The Oregon daily journal., May 21, 1905, SECTION TWO, Image 14

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INDUSTRIAL
case in the Spanish courts, which has"
been running alnce 1617.
May Defeat J. D. " . .-. :
' '' "The oil produrera of Kansas believe
ltficlE JUtUt Xo- n-orn--m arker To T"t lie ir
f oif and adequate transportation "faoilt
rU ' tie at fair, rate la near lug, an end and
that tJ"y have won. JTht-"mhimt the
it producing uiKtrirta la a fueling or
confidence that within a short time all
the oil Kansas can produce will find an
outlet through channels not controlled
i-,by th Standard and that in time leg
i lslarlon " by congress will -protect the
Ptoducere against tha tinfajrneaantib
Georgia's Boer Cedony., -'
. jfUi-. pod-ftty; Georgia, will probably
(i aeix'ia ,ior tne . proposed Boor col
lony. Commander J. fkJioahof ff he
iwoer-wtr aggregation, returned from
! visit to llmt,Kunty. where he Inspected
fa tract Of 10.000 acres, which", hit aald,
l is admirably, adapted .to the Boers' pur
pose. It belongs to D. W. Dodge of New
(York, who, he says, will be willing to
sell at. a. fair ' price, and ' In whatever
.,alsed tracts may be desired. With a
'nucleus of several Boars connected with
.ithe Boer war aggregation - from St
I Louis, 'iCHmmander Boahoff ays J& -l
icrniiiaent inai many immigrants would
;iwm jrom xne -iranavaat
ivvomcn roiui tierxi.
Germany. In aplte of. entailer- terrl
tory.'.v employs a greater numb7f
wreen-postarrcJerks than the tilted
States, having no-'fewer than 241.000
Un the combined postal and telegraph
? jaervioa. in America there are only
:J9.00 women thus employed and Oreat
Britain finds a place for only 184,090
- iwomra'lj the post and telegraph of floes.
' In France there are 11,000 and In Austria
J SS.OO0. - Russia, Japan and British India
'etch give work to some I0,000t but In
ftha other', countries In" the ' postal
tinlqp women are not largely employed.
Tha Bridge at Midnight i
Work fsbelngjjUghfiLjapidly on the
t;-jiew' West; Boston bridge. This great
-fabric' of "sjeet snd granite, replacing
. ... th. AlA hrfn .4 . . I
fellow's - midnight - soliloquy, hii. rer-
,Vumr. now than.. local interest. For
one thing,. II is said to be the first
attempt in this country to make a steel
.trldgaJllstlnctlr- ornamental In- char-
. Meter not so ornamental perhaps as the
Alexandrine across the Seine, but at
least e-racefuL
'Anglo-American Coal Fields. -
For the aecond . time In two yenfs
coal producers to. eater the British field.
:4The syndicate thla tima dlffem ntntert-J
: In personnel from that of the first
. . endeavor. It. tVFrlcfc was the fiend of
the prevlouLjyndlcateand-EdwarA-C.
r :Berwlnd Is the. bead of the . present
.,;rtnn. Associated with Mr. Berwind are
fttirract -Rem-of-Philadelphia and. a few
orrrv Bermlnd's asaoclatea connected
with the 8tandard OU company, although
-this is nota Standard OU affair.,. .
' rinlrrmnite Trust
lit the busy tbwi of Mllford. Maaaa-
' fchusetts, has been formed the very
.'latest merger, the pink granite trust.,
-whlchr-hnmedlatnyioolt "a foromoet
; place among tha granite concerns. tf
' th-ountry and outbid 'all competitors
. Ion the, Icrgest contract ever made, -ta
. ..-.-sjupply granite for the mT-v Pe"nney!vtila
- ratlroad station tn New York City at a
r!ce of 11.(00.000. . - ; i
, l' Many Mouth Organs.
Although the United States la by far
i the largest purchaser of mouth org.ins,
comparatively few are made in this
T-ountry. ifoet of the mouth organs sold
"Tere are of German make and are 1m-
jmrted from the Black Forest.- where
one factory alone turns out 6,000,000
harmonicas yearly ' through' Its IS
j branches, , In which - 2,000 hands are
rmployed.
.Berlin's-Telephones.
