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DEVELOPMENT OF SOUTH
British Ambassador Predicts Rapid
Growth of This Section.
PROGRESSIVE SPISif SHOWN
On His Visit to This Section James Bryco
Was Struck by Signs of Activity
In all Lines.
Washington, D. C. —Expressing the
conviction that a great future is about
to dawn upon the south, James Bryce,
the British ambassador, received a no
table reception from the delegates in
attendance upon the Southern Com
mercial Congress, following a speech,
in which he declareed that he is a
well-wisher of the south.
The ambassador was the center of
attraction, although his visit was un
expected. Mr. Bryce came into the
hall simply as a spectator, but the
audience soon noted his presence, and
immediately shouts of “Speech,”
"Speech,” filled the air, and he was
compelled to yield to the desire of
the congress.
“Since 1 came here eighteen months
ago,” said Mr. Bryce, “I have twice
visited the south. I can hardly ex
press to you the contrast between
what I personally witnessed twenty
seven years ago and the present con
ditions, Wherever I have been in
the south I have been struck by the
signs of activity,' progress and devel
opment. I see the land being brought
more and more into cultivation, more
and more being done for agricultural
methods. I saw the resources of your
toil, of coal and iron, being brought
to light, and I saw anew spirit in the
south, which desires to make educa
tional progress commensurate with
material development.”
The ambassador pointed out the
enormous difficulties with which the
south has had to contend since the
civil war. “Now, however,” he con
tinued, “there is a great door open
before you, and as one of the well
wishers of the south, who believes in
its greatness as a flourishing and im
portant part of the country, I venture
to congratulate you on what is being
done, and to say that still greater
prospects are before you.”
The session was presided over by
Judge George Hillyer, a member of
the Georgia state railroad commission,
who, in a brief address, reviewed the
work of that body in dealing with
transportation companies.
The principal speakers were Wil
liam J. Oliver of Knoxville, Tenn.;
Clarence H. Poe, editor of The Pro
gressive Farmers, Raleigh, N. C.; and
Dr. J. A. Bonsteel, of the United
States bureau of soils.
Mr. Bonsteel reviewed the work
which has been done by the bureau
of soils in the way of investigations
In the south. The speaker declared
the south is a region of almost bound
less agricultural opportunity, and ex
pressed the belief that the brains and
enterprise of these fifteen southern
states will not neglect so great an
opportunity. He predicted that the
next census will show that the annual
value of the farm products of the
south will double what it now is—
which will exceed $2,000,000,000.
Preliminary to the convening of the
session, Governor Dawe, secretary of
the Commercial Club of Montgomery,
Ala., called attention to the wrong im
pression which has gained consider
able headway in foreign countries, no
tably in Europe, regarding the health
conditions in the southern states, de
claring that in northeastern Europe
and the British isles, the immigrant
maps have black and yellow splotch
es over what are called the southern
states, the idea being that certain
southern states are infected with yel
low fever, and therefore unfitted for
a place of residence. Mr. Dawe said
this impression is unjust to the south,
lie, therefore, advocated the carrying
on of an active propaganda in foreign
countries to make the south better
understood in this respect.
NEW LGUNTERFEIT FOUND.
ss' Silver Certificate, Indian Head, is
Very Deceptive.
Washington, D. C. —Anew counter
feit $5 silver certificate, Indian head,
has been discovered by the secret ser
vice officials, who declare that it is a
dangerous and deceptive counterfeit.
It is said to be particularly deceptive
.by reason of the fact that it is print
ed on genuine paper, which has been
obtained by bleaching a note of small
er denomination, probably a $1 bill. In
bleaching the note the color has been
taken out of some of the distributed
silk fiber lying close to the surface,
but the deeply imbedded fiber is still
visible in the paper, though the bluue
has been changed to a purple and the
red has been somewhat lightened. The
back of the note is deceptive, but is a
blue green and darker than the gen
uine.
PROHiBmON lawlFbe kept.
Alabama Brewers Have No Intention
of Defying Measure.
“Mobile, Ala.—Representatives of the
Mobile and Bienville Breweries in
this city met and officially announced
that it 'had been determined some
months ago that the Alabama prohibi
tion laws will be rigidly observed by
them. This action, it_was announc
ed, was taken, of the indig
nation among the directors
of the breweries by the reports cir
culated abroad that this city propos
ed to ignore the state law in its en
tirety. President Hart of Savannah,
Ga., of the Mobile Brewery, was in
attendance and gave out the details
after the meeting.
