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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1908)
MANY NEW "HELLO'-" Hallways Are to tJse Phone Is Place of Telegraph After March I. OPESATOES TO BE LET OTJZ Slock Signals Also Will Be In stalled and .Many Small Stations Closed. A new field of employment for wom en Is to be opened by the railways. This does not mean that tbe roads will employ women telegraphers, but on tbe contrary tbelr employment will be for tbe purposo ot taking tbe place of tele graphers already "in tbe service. Tho future woman railway operating em ploye will be engaged at tbe smaller stations taking train orders over a tele phone, wbere formerly such orders v.ere transmitted and received by telegraph. This new field will be open to women wben tbe new nine-hour day law gov erning the working time of railway telegraphers goes Into effect on March 1. It was confidently expected that this law would work a revolution In railway operation, oud It was with this end In view that the Order of Hallway Tele graphers procured Its passage despite the determined opposition of the rail way managers and even against advice direct from the White House. The 1 ev olution Is coming, all right, but It will bo a revolution which will relegate the telegraph to a back seat as an adjunct to railway operation and will throw thousands of operators out of employ ment ud annually will decrease their number until they will almost disap pear from American railways. It was expected that the reduction In the working hours of railway tele graphers to ni no hours would compel the railroads to employ at least 8,000 additional men at once. It was also known that it would he Impossible to secure this number of men when need ed, and It was therefore hoped by the men that an Increase In wages would be a part of the revolution planned. Clianarea to Result. The railway managers at first took a similar view' of the situation, but It soon was discovered that It would be Impossible to supply the demand if all existing telegraph olllccs were to be maintained after March 1. As a re sult of a careful study of the situation the nine-hour day for telegraphers will bring about the following changes: 1. The abandonment' of nil stations as telegraph stations except division headquarters and junctional points. 2. Tbe substitution of tcelp'houes for the receipt and the transmission of or ders and messages. 3. , The employment of women as agents In many stations thus trans formed into telephone station!. 4. ' The transaction of a tremendous amount of olllce business by letter which formerly was transacted by tele graph. 5. The rapid extension of the nuto niatlc "electric block signal, system, which will make telegraph stations un necessary. In determining to Inaugurate these changes the railway managers found that they bad In reality been prepnrlng for them for years. It was discovered also that by adopting tbe most expen sive system of block signaling train orders and telegraph stations could for the greater part be done away with. The railroads, therefore, decided that tbey would rutber spend millions In providing and maintaining automatic block signals which never go to sleep end which never fall unless they spell danger,' tnan to spend the same money In maintaining telegraph sta tlons and telegraph operators. The closlug of stations as telegraph stations Is made possible by the fact that with an automatic electric signal all that Is necessary Is to start trains as fast as tbe terminal block Is empty and keep them going uutil a semaphore sayr "stop." orBoon'a Knife Corn Headache After suffering excruciating pains in his hrad for twenty-five years, Louis Wolf ton of Cincinnati his secured relief by having the surgeons cut out two nerves. The naln was above the evo anil at th temples and recurred four or Ove times a week. He bad consulted tha lumlimr specialists, tried medicines, various forms ot massage ana electrical treatment In vain. The two olTeudlnff nerves, nn nn each side, were between one and two Inches long and about as thick as a pin. They are termed sensory nerves that Is, nerves which give the sense ot feeling and not control of the movements of mus cles. Tbe headaches have not returned since the operation. Local surgeons say this la the first cat of the kind on record. JOHN B. WALSH. Chlcasro Banker and Politician Con. vlctod of IrrearalarMlea. The Jury In the case of John It. Walsh, the Chicago banker and poli tician, found the defendant guilty. The trial was one of the most bitterly con tested legal struggles known in the his tory of the Chicago Federal courts. John R. Walsh Is a wonderful prod uct of Irish ability, American oppor tunity and modern high finance. He Is 70 years old and came to this coun try from Ireland at the age of 10. He became a Chicago newsboy and a mighty energetic and successful one. While still peddlng newspapers be said be hod three great ambitions to own a bank, to own a newspaper and to own a railroad. Strange to say, he achieved all three of these hopes. In those days he did not figure on ever going to prison. But, then, be was an honest newsboy. He did not become crooked until he became rich and wished to be richer. He graduated from newsboy to pro prietor of a news stand, and extended bis business until he had so many branches that the Union News Com pany bought blm out and made blm a director In that great organization. He mnde money rapidly, and In 1882 JOHN B. WALSH. founded tbe Chicago National Bank, Later he came Into control of the Home Savings Bank and the Equitable Trust Company. Then he founded a news paper known as the Chicago National, purchased a controlling Interest In the Chlcago Herald and later founded the . ways been a pnlnful duty of the carrl Chronlcle. Then be went ahead and ers, this hunting around In the Ice- bullt the Southern Indiana Railroad, the main purpose of which was to get to market the building