The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953, October 05, 1886, Image 1

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PELEPHONE
M’MINNVILLE, OREGON, OCTOBER 5, 188(1
ALONG THE COAST.
The seul catch in the Behring sea
this year is unprecedented. Seven
----- Issued—
thousand skins were recently received
Devoted Principally to Washington Territory
at Victoria, British Columbia, from
VERY’ TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
and California.
the seal grounds.
—IN—
Unknown parties burglarized a
GarnsoB's Building. McMinnville Oregon.
San Francisco’s indebtedness is $1,- Marysville (VV. T.) warehouse and
—BT—
457,526.
California Crop Reports The Knights Templar
stole a number of barrels of Hour and
ralmnife &. 'I’ni’iiei*,
A grist mill is being built on Mill 150 pounds of bacon.
Conclave at St. Louis—Two Engineers
The thieves
Killed in a Train Collision
creek, Pacific county, W. T.
Publishers and Preprietors.
are supposed to be Indians.
Foreign News, Etc.
The Vancouver (B. C.) Caledonian
Poles are being got out for the new
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
society lias been organized.
line ot the Pacific Postal Telegraph
California Crop Krportx.
)ne r«»r..................................................................$ï 00
Fifty-one pupils attended the Ellens­ A Cable company. Bean A Bunn
111 msnths............................................................. 1 25
S an F rancisco . — Respecting con­
rhree months.........................................................
75
have the contract for those to be placed
dition of crops in California the agent burg academy at its opening.
between Seattle and Snohomish.
¡ntered in the Postofflce at McMinnville, Or., of the Agricultural Bureau for that
Mount
Zion
Church,
Montesano,
as second-class matter.
State has made the following report: W. T., was burned to the ground,
John West, residing near Chehalis,
\V heat has been a fair average crop
A new sawmill is soon to be built on W. T., attempted to burn some straw
near his barn, and that edifice was de­
:. V. V. JOHNSON, M. D. throughout the State, and of very Striker creek, South Bend, W. T.
good quality. Rye is grown but very
A new depot will soon be erected at stroyed by the spreading of the fire.
Northwest corner of Second and IÍ streets,
little, but succeeds well, and is valu­ Ellensburg by ihe N. P. R. R. Co.
His daughter drove the stock from the
OREGON able, especially as an early forage crop.
IcMINNVILLE
burning barn.
In
a
shooting
affray
at
Merced,Cal.,
Barley is rather above the average.
May be found at his office when not absent on pro-
A large flock of sheep which were
Irish potatoes are a good crop. The a bystander named Rucker was killed.
Milonal business.
Sorghum has been grown success­ being driven from Montana to Canada
corn crop will be fully up to the aver­
age. Apples and pears alxiut a two- fully in »lie upper Natchez valley, were surrounded by a band of Indians
LITTLEFIELD & CALBREATH,
on the Belly river, and urged over its
thirds crop; peaches,one-third; plums, W. T.
precipitous banks until they piled up,
a
poor
crop;
almonds
and
English
John
Hailey
has
been
nominated
Physicians and Surgeons, walnuts, average crop. Canning and by the Democrats of
Idaho for Dele- one on another, twenty-five deep. In
this way 172 sheep were killed, and
M c M innville and L afayette , or
drying have been followed more than gate.
afterward skinned, cut up, and carried
J. F. Calbreath, M. D„ office over Yamhill County ever, and shipments of fresh fruits
There
are
only
two
boats
on
the
lank, McMinnville. Oregon.
off by the redskins.
H R. Littlefield, M D., office on Main Btreet, East have prevented gluts in the mar­ Upper Snake river running at this
afayette, Oregon.
Douglas Williams, a young man
kets, although fruit is still plentiful time.
living on the river above Palouse city,
and cheap. The yield of grapes for
H.
C.
Roe
has
been
appointed
W. T., had his skull fractured and arm
wine is variously estimated from
S. A. YOUNG. M. D.
6,000,000 to 20,000,000 gallons, which minister for the Fort Simcoe Reserv­ badly mashed by a log rolling over
him. He will recover.
may be called a full medium crop,and ation.
