The Installation of auto
matic signals Is expensive and cannot
be done In a day. Where It Is most
needed by proof of experience the three
man substitute would be perhaps a rea
sonable temporary expedient Certainly
the fact that two men were enough to
run a twenty-mlle-an-hour train a gen
eration ago Is no argument against the
need of three men on many trains to
day. Two Traaredlea.
A poet had a wife and the wife had
little to eat. After several weeks of
failure to get money wherewith to pur
chase food she ran away with a cab
driver who owned his outfit and acted
as though he owned the city.
"The blow will kill him," cried peo
ple. "She has ruined his career."
It didn't kill hint, for be turned his
sorrow Into a sonnet that he sold for
$5, and reviewers said thut the font of
Inspiration had at (last been opened to
him.
A man's wife deserted him, and the
neighbors were more Interested than
lie was. ,
"Poor fellow," they said, "it will drive
him to drink.,"
It did, for he was one who never lost
an opportunity, and his wife was a
strict tee-tobaler. New York Sun.
A girl walks to the gate to gaze ai
the stars, explaining thet she has such
a feeling of unrest After she has mar
ried this feeling of unrest takes another
form: Uncertainty at night If the
hired girl will be back next morning
to get breakfast
YEAR 1907 LEAVES A
' RECORD OF DISASTER
Natural Phe nomena and Direful
Accident Furnish Long Lists
of Dead.
EPITOME OF IMPORTANT EVENJS
Recent Financial Disturbance Okla
homa a State Fine and Gift
of Millions.
The chronicler who scans the record
of 1007 that he may write of It finds
himself confronted by an exhibit of
destruction and disaster that he had
not fully appreciated before. Since the
opening day of the year the great ca
tastrophes that have been accompan
ied by large loss of life have numbered
2(1, an average of slightly more than
two for each month. Several of these
have been great convulsions of nature.
There was the earthquake that destroy
ed Kingston, Jamaica, out of which
came the disagreeable Swettenham In
cident ; subsequently occurred other
earthquakes and volcanic eruptions In
Mexico, Chile and Chlnn. An earth
quake and mountain slide that de
stroyed the town of Kurntagh, Russian
Turkestan, snuffed out 15,000 lives, and
a frightful typhoon at Hongkong,
China, killed unknown hundreds of the
Inhabitants. A hurricane In the Cnro
'lne Islands wiped out 200 lives; a
.treat flood In Japan caused 000 deaths.
Among the catastrophes originating In
the operations and enterprises of hu
'nsmity there have been explosions
several of them In mines, others In
blast furnaces and on shipboard col
lisions of ships and of railway trains,
the collapse of th great uncompleted
bridge over the St. Lawrence river
near Quebec, and the blowing up of
the Du Pont powder works In Fonta
net, Ind. All these produced long cas
ualty lists.
The roll of eminent dead is also an
extensive one. Sweden h:is lately been
called uMin to mourn the decease of its
beloved king, Oscar II., and his son
and successor has assumed the reins
of government. In Persia, also, the
old Shah has died and a new one rules.
Not death, but abdication has also
changed the governmental head In
Korea. Polities-, art, science, letters,
and the platform have each paid its
toll to death In the loss of some fore
most representatives. Among the names
may be recorded those of fonuer Pres
ident M. Cnslmlr Perier of France,
Senators Morgan, 'rettus and Alger,
Galusha A. Grow, James II. Eckels,
Maurice Grau, Richard Mansfield, Jo
seph Joachim, Edvard Grieg, 'James
McGranahau, Col. Will S. Hayes, prof.
Alexander S. Ilerschel, Thomas Bailey
Aldrlch, Dr. John Watson (Ian Mac
laren), Theodore Tilton. Mrs. Mary J.
Holmes, Francis Murphy and Mrs.
Helen M. Gougar. Mrs. Wm. McKIn
ley and John Alexander Dowle sre also
In the list of the well-known dead.
A financial disturbance of widespread
Influence has made itself felt during
the last three months of 1907.
The number of States "In the Union
has been Increased to 40 by the ad
mission of Oklahoma.