DEFICIT OF $58,0 70,201.
United States Treasurer Treat So
States in Annual Report.
Washington, D. €. Charles H.
Treat, treasurer of the United States,
in his annual report, calls attention
to the fact that owing to the disturb
ed relations between the income and
outgo of the government there was a
deficiency last year of $58,070,201 as
against surplus for the preceding year
of $84,236,086, and points out that the
total revenues for 190(8 exceeded any
preceding fiscal year except 1907
CLRiER IN WHEAT.
20.030,000 Busheis, Biggest Deal on
Record, May Bring $1.40.
Chicago, 111. —James A. Patten, the
corn king, with his partner, now con
trols 20,000,000 bushels cf wheat
more wheat than any one crowd of
men ever held in Chicago, the scene
of the world’s biggest corn deals, and
$1.40 wheat is looked for on the
board of trade as a result of the co
lossal deal.
With Mr. Patten in the big ring are
William li. Bartlett, George W. Pat
ten and Frank B. Frazer. It is big
ger than the Joe Leiter deal when
that young plunger lost $9,000,000 just
after the world's fair. It is bigger
than the John W. Gates corner, in
which millions were lost by the cor
nerer four years ago
And yet it is not a corner. It is
merely a colossal deal. The Bartlett-
Patten bull ring is not endeavoring to
buy all the grain in the market and
create an artificial condition, as “Old
Hutch” did when he forced wheat up
to $2. Its purpose is merely to use
to advantage what is believed to be a
world-wide condition, and to have a
large amount of wheat to sell when
the price soars.
VEGETATION IS DESTROYED
By the Fumes of Copper—Farmers
Enter Complaint.
Washington, D. C. —After a hearing
at the white house, at which the rep
representatives of the Anaconda Cop
per Company presented their side of
the controversy over the destruction
of the forests and vegetation at Ana
conda, against which the farmers had
complained to him, President Roose
velt declared that the only patience
he would exercise in restiaining the
department of justice from proceeding
with an injunction suit against the
copper company would be to make an
investigation to ascertain whether a
practical method is possible for the
extraction from the fumes of the smel
ters of the poisonous substances
The president will send an expert
to Ducktown, Tenn., to investigate sev
eral smelters there, on wTiich, it is
claimed, appliances have been placed
which extract the sulphur and arsenic
from the fumes at a profit. If this
investigation proves the practicabil
ity of the appliances the president will
order the department of justice to
proceed with an injunction suit.
h L ECTI tf N E K ALUSIN LfilLAliO.
Outrageous Repeating and Ballot Box
Stuffing Charged by Grand Jury.
Chicago, 111. The ballots of men
long residents of other cities, the bal
lots of temporary absentees, the bal
lots of the insane and even of the
dead were cast in the primary elec
tion of last August in Chicago. “Re
peaters” voted in platoons, with the
connivance of willingly unseeing
judges and clerks of election, and
traud, rampant to an extent hitherto
unknown in a city never famous for
the purity of its political atmosphere,
rendered the resultant party nomina
tions morally worthless.
These and other startling allega
tions are made in the report of the
special grand jury, which, after sev
eral weeks of delving into charges
growing out of Chicago’s first prima
ries and returning sixty-one indict
ments against two-score or more of
politicians and others, adjourned.
PROFIT OF $55,000,000.
Made by Standard Oil Company in
Seven Years.
New York City.—Figures showing
some of the profits of the Standard
Oil Company became part of the court
record in the federal suit to dissolve
the Standard, when John D. Arch
bcld resumed the stand for a brief
examination, and Henry Tilford, pres
ident of the Standard Oil Company of
California, testified at some length as
a witness for the defense. The gov
ernment inquisitors, on figures submit
ted, showed that the Continental Oil
Company, a Standard subsidiary in
the middle west, made profits of 115
per cent on its capitalization of $300,-
000, and that the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana, on a capitalization of
SI,OO-0,000, earned about $55,000,000
between 1£99 and 1906.
DARING BANK RUBBERY.
$16,500 Taken from Bank of Portland
by Three Masked Men.
Portland, Oregon.—The East Side
Bank at East Washington street and
Grand avenue was robbed by three
masked men of $16,500.
The president of the bank, Henry H.
