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Newspaper Page TextSOUTH CAROLINA LOSES Fight in Liquor Case—Has No Right to Sell Whisk2y. TEMPERANCE !S NOT AIBEB By Die pens airy—H aids 11th Amendment Never Contemplated That a State Could Engage in Liquor Traffic. % Richmond, Va. —Covering every phase of the South Carolina dispen sary case, in an exhaustive opinion, which deals with the .broad question oil state’s rights, the United States cir cuit court of appeals handed down an opinion fully sustaining Circuit Judge Pritchard in the appointment of re ceivers to wind-up tue affairs of the liquor monopoly long maintained by the Palmetto commonwealth. The decision is a matter of para mount importance in South Carolina, where the dispensary has long been the object of attack. Its failure to serve as a temperance measure, along with charges of graft, caused a revul sion of feeling, which resulted in the passage of a law to abolish it as a state institution, at the same time per mitting towns and counties to decide by popular vote vote whether or not they desire to retain it under local or county management. The decision is a voluminous one, and holds that the proceeding is not a suit against the state, and that the complainant is not forbidden to main tain his action by the eleventh amend ment of the federal constitution. It holds that the framers of that amendment to the constitution never conceived that a sovereign state could engage in the liquor business and be come a trader by buying and selling an. article of common traffic in com petition with the citizens of the coun try. The court questioned, therefore, whether the state was exercising a governmental prerogative or perform ing a function necessarily or properly incident to its autonomy as a state. It declared that the funds in con troversy, which the complainant clams it should be paid from, being in the hands of the commission charged with the duty of abolishing the dis pensary, the state has no interest in so much thereof as lies necessary to pay the just debts. The members of r the commission, according to the court, hold the funds in trust for pay ment of all just debts of the state dis pensary and the creditors of the dis pensary property interest in Tne hands of the commis to the extent that the debts are shown to be just and a judicial de termination of the true amount of smeh debts can in no way effect the S The ~shL interests of the against the st&Mhe decision, is not indl ? pen S fW ß ,t^aln,tat” , ?h! S{?on. refUS6S t 0 a<iol)t that ' cou - CAH OF POWDER EXPLODED. Seven Persons Instantly Killed and Thirty Others Injured. "Windsor, Mo. —Seven persons are dead and thirty injured, four of whom are not expected to live, as the result hL °, Sl .° n 0f a car of blac k Dow- Station the Mlssouri ’ Kal!Sas and Texas When it became known about town that a ca.r of powder was on the tracks at the station, a number of cu riosity seekers, a majority of whom negroes, assembled A F Hershberger .a Missouri, Kansas and Texas freight conductor, became an noyed at their presence. In moving a keg of powder some Of ihe explosive fell over. Seeing it " ~ h ® S roun <J, Hershberger remarked, I ii show you how to scare negroes • and he lit a match and threw l{°into the powder. Instantly there was an explosion that shook the town, knock ed DTIP rmrl + J x ’ u . —cuuuh me town, Knock ed one end off the depot and shattered windows and stopped clocks for miles around. The car containing the pow der was hurled in every direction NIGHT RIDERS BUSV IN ARKANSAS. Reported Farmers Organize for Pur pose of Reducing Cotton Acreage Jonesboro, Ark.—Night riders are organizing in northeastern Arkansas it is reliably reported, for the purpose of reducing the cotton acreage Tot Ttir a ” d compellln S the holding Wiei LfT th Cr °? for " ,c “hiimum ers’ unfnn b L the tnternational Farm- Fort vvort*. entlon ’ which met at -fort Worth, recently Three farmers in Craighead coun °ne in Poinsett county have threatened by a band of riders d,nu considerable anxiety is felt bv the cotton buyers and ginners. 3 MAMMOTH SPOT ON SDN. One Said to Cover 2.250,000 Square Miles of Surface. the comur';*^ in ,his -"uonof welidtnow'rf £trcdoger A mmfe ar ’ "’ e urement of an immp ’ “f e a meas ‘ had photographed. This TotT°n h ° 2, 250,000 square miles of the V, f GrS Of the sun and has tern, erature esH ss“. “"> Ur. Brashear believes there is a close connection between the auroro borealis and sun spots and said- “r expect we shall hear of magneUc'dis turbances due to these sun spots.” SHOT DOWN FROM AMBUSH. Ge ° r 9 ia Pla ;' te,s - Brothers, Killed Bloodhounds Trailing Murderers Dawson, Ga.