That modern minds are not appalled
by large amounts Is shown by1 two of
the year's transactions. The Standard
Oil Company has been fined $29,000.
000 by a Chicago Judge, and John D.
Rockefeller has made donations of $32,
000,000 to educational "rojects.
Two great expositions have been
held. That at Jamestown, Vn., did not
receive the patronage expected and is
In the hands of a receiver. The other
was In Greater Louisville, Ky.
A public work of vast magnlture was
begun when Mayor McClellan of New
York broke ground for the construc
tion of the great Catsklll aqueduct
which In a few years Is to convey to
the metropolis an lnexhoustlble supply
of pure water.
The Harry Thaw trial In New York
and the general strike of telegraphers
the country over were subjects of much
Interest to the public while they con
tinued. The principal happenings of 1907 are
briefly given below : ,
JANUARY.
2 Wreck on Rock Island near Vol
land, Kansas, kills 35 persons. .. .Chas.
M. Floyd, Republican, elected Governor
of New Hampshire by Legislature.
6 Bomb thrown In Fourth Street Na
tional bank, Philadelphia.
8 Death of Shah of Persia.
0 James Cullen lynched in Charles
City, Iowa.... Gen. Vladimir Pavloff as
sassinated in St. Petersburg. . . .30 miners
killed by explosion in Pittsburg blast fur
nace. 10 Typhoon In Philippines kills 100
persons.
11 Fire near Straasburg, Germany,
causes 20 death $1,000,000 fire in
Lancaster, Pa.
14 Earthquake destroys Kingston, Ja-
10 Sixty Uvea lost in two Big Four
railroad wrecks in Indiana. .. .Moham
med Ali Mirza crowned Shall of Persia
....Admiral Davis and American squad
ron sent away from Kingston, Jamaica,
by Gov. Swettenham.
20 Death of Josiah Flynt Willard,
trnmp and author. .. .England apologizes
for Swettenham incident.
23 Twenty miners killed by explosion
near Primero, Colo.... Thaw trial begins
in New York
24 Death of Senator R. A. Alger of
Michigan.
28 Explosions io mine near Saar
brueck, Prussia, kill 300 persons. .. .100
lives lost by typhoon in Hongkong har
bor.
29 Ninety miners killed by mine explo
sion near Thurmond, W. Va.
FEBRUARY.
7 John D. Rockefeller makes $32,000,
000 gift to educatioual work.
12 200 lives lost by sinking of Joy
line steamer Larchmont off Block Island,
R I. Death of ex-Gov. Frank W. Hig-
gins'of New York.
1025 persons killed and 100 injured
in train wreck on New York Central in
New Y'ork City.
20 $173,000 stolen from U. 8. sub
trtasury in Chicago.
21 English steamer Berlin goes down
off coast of Holland; 180 lives lost....
Cornelius J. Shea and associates acquit
ted of conspiracy in Chicago. .. .Mrs.
Dora McDonald shoots and kills Webster
S. Guerin in Chicago.
22 Pennsylvania railroad's 18-hour
flyer wrecked near Johnstown, Pa....
Missouri Legislature adjourned by small
pox scare.
MARCH.
4 Fifty-ninth Congress adjourns sine
die.... Three changes in President's cab
inet take effect.
7 Strother brothers in Culpepper, Va.,
acquitted of murder under "unwritten
law."
9 Death of John Alexander Dowie.i .
Will J. Davis freed of responsibility for
Iroquois theater disaster by Judje Kim
brough of Danville, III. ..
12 Death of M. Casimir Terier, for
mer president of France. . . .Magazines on
French battleship Jena explode at Toulon,
killing 80 and injuring 500 persons.
14 Death of Maurice Grau, impres
sario. 10 Burning of Helicon Hall, Upton
Sinclair's colony, near Englewood, N. J.
' 18 Greater Louisville exposition open
ed. 19 Death of Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
22 Many persons killed in riots in
Moldavia.
2.T Death of Alexander Beaubien, first
white male born in Chicago.