Newhall and his son, Roger, were just
about to leave the bank for home
when two men armed with pistols en
tered. President Newhall and his son
were ordered to hold up their hands,
and while they were thus under the
cover of one robber’s revolver, tht?
other man crawled through the cash
ier’s window, passed out the money
and crawled back into the foyer.
Eleven Killed in Dynamite ExpitL.on.
Calcutta, India. —An explosion in the
magazine at the military station here
resulted in the killing of eleven men
and the wounding of twenty-six oth.
ers. The men were engaged in con
verting ball cartridges into blank car
tridges.
$25,000 Shaft For Carmack.
Nashville, Tenn. —At a meeting of
the committee on a memorial for ex-
Senator Carmack, appointed at the re
cent memorial mass meeting, it was
decided to erect a $25,000 monument,
the money to be raised by popular
subscription and the monument to be
placed on Capitol Hill.
Butch En Venezuela.
Willemstad. —News of a naval dem
onstration off the coast of Venezuela
was received here. Three Dutch war
ships, the Jacob Van Meimswerck and
the cruisers Friesand and Golderland,
steamed from Puerto Cortez to Cura
cao at a distance of 300 yards from
the shore. The cruisers have depart
ed for Marxboro, where they will
make a similar demonstration. It is
feared the demonstration will have a
disastrous diplomatic effect.
TO BREAK SOLID SOUTH
President-elect Discusses South’s
Political Isolation at Banquet.
VOTE US THEIR CONVICTIONS
Mr. Taft Urged That Voters of the South
Break Away From Tradition of
Past Political Affiliations.
New York City—President-elect
"Tlllam 11. Taft, who came to New
a ork to addre3 the North Carolina So
ciety Gf this city, was given a tumul
tuous reception by the members of
Ihe organization and by prominent
men from all parts of the south, at
York to address the North Carolina So
clinions at the Hotel Astor. Five
hundred members and guests of the
society filled the brilliantly decorated
banquet hall, which was redolent of
the pines of the Tar Heel State, the
cones and branches of the resinous
trees forming the background for
more fragrant blooms, which were
scattered everywhere over snowy lin
en and flag-draped walls. Intertwined
ensigns of the state and nation were
conspicuous in the decorations of the
banquet hall, and larger flags were
displayed in front of the hotel through
out the day and evening.
Mr. Taft, in'the course of an ad
dress, "which was confined entirely to
the south and its problems, urged
again that the voters of the south
should break away from the outlived
sentiment and tradition of their past
political affiliations, and cast their
ballots in accordance rather with their
economic and real political beliefs.
Mr. Taft declared that nothing would
give him greater pride during his com
ing term in the chief executive office
than to so direct the policy of the
national government with respect to
the southern states, as to convince
the intelligent ctiizens of the south
of the desire of his administration to
aid them in working out satisfactorily
the serious problems before them,
and of bringing them and their north
ern fellow citizens closer and closer
in sympathy and point of view.
At the conclusion of practically ev
ery one of his pointed sentences, Mr.
Taft was interrupted by applause and
cheering.
Mr. Taft declared that the north
yearns for a closer association of the
south, and quoted statistics to show
that the industries of the south had
grown and prospered more during the
past decade than any other section of
the country.
PANAMA BONDS SOLID.
Average Price of $102.4368 Obtained
for Canal Securities.
Washington, D. C. —Secretary Cor
celyou has announced that the Pan
ama Canal bonds had been sold at an
average of $102,4368. The lowest ac
cepted bid was at $102.2778. There
were 159 accepted bids, amounting to
$30,000,000. Six hundred and seventy
two bids were rejected, amounting to
$72,808,800. The toltal number of reg
ular bids, therefore, was 831, subscri
bing for $102,808,800.
The bona fide character of the bids
is shown by the fact that of the 834
received all but three were accompa
nied by certified checks or cash for 2
per cent of the face value of the bonds
applid for. The following are the
names of the successful bidders for
$1,000,000 and over, together with the
price offered;
Fisk & Robinson, New York City,
five bids, $2,000,000 each at .prices
ranging from $102,283 to $102,783 ;
Chase National Bank, New York City,
three bids, $1,000,000 each, at prices
laiiging Horn $1u2.3005 to $102.5005;
the National City Bank of New York
City, $10,242,760 at $102.2778.