—Henrv an a lx Bayars, brothers, were shot and'kiH ' ed trom ?“ bu fb while returning hon e after visiting their cotton field! to in spect the crops. The brothers are supposed to have had considerable on their persons. The shnnV ing took place twelve miles distant from this town in the country 1 a posse with bloodhounds was startJi on the trail of the murderers cea LATE NEWS NOTES. General. One man was burned to death, two women were seriously injured and several others more or less badly burned in a fire which destroyed the men’s and women's buildings of the Philadelphia Cricket club at Chest nut Hill, "suburb of Philadelpria. Ret. Dr. C. Campbell Morgan, the noted English preacher, who lias ar rived at New York from Europe, de clared in an interview that he is in favor of women suffrage. He* said also that the two big political parites in Great Britain are in favor of it, and that both houses of parliament like wise- approve, but that for political reasons no big leader in either house can well come out to champion the cause. He believes that very shortly women will be voting in England. Details of the fighting between the French troops at Bedenib, on the Al gerian frontier, and Berber tribesmen, have been received at Paris, France, and indicate a victory for the French so sweeping it is believed the uprising is now r ended. Hundreds of Moors surrounding the French garrison were slain by the machine guns. Members of the congressional cur rency commission passing through New York on their return from Eu rope, where they have been making investigations, say that little can be done during the coming session of congress in the way of financial legis lation. However, there is a strong sentiment that much more important projects in currency reforms will grow out of the commissioners’ work. Half crazed by worry over the con stant threats of revolt at Lisbon and of attempts on the lives of the mem bers of the royal family, Dowager Queen Maria of Portugal is preparing to leave that country for Italy, where she will make her future home. It just became known that a pack age containing over $52,000 in jewelry, notes and other valuable papers dis appeared in Portland, Ore., on the night of August 21. The package, which -was sent over the Wells-Fargo Express company, reached Portland, August 21, at 2 p. m., but no trace of the small package after that hour could be found. Out of approximately six thousand people stricken with cholera in Rus sia this season, more than three thous and died, according to a tabulation which has been made public. The di sease is still raging. The epidemic has been traced to hawkers of bever ages in the cities along the Neva riv er. Berkman, the anarchist, was arrest ed in New York when he tried to break up a meeting of labor men by injecting his anarchistic speeches, red flags ar.d bands playing the Marsail laise. One man, waving a red flag, was kicked by the police the entire Marina;leader of'the HoLdiraTrev olution, is to be put to death, accord ing to reports brought to San Fran cisco by passengers arriving on the Sydney from Panama in- to Ame / ican P oi nts. Accord , = ° the reports, Cannon killed fif teen men single-handed in his la-* stand, but was finally captured I t . The League for the protec recently* £T° Uon . of airships, which ton n V “ organized by Rene Quin pr?ze wm r he 3S a , n " ounce<l that its pnze will be-awarded to the French esTfl?* U h \ Who , Sha ‘I first double long! Wright ht An a t d b h,thel ' to by Wilburn testfd for /n‘France 268 “ U3t be COn ' _, *7 Kilmer of Baltimore, Md was constftution" wi7ad~"n ordered I*aVion.“ Ver ‘ he needs of ,ar se organ- S o C f h a e the ah" 8 were ?wentylf and £ hove bravery of ere rescuecl b >’ the Many of these k,?™.” 11 police - Many of these had narrow J ,01,ee ’ from dpflth vn narrow escapes °“ deatl! ’ No wom en were rescued peS'ntists^7h e e\ D i £ t^ B Tn P d S f Es ‘ =g Of Spain studying n *the w" Washington. American minister to Salvador, H Percival Dodge, who went to Teguci~- alpa Honduras, to discuss the incident 0 Co e n^ VO T Cati ° n , ° f lhe ex Quateurs Reynold, Jn"? ai!d Vice Consul Reynolds at Ceiba, has telearanhpri t ie state department that the matter adjusted" aßd -ilcab" ton with lod Sed in Washing ton with the interstate commerce [ commission against the the railroads in the southe-i t southwestern advancing freight rates on certain commodities, will be heard by the commission in the former case At lanta, Ga., .September 21 and inM, iattergCase at St. Louis, Mortem® A government wrreiess station at the top of Washington°mon ument five hundred and fiftj*Wve