"1. r nnaacnere 0tx),cntAr'tf'rP'' Ber"
which now numbers over RS.000 sppara
tusea actually in uae, The telephone
department divides the system1 of con-
tiectlcns Into several jieetions.--No. "1
1 ;"Hone has 1J.63I subscribers. , while No.
i4 comes In a good second with 12.-
'tsi.
Speedy Turbine Steamer, j,
The turbine eiteanritatp Onward, which
'lll be Idaoed on the rover-Calals 1 ser
Mee in a few days, attained a mean
i - t.-pecd of 51.64 knots during her offlclsl
trip In the Firth of Clyde. This Is
- he record fnr pnsnenger turbine steam
' :"lHlps. Another feature of the trial was
the remarkable pe.d"'irr . 1SV4 - knots
2 rhlch was attained with turbines re--:
S'ersed. ,' - e .
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tr-""$teamship Subsidies. --!
During the last year the Canadian
1 tovernmnt has paid out In steamship
rubsldies a little mora thart 1500,000."
- , ' , Thean subsidies have - -been paid partly
for mall purposes and partly, appar
. rntly. to entHtllli commercial ennnec-
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EDUCATIONAL'
Cpod Husbands Wanted.
"l ' Ionklng upoti marrlaae with a kindly
, yet critical eye,. Jt Vnuhg women who
attend the Cummork School-of Oratory
of Clilcaj, an institution' affmaTctf'wlth
'tlie North western- university, 'have
formed a "Society for the prevention
rt lTnhsppy-Marriages." .It, I founded
- on the hypothesis that ench ' rrtah and
, womim'haa an affinity, jit is the pre-
rogatlve of this new c(ul to look into
the lovoaf fairs of one aoiothar and da.
- clde by vote -if they apprVive or disap
prove the approaching nuptials. If the
vote is negative It becoihes the duty of
-alii members' of the society to, tell, the
' uig woman thut she must . discard
Iee sulW,vnf!t her slaleYa rn find her
" affinity.
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! Corsets Condemned. 1 ' , 1; '
' ' The Roumanian department of eduea
: lion- Is ettendtng lis field of warfare
against the corset. , Some time ago it
, e le reed that none might attend the
imhllo schools who wore' corsets. As
mijbv Uve beecc. expected, lucre were
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From the First Photograph
loud protests, but the minister of edu
cation stood f irm,, a nl. w 1 1 lithetala
to Indorse his actlonhe caj;riod.-4la
Ptnfc BdncStBrn Is compulsory, . and
since none might attend the public
ccnoois who wore corsets, it resulted In
the' practical abandonment -of this artH
cle of . dress among .the girls.. Careful
watch was kept upon the young women.
and as tha result of a table of statistics
recently submitted It hds been declared
that. Ihe standard of health smong the
school girls has . been - very mafc riglly
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.Three.scholar8hJpsJhavabeen J an.
nounced In connection with the ninety-
third annual commencement Axere-lftesT
of Princeton. Tbaeiegtcar seminary. The
Hebrew scholarahlp, valued at $.4 B0. was
awarded to Oswald T. Allis of Philadel
phia: the 1600 Biblical theology . prise
to Finley Q. Mackintosh, Sprlngvllle.
Nova Scotia, and the Greek scholarship
of 1600 to John Q. : Machen. Baltimore.
All these students will go to Europe
for special work. ,
No Oil on Seal- -
An official seal which suggests oil in
any manner, shape or form will not do
for the Vnlverslty of Chicago.- Just
what. Its founder, John I). Rockefeller,
will thlflk of this ' Is not known, but
theMldwajf school has decided that tha
varsity seal must nSfbe- suggestive of
Standard OIL
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Bad Eyesight of Children. , :
' Dr. John J. Cronln, chief of the divis
ion of school ' inspectors of the- health
department, announces after careful In
vestigation that 8 1-3. per cent of' the
school children of New York are suf
fering from defective eyesight.
RELIGIOUS.
Prince tof Be Cardinal.
Prince' Max of Saxony will have de
servedly won the cardinal's hat that It
Is said the pope Intends io confer on
him, state his friends.- Coming down
from f his lofty station he gallantly de.
voted himself to a self-sacrificing career,
setting a tood example to the princes
of the day and example that one might
hop weold-nofr bo- lost, on Jhem. Kven
Iflhey .ol-d it hot from bravery it would
be' a -worldly wise policy or them to
show thnt they could fill a man's placnin
the world's economy, liven 'In the most
conservative countries of Kiiropn the day
is auprnirning jam wncn tney, will have
to r up tie their own living.