Physician and Surgeon,
Vancouver (B. C.) chronicles the
the quality will be good. The yield
A warrant has been issued in Frank­
IcMINNVILLE
•
OREGON.
of raisins will be much larger chan birth of the first pair of twins in that lin county W. T., against an Indian
¡Office and residence on D street. All calls promptly last year, and raisin makers are very town.
named Wolf, who is charged with the
kawered day or night.
hopeful as to the quality and pros­
W. Monks, of Fidalgo, W. T., re­ too handy use of the branding iron on
pective prices. Shipments to the East cently lost 400 cords of wood by forest Josh Clark’s horses. The Indian is
DR. G-. F. TUCKER,
of table grapes are also very active, fires.
quite wealthy.
and prices range higher than usual.
Over 23t),OOO cans of fruit were put
Roddan’s hop house at Wheatland.
TkETVTIfsTI?,
Altogether it may be called a prosper­ up by one California cannery this
Cal., was burned. The loss was $25,-
IcMINNVILLE
-
-
-
OREGON. ous fruit season.
season.
600. The insurance on the house and
Office—Two doors east of Bingham’s furniture
«■treat Oil Fire in Ohio.
John Hailey, Jr., has been ap­ contents expired about nine or ten
hors.
¡Laughing gas administered for painless extraction.
L ima , O.—The city was startled by pointed warden of the Idaho peni­ hours before the fire. Thirty tons kof
a terrific clap of thunder. In a few tentiary.
hops were destroyed.
CHAS. W. TALMAGE,
moments black clouds of smoke were
Abraham Loring of Red Bluff, Cal.,
A frightful explosion occurred at
seen rolling up from one of the oil was choked to death by a pi“ce of the giant powder works at West
wells on he Brotherton land. Fire at beefsteak.
Berkeley, Cal., caused by the sudden
once communicated with a tank, and
Conveyancing and Abstracts a Specialty.
E. G. Thomason will rebuild the ignition of about 100 pounds of nitro­
in a few minutes all was on fire.
At sawmill recently destroyed by fire at glycerine and gun cotton. Two China­
DLLECTING ATTENDED TO PROMPTLY!
the same time gas in a tank 300 yards Colville, W. T.
men were blown to atoms.
Office -Manning Building, Third street.
distant ignited,and all the machinery,
Nearly
$5,000,000
of
Eastern
capital
Steve Clary, aged 19, having been
tanks, and about 2400 gallons of oil
were consumed. Later the derrick at has been invested in Los Angeles real convicted of saatching a purse con­
taining $500 from an old lady, after
ST. CHARLES HOTEL
the gas works oil well was struck, con­ estate since 1885.
A wagon road from Colville, W. T., dazing her by striking her in the face,
suming the entire structure, machinery
and tanks, and 1200 barrels of oil. to the Metalline mines is being built was sentenced by a San Francisco
Judge to fifty years in Folsom.
This well is adjoining the gas works, by subscription.
|1 and $2 House. Single meals 25 cents.
which at one time were in great dan­
The Western Union telegraph com­
C. S. Hayes, editor of the Traver
Ine Sample Rooms for Commercial Men
ger, but the gas works and all the pany is extending its line from Colfax Tidings, was shot and instantly killed
F. M U LT N ER, Prop.
machinery therewith were saved. The to Farmington.
by Henry Beaver, at Lemoore, Cal.,
railroad bridge was on fire several
The capacity of the sawmill at Sun­ while sitting in the parlor with a
times, caused by oil running down, but shine, W. T., is to be increased to young lady to whom he was engaged.
W. V. PRICE,
was saved without damage. About 65,000 feet per day.
Jealousy was the motive of the crime.
that time high columns of black
The Rocky Bar district, Idaho, will
Extensive and damaging fires have
smoke were seen southeast from the soon have four eighty-stamp quartz
raged in the mountains at the head­
city. Five wells were struck by light­ mills in operation.
waters of Coppei and Touchet, W. T.
ning and destroyed. Rain had been
Up Stairs in Adams' Building,
The fire got into the lumber at the old
J.
D.
Naieze,
a
Frenchman,
and
falling in torrents, and the thunder
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-
-
OREGON
and lightning exceeded any thing of Jacob Shafer, a German, hung them­ Kinnear & Weller mill and destroyed
100,000 feet or more. The people are
the kind known here. The loss to selves in San Francisco.