31 Death of Galusha A. Grow, former
Congressman from Pennsylvania.
APRIL.
2 Chicago elects Fred A. Busse,
Republican. Mayor and approves new
traction ordinance by majority of 33.120.
4 Hotel fire in San Francisco kills 17
persons. .. .Lunacy commission declares
Harry K. Thaw sane.
9 Howard Nicholas and Leonard Leo
pold convicted of. murder of Mtb. Mar
garet Leslie in Chicago.
11 Lord Cromer, British ruler in
EgJ"Pt resigns.
13 Standard Oil Company convicted
in Illinois court of rebating.
14 Death of James II. Eckels of Chi
cago. .. .Earthquakes at Chilapa and
Chilpnncingo. Mexico.
15 Great Northern's Oriental Limited
derailed by wreckers at Bartlett. N. D.
11-19 Volcanic eruptions in Chile.
20 Great fire in native quarter of
Manila,
20 Opening of Jamestown (Va.) Ex
position. 30- T-Hurricane in Caroline Islands kills
200 people.
MAY. .
2 Great loss of life from explosion in
Canton. China.
3 Sir Alexander Swettenham retires
as Governor of Jamaica.
0 Dr. John Watson (lan Maclamn)
dies in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. .. .Tornado
wipes out towns of Birthright and Ridge
way, Texas.
- 10 Son born to King Alfonso of
Spain.
1 1 Mystic Shriner special wrecked at
Honda, Cal., and 31 lives lost.
12 Mine fire at Velardena, Mexico,
kills DO men Earthquake in China
kills 4.000 persons.
17--Isaac Stephenson elected United
States Senator from Wisconsin.
2" Death of Theodore Tilton In Paris.
20 Death of Mrs. William McKinley.
JUNE. "
5 Oscar II. resumes reign as King of
Sweden.
6 Sudden death of Mrs. Helen M.
Gougnr.
7 Fatal and destructive tornado in
Kentucky and southern Illiuois and In
diana.
9 Death of Julia Magruder, novelist.
10 Greot strike against government in
wine growing regions of France. .. .500
lives lost in burning of Chinese theater
in Hongkong.
11 Death of Senator John T. Morgan
of Alabama.
12 200 lives lost In hurricane on Caro
line Islands.
13 Mayor Schinitz of San Francisco
convicted of extortion. '
14 Olympic Theater burns in Chicago.
10 Czar dissolves the Duma.
18 Death of Prof. Alexander S. Her-
schel, English astronomer.
20 Mayor McClellan of New York
breaks first sod for construction of great
Catsklll aqueduct.
20 Fire destroys block of buildings ad
joining Jamestown exposition.
80 Death of Francis Murphy, temper
ance evangelist.
JULY.
8 Fatal windstorm sweeps western
Wisconsin.
6 John D. Rockefeller appears a wit
ness In court in Chlcsxo.
7 Tornado damage Long Pine, Nefc.
8 Death of James McGranahan, gos
pel song writer.
14 Assassination of President Fal
lieres attempted in Paris.
13 Powder explosion on battleship
Georgia kills 8 seamen and injures 13.
15 Emperor of Korea abdicates.
20 30 killed in Pere Marquette wreck
near Salem, Mich.
21 Steamer and freight boat collide
off California coast and 150 lives are lost.
23 Death of Col. Will S.. Hays, ballad
writer.
27 Death of Senator' E. W. Pettus of
Alabama.
28 Jury in Boise, Idaho; acquits Wil
liam D. Haywood of murder of Gov.
Steunenburg..'. .Big fire at Coney Island.
N Y.
AUGUST.
,1 Standard Oil Co. fined $29,000,00t
for accepting railroad rebates by Judge
K. M. Laudis of Chicago.
8 Beginning of telegraphers' general
strike.
12--Death of Robert A. Pinkerton.
15 Joseph Joachim, violinist, dies in.
Berlin.
19 Prince Wiihelm of Sweden at
Jampstown exposition. s
20 Great fire in Hakodate, Japan.
27 Nelson Morris, Chicago packer,
dies.