The highest bid was by J. F. House
man of Bradshaw, Neb., for SIOO at.
$lO5.
CHICAGO'S MINERAL TRUST.
Alleged That the Undertakers Are
Charging Outrageous Prices.
Chicago, 111. —That Chicago is at the
mercy of a “funeral trust” is the al
legation of P. J. Hurson, an embalmer,
who, in display advertisements in the
daily papers, has been stirring up his
brother undertakers. He says, in
part
“There are so many undertakers in
Chicago, that many of them bury but
fifteen or twenty bodies a year. The
result is that for a funeral which
should cost but, say, S2OO, these un
dertakers invariably charge as high
as SSOO. Caskets which should be
sold at about SSO at good profit, they
sell for S2OO and $250.
“When death comes, the relatives
in the stress of preparation and grief
call the nearest undertaker. They se
lect as of their love
the flnest casfafrw ithin their means.
They pay S2OO that should
cost but SSO or s6o.’’^^^
ADMIRAL COGHLAN DEAD.
Commanded Cruiser Raleigh at the
Battle of Manila Bay.
New Rochelle, N. Y. —Just on the
eve of his removal to his new home,
where he had hoped to spend his de
clining years in quiet, after a life
time of arduous service in the navy,
Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, re
tired, died suddenly, aged 64. Rear
Admiral Coghlan was born at Frank
fort, Ky., and his service in the navy
began in 1863. From that time until
his retirement, in December, 1906, he
was almost constantly in the. service.
He participated in the battle of Ma
nila bay during the Spanish war,
where he commanded the cruiser
Raleigh.
NO LIQUOR IN OKLAHOMA.
State Dispensary System Abolished
by Vote of the People.
Guthrie, Okla. —Governor Haskell
has issued a proclamation declaring
that the state dispensary system had
been abolished by the vote at the re
cent election, which leaves the citi
zens of Oklahoma without Any lawful
means to purchase inside the state
liquor for medicinal purposes. This
situation will continue until the leg
islature provides for the sale of liquor
for medicinal purposes.
PRESIDENT ON SUFFRAGE
Roosevelt Thinks Women Should Vote.
Is not Enthusiastic.
New York City.—The attitude of
President Roosevelt and of Secretary
oi date Eliliu Root on the subject of
woman suffrage was disclosed at a
meeting under the auspices of the
National League for the Civic Educa
tion of Women.
The Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, editor
of The Outlook, in the course of an
address in opposition to granting the
lights to vote for women, read the fol
lowing letter from President Roose
velt, which he said he read with the
president’s permission, although it was
not “written for publication,
“Personally, I believe in woman’s
suffrage,” says Mr. Roosevelt, at the
outset of the letter, which is dated No
vember 10, 1908, “but I am mot an en
thusiastic advocate of it because I do
not regard it as a very important mat
ter. I am unable to see that there has
been any special improvement in the
position of women in those states in
the west that have adopted woman
suffrage as compared with those states
adjoining them that have not adopted
it. I do not think that giving the
women suffrage will produce any
marked improvement in the condition
of women. I do not believe that it.
will produce any of the evils feared,
and I am very certain that when wom
en, as a whole, take any special in
terest in the matter they will have
the suffrage if they desire it.
“But at present I think most of them
are lukewarm; I find some activity for
it, and some activity against it. I
am, for the reasons above given, rath
er what you would regard as luke
warm or tepid in my support of it be
cause, while I believe in it, I do not
regard it as of very much import
ance.
“I believe that man and woman
should stand on an equality of right,
but I do not believe that equality of
right means identity of function; and
I am more and more convinced that
the great field, the indispensable field,
for the usefulness of women is as the
mother of the family.
“It is her work in the household, in
the home, her work in bearing and
rearing the children, which is more
important than any man’s work, and
it is that work which should be nor
mally the woman’s special work, just
as normally the man’s work should
be that of the breadwinner, the sup
porter of the home, and, if necessary,
the soldier who will fight for the
home.
“There are exceptions as regards
both man and woman; but the full and
perfect life, the life of highest happi
ness and of highest usefulness to the
state, is the life of the man and wom
an who are husband and wife, who
live in the partnership of love and
duty, the one earning enough to keep
the home, the other managing the
home and the children.
“THEODORE ROOSEVELT.”
MILKS FOR GILGED RICH.
Cows Arc Washed and Wiped With
Linen Napkins.