Sabbath or Sunday?
X. The Rev. Arthur Maxwell Smith, pastor
01 ma '-first fresnyterinn church st
Pees'tur. Michigan, offers te wage ll.OOO
with men of .the. Artvenyat church that
Sunday is the Sabbath of the Bible.
According to: the Rev. Mr. SiVilth's
proposition the evidence Is to be weighed
by a jcomuatcni xonKrcgaLlon jnade- up of
all clasacs Ip any community, competent
meaning neutraj. The morey s to be put
up In eny'gonrt. baik and go(to charity.
The Itev. Mr. mlth -says he Is con
strained to speak because the Adventlsta
assert that Sunday as -Sabbath Is a child
of the Roman Catholic church and finds
plHce-4a-eripture, . r
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$5,000 Rob for Pope. -;
Wealthy Itsllans " of "New
York" will
show their esteem for the pope bv pre
sentlng Mm with a robe that will cot
I5.0HO. Thlf Splendid vestment is how
being made In, a Barclay street shop.
Charles ttaclgalupo, a rloh undertaker,
has bocn delegated to lake the gift to
Rome and present It to Plus X.
Rids Water Wagon.'.
Frederick A. Bailey of Johnston,. Rheda.
Island, better known as "Bif Chang "Sai-
Received in Portland of the: Fearful
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CANNON FOR.FOURTltT
Professor .. William ,Suddrd
Franklinr- head of ' the depart'
raent-of physics st Lehigh uni-
verslty, has invented a harmless d
toy cannon, designed to-take the .
rtln r. n f thm HmuiIIv rmmHrnn if. A
1 fair filled with gunpowder and'
which reaps a harvest of victims
every Fourth of July.- .
d By . applying . a -well 1 known'
principle of, chemistry he has
.Troduced"annon which" makes
d a report but cannot , explode.
" hurls a mlesUe whichran 16 no a
harm and has a flash or fire
which does not scorch tissue
paper.'
This explosion Is caused by an
electric spark igniting a com
bination of alr and gaa, some
what on the principle of m gas
engine. This discharges a cork
no other missile will do and
produces a flame of so low a
temperature that it does not
burn. ... , ' .
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ley. Is on the water wagon and doing
all within his power to help others to
mount.' His tavern and road house, a
fbig bnlldtng.1 lias had fur years pron
nently painted upon the sign "Big Chang
Bailey's Place." The landlord standa
six feet seven Inches, tips the beam
at-MOpounde, and for years graveled
with Hie ' Ttariium" Alf!Tey curcus as
"Chang, the Original Chinese Giant,'
After S3 years as soldier, sailor, clre
freak and tavern keeper.. Chang baa been
converted. " ----
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Young Girl Preacher. Jv
Miss Myrtle B. Parke, who has been
oil pit to the naatorate of tha Christian
church at Ramsey, Illinois, Is already
noted as an evangelist. She Is a student of
Eureka college, where she fitted herself
for ' th ministry. She formerly '. occu
pied the pulpit- to which she has been
called, but resigned. 4o enter college.
Mt a Parke's home Is at Staunton, Illi
nola. She Is II years of sge and Is thought
by her Instructors and church associates
to have before her a successful future.
LEGAL AND CRIMINAL.
Yate't Fatal Class. .
"After Investlgatltig' the " wieath"of
Arthur ItHserol. iho" wealthy young yaie
senior. Coroner Mix said that be was
satlvified that it was M- caae of suicide.
"The position ;of the wound Jn the
head," he sal'l,-"the appearance , of the
skin Which the bullet and "powder
struck, and the course : taken by the
bullet in passing through the head and
striking the wall alt indicate that the
pistol was held up to the young man's
right temple and the bullet fired, v We
hav no facta at our disposal to warrant
announcing a motive." ,Therc jjiava been
nve aenms in ne ciasa. inrre 01 mem
suicides. - A side 'from Haaerol. Robert
J. Rich of Fort Dodge, Iowa, ended his
life by (leaping rrom the top of ' West
rock, nnd Bowman Ksher- nf Chicago
snot himself In a New York hotel after
he had been told that-ho was a con
sumptive. . wJ : : fr-r:
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Much Courted Cow.
