The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-07-27
Northern Pacific Exhibit.

The Northern Pacific company has ar
ranged to make large and attractive ex-
hibits of samples of the products from
the states and territories traversed by
the line Of road, at the Buffalo, New
York, industrial fair and exposition Sep
tember Sd to 18th, the Detroit, Michigan,
industrial fair and exposition, September
18th to 9th, the Minnesota state fair,
September 9th to 14th, and the Mime
apolis exposition, August 21st to Sep
tember 2Sth. The exhibits of products
as proposed will be viewed by large
number of visitors at the fairs and expo
sitions, and show the productive capa-
bilities of the belt of country through
which the line of the Northern Pacific
and it's branches pass. Collections of
agricultural products from this years
crops are requested to be made, includ-
ing specimens of grain in the straw, ma
tive and cultivated grasses, threshed
grain and seeds, flax, hops, all kinds of
vegetables and fruits, and also products
Of the dairy, and specimens of minerals,
woods, coal, wool, and other products,
and deliver the same to Northern Pa
cific railroad agent, at either of the sta
tions, addressed to ''P. B. Groat, general
emigration agent, st. Paul, Minnesota
and they will be promptly forwarded by
express. Each article should be labeled,
giving it's name, yield per acre, weight
per bushel, and other appropriate des-
cription and give the name and post
office address of the producer, SO that
the parties furnishing material may re-
ceive proper credit. Appropriate labels
will be sent to station agents of the
Northern Pacific railroad to supply pro-
ducers with facilities to describe the
samples of products furnished. After
use at the expositions the samples will
be forwarded to various prominent
points in the states east and south, and
in Europe, to be placed on permanent
exhibition. Active cooperation on the
part of residents in assisting to make
creditable displays at the exhibitions as
proposed, to show to visitors the agricul-
tural, mineral and timber resources of
the great northwest will be mutually
beneficial to all concerned, and Park
county should not be behind in the mat
ter of making creditable showing of
her products.
Capital Punishme ent by Electricity.
In the hearing before the referee of
the Kemmler electrical execution case at
New York on Tuesday, Thomas A. Edi-
son was put on the stand as witness
He said that if his testimony were to de-
eide the fate of Kemmler, the murderer
would surely meet death in the electrical
chair. Witness had no doubt whatever
of the alternating current to kill man
instantaneously and painlessly. He was
sure it could be done without burning.
The case of Smith was spoken of, who
was said to have received shock of
1,5OO volts without serious injury. Edi-
son said he would pay Smith 500 if he
would come over to his laboratory and
successfully Withstand 1000 volts. On
ross-examination witness said the re-
sistance Of all men is very close between
600 and 800 ohms. The obtaining OF the
resistance of human body is done by a
Wheatstone bridge, and is not simple
matter of experiment. Witness meas
ured human resistance to it before elec-
trio execution was brought up. He con-
sidered the bridge an accurate means of
measurement. A man could be COM
pletely carbonized by the electric cur
rent, but it would take l. 500 horse power
to do it. II you took a Westinghouse
current of 15O volts and kept it applied
to the human body five or six minutes it
would not be carbonized but mummified.
This is because of the water in the body
being gradually absorbed.