Chicago, 111. —Loton Horton, one of
the biggest retailers of milk in New
York state, regaled the annual meet
ing of the International Milk Dealers’
Association, held here in connection
with the dairy show at the Coliseum,
with a moving narrative of how he
charged 20 cents a quart for milk,
.Avoiding to Mr. Horton the milk is
proofed by the owner of a farm at
Newburg, N. Y., and “costs as much
to produce and is as good to drink as
the best California wine.” Cleanliness
is insisted on to an extent almost un
believable, he declares; the ccvi n•-*'
washed and wiped with linen napkins
and when the milk is obtained it is
handled as though it were so much
champagne.
The milk is sold to “the gilded rich”
in New York, the owner is said to
make about 2 per cent on his invest
ment, and Mr. Horton says that he
himself loses money. ‘Tm keeping
up the experiment,” said he, “first, be
cause I believe the making of pure
milk ought to be encouraged, and, sec
ond, in the belief that some day the
demand will be sufficiently steady to
make it pay.”
LIQUOR TO DRY TERRITORY.
Common Carriers Must Accept Ship
ments Tendered.
Richmond, Va. —The supreme court
of appeals affirmed the decision of the
state corporation commission in the
case of the Portlier Brewing Company
against the Southern Express Compa
ny. The effect of the decision is that
while common carriers must receive
shipments for delivery to parties in
“dry territory,” wholesalers, brewers,
distillers and manufacturers cannot
avail themselves of that right, for by
so doing it could be made possible
for violators of the law compell com
mon carriers to aid and abet violations
on account of the consignees receiving
the liquor when shipped in large quan
tities and then selling it
Inland Waterway Route.
New Orleans, La. —Between two and
three hundred delegates gathered
here in attendance upon the fourth
annual convention of the Interstate
Waterways League, which has for its
object the construction of an inland
waterway from the Rio Grande to the
Mississippi.
It is planned to connect and dredge
to sufficient length all of the rivers
and bodies of water lying just inside
the Louisiana and Texas coasts, the
route extending from Brownsville,
Texas, to Donaldsonville, La. A gov
ernment appropriation has resulted in
a portion of the work being completed
already, and a further appropriation
will be asked of congress.
Shippers of the South.
Louisville, Ky.—Discussion behind
closed doors about an interstate com
merce commission ruling on the sub
stitution of commodities was partici
pated in here by a large body of rep
resentative shippers from many parts
of the south.
None of the conferees would di
vulge the nature of the proceedings,
but it was definitely stated by a prom
inent railroad authority that a plan
of battle was arranged against the
commission’s order.
60th CONGRESS MEETS
Opening Session of Both Branch
es Was Brief.
TO SPEND ITOOO,OOO,OOO
Republican Leaders Will Try to Confine
the Work of the Short Session to
Passage of the Money Bills.
Washington, D. C. —Both houses of
congress convened for the beginning
of the second session of the sixtieth
congress. Practically no business was
transacted in either house.
In the senate, ex-Governor Cummins
of lowa took the oath of office, as the
success of Senator Allison, as did Car
roll S. Page of Vermont as the suc
cessor of Senator Stewart. In the
house the seven members who were
elected in November to succeed mem
bers who have resigned were sworn
in. They are Henry A. Barnhart, dem
ocrat, who succeeds the late Mr.
Brick, republican, from the thirteenth
Indiana district; Albert Estopinal,
democrat, who succeeds the late Mr.
Meyer, from the first Louisiana dis
trict; Otto G. Foelker, republican, suc
cessor to Mr. Dunwell, republican, in
the third New York district; Frank E.
Gurnsey, republican, successor to Mr.
Powers, republican, from the fourth
Maine district; Eben M. Masters, re
publican, successor to Mr. Parker, re
publican from South Dakota at large;
O. C. Wilty, democrat, successor to his
brother, A. A. Wiley, democrat, from
the second Alabama district, and
John P. Swasey, republican, successor
to Mr. Littlefield, who resigned dur
ing the last session from the second
Maine district.
The two houses appointed commit
tees each to notify the other house
and the president, that the two bodies
are organized and prepared to go for
ward with the business of the ses
sion. The senate then adjourned for
the day, out of respect to the mem
ory of Senator Allison, who died dur
ing the recess. The house terminated
its brief session with resolutions com
memorative of the lives of Messrs.