,rWe state supreme court of Colorado
has affirmed' the doclslon of the - four
lower cburts in the famous Stevens
Smith cow case, which war begun II
years ago and has cost 12,600 In st
tornxys' fees and court costs. The value
of the cow waa liO and she has beeni
dead 13 years. Stevens placed the. cow
In a pasture II years ago. . While -lie
waa la California the owner nf the pas
ture old it, : with his herd. Including
Steven' cow, to R. M. Smith.. Whes
fit evens returned he'demffnUed the row,
offering to psjr for , her pasturage.
Wreck at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Last
Smith refused to give her up, and the
Llung JobhI daht oeKn. Stevens Hy he
will carrylhe case to, the federal au
Oreme court If nOasthle. ' .-. " ' :
Nineteen Family Suicides.
David Briggs. a Brookilelds.ContwwU.
cut. farmer, the nineteenth member pt
his family, to kill himself, was recently
fouiTrt drowned. He. threw 'hirnnelf Into
a mill pond' on the outskirts of Bridge
port. .The suicides In the family have
followed at Intervals, of a few years for
nearly .half a- century. Six-years -ago
Andrew Brlgga, a rich farmer, weighted
hlms'eir with a stone led to dog collar
fastened.abouLJ.is neck and walked Into
a pond, iiis neighbors found a stick
fastened at the edge of Jhe-pond point-)
lng to tne place where the body la,
Creeks Want Money .
The attempt on the part of United
States Indian, agents to force payment
or the tribal tx levied by the Creek
Indians several years ago has occa
sioned great excitement In Indian Terri
tory. The measure affects almost every
white man engaged in business" In the
Creek nation snd it is bitterly opposed
from every quarter. Government of
ficials have sent out notices threatening
ti close every place of business where
the tax is not paid before June. 14.
Practically -none has paid It thus fsr
and violence Is feared should its collec-
tton te atTempteor- : :
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Saloon License $4,000.
The council of Bradford. Illinois,
has
passed the strictest ' Iieeiiterirdtnarfcf
in the state. For many' years Bradford
has been a "no license": village. At the
recent spring election a license mayor
and four councllmen were elected. At a
session . this - week an ordinance waa
passed placing the saloon license at
$4,000 and restricting the number of sa
loons to one. Several applications for
license were reeelved. but none was ac
cepted by the council, the llcenae com
mittee being Instructed to Investigate
and grant the license to one man who
would make the best promises in regard
to obeying the law. -
Sell Liquor to Minors.
"The supreme court of Ohiolhas af
firmed the judgment! of the circuit court
In setting aside the conviction of John
T. Norrls, a detective,, sentenced to the
penitentiary for alleged blackmail of a
saloonkeeper. The judgment waa re
versed on the ground-that th indict
ment did not .specifically ' charge that
Norrls accused the saloonkeeper of eell-
niefrnlly to a -minor, ana that lluuora
might be sold to a minor legaMyr-for in
stance upon the prescription of a physi
cian. ' ' -
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Married 1,000 Couplea." .
Oeorge K. Iiw, the marrying squire
of Brazil, Indiana, holds the record in
Indiana for the, number of . marriage
ceremonies performed by one , tnan
within six years and three months. Dur
ing , this period, he ; has united -4,000
couples. Law waa elected a Justice, for
Brazil township In November, 198. and
performed his first marriage ceremony
January 21, 1S9H. - Ills one thousandth
certmony was solemitlzed April 19,
FOREIGN.
Csar'a Daily Journal.
A dally..newpaper'--for the exclusive
Information ,of the emperor of Russia
IN printed at the foreign office in St.
Petersburg. Before the Japanes war
this journal At limited- but high-clans
circulation contained clippings - and
translatlona - from sll the Kuropean
papers and was printed upon fine psper
from special type. All items which
might- be supposed to be disquieting to
the emperor ere eliminated bv tha edi
tors, and 1h freshly printed sheet con
tained newS designed to please , him.