f ee r from the ground is the latest sugges ion of Lieutenant Commander n and Bans of the navy. Tile practiea hihty and feasiblity of*the plan is an" l. e Oved by the experts of the goJeJn-" James Bryce’s retirement fromWasli lngton is expected to speedily follow the inauguration of President Roose velt s successor. That Lord Des borough will succeed to the Washing ton post is considered a foregone con clusion, Bryce is known to have ac cepted the post with the proviso that he was free to retire as soon as the recently signed arbitration treaties with the United States were conclud ed. Desborough is 53 5 ears old and a multi-millionaire with some expert ence in public life. THREE FATAL WRECKS Railway Accidents in Different States C?aim Many Victims. 8 KILLED AND 86 INJURED Paseenger Train in Mississippi Derailed. Excursion Train in Illinois Telescoped. Alabama Log Train Jumps Trestle. Clarksdale, Miss. —Four persons are known to have been killed and twenty six were injured in a wreck on ihe Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroad two miles south of here when two coaches of a passenger train rolled down an embankment. The known dead are: Mrs. Virgie Graham, Glen dora, Miss.; Miss Amber Russell, 17 years old, Anding, Miss.; Mrs. Rob ert M. Gay, Glendora, Miss.; Unknown White Woman, whose body remains under the debris. The train, upon ap proaching Clarksdale, was behind, and, while running at a very rapid rate oi speed, the chair car and a day coach left the track. The wreck, it is said, was caused by the expansion of the steel rails after the engine and ad vance cars had passed over them. Samson, Ala.—The log train of the Henderson Boyd Lumber Company was wrecked about five miles north of Samson, killing three persons outright and injuring twenty more. The dead are: J. O. Stephenson, white a con vict guard; Joe Wise, white, laborer; Albert England, negro Convict. The engine was pushing a (rain of empty cars, and the wreck occurred on a trestle with a steep grade on either side. The engineer was scalded, but the fireman escaped unhurt. The en gine and entire train left the track. None worked more faithfully than the convicts, and the three dead bodies, with all of the injured, were removed by them , from the wreck, and carried to Richford on a relief train. Chicago, 111.—A Chicago woman is dead and a number are dying and over forty persons were injured as the re sult" of a rear-end collision at Ches terton, lnd., between a theater train, running out of Chicago, and the rear coaches of an excursion train, running from Chicago to Indianapolis. At the time of the collision, a great cloud of smoke from the forest fires hung over the tracks, making the rear lights in the excursion train dim and shutting off a view of the tracks even a hun dred feet ahead of the suburban train at the time the trains came together. The subruban train was running at greatly reduced speed, owing to the haze, or the injured list would have been greatly increased. MORE CEMENT FUR CANAL J J. 4j.—A contract for furnishing the isthmian canal com mmsjon with 80,000 barrels of cement in addltmn to the 4,500,000 barrels al leady contracted for with that com- Porn Q^ aS n been awarded the Atlas 1 o tland Cement Company of North ampton Pa. It has been‘hoped that the work on the locks at Gatun Miro floies and at Paco Miguel would be commenced about January l, as the original invitations for furnishing the commission with— * .. ° _ commission with cement contemplated -hm,ld he i t ‘ e . llv^’ les m ]ar ge quantities should begin them, but as the work thesp C WL tlo]lS n for the founda tions of hese locks has progressed, it has been found desirable to make them deepei than was at first thought nec essary, in consequence of whlfh ac t. ai construction work will be delay ed until July next. 3 FUNDS FOR VICKSBURG PARK. States H R^ ve IV!ade Appropriations for Monument to Soldiers. Washington, D. C.-According to the a nn ual report of the Vicksburg ffntT r tary Park commission ated n°t has been approuri ated up to this time by the various state legislatures for memorials mon uments and markers, to certain Ter- sons and organizations. Of the state appropriations, Illinois leads with $260,000, lowa has $l5O 000 Wisconsin $130,000 and other states various amounts down to $5 oflO Union and Confederate memorials is°p h aid d to n th he park - A warm tribute IS paid to the memory of Commission- Lieutenant General Stephen L Lee deaV'-th! 7 ’ '"f’ aRd *>y wbSS death the country lost a good and great citizen, the commission an ef ficient worker, and each of its r- memberS a dear Personal It has been-proposed to erect a me morial in the park commemorative of .the services of the union naw in the I a°nd ra fn 0n 1 n of th * Vicksbur S campaign [and for the construction of such % memorial an estimate for an appro priation of $200,000 is submitted. Army Under Charges. Havana, Cuba.