Packer, Wiley, Dunwell and Powers,
who have died since adjournment last
May.
Tuesday, after the completion of
preliminary routine business the
president’s message was read in both
houses, adjournment was then taken
until noon Wednesday.
An emergency volunteer army meas
ure was advocated Tuesday by Pres
ident Roosevelt in a special message
sent to congress, and the draft of the
bill accompanying the message was
introduced in the senate by Mr. Cul
lom. The president says the bill is
intended to repiace the present law,
which was placed on the statute books
“piecemeal and hurriedly, partly on
the eve of the war with Spain and
partly after hostilities had actually
commenced.” After declaring that
the present law is faulty and wholly
inadequate to a speedy and proper
organization of a volunteer force, the
prosident says the bill proposed,which
.vas ciiawn under the supervision of
the chief of staff of the army, has the
hearty approval of the war depari
ment. The proposed bill is elastic; un
der its provisions a force of 2,000,000
men could be raised, as well as one
Work of Congress Outlined.
If republican leaders retain their
present- views, the legislation of the
session will include very little except
the appropriation bills. These bills
will carry in the aggregate about sl,-
000,000,00(1, and the general opinion
is that in the time tnat will be al
lowed the two houses will find that
they can best serve the country by
giving proper attention to these ap
propriations.
There will be a general effort to
hold the appropriations down to the
lowest possible limit. It is generally
understood that there will be a bill
for the improvement of rivers and
harbors, to carry not less than $25,-
000,000 or $30,000,000. Provision must
be made this year for the census of
1910, and this will require not less
than $10,000,000. There will be other
exceptional demands, so that as it now
looks, congress will do well ifit. suc
ceeds in holding the appreciations
for the second session of w sixtieth
congress to the dimensions of those
of the first session. The house com
mittee on appropriations alredy has
begun its work on the sundry bills.
The fact that the managers desire
to restrict legislation will not prevent
other members of the senate and
house from exerting their efforts in
behalf of favorite measures. The first
effort in this direction will be made
in the senate, by Mr. Foraker, who
will renew his attempt to have passed
the bill authorizing the re-enlistment
of the negro soldiers discharged with
out honor on account of the Browns
ville riot. This measure will be the
special order for December 16.
The president will recommend leg
islation looking to the supervision of
telegraph and telephone lines. Bills
will be offered bringing them within
the jurisdiction of the interstate com
merce commission. Ship subsidy also
will receive attention, but the proba
bility of action is remote.
There will be much discussion of
the tariff in the cloak rooms, and the
ways and means committee of the
house will continue its efforts to
a bill, but no measure will receive
attention on the floor of either house
until after March 4, when the propos
ed special session will concentrate its
efforts upon this one subject. It is
even probable that action looking to
a change in the print paper and wood
pulp schedules will be postponed un
til the special session.
Both houses will receive recommen
dations from the congressional mon
etary commission looking to changes
in the laws regulating the supervis
ion of national banks, and the pres
ent indications are that some time leg
islation for that purpose will be en
acted.
It is quite certain that the recent
agreement between the United States
and Japan will receive early consid
eration in the senate. Already a num
ber of senators have privately ex
pressed disapproval of the fact that
the compact was entered into without
consulting* the senate.
LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.
Three men, armed with r
held up a Third avenue surJr ***•
Vew York City and robbo i^ Car b
ductor. One highwayman ! he Co *-
motorman to keep th*' * ° rced tb *
at the point of a pistol, whdl ,? ovin ?
er two seized the <%
ed him to turn over his , , ar ‘ a fc h.
then escaped. ‘ none L They
A wireless station in *
co reports having o'-erwTi an "k
--last fortnight ln the
are believed to have been7ert? ich
some station in Japan. tI 1 fr °*
the local company’s belief ti- on^ri n
sages have come, the Japan and S es ‘
olulu wireless station is c a ; <r , f 0r "
heard the same message n ba? “
enese station is over 6,non / ai "
this city, and should the h
originated in Japan it brc-rrs th “ a ' v
less record by over three thl* lre *
miles. - j °usan<t
A. S Trade, a millionaire attnr*
and “skyscraper" owner.