Since the outbreak of the war - the
.Wednesday in Which 25 Persons Were
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. ENGLISH TOWN IS -
,'.--- RAISING BABIES
4 IiuddTSfleld."- tlje -most i.pro-
4 gresslve of Yorkshire manufac-
4l- turlng-towns.-1 going in fora
4 form of municipal, eriterprlae d
d which : is certainly unique In
Great Britain baby-raising. Thes d
4 mayor of Hiiddersfleld. Alderman
4 Benjamin Broadbent, started the
4 campaign against the hiMh rate
d of infant mortality bjr offering -d
4 . a reward of 120 forevery j;hild-4
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born in his otatrJ.cll-.lhat-ur
"vived 12 monllia. '.,-
According to the scheme which
has Just been sdopted a payment
nts Is to be made to the
blrjh of achlld to the medical
officer ' within 41 hours of the 4
event. The medical officer will'
send fo "the mother printed-"dr 4
rections as to the best method
of raising uables. Feminine 4
health visitors specially . ap-
pointed for the purpose will calld
at each house imne'poorais- 4
trlcts where births are reported .
and supplement the advice thus 4
given with prsctlcal instruction.
They will make frequent calls to 4
see that the babies arq receiving 4
proper care. Pure milk will M 4
supplied by the municipality.
emperor has insisted -4"ipon alsy being
"suppTTedwllh' "unbTacked ' copies of cer
tain Kngllwh paprsr- - :
Na Hangings There, r -
Death sentence's are never carried out
In Belgium because King Leopold prom
ised his mother as she was dying that
Tie would never sign his name to a death
warrant. Consequently, although his
statute prescribes the extreme penalty,
it Is only carried out constructively. The
condemned person Is regsrded as dead
In the eyes of the law. In place of his
personal appearance on the scaffold, the
executioner substitutes- a broad sheet
besrlng his nsme and sentence, posts
this where it may be read by the people,
anif-so leaves It, while the criminal is
put tn prison, to stay there-for the term
of his life.
Chance for Ugly Girls. .
The sum of 12.600 a year Is distributed
llachmaniv In Germany.- A Polish
nobleman' l4t the money for this- pur
pose.', and Ihe amount of the marriage,
portion tbaiearh girl receives is regu
lated by the measure nf good looks that
she posses. A plain bride Is given $360,
nnd the prettier a girl is the less she
receives from this fund. ' Thedonor's
aim was to equalise the chances of mar
riage of thfl plain and the pretty,
Servants Hava Good Thing.- - -
At - the Austrian court articles are'
never permitted to appear a , second
llnte at the royal table, but become the
perquisites ' of the servants; the ' Un
corked bottles of . probably the choicest
of wines go to one. the Joints to another,
the liquors left-hrtho glass to another,
and so on, a sale of the dainties being
held .in the lower regions of the pa lacs
every morning.. At the. Spanish court,-!
until, quite recenuy, a similar custom
prevailed. T' .
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Cody va. Cossacks. - -
Colonel Cody Is having trouble with
his Cossacks, 14 of .whom demsnrted a
raise In salary this' week, considering the
extra expense of living In Paris. Meet
ing a refusal, they struck Snd left the
show., The colonel promptly instituted
a lawsuit, asking' 1100 damages from
each. . lie also boxged the court te de
cide at once, owing-4a. th urgency of
Killed aad 150 Injured.
the. case, as he Cossacks hare no fixed
abode or property and are likeiy-to-
escape fioiu -France.
Schiller a Frenchman.!
Apropos of the Schiller centenaryvjt
now transpires that the great German
poet war a French cltixen. In 1! the
republic conferred "cltlsehshlp on aTT
men Who had distinguished themselves
4n the cause of freedom. The list in
cludes Washington, Franklin and Hamil
ton.,. Schlller'a name appears in the list
as -"ailleer," ' as th scribe who took
Jtdown. hot kiiQwihg whohe :waa,
spelled it'phOnetlcally. r - , "
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Kaiser's Tall Moor. . . 1
Emperor William ssw " a ' very tall
fMoor - wlltle gf hore at-Tsngterrtalked
to him and arranged that .the man
Shotrf join his majesty's compsny of
tsll men of -the First Gusrd regiment.
The Moor has now been assigned to
carry the regimental standard. lie
stands exactly S feet 10 7-10 Inches high
and otherwise Is of large proportions.