The Minnie Mcfore mine in Wood about worn out fighting fire.
oil men is estimated at 125,000.
M’MINNVILLE BATHS!
River district has been sold to English
Word comes from Montpelier, I. T..
Collision of Fr.-lRlit Trains.
bring bought out A O. Windham, I artl prepared to
capitalists for $1,000,000.
of a fatal accident to C. C. Jensen.
do all work in first-class style.
K ansas C ity .—Two freight trains
He went out horseback riding with a
idies' and Childrens' Work a Srecialty! on the Missouri Pacific Railway col­ The few renegade Apaches who es- neighbor
to see some colts, lie rode
Hot and Cold Baths always ready for 25 cents.
lided thirty miles east of this city. caped from Lawton are again cauaing
a high-spirited stallion, which on being
VERY MAM AV ART I NT. The two trains met on a curve, and trouble in Southern Arizona.
C. H. Fleming,
both were ditched. George Cowles
N. B. Sutton, a farmer near Liver- checked by the bit reared and fell back
Third street, near O, McMinnville, Oregon
and John Light of Sedalia, the en­ more, Cal., shot and instantly killed on Jensen, breaking the man’s back.
gineers, were both killed, and the two Alexander Martin, a neighbor.
The Basin and Boise City, Idaho,
1^. Tfc O O T,
firemen injured. The wreck took fire,
A railroad has been constructed stage was halted for the third time
—DEALER I : n
and about ten cars were burned with from Los Angeles, Cal., to a large this summer by a lone highwayman.
their contents.
Seven were loaded ostrich farm nine miles away.
There was no treasure box on tlie
■roceries, Provisions.
with hogs, cattle and sheep, which
Cranberry culture on Shoalwater stage, and so the robber contented
burned or maimed, and many of bay, Pacific county, W. T., gives himself with the mail sack. At last
Crockery and Glassware. were
the carcasses were burned. Passenger promise of a profitable industry.
accounts a posse was out hunting for
All goods delivered in the city.
trains were delayed several hours.
A neat church 20x40 feet with a the robber.
1 he llulKurlan Imbroglio.
steeple fifty feet high is being built
Young Alden, of Tacoma, the boy
L ondon .—The situation in Bulgaria for the Indians at Tulalip, W. T.
was indicted for stealing a regis­
JUSTER POST BAND, is considered critical, and civil war is Work in the Cascade tunnel on the who
tered package containing $3 75 from
dangerously near.
Bismarck’s con­
the United States mail, on board the
The Best in the State.
ciliatory policy toward Russia has Northern Pacific branch line is pro­ steamer on which he was employed,
gressing at the rate of twelve feet a
prepared to fuininh mu»ic for all occasions at reason modified the English attitude.
The
able rates. Address
pleaded guilty and was sentenced by
foreign office is disposed to take the day.
Greene to one year in the
.T. ROWLAND, stand that if the powers do not con­ J. Izen, a Butte grocer, killed B. J. Judge
United States penitentiary.
Schlesinger,
a
merchant,
in
conse
­
Business Manager, McMinnville.
sider it for their interest to support her
in preventing the fall of Constantin­ quence of a quarrel over a gambling
Patrick O’Brien has been committed
ople she will no longer offer opposition debt.
to Steilacoom. W. T. He is thought
A new schoolhouse is to be built at to be an escaped lunatic from some
to Russia extending her influence to
Ellensburg, to be 30x70 feet, a wing asylum. His undershirt is marked
M'MINNVILLE
the Mediterranean.
16x29, two stories in bight and to cost “ward 6,” and the fellow talks about
Collapse of a Hridice.
»3175.
Salem all the time, hence it is sup­
V ienna .—A supension bridge over
Ezra Meeker lias eold the farm of posed he escaped from tlie Oregon
the
Ostrawitza
river
in
the
town
of
126 acres, a mile from Puyallup, W.
Corner Third and D streets, McMinnvills
Ostrau, in Moravia, collapsed while a T., for $12,600 to his son, Marion J. asylum at Salem.
squadron of uhlans were riding across.
Joe Shissler, who recently dropped
OGAN BROS. & HENDERSON. The uhlans and a number of specta­ Meeker.