29 Great bridge over St. Lawrence
river, near Quebec, collapses, carrying 84
workmen to death.
30 Death of Richard Mansfield.
SEPTEMBER.
4 Death of Edvard Grieg, Norwegian
composer.
7 Anti-Japanese outbreak in Vancou
ver, B. C.
1) Japanese battleship Kashima blows
lip at K'iro with Ions of 40 lives.
1525 lives lost in wreck of excursion
train near Canaan, N. H.
17 First election in Oklahoma. . . .Chi
cago defeats new charter. .
21 Frank J. Constantine convicted of
murder of Mrs. Louise Gentry in Chicago
....Grandstand blown down in Hegins,
Pa., and 50 people hurt.
25 Flood in Japan drowns 600 per
sons. 28 Eight lives lost in B. & O. wreck
at Bellaire, Ohio.
30 McKinley mausoleum dedicated io
Canton, Ohio.
OCTOBER.
6 Death of Mrs. Mary J. Holme,
authoress.
10 Steamship Lusitania crosses At
lantic ocean in four days twenty hours...
Dc-ath of Mrs. Cassie Chadwick in Co
lumbus (Ohio) penitentiary.
12 Steamship Cypress wrecked on
Lake Superior and 22 lives lost.
14 Town of San Jose del Cabo, Lower
California, destroyed by cloudburst.
15 Du I'ont powder works near Fon-
tanet, Ind., explodes, killing 50 people.
10 Wall street flurry causes great
slump in copper stocks.
22-23 Panic in New York and the
Hunt marked by suspension of Knicker
bocker Trust Company and of various
financial concerns, appointment of receiv
ers for Westinghouse Electric and Manu
facturing Company, and wild , scenes on
Stock Exchange.
23 Germans win balloon race from St
Louis with France second.
27 New $20,000,000 Union station
opened in Washington.
30 Earthquake and mountain slide de-
stioys town of Karatagh, Russian Tar
kestan, and causes 15,000 deaths.
NOVEMBER.
1 Great railway strike in Great Brit
ain called.
5 End of telegraphers' strike. .. .Elec
tions in many States.
11 Death of Dexter M. Ferry, seeds
man, of Detroit.
15 Death of Moncure D. Conway,
American author. .. .Fire destroys town
of Cleary. Alaska.
10 Oklahoma admitted to statehood.
24 Jury in Steve Adams case in Rath-
drum, Idaho, disagrees.
25 Thirteen lives lost in New York
tenement house fire.
20 Doal.li of Gen. B. D. Pritchard of
Allegan, Mich., whose regiment captured
Jefferson Davis.
DECEMBER.
1 Explosion in mine at Fayette City,
Po.. kills 40 miners.
2 Sixtieth Congress opens.
4 King Oscar of Sweden resigns gov
eminent into hands of Crown Prince as
regent.
0 Explosion entombs 400 miners at
Monongah, W. Va.
8 Death of King Oscar II. of Sweden
and accession of his son as Gustaf V.
11 President Roosevelt reiterates his
declaration that he will not again be a
candidate for chief executive.
10 Dust explosion kills 75 men in
mine at Yolande, Ala.... Great war fleet
sails from Hampton Roads for Pncific.
17 Death of Lord Kelvin, English
scientist.
New Principle In Structural Work.
A new principle in engineering .prac
tice is described by the Scientific 'Ameri
can in the case of a lookout tower built
by Alexander Graham Bell, In which the
structure is composed of tetrahedrons,
and is said to be the first iron structure
built on this principle. Each tetrahedral
cell, which is the unit of construction,
is made of one-half inch iron piping, and
measures exactly 48 inches from tip to
tip. Two hundred and sixty of these
cells were employed in the tower, which
rises 70 feet above the ground. Some of
the advantages claimed for this method,
of construction are lightness, great rigid
ity, rapidity and ease of construction,
very little false work being required, and.
the facility with which any part may be
renewed.
Yellow and black pearls are in demand
in Europe.
More potatoes art eaten to Balghu
thaa la Ireland.