—The Union Espano •\ n / nedltorial , all eged that the Tinted States army was smuggling inio Cuba great quantities of meat thus escaping- payment of duties Gov ernor Magoon has ordered-an investi gation. He will institute proceedings t a h S e m charge e s PaPer " tt fa,U t 0 sus ‘ ai 'i Girl Fires Info Crowd. Cripple Creek, Colo.—Angered bv a crowd of men who had disturbed her sleep Miss Annie Coplen secured a ri fle and fired as rapidly as she could mto the group. A bullet struck Rob ert C. Young above the right eye and he wll die. Several others 7 were slightly wounded. * ere Dog Brings ?40 an Ounce. New York City.-Mlle. Atom, small est of the Griffin dogs, and which weighs twenty-five ounces, has been sold for a price generally understood among financiers to have been S4 O an ounce. v J She is the smallest SI,OOO worth of dog ever seen in this country and so ai as known nothing so tiny of that ireed has ever been seen in the world -Die. Atom is five inches long and four inches high. She has long haR STANDARD OIL’S REPLY.' File* Answer to Government’* Petition for Rehearing. Chicago, 111. —Counsel for the Stand ard Oil company of Indiana in an an swer to the petition of the govern ment attorneys for a rehearing of the appeal from Judge Landis’ judg ment fining the company $29,240,000 for violations of the anti-rebate laws, upholds the decision of Judges Gross cup, Baker and Seaman of the United States circuit court of appeals revers ing the judgment and lifting the bur den of the enormous fine as good law amply justified by the record in the case. Point by point the answer, which was formally placed on record at the opening of office of the clerk of the court by Colonel W. R. Stewart, gen eral attorney in Chicago, for the Stan dard Oil company takes up the argu ments of the petition for rehearing which set forth alleged errors and particularly suggested that the upper court had erred in its understanding of what the trial judge really had said concerning the previous offenses by the Standard Oil Company of Indiana or the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. In the petition for rehearing the re viewing judges are charged with as suming that Judge Landis attempted to try and punish the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey in the origi nal proceedings which were against the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. On this point the answer declares it to be a matter of no consequence whether the trial court referred to the New Jersey company or the In diana company was not a “virgin of fender.” “The real point is,” fchys the an swer, “did the trial court in imposing punishment, take into consideration the relation between the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and Stand ard Oil Company of Indiana, and did it base its fine upon the wealth of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and its ability to pay, instead of upon the wealth of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana and its abil ity to pay?” To determine this question the Stan dard Oil attorneys assert that a few sentences extracted by the govern ment counsel from the words of Judge Landis are not sufficient and quote at length from Judge Landis’ opinion to show that he referred to the New Jer sey corporation “as the real defend ant” and the Indiana company as the “nominal defendant.” The conclusion stated by the answer is “that the enormous fine inflicted upon the defendant was because of its ownership of its stock in the Stand ard Oil Company of New Jersey, and because of the financial standing of the corporation, is beyond dispute when the entire opinion of the trial ia nnncifldrfirl Prediction That Preparatory Course Will Be Offered in Schools. Kas.—“The time is coming 'hen a course preparatory to matrf mony will be offered in 'our public en Ihe Z k,C t yom ' S men a,!d wom ler relent 1 f usht SOme important mat- Lti lelative to marriage” Professor F. H. Blackmar, head of UniversffST ° f socM °ey at the mtnt h t Kansas, made this state- mpnt h VrZ T maae tnis state ni uj before tlle superintendents , Kansas charitable institutions. Pro essor Blackmar believes such a course would go far toward improv lie^et^tTh 1118 aS a llation and lle be eves it the most expedient rer^m^v toi unhappy marriages. * Qtv f- fe l S ° r Blackmar advocated a tion of P 'in SlCa V and mental examina tion of all applicants for marriage li “"“i .. Pe ‘ SOds . with S pu“ monary or mental diseases should not be allowed to .marry, he said. Careful selection is believed by the sunerin tendents of hospitals tor insane and daokm nSt ! tU K ons and by Professor Blackmar to be necessary. to prevent crime. 