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Absinthe Is Barred. ,
.: -The Belgian government has become
so alarmed at the Increase of crime and
insanity due to the use of poisonous
alcoholic drinks by the lower classes
that the chamber has voted a law for-
rblddlng the Importation-Into Belgium
and tha sale . of or manufacture of
abetntheTTTha most, deadly of intoxi
cants. .... , " ' .
The prevalence of the bald head among
London -men has' at last - received the
attention not only of the hairdreaaer,
but of h medical men.-and It has been
ascertained that the fact bf continually
wearing a hat with no proper ventila
tion la responsible for the shining bald
pate so common among the aterner sex.
New South American Road. ' -
'The Buenos Ayrea' Central railway
will expnd 118,000.000 for the comple
tion of worka already authorised, in
cluding the extension of the compsny 's
docks at Bahta Blanca, the purchase of
additional rolling stock, extensions of
the lines and branches. V..-i,
Autos May Kill Dogs. " :
A bad time la coming for dogs along
French country roads, Paris law courta
having - Just -decided .that if an auto
mobile runs over a dug the owner has'
no claim for compensation, as he must
not allow his dog to. run loose. If he
does so he commits an .Imprudent act,
of which he must support all- conse
quences.' '.-,
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Crinoline Not "If ' o
The fashionable dressmakers of Lon
don who have houses in Paris have de
rided there l no indication of a re
vival of the erlnollne.st preaentven,
though In Paris some dubiousness Is
expressed about the future.- - .
Liner Carriea One Letter. .: ' 7
'A rurloua result of .the recent dis
location of the mall service between
Australia" and the T'nlted Kingdom is
shown in the fact thai the mall taken
to Adelaide -by the Ornntes consisted of
only one letter. f htwss' registered.
Sword to Oyama. "'.'.''.::
A movement is on foot at Budapest
to send Marshal Oyama a a word of
honor from the Hungarian people. It
Is proposed that a committee of promi
nent Hungarians go to Japan In the
summer ,to majte ,tbo presentation.
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tn Court Since 1S1T. , . '
Tt.WM' flmnni hB-a T.-nv,. va
Jarhdyce-seertis but sq Infant.beslde a
Berlin Bara Poker.4 --
T'.The Berlin .pollce authorities Intend '
to take severe measures to suppress the
practice or "playtne1 okr- inTnbltt -
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miscellaneous;
Captured Cork Limb.
' Fifty-eight yeara have, elapsed sine'.
the cork, tea; of the' Mexican general -Santai
Ana was captured by. American .
goldlera in. the battle of Cerro Gordo,
Mexico, on April It. 1I4T, yet the true .
SroryT'of the Capture of "the rellQ-has (
never been fully written. Three sen- ,
eratlons of American schoolboys have
road the acaounts in the ' histories of .1
this humorous Incident, " yet the name
of the soldter who found tha discarded"-.
limb has never been published. Major
Joseph B.' Smith of Thackeray, llllnola.-?
in a trying moment in a battle felt that
the issue of the engagement waa of
mora Importance than the possession
of one. of the unique prises of a bat-
ttefleht As -a-Tesutt-TfhlB- devotion
to duty he allowed the hoaoF of making
the-captur-of 'Santa .Ana's artificial -,
limb to to to another, .. - - - ;-
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Wild Striped Horses.
v' News to-1 Chihuahua from the Sierra v
Madi-e mountains,-where. Professor II.
Caesare Ewart of Edinburgh Scotland,
and party are hunting for the lost race '
of striped horses,-la 4a the effect that
a- drove of the, anlmala has been set-. v
ually seen. Professor Ewart has fin
ished an exhaustive research in Jamaica
and Is convinced that .horses were once',
striped like the schra, and hopes to
prove rt in northern -Mexico:" Hampton
Bradley, a prospector at Parral, reports
that he sound the roaming place of ,
these horses and saw many hundreds
of them In n wild location In the Sierra
Madre mountains. - where Hone and :
t m r m wnltn J tlia 4 - - I - hara .
Bpeakerr:Cannonana.party are going
for. a hunt. It is for this regjen that -
the"- profesaos lsctraveling. r - .--.--i.
A-Real Stork-Club.