A new postoffice has been established dead near Lewiston, Idaho, left prop­
tors who were on the bridge watching at Sultan City, W. T., on the upper erty which, with his partner's interest,
Proprietors.
the soldiers were all precipitated into Skykomish river, with John Nailor as is valued at $150,000. His sister' has
the river. Several persons were in­ postmaster.
arrived there, and is heiress to the
The Best Rigs in the City. Orders stantly killed, one of whom was a
The Rocky Bar, Idaho, stage was whole estate. Some time before bis
uhlan, and many were Seriously in­ stopped several days ago by two high­ death he made a rather peculiar will.
romptly Attended to Day or Night.
jured. All the injured were recoverid waymen, who secured the express box, He mentioned in it every relative he
could think of and left thei« one dol­
from the river.
containing $79 85.
lar each. To his brother, who is a
While
hunting
near
Tacoma,
Edward
The Conclave.
lawyer
in the east, he left ten dollars,
The grand parade of the Knights Cheever, of Portland, was accidently and all the rest of hiB property to his
His body was
Templar at St. Louis occurred on the shot by Wm. Hill
sister, who is a widow.
last dey of the conclave. Sixty-two shipped East for interment.
BILLIARD HALL.
The 2-year-old son of Mr. H. K.
bands of music accompanied the
Hexter & Newell’s third shipment
Knights. The procession was fully to the east of horses from Luna has Charlson, who lives near Farmington,
A Mtrletly Tewperance Resert.
three and a half miles in length, and been made. There are four horses in W. T., while playing around the well
»me ¿ovd(?) Church member» to the contrary not even the most enthusiastic officers in
loosened one of the buckets from the
the band valued at $50,000. .
withstanding.
charge of the arrangements were sur­
United States Deputy Collector rope. The detached end of the rope
prised at its magnificence.
The Fogarty, of San Francisco, seized 440 now being freed from the weight of
parade passed without a notable in­ pounds of opium, valued at about the bucket and becoming entwined
about the foot of the child, was drawn
cident, and the participants dispersed. $5000, on board the steamer Gaelic.
by the weight of the other bucket
During
August
142,153
cases
of
David Johnson murdered Edward
until the little fellow’s foot reached
TONSORIAL PARLORS.
White at Westernport, Md., and was Columbia river salmon were shipped the pulley. His erving attracted the
East, to San Francisco and to England. attention of his mother, but before she
lynched.
Two men were fatally wounded in a The export value was about $700,000. could reach him his foot came loose
fight between Irishmen and Italians
Some party or parties familiar with from the rope and he fell to the bottom
». inploy rd. at Pittsburg.
the combination of the safe lock on of the well, fifty seven feet, and con­
El Coyote and seven of his gang Byrones A Dau’s saloon, Ellensburg, taining three feet of water. He was
Irst door south of Yamhill County Bank Building.
were
killed by Federal troops near abstracted $.‘100 from the safe. No rescued immediately and his injuries
M< MI2ÍNVILLE, OREGON
were found to betrifling.
clue to the thieves.
Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
leal Estate and Insurance Agent,
’he Leading Hotel of McMinnville.
HOTOGRAPHER
lifery, Feed and Sale Stables,
or«.
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H. H. WELCH.
NO. 33.
I
VOST
OF
BUTTER.
Why Farmers Should Know the Exact
Cost of Article» Produced by Them.
VITAL
STATISTICS.
Birth.» and Deaths in the United States and
European Countries.
One would suppose that it was a sim-
The vital statistics gathered for the
ple'thing for a man who produced a last census put the mean animal birth
thing to tell what it cost him, and we rate of the United States at 36 per
find as a matter of fact that the mer­ 1,000 of population, and the death rate
chant or manufacturer will be able to at 18 per 1,000- How these ratios com­
very closely, if not exactly, estimate the. pare with those of European States
cost of any thing that lies on his shelves. the following will show:
When we come to the ‘farmer, it is a
Hirt* Death
Rate. Rats.
different thing, and if you will ask a
dosen farmers what their wheat or corn England and Wales ...
85.4 20.5
English rural districts
IS 5
cost them per bushel, what their beef, Sweden
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30 2
1S.1
Belg urn.........................