0 " 8386 in illsanity ’ IRGE CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM. Mamfesto Issued by Clergymen Ask ing That Scriptures Be Searched. .New York City.—Clergymen to the number of one hundred and sixty-one representing twenty-four religious de nommauons and thirty-six stales and Sid el t hr* the Ullited States be sides tnree denominations and four provinces in Canada, have issued a manifesto to the clergy and churches ot America, declaring their belief in socialism and urging a searching of oso e n S h C /‘ P U^.. a ."A a stady Of the philt osophy .Of socialism upon all who do not now agree with them The signers of the manifesto an nounce their allegiance to the minis te's socialist conference, one of i m°is !l!iT 13 tQ show that social rengious life eXpression of the ATi EiflFT TO ASSASSINATE GOVERNOR. Postal Authorities Find Infernal Ma chine Addressed to Gov Fort Sea Girt, N. J.-An attempt to' fe. sassinate Governor Fort of New jfr se } was thwarted by the watchful ness of postoffice employees, who dis covered in the mails an inferna? ma chine, addressed to the governoi l he package was a cleverly-contriv ed combination of powder, bullets and matches, whmb k ’ 4111(1 “ft imd Thl Ch had been ’ so ranged tnai bad the governor opened it in the ordinary way, there is little doubt that it would have killed him T e postal authorities have scJmied fhf governor’s mail with unusual carf vioI C atioS e of X the Ut l iVeS ? rusade gainst \iolatiOD of the law at Atlantic City. NEGOTIABLE BONDS STOLEN. Brokers Lose Securities Valued at Thirty Thousand Dollars Boston, Mass.-A theft of negotia .ble .bonds to the face value of S3O 000 became known when A B Turner x Cos brokers, gave out' a list of tht securities. The bonds were obtained by some person who renre sentmg himself as a prospectiVe pur c msei presented in payment for the , b ° nds a 2 ertified check > whichis ah leged to be worthless, and disappear ed with the bonds. faa PPeai- ~ UNCLE SAM TAKES TO AVIATION. The National Birds---Ah! Ha! We Have a R val! ' —Minneapolis Journal. AMERICA HAS PLENTY OF MONEY Treasury Vaults at Washington, D. C,, Are Too Small to Hold Government Cash. Washington, D. C.—Uncle Sam, en riched $500,000,000 by the provisions of tne Aldrich-Vreeland currency bill, now has so much money on hand that he cannot wait for the construction of new vaults in the Treasury Building, but has rented rooms in a storage building and placed relays of guards on the inside and outside. This vast amount of money may never be used, but so large a sum is necessary to supply the 6824 national banking in stitutions in the United States in case of a financial stringency. Deputy Treasurer Bent.z reported that the available cash reserve in the Treasury was $190,000,000, the high est figure it has reached this year. He is of the opinion that the possi bility of a stringency this year is over, T7TT An a\to a q?oA,nnn,nnG GIFT Leaves Estate in Trust to Multiolv Fn~ „• tt • Madison, wis a,, . . r 1 lScuiisin University, Madison, Wis. An eventual m, t wn,e ”‘ of 530.000,000 for the ml consin University is provided for in the will of Colonel William F vn a ? former member of the Cleveland Cab’ inet and United States Senator wbo died here recently. prmddes i th7f aS th file<l for probate and from , . Taiue d at Placed otho;o,°° 0 th o ; o , °° !° be piactd in the hands of four trustees Vilas 6 shaß li" tn V* as long as Mrs lias shall live. During her life she e S sta°ce r^nd Ve the income thi estate and upon her death the entire property is to be turned over to the oTS3O 000 S " bieCt ° nly Mr/ L M U'T' to his daughter, charge* TANARUS,^ ankg > and some minor cnarges, The bequest to Mrs. Hanks THE V* ARSIIIp ©F THE FUTURE. Vre ™e,,.. He aHieve, 1-ew Years, wide wft,Ma£e T,' VeSseis * ■ Nex. Noiseless Craft ,™Va efln ’ 1 T Smokeless, Washington. D a ed ' ,ce coal Bill. of 111,, 810 "’ ?