Chicago soon for a se-en r> '
Robinson Crusoe existence on ° ntlls ’
inhabited island. He will , it ch an Ur
on Mattagorda island, in iheVM®*
Mexico, south of the mainl-mi of
Texas. The island is merely a ° f
bar, devoid of vegetal ion p' w aEfl
er been inhabited and nobody oh
ownership of it except the* •
ment and he has obtained ap2
from the authorities to iiv e Ul i I ’
his tent from December 10 to j u j v r
W. C. Brown, known in the iittu
town of Dallas, Ore., as “Uncle R
entertained seventv-six widows at
banquet. The number included n
the widows in his town and the
diate vicinity. It was strictly an i,
vitation affair and if aiiv were'nnT
ted it was by advertence
Billy” is a widower and is looking f,
a w ife. He is 84 years old and cele
brated the event by invitin*
whom he thought possible candidate
for that position. The oldest of his
guests was 91 and the youngest 2;'
Experiments that have been goinJ
on at Berlin, Germany, for some time
have shown that it. is almost impos
sible for dirigible balloons to escape
from the fire of field pieces and rifiis
on the ground by going to high alti
tudes. The greatest height the air
ships can attain with safety will leave
them in range of special cannon with
which the experiments are being
made. It is the opinion of experts
that dirigible balloons will have to
rely solely upon own speed to
escape the fire cf a properly equipped
enemy.
B. H. Hardaway of Columbus, Ga,
has been awarded the contract by the
Southern Power company of Char
lotte, N. C., to build a dam ninety feet
high on the Broad river near Blacks
burg, S. C. The dam will be oj?
thousand one hundred feet long and
its construction, and the building of
the power house, which contract was
also awarded to Mr. Hardaway, will
represent an expenditure o f about
$1,000,000. The dam will develop 2;
001) horsepower, which will be used by
South Carolina and North Carolina
industries. Mr. Hardaway recently
received a contract to build a $500,-
000 lock for the United States govern
ment on the Black Warrior river in
Alabama.
President Roosevelt has crdwA
his hunting shoes. They really are
boots reaching almost to the knee
and the measurements bv which they
are to be made are the most complete
that have ever ben made. Several
weeks ago, at the request cf the pres
ident, a Brockton, Mass., firm sen'
one of its most expert men to Wash
ington to take the measurements of
the president’s feet. Orders were giv
en for four pairs of t)3ots. Each of
the president’s feet was carefully
measured. In all nearly fifty meas
urements were taken. From them
plaster casts will be made of the
president’s feet and legs and th®
boots will be built on them. The
shoes will have an extra-double sole
into which the upper will be seven
with waterproof stitches.
Washington
The monthly statement of the direc
tor of the mints shows that during
November, 1908, the coinage at he
mints of the United States amour. ■
to $8,817,210 as follows: Gold, W
993,740; silver, $820,000; minor coin*
$3,470. There were also coined 3,4.3.*
000 pieces for the Philippine island
It was announced at the
ters of the Southern railway that in
new uniform bill of lading ap? r
by the interstate commerce com
sion would be put into use on / aD J *
1 next. Notice to this effect has ie
sent out to all agents of the i° a -
gether with the information T ; _
effort is being made by interests _
resenting the water and rail .
to bring about some modification
the terms of the commission - y
necessary to ftgpj tu
and rail
local conditions. ' n ‘ 7
Secretary Wilson lias state *
his department was gaining con ‘
the foot and mouth
cattle of Maryland. New \ or *’
gan and Pennsylvania. A jj
department would permi T no
the quarantine against .
until the disease had "t-.-n “
More than a thousand cattk,
had already been slain. .
Herbert L. Satterlee of >-' e * *
who was offered the position u
tant secretary of the navy to r *
Mr. Newberry, who has been
to be head of the depat ' . 'j c cef
notified the presided <■ '• 1 ye*
tance of the appointment -.. Bte s
berry was sworn in and i a -
in the cabinet meeting. !1 \ , . jjr,
companied to the white P ( ! -
Metcalf, his predecessoi
In a decision rendered ■'>
sioner Lane, in the ;n ’
merce commission, in ! ' ca
M. Kehoe & Cos., again:-
ville, Chattanooga and tU- *;
wap company and 0,1 ‘ .U 1
dared that the commit--
not impose on a carri* ■■ jQ yfl
telegraphing to the coll y lr ’ flice d 4
event that the shipment u- no ,jf
the consignee or the latter <*** J
found. The present pracn.- ■
carriers in regard to ■ : ijous I
held to be reasonably ex,*