82 0 22.4
butter, etc., cost, it will surprise the ! , German
39 3
Empire..........
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inquirer as much as the farmers them­ Austria...........................
39.1
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selves to hear the variety of answers
Assuming
that
our
vital
statistics
are
I
given to the question. We will certain­
ly admit that it is a more difficult thing complete and aeurate, the birth rate of
to estimate the cost of butter, for in­ the United States is somewhat less than
stance, than of a bushel ofoorn or a ton I the average rate of the five countries
in the table, and the death
of ensilage, merely, however, to the ex­ | included
tent necessary to go a slep
step further in
i the rate is less by over 5 in the 1,000. But
process of calculation, because _ ti.-
L- corn unfortunately, we can not fairly com­
or ensilage
is
itself converted pare the American with the European
into
the butter,
The
question j statistics. As Dr. J. 8. Billings points
naturally arises as to th cause of out in his voluminous report on the
this disagreement between practical subject, it was impossible to collect for
men in the samo lino of business as to the census data relating to births and
the cost of their products. It is, no deaths which could be treated as full
doubt, largely the result of different and trustworthy; whereas in Europo
methods in getting at a thing, and a such statistics are worthy of entire
material difference lies in the fashion confidence. Yet he has carefully made
some men have of expecting to make a such allowances for imperfections that
profit on everything grown on the farm, the result as given by him may be ac­
or merely on that which is sold oft' the cepted as approximately correct.
The birth rate among the colored
farm or consumed by the farmer and his
family. If, to arrive at the cost of a people is higher than among the whites
pound of butter, a farmer charges for of the South, and more especially in
the labor of his team and man in the the cities. In 23 counties containing
tillage of his hay and corn crop, the cities or large towns and having an
same as he would if he hired them out aggregate population of 588,129 whites
to work for another man, i. e., making and 586,038 colored, the birth rates per
a profit on their cost, and having thus 1.000 of the living population were, for
made one profit in arriving at the cost tlie whites, 28.71; for the colored,
of the corn raised, then charges his cow 35.08; but in 51 Southern counties con­
with it at a cost allowing another mar­ taining only very small towns and
gin for pro.it, he will naturally arrive having an aggregate population of
whites and 591,336 colored, the
at a pretty high figure in estimating the 542,705
were, wffite, 34.31; colored, 39.46.
cost of the butter ; but he will
”1 be able rates
to sell this product at a very In the cities also the death rate is much
among colored than among
small profit, to cover
interest higher
infants, just as it is higher in
on
cost of cows
and
labor . white
of milking
and
butter-making, New York among the children of the
w ith a p oper proportion for general poor and of the tenement districts than
expenses, which can not be charged in arnoBg the children of the more pros­
detail to any particular department of perous and better housed.
A curious fact regarding sex in births
farm labor, for he will already have
made a profit on every thing that en­ is brought out in the report. It is that
tlie proportion of female births was
tered into the product of the butter.
On the other hand, if the same rule is larger among the colored than the
adopted as in a manufactory, and every whites. For each 100,(MM) male births
thing that enters into the product of a there were 95,469 female births, but in
manufactured article is charged up at I the colored population the proportion
cost, the cost of the butter will appear was nearly 99 females to 100 males.
Dr. Billings also makes a very sug­
much less, but the profit will necessarily
need to be greater. The difte once in gestive comparison between the num­
the result, if this point were kept in ber of births in different States and
view, would not be material, although the number of women between the
Ihe latter plan would have the advan­ ages of 15 and 49 living in those States.
tage
of simplicity; bt , unfor­ For instance, to each 1,000 females be­
tunately, it is not, and we have tween these ages there were during the
known many men, after charging a census year 71.6 births in New Hamp­
round price upon every thing, including shire, 82.9 in Massachusetts, 83.2 in
labor, that went into the making of Connecticut, 88.7 in Vermont. 93.9 in
butter, and figuring the cost at, say New York, 115.1 in Pennsylvania, 122.4
twenty cents, complain vigorously that in Indiana, ¡83 in Iow-a, 148.5 in Lou­
the profit of five cents a pound was in­ isiana, 156 in Georgia. 187.4 in Texas,
sufficient, while another who, bv the and in Utah 198.9.— N. Y. Sun.