• C—The war vessel le future will be a swift, smoke less, noiseless craft, lying low in the water with every vulnerable part b low tile water line, the entire deck wlif bf° r the WOrk of the Sims. There jvill be no smoke, because there will be no smokestacks. in the night time there will be nothing to befrav the presence of this invincible fi-ht mg demon to the enem _ r /u ls P redic tion was made bv Rob gineer yW wh°o F h erna J d ’ en. gmeer, who has for several venr* been connected with the fuel investi fa a i S l urv o p f v th \y nited Staces G-eokfgj: that the Uernald believes mat the g*s engine, or internal com bustion motor, as it is called bv e n-i neers will be installed in naval vfs nSt?e f w^eaVs nit3d Stat * '?. aheid n? 4 1 See the Un ited States e^ ery other nation i n this innovation,” said Mr. Fernald. “Thl engine, in my opinion, is feasible -axr&f \£ S re7o e n 7f 9 ■ S smoke!” needs°none!' 1 he a 'c o a 1* 7\T ei ' a '.'. d to C the engine aS * WhiCh Soes Haight , suffllient to can for°f ' he sffiokG is of the gas engine *Z \T msta " a tion other feattn-el fn'i s favo 6 - 6 sei .would have a free deck fot Yu' no ay t , o o wer t fng 1S s tlcks to'be’^mnet J I The a n andt U y wouM US b f ipplins the carry as unaec ?? x yy to I>r. Vassel Assures Moroc cans of German Support. fromEiKta^ry^thir^^Va ll6 ? g at ber of £° s nV v°~f * fT' formed them that nr? . v> “ y and la ~ had vanquished a his M h U roiher afi lbd Wh t 0 of Morocco 6 could Ct f ° r the Sultanate Port Z7 SUP ' to assu^\? e Tntc£ Hafid out of h°s" difficulties. “ Uiai and that the crops can be moved with out the slightest difficulty. “Condi tions are vastly different this year,” he said, “not only in New York, but throughout the country. New York banks have millions and millions of surplus on hand, while a year ago they were struggling with scarcely the legal requirements. Money, in stead of being in great demand at high prices, is very easy on call at from three-fourths to one per cent. In the West the banks are” all well supplied with currency, and will be able- to do more than their usual share toward moving the crops. From every direction signs of increased prosperity are seen. Small bills are in great demand, which is always a good sign.” Afflr Yu ntln,,e d ”ring her life time. After the property is turned ore- to the university one-half of the net in. “pal with be i eXPended until the Wh *2o non nnn ’?? rument sliall reach p-0,000,000, then one-fourth of net neome will be laid aside and added shall reneh n tt Pal Until tije Property „hpi J h tbe S - Um of 530,000,000, hv ca " ba used Eyi- lau U 9 usea WHI Th niVerSlty as Pi-ovioed in the vilk The purpose of Colonel Vilas in hiS wea] th to the university n such a manner that it will even tually create an enormous fund tfas ;° acco mplish a permanent source of for the advancement of knowledge and place the university m the foremost ranks of the great educational institutions oi the world. pnltna The producer and the gas wpfp-h° *^ 0u^and take up less room and o. fA . * B f s than the same power scotch boiler and steam engine. The f se J have a radius of travel ai “nf eatGr than at P rßs ent. r course I do not expect to see the gas engine confined to the use of the navy. The fact that it shows SJCA economies will compel its instal lation in all sorts of vessels. One of 8 big items of expense to a modern ocean liner is its coal bill. These vessels will consume 10,000 tons of */ gn £ rad e coal on a round trip. With . le A as . en ='i ne this could be reduced ° D ° oo or 70 0 0 tons, a saving of several thousand dollars. . Une of the big steamship compa nies- the great lakes is about to take tne initiative in this mov nt. Firms have made for a freighter • • :it vi l use a 2000 horse power gas eu gine. This company is making the experiment to test the economy of e gaß en £ ln © over the steam engine.” - 111 e United States Geological Sur rey has been experimenting avh’i the gas producer and gas engine for s.-v --eial years and has demonstrated t :at tins type of engine in a statim; y plant is capable of generating n tAice to three times as much j ver trom a given amount of coal a *he aieam engine, it has also shown at tne gas engine can develop mom er U’° m a l° w grade coal. ■Hie purpose of the Government Iris not been to develop the gas t die, but to increase the efficiency ■ . de coal supply of the country, w is now being depleted. The C - rnent spends $10,000,000 year;; r coal, and it was primarily to : best results from this expen ; that the investigations of the e in - Queer and gas engine was taken up. Boy Gets Bubonic Plague From Bite of Squirrel. Los Angeles, ,Cal.—A case of bu -Bnic Plague has been discovered. The patient is a boy named Mulhol and and is convalescent. Three Greeks ago the lad found a sick squir -Icl in the park and picked it up. The squirrel bit MulhtJlland on the hand, bickness followed, and the attending physician declared it to be bubonic plague. Other physicians were called into consultation, and discovered that squirrels in the park are afflicted with the disease.