stone of the Bedford quarries, one of his largest and most profitable ventures. Modern high finance proved Walsh's undoing, and bis banking Institutions had been declared Insolvent by the au- thorltlcs. With this announcement came the assurance that the banks of the city had rallied to the assistance of the depositors and would pay all Indebtedness. Investigation of the failure made matters serious fnr Walsh, and be was arrested on com- plaint of the District Attorney. The main charge on which Walsh was placed on trial Is In effect that be on Nov. 18, 1003, In sworn report to the Comptroller, understated the amount of the bank's loans to Its officers and directors by nearly $3,000,000, and overstated other loans to a generally similar amount. Tbe result un t bide the fact of $3,000,000 loans by --t-aisn to timseir. Cenaorlona Slatera. "I didn't think vnn'rl t mr, or. because I said I thought to wear gray suede shoes with your gray uress insteaa or white ones. I didn't mean to offend you," her friend very sweetly apologized. Never mind." she returned softlv. "It was all right, but It made me an gry for two renrons first, because I bad to wear the white shoes because I didn't have any others that were pre sentable, and, secoud, because when I left my family of sisters, who made every possible sort of comment on my clothes, I declared I would never stand It from anybody else. I said to myBelf that whenever a friend got so friendly that she thought Bhe could trent me like a sister I'd shake her." New York Tress. Oat of Stock. Lady (to country butcher calling foi orders) Can you let me have a slice of bacon this week? Butcher Not nohow, mum; since I lost my wife I baln't never kept anoth er pig. London Tattler. Fair Play. There Is In most men that Instinct rvhlch Is one of the best heritages from boyhood this Instluct for fair play i nd for giving everybody "a chance." Manchester (England) Guardian. Washington Is bounded on tbe east by the Capitol and on tbe west by the ( White House. Between them flows a ( restless stream of sightseers. There may be other districts of the national , capital worth seeing, but only a Wash , Ingtonlan knows It The tourist has ( time and strength only to hit the high places. In New York there are prob ably as many tourists as In Washing ton, but with this difference, the New Yorker does not mind mixing with the tourist class. In fact, If the tourist have money and a fondness for Broad way and contiguous resorts, the New Yorker Is more than willing, so Mr. Tourist emerges his Identity with the Now York "push." Washlugtonlans never let you forget you are a tourist Resident women slightly raise their Skirts with nn InrlAonrlhnhla vpt ln quent air when they happen to rub elbows with a mere tourist of the same Bex In a hotel or department store elevator. A Washlngtonlan looks straight ahead at nothing; tbe tour ist Is known by the angle at which the crooks her neck. Congressman Hobson ' of Alabama, famous as the hero of Santiago and later of several kissing campaigns, Is said to favor the establishment by the government of an official weekly news paper for free distribution, for which ho wishes Congress to appropriate $350,000. This periodical would con tain a summary of the work of Con gress and all departments of the gov ernment, so far "as It might Interest the public. He says tbe Journal Is In tended to form a connecting link be tween the government and the people, and that the project grew out of his having ascertained that a vast amount of valuable material did not reach tbe people for whom it was Intended, ne thinks the publication of such a paper will remove distrust and suspicion and create a renewed Interest and confi dence among the masses in govern mental affairs. Pennies left In the boxes by rural route patrons for the purchase of stamps from the carriers will be let alone If the recommendations of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General De. Graw and Superintendent Splll tnan of the rural delivery service Is adopted. . In cold weather It has al- cold bottom of a metal mall box with . bare hands. It has been said that J sometimes fingers of carriers get so cold and stiff that they are unable to I write out mouey ..order receipts. - Tbe recommendation of the two officials is that patrons place a small wooden box 'n the mall box, and therein put all the pennies with which they wish to .buy stamps or anything else. The car- r,er could then, without removing his Rloves, empty the contents and go on . n'8 way rejoicing, foiling the attack of Jack Frost. If the nennies are not In ne box the carrier will not be re- 1uIrwl to, look for them. -: :- Cy- Sulloway, of New Hampshire, stl11 retalns his place as the biggest j man ,n tne House of Representatives, ano- 80 nr no one nas appeared that may honor to second place ahead ot 011,e Jaraps, of Kentucky. Sulloway something more than six and a half reet tali and weighs but a pound less than 850. His breadth Is proportionate with bis height, and he towers above his colleague Frank D. Currier, as he does above most all the members of the H. "e 8 one of tne members Wh0 doC8 not esere,se hls P"ttve VI bU IV 1 U 111)9 IUIK.UCVU Via 1 1.1 1 V oiuts V I the House restaurant where the sign proclaims "for members only," but each day partakes of a sparing lunch on the public side of the room, where 'the motto is that anybody's money Is good. The application of George M. Austlu of New York for a restraining order against Secretary Cortelyou, pt event ing him from allotting $21,500,000 of Panama Canal bonds to .certain na tlonol banks, has been denied by Judge Gould of the Supreme Court of the Dis trict of Columbia. Austin charged that the secretary had violated the law In rejectlug bis bid for $3,000,000 of bonds and allotlng the bonds to national banks and others at a lower figure. Postmaster General Meyer's order In regard to the disposition of souvenir postal cards