■
different system of calculation, and sell­
COLLEGE EXPENSES.
ing at the samo price, figured that he
was making ten or twelve cents a pound
although really making no more than Student» Valued According; to Their Quali­
ties and Not Their Pocket-Books.
his neighbor. However, at present,
Many fathers and some sons are ask­
what is more likely to be the case is that
the estimate is arrived at by no method ing what a college education costs. It
of calculation whatever, but simply by usually costs more than is necessary.
guess-work, and so long as that is the At Harvard, Yale, Columbia and
only plan adopted, not only will an­ Princeton, all of whjch attract many
swers vary, but some will keep on losing
money, and will hardly realize i-
it tin students from large and wealthy cities,
they have gone a good way down the there are young men who spend from
hill. — Live-Stock Jou ma I.
three thousand to five thousand dollars
a year. Such students are of no ac­
count, except as a warning and admo­
CORN AND COB-MEAL.
nition to others. They servo to show
A Good Feed For Iforaes if Given In Con­ how little good can be obtained by
nection With Clover Hay.
money unless there are brains and char­
Well-ground corn and cob-meal is bet­ acter behind it.
Out of the one hundred and forty
ter adapted to feed work horses than
meal without the cob, for the cob gives young men reocntly graduated from
bulk in the stomach, and thus assists di­ Yale, twenty-three maintained them­
during the college course. It is
gestion. But, although ground with selves
a hard pull. How hard, no one can
the cob, corn-meal should never be fed fully know unless he has done it. If a
alone to horses. The horse masticates student has grit enough to go through
its food but once, and many horses do the ordeal, with discretion not to over­
not masticate it well even once. The strain mind or body, he is a hero, of
writer, at one time, fed two working whose after success in life there can
teams upon cob-meal, as their grain be little doubt. It is usually better
food, for two years, and they were al­ and safer to have some assistance,
ways well and ready for work. I was either from home or from the- future,
quite aware of the defect in corn as a and some students get through the year
muscle-forming food, and remedied upon very small sums—one hundred
this by giving nicely cured clover anil fifty dollars to throe hundred dol­
hay with it. This assisted in bal­ lars. It can be done without severe
ancing the ration; but the essential point privation for five hundred dollars;
was in feeding the corn ard cob meal with some ease for six hundred dollars;
(sixteen pounds) upon twelve poundsof with perfect Sufficiency for eight hun­
short-cut clover hay. The hay was dred dollars.
The fact remains, however, that the
moistened, and the meal mixed with it,
snd lay in mass about twelve hours be­ average expenditure at the universities
fore feeding. This effectually prevents mentioned is about one thousand dol­
any ill effects from the dust of clover to lars a year. A student whose father is
the lungs of horses. This mixture also in liberal circumstances, whose habits
caused the meal to be well digested and are correct, who denies himself no reas­
prevented all tendency to produce fever onable gratification, ami belongs to all
in the stomach. These teams had con­ the clubs that suit his disposition and
stant work, but were always moved on taates. spends about one thousand five
a moderate walk. Corn-meal, at that hundred dollars. More than that is
time, was the most economical food, reckoned excessive; less approaches
which was the sale reason for adhering the moderate and economics*
It is a great mistake to suppose that
to it The horses were kept till twenty
years old, and were never in better a stu<»-nt is valued or undervalued ac­
health than during these two years.— cording to the money he expends. The
qualities that commands respect at
C'ou y Gentleman.
college are such as belong to a man
himself, not to hjs father, still less to
—“Missions are a failure they cost his tailor. J'otilk's ( oei/^inwin.
The
two much.” So some people say.
statement is not true. The Governor of
—Doctor Pillgartic, of Springfield,
Natal, in a brief address, said: "One told a patient the other day that ha
missionary is worth' more than a bat­ must keep perfectly quiet, and not read
talion of aoldiers.” The late. Earl of anything or allow anything whatever
Shaftesbury said, "If London did not to occur that required his attention or
have its four hundred missionaries it interest, upon penalty of death. The
would require 40,000 more police.” man went right off and made applica­
Civilised nations can not afford to cease tion to be placed upon a jury. — Sprtny-
field (O.1 Timet.
to carrv on missions