The frequency- with which the stork
vianea vine nojura ui iiuu .
w-mppohed ooiatc4ub-at Wanatah. In
dlana, nas caused a puouc coniessiun iu
be made that the organlaatlonwas
planned snd, perfected scarry - out "
President Roosevelt's ideas against race
suicide. Ths -society adopted a stork. -aa
lta emblem, and today a letter was '
addressed .to President Roosevelt asa-
lng thai n "tOTggt!aT,"K HloITO for 'tns
-elubt The-4w-ofS00 people began .Z
to gossip over the Juvenile growth, and""
Hie-L tha jof fenders decided .to maxe tne
public conversant with the purposes of
the club Thereare -.now nearly
core of happy mdThers In ihe village
and the btork has not ceased his visits.
Wireless Naval Orders. " :
Officers of Rear Admiral Evans' bat. .
tleshlp squadron, earning to Washing-
ton from Hampton Roada, report that
when the squadron waa 70 miles south'
essr of Cspe Hatteras a wireless mes--"
aagewas. received from the hatfleahlp
Illlnoiawhicb was outside, tha .Virginia
rapes with the Mareellus testing a coal-"
'lng device, and that an Interesting ex
change of communications followed. .
The distance was 110 miles. At another
time the Iowa was dlstsnt from tha -squadrdh
at nlghf. wTien It waS desired
to glva her some orders A mere speck
of light Indicated her. whereabouts. but
the wireless picked he up.' the desired
orders were glven,(and were acknowl
edged within two -minutes.
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Right Sort of Joke. ; . - '
From a penny collection, jokingly'
taken up at the annual state meeting .
of the I'nlted Commercial Travelers In
Sioux City; four years ago,-that a bald
headed traveling man might have atialr
cut, has been formed ths nucleus of a
fund whlehwlrTbulld. apatlonai home
for widows and orphans of the knights
of the grip.-This will be ullt In Iowa,
Inasmuch as the national body b
stowed upon this state that privilege
IirTognttiunriBribirc
Inal idea.- Des Moines, Sioux City, Ce-
Oar Rapids and other clttea are desirous
of securing ths location, - This will be
decided at the coming meeting of the
order. . '-.
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Fairbanks' Gold Inkstand.
A doubts inkstand, constructed of
gold, silver and cut glass, costing 1500.
will be msde for Vice-President, Fair
banks by Tlffsny of New York. The.
government will pay the bill. The Inkr
stand will be used by Mr. Fairbanks'
during hla term as vice-president, and -at
ita conclusion will become his per
sonal property. This has been tha prac
tice for years. - The Inkstand presented ;
to Garret A. Mobart cost 1800. Those
arranging for Mr, Falrbanka". aouvenlr
placed the cost limit at l&oo. ;
Returns Battle Flag. . '.
Governor Stokes of New Jersey la
being urged by his advisers to. person
aJly return to South Carolina the fa
mous ."plow boy" battle flag raptured
by a Jersey regiment during the civil
war. If he does he will take his per- -sonal
staff and make the trip -the oc
casion for a big celebration at Bran--,
ford, South Carolina. ' He objects to
the military display, but IS expected ',
to yield oni'the ground .that Imposing
ceremonies 'will tend to, Increase the
friendship between the north end tha .
south.) -" J ,-'---.-..-
Death No Hindrance. - -
tlonal iJewleh Hospital for Consump
tives In lta. national aid t'o victims of
the dreaded white plague, Mrs. Stella
Letter, -widow of the millionaire dry '
goods merchant of Syracuse, New Tork,
will carry (Out'the wishes of her hus
band, whjxlled auddet)ly in-Naw-lferKr
ettya' few days ago before he could
draw up .4 codicil -to hie will leaving
a bequest ofjjzf.000 to the Institution."
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Won't Expel Saloonmen. ; .
Orand Lodge Red Men of Oklahoma1'
closed a three days' session recently, tn (
Shswnee. The officers elected aret Jo.
S. Pearl of Kl Reno(, great sachem;. W. -B.
Decker rtf Enid, senior sagamore; E.
S. Hoops of Shawnee, junior sagamore.
After a five hours' debate the delegates
voted down, the motion to expel- all re-
tsll 'sfid wholesale liquor dvalurs front
tha orfanlsaUoa .t:
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