which, reach the dead let ter office is a source of happiness to thousands of -unfortunate children. The cards, Instead of being destroyed, are now sent to tbe orphan asylums 'and children's homes and hospitals In 'Washington, where they give a delight which even the Intended, recipient 'might not have felt TO IMPROVE THE MISSOURI Navigation Congress Would Make It Equal to 600 Railroads. An appropriation of $40,000,000 for the establishment of a twelve-foot channel In tbe Missouri river from St Louis to Sloux City will be asked of Congress as a result of the first annual convention of the Missouri River Navi gation Congress, whleb met In Sloux City. Governors and Congressmen from seven ' States bordering on the Mis souri River were in attendance at the convention. It was tbe voice of the convention that the Missouri River as well as the Mississippi should be made navigable as soon as Congress can see Its way clear to spend' that much money. It was the sentiment of tbe convention that the deepening . of the Missouri River channel would be BOUTE OF PBOPOSED CHANNEL. the greatest stroke toward the settle ment of railroad rate troubles In the great Middle West. Engineers reported that the Mis souri River, If Improved according to the plans of this convention, would have the carrying capacity of 600 rail roads fifty times the capacity of all the roads running between the Missis sippi River and the lower Missouri, and more than twenty-five times the capacity of all the railroads running from the Mississippi to the Missouri at all points. These engineers reported that making tbe Missouri River nav igable from Sloux City to St Louis would cost less than' paralleling any single railroad between these two points. Tbe navigable length of the Missouri River Is greater than the distance by rail from St Louis to San Francisco. It has a navigable length three , times as great as tbe entire length of the Ohio River. If Congress does not want this ap propriation, tbe boosters of the Middle West may ask for legislation assessing a tax against land lying within 100 miles of the Missouri River. It has been figured out that the entire $40, 000,000 could be raised by an assess ment of 50 cents per acre against the land bordering upon the stream for 100 miles back. This . territory produces crops and live stock annually worth over $200,000,000. r Onions are now said to cure lots of dis eases, but what will cure onions? Couldn't we express the grip somewhert else, Instead of carrying it around with us? The advance In the price of dukes wlh further tend to discourage the leap-year business. A theatrical man reports a scarcity of stage villains. Yet there are a lot of very bad actors. Next to opera singing the most highly paid industry is that of expert witnessing In big trials. Money Is again getting so plentiful that a man can carry a piece around in his pocket for luck. The United States Supreme Court calls attention to the "fact that the States are still on the map. Cuba has enough kickers already with out sending that shipload of Missouri mules down there. ; A little mistake of $100,000,000 In the original estimates doesn't bother the Pan ama canal people. The new $20 gold pieces are mighty ugly. Still, a great many have .decided not to refuse them. i Fashion's latest Innovation is the hlp css walk. It must be another of Fash on's senseless fads. ; The mother-in-law joke reaches the cli max in the case of the Delawaro man who has just married his. . Dead men tell no tales, but In the Druce case the unearthing of a corpse completely reversed the adage. The Chicago Federation of Labor Is urging the formation of a Vegetable (Growers' Union. This beets all! I The London Times used to be "The Thunderer," but It Is now being Ameri canised so It will be more like lightning. Women Worry More than men, says Dr. McComb, and one reason Is that their nervous organiza tions are more delicate. True, and Hood's Sarsaparllla Is'Just tbe nerve-builder, appetite-giver, and blood-purifier tbey need. Indigestion 3 Years-"I was troubled with Indigestion for three rears. I read of Hood's Saraaparilla and tried It After tak inc a number of bottles I was completely cured." Mas. J. H. Hallct, DeSuto, Ho. Nervous, In Pain, No Appetite "Had poor health for years, pain in shoulders, back and hips, with constant headache, ner vousness and no appetite. Took Hood's Sar saparllla. gained strength and can work hard all dar. eat heartily and sleep welt" Has. E. GimLS, Moose Lake, Minn. Rheumatism "I had rheumatism In one of my ankles, but Hood's Sarsaparllla soon rave ne permanent relief. I recommend Hood's SartaparilhC Mas. Ann Hutchinson, Lafayette, CoL Hood's Sarsaparllla Is sold everywhere. In tbe usual liquid, or in tablet form called areataba. 100 Doses One Dollar. Pre pared only by C L Hood Co., Lowell, Mass. It Sarprlsaa Bar. "When my husband was In Spain last year," said Mrs. Swellman, "he succeeded In buying In quite a lot of the king's wines." "Well, well." exclaimed Mrs. Nu rl ten, "the Idee o' buying second-hand wines!" Philadelphia Press. . PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS. PAZO OINTMENT Is guaranteed to cure an; case of Itching, Blind. Jleedlng or Protruding Files In 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 60c aulaf Dope, "Charles, dear," said young Mrs. Tor kins, "why do you call racing calcula tions 'dope? I thought that was a slang name for. a urn." , "You're quite right,' was the answer. "They call It that because all It gen erally gets you Is a pleasant dream and a rude awakening." Washington Star. Proafroosa Horror. "Well, what do you want?" the proof ' reader asked. As hs eyed the intruder with doubt. "I'm just a loafin'," answered the hjphoa. And the proofreader hustled hint out Chicago Tribune. Stan, ft A tired feeling once Came over the busy bee. Twas when a budding poet Rhymed it with vis-a-vis. 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